Here are the Washington & Lee tax law review rankings, based on citations to articles published in 2005-2012:
- 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 48 ranked tax journals):
|
Rank |
Tax |
Combined |
Impact |
Law |
Cases |
Currency |
|
1 |
Virginia Tax Review |
100.0 |
0.72 |
595 |
5 |
1.20 |
|
2 |
Tax Law Review |
80.2 |
0.66 |
382 |
1 |
0.92 |
|
3 |
Elder Law Journal |
66.1 |
0.58 |
279 |
8 |
0.55 |
|
4 |
Florida Tax Review |
62.0 |
0.58 |
217 |
0 |
0.96 |
|
5 |
Tax Notes |
54.5 |
0.01 |
762 |
15 |
0.02 |
|
6 |
Pittsburgh Tax Review |
40.5 |
0.43 |
81 |
2 |
0.25 |
|
6 |
Tax Lawyer |
40.5 |
0.21 |
335 |
14 |
0.14 |
|
8 |
Houston Bus. & Tax J. |
39.7 |
0.34 |
170 |
5 |
0.14 |
|
9 |
Akron Tax Journal |
28.9 |
0.30 |
71 |
3 |
0.38 |
|
10 |
Heckerling Inst. Est. Plan. |
26.4 |
0.21 |
132 |
0 |
0.48 |
|
11 |
Marquette Elder's Advisor |
24.8 |
0.20 |
124 |
1 |
0.14 |
|
12 |
National Tax Journal |
23.1 |
0.11 |
206 |
2 |
0.19 |
|
13 |
Journal of Taxation |
17.4 |
0.03 |
215 |
6 |
0.05 |
|
14 |
New Zealand J. Tax' Law |
14.0 |
0.11 |
73 |
0 |
0.10 |
|
15 |
Estate Planning |
13.2 |
0.04 |
148 |
1 |
0.19 |
|
16 |
Tax Notes International |
10.7 |
0.00 |
151 |
0 |
0.00 |
|
17 |
Exempt Org. Tax Review |
5.0 |
0.00 |
75 |
0 |
0.01 |
|
17 |
Taxes Magazine |
5.0 |
0.01 |
55 |
0 |
0.04 |
|
19 |
British Tax Review |
4.1 |
0.01 |
42 |
0 |
0.02 |
|
19 |
Tax Management Mem. |
4.1 |
0.01 |
48 |
1 |
0.05 |
|
19 |
Taxation of Exempts |
4.1 |
0.02 |
40 |
0 |
0.10 |
|
22 |
Canadian Tax Journal |
3.3 |
0.02 |
30 |
0 |
0.02 |
|
23 |
eJournal of Tax Research |
2.5 |
0.02 |
11 |
0 |
0.06 |
|
23 |
J. Australasian Tax Ass'n |
2.5 |
0.02 |
13 |
0 |
0.02 |
|
23 |
Tax Management Int'l J. |
2.5 |
0.01 |
27 |
0 |
0.03 |
Tax Notes is #1 by a wide margin in citations in law reviews (762 v. #2's Virginia Tax Review's 595), but fairs relatively poorly (.001, ranked #20) 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:
(Hat Tip: Omri Marian,)
