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2025 Tax Prof Rankings: Google Scholar H-Index Since 2020

January 15, 2025

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Yesterday, I posted Google Scholar H-Index All rankings of the Top 128 tax professors with Google Scholar pages (data collected on January 6). The Google Scholar H-Index Since 2020 rankings are below. If you are a full-time law school tax professor with a Google Scholar page and we missed including you, please contact me.

Rank	Name	School	Google Scholar H-Index (Since 2020)
1	Joel Slemrod	Michigan	54
2	Alan Auerbach	UC-Berkeley	41
3	James Hines	Michigan	33
4	Reuven Avi-Yonah	Michigan	27
5	Dhammika Dharmapala	UC-Berkeley	24
6	Jacob Goldin	Chicago	23
7	Kimberly Clausing	UCLA	22
8	Daniel Hemel	NYU	21
8	David Weisbach	Chicago	21
10	Kristin Hickman	Minnesota	20
11	Edward McCaffery	USC	18
12	Leandra Lederman	Indiana (Maurer)	17
12	Dan Shaviro	NYU	17
12	Eric Zolt	UCLA	17
15	Brian Galle	Georgetown	16
15	Robert Sitkoff	Harvard	16
17	Yariv Brauner	Florida	15
17	Zachary Liscow	Yale	15
17	Kyle Logue	Michigan	15
20	Jonathan Choi	USC	14
20	Bridget Crawford	Pace	14
20	Andrew Hayashi	Virginia	14
20	Kyle Rozema	Northwestern	14
24	Nancy Knauer	Temple	13
24	Ruth Mason	Virginia	13
24	Diane Ring	Boston College	13
27	Joshua Blank	UC-Irvine	12
27	Steven Dean	Boston Univ.	12
27	David Gamage	Missouri (Columbia)	12
27	Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer	Notre Dame	12
27	Lawrence Zelenak	Duke	12
32	Hugh Ault	Boston College	11
32	Dorothy Brown	Georgetown	11
32	Clifton Fleming	BYU	11
32	Rebecca Kysar	Fordham	11
32	Sarah Lawsky	Northwestern	11
32	Omri Marian	UC-Irvine	11
32	Ajay Mehrotra	Northwestern	11
32	Amy Monahan	Minnesota	11
32	Susan Morse	Texas	11
32	Shu-Yi Oei	Duke	11
32	Leigh Osofsky	North Carolina	11
32	Chris Sanchirico	Penn	11
32	Darien Shanske	UC-Davis	11
32	Michael Simkovic	USC	11
32	David Walker	Boston Univ.	11
47	Steven Bank	UCLA	10
47	Kathleen Delaney Thomas	North Carolina	10
47	Ari Glogower	Northwestern	10
47	James Repetti	Boston College	10
47	Stephen Shay	Boston College	10
52	Ellen Aprill	Loyola-L.A.	9
52	Leslie Book	Villanova	9
52	John Brooks	Fordham	9
52	Samuel Brunson	Loyola-Chicago	9
52	Lilian Faulhaber	Georgetown	9
52	Miranda Perry Fleischer	San Diego	9
52	Christine Hurt	SMU	9
52	Nancy McLaughlin	Utah	9
52	Jay Soled	Rutgers	9

Rank	Name	School	Google Scholar H-Index (Since 2020)
61	Jordan Barry	USC	8
61	Michael Doran	Virginia	8
61	Victor Fleischer	UC-Irvine	8
61	Philip Hackney	Pittsburgh	8
61	Victoria Haneman	Creighton	8
61	Anthony Infanti	Pittsburgh	8
61	Linda Jellum	Idaho	8
61	Ariel Jurow Kleiman	USC	8
61	Richard Kaplan	Illinois	8
61	Michelle Layser	San Diego	8
61	Henry Ordower	St. Louis	8
61	Gregg Polsky	Georgia	8
61	Shayak Sarkar	UC-Davis	8
61	Linda Sugin	Fordham	8
61	Susannah Tahk	Wisconsin	8
76	Natalie Banta Lynner	Drake	7
76	Jennifer Bird-Pollan	Wayne State	7
76	Bradley Borden	Brooklyn	7
76	Neil Buchanan	Florida	7
76	Johnny Buckles	Houston	7
76	Paul Caron	Pepperdine	7
76	Emily Cauble	Wisconsin	7
76	John Coverdale	Seton Hall	7
76	Mirit Eyal-Cohen	Alabama	7
76	Heather Field	UC-San Francisco	7
76	Edward Fox	Michigan	7
76	Benjamin Leff	American	7
76	Francine Lipman	UNLV	7
76	Gladriel Shobe	BYU	7
76	Adam Thimmesch	Nebraska	7
76	Dennis Ventry	UC-Davis	7
76	Manoj Viswanathan	UC-San Francisco	7
76	Bret Wells	Houston	7
94	Andrew Appleby	Stetson	6
94	Andrew Blair-Stanek	Maryland	6
94	Conor Clarke	Washington Univ.	6
94	Charles Delmotte	Michigan State	6
94	Jose Gabilondo	Florida Int’l	6
94	Andy Grewal	Iowa	6
94	Michael Hatfield	University of Washington	6
94	Stephanie Hoffer	Indiana (McKinney)	6
94	Young Ran (Christine) Kim	Cardozo	6
94	Gary Lucas	Texas A&M	6
94	Katherine Pratt	Loyola-L.A.	6
94	Clinton Wallace	South Carolina	6
106	Jeremy Bearer-Friend	George Washington	5
106	Karen Burke	Florida	5
106	William Byrnes	Texas A&M	5
106	Bryan Camp	Texas Tech	5
106	Adam Chodorow	Arizona State	5
106	Terrence Chorvat	George Mason	5
106	Jeffrey Cooper	Quinnipiac	5
106	Danshera Cords	Albany	5
106	Tessa Davis	South Carolina	5
106	David Hasen	Florida	5
106	Mary Heen	Richmond	5
106	Diane Kemker	Southern	5
106	John Miller	Idaho	5
106	Amanda Parsons	Colorado	5
106	Richard Pomp	Connecticut	5
106	James Puckett	Penn State-University Park	5
106	Tracey Roberts	Samford	5
106	Blaine Saito	Ohio State	5
106	Emily Satterthwaite	Georgetown	5
106	Alan Schenk	Wayne State	5
106	Theodore Seto	Loyola-L.A.	5
106	Fadi Shaheen	Rutgers	5
106	Peter Wiedenbeck	Washington Univ.	5

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About the Author

Paul Caron was named Duane and Kelly Roberts Dean of Pepperdine University School of Law on June 1, 2017. Dean Caron joined the Pepperdine faculty in 2013 after serving as the Dorothy and Leonard Straus Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law in the spring semesters of 2010 through 2013. He served as Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development at Pepperdine in 2015-2017. Before coming to Pepperdine, he was Associate Dean of Faculty and Charles Hartsock Professor of Law at the University of Cincinnati College of Law.

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