Science Watch, a publication of Thomson ISI (Institute for Scientific Information), has produced new “top ten” lists of faculties based on impact as measured by citations. More precisely, “All the rankings are based on ‘relative citation impact’—that is, each university’s average-citations-per-paper score for the five-year period compared, on a percentage basis, against the world impact average in each field. The rankings are based on exclusive publication and citation data on more than 100 U.S. universities in Thomson ISI’s University Science Indicators, 1981-2001.” This is basically a somewhat more methodologically sophisticated version of the kind of study reported on here. According to Science Watch, these ten law faculties had the highest rate of scholarly impact during the period 1997-2001:

1. Yale University
2. Harvard University
3. University of Chicago
4. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
5. University of Texas, Austin
6. University of Virginia
7. Columbia University
8. New York University
9. Cornell University
10. Stanford University