Top institutions in the United States for Developmental & Child Psychology

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Which institutions in the United States have the most top-cited scientists in Developmental & Child Psychology?

433 researchers in the United States whose main subfield is Developmental & Child Psychology are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list: 0.6% of all listed authors in the United States, and 1st of 26 countries in the subfield. 418 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). University of Michigan, Ann Arbor has the most (15), followed by University of Minnesota Twin Cities (13) and University of California, Los Angeles (13). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors

433

0.6% of all in the United States

In the global top 100,000

418

96.5% of them

Country rank in the subfield

of 26 countries in Developmental & Child Psychology

Highest-ranked

#265

Arnett, Jeffrey Jensen

#	Institution	Listed authors	Top 100k	Rank worldwide	Highest-ranked author
1	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	15	15	#1	Gelman, Susan A. #7,105
2	University of Minnesota Twin Cities	13	13	#2	Masten, Ann S. #280
3	University of California, Los Angeles	13	13	#3	Lord, Catherine E. #1,673
4	Arizona State University	12	12	#5	Eisenberg, Nancy #1,382
5	University of California, Davis	11	10	#6	Belsky, J. #1,447
6	University of Virginia	10	10	#7	C. Pianta, Robert C. #3,615
7	The University of Texas at Austin	9	8	#8	Yeager, David Scott #3,107
8	University of California, Irvine	8	8	#9	Eccles, Jaquelynne S. #278
9	New York University	8	8	#11	Tamis-LeMonda, Catherine S. #13,825
10	Pennsylvania State University	7	7	#12	Greenberg, Mark T. #7,102
11	University of Maryland, College Park	7	7	#13	Fox, Nathan A. #9,912
12	Vanderbilt University	6	5	#14	Compas, Bruce E. #11,470
13	Vanderbilt University Medical Center	6	5	#15	Taylor, Julie Lounds #28,950
14	University of Wisconsin-Madison	6	6	#16	Magnuson, Katherine A. #48,865
15	University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine	5	5	#19	Mazefsky, Carla A. #34,541
16	University of California, San Francisco	5	4	#20	Boyce, William Thomas #37,254
17	University of Washington	5	5	#21	Stone, Wendy L. #63,013
18	Duke University School of Medicine	4	4	#22	Dawson, Geraldine #4,990
19	Columbia University	4	4	#24	Siegler, Robert S. #7,781
20	Harvard Graduate School of Education	4	4	#25	Rowe, Meredith L. #8,131
21	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	4	4	#26	Larson, Reed W. #8,728
22	University of Delaware	4	4	#27	Izard, Carroll E. #9,614
23	The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	4	4	#28	Prinstein, Mitchell J. #10,817
24	University of Denver	4	4	#29	Pennington, Bruce F. #11,914
25	College of Arts and Sciences	4	4	#30	Sheridan, Margaret A. #14,923
26	George Mason University	4	4	#31	Denham, Susanne Ayers #15,816
27	Stanford University	4	4	#32	Fernald, Anne #17,151
28	University of Rochester	4	4	#33	Smetana, Judith G. #18,722
29	Brigham Young University	4	4	#34	Coyne, Sarah Marie #19,616
30	Coordinating Center for Health Promotion	4	4	#37	Maenner, Matthew J. #27,672
31	University of Pittsburgh	4	4	#39	Silk, Jennifer S. #50,239
32	Temple University	3	3	#40	Steinberg, Laurence #341
33	Duke University	3	3	#41	Tomasello, Michael #612
34	University of New Hampshire Durham	3	3	#42	Finkelhor, David #1,228
35	National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)	3	3	#43	Bornstein, Marc H. #1,555
36	University of California, Berkeley	3	3	#44	Dahl, Ronald E. #4,980
37	Tufts University	3	3	#45	Lerner, Richard M. #5,565
38	David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA	3	3	#48	Kasari, Connie L. #16,292
39	Emory University	3	3	#49	Goodman, Sherryl Hope #17,256
40	Boston College	3	3	#50	Bottema-Beutel, Kristen #19,747
41	University of Georgia	3	3	#51	Brody, Gene H. #23,643
42	Michigan State University	3	2	#52	Ingersoll, Brooke R. #25,538
43	Emory University School of Medicine	3	2	#53	Klin, Ami J. #28,791
44	University of Southern California	3	2	#54	Baranek, Grace T. #32,430
45	The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center	3	3	#55	Arnold, Lawrence Eugene #33,748
46	Brown University	3	2	#56	Li, Jin #37,375
47	Drexel University	3	3	#57	Vivanti, Giacomo #44,082
48	Cornell University	3	3	#58	Whitlock, Janis L. #51,454
49	Stanford Graduate School of Education	3	3	#59	Obradović, Jelena #62,010

