April 23, 2013
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 April 1, 2013) of the Top 25 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 |
||
|
1 |
Reuven Avi-Yonah (Mich.) |
30,694 |
Reuven Avi-Yonah (Mich.) |
6688 |
|
2 |
Paul Caron (Cincinnati) |
22,583 |
Adam Chodorow (Ariz. St.) |
4620 |
|
3 |
Louis Kaplow (Harvard) |
20,476 |
Richard Kaplan (Illinois) |
4368 |
|
4 |
Vic Fleischer (Colorado) |
17,992 |
Paul Caron (Cincinnati) |
3627 |
|
5 |
James Hines (Michigan) |
17,646 |
Gregg Polsky (N. Carolina) |
3030 |
|
6 |
Ted Seto (Loyola-L.A.) |
17,063 |
Katie Pratt (Loyola-L.A.) |
2895 |
|
7 |
D. Dharmapala (Illinois) |
16,890 |
Ed Kleinbard (USC) |
2874 |
|
8 |
Richard Kaplan (Illinois) |
16,438 |
Jen Kowal (Loyola-L.A.) |
2494 |
|
9 |
Dennis Ventry (UC-Davis) |
14,410 |
Carter Bishop (Suffolk) |
2442 |
|
10 |
Carter Bishop (Suffolk) |
13,188 |
Bridget Crawford (Pace) |
2431 |
|
11 |
Katie Pratt (Loyola-L.A.) |
13,183 |
Ted Seto (Loyola-L.A.) |
2314 |
|
12 |
David Walker (Boston U.) |
12,779 |
David Gamage (UCBerkeley) |
2268 |
|
13 |
David Weisbach (Chicago) |
12,747 |
Erik Jensen (Case Western) |
2254 |
|
14 |
Chris Sanchirico (Penn) |
12,633 |
D. Dharmapala (Illinois) |
2114 |
|
15 |
Francine Lipman (UNLV) |
12,151 |
Brad Borden (Brooklyn) |
2109 |
|
16 |
Herwig Schlunck (Vand.) |
11,927 |
Louis Kaplow (Harvard) |
2044 |
|
17 |
Jen Kowal (Loyola-L.A.) |
11,803 |
Jim Hines (Michigan) |
1988 |
|
18 |
Brad Borden (Brooklyn) |
11,488 |
Wendy Gerzog (Baltimore) |
1807 |
|
19 |
Bridget Crawford (Pace) |
11,400 |
Dan Shaviro (NYU) |
1737 |
|
20 |
Robert Sitkoff (Harvard) |
11,281 |
David Weisbach (Chicago) |
1562 |
|
21 |
Ed McCaffery (USC) |
10,935 |
John Miller (Idaho) |
1541 |
|
22 |
Wendy Gerzog (Baltimore) |
10,642 |
Calvin Johnson (Texas) |
1519 |
|
23 |
Dan Shaviro (NYU) |
10,327 |
Vic Fleischer (Colorado) |
1465 |
|
24 |
Steve Bank (UCLA) |
9929 |
Allison Christians (McGill) |
1423 |
|
25 |
Ed Kleinbard (USC) |
9855 |
Joshua Blank (NYUl) |
1406 |
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:
April 23, 2013 in Legal Education, Scholarship, Tax, Tax Prof Rankings | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
March 20, 2013
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 March 1, 2013) 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 |
||
|
1 |
Reuven Avi-Yonah (Mich.) |
30,012 |
Reuven Avi-Yonah (Mich.) |
6590 |
|
2 |
Paul Caron (Cincinnati) |
22,127 |
Adam Chodorow (Ariz. St.) |
4508 |
|
3 |
Louis Kaplow (Harvard) |
20,333 |
Richard Kaplan (Illinois) |
4338 |
|
4 |
Vic Fleischer (Colorado) |
17,784 |
Paul Caron (Cincinnati) |
3476 |
|
5 |
James Hines (Michigan) |
17,452 |
Gregg Polsky (N. Carolina) |
2932 |
|
6 |
Ted Seto (Loyola-L.A.) |
16,784 |
Katie Pratt (Loyola-L.A.) |
2833 |
|
7 |
D. Dharmapala (Illinois) |
16,675 |
Ed Kleinbard (USC) |
2832 |
|
8 |
Richard Kaplan (Illinois) |
16,286 |
Carter Bishop (Suffolk) |
2608 |
|
9 |
Dennis Ventry (UC-Davis) |
14,346 |
Bridget Crawford (Pace) |
2570 |
|
10 |
Carter Bishop (Suffolk) |
12,971 |
Jen Kowal (Loyola-L.A.) |
2472 |
|
11 |
Katie Pratt (Loyola-L.A.) |
12,857 |
Ted Seto (Loyola-L.A.) |
2317 |
|
12 |
David Walker (Boston U.) |
12,654 |
David Gamage (UCBerkeley) |
2184 |
|
13 |
David Weisbach (Chicago) |
12,646 |
D. Dharmapala (Illinois) |
2123 |
|
14 |
Chris Sanchirico (Penn) |
12,343 |
Louis Kaplow (Harvard) |
2062 |
|
15 |
Francine Lipman (UNLV) |
12,074 |
James Hines (Michigan) |
1990 |
|
16 |
Herwig Schlunck (Vand.) |
11,873 |
Erik Jensen (Case Western) |
1940 |
|
17 |
Jen Kowal (Loyola-L.A.) |
11,536 |
Brad Borden (Brooklyn) |
