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Last Updated: July 2026

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Rank Institution h5-index h-index Articles Articles Accessed
1 Harvard University 8 23 279 3,972 599
2 Yale University 10 21 377 2,943 792
3 New York University 9 24 352 2,278 875
4 University of Minnesota 13 19 496 895 1,113
5 University of Pennsylvania 10 20 422 1,538 871
6 University of Virginia 9 19 361 1,646 940
7 Georgetown University 9 21 268 1,576 651
8 University of Chicago 10 16 369 935 636
9 University of Michigan 12 15 314 1,135 599
10 Stanford University 8 23 287 1,433 463
11 University of California, Berkeley 7 12 312 988 666
12 Columbia University School of Law 9 16 250 1,246 490
13 Boston University 9 16 257 811 813
14 University of California, Los Angeles 9 16 249 939 519
15 Vanderbilt University 6 13 141 752 827
16 Duke University 7 15 128 885 642
17 Fordham University 9 13 183 561 429
18 George Washington University 6 15 125 763 462
19 University of Iowa 4 10 190 390 486
20 Rutgers University 5 17 106 865 447
21 University of Texas at Austin 6 15 109 699 528
22 Texas A&M University 6 15 141 771 286
23 Emory University 5 10 94 438 722
24 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 6 12 88 522 565
25 University of Nevada, Las Vegas 5 13 119 519 407
26 University of Connecticut 5 8 90 614 311
27 Wake Forest University 4 13 51 799 301
28 University of San Diego 5 11 98 601 206
29 University of Florida 5 10 112 368 334
30 Drexel University 4 10 62 289 582
31 Arizona State University 5 10 70 413 421
32 Washington University 6 11 107 277 277
33 Yeshiva University 6 9 110 303 235
34 Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago-Kent) 3 7 69 429 305
35 University of California, Davis 6 8 109 202 312
36 University of Colorado Boulder 6 6 93 119 402
37 Pennsylvania State University 5 8 96 195 244
38 George Mason University 5 8 82 289 217
39 Suffolk University 3 8 50 470 194
40 Cornell University 4 10 76 263 225
41 DePaul University 5 8 63 274 254
42 Case Western Reserve University 4 12 61 388 159
43 University of Tennessee, Knoxville 5 6 90 101 260
44 Northwestern University 3 9 42 443 175
45 University of Missouri 5 10 66 301 171
46 University of Southern California 5 7 59 262 169
47 Saint Louis University 4 9 57 276 160
48 University of Maryland 4 9 46 352 142
49 Georgia State University 3 11 38 392 144
50 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 4 11 52 265 170
51 Seton Hall University 5 11 41 320 172
52 University of Wisconsin-Madison 3 11 32 482 73
53 University of California, Irvine 5 5 83 92 123
54 University of Houston 4 8 43 197 196
55 Indiana University Bloomington 4 7 49 187 174
56 Brooklyn Law School 3 5 50 232 129
57 University of Louisville 3 12 29 378 85
58 University of Oklahoma 3 8 54 198 127
59 Boston College 3 5 42 318 67
60 Ohio State University 4 6 43 130 213
61 University of Washington 3 9 32 237 137
62 University of Arizona 5 5 55 52 164
63 University of South Carolina 3 7 37 175 133
64 Samford University 4 5 33 121 193
65 Temple University 4 4 35 121 166
66 University of Alabama 2 4 50 77 134
67 Albany Law School 3 6 37 123 134
68 Seattle University 2 2 43 173 62
69 Southwestern Law School 2 7 22 229 107
70 Tulane University 2 7 12 173 195
71 Louisiana State University 3 8 22 242 81
72 University of Kansas 3 5 26 245 53
73 University of Georgia 2 7 32 159 101
74 Loyola University Chicago 3 8 29 182 90
75 Northeastern University 2 9 23 195 105
76 University of North Texas at Dallas 3 11 17 295 39
77 American University 3 6 28 125 135
78 Mitchell Hamline School of Law 2 7 23 173 114
79 University of Miami 3 4 32 56 172
80 University of Pittsburgh 3 7 33 162 64
81 Loyola Marymount University 3 8 31 132 98
82 Marquette University 4 5 48 48 87
83 Santa Clara University 2 8 31 190 41
84 Wayne State University 2 7 17 170 104
85 William & Mary Law School 3 5 36 81 87
86 University of Arkansas at Fayetteville 2 4 41 45 93
87 Indiana University Indianapolis 3 5 25 84 123
88 University of Tulsa 2 8 21 184 49
89 Southern Methodist University 3 7 26 97 97
90 University of California, San Francisco 3 3 24 38 153
91 Syracuse University 3 6 22 151 60
92 California Western School of Law 3 4 12 56 184
93 South Texas College of Law Houston 2 5 19 102 103
94 Quinnipiac University 3 4 31 91 53
95 University of Missouri-Kansas City 2 5 31 70 71
96 Florida State University 2 6 17 106 98
97 University of Kentucky 3 7 30 101 36
98 University of Nebraska-Lincoln 1 8 9 203 39
99 Lewis & Clark Law School 2 1 8 18 202
100 Pace University 1 4 31 51 63