Scholarly Index
Legal and Constitutional Studies
Lifetime World Top1000 Scholar ranking for Legal and Constitutional Studies.
| World rank | Scholar | Impact score | Total citations | Total publications |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cass R. Sunstein | 99.99 | 57,089 | 1,038 |
| 2 | Richard A. Posner | 99.94 | 28,622 | 633 |
| 3 | Eric A. Posner | 99.90 | 15,485 | 408 |
| 4 | Steven Shavell | 99.79 | 17,285 | 216 |
| 5 | Richard A. Epstein | 99.77 | 12,229 | 830 |
| 6 | Tom Ginsburg | 99.59 | 7,026 | 334 |
| 7 | James L. Gibson | 99.57 | 13,343 | 268 |
| 8 | James M. Buchanan | 99.50 | 22,122 | 382 |
| 9 | David A. Weisbach | 99.50 | 5,245 | 158 |
| 10 | Lee Epstein | 99.45 | 6,705 | 148 |
| 11 | William M. Landes | 99.44 | 10,377 | 112 |
| 12 | Robert D. Cooter | 99.34 | 5,747 | 231 |
| 13 | Alan O. Sykes | 99.27 | 5,134 | 179 |
| 14 | Adrian Vermeule | 99.25 | 4,519 | 167 |
| 15 | Stefan Voigt | 99.25 | 5,908 | 273 |
| 16 | Jeffrey A. Segal | 99.25 | 6,364 | 74 |
| 17 | Louis Kaplow | 99.21 | 8,354 | 209 |
| 18 | Gregory A. Caldeira | 99.14 | 7,789 | 91 |
| 19 | Nuno Garoupa | 99.09 | 4,413 | 338 |
| 20 | Theodore Eisenberg | 99.08 | 7,041 | 287 |
| 21 | Bernard E. Harcourt | 99.04 | 3,401 | 188 |
| 22 | W. Kip Viscusi | 99.03 | 24,280 | 508 |
| 23 | Donald R. Songer | 99.03 | 3,758 | 99 |
| 24 | Maria Polinsky | 98.98 | 14,919 | 250 |
| 25 | Alan Schwartz | 98.93 | 14,400 | 602 |
| 26 | Barry R. Weingast | 98.92 | 36,399 | 213 |
| 27 | Larry Alexander | 98.91 | 3,839 | 228 |
| 28 | Thomas J. Miceli | 98.91 | 4,105 | 219 |
| 29 | Daniel A. Farber | 98.75 | 2,887 | 427 |
| 30 | Randal C. Picker | 98.70 | 4,098 | 91 |
| 31 | Mark Tushnet | 98.65 | 4,451 | 486 |
| 32 | Robert E. Scott | 98.54 | 8,450 | 322 |
| 33 | Tom Clark | 98.54 | 3,115 | 116 |
| 34 | Melinda Gann Hall | 98.48 | 2,790 | 50 |
| 35 | Richard Albert | 98.45 | 13,616 | 336 |
| 36 | Aziz Z. Huq | 98.40 | 4,123 | 170 |
| 37 | Robert W. Hahn | 98.37 | 7,137 | 246 |
| 38 | Stephen J. Choi | 98.35 | 2,781 | 192 |
| 39 | Michael J. Nelson | 98.32 | 4,196 | 179 |
| 40 | John R. Lott | 98.24 | 9,182 | 191 |
| 41 | Lawrence Baum | 98.20 | 1,780 | 100 |
| 42 | Omri Ben‐Shahar | 98.20 | 2,231 | 142 |
| 43 | Jack M. Balkin | 98.20 | 3,661 | 163 |
| 44 | Jonathan Kastellec | 98.13 | 1,949 | 63 |
| 45 | Douglas G. Baird | 98.12 | 4,956 | 154 |
| 46 | Paul H. Rubin | 98.01 | 5,802 | 164 |
| 47 | Susan Rose‐Ackerman | 97.94 | 8,950 | 211 |
| 48 | Matthew D. Adler | 97.93 | 3,376 | 152 |
| 49 | Edward S. Corwin | 97.92 | 2,030 | 260 |
| 50 | Jeffrey J. Rachlinski | 97.90 | 3,769 | 98 |