SSRN has just posted the list of the top 50 Law Authors as measured by downloads, and yours truly has eked onto the list, along with a couple of co-conspirators.
Note that if you click around, you can order the rankings in a variety of different ways–the order given below is of total downloads for all papers, all time (you can also rank it by downloads in the past 12 months, for instance, which is the way SSRN distributed it in its email).
As one of my colleagues recently confessed, “I’m not sure that numbers like this tell us much, but I do love my downloads.” In that spirit, a list of my personal papers can be found here.
TOP 50 AUTHORS IN SSRN’s TOP 1,000 AUTHOR LIST (BETA)–Total Downloads for all papers, all time:
1 Landes,William
2 Black,Bernard
3 Bebchuk,Lucian
4 Lemley,Mark
5 Sunstein,Cass
6 Bainbridge,Stephen
7 Coffee Jr.,John
8 Donohue III,John
9 Posner,Eric
10 Gilson,Ronald
11 Parisi,Francesco
12 Kraakman,Reinier
13 Posner,Richard
14 Shavell,Steven
15 Kerr,Orin
16 Stout,Lynn
17 Blair,Margaret
18 Solum,Lawrence
19 Bratton,William
20 Burk,Dan
21 Roe,Mark
22 Fried,Jesse
23 Schwarcz,Steven
24 Cheffins,Brian
25 Cunningham,Lawrence
26 Partnoy,Frank
27 Gordon,Jeffrey
28 Solove,Daniel
29 Romano,Roberta
30 Choi,Stephen
31 Licht,Amir
32 Barnett,Randy
33 Ribstein,Larry
34 Hopt,Klaus
35 Ayres,Ian
36 Thomas,Randall
37 Yu,Peter
38 Kaplow,Louis
39 Hansmann,Henry
40 McCahery,Joseph
41 Ferrell,Allen
42 Korobkin,Russell
43 Ginsburg,Jane
44 Lessig,Lawrence
45 Zywicki,Todd
46 West,Mark
47 Klausner,Michael
48 Viscusi,W. Kip
49 Zittrain,Jonathan
50 Rubin,Paul
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