Paul L. Caron
Dean
Pepperdine Caruso
School of Law
Law Review Rankings
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Designing Better Metrics
Fans of The Wire, the greatest television show ever, know all too well that how we measure success can ultimately corrupt how we define it. So we owe Villanova Professor Cannan a debt for his efforts to explain how current measures of scholarly impact are deeply flawed and how we might do better. Law Library…
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2025 Meta-Ranking Of Flagship U.S. Law Reviews
Bryce Clayton Newell (Oregon), 2025 Meta-Ranking of Flagship US Law Reviews: This is an updated ranking of the top flagship law reviews at US law schools (updated as of August 4, 2025). For a summary and more details about method, see below the table. You can also compare MetaRanking from 2018-2024, including changes in ranking…
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Resources For Authors Submitting Law Review Articles In The Fall 2025 Cycle
1. Bryce Clayton Newell (Oregon), 2024 Meta-Ranking Of Flagship U.S. Law Reviews: This is an updated ranking of the top flagship law reviews at US law schools (updated as of August 7, 2024). For a summary and more details about method, see below the table. You can also compare MetaRanking from 2018-2024, including changes in…
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2024 Meta-Ranking Of Flagship U.S. Law Reviews
Bryce Clayton Newell (Oregon), 2024 Meta-Ranking of Flagship US Law Reviews: This is an updated ranking of the top flagship law reviews at US law schools (updated as of August 7, 2024). For a summary and more details about method, see below the table. You can also compare MetaRanking from 2018-2024, including changes in ranking…
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2023 Tax Journal Rankings: Tax Law Review Is #1, Virginia Tax Review Is #2
Washington & Lee has just released the 2023 tax law review rankings of six major tax journals: Columbia Journal of Tax Law (“Columbia”) Elder Law Review (“Illinois”) Tax Law Review (“NYU”) Tax Lawyer (“ABA”) Tax Notes Federal (“Tax Notes”) Virginia Tax Review (“Virginia”) The rankings are based on citations to articles published in 2019-2023 (methodology):…
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Exclusive Article Submission Window For The Tax Lawyer
The Tax Lawyer is offering an exclusive submission window for articles to be published in the Spring issue of the Tax Lawyer through December 1, 2023. If you’ve got a completed or almost completed draft of an article on any tax issue of 12,000-35,000 words, please submit it to Editor, Publications, at taxweb@americanbar.org. You can…
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2003-2022 Tax Journal Rankings: Tax Law Review Is #1, Virginia Tax Review Is #2
Following up on yesterday’s post, 2022 Tax Journal Rankings: Tax Law Review Is #1, Virginia Tax Review Is #2: here are the Washington & Lee 2003-2022 tax law review combined rankings of eight major tax journals: Columbia Journal of Tax Law (“Columbia”) Florida Tax Review (“Florida”) Houston Business & Tax Review (“Houston”) Pittsburgh Tax Review…
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2022 Tax Journal Rankings: Tax Law Review Is #1, Virginia Tax Review Is #2
Washington & Lee has just released the 2022 tax law review rankings of six major tax journals: Columbia Journal of Tax Law (“Columbia”) Florida Tax Review (“Florida”) Tax Law Review (“NYU”) Tax Lawyer (“ABA”) Tax Notes Federal (“Tax Notes”) Virginia Tax Review (“Virginia”) The rankings are based on citations to articles published in 2018-2022 (methodology):…
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2023 Meta-Ranking Of Flagship U.S. Law Reviews
Bryce Clayton Newell (Oregon), 2023 Meta-Ranking of Flagship US Law Reviews: This is an updated ranking of the top flagship law reviews at US law schools (updated as of July 25, 2023). For a summary and more details about method, see below the table. You can also compare MetaRanking since 2018, including changes in ranking…
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U.S. News, Department Of Education, And Law Schools Take The Gloves Off In Rankings Battle
Wall Street Journal Op-Ed: Why Elite Law and Medical Schools Can’t Stand U.S. News, by Eric J. Gertler (Chairman & CEO, U.S. News): The decision by some elite law and medical schools to opt out of the U.S. News & World Report ranking surveys has ignited a national debate on meritocracy and equity. But lost…
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Resources For Authors Submitting Law Review Articles In The Spring 2023 Cycle
1. Bryce Clayton Newell (Oregon), 2022 Meta-Ranking Of Flagship U.S. Law Reviews: This is an updated ranking of the top flagship law reviews at US law schools. … The MetaRank was computed by averaging ranks (using a 25% weighting from each) of the following rankings: prRank = US News Peer Reputation score ranking (averaged over 10 years);usnRank = overall…
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2022 Meta-Ranking Of Flagship U.S. Law Reviews
Update: 2023 Meta-Ranking of Flagship US Law Reviews Bryce Clayton Newell (Oregon), 2022 Meta-Ranking of Flagship US Law Reviews: This is an updated ranking of the top flagship law reviews at US law schools (updated as of September 16, 2022). For a summary and more details about method, see below the table. You can also…
