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Most-Cited Institutions by Subject

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Last Updated: September 2026

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Rank Institution h5-index h-index Articles Articles Accessed
1 Harvard University 8 23 293 3,983 597
2 Yale University 10 20 396 2,870 760
3 New York University 9 25 390 2,340 838
4 University of Minnesota 13 19 533 895 1,118
5 University of Pennsylvania 11 20 446 1,529 861
6 University of Virginia 9 19 383 1,643 929
7 Georgetown University 9 22 335 1,776 886
8 University of Chicago 10 16 390 933 598
9 Stanford University 8 23 301 1,433 514
10 University of Michigan 12 15 334 1,135 591
11 University of California, Berkeley 8 12 325 988 620
12 Boston University 9 16 276 812 821
13 Columbia University School of Law 8 16 247 1,240 462
14 University of California, Los Angeles 9 16 254 923 540
15 Vanderbilt University 6 13 148 752 831
16 Duke University 7 15 139 874 621
17 Fordham University 9 13 190 561 443
18 Rutgers University 5 17 113 877 457
19 University of Iowa 5 10 203 390 477
20 George Washington University 5 15 125 742 486
21 Texas A&M University 6 15 155 774 316
22 University of Texas at Austin 6 15 113 699 527
23 Emory University 5 10 102 438 717
24 University of Nevada, Las Vegas 6 13 127 512 430
25 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 6 12 92 522 528
26 University of Connecticut 5 8 91 614 298
27 Wake Forest University 5 13 54 799 299
28 University of San Diego 5 11 110 601 194
29 University of Florida 6 10 119 365 319
30 Washington University 6 11 120 277 363
31 Drexel University 4 10 66 281 567
32 Arizona State University 5 10 74 413 411
33 Yeshiva University 6 9 117 303 244
34 Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago-Kent) 3 7 73 425 287
35 University of California, Davis 6 8 111 203 293
36 University of Colorado Boulder 7 6 101 104 405
37 Cornell University 5 10 91 263 254
38 Case Western Reserve University 5 12 74 398 192
39 George Mason University 5 8 87 289 197
40 Suffolk University 3 8 52 470 186
41 Pennsylvania State University 5 7 100 150 213
42 University of Tennessee, Knoxville 5 6 94 101 284
43 DePaul University 5 8 65 274 233
44 University of Missouri 5 10 72 301 170
45 Northwestern University 3 9 43 443 178
46 University of Southern California 5 8 67 291 181
47 Saint Louis University 4 9 61 276 151
48 Georgia State University 3 11 42 392 133
49 University of Maryland 4 9 48 352 136
50 Seton Hall University 5 11 42 320 176
51 University of Wisconsin-Madison 4 11 33 482 71
52 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 4 11 54 265 149
53 University of California, Irvine 5 5 87 92 131
54 University of Houston 4 8 45 197 202
55 Brooklyn Law School 3 5 52 232 131
56 University of Oklahoma 4 8 58 198 125
57 University of Louisville 3 12 30 378 81
58 Ohio State University 4 6 46 129 219
59 Boston College 3 5 42 318 64
60 Indiana University Bloomington 4 7 45 186 152
61 University of Washington 3 9 33 236 135
62 University of Alabama 3 4 60 77 126
63 University of Arizona 5 5 56 52 160
64 University of South Carolina 3 7 39 175 129
65 Samford University 4 5 36 121 190
66 Temple University 4 4 42 120 152
67 Seattle University 2 2 45 173 63
68 University of Georgia 2 7 37 159 104
69 Albany Law School 3 6 39 123 124
70 Southwestern Law School 2 7 22 226 110
71 Tulane University 2 7 12 173 196
72 Louisiana State University 3 8 23 242 82
73 American University 3 6 34 125 128
74 University of Kansas 3 5 27 245 48
75 University of Miami 3 4 34 56 181
76 University of North Texas at Dallas 3 11 17 295 42
77 Northeastern University 2 9 24 195 101
78 Loyola University Chicago 3 8 29 182 84
79 Mitchell Hamline School of Law 2 7 24 173 105
80 University of Pittsburgh 3 7 34 162 62
81 Loyola Marymount University 3 8 31 132 101
82 Marquette University 5 5 49 48 82
83 Santa Clara University 2 8 31 190 34
84 Wayne State University 2 7 17 170 104
85 University of Arkansas at Fayetteville 3 4 43 45 97
86 Indiana University Indianapolis 3 5 28 84 118
87 University of Tulsa 2 8 21 184 46
88 California Western School of Law 3 4 19 56 169
89 University of California, San Francisco 3 3 27 37 148
90 Syracuse University 3 6 22 151 67
91 William & Mary Law School 3 5 28 92 91
92 Southern Methodist University 3 7 27 97 86
93 South Texas College of Law Houston 2 5 21 102 110
94 University of Missouri-Kansas City 2 5 32 70 75
95 Quinnipiac University 3 4 31 91 53
96 University of Kentucky 3 7 32 101 38
97 Florida State University 2 6 17 106 99
98 Pace University 1 4 31 51 63
99 Lewis & Clark Law School 2 1 9 18 189
100 University of Nebraska-Lincoln 2 8 9 181 40