The 10 Most-Cited Tax Faculty

Brian Leiter (Chicago) has updated his ranking of the Ten Most-Cited Tax Faculty to now cover the 2013-2017 period (see prior rankings:  2000-2007, 2005-2010, 2009-2013, 2010-2014):

Rank	Name	School	Citations	Age
1	Michael Graetz	Columbia	390	74
2	Reuven Avi-Yonah	Michigan	370	61
	David Weisbach	Chicago	370	55
4	Daniel Shaviro	NYU	340	61
5	Victor Fleischer	UC-Irvine	300	47
	Lawrence Zelenak	Duke	300	60
7	Leandra Lederman	Indiana	240	52
8	Edward McCaffery	USC	220	60
	Edward Zelinsky	Cardozo	220	68
10	Alan Auerbach	UC-Berkeley	215	67

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

Name	School	Citations	Age
Louis Kaplow	Harvard	1080	62
Kristin Hickman	Minnesota	395	48
Brian Galle	Georgetown	320	45
Mark Gergen	UC-Berkeley	260	62

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.  Five of the most-cited tax faculty (Avi-Yonah, Fleischer, Kaplow, Shaviro, Weisbach) also are five of the most-downloaded tax faculty.

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 the thirteen graduate tax programs ranked at least once in the U.S. News tax rankings over the prior four years (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