HeinOnline’s Scholarly Impact Rankings spotlight the most influential authors, journals, and institutions in legal scholarship through a transparent, citation-based methodology updated monthly.
In February 2019, U.S. News announced that they were considering evaluating U.S. law school scholarly impact and would be using HeinOnline as the source for the citation data.
Since this announcement, we have received many questions and concerns from the library community, so we took this opportunity to provide some background information and an update on our involvement with this project.
U.S. News & World Report is the global authority in education rankings. They specifically rank the Best Law Schools based on a number of factors including LSAT scores, job placement success, student-faculty ratio, and much more. U.S. News has been collaborating with the Hein Company to potentially create a new ranking which would evaluate the scholarly impact of law schools across the United States.