1920 |
|
18 |
Bridget Crawford (Pace) |
11,258 |
Wendy Gerzog (Baltimore) |
1865 |
|
19 |
Brad Borden (Brooklyn) |
11,143 |
Dan Shaviro (NYU) |
1782 |
|
20 |
Robert Sitkoff (Harvard) |
11,077 |
David Weisbach (Chicago) |
1567 |
|
21 |
Ed McCaffery (USC) |
10,854 |
Heather Field (UC-Hastings) |
1558 |
|
22 |
Wendy Gerzog (Baltimore) |
10,523 |
Allison Christians (McGill) |
1506 |
|
23 |
Dan Shaviro (NYU) |
10,195 |
Calvin Johnson (Texas) |
1487 |
|
24 |
Steve Bank (UCLA) |
9842 |
Joshua Blank (NYU) |
1379 |
|
25 |
Ed Kleinbard (USC) |
9531 |
Vic Fleischer (Colorado) |
1376 |
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:
March 20, 2013 in Legal Education, Scholarship, Tax, Tax Prof Rankings | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
February 6, 2013
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 February 1, 2013) 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 |
||
|
1 |
Reuven Avi-Yonah (Mich.) |
29,293 |
Reuven Avi-Yonah (Mich.) |
6269 |
|
2 |
Paul Caron (Cincinnati) |
21,740 |
Adam Chodorow (Ariz. St.) |
4415 |
|
3 |
Louis Kaplow (Harvard) |
20,170 |
Richard Kaplan (Illinois) |
4304 |
|
4 |
Vic Fleischer (Colorado) |
17,673 |
Paul Caron (Cincinnati) |
3328 |
|
5 |
James Hines (Michigan) |
17,296 |
Gregg Polsky (N. Carolina) |
3046 |
|
6 |
Ted Seto (Loyola-L.A.) |
16,616 |
Katie Pratt (Loyola-L.A.) |
2782 |
|
7 |
D. Dharmapala (Illinois) |
16,503 |
Ed Kleinbard (USC) |
2653 |
|
8 |
Richard Kaplan (Illinois) |
16,162 |
Bridget Crawford (Pace) |
2573 |
|
9 |
Dennis Ventry (UC-Davis) |
14,285 |
Carter Bishop (Suffolk) |
2530 |
|
10 |
Carter Bishop (Suffolk) |
12,722 |
Jen Kowal (USC) |
2450 |
|
11 |
Katie Pratt (Loyola-L.A.) |
12,588 |
Ted Seto (Loyola-L.A.) |
2296 |
|
12 |
David Weisbach (Chicago) |
12,555 |
David Gamage (UCBerkeley) |
2155 |
|
13 |
David Walker (Boston U.) |
12,553 |
D. Dharmapala (Illinois) |
2147 |
|
14 |
Chris Sanchirico (Penn) |
12,268 |
Louis Kaplow (Harvard) |
2069 |
|
15 |
Francine Lipman (UNLV) |
11,994 |
James Hines (Michigan) |
2017 |
|
16 |
Herwig Schlunck (Vand.) |
11,643 |
Erik Jensen (Case Western) |
1915 |
|
17 |
Jen Kowal (Loyola-L.A.) |
11,309 |
Wendy Gerzog (Baltimore) |
1902 |
|
18 |
Bridget Crawford (Pace) |
11,101 |
Dan Shaviro (NYU) |
1821 |
|
18 |
Robert Sitkoff (Harvard) |
10,988 |
David Weisbach (Chicago) |
1668 |
|
20 |
Ed McCaffery (USC) |
10,786 |
Brad Borden (Brooklyn) |
1618 |
|
21 |
Brad Borden (Brooklyn) |
10,767 |
Heather Field (UC-Hastings) |
1549 |
|
22 |
Wendy Gerzog (Baltimore) |
10,412 |
Allison Christians (McGill) |
1461 |
|
23 |
Dan Shaviro (NYU) |
10,059 |
Dick Harvey (Villanova) |
1434 |
|
24 |
Steve Bank (UCLA) |
9727 |
Vic Fleischer (Colorado) |
1368 |
|
25 |
Ed Kleinbard (USC) |
9266 |
Francine Lipman (UNLV) |
1332 |
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:
February 6, 2013 in Legal Education, Scholarship, Tax, Tax Prof Rankings | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
January 16, 2013
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 January 1, 2013) 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):
|
|
All-Time Downloads |
Recent Downloads |
||
|
1 |
Reuven Avi-Yonah (Mich.) |
28,675 |
Reuven Avi-Yonah (Mich.) |
5969 |
|
2 |
Paul Caron (Cincinnati) |
21,304 |
Adam Chodorow (Ariz. St.) |
4299 |
|
3 |
Louis Kaplow (Harvard) |
20,047 |
Richard Kaplan (Illinois) |
4250 |
|
4 |
Vic Fleischer (Colorado) |
17,602 |
Paul Caron (Cincinnati) |
3226 |
|
5 |
James Hines (Michigan) |
17,167 |
Gregg Polsky (N. Carolina) |
3005 |
|
6 |
Ted Seto (Loyola-L.A.) |
16,416 |
Katie Pratt (Loyola-L.A.) |
