Top 25 law schools based on MEDIAN scholarly impact, 2021

The Sisk rankings of law schools by scholarly impact, gives more weight to mean impact than median impact (the overall scores is based on 2x the mean impact plus 1x the median impact).  One reason it is interesting to look solely at median impact is that it tells us something about scholarly impact at a school:  very roughly, schools that rank higher by median impact than they do in the overal impact ranking are schools with a "strong middle" of productive, impactful faculty, but not as many citation stars; by contrast, schools that rank lower by median impact than they in the overall impact ranking are schools being carried by their citation stars, as it were.

Top 25 Law Schools by Median Scholarly Impact, 2016-2020

Median Impact Rank	School (overall impact rank)	Median impact
1	Yale University (1)	341
2	University of Chicago (2)	312
3	New York University (4)	267
4	Harvard University (3)	256
5	Columbia University (5)	218
6	Stanford University (6)	210
7	University of California, Berkeley (6)	181
8	University of Pennsylvania (8)	177
9	Duke University (12)	171
10	University of California, Los Angeles (11)	165
	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (13)	165
	University of Virginia (9)	164
	Vanderbilt University (9)	166
14	Cornell University (15)	151
15	Georgetown University (17)	144
	University of Minnesota (18)	142
17	Northwestern University (15)	132
	University of California, Irvine (14)	133
	University of Texas, Austin (18)	133
20	University of Arizona (27)	127
21	College of William & Mary (27)	124
22	Boston University (23)	119
	George Washington University (18)	120
	University of Southern California (29)	120
	University of St. Thomas (MN) (23)	120