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Last Updated: September 2026

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Rank Institution h5-index h-index Articles Articles Accessed
1 New York University 14 27 793 2,781 1,267
2 University of California, Berkeley 12 20 600 2,141 1,173
3 University of Michigan 13 18 628 1,414 1,047
4 Stanford University 14 17 578 1,487 860
5 Georgetown University 11 18 499 1,177 1,367
6 Harvard University 9 17 374 1,656 1,057
7 Yale University 11 20 424 1,213 846
8 University of Florida 9 23 308 1,479 519
9 University of Pennsylvania 9 19 226 1,176 988
10 Vanderbilt University 11 15 327 1,003 568
11 University of California, San Francisco 9 9 338 334 706
12 Rutgers University 11 12 345 591 428
13 University of Minnesota 7 8 173 552 1,126
14 Duke University 8 13 219 699 676
15 University of Virginia 8 11 257 646 541
16 Loyola University Chicago 7 13 205 558 848
17 Arizona State University 6 11 213 710 659
18 Washington University 10 15 265 602 509
19 Ohio State University 9 10 271 320 535
20 Columbia University School of Law 7 13 139 901 387
21 Boston University 6 13 147 515 673
22 Northeastern University 5 12 133 597 622
23 University of California, Los Angeles 7 14 159 627 449
24 University of Denver 7 12 208 522 275
25 George Washington University 7 15 164 629 325
26 Emory University 6 11 134 405 583
27 Fordham University 7 14 123 618 344
28 University of Chicago 8 12 163 365 349
29 University of California, Davis 6 11 115 516 419
30 University of Maryland 7 7 184 303 288
31 University of Missouri 8 10 182 280 307
32 Northwestern University 6 11 115 471 429
33 American University 7 11 138 322 442
34 Texas A&M University 6 13 142 403 338
35 Indiana University Bloomington 6 10 128 384 293
36 Cornell University 7 9 116 518 222
37 University of Kentucky 6 12 123 459 211
38 Wake Forest University 6 9 111 433 279
39 Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago-Kent) 6 9 91 308 426
40 Pennsylvania State University 6 8 122 152 419
41 University of California, Irvine 7 4 117 63 504
42 University of Texas at Austin 4 9 98 299 375
43 Georgia State University 8 6 146 122 232
44 University of Houston 5 10 82 388 263
45 University of the Pacific (McGeorge) 5 7 103 145 378
46 Wayne State University 6 5 100 181 344
47 Brooklyn Law School 5 11 83 475 117
48 Michigan State University 5 9 93 213 303
49 Saint Louis University 5 3 63 45 508
50 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 4 7 79 174 312
51 University of San Diego 5 8 74 309 178
52 Pace University 5 10 86 248 176
53 University of Utah 6 3 84 18 385
54 William & Mary Law School 6 9 99 200 150
55 Yeshiva University 6 4 68 101 359
56 University of Colorado Boulder 6 5 89 73 286
57 Seattle University 5 9 58 241 244
58 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 4 7 66 197 219
59 Temple University 5 8 72 215 166
60 George Mason University 4 11 49 303 183
61 Loyola Marymount University 4 6 68 221 164
62 Indiana University Indianapolis 4 7 57 110 289
63 University of Iowa 5 7 69 181 165
64 University of Oklahoma 4 4 71 56 263
65 Florida State University 5 9 42 336 126
66 Louisiana State University 5 7 59 193 177
67 University of Missouri-Kansas City 5 9 56 231 150
68 Villanova University 4 6 66 98 206
69 University of South Carolina 3 5 37 77 351
70 University of Tennessee, Knoxville 5 6 74 77 171
71 Suffolk University 3 6 27 327 161
72 Syracuse University 5 5 56 133 200
73 University of Pittsburgh 3 3 71 52 197
74 Drexel University 2 5 57 144 175
75 Southern Methodist University 5 6 72 95 134
76 Case Western Reserve University 3 9 33 235 165
77 Drake University 4 7 44 114 221
78 University of Wisconsin-Madison 4 7 50 156 134
79 St. John's University 5 6 58 63 167
80 University of Richmond 4 4 49 63 194
81 Santa Clara University 4 5 41 213 87
82 Howard University 2 4 13 176 250
83 University of Miami 4 5 54 128 103
84 Northern Kentucky University 5 10 49 163 84
85 Pepperdine University 4 10 35 230 85
86 Seton Hall University 4 6 33 97 178
87 University of Alabama 5 2 59 19 128
88 DePaul University 3 7 25 121 191
89 University of St. Thomas 4 5 40 102 122
90 University of Southern California 3 5 32 101 160
91 University of Georgia 3 5 42 103 107
92 Marquette University 3 7 24 188 110
93 University of Washington 4 6 45 106 77
94 University of Louisville 3 5 27 136 127
95 Southwestern Law School 4 5 31 85 148
96 California Western School of Law 4 5 43 79 80
97 University of Kansas 3 6 35 111 82
98 Samford University 4 6 30 99 112
99 Hofstra University 2 4 16 126 146
100 Cleveland State University 3 5 21 148 102