Top institutions in the United States for Psychology & Cognitive Sciences

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2,211 researchers in the United States whose main field is Psychology & Cognitive Sciences are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list: 3.0% of all listed authors in the United States, and 1st of 61 countries in the field. 1,927 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 (57), followed by University of California, Los Angeles (43) and Stanford University (41). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors

2,211

3.0% of all in the United States

In the global top 100,000

1,927

87.2% of them

Country rank in the field

of 61 countries in Psychology & Cognitive Sciences

Highest-ranked

Bandura, Albert

#	Institution	Listed authors	Top 100k	Rank worldwide	Highest-ranked author
1	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	57	48	#1	Kaplan, Stephen #1,903
2	University of California, Los Angeles	43	40	#2	Lord, Catherine E. #1,673
3	Stanford University	41	40	#3	Bandura, Albert #4
4	University of Minnesota Twin Cities	39	38	#4	Masten, Ann S. #280
5	Arizona State University	37	30	#5	Eisenberg, Nancy #1,382
6	University of California, Berkeley	35	32	#6	Lazarus, Richard S. #508
7	Columbia University	33	30	#8	Higgins, E. Tory #348
8	University of Wisconsin-Madison	33	30	#9	Ryff, Carol Diane S. #530
9	New York University	31	27	#10	Jost, John T. #385
10	Cornell University	31	27	#11	Sternberg, Robert J. #614
11	Yale University	29	28	#13	Tyler, Tom R. #393
12	University of California, Davis	29	26	#14	Belsky, J. #1,447
13	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	29	29	#15	Triandis, Harry C. #1,644
14	University of Maryland, College Park	29	19	#16	Lent, Robert W. #1,708
15	Northwestern University	28	26	#17	Eagly, Alice H. #225
16	University of California, Irvine	26	23	#19	Eccles, Jaquelynne S. #278
17	Carnegie Mellon University	26	25	#20	Simon, Herbert A. #459
18	Princeton University	25	24	#23	Fiske, Susan T. #194
19	The University of Texas at Austin	25	22	#24	Neff, Kristin D. #513
20	University of Washington	24	20	#25	Greenwald, Anthony G. #1,355
21	University of Virginia	23	22	#26	Diener, Edward #26
22	Pennsylvania State University	22	19	#29	Greenberg, Mark T. #7,102
23	Indiana University Bloomington	21	16	#30	Porges, S. W. #1,544
24	The Ohio State University	21	20	#31	Ratcliff, Roger #1,825
25	Harvard University	20	17	#32	Henrich, Joseph #333
26	Washington University in St. Louis	20	19	#33	Braver, Todd S. #3,073
27	University of Rochester	19	17	#34	Deci, Edward L. #43
28	University of Pennsylvania	19	17	#37	Foa, Edna B. #2,830
29	University of Colorado Boulder	19	16	#38	Willcutt, Erik G. #9,698
30	Duke University	18	18	#39	Tomasello, Michael #612
31	Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences	18	18	#40	Schacter, Daniel L. L. #887
32	Vanderbilt University	18	16	#41	Logan, Gordon D. #3,411
33	University of California, Santa Barbara	18	17	#42	Hegarty, Mary #6,341
34	College of Liberal Arts and Sciences	17	15	#43	Anderson, Craig A. #4,044
35	Michigan State University	16	14	#44	Lucas, Richard E. #1,772
36	University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences	15	14	#47	Seligman, Martin E.P. #291
37	University of Southern California	15	14	#48	Schwarz, Norbert #971
38	University of Oregon	14	12	#52	McLaughlin, Katie A. #495
39	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	14	13	#53	Rand, David G. #1,100
