Friday, August 27, 2021

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

Based on the latest Sisk data, here are the ten most-cited tax professors 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."

Tax

Rank

Name

School

Citations

Age in 2021

1

Reuven Avi-Yonah

University of Michigan

420

64

2

Michael Graetz

Columbia University

380

77

3

David Weisbach

University of Chicago

310

58

4

Daniel Shaviro

New York University

300

64

5

Victor Fleischer

University of California, Irvine

270

50

 

Lawrence Zelenak

Duke University

270

63

7

Alan Auerbach

University of California, Berkeley

210

70

 

Joseph Bankman

Stanford University

210

66

9

David  Gamage

Indiana University, Bloomington

200

43

10

Leandra Lederman

Indiana University, Bloomington

190

55

 

Other highly-cited scholars who work partly in this area

     
 

Louis Kaplow

Harvard University

950

65

 

Daniel Hemel

University of Chicago

500

36

 

Kristin Hickman

University of Minnesota

440

51

 

Brian Galle

Georgetown University

290

48

 

Yair Listokin

Yale University

230

46

(A note on the limitations of the Westlaw database is worth remarking on here.  James Hines, an economist at Michigan, who holds a joint appointment in both economics and law, is a very major tax scholar, but got fewer than 190 citations in the law review database during this five year period.  During that same time period, he received more than 5,000 citations according to Google Scholar!  Of course, most of those would have been in economics, rather than law, journals, as well as books, dissertations, working papers, and journals in cognate disciplines to economics and law.  Similarly, Reuven Avi-Yonah had more than 2,500 citations according to Google Scholar for the period 2016-2020, and David Weisbach had nearly 2,000 citations according to Google Scholar.   For scholarly impact in law specifically, the Westlaw database is probably still a better metric, even if it understates total scholarly impact and even if it misses some outstanding scholarsa, like Hines.)

https://leiterlawschool.typepad.com/leiter/2021/08/10-most-cited-tax-scholars-in-the-us-2016-2020.html

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