Harvard Law School in the Stanford/Elsevier 2026 list
The Stanford/Elsevier list covers the top 2% most-cited scientists in each subfield. These are the people from this institution on at least one of its two rankings: career-long and single-year (citations from 2025).
27
researchers on the list
657
rank in United States
2,081
rank worldwide, of 38,384
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| Name | Subfield | Career | Single-year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sunstein, Cass R. | Law | 1 / 18,707 | 1 / 18,707 |
| Cohen, Ivan Glenn | General & Internal Medicine | 526 / 360,081 | 113 / 360,081 |
| Ruggie, John Gerard | International Relations | 10 / 9,646 | 12 / 9,646 |
| Bebchuk, Lucian A. | Law | 3 / 18,707 | 6 / 18,707 |
| Benkler, Yochai | Law | 5 / 18,707 | 10 / 18,707 |
| Shavell, Steven | Economics | 260 / 54,592 | 794 / 54,592 |
| Tushnet, Mark V. | Law | 16 / 18,707 | 39 / 18,707 |
| Smith, Henry E. | Law | 37 / 18,707 | 40 / 18,707 |
| Vermeule, Adrian | Law | 17 / 18,707 | 170 / 18,707 |
| Fallon, Richard H. | Law | 32 / 18,707 | 77 / 18,707 |
| Manning, John F. | Law | 73 / 18,707 | 253 / 18,707 |
| Yamin, Alicia Ely | Public Health | 1,182 / 82,273 | — |
| Stephenson, Matthew C. | Law | 116 / 18,707 | 302 / 18,707 |
| Stein, Michael Ashley | Law | 243 / 18,707 | 166 / 18,707 |
| Goldsmith, Jack Landman | Law | 126 / 18,707 | — |
| Bar-Gill, Oren | Law | 171 / 18,707 | 256 / 18,707 |
| Elhauge, Einer Richard | Law | 217 / 18,707 | — |
| van Loo, Rory | Law | — | 285 / 18,707 |
| Lessig, Lawrence | Law | 279 / 18,707 | — |
| Klarman, Michael J. | Law | 324 / 18,707 | — |
| Jackson, Vicki C. | Law | — | 391 / 18,707 |
| Ferrell, Allen | Law | — | 406 / 18,707 |
| Neuman, Gerald L. | Law | 394 / 18,707 | — |
| Goodman, Ryan E. | Law | 396 / 18,707 | — |
| Akyeampong, Emmanuel Kwaku | Cultural Studies | 175 / 8,723 | 143 / 8,723 |
| Lazarus, Richard J. | Energy | 6,689 / 371,959 | — |
| Herzog, Tamar | History | 383 / 20,299 | 210 / 20,299 |
Source: Ioannidis JPA, Elsevier (2026). August 2026 data-update for "Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators". Mendeley Data, version 9. Licence CC BY-NC 3.0. doi:10.17632/btchxktzyw.9
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