The 10 Most-Cited Tax Faculty

Brian Leiter (Chicago) has announced that he will be releasing an updated ranking of the Ten Most-Cited U.S. Law Faculty in 11 areas of specialization, as measured by citations during the past five years (2009-2013).  He previewed the ranking today by releasing the ten most-cited tax faculty:

Rank	Tax Prof	Citations	Age
1	Michael Graetz (Columbia)	400	69
	David Weisbach (Chicago)	400	50
3	Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan)	350	56
4	Daniel Shaviro (NYU)	340	56
5	Leandra Lederman (Indiana)	290	47
	Larry Zelenak (Duke)	290	58
7	Victor Fleischer (San Diego)	280	42
8	Edward Zelinsky (Cardozo)	270	58
9	Joseph Bankman (Stanford)	250	58
	Edward McCaffery (USC)	250	55

Leiter also lists four highly-cited scholars who work partly in tax.

In our article, Pursuing a Tax LLM Degree: Where?, Jennifer M. Kowal (Loyola-L.A.), Katherine Pratt (Loyola-L.A.), Theodore P. Seto (Loyola-L.A.) and I used a variation of Leiter's methodology in conducting a citation count study of the faculty in thirteen highly rated graduate tax programs  (pp. 28-29):

Rank	Graduate Tax Program Faculty	Citations
1	NYU	1917
2	Florida	1181
3	Georgetown	861
4	Miami	799
5	Northwestern	667
6	Boston University	614
7	Loyola-L.A.	475
8	San Diego	377
9	Villanova	177
10	SMU	139
11	Chapman	112
12	U. Washington	75
13	Denver	42

Prior TaxProf Blog coverage:

• Phillips & Yoo: A Better Faculty Citation Rankings System (Sept. 7, 2012)
• The 18 Most-Cited Tax Faculty (May 18, 2010)
• The 15 Most-Cited Tax Faculty (Apr. 5, 2010)
• More on Faculty Citation Rankings (Nov. 28, 2007)
• The Most-Cited Tax Faculty (Nov. 16, 2007)
• Ten Most-Cited Tax Faculty (Aug. 20, 2007)

In our article, Ranking Law Schools: Using SSRN to Measure Scholarly Performance, 81 Ind. L.J. 83, 120-22 (2006), Bernie Black (Northwestern) and I examined the Top 25 tax faculty as measured by SSRN downloads, a practice I update monthly on TaxProf Blog.