2843 |
|
7 |
D. Dharmapala (Illinois) |
16,326 |
Carter Bishop (Suffolk) |
2541 |
|
8 |
Richard Kaplan (Illinois) |
15,972 |
Bridget Crawford (Pace) |
2538 |
|
9 |
Dennis Ventry (UC-Davis) |
14,063 |
Jen Kowal (Loyola-L.A.) |
2520 |
|
10 |
Carter Bishop (Suffolk) |
12,562 |
Ed kleinbard (USC) |
2363 |
|
11 |
David Walker (Boston U.) |
12,481 |
Ted Seto (Loyola-L.A.) |
2292 |
|
12 |
David Weisbach (Chicago) |
12,421 |
David Gamage (UCBerkeley) |
2185 |
|
13 |
Katie Pratt (Loyola-L.A.) |
12,326 |
D. Dharmapala (Illinois) |
2149 |
|
14 |
Chris Sannchirico (Penn) |
12,157 |
Louis Kaplow (Harvard) |
2146 |
|
15 |
Francine Lipman (UNLV) |
11,883 |
James Hines (Michigan) |
2017 |
|
16 |
Herwig Schlunck (Vand.) |
11,588 |
Erik Jensen (Case Western) |
1942 |
|
17 |
Jen Kowal (Loyola-L.A.) |
11,077 |
Wendy Gerzog (Baltimore) |
1910 |
|
18 |
Bridget Crawford (Pace) |
10,947 |
Dan Shaviro (NYU) |
1831 |
|
18 |
Robert Sitkoff (Harvard) |
10,878 |
Dick Harvey (Villanova) |
1753 |
|
20 |
Ed McCaffery (USC) |
10,701 |
Brad Borden (Brooklyn) |
1683 |
|
21 |
Brad Borden (Brooklyn) |
10,686 |
David Weisbach (Chicago) |
1628 |
|
22 |
Wendy Gerzog (Baltimore) |
10,263 |
Heather Field (UC-Hastings) |
1613 |
|
23 |
Dan Shaviro (NYU) |
9919 |
Vic Fleischer (Colorado) |
1424 |
|
24 |
Steve Bank (UCLA) |
9564 |
Allison Christians (McGill) |
1370 |
|
25 |
Ed Kleinbard (USC) |
8863 |
Francine Lipman (UNLVl) |
1364 |
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:
January 16, 2013 in Legal Education, Scholarship, Tax, Tax Prof Rankings | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
December 18, 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 December 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):
|
|
All-Time Downloads |
Recent Downloads |
||
|
1 |
Reuven Avi-Yonah (Mich.) |
28,181 |
Reuven Avi-Yonah (Mich.) |
5813 |
|
2 |
Paul Caron (Cincinnati) |
21,096 |
Adam Chodorow (Ariz. St.) |
4181 |
|
3 |
Louis Kaplow (Harvard) |
19,861 |
Richard Kaplan (Illinois) |
4172 |
|
4 |
Vic Fleischer (Colorado) |
17,500 |
Paul Caron (Cincinnati) |
3164 |
|
5 |
James Hines (Michigan) |
17,033 |
Katie Pratt (Loyola-L.A.) |
2748 |
|
6 |
D. Dharmapala (Illinois) |
16,202 |
Carter Bishop (Suffolk) |
2564 |
|
7 |
Ted Seto(Loyola-L.A.) |
16,161 |
Jen Kowal (Loyola-L.A.) |
2448 |
|
8 |
Richard Kaplan (Illinois) |
15,586 |
Bridget Crawford (Pace) |
2434 |
|
9 |
Dennis Ventry (UC-Davis) |
14,000 |
Ed Kleinbard (USC) |
2323 |
|
10 |
Carter Bishop (Suffolk) |
12,428 |
D. Dharmapala (Illinois) |
2187 |
|
11 |
David Walker (Boston U.) |
12,354 |
Ted Seto (Loyola-L.A.) |
2125 |
|
12 |
David Weisbach (Chicago) |
12,324 |
Louis Kaplow (Harvard) |
2107 |
|
13 |
Katie Pratt (Loyola-L.A.) |
12,127 |
Richard Harvey (Villanova) |
2094 |
|
14 |
Chris Sannchirico (Penn) |
12,087 |
David Gamage (UCBerkeley) |
2093 |
|
15 |
Francine Lipman (UNLV) |
11,778 |
Wendy Gerzog (Baltimore) |
1992 |
|
16 |
Herwig Schlunck (Vand.) |
11,546 |
James Hines (Michigan) |
1983 |
|
17 |
Jen Kowal (Loyola-L.A.) |
10,910 |
Erik Jensen (Case Western) |
1937 |
|
18 |
Robert Sitkoff (Harvard) |
10,779 |
Dan Shaviro (NYU) |
1680 |
|
18 |
Bridget Crawford (Pace) |
10,706 |
David Weisbach (Chicago) |
1614 |
|
20 |
Ed McCaffery (USC) |
10,640 |
Brad Borden (Brooklyn) |
1582 |
|
21 |
Brad Borden (Brooklyn) |
10,522 |
Heather Field (UC-Hastings) |
1540 |
|
22 |
Wendy Gerzog (Baltimore) |
10,161 |
Francine Lipman (UNLV) |
1426 |
|
23 |
Dan Shaviro (NYU) |
9685 |
Vic Fleischer (Colorado) |
1400 |
|
24 |
Steve Bank (UCLA) |
9496 |
Herwig Schlunck (Vand.) |
1392 |
|
25 |
Erik Jensen (Case Western) |
