10 Most-Cited Commercial Law Scholars in the U.S., 2016-2020

Based on the latest Sisk data, here are the ten most-cited law faculty in commercial law (including contracts and bankruptcy) in the U.S. for the period 2016-2020 (inclusive) (remember that the data was collected in late May/early June of 2021, and that the pre-2021 database did expand a bit since then).  Numbers are rounded to the nearest ten.    Faculty for whom roughly 75% or more of their citations (based on a sample) are in this area are listed; others with less than 75% of their citations in this field (but still a plurality) are listed in the category of "other highly cited scholars who work partly in this area."

10 Most Cited Law Faculty in Commercial Law (incl. contracts and bankruptcy)

Rank	Name	School	Citations	Age in 2021
1	Omri Ben-Shahar	University of Chicago	670	59
2	Alan Schwartz	Yale University	500	81
3	Douglas Baird	University of Chicago	430	68
	Oren Bar-Gill	Harvard University	430	46
	Adam Levitin	Georgetown University	430	45
	Steven Schwarcz	Duke University	430	72
7	Lynn LoPucki	University of California, Los Angeles	330	77
8	Ronald J. Mann	Columbia University	320	60
9	Todd  Zywicki	George Mason University	270	55
10	Anthony Casey	University of Chicago	250	44
		Other highly-cited scholars who work partly in this area
	Eric Posner	University of Chicago	2240	56
	Randy Barnett	Georgetown University	970	69
	Geoffrey Miller	New York University	870	71
	G. Mitu Gulati	University of Virginia	640	55
	David Hoffman	University of Pennsylvania	580	45