Monday, August 30, 2021
The 10 Most-Cited Tax Faculty
Following up on last week's post, The Most-Cited Tax Faculty At The 68 Most-Cited Law Schools: Brian Leiter (Chicago) has updated his ranking of the Ten Most-Cited Tax Faculty to now cover the 2016-2020 period (see prior most-cited tax faculty rankings: 2000-2007, 2005-2010, 2009-2013, 2010-2014, 2013-2017):
Rank | Name | School | Citations | Age |
1 | Reuven Avi-Yonah | Michigan | 420 | 64 |
2 | Michael Graetz | Columbia | 380 | 77 |
3 | David Weisbach | Chicago | 310 | 58 |
4 | Daniel Shaviro | NYU | 300 | 64 |
5 | Victor Fleischer | UC-Irvine | 270 | 50 |
Lawrence Zelenak | Duke | 270 | 63 | |
7 | Alan Auerbach | UC-Berkeley | 210 | 70 |
Joseph Bankman | Stanford | 210 | 66 | |
9 | David Gamage | Indiana | 200 | 43 |
10 | Leandra Lederman | Indiana | 190 | 55 |
Leiter also lists five highly-cited scholars who work partly in tax:
Name | School | Citations | Age |
Louis Kaplow | Harvard | 950 | 65 |
Daniel Hemel | Chicago | 500 | 36 |
Kristin Hickman | Minnesota | 440 | 51 |
Brian Galle | Georgetown | 290 | 48 |
Yair Listokin | Yale | 230 | 46 |
Leiter notes the limitations of the Westlaw database in counting only citations in law reviews compared to the broader coverage in Google Scholar: Jim Hines (Michigan) had over 5,000 citations in Google Scholar in 2016-2020 but less than 190 citations in Westlaw.
https://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2021/08/the-10-most-cited-tax-faculty.html