Tuesday, March 29, 2005
SSRN Rankings of Tax Faculty
It is the season of law school rankings. U.S. News & World Report will publish its annual rankings on Friday (we offered an early peek yesterday here). Our symposium on The Next Generation of Law School Rankings will be held at Indiana-Bloomington on April 15. And last week, SSRN unveiled a new feature that ranks 200 American and international law school faculties and 1,000 American law professors by (among other things) the number of downloads of their papers from the SSRN data base. I will have much more to say on this blog about the SSRN rankings shortly as Bernie Black (Texas), the Managing Director of SSRN, and I are writing an article for the Indiana symposium on the uses and limits of SSRN in measuring scholarly performance.
In the meantime, I thought it would be interesting for readers of this blog to see the list of the Top 25 Tax Faculty in two of the SSRN categories: all-time downloads and new downloads (within the past 12 months):
SSRN Rankings of Top 25 Tax Faculty | ||||
All-Time Downloads |
Recent Downloads | |||
Tax Faculty (School) |
Tax Rank |
Tax Rank |
||
Louis Kaplow (Harvard) |
1 |
38 |
2 |
71 |
David Schizer (Columbia) |
2 |
96 |
7 |
139 |
David Walker (Boston University) |
3 |
98 |
11 |
203 |
Edward McCaffery (USC) |
4 |
101 |
1 |
58 |
David Weisbach (Chicago) |
5 |
124 |
10 |
189 |
Steven Bank (UCLA) |
6 |
153 |
4 |
95 |
Victor Fleischer (UCLA) |
7 |
161 |
9 |
180 |
Paul Caron (Cincinnati) |
8 |
162 |
3 |
87 |
Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan) |
9 |
180 |
5 |
112 |
Daniel Shaviro (NYU) |
10 |
192 |
14 |
216 |
Terrence Chorvat (Geo. Mason) |
11 |
204 |
6 |
119 |
Sam Thompson (UCLA) |
12 |
255 |
- |
863 |
Elizabeth Garrett (USC) |
13 |
275 |
13 |
207 |
Barbara Fried (Stanford) |
14 |
283 |
19 |
322 |
Richard Kaplan (Illinois) |
15 |
332 |
12 |
205 |
William Bradford (Princeton-NYU) |
16 |
338 |
8 |
168 |
Calvin Johnson (Texas) |
17 |
358 |
22 |
396 |
Kyle Logue (Michigan) |
18 |
382 |
- |
519 |
Jeff Strnad (Stanford) |
19 |
390 |
15 |
278 |
Michael Asimow (UCLA) |
20 |
411 |
21 |
353 |
Joseph Bankman (Stanford) |
21 |
441 |
25 |
468 |
Theodore Seto (Loyola-L.A.) |
22 |
464 |
- |
651 |
Leandra Lederman (Indiana) |
23 |
469 |
24 |
430 |
William Klein (UCLA) |
24 |
476 |
- |
505 |
Herwig Schlunk (Vanderbilt) |
25 |
483 |
- |
958 |
Anthony Infanti (Pittsburgh) |
- |
519 |
20 |
344 |
Kirk Stark (UCLA) |
- |
523 |
18 |
318 |
Jim Repetti (Boston College) |
- |
630 |
16 |
298 |
Michael Knoll (Pennsylvania) |
- |
698 |
17 |
318 |
Linda Sugin (Fordham) |
- |
811 |
23 |
404 |
Note that this ranking includes 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 the Indiana symposium piece is that the SSRN data can play a role in faculty rankings along with these other measures.
https://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2005/03/httphqssrncomto.html