8730 |
Allison Christians (McGill) |
1349 |
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:
December 18, 2012 in Legal Education, Scholarship, Tax, Tax Prof Rankings | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
November 19, 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 November 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):
|
|
All-Time Downloads |
Recent Downloads |
||
|
1 |
Reuven Avi-Yonah (Mich.) |
27,520 |
Reuven Avi-Yonah (Mich.) |
5382 |
|
2 |
Paul Caron (Cincinnati) |
20,865 |
Richard Kaplan (Illinois) |
4132 |
|
3 |
Louis Kaplow (Harvard) |
19,700 |
Adam Chodorow (Ariz. St.) |
3997 |
|
4 |
Vic Fleischer (Colorado) |
17,405 |
Paul Caron (Cincinnati) |
3231 |
|
5 |
James Hines (Michigan) |
16,863 |
Katie Pratt (Loyola-L.A.) |
2673 |
|
6 |
Ted Seto (Loyola-L.A.) |
15,985 |
Carter Bishop (Suffolk) |
2572 |
|
7 |
Richard Kaplan (Illinois) |
15,654 |
Jen Kowal (Loyola-L.A.) |
2492 |
|
8 |
Dennis Ventry (UC-Davis) |
13,932 |
Bridget Crawford (Pace) |
2451 |
|
9 |
David Walker (Boston U.) |
12,275 |
Herwig Schlunck (Vand.) |
2319 |
|
10 |
Carter Bishop (Suffolk) |
12,253 |
David Gamage (UCBerkeley) |
2230 |
|
11 |
David Weisbach (Chicago) |
12,147 |
Ted Seto (Loyola-L.A.) |
2189 |
|
12 |
Chris Sanchirico (Penn) |
11,945 |
Ed Kleinbard (USC) |
2184 |
|
13 |
Katie Pratt (Loyola-L.A.) |
11,806 |
Louis Kaplow (Harvard) |
2150 |
|
14 |
Francine Lipman (UNLV) |
11,625 |
James Hines (Michigan) |
1953 |
|
15 |
Robert Sitkoff (Harvard) |
11,476 |
Wendy Gerzog (Baltimore) |
1939 |
|
16 |
Jen Kowal (Loyola-L.A.) |
10,727 |
Erik Jensen (Case Western) |
1848 |
|
17 |
Herwig Schlunck (Vand.) |
10,673 |
Dan Shaviro (NYU) |
1530 |
|
18 |
Ed McCaffery (USC) |
10,589 |
David Weisbach (Chicago) |
1521 |
|
18 |
Bridget Crawford (Pace) |
10,517 |
Brad Borden (Brooklyn) |
1501 |
|
20 |
Brad Borden (Brooklyn) |
10,369 |
Heather Field (UC-Hastings) |
1444 |
|
21 |
Wendy Gerzog (Baltimore) |
9976 |
Vic Fleischer (Colorado) |
1441 |
|
22 |
Dan Shaviro (NYU) |
9456 |
Francine Lipman (UNLV) |
1417 |
|
23 |
Steve Bank (UCLA) |
9390 |
David Walker (Boston U.) |
1349 |
|
24 |
Erik Jensen (Case Western) |
8513 |
Allison Christians (McGill) |
1333 |
|
25 |
Michael Knoll (Penn) |
8392 |
Christopher Hoyt (UMKC) |
1332 |
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:
November 19, 2012 in Law School Rankings, Legal Education, Tax, Tax Prof Rankings | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
September 7, 2012
Phillips & Yoo: A Better Faculty Citation Rankings System
James Cleith Phillips & John Yoo (both of UC-Berkeley), The Cite Stuff: Inventing a Better Law Faculty Relevance Measure:
Citation rankings as a measure of scholarly quality are both controversial and popular. They provide a quantitative, albeit imperfect, measure of intellectual impact and productivity. But the number of times a scholar has been cited by his peers confers more than just bragging rights. They arguably help form the reputation of American legal scholars to the point that they have allegedly influenced faculty hiring decisions, and their collective impact may well shape the ranking of law schools themselves.
Arguably, the most well-known such metric for legal scholarship is the method used by Brian Leiter of the University of Chicago Law School and posted on his website. Despite the methodological rigorousness of the Leiter system, it suffers from some well-recognized limitations. It is biased in favor of schools with older, smaller faculties, for example, and against schools that do not produce as much peer-reviewed scholarship.
