| Mike T. ( @ 2006-03-01 00:55:00 |
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I bleed Orange and Green
This is a ranking of the top 30 law faculties based on a standard "objective" measure of scholarly impact: per capita citations to faculty scholarship. We looked only at the top quarter of each faculty, largely for logistical reasons--it made the study more manageable--but partly because the scholarly standing of a school depends more on its best faculty, than its average.
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OVERALL TOP 30 BASED ON MEAN AND MEDIAN PER CAPITA IMPACT JULY 2005
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Rank 2005 |
School |
Score |
Per Capita |
Reputation |
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1 |
University of Chicago |
100 |
1 |
2 |
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2 |
Yale University |
77 |
2 |
1 |
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3 |
Harvard University |
68 |
3 |
2 |
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4 |
Stanford University |
61 |
4 |
4 |
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[...] Other Schools Studied |
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Brooklyn Law School |
17 |
25 |
Runner-up |
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University of Pittsburgh |
17 |
30 |
Not in the |
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University of Southern California |
17 |
21 |
12 |
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[...] Other Schools on Which Preliminary Data Was Collected |
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University of California, Davis |
38 |
32 |
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University of Miami |
15 |
40 |
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University of Wisconsin, Madison |
38 |
22 |
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Ouch... deeply... mostly Orange and Green....