Google Law Review Rankings 2015

The spring law review season is now in full swing, so it's time for my annual law review ranking based on Google Scholar Metrics. Google produces a ranking of journals based on the number of citations to recent articles in Google Scholar. This is an important complement to other citation ranking systems such as Washington and Lee's ranking, in part because Google picks up citations in more publications.

In this post, I have used the 2015 Google data to rank the journals using the average of Google's two measures, the H5 index and the H5 median, which seems to give more balanced and less volatile results than using either measure individually. For more details on these measures, see my original post on the Google Rankings.  You can find last year's rankings for 2014 here. 

The table ranks main law school law reviews only, so if you would like to compare alongside specialty journals please see the 2015 ranking with specialty journals. Also, this is not a complete list as Google does not keep track of all  journals. As a result, a journal that is listed low in this list is not necessary a "low-ranked journal," as there may be dozens or hundreds ranked lower that are not part of the dataset. Similarly, there are specialty journals ranked higher than most of the law reviews in this list. I have tried to include every main law review included by Google but I may have missed some, so please feel free to leave comments with any corrections or omissions, and please refrain from shooting the messenger. 

Are you curious whether your article was one of the most cited in the journal in the last five years? You can click the blue number under the "H5 Index" column to see any journal's most cited articles for the last five years. 

