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Tuesday, December 31, 2024

SSRN Tax Professor Rankings

SSRN Logo (2018)SSRN has updated its monthly ranking of 750 American and international law school faculties and 3,000 law professors by (among other things) the number of paper downloads from the SSRN database.  Here is the new list (through December 1, 2024) of the Top 25 U.S. Tax Professors in two of the SSRN categories: all-time downloads and recent downloads (within the past 12 months):

    All-Time     Recent
1 Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan)  239,661 1 Jonathan Choi (USC) 16,013
2 Daniel Hemel (NYU) 137,084 2 Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan) 12,555
3 David Gamage (Missouri-Columbia) 130,870 3 Amy Monahan (Minnesota) 10,374
4 Dan Shaviro (NYU) 130,127 4 Zachary Liscow (Yale) 6,616
5 Lily Batchelder (NYU) 129,268 5 Daniel Hemel (NYU) 4,794
6 Darien Shanske (UC-Davis) 122,804 6 Kristin Hickman (Minnesota) 4,584
7 David Kamin (NYU) 115,971 7 Bridget Crawford (Pace) 4,502
8 Cliff Fleming (BYU)    109,674 8 Kim Clausing (UCLA)     4,341
9 Ari Glogower (Northwestern) 106,049 9 D. Dharmapala (UC-Berkeley) 3,790
10 Manoj Viswanathan (UC-SF) 105,566 10 Darien Shanske (UC-Davis) 3,711
11 Rebecca Kysar (Fordham) 105,240 11 David Gamage (Missouri-Columbia) 3,698
12 D. Dharmapala (UC-Berkeley) 56,054 12 Brad Borden (Brooklyn) 3,577
13 Michael Simkovic (USC) 51,499 13 Louis Kaplow (Harvard) 3,401
14 Louis Kaplow (Harvard) 45,500 14 Robert Sitkoff (Harvard) 3,183
15 Jonathan Choi (USC) 44,612 15 Ruth Mason (Virginia) 3,107
16 Bridget Crawford (Pace) 42,765 16 David Weisbach (Chicago) 2,937
17 Paul Caron (Pepperdine) 42,764 17 Kyle Rozema (Northwestern) 2,785
18 Richard Ainsworth (Boston University) 41,021 18 Michael Simkovic (USC) 2,674
19 Robert Sitkoff (Harvard) 36,798 19 Brian Galle (Georgetown) 2,457
20 Amy Monahan (Minnesota) 36,019 20 Ellen Aprill (Loyola-L.A.) 2,265
21 Brad Borden (Brooklyn) 35,649 21 Young Ran (Christine) Kim (Cardozo) 2,237
22 Ruth Mason (Virginia) 34,227 22 Andy Grewal (Iowa) 2,116
23 Kim Clausing (UCLA) 32,719 23 Edward McCaffery (USC) 2,063
24 Vic Fleischer (UC-Irvine) 31,666 24 Richard Ainsworth (Boston University) 2,003
25 Ed Kleinbard (USC) 30,744 25 Yariv Brauner (Florida) 1,978

Note that this ranking includes full-time tax professors with at least one tax paper on SSRN, and all papers (including non-tax papers) by these tax professors are included in the SSRN data.

The other SSRN ranking categories are: 

These rankings, of course, are imperfect measures of faculty scholarly performance -- as are the existing ranking methodologies of reputation surveys, productivity counts, and citation counts. Our modest claim in our article, Ranking Law Schools: Using SSRN to Measure Scholarly Performance, 81 Ind. L.J. 83 (2006) (Symposium on The Next Generation of Law School Rankings), is that the SSRN data can play a role in faculty rankings along with these other measures.  Bill Henderson (Indiana-Bloomington) thinks we are too modest, and that SSRN may provide a better measure of faculty performance than these other methodologies.

For my other articles on what SSRN downloads can tell us about the current state and future of legal scholarship, and about the relationship between scholarship and blogging, see:

For Ted Seto's faculty-wide (and metropolitan area-wide) analysis of these SSRN tax rankings, see:

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