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15 Most-Cited Law & Social Science (excluding economics) faculty in the U.S. for the period 2013-2017 (UPDATED AND CORRECTED)

Brian Leiter

 Based on the latest Sisk data, here are the fifteen most-cited law & social science (excluding economics) faculty 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).  This is meant to capture scholars who work under the "law & society" rubric and/or who deploy methodologies from psychology, sociology, political science and anthropology to law, including empirical legal studies scholars.  Numbers are rounded to the nearest five.    Faculty for whom 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 updates and changes incorporate the Sichelman data for multi-author articles which affected many faculty here, including Rachlinski, Hoffman, Guthrie, Heise and Braman.

Rank

Name

School

Citations

Age in 2018

1

Tom Tyler

Yale University

985

68

2

Lee Epstein

Washington University, St. Louis

840

60

3

Jeffrey Rachlinski

Cornell University

725

52

4

Tom Ginsburg

University of Chicago

695

50

5

David Hoffman

University of Pennsylvania

580

42

6

Chris Guthrie

Vanderbilt University

530

51

7

John Ferejohn

New York University

500

74

8

Malcolm Feeley

University of California, Berkeley

440

76

9

Charles Sabel

Columbia University

435

71

10

Linda Hamilton Krieger

University of Hawaii

425

64

11

Michael Heise

Cornell University

395

58
 

Jonathan Simon

University of California, Berkeley

395

59

13

Herbert Kritzer

University of Minnesota

385

71

14

Anne Joseph O’Connell

Stanford University

375

48

15

Donald Braman

George Washington University

370

49
   

Other highly-cited scholars who work partly in this area

    
 

Dan Kahan

Yale University

1025

52
 

G. Mitu Gulati

Duke University

  735

50
 

Brian Tamanaha

Washington University, St. Louis

  685

61
 

Bernard Black

Northwestern University

  515

65
 

Carrie Menkel-Meadow

University of California, Irvine

  465

69

 

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