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Top institutions in the United Kingdom for Experimental Psychology

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Which institutions in the United Kingdom have the most top-cited scientists in Experimental Psychology?

145 researchers in the United Kingdom whose main subfield is Experimental Psychology are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list: 0.8% of all listed authors in the United Kingdom, and 2nd of 36 countries in the subfield. 143 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). University of Cambridge has the most (11), followed by University of Sussex (7) and University College London (7). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors
145
0.8% of all in the United Kingdom
In the global top 100,000
143
98.6% of them
Country rank in the subfield
#2
of 36 countries in Experimental Psychology
Highest-ranked
#250
Spence, C. J.
#InstitutionListed authorsTop 100kRank worldwideHighest-ranked author
1University of Cambridge1111#8Blakemore, Sarah Jayne #483
2University of Sussex77#24Clark, Andy J. #1,452
3University College London77#25Haggard, Patrick N. #2,672
4UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience77#27Frith, Uta #4,030
5University of Oxford77#29Heyes, Cecilia M. #5,170
6University of Oxford Medical Sciences Division66#34Spence, C. J. #250
7University of York66#35Baddeley, Alan D. #261
8University of Glasgow55#49Barsalou, Lawrence W. #1,086
9University of Exeter55#58Krueger, Joel W. #32,181
10University of Nottingham44#69Peirce, Jonathan Westley #8,978
11The University of Edinburgh44#73Pickering, Martin J. #18,246
12UCL Faculty of Brain Sciences44#79Vigliocco, Gabriella #49,683
13Royal Holloway, University of London33#89Tsakiris, Manos #6,179
14Warwick Business School33#93Chater, Nick #10,891
15MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit33#95Lambon Ralph, Matthew A. #12,145
16University of Birmingham33#101Winter, Bodo #19,741
17University of Aberdeen33#105Crawford, John R. #22,731

