Top 35 Law Faculties Based on Scholarly Impact for 2007

Texas law prof Brian Leiter has published Top 35 Law Faculties Based on Scholarly Impact for 2007 in Brian Leiter's Law School Rankings. Leiter's study, which compiled citation data for all tenure-stream members of the academic faculty (for 2007-08) from 2000 to the present, is a ranking of the top 35 law faculties based on a standard "objective" measure of scholarly impact, namely, per capita citations to faculty scholarship. Leiter cautions that "scholarly impact as measured by citations has important limitations as a proxy for scholarly reputation." In this report he identifies six kinds of phenomena which may skew the correlation between citation and quality.

Top 35 Law Faculties Based on Scholarly Impact for 2007 is one those rare citation studies coming out of the legal academy that exemplifies the precision of infometrics, not the carelessness of "info antics." [JH]