Top 31 IP scholars by h-index

Scholarometer is a citation-analysis tool developed by researchers at Indiana University Bloomington. It mines Google Scholar data to generate a scholar's h-index: the maximum number of articles h such that each has received at least h citations. (It also computes the h_s-index, which normalizes an h-index by the discipline average, which is 14.8 for law.)

Dan Burk (UC Irvine) used Scholarometer to compute the h-index for full-time AALS faculty whose major emphasis is (at least arguably) IP, and he provided me with the results to post here. He noted that while Google Scholar is not a great resource for total citations, it is relatively easy to clean up the data for computing the h-index by removing misattributions and spurious citations. He also removed science publications for those who had them (including himself) because he was interested in law publications.

There are of course problems both with citation-based impact measures and with Google Scholar's data, which I will not rehash here. But with those caveats, based on Burk's calculations, here are the top 31 IP scholars by h-index (all of whom have an h-index well above the average of 14.8):

1	Mark Lemley	Stanford	73
2	Pamela Samuelson	UC Berkeley	43
3	Lawrence Lessig*	Harvard	41
4	Robert Merges	UC Berkeley	39
5	Jerome Reichman	Duke	37
6	Dan Burk	UC Irvine	35
7	Jane Ginsburg	Columbia	34
8	Rochelle Dreyfuss	NYU	31
8	Yochai Benkler*	Harvard	31
8	Rebecca Eisenberg	Michigan	31
11	Peter Yu	Drake	29
12	Gideon Parchomovsky*	Penn	26
12	Raymond Nimmer*	Houston	26
14	Peter Menell	UC Berkeley	25
14	Thomas Cotter	Minnesota	25
14	Christopher Yoo*	Penn	25
14	Michael Froomkin*	Miami	25
18	Jessica Litman	Michigan	24
18	Dennis Karjala	Arizona State	24
20	Wendy Gordon	Boston U	23
21	Julie Cohen	Georgetown	22
21	Jay Kesan	Illinois	22
21	Michael Abramowicz*	GWU	22
24	Michael Meurer	Boston U	21
24	Jonathan Zittrain	Harvard	21
24	Paul Heald	Illinois	21
24	David McGowan	San Diego	21
28	Paul Goldstein	Stanford	20
28	John Duffy	Virginia	20
30	Arti Rai	Duke	19
30	David Post	Temple	19

* Denotes significant legal publications outside of intellectual property.

Update: This table was corrected on 6/10/14 to add Thomas Cotter, who was missing from the original chart.