The most-cited list of legal periodicals has been updated for 1997-2004. See, law.wlu.edu/library/research/lawrevs/mostcited.asp. Most of the impact factor data has not been updated as yet for 1997-2004, and entries that have may be volatile until most article counts have been updated.
Among the U.S. general law reviews, the top-5 ranked in the same citation-count order this year as they did last year:
1 Harvard Law Review
2 Yale Law Journal
3 Columbia Law Review
4 Stanford Law Review
5 Michigan Law Review
NYU Law Rev. and Va. L. Rev. both had large citation increases jumping NYU to 6th and Va. to 10th and dropping Tex. L. Rev off the top-10. The rankings give figures for 1995-2002, 1996-2003, and 1997-2004, but it's hard to know what fluctuations between these years mean. The largest componant is likely to be the oldest volume in each 8 year cycle (because that volume has had the longest time to accumulated citations), and perhaps changes in citation counts reflect that volume being unusually good/bad, or perhaps the citation-count changes are a trend for the journal.
Posted by doyle at November 8, 2004 10:55 AM