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

729 researchers in the United States whose main subfield is Psychiatry are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list: 1.0% of all listed authors in the United States, and 1st of 57 countries in the subfield. 607 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). Massachusetts General Hospital has the most (25), followed by Harvard Medical School (21) and Yale School of Medicine (18). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors

729

1.0% of all in the United States

In the global top 100,000

607

83.3% of them

Country rank in the subfield

of 57 countries in Psychiatry

Highest-ranked

#27

Kessler, Ronald C.

#	Institution	Listed authors	Top 100k	Rank worldwide	Highest-ranked author
1	Massachusetts General Hospital	25	22	#2	Fava, Maurizio #2,613
2	Harvard Medical School	21	20	#3	Torous, John Blake #3,499
3	Yale School of Medicine	18	16	#5	Potenza, Marc Nicholas #2,128
4	University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine	14	11	#10	Kupfer, David Jerome #4,682
5	New York State Psychiatric Institute	13	11	#11	Weissman, Myrna M. #6,366
6	University of California, San Diego	12	11	#13	Palinkas, Lawrence Albert #2,127
7	National Institute of Mental Health	12	12	#14	Merikangas, Kathleen Ries #6,625
8	Stanford University School of Medicine	11	8	#15	Insel, Thomas M. #1,679
9	Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	11	10	#16	Charney, Dennis S. #4,733
10	Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine	10	8	#18	Weinberger, Daniel R. #5,317
11	Emory University School of Medicine	9	8	#21	Miller, Andrew H. #2,077
12	Mailman School of Public Health	9	8	#22	Fleiss, Joseph L. #2,227
13	UNC School of Medicine	9	7	#23	Sullivan, Patrick F. #2,659
14	Stanford University	9	7	#25	Gotlib, Ian H. #5,202
15	University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine	9	6	#26	Gur, Raquel E. #14,331
16	NYU Grossman School of Medicine	9	9	#28	Hoagwood, Kimberly Eaton #26,206
17	Columbia University Irving Medical Center	8	8	#33	First, Michael B. #4,132
18	Columbia University	7	7	#38	Bonanno, George A. #599
19	Jane & Terry Semel Institute for Neuroscience & Human Behavior	7	5	#39	Irwin, Michael R. #660
20	UCSF School of Medicine	7	6	#40	Carhart-Harris, Robin Lester #835
21	Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons	7	4	#41	Olfson, Mark #2,516
22	Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health	7	6	#45	Saxena, Shekhar #5,189
23	McLean Hospital	7	7	#47	Teicher, Martin Hersch #8,733
24	Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis	7	6	#48	Cloninger, Claude Robert #8,903
25	Duke University	6	6	#51	Moffitt, Terrie Edith #339
26	Duke University Medical Center	6	5	#53	Koenig, Harold George #1,178
27	UT Southwestern Medical Center	6	6	#55	Trivedi, Madhukar H. #5,062
28	University of Washington School of Medicine	6	5	#56	Katon, Wayne J. #6,132
29	Wayne State University	6	5	#59	Stack, Steven John #26,774
30	University of California, Los Angeles	5	5	#61	Slavich, George M. #2,438
31	University of Minnesota Twin Cities	5	4	#63	Krueger, Robert Frank #2,969
32	VA Medical Center	5	4	#65	Yehuda, Rachel #3,769
