the journal is associated. The Washington and Lee database tracks instead impact through citation and shows the law school ranking (itself a problematic notion) to be a crude and approximate measure. Especially when it comes to specialized, rather than 'general', law journals, the law school ranking is a bad proxy for readership and influence. Like credit rating agencies, there is more than one outfit which tries to provide this service. The Washington and Lee database is interesting since, aware of the problematic nature of establishing criteria for influence, it allows the user to vary the parameters according to which tables of influence will be generated. The overall methodology seems to be the same: an electronic database of legal journals is selected and then citations to articles are computed. Simply counting citations, might, however, skew the impression of influence of a journal. You might, for example, have one or two highly cited articles published by this or that journal whereas almost everything else is hardly ever cited, and yet those one or two star pieces could skew the overall influence ranking of the journal compared to others. Though I have somewhat simplified, this is how the famous Impact Factor (IF) has come into being -- it looks at the overall number of citations but divides it by the number of articles published, so that the 'one hit wonder' phenomenon does not inordinately skew the impression of journal influence as a whole, and one has a kind of average. But you can