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

528 researchers in the United States 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: 0.7% of all listed authors in the United States, and 1st of 36 countries in the subfield. 509 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). Stanford University has the most (16), followed by Princeton University (15) and Washington University in St. Louis (13). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors

528

0.7% of all in the United States

In the global top 100,000

509

96.4% of them

Country rank in the subfield

of 36 countries in Experimental Psychology

Highest-ranked

#11

Gross, James J.

#	Institution	Listed authors	Top 100k	Rank worldwide	Highest-ranked author
1	Stanford University	16	16	#1	Gross, James J. #11
2	Princeton University	15	14	#2	Weber, Elke U. #1,624
3	Washington University in St. Louis	13	13	#3	Braver, Todd S. #3,073
4	University of California, Berkeley	13	13	#4	Levenson, Robert Wayne #7,130
5	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	13	13	#5	Federmeier, Kara D. #12,944
6	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	12	12	#6	Rand, David G. #1,100
7	Cornell University	12	12	#7	Pennycook, Gordon #1,397
8	Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences	11	11	#9	Schacter, Daniel L. L. #887
9	Yale University	11	10	#11	Bloom, Paul A. #11,004
10	University of Wisconsin-Madison	10	10	#12	Davidson, Richard J. #644
11	Indiana University Bloomington	10	9	#13	Porges, S. W. #1,544
12	University of California, Los Angeles	10	10	#14	Eisenberger, Naomi I. #3,939
13	New York University	10	10	#15	Carrasco, Marisa #7,672
14	Carnegie Mellon University	9	9	#16	Simon, Herbert A. #459
15	University of California, Irvine	9	9	#17	Thayer, Julian Francis #3,295
16	Vanderbilt University	8	7	#19	Logan, Gordon D. #3,411
17	Northwestern University	8	8	#20	Gentner, Dedre #5,430
18	University of Pennsylvania	8	8	#21	Farah, Martha Jann #6,140
19	University of California, Davis	7	6	#26	Luck, Steven J. #3,151
20	University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences	7	7	#28	Brainard, David H. #4,747
21	Duke University	7	7	#30	Cabeza, Roberto E. #6,672
22	Northeastern University	7	7	#32	Peelle, Jonathan E. #22,111
23	Johns Hopkins University	7	7	#33	Yantis, Steven #33,806
24	University of Oregon	6	6	#37	Rueda, M Rosario I. #1,017
25	The University of Chicago	6	6	#38	Hawkley, Louise C. #2,184
26	Harvard University	6	6	#39	Phelps, Elizabeth A. #3,171
27	Columbia University	6	6	#40	Ochsner, Kevin Nicholas #4,294
28	University of California, San Diego	6	6	#41	Rumelhart, David E. #4,713
29	University of California, Santa Barbara	6	6	#42	Hegarty, Mary #6,341
30	University of Rochester	6	6	#47	Jaeger, T. Florian #19,245
31	University of Virginia	5	5	#50	Salthouse, Timothy A. #1,529
32	College of Liberal Arts and Sciences	5	5	#51	Bradley, Margaret M. #5,152
33	University of Colorado Boulder	5	5	#52	Kintsch, Walter #10,395
34	Tufts University	5	4	#55	Jackendoff, Ray #20,273
35	The University of Texas at Austin	5	4	#57	Legare, Cristine H. #30,822
36	Arizona State University	5	4	#60	Shiota, Michelle N. #40,468
37	The Ohio State University	4	4	#63	Ratcliff, Roger #1,825
38	Department of Cognitive Science	4	4	#64	Elman, Jeffrey Locke #3,372
39	Georgia Institute of Technology	4	4	#65	Engle, Randall W. #3,377
40	University of Southern California	4	4	#66	Bechara, Antoine #3,759
41	Emory University	4	4	#67	Fivush, Robyn #5,715
42	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	4	4	#71	Swets, John A. #12,620
43	University of Minnesota Twin Cities	4	4	#78	Stoffregen, Thomas A. #47,355
44	Department of Psychology	3	3	#80	Rayner, Keith #578
45	University of Missouri	3	3	#81	Cowan, Nelson #1,062
46	Florida State University	3	3	#84	Ericsson, Karl Anders #2,886
47	University of Washington	3	3	#85	Kuhl, Patricia K. #4,589
48	Brandeis University	3	3	#86	Lachman, Margie E. #5,502
49	Brown University	3	3	#87	Frank, Michael Joshua #5,644
50	College of Health and Human Sciences	3	3	#91	Karpicke, Jeffrey D. #8,229
51	Wu Tsai Institute	3	2	#98	Aslin, Richard N. #14,362
52	Rutgers University Center for Cognitive Science	3	2	#108	Fodor, Jerry A. #28,217
53	University of Iowa	3	3	#112	Hoffman, Lesa R. #34,655
54	University of California, Riverside	3	3	#116	Seitz, Aaron R. #71,957
55	Stony Brook University	3	3	#117	Proudfit, Greg Hajcak #82,067

