2012 Tax Journal Rankings: Virginia #1, NYU #2

Here are the Washington & Lee tax law review rankings, based on citations to articles published in 2005-2012:

• Impact Factor (citations/number of articles published)
• Citations in Law Reviews
• Citations in Cases (federal and state courts)
• Currency (how rapidly articles are cited)
• Combined (weighted combination of the above rankings)

Here are the Top 25 tax journals (out of 48 ranked tax journals):

Rank	Tax Journal	Combined	Impact	Law Reviews	Cases	Currency
1	Virginia Tax Review	100.0	0.72	595	5	1.20
2	Tax Law Review	80.2	0.66	382	1	0.92
3	Elder Law Journal	66.1	0.58	279	8	0.55
4	Florida Tax Review	62.0	0.58	217	0	0.96
5	Tax Notes	54.5	0.01	762	15	0.02
6	Pittsburgh Tax Review	40.5	0.43	81	2	0.25
6	Tax Lawyer	40.5	0.21	335	14	0.14
8	Houston Bus. & Tax J.	39.7	0.34	170	5	0.14
9	Akron Tax Journal	28.9	0.30	71	3	0.38
10	Heckerling Inst. Est. Plan.	26.4	0.21	132	0	0.48
11	Marquette Elder's Advisor	24.8	0.20	124	1	0.14
12	National Tax Journal	23.1	0.11	206	2	0.19
13	Journal of Taxation	17.4	0.03	215	6	0.05
14	New Zealand J. Tax' Law	14.0	0.11	73	0	0.10
15	Estate Planning	13.2	0.04	148	1	0.19
16	Tax Notes International	10.7	0.00	151	0	0.00
17	Exempt Org. Tax Review	5.0	0.00	75	0	0.01
17	Taxes  Magazine	5.0	0.01	55	0	0.04
19	British Tax Review	4.1	0.01	42	0	0.02
19	Tax Management Mem.	4.1	0.01	48	1	0.05
19	Taxation of Exempts	4.1	0.02	40	0	0.10
22	Canadian Tax Journal	3.3	0.02	30	0	0.02
23	eJournal of Tax Research	2.5	0.02	11	0	0.06
23	J. Australasian Tax Ass'n	2.5	0.02	13	0	0.02
23	Tax Management Int'l J.	2.5	0.01	27	0	0.03

Tax Notes is #1 by a wide margin in citations in law reviews (762 v. #2's Virginia Tax Review's 595), but fairs relatively poorly (.001, ranked #20) in the Impact Factor category (citations/number of articles published).  My guess is that W&L counted as "articles" all of the advance sheet material in Tax Notes. (Note:  I omitted the NYU Journal of Law and Business from the above chart because it is not a tax journal.)

Prior W&L Tax Journal Rankings:

• 2011
• 2010
• 2009
• 2008
• 2007
• 2006
• 2005
• 2004
• 2003
  

(Hat Tip: Omri Marian,)