This study seeks to improve on earlier efforts by producing a more relevant and accurate citation-based ranking system. It produces a measure that explains 81% of the variation in the U.S. News academic peer rankings, implicitly revealing how schools could boost those rankings, and lists the most cited professors based on this new ranking methodology, both overall, amongst younger scholars, and in 20 areas of legal scholarship. This allows for the top school in each area of law to be calculated, which could be useful to aspiring J.D. students who desire to know the best school in the area(s) of law they are most interested in. Finally, this study proposes an alternative faculty ranking system focusing on the percentage of a law school faculty that are “All-Stars” (ranked in the top 10 in citations per year in an area of law). This alternative ranking system improves upon some of the weaknesses of previous faculty quality ranking methodologies and argues that citation-based studies do measure something important -- relevance of scholarship.
Here are the Top 10 Tax Professors in Total Cites Per Year:
- Alan Auerbach (UC-Berkeley) (54.3)
- Mihir Desai (Harvard) (54.0)
- James Hines (Michigan) (52.4)
- David Weisbach (Chicago) (45.4)
- Daniel Shaviro (NYU) (44.1)
- Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan) (40.9)
- Michael Graetz (Columbia) (36.2)
- Michael Knoll (Pennsylvania) (35.8)
- Robert Green (Cornell) (33.6)
- Thomas Brennan (Northwestern) (33.2)
Here are the Top 5 Law School Tax Faculties in Total Cites Per Year:
- Harvard (188.2) (Mihir Desai, Louis Kaplow)
- Michigan (93.3) (James Hines, Reuven Avi-Yonah)
- UC-Berkeley (54.3) (Alan Auerbach)
- Chicago (45.4) (David Weisbach)
- NYU (44.1) (Daniel Shaviro)
September 7, 2012 in Law School Rankings, Legal Education, Scholarship, Tax, Tax Faculty Rankings, Tax Prof Rankings | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack
September 5, 2012
MST Program Rankings by Tax Hiring Authorities and MST Alumni
Following up on yesterday's post, Tax LL.M. Program Rankings by Tax Hiring Authorities: JobsInTax.com, part of the TaxTalent network, has released a ranking of U.S. Masters in Tax (MST) programs, based on separate surveys of heads of corporate tax departments (151 participants) and alumni of MST programs (184 participants):
Respondents in each survey were asked to select up to five schools (out of 60) with MS Tax programs they hold in the highest regard. The schools were then ranked based on percentage of votes they received from each separate group.
- Ranking of Top 60 MST Programs by Tax Hiring Authorities
- Ranking of Top 60 MST Programs by MST Alumni
For more on graduate tax program rankings, see Jennifer Kowal (Loyola-L.A.), Katherine Pratt (Loyola-L.A.), Theodore Seto (Loyola-L.A.) & Paul Caron (Cincinnati), Pursuing a Tax LLM Degree: Where?.
September 5, 2012 in Law School Rankings, Legal Education, Tax, Tax Prof Rankings | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
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):
|
|
All-Time Downloads |
Recent Downloads |
||
|
1 |
Reuven Avi-Yonah (Mich.) |
26,417 |
Ed Kleinbard (USC) |
5642 |
|
2 |
Paul Caron (Cincinnati) |
20,111 |
Reuven Avi-Yonah (Mich.) |
5382 |
|
3 |
Louis Kaplow (Harvard) |
19,183 |
Ted Seto (Loyola-LA) |
5314 |
|
4 |
Vic Fleischer (Colorado) |
16,974 |
Paul Caron (Cincinnati) |
3249 |
|
5 |
James Hines (Michigan) |
16,934 |
Katie Pratt (Loyola-L.A.) |
2728 |
|
6 |
Ted Seto (Loyola-LA) |
15,542 |
Adam Chodorow (Ariz. St.) |
2662 |
|
7 |
Dennis Ventry (UC-Davis) |
13,759 |
Carter Bishop (Suffolk) |
2646 |
|
8 |
Richard Kaplan (Illinois) |
12,830 |
Jen Kowal (Loyola-LA) |
2538 |
|
9 |
David Walker (Boston U.) |
11,950 |
Louis Kaplow (Harvard) |
2439 |
|
10 |
Chris Sanchirico (Penn) |