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2021 Meta-Ranking Of Flagship U.S. Law Reviews
Update: 2023 Meta-Ranking Of Flagship U.S. Law Reviews Bryce Clayton Newell (Oregon), 2021 Meta-Ranking of Flagship US Law Reviews: This is an updated ranking of the top flagship law reviews at US law schools (updated as of September 29, 2021). … The ranking table below includes 193 flagship law reviews from ABA accredited law schools.…
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2003-2012 Tax Journal Rankings: NYU #1, Tax Notes #2
Here are the Washington & Lee tax law review combined rankings of the five major tax journals: Florida Tax Review ("Florida") Tax Law Review ("NYU") Tax Lawyer ("ABA") Tax Notes Virginia Tax Review ("Virginia") The rankings are based on the annual combined rankings in 2003-2012 among these five journals:by: Impact Factor (citations/number of articles published)…
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2012 Tax Journal Rankings: Virginia #1, NYU #2
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…
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Google Law Review Rankings
My friend and colleague Rob Anderson (Pepperdine) has expanded his Google Law Review Rankings to cover 216 law reviews based on articles published in 2007-2011 (with links to the most-cited articles for each journal). Here are the Top 25, along with each journal’s ranking in the Washington & Lee law review rankings: Rank Law Review…
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2011 Tax Journal Rankings: NYU #1, Virginia #2, Tax Notes #3
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…
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The Need for a New Law Review Ranking System
The Legal Watchdog: Law Review Publishing: In Search of a Useful Ranking System: My initial decision on where to publish has typically been guided by the US News rankings of law schools, which, in legal publication circles, is used as a proxy for the quality of a law school’s journal. … To be sure, there…
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Google Law Review Rankings
From my friend and colleague Rob Anderson (Pepperdine), Google Ranks Law Reviews: Google has announced an enhancement to its Scholar Metrics that allows users to view citation rankings of journals in various categories. Among the rankings is Google's ranking of law reviews, as well as a number of specialty law reviews such as technology law and…
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Law Review Circulation Continues to Plummet (2011)
Ross E. Davies (George Mason), Law Review Circulation 2011: More Change, More Same, 2 J. Legal Metrics 179 (2012): In 2011, for the first time since the U.S. Postal Service began requiring law reviews to track and report their circulation numbers, no major law review had more than 2,000 paying subscribers. The Harvard Law Review…
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Fall 2011 Law Review Article Submission Guide
Nancy Levit (UMKC) & Allen Rostron (UMKC) have updated their incredibly useful document, which contains two charts for the Fall 2011 submission season covering 202 law reviews. The first chart (pp. 1-64) contains information gathered from the journals’ websites on: Methods for submitting an article (such as by e-mail, ExpressO, or regular mail) Any special formatting…
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Galle: Scholarly Influence in Law Review Rankings
Tax Prof Brian Galle (Boston College) offers his thoughts on law review rankings: Maybe it’s the hundred-degree heat talking, but I think law review rankings are a little bit useful. As a reader and researcher, I do make some use of an article’s placement as a screen for how close of an initial read to…
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Spring 2011 Law Review Article Submission Guide
Nancy Levit (UMKC) & Allen Rostron (UMKC) have updated their incredibly useful document, which contains two charts for the Spring 2011 submission season covering 202 law reviews. The first chart (pp. 1-72) contains information gathered from the journals’ websites on: Methods for submitting an article (such as by e-mail, ExpressO, or regular mail) Any special formatting…
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Law Review Circulation Continues to Plummet
Ross E. Davies (George Mason) has published The Dipping Point: Law Review Circulation 2010, 14 Green Bag 2d 547 (2011). Here is the abstract: For the past couple of years we have needled the Harvard Law Review (HLR) about its tendency to err on the side of inflation when describing the size of its subscriber…
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Law Review Rankings by Social Science Impact
Mikhail Koulikov (Reference/Research Librarian, New York Law Institute) has published Indexing and Full-Text Coverage of Law Review Articles in Nonlegal Databases: An Initial Study, 102 Law Lib. J. 39 (2010). Here is the abstract: Mr. Koulikov examines the level of coverage that articles originally published in law reviews receive in eight major general academic databases. His…