HeinOnline has released the 50 Most Cited Authors among the 150,000 authors in its Law Journal Library as determined by its new ScholarCheck citation analysis tool. The list includes the number of articles written by each author as well as the cumulative number of times the author's articles have been cited in Hein's database of over 1,200 law journals and 1,000,000 articles. The Top 10 are:
- Richard A. Posner: 12,586 cites, 251 articles
- Cass R. Sunstein: 11,521 cites, 267 articles
- Richard A. Epstein: 6,194 cites, 272 articles
- Frank H. Easterbrook: 6,018 cites, 84 articles
- William L. Prosser: 5,585 cites, 55 articles
- John C. Coffee: 5,196 cites, 68 articles
- Richard Delgado: 5,165 cites, 145 articles
- William N. Eskridge, Jr.: 5,029 cites, 69 articles
- Roscoe Pound: 4,869 cites, 284 articles
- Daniel R. Fischel: 4,703 cites, 43 articles
The only Tax Prof in the Top 50 is Erwin Griswold at #45: 2,614 cites, 121 articles.
Of the Top 50, 96% are men and 98% are white. (Hat Tip: Law Librarian Blog.)
