Top 32 Experienced IP Scholars by (m)-index

After Dan Burk calculated the top IP scholars by h-index using Scholarometer, several scholars suggested to him that it would be interesting to normalize the results by seniority (because the h-index has a known seniority bias). Some bibliometricians have done this by using the m-index: the h-index over the years since the first publication. Because many legal scholars publish an early law review note well before beginning their academic careers in earnest, Burk decided to use a modified m-index: the h-index over the years in full-time law teaching.

The m-index literature warns that this number does not stabilize until well into a scholar's career when the denominator becomes larger, so Burk only calculated his modified m-index for those teaching ≥10 years (as determined from the AALS directory and/or CVs). Here are the 32 scholars with the highest m-index using this method, which makes an interesting comparison to the previous table.

1	Mark Lemley	Stanford	3.65
2	Peter Yu	Drake	2.23
3	Lawrence Lessig*	Harvard	1.78
4	Yochai Benkler*	Harvard	1.72
5	Dan Burk	UC Irvine	1.67
5	Christopher Yoo*	Penn	1.67
7	G. Parchomovsky*	Penn	1.62
8	Robert Merges	UC Berkeley	1.50
8	Jonathan Zittrain	Harvard	1.50
8	Rebecca Tushnet	Georgetown	1.50
11	M. Abramowicz*	GWU	1.46
12	Brett Frischman	Cardozo	1.42
13	John Duffy	Virginia	1.43
14	Michael Froomkin*	Miami	1.37
14	Jay Kesan	Illinois	1.37
16	Ben DePoorter	UC Hastings	1.36
17	David McGowan*	San Diego	1.31
17	Daniel Gervais	Vanderbilt	1.31
19	Pamela Samuelson	UC Berkeley	1.30
19	Frank Pasquale*	Maryland	1.30
21	C. Cotropia	Richmond	1.27
22	Jane Ginsburg	Columbia	1.26
23	Thomas Cotter	Minnesota	1.25
23	Katherine Strandburg	NYU	1.25
25	Julie Cohen	Georgetown	1.16
25	Robin Feldman	UC Hastings	1.16
25	Sonia Katyal*	Fordham	1.16
28	Polk Wagner	Penn	1.14
29	Arti Rai	Duke	1.12
20	Michael Meurer	Boston U	1.11
31	David Opderbeck	Seton Hall	1.10
31	Matthew Sag	Loyola Chicago	1.10

* Denotes significant legal publications outside of intellectual property.

Update: This table was corrected on 8/31/14 to add Ben Depoorter.