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Last Updated: July 2026

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Rank Institution h5-index h-index Articles Articles Accessed
1 New York University 31 69 4,342 18,325 9,081
2 Stanford University 34 75 4,299 18,697 6,978
3 Harvard University 29 65 3,719 20,325 6,943
4 University of California, Berkeley 26 65 3,462 15,063 7,723
5 Columbia University School of Law 25 61 3,444 14,109 5,861
6 Yale University 25 66 2,721 16,799 5,645
7 Georgetown University 23 52 2,559 9,668 5,451
8 University of Chicago 24 53 2,415 10,968 4,632
9 University of California, Los Angeles 23 49 2,119 8,070 5,065
10 University of Virginia 22 45 1,962 6,875 4,582
11 University of Michigan 23 41 1,696 7,310 3,526
12 Duke University 20 53 1,548 8,161 3,170
13 University of Texas at Austin 22 35 1,959 4,707 4,029
14 University of Pennsylvania 21 42 1,601 5,072 3,355
15 Boston University 16 40 1,130 6,874 2,966
16 Texas A&M University 15 33 1,320 4,351 3,742
17 Vanderbilt University 19 34 1,375 3,423 3,552
18 Cornell University 15 29 1,055 3,480 3,483
19 George Washington University 12 38 789 4,782 2,332
20 University of San Diego 16 35 986 4,340 1,638
21 George Mason University 16 36 951 4,104 1,888
22 Emory University 15 24 821 1,661 3,526
23 University of Colorado Boulder 16 24 901 2,044 2,743
24 Rutgers University 15 27 861 2,474 2,524
25 University of Minnesota 14 33 810 3,011 1,813
26 Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago-Kent) 11 28 738 2,608 2,375
27 University of California, San Francisco 15 27 815 2,685 1,597
28 Northwestern University 13 28 714 2,605 2,047
29 Yeshiva University 13 29 712 2,653 1,931
30 Loyola Marymount University 12 23 617 2,341 2,041
31 University of Florida 11 26 604 2,492 1,725
32 Indiana University Bloomington 10 29 504 2,649 1,983
33 Santa Clara University 11 24 511 2,132 2,107
34 University of Utah 14 23 653 1,564 1,550
35 University of California, Irvine 13 23 563 1,868 1,588
36 Washington University 14 24 618 1,423 1,599
37 University of Denver 13 24 617 1,797 1,249
38 University of California, Davis 14 24 604 1,600 1,470
39 DePaul University 11 25 398 2,205 1,648
40 Boston College 11 28 495 2,357 967
41 Brooklyn Law School 12 18 568 1,187 1,446
42 Villanova University 11 21 460 2,086 1,111
43 American University 11 20 439 1,648 1,336
44 University of Southern California 11 23 451 1,336 1,426
45 William & Mary Law School 13 22 517 1,482 896
46 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 10 17 440 1,312 1,242
47 Lewis & Clark Law School 11 24 440 1,671 859
48 University of Washington 7 19 397 1,258 1,375
49 Fordham University 11 17 478 837 1,231
50 Pennsylvania State University 10 17 375 935 1,573
51 Arizona State University 9 21 371 1,414 1,158
52 Temple University 12 20 403 1,100 1,267
53 Florida State University 12 19 420 1,074 1,152
54 University of Wisconsin-Madison 8 14 278 1,434 1,508
55 University of Iowa 11 21 434 1,137 1,005
56 Southern Methodist University 11 20 417 1,082 1,070
57 University of Richmond 9 15 359 1,033 1,151
58 Northeastern University 9 16 327 914 1,263
59 Loyola University Chicago 10 21 328 1,150 1,038
60 University of Nevada, Las Vegas 9 16 366 1,012 964
61 University of Houston 7 21 301 1,331 939
62 Case Western Reserve University 9 20 282 1,448 915
63 Washington and Lee University 10 15 381 716 1,080
64 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 11 22 303 1,395 703
65 Seton Hall University 8 20 301 957 1,074
66 University of Nebraska-Lincoln 9 15 299 1,399 628
67 University of Georgia 9 20 309 1,202 738
68 Suffolk University 6 15 282 796 1,155
69 University of Missouri 8 14 311 700 939
70 University of Pittsburgh 7 19 226 1,191 832
71 University of Miami 8 18 239 1,278 645
72 University of Kansas 7 13 269 734 953
73 University of Maryland 8 13 263 752 830
74 Georgia State University 9 15 273 684 810
75 University of Arizona 8 14 207 869 929
76 Southwestern Law School 9 14 257 671 794
77 California Western School of Law 7 11 249 431 1,025
78 University of Notre Dame 9 16 258 817 620
79 University of Kentucky 7 12 204 537 1,045
80 Ohio State University 8 14 222 672 822
81 Seattle University 7 15 192 959 701
82 St. John's University 8 12 283 485 615
83 New York Law School 7 12 201 701 778
84 Pepperdine University 6 16 180 926 635
85 University of Alabama 8 12 247 436 725
86 University of Baltimore 7 17 195 885 487
87 University of Oklahoma 9 11 252 418 595
88 University of Missouri-Kansas City 6 13 154 564 933
89 University of the Pacific (McGeorge) 8 14 182 927 426
90 Syracuse University 6 18 141 964 568
91 University at Buffalo 8 12 193 430 726
92 University of Oregon 6 13 145 635 729
93 Louisiana State University 8 12 192 384 714
94 Wake Forest University 5 14 127 577 804
95 Michigan State University 7 15 177 574 544
96 University of Illinois Chicago 6 15 124 634 686
97 Indiana University Indianapolis 5 15 116 881 387
98 Mitchell Hamline School of Law 8 14 191 503 352
99 Albany Law School 6 13 175 513 409
100 Hofstra University 7 15 161 590 386