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Rank      JournalJarvis/Coleman 2001-05 Author ProminenceShapiro 1987-97 SSCI Chicago-Kent 1995 Shepards Chicago-Kent 1995 SSCI Mann 1978-79 Shepards
1 Yale Law Journal 553.23 7121 1742 3208 240
2 Harvard Law Review 551.85 6487 1897 4657 306
3 Columbia Law Review 543.15 4249 1454 1896 297
4 Virginia Law Review 534.92 3349 1155 1188 124
5 Stanford Law Review 524.24 4329 1152 1673 111
6 University of Chicago Law Review 512.92 3529 964 1429 148
7 Michigan Law Review 506.6 4507 1601 1546 96
8 New York University Law Review 499.71 1519 411 732 151
9 Texas Law Review 484 2262 628 983 128
10 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 483.77 3137 1044 1441 208
11 California Law Review 475.29 2359 939 1025 49
12 Georgetown Law Journal 472.67 2002 580 602 153
13 Duke Law Journal 472.5 2456 679 701 140
14 Vanderbilt Law Review 471.43 1700 482 540 71
15 University of Illinois Law Review 469.15 757 19
16 George Washington Law Review 465.97 1073 282 27
17 Cornell Law Review 462.04 2027 609 710 107
18 Emory Law Journal 461.79 74
19 UCLA Law Review 448.94 1919 528 696 56
20 Northwestern University Law Review 448 1592 449 544 44
21 Boston College Law Review 444.23 27
22 William and Mary Law Review 428.45 332 11
23 Wake Forest Law Review 419.32 17
24 Southern California Law Review 418.24 2025 623 724 57
25 Iowa Law Review 417.29 1005 232 341 73
26 Hastings Law Journal 408.44 1310 253 315 167
27 Hofstra Law Review 407.5 119
27 University of Colorado Law Review 407.5 232 16
29 North Carolina Law Review 399.24 372 47
30 Washington & Lee Law Review 394.3 28
31 Minnesota Law Review 393.1 1285 360 529 64
32 Notre Dame Law Review 392.44 833 332 57
33 Georgia Law Review 391.49 243 58
34 Ohio State Law Journal 383.62 467 37
35 Washington University Law Quarterly 381.97 49
36 Alabama Law Review 379.5 342 10
37 Boston University Law Review 379.48 1095 307 430 51
38 U.C. Davis Law Review 377.73 242 2
39 Brigham Young University Law Review 372.73 13
40 Villanova Law Review 370.97 34
41 Tulane Law Review 368.85 320 55
42 University of Richmond Law Review 365.52 16
43 Fordham Law Review 365.09 1207 19
44 Indiana Law Journal 358.16 907 367 40
45 Mississippi Law Journal 349.31 13
46 Florida State University Law Review 346.25 28
47 Arizona Law Review 345.31 45
47 Florida Law Review 345.31 297 9
49 Case Western Reserve Law Review 342.11 27
50 Houston Law Review 337.5 14
51 Oregon Law Review 336.57 14
52 Cardozo Law Review 334.52
53 SMU Law Review 331.73 71
54 South Carolina Law Review 330.32 22
55 Buffalo Law Review 330.23 246 64
56 Brooklyn Law Review 327.5 282 37
57 Maryland Law Review 323.91 247 10
58 Rutgers Law Review 322.64 17
59 University of Cincinnati Law Review 322.18 701 260 23
60 Temple Law Review 322 20
61 University of Kansas Law Review 319.44 18
62 Wisconsin Law Review 317.86 1285 504 468 53
63 Indiana Law Review 317.42 36
64 Tennessee Law Review 312.26 22
65 Arizona State Law Journal 308.33 12
66 Rutgers Law Journal 303.8 10
67 Washington Law Review 302.17 20
68 Louisiana Law Review 301.53 55
69 University of Pittsburgh Law Review 300.41 811 233 267 37
70 Connecticut Law Review 298.63 22
71 Utah Law Review 298.51 47
72 Nebraska Law Review 297.56 8
73 Arkansas Law Review 297.06 19
74 San Diego Law Review 294.4 284 29
75 Syracuse Law Review 293.06 64
76 Washburn Law Journal 287.5 8
77 Kentucky Law Journal 285.85 44
78 DePaul Law Review 285.29 47
79 Missouri Law Review 284.65 43
80 George Mason Law Review 283.52
81 Loyola University of Chicago Law Journal 283.33 9
82 American University Law Review 272.83 19
83 Drake Law Review 271.88 42
84 St. John's Law Review 271.02 13
85 Akron Law Review 264.19 18
86 Catholic University Law Review 263.94 22
87 Santa Clara Law Review 261.57 28
88 University of Miami Law Review 261.49 244 123
89 New Mexico Law Review 259.38 2
90 Baylor Law Review 259.03 23
91 Nevada Law Journal 255.83
92 Albany Law Review 254.76 8
93 Seton Hall Law Review 253.64 8
94 Montana Law Review 250 1
95 Tulsa Law Review 245.83 10
96 Ohio Northern University Law Review 245.16 18
97 Idaho Law Journal 242.5 22
98 Marquette Law Review 241.25 14
99 Roger Williams University Law Review 240.38
100 Penn State Law Review (prev. Dickinson Law Review) 239.22 20
101 Vermont Law Review 238.79 0
102 Oklahoma Law Review 237.84 33
103 University of Hawaii Law Review 237.5
104 Brandeis Law Journal 236.11