Rank	Law Journal Name	Average Score	h5-index	h5-median
1	Harvard Law Review	62	42	82
2	Yale Law Journal	52.5	38	67
3	Columbia Law Review	50	39	61
4	Stanford Law Review	49.5	37	62
5	University of Pennsylvania Law Review	47	36	58
6	Georgetown Law Journal	43	36	50
7	Michigan Law Review	43	30	56
8	Texas Law Review	41	32	50
9	California Law Review	40.5	34	47
10	Virginia Law Review	39	31	47
11	New York University Law Review	38.5	28	49
12	Minnesota Law Review	38	29	47
13	Cornell Law Review	35.5	30	41
14	Duke Law Journal	35.5	29	42
15	UCLA Law Review	35	29	41
16	Vanderbilt Law Review	34	27	41
17	University of Chicago Law Review	34	26	42
18	Notre Dame Law Review	32.5	27	38
19	William and Mary Law Review	32	26	38
20	Iowa Law Review	31.5	27	36
21	North Carolina Law Review	30.5	26	35
22	Florida Law Review	30	25	35
23	Northwestern University Law Review	30	25	35
24	Fordham Law Review	30	24	36
25	Wisconsin Law Review	30	21	39
26	Boston University Law Review	29.5	27	32
27	Indiana Law Journal	29.5	26	33
28	Boston College Law Review	29.5	22	37
29	University of Illinois Law Review	28	24	32
30	Emory Law Journal	27	21	33
31	George Washington Law Review	26.5	23	30
32	Hastings Law Journal	26	22	30
33	Cardozo Law Review	25.5	22	29
34	Lewis & Clark Law Review	25.5	20	31
35	Arizona Law Review	25	21	29
36	Washington University Law Review	25	19	31
37	Southern California Law Review	24.5	22	27
38	Seattle University Law Review	23.5	20	27
39	Wake Forest Law Review	23.5	17	30
40	American University Law Review	23	20	26
41	Connecticut Law Review	23	19	27
42	Vermont Law Review	23	16	30
43	UC Davis Law Review	22.5	20	25
44	Ohio State Law Journal	22.5	18	27
45	Maryland Law Review	22	19	25
46	Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review	21.5	16	27
47	Washington & Lee Law Review	21	18	24
48	George Mason Law Review	20.5	19	22
49	Alabama Law Review	20.5	16	25
50	Washington Law Review	20.5	16	25
51	Brigham Young University Law Review	19.5	17	22
52	Pepperdine Law Review	19.5	16	23
53	Seton Hall Law Review	19.5	15	24
54	Missouri Law Review	19	16	22
55	Georgia Law Review	19	14	24
56	Howard Law Journal	19	12	26
57	Houston Law Review	18.5	16	21
58	New York Law School Law Review	18.5	16	21
59	Pennsylvania State Law Review	18.5	16	21
60	Buffalo Law Review	18.5	15	22
61	Chicago-Kent Law Review	18.5	15	22
62	Albany Law Review	18.5	14	23
63	Santa Clara Law Review	18	16	20
64	Tulane Law Review	18	16	20
65	Denver University Law Review	18	14	22
66	Louisiana Law Review	18	13	23
67	Kansas Law Review	17.5	16	19
68	University of Cincinnati Law Review	17.5	15	20
69	South Carolina Law Review	17.5	14	21
70	Florida State University Law Review	17.5	13	22
71	Oregon Law Review	17	15	19
72	Akron Law Review	17	14	20
73	Georgia State University Law Review	17	14	20
74	Utah Law Review	17	14	20
75	Indiana Law Review	17	13	21
76	University of Miami Law Review	16.5	15	18
77	Arkansas Law Review	16.5	14	19
78	Brooklyn Law Review	16.5	14	19
79	University of Richmond Law Review	16.5	14	19
80	DePaul Law Review	16	14	18
81	Loyola University of Chicago Law Journal	16	14	18
82	Case Western Reserve Law Review	16	12	20
83	UC Irvine Law Review	15.5	13	18
84	Washburn Law Journal	15.5	13	18
85	Pace Law Review	15	13	17
86	San Diego Law Review	15	13	17
87	Creighton Law Review	15	12	18
88	Nevada Law Journal	15	12	18
89	UMKC Law Review	15	12	18
90	Villanova Law Review	15	12	18
91	Rutgers Law Review	15	10	20
92	Arizona State Law Journal	14.5	13	16
93	Tennessee Law Review	14.5	11	18
94	Marquette Law Review	14	13	15
95	Temple Law Review	14	13	15
96	William Mitchell Law Review	14	13	15
97	St. Louis Law Journal	14	12	16
98	Drake Law Review	14	11	17
99	Duquesne Law Review	14	11	17
100	Mississippi Law Journal	14	11	17
101	New England Law Review	14	11	17
102	SMU Law Review	14	10	18
103	Hofstra Law Review	13.5	11	16
104	Maine Law Review	13.5	11	16
105	Texas Tech Law Review	13.5	11	16
106	Syracuse Law Review	13.5	10	17
107	Southwestern Law Review	13	11	15
108	Chapman Law Review	13	11	15
109	Suffolk University Law Review	13	10	16
110	Oklahoma City University Law Review	13	7	19
111	University of St. Thomas Law Journal	12.5	12	13
112	Capital University Law Review	12.5	11	14
113	Catholic University Law Review	12.5	11	14
114	Nebraska Law Review	12.5	10	15
115	Ohio Northern University Law Review	12.5	8	17
116	John Marshall Law Review	12	11	13
117	Michigan State Law Review	12	11	13
118	McGeorge Law Review	12	10	14
119	Kentucky Law Journal	12	9	15
120	Valparaiso University Law Review	11.5	10	13
121	West Virginia Law Review	11	10	12
122	Cleveland State Law Review	11	9	13
123	University of Toledo Law Review	11	9	13
124	Mercer Law Review	10.5	10	11
125	University of Memphis Law Review	10.5	8	13
126	Wyoming Law Review	10	9	11
127	Mississippi College Law Review	10	8	12
128	Touro Law Review	10	8	12
129	Campbell Law Review	9.5	8	11
130	Loyola Law Review	9.5	8	11
131	Northern Kentucky Law Review	9.5	8	11
132	Southern Illinois University Law Journal	9.5	8	11
133	University of Louisville Law Review	9	8	10
134	South Dakota Law Review	9	7	11
135	Hamline Law Review	9	6	12
136	Oklahoma Law Review	8.5	8	9
137	Texas Wesleyan Law Review	8.5	8	9
138	Rutgers Law Journal	8.5	7	10
139	St. John's Law Review	8.5	7	10
140	Widener Law Journal	8.5	7	10
141	Stetson Law Review	8.5	6	11
142	Roger Williams University Law Review	8	7	9
143	Tulsa Law Review	8	7	9
144	Wayne Law Review	8	7	9
145	University of Arkansas Little Rock Law Review	8	6	10
146	Baylor Law Review	7.5	7	8
147	Phoenix Law Review	7.5	7	8
148	Montana Law Review	7	6	8
149	South Texas Law Review	7	5	9
150	University of Detroit Mercy Law Review	6.5	6	7
151	North Dakota Law Review	6.5	5	8
152	University of Hawaii Law Review	6.5	5	8