33	University of California, San Francisco	5	5	#67	Epel, Elissa S. #5,070
34	The Ohio State University	5	5	#68	Kiecolt-Glaser, Janice K. #5,531
35	University of Pennsylvania	5	3	#69	Raine, Adrian #8,805
36	Baylor College of Medicine	5	5	#71	Storch, Eric Alan #23,608
37	University of Rochester Medical Center	5	5	#76	Pigeon, Wilfred R.R. #47,938
38	David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA	5	3	#78	Gitlin, Michael J. #57,764
39	Weill Cornell Medicine	5	3	#79	Leon, Andrew C. #58,065
40	Silver School of Social Work	4	4	#83	Cloitre, Marylène #3,207
41	University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine	4	4	#86	Andreasen, Nancy C. #3,631
42	Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health	4	4	#90	Mojtabai, Ramin #7,005
43	Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth	4	4	#94	Sateia, Michael J. #12,104
44	Stony Brook University	4	4	#95	Bromet, Evelyn J. #12,239
45	Yale University	4	4	#97	Cannon, Tyrone D. #15,554
46	VA Boston Healthcare System	4	2	#104	Weathers, Frank W. #26,611
47	Duke University School of Medicine	4	4	#105	Resick, Patricia A. #27,267
48	Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research	4	4	#106	Hamilton, Max #28,014
49	Emory University	4	4	#109	Westen, Drew I. #31,768
50	Department of Psychiatry	4	3	#12	Dimsdale, Joel E. #40,654
51	University of Michigan Medical School	4	3	#112	Sen, Srijan #45,673
52	Mayo Clinic	4	4	#116	Frye, Mark A. #80,387
53	Harvard University	3	3	#118	Kessler, Ronald C. #27
54	University of Oregon	3	2	#120	McLaughlin, Katie A. #495
55	University of California, Irvine	3	3	#122	Pizzagalli, Diego A. #1,849
56	Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine	3	3	#128	Mohr, David C. #6,295
57	VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System	3	2	#130	Green, Michael F. #8,530
58	College of Medicine	3	2	#93	Sackeim, Harold A. #8,667
59	Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine	3	3	#134	Litz, Brett T. #11,066
60	Northwestern University	3	2	#140	Miller, Gregory E. #19,097
61	Florida State University College of Medicine	3	2	#141	Sutin, Angelina R. #19,134
62	University of California, Davis	3	2	#147	Carter, Cameron S. #21,975
63	The Warren Alpert Medical School	3	3	#151	Keller, Martin B. #25,884
64	University of Cincinnati College of Medicine	3	3	#152	McElroy, Susan L. #27,641
65	Yale Child Study Center	3	2	#153	Bloch, Michael Howard #28,721
66	Huntsman Mental Health Institute	3	2	#159	Shabalin, Andrey A. #32,852
67	Albert Einstein College of Medicine	3	2	#163	Hollander, Eric #39,589
68	Cambridge Health Alliance	3	2	#165	Herman, Judith Lewis #40,673
69	Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University	3	2	#168	Abi-Dargham, Anissa #42,987
70	Brigham and Women's Hospital	3	3	#170	Wang, Patrick Shen Pei #47,560
71	Medical College of Georgia	3	2	#171	McCall, W. V. #47,701
72	University of Virginia School of Medicine	3	3	#172	Greyson, Bruce #48,676
73	University of Utah School of Medicine	3	1	#175	Yurgelun-Todd, Deborah A. #56,675
74	University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston	3	1	#181	Soares, Jair C. #78,052
75	University of Cincinnati	3	2	#183	Sweeney, John A. #83,430

