HLS Corporate Faculty Excels in SSRN’s 2013 Citation Rankings

Statistics released by the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) indicate that, as of the end of 2013, Harvard Law School professors and senior fellows associated with the Program on Corporate Governance featured prominently on SSRN’s law author rankings. These professors and fellows captured ten of the top 100 slots among the top 100 law authors in all legal areas in terms of citations to their work. No corporate faculty group at any other law school comes even close to this level of citation prominence.

As in previous years, Professor Lucian Bebchuk was ranked first among all law school professors (a post about Professor Bebchuk’s ranking is available here and his papers are available on his SSRN page here). In addition, nine other professors and senior fellows associated with the Program on Corporate Governance are included among SSRN’s 2013 top 100 law authors:

• Jesse Fried (Rank 7, 1,082 citations)
• Alma Cohen (Rank 10, 1,021 citations)
• Reinier Kraakman (Rank 11, 1,010 citations)
• Mark Roe (Rank 12, 945 citations)
• Allen Ferrell (Rank 21, 631 citations)
• John Coates (Rank 69, 222 citations)
• J. Mark Ramseyer (Rank 85, 177 citations)
• Holger Spamann (Rank 93, 162 citations)
• Howell Jackson (Rank 96, 160 citations)

SSRN is the leading electronic service for social science research. As of the end of 2013, its electronic library contained over 426,000 full-text documents by more than 242,000 authors. SSRN’s rankings in terms of citations are available here.