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Last Updated: February 2026

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Rank Journal h5-index h-index Articles Articles Accessed
1 Harvard Law Review 90 267 45,870 377,093 81,031
2 Yale Law Journal 78 235 38,496 305,219 84,368
3 Columbia Law Review 65 196 28,234 227,944 44,531
4 Stanford Law Review 58 170 22,123 142,646 52,174
5 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 50 159 19,598 138,951 33,041
6 Michigan Law Review 51 150 18,280 141,112 30,307
7 California Law Review 50 144 18,445 122,505 47,759
8 Virginia Law Review 49 150 16,196 124,265 26,236
9 University of Chicago Law Review 47 138 16,354 98,413 29,150
10 Texas Law Review 43 119 13,681 94,194 32,819
11 New York University Law Review 50 127 14,557 89,693 33,299
12 Georgetown Law Journal 45 115 13,425 79,885 38,076
13 UCLA Law Review 46 117 12,850 76,152 40,886
14 Cornell Law Review 43 119 12,899 82,495 32,182
15 Northwestern University Law Review 38 108 11,128 78,459 31,612
16 Minnesota Law Review 37 109 10,996 79,103 26,546
17 Fordham Law Review 34 80 13,446 60,119 36,151
18 Vanderbilt Law Review 41 103 11,536 68,482 29,380
19 Iowa Law Review 35 90 9,525 57,101 30,008
20 Duke Law Journal 41 105 11,646 61,663 22,536
21 Southern California Law Review 32 101 7,267 57,834 25,779
22 Boston University Law Review 36 82 10,258 46,993 33,054
23 Notre Dame Law Review 37 74 10,958 41,892 27,476
24 Wisconsin Law Review 26 83 5,941 49,359 22,173
25 North Carolina Law Review 28 81 6,720 47,474 21,970
26 George Washington Law Review 34 77 7,746 42,927 21,514
27 Indiana Law Journal 29 73 6,703 43,247 19,983
28 UC Law Journal 25 77 6,245 43,538 17,940
29 Tulane Law Review 19 64 3,801 40,001 20,975
30 Cardozo Law Review 28 70 7,182 31,654 24,559
31 William & Mary Law Review 31 75 8,593 35,902 18,879
32 University of Illinois Law Review 26 70 5,899 33,117 23,850
33 Ohio State Law Journal 25 72 5,607 40,729 14,317
34 Washington University Law Review 27 66 6,937 32,014 19,831
35 Emory Law Journal 27 70 5,751 32,380 20,326
36 Washington Law Review 26 70 6,020 33,327 15,761
37 U.C. Davis Law Review 29 64 7,767 25,471 19,938
38 Boston College Law Review 31 61 7,146 23,443 22,231
39 American University Law Review 24 64 4,728 29,193 14,740
40 Florida Law Review 27 54 4,944 24,498 17,794
41 University of Colorado Law Review 20 63 3,457 27,463 13,712
42 Washington and Lee Law Review 24 56 5,320 25,156 14,097
43 Connecticut Law Review 22 57 4,330 23,631 16,136
44 Arizona Law Review 22 60 4,219 25,755 13,337
45 University of Cincinnati Law Review 16 55 3,060 24,762 13,663
46 Georgia Law Review 22 65 3,814 24,593 11,137
47 Chicago-Kent Law Review 17 55 3,518 21,766 13,576
48 Wake Forest Law Review 22 49 4,153 18,367 16,114
49 Brooklyn Law Review 19 53 3,801 23,629 10,958
50 Maryland Law Review 23 59 3,639 22,782 11,265
51 Hofstra Law Review 19 56 3,425 23,148 9,996
52 Houston Law Review 19 49 3,050 20,763 12,670
53 Buffalo Law Review 19 55 2,826 19,880 12,243
54 Louisiana Law Review 15 45 2,495 23,942 8,418
55 Rutgers University Law Review 16 56 2,447 21,660 9,838
56 Oregon Law Review 16 56 2,180 22,316 9,340
57 DePaul Law Review 16 48 2,985 20,622 9,676
58 SMU Law Review 18 48 2,841 21,859 8,532
59 Penn State Law Review 15 43 2,213 22,680 8,007
60 Case Western Reserve Law Review 18 52 3,142 20,936 8,340
61 University of Miami Law Review 12 49 1,637 21,194 9,575
62 Temple Law Review 17 47 2,482 20,520 9,031
63 Albany Law Review 14 44 2,164 18,773 10,895
64 San Diego Law Review 16 47 2,434 17,907 11,034
65 Villanova Law Review 17 49 2,433 18,486 9,142
66 Alabama Law Review 23 47 3,816 16,079 9,546
67 Missouri Law Review 14 43 2,273 17,771 9,105
68 Marquette Law Review 17 39 2,807 15,866 10,101
69 Brigham Young University Law Review 20 50 3,563 16,366 8,424
70 Arizona State Law Journal 19 41 3,162 14,504 10,466
71 Tennessee Law Review 16 48 2,109 18,916 6,953
72 Nebraska Law Review 17 45 2,566 18,104 7,179
73 University of Pittsburgh Law Review 13 44 1,757 15,681 9,740
74 Kentucky Law Journal 12 39 1,591 19,482 6,085
75 Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review 13 41 2,042 16,007 9,081
76 University of Kansas Law Review 16 45 2,226 16,810 7,347
77 Florida State University Law Review 16 47 2,653 14,920 7,666
78 West Virginia Law Review 13 37 1,691 14,268 7,628
79 UMKC Law Review 13 32 2,026 10,518 10,882
80 Saint Louis University Law Journal 14 35 1,860 13,760 7,728
81 Catholic University Law Review 13 38 1,821 15,801 5,601
82 St. John's Law Review 12 35 1,763 14,564 5,963
83 Seton Hall Law Review 15 37 2,225 11,372 8,681
84 South Carolina Law Review 16 43 2,141 13,586 6,476
85 Wayne Law Review 10 39 953 14,615 6,174
86 Syracuse Law Review 11 37 1,332 13,602 6,740
87 Denver Law Review 16 32 1,656 10,429 9,302
88 Howard Law Journal 12 36 1,463 10,173 9,587
89 Santa Clara Law Review 14 37 1,813 13,023 6,102
90 New York Law School Law Review 10 34 1,207 11,634 8,082
91 University of Richmond Law Review 14 35 1,954 11,199 7,564
92 Indiana Law Review 12 37 1,656 12,270 5,883
93 University of San Francisco Law Review 10 39 1,035 12,031 6,711
94 Pepperdine Law Review 15 36 2,029 10,745 6,606
95 Oklahoma Law Review 17 32 1,757 10,427 7,135
96 Cleveland State Law Review 12 33 1,510 10,654 6,967
97 Seattle University Law Review 15 30 2,361 7,294 9,194
98 Mississippi Law Journal 11 32 1,294 12,307 4,805
99 Arkansas Law Review 12 36 1,294 11,409 5,404
100 Mercer Law Review 10 38 1,309 12,494 4,180