The top 100 in Psychiatry in the United States, in order

1
Kessler, Ronald C.
Harvard University
2
Cohen, Jacob
New York University
3
Hobfoll, Stevan E.
Anxiety-Resilience
4
Moffitt, Terrie Edith
Duke University
5
Nock, Matthew K.
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
6
Patel, Vikram Harshad
Harvard University
7
McLaughlin, Katie A.
University of Oregon
8
Corrigan, Patrick William
RTI International
9
Faraone, Stephen V.
SUNY Upstate Medical University
10
Kendler, Kenneth S.
Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics
11
Bonanno, George A.
Columbia University
12
Irwin, Michael R.
Jane & Terry Semel Institute for Neuroscience & Human Behavior
13
Carhart-Harris, Robin Lester
UCSF School of Medicine
14
Spitzer, Robert L.
American Psychiatric Association
15
Borenstein, Michael T.
Biostat, Inc
16
Koenig, Harold George
Duke University Medical Center
17
Nemeroff, Charles B.
Dell Medical School
18
Insel, Thomas M.
Stanford University School of Medicine
19
Pizzagalli, Diego A.
University of California, Irvine
20
Barch, Deanna M.
Washington University in St. Louis
21
Miller, Andrew H.
Emory University School of Medicine
22
Ohayon, Maurice Moyses
Stanford University School of Medicine
23
Palinkas, Lawrence Albert
University of California, San Diego
24
Potenza, Marc Nicholas
Yale School of Medicine
25
Fleiss, Joseph L.
Mailman School of Public Health
26
Slavich, George M.
University of California, Los Angeles
27
Olfson, Mark
Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
28
Fava, Maurizio
Massachusetts General Hospital
29
Sullivan, Patrick F.
UNC School of Medicine
30
Drevets, Wayne Curtis
Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development, Raritan
31
Keyes, Katherine M.
Mailman School of Public Health
32
Aarons, Gregory A.
University of California, San Diego
33
Caspi, Avshalom
Duke University
34
Krueger, Robert Frank
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
35
Williams, Janet B.W.
Columbia University Department of Psychiatry
36
Harvey, Philip D.
Miami VA Healthcare System
37
Cloitre, Marylène
Silver School of Social Work
38
Liu, Richard T.
Massachusetts General Hospital
39
Torous, John Blake
Harvard Medical School
40
Smoller, Jordan Wassertheil
Massachusetts General Hospital
41
Paulus, Martin P.
Laureate Institute for Brain Research
42
Andreasen, Nancy C.
University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine
43
Yehuda, Rachel
VA Medical Center
44
Stein, Murray B.
University of California, San Diego
45
Shrout, Patrick E.
New York University
46
Johnson, Matthew W.
Sheppard Pratt Center of Excellence in Psilocybin Research and Treatment
47
First, Michael B.
Columbia University Irving Medical Center
48
Biederman, Joseph B.
Massachusetts General Hospital
49
Jeste, Dilip V.
Social Determinants of Health Network
50
van der Kolk, Bessel A.
Trauma Research Foundation
51
Kupfer, David Jerome
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
52
Charney, Dennis S.
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
53
Kraemer, Helena Chmura
Stanford University School of Medicine
54
Hoek, Hans Wijbrand
Mailman School of Public Health
55
Kleinman, Arthur M.
Harvard University
56
Blair, Richard James Richard
Boys Town National Research Hospital
57
Trivedi, Madhukar H.
UT Southwestern Medical Center
58
Epel, Elissa S.
University of California, San Francisco
59
Saxena, Shekhar
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
60
Gotlib, Ian H.
Stanford University
61
Eisenberg, Daniel
UCLA Fielding School of Public Health
62
Perlis, Roy Howard
Massachusetts General Hospital
63
Weinberger, Daniel R.
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
64
Krystal, John Harrison
Yale School of Medicine
65
Kiecolt-Glaser, Janice K.
The Ohio State University
66
Thase, Michael Edward
VA Medical Center
67
Stahl, Stephen M.
UCR School of Medicine
68
Katon, Wayne J.
University of Washington School of Medicine
69
Mohr, David C.
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
70
Alexopoulos, George S.
Weill Cornell Institute of Geriatric Psychiatry
71
Weissman, Myrna M.
New York State Psychiatric Institute
72
Kahn, René S.
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
73
Yesavage, Jérome Albert
Stanford University
74
Merikangas, Kathleen Ries
National Institute of Mental Health
75
Zimmerman, Mark A.
South County Psychiatry
76
Mann, Joseph John
New York State Psychiatric Institute
77
Appelbaum, Paul S.
Columbia University Irving Medical Center
78
Williams, Leanne M.
Stanford University School of Medicine
79
Mojtabai, Ramin
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
80
Brent, David A.
UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital
81
Zung, William W.K.
Duke University Medical Center
82
George, Mark S.
Medical University of South Carolina
83
Krystal, Andrew D.
UCSF School of Medicine
84
Etkin, Amit
Alto Neuroscience Inc
85
Fava, Giovanni Andrea
Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
86
Shear, Mary Katherine M.
Columbia University
87
Reynolds, Charles F.
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
88
Tiemeier, H. W.
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
89
Ressler, Kerry James
Harvard Medical School
90
Green, Michael F.
VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System
91
Grant, Jon Edgar Mail
The University of Chicago
92
Sackeim, Harold A.
College of Medicine
93
Lieberman, Jeffrey Alan
Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
94
Teicher, Martin Hersch
McLean Hospital
95
Raine, Adrian
University of Pennsylvania
96
Cloninger, Claude Robert
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
97
Griffiths, Roland R.
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
98
Blazer, Dan G.
Duke University Medical Center
99
Sharp, Carla
University of Houston
100
Nesse, Randolph M.
Arizona State University

729 listed scientists in Psychiatry in the United States

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