11,743 |
Bridget Crawford (Pace) |
2385 |
|
11 |
David Weisbach (Chicago) |
11,731 |
Herwig Schlunck (Vand.) |
2338 |
|
12 |
Carter Bishop (Suffolk) |
11,675 |
David Gamage (UCBerkeley) |
2050 |
|
13 |
Francine Lipman (UNLV) |
11,395 |
Christopher Hoyt (UMKC) |
2046 |
|
14 |
Katie Pratt (Lloyola-L.A.) |
11,167 |
Brad Borden (Brooklyn) |
2040 |
|
15 |
Herwig Schlunck (Vand.) |
11,174 |
Wendy Gerzog (Baltimore) |
1985 |
|
16 |
Robert Sitkoff (Harvard) |
10,208 |
Erik Jensen (Case Western) |
1980 |
|
17 |
Ed McCaffery (USC) |
10,200 |
Richard Kaplan (Illinois) |
1856 |
|
18 |
Brad Borden (Brooklyn) |
10,135 |
James Hines (Michigan) |
1846 |
|
18 |
Jen Kowal (Loyola-L.A.) |
10,135 |
David Weisbach (Chicago) |
1617 |
|
20 |
Bridget Crawford (Pace) |
9813 |
Francine Lipman (UNLV) |
1558 |
|
21 |
Wendy Gerzog (Baltimore) |
9583 |
Dan Shaviro (NYU) |
1547 |
|
22 |
Steve Bank (UCLA) |
9168 |
Vic Fleischer (Colorado) |
1419 |
|
23 |
Dan Shaviro (NYU) |
9103 |
Dennis Ventry (UC-Davis) |
1381 |
|
24 |
Erik Jensen (Case Western) |
8190 |
Marty McMahon (Florida) |
1377 |
|
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:
August 28, 2012 in Scholarship, Tax, Tax Prof Rankings | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
July 18, 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 July 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):
|
|
All-Time Downloads |
Recent Downloads |
||
|
1 |
Reuven Avi-Yonah (Mich.) |
25,972 |
Ed Kleinbard (USC) |
5758 |
|
2 |
Paul Caron (Cincinnati) |
19,861 |
Reuven Avi-Yonah (Mich.) |
5272 |
|
3 |
Louis Kaplow (Harvard) |
19,087 |
Ted Seto (Loyola-LA) |
5223 |
|
4 |
Vic Fleischer (Colorado) |
16,892 |
Paul Caron (Cincinnati) |
3217 |
|
5 |
James Hines (Michigan) |
16,263 |
Katie Pratt (Loyola-L.A.) |
2687 |
|
6 |
Ted Seto (Loyola-LA) |
15,348 |
Carter Bishop (Suffolk) |
2624 |
|
7 |
Dennis Ventry (UC-Davis) |
13,702 |
Louis Kaplow (Harvard) |
2612 |
|
8 |
Richard Kaplan (Illinois) |
12,463 |
Jen Kowal (Loyola-LA) |
2500 |
|
9 |
David Walker (Boston U.) |
11,879 |
Bridget Crawford (Pace) |
2334 |
|
10 |
Chris Sanchirico (Penn) |
11,686 |
Herwig Schlunk (Vand.) |
2305 |
|
11 |
David Weisbach (Chicago) |
11,635 |
Brad Borden (Brooklyn) |
2034 |
|
12 |
Carter Bishop (Suffolk) |
11,498 |
Christopher Hoyt (UMKC) |
1980 |
|
13 |
Francine Lipman (UNLV) |
11,323 |
Wendy Gerzog (Baltimore) |
1967 |
|
14 |
Herwig Schlunk (Vand.) |
11,032 |
David Gamage (UCBerkeley) |
1841 |
|
15 |
Katie Pratt (Loyola-LA) |
10,966 |
James Hines (Michigan) |
1823 |
|
16 |
Robert Sitkoff (Harvard) |
10,142 |
Erik Jensen (Case Western) |
1758 |
|
17 |
Ed McCaffery (USC) |
10,138 |
Adam Chodorow (Ariz. St.) |
1646 |
|
18 |
Brad Borden (Brooklyn) |
10,046 |
David Weisbach (Chicago) |
1641 |
|
19 |
Jen Kowal (Loyola-L.A.) |
9937 |
Francine Lipman (UNLV) |
1620 |
|
20 |
Bridget Crawford (Pace) |
9651 |
Richard Kaplan (Illinois) |
1596 |
|
21 |
Wendy Gerzog (Baltimore) |
9447 |
Dan Shaviro (NYU) |
1530 |
|
22 |
Steve Bank (UCLA) |
9103 |
Dennis Ventry (UC-Davis) |
1510 |
|
23 |
Dan Shaviro (NYU) |
9018 |
Vic Fleischer (Colorado) |
1453 |
|
24 |
Michael Knoll (Penn) |
8000 |
Marty McMahon (Florida) |
1361 |
|
25 |
Erik Jensen (Case Western) |
7939 |
Heather Field (UC-Hastings) |
1256 |
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:
July 18, 2012 in Scholarship, Tax, Tax Prof Rankings | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
June 12, 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 June 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):
|
|
All-Time Downloads |
Recent Downloads |
||
|
1 |
Reuven Avi-Yonah (Mich.) |
25,623 |
Ed Kleinbard (USC) |
5776 |
|
2 |
Paul Caron (Cincinnati) |
19,586 |
Reuven Avi-Yonah (Mich.) |
5265 |
|
3 |
Louis Kaplow (Harvard) |
18,940 |
Ted Seto (Loyola-LA) |
5201 |
|
4 |
