2003-2020 Tax Journal Rankings: Tax Law Review Is #1, Virginia Tax Review Is #2

Following up on yesterday's post, 2020 Tax Journal Rankings: Florida Tax Review Is #1, Virginia Tax Review Is #2:  here are the Washington & Lee 2003-2020 tax law review combined rankings of eight major tax journals:

• Columbia Journal of Tax Law ("Columbia")
• Florida Tax Review ("Florida")
• Houston Business & Tax Review ("Houston")
• Pittsburgh Tax Review ("Pittsburgh")
• Tax Law Review ("NYU")
• Tax Lawyer ("ABA")
• Tax Notes Federal ("Tax Notes")
• Virginia Tax Review ("Virginia")

The rankings are based on the annual combined rankings in 2003-2020 among these eight journals by:

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

Ave	Journal	20	19	18	17	16	15	14	13	12	11	10	09	08	07	06	05	04	03
1.7	1. NYU	3	2	3	3	2	2	2	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
2.5	2. Virginia	2	4	4	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	3	4	4	4	4	4
2.7	3. Florida	1	1	1	2	3	4	3	3	3	4	4	4	4	3	2	2	3	2
3.1	4. Tax Notes	4	3	2	4	4	3	4	4	4	3	3	3	2	2	3	3	2	3
5.4	5. ABA	NR	6	NR	5	5	5	5	5	6	5	6	6	6	6	5	5	5	5
7.9	6. Houston	NR	NR	NR	10	9	7	6	6	7	7	7	8	8	9	8	8	9	9
7.9	7. Pittsburgh	NR	NR	NR	8	8	8	7	8	5	6	5	5	5	22	NR	NR	NR	NR
11.3	8. Columbia	5	5	NR	6	6	10	10	13	14	33	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR

Tax Notes Federal fares poorly in the Impact Factor category (citations/number of articles published) because W&L apparently counts as "articles" all of the advance sheet material in Tax Notes Federal.

Tax Notes Federal is #1 by a wide margin in the number of citations in law reviews:

Ave	Journal	20	19	18	17	16	15	14	13	12	11	10	09	08	07	06	05	04	03
852	1. Tax Notes	290	323	295	700	730	680	740	744	762	1165	1157	1202	1254	1219	1096	980	1030	967
384	2. Virginia	135	108	87	431	468	508	564	573	595	554	524	463	404	378	305	280	263	275
355	3. NYU	166	161	155	445	479	449	449	410	382	412	438	456	395	403	352	274	277	294
350	4. ABA	NR	115	NR	241	258	301	313	371	335	435	435	367	378	402	422	396	414	419
235	5. Florida	161	188	194	452	393	314	313	239	217	210	175	165	185	194	218	214	178	216
99	6. Houston	NR	NR	NR	73	79	127	153	176	170	184	150	109	98	68	44	28	14	5
69	7. Columbia	93	69	NR	141	118	83	66	35	18	2	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR
68	8. Pittsburgh	NR	NR	NR	72	69	78	79	69	81	85	91	70	49	3	NR	NR	NR	NR