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

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

Election Law

Rank	Name	School	Citations	Age in 2021
1	Samuel Issacharoff	New York University	830	67
2	Richard Pildes	New York University	790	64
3	Richard Hasen	University of California, Irvine	750	57
4	Heather Gerken	Yale University	620	52
5	Richard Briffault	Columbia University	530	67
6	Nathaniel Persily	Stanford University	320	51
7	Nicholas Stephanopoulos	Harvard University	290	41
8	Michael Kang	Northwestern University	240	48
9	James Gardner	University at Buffalo, State University of New York	220	62
10	Daniel Tokaji	University of Wisconsin, Madison	210	54
	Runner-up for the top 10
	Justin Levitt	Loyola Law School, Los Angeles	200	47
	Other highly cited scholars who work partly in this area
	Samuel Bagenstos	University of Michigan	540	51
	Adam Cox	New York University	390	47