Washington & Lee University has updated their entertaining site which reports which legal periodicals are cited most in other law journals and which are cited most by the courts.
The ten most cited in other journals for the period 1996 through 2003 are:
1. Harvard Law Review
2. Yale Law Journal
3. Columbia Law Review
4. Stanford Law Review
5. Michigan Law Review
6. Fordham Law Review
7. Georgetown Law Journal
8. California Law Review (Berkeley)
9. Texas Law Review
10. NYU Law Review
The ten most cited by the courts in the same time period were:
1. Harvard Law Review
2. Columbia Law Review
3. University of Chicago Law Review
4. Georgetown Law Journal
5. St. Mary's Law Journal (San Antonio, Texas)
6. Houston Law Review
7. Yale Law Journal
8. NYU Law Review
9. Texas Law Review
10. Fordham Law Review
Finally, the 10 most cited in "legal theory and jurisprudence" (obviously broadly construed) were (with cites in parentheses):
1. Journal of Legal Studies (1425)
2. Law & Social Inquiry (704)
3. Law & Society Review (494)
4. Legal Theory (158)
5. American Journal of Jurisprudence (116)
6. Theoretical Inquiries in Law (96)
7. Legal studies Forum (93)
8. Canadian Journal of Law & Jurisprudence (85)
Law & Philosophy (85)
10. Law and Critique (21)
Needless to say, I was pleased to see that the journal I edit with Larry Alexander and Jules Coleman, Legal Theory, was far-and-away the most frequently cited of the journals that really publishes in jurisprudence and legal philosophy. (JLS mostly publishes law & economics, while #2 and 3 mostly publish work at the intersection of law and the other social sciences, as well as some legal history.)
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