Brian Leiter (Chicago) has released a ranking of the Top 25 law faculties with the most “scholarly impact,” as measured by citations during the past five years (Jan. 1, 2005 – Jan. 15, 2010). In our article, Ranking Law Schools: Using SSRN to Measure Scholarly Performance, 81 Ind. L.J. 83, 86-102 (2006), Bernie Black (Northwestern) and I compared the ranking of law faculty by measures of citations, publications, reputation, and SSRN downloads. The following chart updates the data in our article by adding the current U.S. News peer reputation rank and the SSRN all-time downloads rank to the Top 25 law faculty under Leiter's citations measure:
School
Citations
U.S. News Peer
SSRN Downloads
Mean Rank
Yale
1
1
5
2.3
Harvard
2
1
1
1.3
Chicago
3
4
3
3.3
Stanford
4
3
6
5.0
NYU
5
6
9
6.7
Columbia
6
4
4
4.7
UC-Berkeley
7
6
14
9.0
Northwestern
8
15
8
10.3
UC-Irvine
9
NR
51
30.0
Vanderbilt
10
17
13
13.3
Cornell
11
11
26
16.0
Duke
11
11
16
12.7
Michigan
11
8
19
12.7
Penn
14
9
12
11.7
UCLA
15
15
7
12.3
Virginia
16
9
22
15.7
Texas
17
13
10
13.3
G. Washington
18
20
2
13.3
Minnesota
18
20
18
18.7
Georgetown
20
13
15
16.0
Arizona
21
37
33
30.3
Illinois
21
25
11
19.0
Emory
23
20
36
26.3
Florida State
23
49
25
32.3
UC-Davis
23
25
44
30.7
Update: Leiter has announced that he is in the process of correcting errors.
