10 Most-Cited Law & Philosophy Faculty in the U.S., 2016-2020

Based on the latest Sisk data, here are the ten most-cited law faculty working in law & philosophy 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."

Law & Philosophy

Rank	Name	School	Citations	Age in 2021
1	Jeremy Waldron	New York University	1050	68
2	Martha Nussbaum	University of Chicago	720	74
3	Brian Leiter	University of Chicago	460*	58
4	Michael S. Moore	University of Illinois	400	78
5	Scott Shapiro	Yale University	310	55
6	Seana Shiffrin	University of California, Los Angeles	280	52
7	Brian Bix	University of Minnesota	200	59
8	Andrei Marmor	Cornell University	180	62
9	Kimberly Kessler Ferzan	University of Pennsylvania	160	50
10	Heidi Hurd	University of Illinois	130	60
		Scholars who work partly in this area
	Frederick Schauer	University of Virginia	1450	75
	Lawrence Solum	University of Virginia	880	67
	Larry Alexander	University of San Diego	690	78
	David Luban	Georgetown University	570	72
	Kent Greenawalt	Columbia University	490	85

* Raw count adjusted downward (to arrive at 460, based on a sample of results) to eliminate citations to my blogs unrelated to my law & philosophy work (a small number were related).