Here are the Washington & Lee tax law review rankings, based on citations to articles published in 2004-2011:
- Impact Factor (citations/number of articles published)
- Citations in Law Reviews
- Citations in Cases (federal and state courts)
- Currency (how rapidly articles are cited)
- Combined (weighted combination of the above rankings)
Here are the Top 25 tax journals (out of 44 ranked tax journals):
|
Rank |
Tax |
Combined |
Impact |
Law |
Cases |
Currency |
|
1 |
Tax Law Review |
100.0 |
0.98 |
412 |
1 |
1.74 |
|
2 |
Virginia Tax Review |
89.6 |
0.71 |
554 |
9 |
1.00 |
|
3 |
Tax Notes |
76.0 |
0.01 |
1165 |
14 |
0.02 |
|
4 |
Florida Tax Review |
60.8 |
0.63 |
210 |
0 |
0.75 |
|
5 |
Elder Law Journal |
57.6 |
0.54 |
257 |
8 |
0.36 |
|
6 |
Tax Lawyer |
44.0 |
0.21 |
435 |
10 |
0.40 |
|
7 |
Pittsburgh Tax Review |
41.6 |
0.48 |
85 |
3 |
0.42 |
|
8 |
Houston Bus. & Tax J. |
35.2 |
0.31 |
184 |
4 |
0.30 |
|
9 |
Journal of Taxation |
28.8 |
0.06 |
370 |
5 |
0.11 |
|
10 |
Heckerling Inst. Est. Plan. |
26.4 |
0.22 |
150 |
0 |
0.41 |
|
11 |
Akron Tax Journal |
22.4 |
0.25 |
56 |
3 |
1.17 |
|
12 |
National Tax Journal |
22.4 |
0.11 |
217 |
0 |
0.16 |
|
13 |
Marquette Elder's Advisor |
17.6 |
0.14 |
107 |
1 |
0.14 |
|
14 |
Estate Planning |
14.4 |
0.04 |
172 |
1 |
0.17 |
|
15 |
Taxes |
14.4 |
0.05 |
162 |
0 |
0.08 |
|
15 |
Tax Notes International |
12.8 |
0.00 |
193 |
0 |
0.00 |
|
17 |
New Zealand J. Tax'n Law |
9.6 |
0.08 |
58 |
0 |
0.00 |
|
18 |
Tax Management Mem. |
9.6 |
0.03 |
111 |
1 |
0.05 |
|
18 |
Tax Management Int’l J. |
5.6 |
0.02 |
66 |
0 |
0.05 |
|
20 |
Taxation of Exempts |
4.0 |
0.02 |
33 |
0 |
0.08 |
|
21 |
British Tax Review |
3.2 |
0.01 |
36 |
0 |
0.01 |
|
22 |
Corporate Taxation |
3.2 |
0.02 |
31 |
0 |
0.04 |
|
23 |
eJournal of Tax Research |
3.2 |
0.03 |
16 |
0 |
0.03 |
|
24 |
Real Estate Taxation |
3.2 |
0.02 |
24 |
1 |
0.01 |
|
25 |
Tax Mgmt Real Estate J. |
3.2 |
0.02 |
23 |
0 |
0.01 |
Tax Notes is #1 by a wide margin in citations in law reviews (1165 v. #2's Virginia Tax Review's 554), but fairs relatively poorly (.001, ranked #24) in the Impact Factor category (citations/number of articles published). My guess is that W&L counted as "articles" all of the advance sheet material in Tax Notes. (Note: I omitted the NYU Journal of Law and Business from the above chart because it is not a tax journal.)
Prior W&L Tax Journal Rankings:
Update: Thanks to Omri Marian for letting me know that Washington & Lee has released an updated ranking based on citations to articles published in 2005-2012. I will blog those rankings in a forthcoming post.