The top 100 in Developmental & Child Psychology in the United States, in order

1
Arnett, Jeffrey Jensen
Clark University
2
Eccles, Jaquelynne S.
University of California, Irvine
3
Masten, Ann S.
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
4
Steinberg, Laurence
Temple University
5
Tomasello, Michael
Duke University
6
Rutter, Sir Michael
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
7
Cicchetti, Dante
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
8
Finkelhor, David
University of New Hampshire Durham
9
Eisenberg, Nancy
Arizona State University
10
Belsky, J.
University of California, Davis
11
Bornstein, Marc H.
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
12
Lord, Catherine E.
University of California, Los Angeles
13
Wang, Mingte
The University of Chicago
14
Skinner, Ellen A.
Portland State University
15
Nigg, Joel T.
Oregon Health & Science University
16
Fredricks, Jennifer A.
Union College, Schenectady
17
Zelazo, Philip David
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
18
Cicchetti, Domenic V.
Yale Child Study Center
19
Blair, Clancy B.
NYU Grossman School of Medicine
20
Yeager, David Scott
The University of Texas at Austin
21
Little, Todd D.
Texas Tech University
22
C. Pianta, Robert C.
University of Virginia
23
Dodge, Kenneth A.
Duke University
24
Field, Tiffany Martini
University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine
25
Barkley, Russell A.
Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center
26
Durlak, Joseph A.
Loyola University New Orleans
27
Duncan, Greg J.
University of California, Irvine
28
Fombonne, Eric J.
Oregon Health & Science University
29
Dahl, Ronald E.
University of California, Berkeley
30
Widom, Cathy Spatz
The City University of New York
31
Dawson, Geraldine
Duke University School of Medicine
32
Phinney, Jean S.
California State University, Los Angeles
33
Lerner, Richard M.
Tufts University
34
Lansford, Jennifer E.
Duke University
35
Kauffman, Daun Howard
Arizona State University
36
Flavell, John H.
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
37
Meltzoff, Andrew N.
UW College of Engineering
38
Schwartz, Seth J.
The University of Texas at Austin
39
Costello, Elizabeth Jane
Keck School of Medicine of USC
40
Tager-Flusberg, Helen B.
Boston University
41
Nelson, Charles A.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
42
Greenberg, Mark T.
Pennsylvania State University
43
Gelman, Susan A.
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
44
Becker, Stephen P.
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
45
Hankin, Benjamin L.
The University of Toledo
46
Siegler, Robert S.
Columbia University
47
Hamby, Sherry L.
Life Paths Research Center
48
Wellman, Henry M.
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
49
Rowe, Meredith L.
Harvard Graduate School of Education
50
Achenbach, Thomas M.
The University of Vermont
51
Tucker-Drob, Elliot M.
The University of Texas at Austin
52
Larson, Reed W.
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
53
Russell, Stephen T.
Arizona State University
54
Gunnar, Megan R.
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
55
Hinshaw, Stephen P.
University of California, Berkeley
56
Feinberg, Mark Ethan
Pennsylvania State University
57
Izard, Carroll E.
University of Delaware
58
F. Widaman, Keith
UC Davis School of Medicine
59
Willcutt, Erik G.
University of Colorado Boulder
60
Baumrind, Diana
University of California, Berkeley
61
Ellis, Bruce J.
The University of Utah
62
Schonert-Reichl, Kimberly A.
University of Illinois at Chicago
63
Waterman, Alan S.
The College of New Jersey
64
Fox, Nathan A.
University of Maryland, College Park
65
Tottenham, Nim T.
Columbia University
66
Thompson, Ross A.
University of California, Davis
67
Shonkoff, Jack P.
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
68
Frick, Paul J.
Louisiana State University
69
Kazak, Anne E.
Nemours Children's Health System
70
Beauchaine, Theodore P.
University of Notre Dame
71
Carlson, Stephanie M.
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
72
Graham, Sandra
University of California, Los Angeles
73
Mandell, David S.
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
74
Prinstein, Mitchell J.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
75
de Los Reyes, Andres
University of Maryland, College Park
76
Fuligni, Andrew J.
University of California, Los Angeles
77
Rothbart, Mary Klevjord
University of Oregon
78
Greenfield, Patricia Marks
University of California, Los Angeles
79
Compas, Bruce E.
Vanderbilt University
80
Deater-Deckard, Kirby D.
University of Massachusetts Amherst
81
Uma˜na-Taylor, Adriana J.
Harvard Graduate School of Education
82
Pennington, Bruce F.
University of Denver
83
Landa, Rebecca J.
Johns Hopkins University
84
Rogers, Sally J.
UC Davis School of Medicine
85
Harden, Kathryn Paige
The University of Texas at Austin
86
Syed, Moin
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
87
Stringaris, Argyrios K.
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
88
Ladd, Gary W.
Arizona State University
89
Odgers, Candice L.
University of California, Irvine
90
Gershoff, Elizabeth Thompson
The University of Texas at Austin
91
Tamis-LeMonda, Catherine S.
New York University
92
Mazurek, Micah O.
University of Virginia
93
Nesi, Jacqueline
The Warren Alpert Medical School
94
Pollak, Seth D.
Waisman Center
95
Gentile, Douglas A.
Iowa State University
96
Adolph, Karen E.
New York University
97
Constantino, John Nicholas
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
98
Sheridan, Margaret A.
College of Arts and Sciences
99
Iverson, Jana M.
Boston University
100
Kochanska, Grazyna
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

433 listed scientists in Developmental & Child Psychology in the United States

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