Tuesday, September 14, 2021

15 Most-Cited Law & Social Science (excluding economics) Faculty in the U.S., 2016-2020 (CORRECTED)

Based on the latest Sisk data, here are the fifteen most-cited law faculty in law & social science (excluding economics) 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).  This is meant to capture scholars who work under the "law & society" rubric and/or who deploy methodologies from psychology, sociology, political science and anthropology to law, including empirical legal studies scholars. 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 & Social Science (excluding economics, and including “law & society,” “empirical legal studies,” sociology, political science, psychology, anthropology)

Rank

Name

School

Citations

Age in 2021

1

Tom Tyler

Yale University

940

71

2

Tom Ginsburg

University of Chicago

850

53

3

Lee Epstein

Washington University, St. Louis

800

63

4

Jeffrey Rachlinski

Cornell University

690

55

5

Chris Guthrie

Vanderbilt University

630

54

6

David Hoffman

University of Pennsylvania

580

45

7

Justin Levinson

University of Hawaii

480

47

8

Charles Sabel

Columbia University

460

74

9

Jonathan Simon

University of California, Berkeley

420

62

10

John Ferejohn

New York University

410

77

 

Anne Joseph O’Connell

Stanford University

410

51

12

Linda Hamilton Krieger

University of Hawaii

360

67

13

Herbert Kritzer

University of Minnesota

350

74

14

David Law

University of Virginia

340

48

15

Sean Fahrang

University of California, Berkeley

310

53

   

Other highly-cited scholars who work partly in this area

   
 

Dan Kahan

Yale University

850

58

 

G. Mitu Gulati

University of Virginia

640

53

 

Bernard Black

Northwestern University

450

68

 

Carrie Menkel-Meadow

University of California, Irvine

430

72

 

Brian Tamanaha

Washington University, St. Louis

420

64

 

 

https://leiterlawschool.typepad.com/leiter/2021/09/15-most-cited-law-social-science-scholars-in-the-us-2016-2020.html

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