Vic Fleischer (Colorado) |
16,819 |
Paul Caron (Cincinnati) |
3196 |
|
5 |
James Hines (Michigan) |
16,146 |
Katie Pratt (Loyola-L.A.) |
2713 |
|
6 |
Ted Seto (Loyola-LA) |
15,204 |
Louis Kaplow (Harvard) |
2564 |
|
7 |
Dennis Ventry (UC-Davis) |
13,619 |
Jennifer Kowal (Loyola-LA) |
2536 |
|
8 |
Richard Kaplan (Illinois) |
12,351 |
Carter Bishop (Suffolk) |
2505 |
|
9 |
David Walker (Boston U.) |
11,798 |
Richard Kaplan (Illinois) |
2378 |
|
10 |
Chris Sanchirico (Penn) |
11,628 |
Herwig Schlunk (Vand.) |
2319 |
|
11 |
David Weisbach (Chicago) |
11,503 |
Brad Borden (Brooklyn) |
2123 |
|
12 |
Francine Lipman (UNLV) |
11,260 |
Bridget Crawford (Pace) |
2112 |
|
13 |
Carter Bishop (Suffolk) |
11,232 |
Christopher Hoyt (UMKC) |
1916 |
|
14 |
Herwig Schlunk (Vand.) |
10,943 |
Wendy Gerzog (Baltimore) |
1848 |
|
15 |
Katie Pratt (Loyola-LA) |
10,798 |
James Hines (Michigan) |
1824 |
|
16 |
Robert Sitkoff (Harvard) |
10,072 |
Francine Lipman (UNLV) |
1697 |
|
17 |
Ed McCaffery (USC) |
10,064 |
David Gamage (UCBerkeley) |
1692 |
|
18 |
Brad Borden (Brooklyn) |
9936 |
David Weisbach (Chicago) |
1582 |
|
19 |
Jen Kowal (Loyola-L.A.) |
9780 |
Dennis Ventry (UC-Davis) |
1542 |
|
20 |
Bridget Crawford (Pace) |
9372 |
Dan Shaviro (NYU) |
1484 |
|
21 |
Wendy Gerzog (Baltimore) |
9246 |
Vic Fleischer (Colorado) |
1480 |
|
22 |
Steve Bank (UCLA) |
8968 |
Erik Jensen (Case Western) |
1432 |
|
23 |
Dan Shaviro (NYU) |
8921 |
Allison Christians (McGill) |
1415 |
|
24 |
Michael Knoll (Penn) |
7939 |
Heather Field (UC-Hastings) |
1226 |
|
25 |
Erik Jensen (Case Western) |
7482 |
David Walker (Boston U.) |
1219 |
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:
June 12, 2012 in Legal Education, Scholarship, Tax, Tax Prof Rankings | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
May 16, 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 May 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):
|
|
All-Time Downloads |
Recent Downloads |
||
|
1 |
Reuven Avi-Yonah (Mich.) |
25,033 |
Ed Kleinbard (USC) |
5815 |
|
2 |
Paul Caron (Cincinnati) |
19,298 |
Ted Seto (Loyola-LA) |
5111 |
|
3 |
Louis Kaplow (Harvard) |
18,779 |
Reuven Avi-Yonah (Mich.) |
4972 |
|
4 |
Vic Fleischer (Colorado) |
16,683 |
Paul Caron (Cincinnati) |
3139 |
|
5 |
James Hines (Michigan) |
15,963 |
Katie Pratt (Loyola-L.A.) |
2661 |
|
6 |
Ted Seto (Loyola-LA) |
15,003 |
Louis Kaplow (Harvard) |
2504 |
|
7 |
Dennis Ventry (UC-Davis) |
13,480 |
Jennifer Kowal (Loyola-LA) |
2487 |
|
8 |
Richard Kaplan (Illinois) |
12,217 |
Richard Kaplan (Illinois) |
2402 |
|
9 |
David Walker (Boston U.) |
11,631 |
Carter Bishop (Suffolk) |
2401 |
|
10 |
Chris Sanchirico (Penn) |
11,539 |
Herwig Schlunk (Vand.) |
2293 |
|
11 |
David Weisbach (Chicago) |
11,371 |
Brad Borden (Brooklyn) |
2231 |
|
12 |
Francine Lipman (UNLV) |
11,147 |
Bridget Crawford (Pace) |
2054 |
|
13 |
Carter Bishop (Suffolk) |
10,991 |
Wendy Gerzog (Baltimore) |
1948 |
|
14 |
Herwig Schlunk (Vand.) |
10,810 |
Francine Lipman (UNLV) |
1788 |
|
15 |
Katie Pratt (Loyola-LA) |
10,551 |
Christopher Hoyt (UMKC) |
1779 |
|
16 |
Robert Sitkoff (Harvard) |
10,003 |
James Hines (Michigan) |
1778 |
|
17 |
Ed McCaffery (USC) |
9966 |
Dennis Ventry (UC-Davis) |
1534 |
|
18 |
Brad Borden (Brooklyn) |
9842 |
David Weisbach (Chicago) |
1512 |
|
19 |
Jen Kowal (Loyola-L.A.) |
9546 |
Vic Fleischer (Colorado) |
1500 |
|
20 |
Bridget Crawford (Pace) |
9206 |
Daniel Shaviro (NYU) |
1457 |
|
21 |
Wendy Gerzog (Baltimore) |
9111 |
Allison Christians (Wisc.) |
1388 |
|
22 |
Steve Bank (UCLA) |
8901 |
David Gamage (UCBerkeley) |
1368 |
|
23 |
Dan Shaviro (NYU) |
8792 |
Erik Jensen (Case Western) |
1239 |
|
24 |
Michael Knoll (Penn) |
7846 |
Chris Sanchirico (Penn) |
1163 |
|
25 |
Erik Jensen (Case Western) |
7363 |
Amy Monahan (Minnesota) |
1133 |
