Top 15 Law Faculties in scholarly impact (2016-2020) based on their faculty under age 60, 2021

This is a complement to the original Sisk study of scholarly impact for the period 2016-2020.  As many readers have noted, the scholarly impact of many schools depends on their older faculty.  Using the Sisk data, we looked at the ten most-cited faculty under age 60 in 2021, calculating the weighted score the same way as in the original study:  the mean score times two, plus the median.  Some schools--Chicago, Harvard, NYU, Berkeley, Michigan--performed comparably (or slightly better, or slightly worse) in this study as in the original study of all tenured faculty, regardless of age.  But other schools under-performed--for example, Yale and Stanford--suggesting that their "scholarly impact" performance depends heavily on an "old guard," as it were.  Some other schools outperformed their overall rank noticeably--UCLA and Virginia, for example--suggesting they are going to be likely recruitment targets for other law schools.

Time permitting, we'll try to expand this beyond the top 15.

Full results below the fold:

Top 15 law schools in scholarly impact (2016-2020) based on faculty under 60 in 2021

Rank	Law School	Weighted score	Mean	Median	Ten most cited faculty under age 60 in 2021	Overall Sisk rank (all faculty, including those 60 and older)
1	University of Chicago	2168	749	670	W. Baude, O. Ben-Shahar, C. Bradley, T. Ginsburg, D. Hemel, A. Huq, B. Leiter, J. Masur, E. Posner, L. Strahilevitz	2
2	Harvard University	1806	654	498	O. Bar-Gill, J. Coates, N. Feldman, J. Freeman, J. Goldsmith, A. Natapoff, H. Smith, M. Stephenson, R. Tushnet, A. Vermeule	3
3	Yale University	1532	518	496	H. Gerken, A. Gluck, O. Hathaway, C. Jolls, D. Kahan, A. Kapacynski, D. Kysar, T. Meares, D. NeJaime, C. Rodriguez	1
4	University of California, Los Angeles	1456	512	432	D. Carbado, S. Cummings, I. Eagly, J. Kang, R. Korobkin, M. McKenna, K. Raustiala, J. Salzman, E. Volokh, A. Winkler	11
5	New York University	1449	494	461	R. Barkow, S. Choi, A. Cox, J. Fromer, R. Goodman, M. Kahna, D. Levinson, T. Morrison, K. Strandburg, K. Yoshino	4
	University of Virginia	1448	499	450	D. Citron, J. Duffy, M. Gulati, D. Law, M. Livermore, C. Nelson, S. Prakash, R. Re, R. Schragger, M. Schwartzman	9
7	University of California, Berkeley	1335	490	355	K. Bamberger, E. Biber, J. Chacon,  S. Farhang, I. Haney Lopez, O. Kerr, F. Partnoy, J. Simon, S. Davidoff Solomon, J. Yoo	6
8	Duke University	1155	404	347	K. Abrams, M. Adler, J. Blocher, S. Buell, B. Garrett, L. Helfer, M. Lemos, A. Rai, N. Siegel, E. Young	12
9	Columbia University	1126	397	332	S. Balganesh, J. Bulman-Pozen, J. Greene, B. Harcourt, M. Heller, G. Metzger, D. Pozen, K. Pistor, J. Purdy, E. Talley	5
10	Stanford University	1084	421	242	D. Engstrom, N. Engstrom, R. Ford, D. Ho, M. Lemley, M. Mello, C. Milhaupt, A. O’Connell, L. Ouellette, N. Persily	6
11	Georgetown University	1043	373	297	A. Chander, J. Cohen, L. Donohue, B. Galle, D. Hyman, N. Katyal, A. Levitin, A. Macleod, P. Ohm, J. Thomas	17
12	George Washington University	990	367	256	M. Abramowicz, D. Braman, B. Clark, T. Colby, E. Hammond, C. Lee, J. Rosen, J. Siegel, P. Smith, D. Solove	18
13	University of Michigan	967	322	323	S. Bagenstos, N. Bagley, M. Barr, D. Crane, K. Logue, N. Mendelson, N. Price, R. Primus, A. Pritchard, M. Schlanger	13
14	University of Pennsylvania	962	337	288	M. Berman, C. Coglianese, J. Galbraith, D. Hoffman, G. Parchomovsky, E. Pollman, K. Roosevelt, J. Rothman, P. Wagner, C. Yoo	8
15	Vanderbilt University	956	335	286	L.  Bressman, J. Clarke, B. Fitzpatrick, D. Gervais, C. Guthrie, J. Rossi, C. Serkin, G. Sitarman, K. Stack, I. Wuerth	9
	Runner-up for the top 15
	Cornell University	910	337	236	S. Colb, M. Dorf, S. Garvey, J. Grimmelman, R. Hockett, J. Ohlin, S. Omarova, J. Rachlinski, N. Tebbe, B. Wendel	15