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August 28, 2012
SSRN Tax Professor Download Rankings
SSRN has updated its monthly rankings of 750 American and international law school faculties and 3,000 law professors by (among other things) the number of paper downloads from the SSRN database. Here is the new list (through August 1, 2012) of the Top 25 U.S. Tax Professors in two of the SSRN categories: all-time downloads and recent downloads (within the past 12 months):
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All-Time Downloads |
Recent Downloads |
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1 |
Reuven Avi-Yonah (Mich.) |
26,417 |
Ed Kleinbard (USC) |
5642 |
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2 |
Paul Caron (Cincinnati) |
20,111 |
Reuven Avi-Yonah (Mich.) |
5382 |
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3 |
Louis Kaplow (Harvard) |
19,183 |
Ted Seto (Loyola-LA) |
5314 |
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4 |
Vic Fleischer (Colorado) |
16,974 |
Paul Caron (Cincinnati) |
3249 |
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5 |
James Hines (Michigan) |
16,934 |
Katie Pratt (Loyola-L.A.) |
2728 |
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6 |
Ted Seto (Loyola-LA) |
15,542 |
Adam Chodorow (Ariz. St.) |
2662 |
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7 |
Dennis Ventry (UC-Davis) |
13,759 |
Carter Bishop (Suffolk) |
2646 |
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8 |
Richard Kaplan (Illinois) |
12,830 |
Jen Kowal (Loyola-LA) |
2538 |
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9 |
David Walker (Boston U.) |
11,950 |
Louis Kaplow (Harvard) |
2439 |
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10 |
Chris Sanchirico (Penn) |
11,743 |
Bridget Crawford (Pace) |
2385 |
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11 |
David Weisbach (Chicago) |
11,731 |
Herwig Schlunck (Vand.) |
2338 |
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12 |
Carter Bishop (Suffolk) |
11,675 |
David Gamage (UCBerkeley) |
2050 |
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13 |
Francine Lipman (UNLV) |
11,395 |
Christopher Hoyt (UMKC) |
2046 |
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14 |
Katie Pratt (Lloyola-L.A.) |
11,167 |
Brad Borden (Brooklyn) |
2040 |
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15 |
Herwig Schlunck (Vand.) |
11,174 |
Wendy Gerzog (Baltimore) |
1985 |
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16 |
Robert Sitkoff (Harvard) |
10,208 |
Erik Jensen (Case Western) |
1980 |
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17 |
Ed McCaffery (USC) |
10,200 |
Richard Kaplan (Illinois) |
1856 |
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18 |
Brad Borden (Brooklyn) |
10,135 |
James Hines (Michigan) |
1846 |
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18 |
Jen Kowal (Loyola-L.A.) |
10,135 |
David Weisbach (Chicago) |
1617 |
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20 |
Bridget Crawford (Pace) |
9813 |
Francine Lipman (UNLV) |
1558 |
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21 |
Wendy Gerzog (Baltimore) |
9583 |
Dan Shaviro (NYU) |
1547 |
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22 |
Steve Bank (UCLA) |
9168 |
Vic Fleischer (Colorado) |
1419 |
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23 |
Dan Shaviro (NYU) |
9103 |
Dennis Ventry (UC-Davis) |
1381 |
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24 |
Erik Jensen (Case Western) |
8190 |
Marty McMahon (Florida) |
1377 |
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25 |
Michael Knoll (Penn) |
8059 |
David Walker (Boston U.) |
1269 |
Note that this ranking includes full-time tax professors with at least one tax paper on SSRN, and all papers (including non-tax papers) by these tax professors are included in the SSRN data.
The other SSRN ranking categories are:
These rankings, of course, are imperfect measures of faculty scholarly performance -- as are the existing ranking methodologies of reputation surveys, productivity counts, and citation counts. Our modest claim in our article, Ranking Law Schools: Using SSRN to Measure Scholarly Performance, 81 Ind. L.J. 83 (2006) (Symposium on The Next Generation of Law School Rankings), is that the SSRN data can play a role in faculty rankings along with these other measures. Bill Henderson (Indiana) thinks we are too modest, and that SSRN may provide a better measure of faculty performance than these other methodologies.
For my other articles on what SSRN downloads can tell us about the current state and future of legal scholarship, and about the relationship between scholarship and blogging, see:
- The Long Tail of Legal Scholarship, 116 Yale L.J. Pocket Part 38 (2006)
- Are Scholars Better Bloggers? -- Bloggership: How Blogs are Transforming Legal Scholarship, 84 Wash. U. L. Rev. 1025 (2006)
For Ted Seto's faculty-wide (and metropolitan area-wide) analysis of these SSRN tax rankings, see:
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