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:
May 16, 2012 in Legal Education, Scholarship, Tax, Tax Prof Rankings | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
March 6, 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 March 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):
|
|
All-Time Downloads |
Recent Downloads |
||
|
1 |
Reuven Avi-Yonah (Mich.) |
23,682 |
Ed Kleinbard (USC) |
6699 |
|
2 |
Paul Caron (Cincinnati) |
18,651 |
Ted Seto (Loyola-LA) |
4898 |
|
3 |
Louis Kaplow (Harvard) |
18,271 |
Reuven Avi-Yonah (Mich.) |
4407 |
|
4 |
Vic Fleischer (Colorado) |
16,407 |
Paul Caron (Cincinnati) |
3117 |
|
5 |
James Hines (Michigan) |
15,463 |
Katie Pratt (Loyola-L.A.) |
2634 |
|
6 |
Ted Seto (Loyola-LA) |
14,467 |
Jen Kowal (Loyola-LA) |
2471 |
|
7 |
Dennis Ventry (UC-Davis) |
13,086 |
Richard Kaplan (Illinois) |
2406 |
|
8 |
Richard Kaplan (Illinois) |
11,948 |
Louis Kaplow (Harvard) |
2299 |
|
9 |
David Walker (Boston U.) |
11,314 |
Herwig Schlunk (Vand.) |
2280 |
|
10 |
Chris Sanchirico (Penn) |
11,266 |
Carter Bishop (Suffolk) |
2248 |
|
11 |
David Weisbach (Chicago) |
11,078 |
Brad Borden (Brooklyn) |
2020 |
|
12 |
Francine Lipman (UNLV) |
10,766 |
Bridget Crawford (Pace) |
1836 |
|
13 |
Herwig Schlunk (Vand.) |
10,544 |
Wendy Gerzog (Baltimore) |
1753 |
|
14 |
Carter Bishop (Suffolk) |
10,363 |
Dennis Ventry (UC-Davis) |
1672 |
|
15 |
Katie Pratt (Loyola-LA) |
10,024 |
Francine Lipman (Chapman) |
1669 |
|
16 |
Ed McCaffery (USC) |
9824 |
James Hines (Michigan) |
1594 |
|
17 |
Robert Sitkoff (Harvard) |
9806 |
Vic Fleischer (Colorado) |
1486 |
|
18 |
Brad Borden (Brooklyn) |
9413 |
David Weisbach (Chicago) |
1357 |
|
19 |
Jen Kowal (Loyola-L.A.) |
9064 |
Allison Christians (Wisc.) |
1319 |
|
20 |
Steve Bank (UCLA) |
8721 |
Daniel Shaviro (NYU) |
1319 |
|
21 |
Wendy Gerzog (Baltimore) |
8656 |
Robert Sitkoff (Harvard) |
1309 |
|
22 |
Bridget Crawford (Pace) |
8593 |
David Gamage (UCBerkeley) |
1298 |
|
23 |
Dan Shaviro (NYU) |
8411 |
Christopher Hoyt (UMKC) |
1248 |
|
24 |
Michael Knoll (Penn) |
7654 |
Erik Jensen (Case Western) |
1239 |
|
25 |
Erik Jensen (Case Western) |
7039 |
Amy Monahan (Minnesota) |
1236 |
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:
March 6, 2012 in Legal Education, Tax, Tax Prof Rankings | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
February 15, 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 February 2, 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.) |
23,172 |
Ed Kleinbard (USC) |
5856 |
|
2 |
Paul Caron (Cincinnati) |
18,412 |
Ted Seto (Loyola-LA) |
4868 |
|
3 |
Louis Kaplow (Harvard) |
18,092 |
Reuven Avi-Yonah (Mich.) |
4358 |
|
4 |
Vic Fleischer (Colorado) |
16,299 |
Paul Caron (Cincinnati) |
3171 |
|
5 |
James Hines (Michigan) |
15,275 |
Katie Pratt (Loyola-L.A.) |
2675 |
|
6 |
Ted Seto (Loyola-LA) |
14,312 |
Richard Kaplan (Illinois) |
2550 |
|
7 |
Dennis Ventry (UC-Davis) |
12,933 |
Jen Kowal (Loyola-LA) |
2506 |
|
8 |
Richard Kaplan (Illinois) |
11,852 |
Herwig Schlunk (Vand.) |
2349 |
|
9 |
David Walker (Boston U.) |
11,201 |
Louis Kaplow (Harvard) |
2221 |
|
10 |
Chris Sanchirico (Penn) |
11,091 |
Carter Bishop (Suffolk) |
2212 |
|
11 |
David Weisbach (Chicago) |
10,882 |
Bridget Crawford (Pace) |
2175 |
|
12 |
Francine Lipman (UNLV) |
10,652 |
Brad Borden (Brooklyn) |
1974 |
|
13 |
Herwig Schlunk (Vand.) |
10,437 |
Erik Jensen (Case Western) |
1752 |
|
14 |
Carter Bishop (Suffolk) |
10,185 |
Francine Lipman (Chapman) |
1745 |
|
15 |
Katie Pratt (Loyola-LA) |
9801 |
Dennis Ventry (UC-Davis) |
1731 |
|
16 |
Robert Sitkoff (Harvard) |
9764 |
Wendy Gerzog (Baltimore) |
1640 |
|
17 |
Ed McCaffery (USC) |
9715 |
Vic Fleischer (Colorado) |
1567 |
|
18 |
Brad Borden (Brooklyn) |
9327 |
James Hines (Michigan) |
1546 |
|
19 |
Jen Kowal (Loyola-L.A.) |
8854 |