2011 Tax Journal Rankings: NYU #1, Virginia #2, Tax Notes #3

Here are the Washington & Lee tax law review rankings, based on citations to articles published in 2004-2011:

• 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 44 ranked tax journals):

Rank	Tax Journal	Combined	Impact	Law Reviews	Cases	Currency
1	Tax Law Review	100.0	0.98	412	1	1.74
2	Virginia Tax Review	89.6	0.71	554	9	1.00
3	Tax Notes	76.0	0.01	1165	14	0.02
4	Florida Tax Review	60.8	0.63	210	0	0.75
5	Elder Law Journal	57.6	0.54	257	8	0.36
6	Tax Lawyer	44.0	0.21	435	10	0.40
7	Pittsburgh Tax Review	41.6	0.48	85	3	0.42
8	Houston Bus. & Tax J.	35.2	0.31	184	4	0.30
9	Journal of Taxation	28.8	0.06	370	5	0.11
10	Heckerling Inst. Est. Plan.	26.4	0.22	150	0	0.41
11	Akron Tax Journal	22.4	0.25	56	3	1.17
12	National Tax Journal	22.4	0.11	217	0	0.16
13	Marquette Elder's Advisor	17.6	0.14	107	1	0.14
14	Estate Planning	14.4	0.04	172	1	0.17
15	Taxes	14.4	0.05	162	0	0.08
15	Tax Notes International	12.8	0.00	193	0	0.00
17	New Zealand J. Tax'n Law	9.6	0.08	58	0	0.00
18	Tax Management Mem.	9.6	0.03	111	1	0.05
18	Tax Management Int’l J.	5.6	0.02	66	0	0.05
20	Taxation of Exempts	4.0	0.02	33	0	0.08
21	British Tax Review	3.2	0.01	36	0	0.01
22	Corporate Taxation	3.2	0.02	31	0	0.04
23	eJournal of Tax Research	3.2	0.03	16	0	0.03
24	Real Estate Taxation	3.2	0.02	24	1	0.01
25	Tax Mgmt Real Estate J.	3.2	0.02	23	0	0.01

Tax Notes is #1 by a wide margin in citations in law reviews (1165 v. #2's Virginia Tax Review's 554), but fairs relatively poorly (.001, ranked #24) 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:

• 2009
• 2008
• 2006

Update: Thanks to Omri Marian for letting me know that Washington & Lee has released an updated ranking based on citations to articles published in 2005-2012.  I will blog those rankings in a forthcoming post.