Based on the latest Sisk data, here are the ten most-cited election law scholars in the U.S. for the period 2013-2017 (inclusive) (remember that the data was collected in late May of 2018, and that the pre-2018 database did expand a bit since then). Numbers are rounded to the nearest five. 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." (The 75% rule was a bit harder to apply here, since some of these scholars write influentially in other fields; but it's fair to say that each of these scholars may be best-known for the election law work.)
|
Rank |
Name |
School |
Citations |
Age in 2018 |
|
1 |
Samuel Issacharoff |
New York University |
1000 |
64 |
|
2 |
Richard Pildes |
New York University |
895 |
61 |
|
3 |
Richard Hasen |
University of California, Irvine |
740 |
54 |
|
4 |
Pamela Karlan |
Stanford University |
670 |
59 |
|
5 |
Heather Gerken |
Yale University |
650 |
49 |
|
6 |
Richard Briffault |
Columbia University |
570 |
64 |
|
7 |
Nathaniel Persily |
Stanford University |
390 |
48 |
|
8 |
James Gardner |
University at Buffalo, State University of New York |
240 |
59 |
|
9 |
Michael Kang |
Northwestern University |
235 |
45 |
|
10 |
Daniel Tokaji |
Ohio State University |
225 |
51 |
|
Other highly cited scholars who work partly in this area |
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|
Adam Cox |
New York University |
425 |
44 |




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