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Last Updated: September 2026

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Rank Institution h5-index h-index Articles Articles Accessed
1 Harvard University 37 87 6,294 30,944 12,838
2 Columbia University School of Law 41 87 6,726 29,546 11,064
3 New York University 37 77 5,634 25,131 10,406
4 Yale University 31 82 4,258 25,600 9,474
5 University of Chicago 32 71 4,574 20,420 7,642
6 Georgetown University 31 63 4,368 13,880 7,999
7 University of Pennsylvania 30 59 4,412 12,248 7,774
8 University of California, Berkeley 25 49 3,111 10,387 5,939
9 University of Virginia 24 49 3,153 9,769 5,913
10 University of California, Los Angeles 22 56 2,365 10,928 6,184
11 Duke University 23 48 2,476 8,636 6,044
12 Vanderbilt University 23 42 2,355 6,861 4,781
13 University of Michigan 21 41 2,113 6,827 5,793
14 Stanford University 23 49 2,177 8,729 3,705
15 Boston University 23 37 2,350 5,272 4,900
16 George Washington University 16 42 1,504 6,819 4,006
17 University of Florida 18 37 1,519 5,649 3,836
18 Northwestern University 17 36 1,455 5,334 3,942
19 Cornell University 17 39 1,458 5,206 3,484
20 University of Texas at Austin 18 41 1,395 6,265 2,317
21 Fordham University 19 33 1,461 4,057 3,240
22 Washington University 17 35 1,497 4,068 2,740
23 University of Minnesota 17 33 1,348 4,324 2,502
24 University of Southern California 18 38 1,163 4,980 2,426
25 University of California, Irvine 20 26 1,318 2,176 3,965
26 Yeshiva University 15 33 1,036 3,988 3,195
27 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 17 29 1,151 3,393 2,551
28 Rutgers University 15 31 1,004 4,092 2,550
29 Texas A&M University 16 25 1,161 2,210 2,609
30 University of Colorado Boulder 14 23 930 2,557 2,144
31 University of California, Davis 15 22 1,040 1,694 2,126
32 Indiana University Bloomington 15 27 877 2,823 1,699
33 Temple University 14 26 871 2,007 2,360
34 University of San Diego 15 30 729 3,474 1,578
35 Southern Methodist University 13 29 744 3,049 1,799
36 Brooklyn Law School 14 23 904 1,947 1,718
37 Boston College 14 26 776 2,459 1,698
38 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 14 27 753 2,774 1,415
39 University of Wisconsin-Madison 12 27 613 2,909 1,561
40 American University 13 21 709 1,779 2,120
41 George Mason University 10 28 507 3,180 1,282
42 University of California, San Francisco 12 21 671 1,842 1,562
43 Loyola University Chicago 12 22 629 1,814 1,612
44 Florida State University 10 24 550 2,200 1,205
45 Ohio State University 11 23 449 2,214 1,576
46 University of Notre Dame 13 21 618 1,478 1,451
47 Loyola Marymount University 12 22 556 1,693 1,403
48 University of Richmond 11 20 533 1,317 1,695
49 Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago-Kent) 9 24 431 1,731 1,632
50 University of Miami 10 22 459 1,918 1,213
51 University of Georgia 11 25 546 1,648 1,052
52 University of Tennessee, Knoxville 9 24 489 1,720 1,184
53 University of Washington 8 20 415 1,410 1,579
54 Case Western Reserve University 10 18 482 1,351 1,103
55 University of Utah 12 21 471 1,380 1,115
56 Arizona State University 11 19 458 1,163 1,234
57 University of Kansas 10 23 401 1,627 1,078
58 William & Mary Law School 11 22 405 1,490 1,144
59 University of Pittsburgh 8 26 293 1,979 1,134
60 Suffolk University 8 22 332 1,834 923
61 Emory University 9 19 372 939 1,504
62 University of Houston 9 20 359 1,341 1,071
63 University of Iowa 9 19 292 1,650 1,074
64 Seton Hall University 10 18 396 1,117 1,033
65 University of Arizona 8 20 356 1,446 910
66 University of Missouri 11 19 439 1,088 814
67 University of Nevada, Las Vegas 7 19 343 1,309 923
68 Pepperdine University 9 22 279 1,818 734
69 Villanova University 8 23 286 1,496 925
70 Wake Forest University 7 18 304 1,207 981
71 Florida International University 7 24 237 1,377 1,106
72 University of Maryland 9 18 330 1,114 905
73 Pennsylvania State University 7 17 318 1,133 844
74 University of Oregon 9 16 347 921 896
75 Pace University 11 14 348 592 1,174
76 Georgia State University 7 20 228 1,461 947
77 University of St. Thomas 8 17 262 1,363 843
78 Wayne State University 8 17 264 1,229 860
79 University of Baltimore 8 16 247 821 1,190
80 University of Denver 8 19 291 991 831
81 University of Alabama 9 16 277 994 865
82 Tulane University 8 15 237 814 989
83 St. John's University 8 17 216 1,109 815
84 University of Connecticut 10 16 286 900 663
85 University of Kentucky 8 21 244 1,215 425
86 Albany Law School 8 16 250 856 652
87 Drexel University 8 16 229 737 843
88 New York Law School 6 16 175 1,073 787
89 Seattle University 7 19 200 1,111 611
90 Indiana University Indianapolis 6 17 195 876 795
91 University of South Carolina 10 11 275 356 874
92 Santa Clara University 8 18 223 1,056 391
93 University of Nebraska-Lincoln 9 13 273 587 553
94 Catholic University of America 7 15 215 764 624
95 University at Buffalo 8 12 190 600 811
96 DePaul University 8 17 172 1,025 507
97 University of the Pacific (McGeorge) 4 16 149 855 738
98 Washington and Lee University 9 8 278 265 674
99 Hofstra University 6 16 195 804 571
100 Marquette University 5 14 193 1,003 375