The top 100 in Experimental Psychology in the United Kingdom, in order

  1. 1
    Spence, C. J.
    University of Oxford Medical Sciences Division
  2. 2
    Baddeley, Alan D.
    University of York
  3. 3
    Blakemore, Sarah Jayne
    University of Cambridge
  4. 4
    Barsalou, Lawrence W.
    University of Glasgow
  5. 5
  6. 6
    Clark, Andy J.
    University of Sussex
  7. 7
    Bishop, Dorothy Vera Margaret
    University of Oxford Medical Sciences Division
  8. 8
    Evans, Jonathan St B.T.
    University of Plymouth
  9. 9
    Seth, Anil K.
    University of Sussex
  10. 10
    Haggard, Patrick N.
    University College London
  11. 11
    Frith, Uta
    UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience
  12. 12
    Heyes, Cecilia M.
    University of Oxford
  13. 13
    Tsakiris, Manos
    Royal Holloway, University of London
  14. 14
    Murayama, Kou
    University of Reading
  15. 15
    Gathercole, Susan Elizabeth
    Department of Psychiatry
  16. 16
    Goswami, Usha C.
    University of Cambridge
  17. 17
    Peirce, Jonathan Westley
    University of Nottingham
  18. 18
    Chater, Nick
    Warwick Business School
  19. 19
    Stoet, Gijsbert
    University of Essex
  20. 20
    Lavie, Nilli
    UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience
  21. 21
    Lambon Ralph, Matthew A.
    MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
  22. 22
    Dienes, Zoltán
    University of Sussex
  23. 23
    Anderson, Michael C.
    MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
  24. 24
    Nation, Kate
    University of Oxford Medical Sciences Division
  25. 25
    Hamilton, Antonia F. de C.
    UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience
  26. 26
    Conway, Martin Antony
    City, University of London
  27. 27
    Barr, Dale J.
    University of Glasgow
  28. 28
    Pickering, Martin J.
    The University of Edinburgh
  29. 29
    Marslen-Wilson, William David
    University of Cambridge
  30. 30
    Hulme, Charles T.
    University of Oxford
  31. 31
    Gilbert, Sam J.
    UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience
  32. 32
    Winter, Bodo
    University of Birmingham
  33. 33
    Atran, Scott
    University of Oxford
  34. 34
    Kelso, J. A.Scott
    Ulster University
  35. 35
    Eimer, Martin
    University of London
  36. 36
    Gobet, Fernand R.
    University of Liverpool
  37. 37
    Crawford, John R.
    University of Aberdeen
  38. 38
    Norris, Dennis G.
    MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
  39. 39
    Karmiloff-Smith, Annette D.
    The LonDowns Consortium
  40. 40
    Majid, Asifa
    University of Oxford Medical Sciences Division
  41. 41
    Chambers, Christopher D.
    College of Biomedical and Life Sciences
  42. 42
    Madan, Christopher R.
    University of Nottingham
  43. 43
    Driver, Jon
    University College London
  44. 44
    Burgess, Paul W.
    UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience
  45. 45
  46. 46
    Kita, Sotaro
    University of Warwick
  47. 47
    De Jaegher, Hanne
    University of Sussex
  48. 48
    Green, David William
    University College London
  49. 49
    Shanks, David R.
    University College London
  50. 50
    Logie, Robert H.
    The University of Edinburgh
  51. 51
    Krueger, Joel W.
    University of Exeter
  52. 52
    Gruzelier, John H.
    Goldsmiths, University of London
  53. 53
    Hills, Thomas Trenholm
    Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine
  54. 54
    Jefferies, Elizabeth A.
    University of York
  55. 55
    Rastle, Kathleen G.
    Royal Holloway, University of London
  56. 56
    Bays, Paul M.
    University of Cambridge
  57. 57
    Sutton, John
    University of Stirling
  58. 58
    Monsell, Stephen
    University of Exeter
  59. 59
    Szucs, Denes
    University of Cambridge
  60. 60
    Longo, Matthew R.
    Birkbeck, University of London
  61. 61
    Apperly, Ian A.
    University of Birmingham
  62. 62
    Burton, A. Mike
    University of York
  63. 63
    Garfinkel, Sarah N.
    UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience
  64. 64
    Bird, Geoffrey
    University of Oxford
  65. 65
    Eerola, T.
    Durham University
  66. 66
    McManus, Ian Chris
    University College London
  67. 67
    Moore, James W.E.
    Goldsmiths, University of London
  68. 68
    Kirby, Simon
    College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
  69. 69
    Della Sala, Sergio Della
    The University of Edinburgh
  70. 70
    Murphy, Jennifer
    University of Surrey
  71. 71
    Dowker, Ann Derore
    University of Oxford Medical Sciences Division
  72. 72
    Malafouris, Lambros
    Hertford College
  73. 73
    Whittaker, Anna C.
    University of Stirling
  74. 74
    Oakhill, Jane V.
    University of Sussex
  75. 75
    Butterworth, Brian L.
    UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience
  76. 76
    Patterson, Karalyn E.
    Department of Clinical Neurosciences
  77. 77
    Colombetti, Giovanna
    University of Exeter
  78. 78
    Senju, A.
    University of the Arts London
  79. 79
    Browning, Heather
    University of Southampton
  80. 80
    Young, Andy W.
    University of York
  81. 81
    Hitch, Graham J.
    University of York
  82. 82
    Ward, Jamie W.
    University of Sussex
  83. 83
    Hoffman, Paul
    College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
  84. 84
    Little, Anthony C.
    University of Bath
  85. 85
    Vigliocco, Gabriella
    UCL Faculty of Brain Sciences
  86. 86
    Humphreys, Glyn William
    University of Birmingham
  87. 87
    Perrett, David I.
    University of St Andrews
  88. 88
    Trevarthen, Colwyn B.
    The University of Edinburgh
  89. 89
    Baguley, Thom S.
    Nottingham Trent University
  90. 90
    Gervais, Will M.
    Brunel University London
  91. 91
    Yeung, Nick
    University of Oxford Medical Sciences Division
  92. 92
    Schyns, Philippe G.
    University of Glasgow
  93. 93
    Scott, Sophie K.
    University College London
  94. 94
    Over, Harriet J.
    University of York
  95. 95
    Pliatsikas, Christos
    University of Reading
  96. 96
    Fotopoulou, Aikaterini (Katerina)
    UCL Faculty of Brain Sciences
  97. 97
    Stewart, Neil
    Warwick Business School
  98. 98
    Broadbent, Donald E.
    Applied Psychology Research Unit
  99. 99
    Barrett, Adam B.
    University of Sussex
  100. 100
    Dumontheil, Iroise
    Centre for Educational Neuroscience

145 listed scientists in Experimental Psychology in the United Kingdom

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Data: Ioannidis, John P.A. (2026), ‘August 2026 data-update for “Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators”’, Mendeley Data, v9, doi:10.17632/btchxktzyw.9. 2026 list, ranked by composite citation score (c) excluding self-citations.

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