105 Wayne Law Review 235 49
106 Capital University Law Review 231.4 13
107 South Texas Law Review 230.56 2
108 Oklahoma City University Law Review 227.98
109 Barry Law Review 227.5
110 Howard Law Journal 225 24
111 Pepperdine Law Review 223.68 12
112 UMKC Law Review 222.87 7
113 Loyola Law Review 222.09 4
114 New York Law School Law Review 221.43 35
115 Touro Law Review 221.3
116 Mercer Law Review 220.83 36
117 Seattle University Law Review 220.76
118 Michigan State Law Review 220.18
119 Denver University Law Review 220.14 4
120 Florida Coastal Law Review 219.44
121 Whittier Law Review 218.44
122 Georgia State University Law Review 218.38
123 McGeorge Law Review 217.97 18
124 University of Toledo Law Review 217.86 19
125 University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review 217.26 3
126 University of Detroit Mercy Law Review 216.49 16
127 St. Louis University Law Journal 216 18
128 QLR 214.02
129 Cumberland Law Review 213.33 9
130 Suffolk University Law Review 212.5 28
131 Valparaiso University Law Review 212.04 5
132 University of Baltimore Law Review 211.72 6
133 Duquesne Law Review 211.41 14
134 West Virginia Law Review 210.71 11
135 Pace Law Review 210
136 University of Dayton Law Review 209.38 7
137 Hamline Law Review 206.41
138 Willamette Law Review 206.4 2
139 Northern Kentucky Law Review 206.25
140 University of San Francisco Law Review 203.24 21
141 Southern Illinois University Law Journal 202.44
142 South Dakota Law Review 201.5 13
143 Maine Law Review 200.96 7
144 University of Memphis Law Review 200.53 3
145 Regent University Law Review 198.96
146 New England Law Review 197.5
147 North Dakota Law Review 197.28 8
148 Thomas Jefferson Law Review 196.59
149 St. Mary's Law Journal 196.34 31
150 Gonzaga Law Review 195.74 9
151 Nova Law Review 195.65
152 Cleveland State Law Review 194.59 15
153 Wyoming Law Review 191.67 24
154 North Carolina Central Law Journal 191.07 3
155 Mississippi College Law Review 190.79
156 New York City Law Review 190.38
157 William Mitchell Law Review 189.13 4
158 California Western Law Review 188.46 6
159 Widener Law Journal 187.5
160 John Marshall Law Review 187.24
161 St. Thomas Law Review 185.94
162 Texas Wesleyan Law Review 185
163 Southern University Law Review 182.55
164 Campbell Law Review 181.25
165 Northern Illinois University Law Review 179.29
166 Thomas M. Cooley Law Review 177.27
167 Texas Tech Law Review 175.96 8
168 Thurgood Marshall Law Review 168.75
168 Western New England Law Review 168.75
170 Southwestern University Law Review 159.52 26
171 Western State University Law Review 140.52 2
  ABA Journal 729 99
  Administrative Law Review 342
  Alaska Law Review 6
  American Criminal Law Review 508 187
  American Journal of Comparative Law 363
  American Journal of International Law 1084 514 18
  American Journal of Law and Medicine 557
  Arbitration Journal 24
  Banking Law Journal 23
  Behavioral Sciences & the Law 470
  Business Lawyer 1155 572 461 157
  Chicago-Kent Law Review 451 12
  Creighton Law Review 20
  Ecology Law Quarterly 518
  Environmental Law 10
  Family Law Quarterly 498
  Federal Probation 328
  Golden Gate University Law Review 1
  Harvard Civil-Rights--Civil-Liberties Law Review 1076 370
  Harvard International Law Journal 333 112
  Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy 970
  Harvard Journal on Legislation 363
  Industrial and Labor Relations Review 55
  Insurance Law Journal 10
  International Journal of Law and Psychiatry 799
  John Marshall Journal of Practice & Procedure 8
  Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 1025 430
  Journal of Family Law 14
  Journal of Law & Economics 1603 1266
  Journal of Law, Economics and Organization 1254
  Journal of Legal Education 1047 459
  Journal of Legal Medicine 342
  Journal of Legal Studies 1864 949
  Judicature 855 140
  Labor Law Journal 450 52
  Law and Contemporary Problems 1118 474 70
  Law and Human Behavior 2364 400
  Law and Social Inquiry 882 92
  Law and Society Review 2189 663
  Law Review of Michigan State University-Detroit College of Law 1
  Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review 2
  Massachusetts Law Review 9
  Natural Resources Journal 494 25
  Practical Lawyer 14
  Stetson Law Review 4
  Tax Law Review 24
  Taxes - The Tax Magazine 32
  Urban Lawyer 337

 219 Journals (171 ranked by JARVIS/COLEMAN 2001-05 AUTHOR PROMINENCE.   48 nonranked)