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

1
Gross, James J.
Stanford University
2
Kahneman, Daniel
Princeton School of Public and International AffairsNobel laureate
3
Feldman Barrett, Lisa Feldman
Harvard Medical School
4
Simon, Herbert A.
Carnegie Mellon UniversityNobel laureate
5
Rayner, Keith
Department of Psychology
6
Davidson, Richard J.
University of Wisconsin-Madison
7
Carstensen, Laura L.
Stanford University
8
Schacter, Daniel L. L.
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
9
Adolphs, Ralph
Division of Biology and Biological Engineering
10
Rueda, M Rosario I.
University of Oregon
11
Cowan, Nelson
University of Missouri
12
Rand, David G.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
13
Pennycook, Gordon
Cornell University
14
Salthouse, Timothy A.
University of Virginia
15
Porges, S. W.
Indiana University Bloomington
16
Weber, Elke U.
Princeton University
17
Ratcliff, Roger
The Ohio State University
18
Cohen, Jonathan D.
Princeton University
19
Hawkley, Louise C.
The University of Chicago
20
Tenenbaum, Joshua B.B.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
21
Gershman, Samuel J.
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
22
Anderson, John Robert
Carnegie Mellon University
23
Ericsson, Karl Anders
Florida State University
24
Braver, Todd S.
Washington University in St. Louis
25
Wolfe, Jeremy M.
Harvard Medical School
26
Luck, Steven J.
University of California, Davis
27
Phelps, Elizabeth A.
Harvard University
28
Griffiths, Thomas L.
Princeton University
29
Thayer, Julian Francis
University of California, Irvine
30
Oliva, Aude
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
31
Lang, Peter J.
University of Florida
32
Roediger, Henry L.I.
Washington University in St. Louis
33
Elman, Jeffrey Locke
Department of Cognitive Science
34
Engle, Randall W.
Georgia Institute of Technology
35
Logan, Gordon D.
Vanderbilt University
36
Geary, David Cyril
University of Missouri
37
Pessoa, Luiz A.
University of Maryland, College Park
38
Bechara, Antoine
University of Southern California
39
Kruschke, John K.
Indiana University Bloomington
40
Chomsky, Noam
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
41
Creswell, John David
Carnegie Mellon University
42
Eisenberger, Naomi I.
University of California, Los Angeles
43
Polich, John M.
Scripps Research Institute
44
Loftus, Elizabeth F.
University of California, Irvine
45
Patel, Aniruddh D.
Broad Institute
46
Ochsner, Kevin Nicholas
Columbia University
47
Kuhl, Patricia K.
University of Washington
48
Rumelhart, David E.
University of California, San Diego
49
Brainard, David H.
University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences
50
Mather, Mara M.
University of Southern California
51
Zaki, Jamil
Stanford University
52
Spelke, Elizabeth S.
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
53
Cuthbert, Bruce N.
National Institute of Mental Health
54
Goldin-Meadow, Susan
The University of Chicago
55
Bradley, Margaret M.
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
56
Gentner, Dedre
Northwestern University
57
Lachman, Margie E.
Brandeis University
58
Frank, Michael Joshua
Brown University
59
Fivush, Robyn
Emory University
60
Wulf, Gabriele
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
61
Perfetti, Charles A.
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
62
Abdi, Hervé
The University of Texas at Dallas
63
Greene, Joshua D.
Harvard University
64
McClelland, James L.
Stanford University
65
Farah, Martha Jann
University of Pennsylvania
66
Pashler, Harold E.
University of California, San Diego
67
Yonelinas, Andrew P.
University of California, Davis
68
Hegarty, Mary
University of California, Santa Barbara
69
Gabrieli, John D.E.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
70
Cabeza, Roberto E.
Duke University
71
Gibbs, Raymond W.
Independent Cognitive Scientist
72
Zacks, Jeffrey M.
Washington University in St. Louis
73
Lieberman, Matthew D.
University of California, Los Angeles
74
Schooler, Jonathan W.
University of California, Santa Barbara
75
Hickok, Gregory S.
University of California, Irvine
76
Levenson, Robert Wayne
University of California, Berkeley
77
Clark, Herbert H.
Stanford University
78
Rouder, Jeffrey N.
University of California, Irvine
79
Niv, Yael
Princeton University
80
Lindquist, Kristen A.
The Ohio State University
81
Egner, Tobias
Duke University
82
Carrasco, Marisa
New York University
83
Levy, Roger P.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
84
Wixted, John T.
University of California, San Diego
85
Kensinger, Elizabeth A.
Boston College
86
Saxe, Rebecca R.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
87
Karpicke, Jeffrey D.
College of Health and Human Sciences
88
Rubin, David C.
Duke University
89
Andrews-Hanna, Jessica R.
College of Science
90
Crockett, Molly J.
Princeton University
91
Carey, Susan E.
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
92
Unsworth, Nash
University of Oregon
93
Pelli, Denis G.
New York University
94
Cushman, Fiery A.
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
95
Fedorenko, Evelina G.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
96
Todorov, Alexander T.
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
97
Frank, Michael C.
Stanford University
98
Gopnik, Alison
University of California, Berkeley
99
Goldberg, Adele E.
Princeton University
100
Somerville, Leah H.
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences

528 listed scientists in Experimental Psychology in the United States

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