40	Florida State University	14	13	#54	Joiner, Thomas Ellis #2,153
41	University of California, San Diego	13	12	#59	McCullough, Michael E. #4,703
42	Boston College	13	10	#60	Kensinger, Elizabeth A. #7,966
43	Emory University	12	10	#62	Keyes, Corey Lee M. #429
44	University of Connecticut	12	11	#63	Kenny, David A. #932
45	University of Missouri	12	9	#64	Cowan, Nelson #1,062
46	The University of Chicago	12	11	#65	Hawkley, Louise C. #2,184
47	George Mason University	12	12	#67	Kashdan, Todd Barrett #2,457
48	Stony Brook University	12	12	#68	Klein, Daniel N. #22,994
49	University of Kansas	11	11	#70	Snyder, Charles Rick #2,896
50	University of Massachusetts Amherst	10	10	#76	Ajzen, Icek #7
51	University of Denver	10	9	#83	Pennington, Bruce F. #11,914
52	Temple University	9	8	#86	Steinberg, Laurence #341
53	College of Arts and Sciences	9	8	#87	Carver, Charles S. #356
54	Brigham Young University	9	8	#88	Holt-Lunstad, Julianne #872
55	University of California, Riverside	9	9	#90	Rosenthal, Robert #1,603
56	Tufts University	9	8	#94	Lerner, Richard M. #5,565
57	University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine	9	7	#95	Perfetti, Charles A. #5,829
58	Johns Hopkins University	9	8	#97	Landa, Rebecca J. #12,647
59	The University of Arizona	9	8	#99	Segrin, Chris G. #20,763
60	University of Notre Dame	8	8	#101	Watson, David B. #516
61	University of California, Santa Cruz	8	8	#102	Pettigrew, Thomas Fraser #1,191
62	Boston University	8	7	#104	Barlow, David Harrison #2,555
63	Georgia Institute of Technology	8	8	#106	Engle, Randall W. #3,377
64	Brown University	8	6	#108	Malle, Bertram F. #5,358
65	Rutgers University–New Brunswick	8	7	#110	Rudman, Laurie A. #8,470
66	University of Delaware	8	7	#111	Izard, Carroll E. #9,614
67	Harvard Medical School	7	5	#114	Feldman Barrett, Lisa Feldman #174
68	University of California, San Francisco	7	5	#115	Ekman, Paul #396
69	The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	7	7	#117	Sheeran, Paschal J. #1,291
70	University of Georgia	7	7	#107	Campbell, William Keith #3,651
71	Stanford Graduate School of Business	7	7	#120	Gelfand, Michèle Joy #4,410
72	Harvard Business School	7	7	#122	Gino, Francesca #5,652
73	University of Kentucky	7	7	#127	Widiger, Thomas A. #9,680
74	Northeastern University	7	7	#129	Hall, Judith A. #12,692
75	Kellogg School of Management Northwestern University	7	7	#130	Rucker, Derek D. #14,215
76	NC State University	7	4	#138	Byrd, Christy M. #37,708
77	University of Pittsburgh	7	5	#139	Silk, Jennifer S. #50,239
78	Oregon Research Institute	6	5	#141	Slovic, Paul #577
79	Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania	6	6	#144	Duckworth, Angela Lee #1,794
80	Department of Cognitive Science	6	6	#146	Elman, Jeffrey Locke #3,372
81	David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA	6	6	#147	Craske, Michelle G. #3,452
82	UW College of Engineering	6	4	#151	Meltzoff, Andrew N. #6,830
83	The University of Utah	6	5	#154	Uchino, Bert N. #7,446
84	Santa Clara University	6	6	#155	Hajcak, Greg #10,078
85	Purdue University	6	6	#156	Lynam, Donald R. #11,039
86	The Graduate Center	6	4	#158	Nadal, Kevin Leo Yabut #11,307
87	Texas A&M University	6	6	#159	Morey, L. C. #14,984
88	University of Houston	6	5	#161	Allan, Blake A. #19,979
89	State University of New York Albany	6	6	#162	Muraven, Mark B. #21,465
90	Georgia State University	6	4	#165	Bakeman, Roger A. #23,806
91	School of Computer Science	6	3	#168	Zimmerman, John #36,986
92	The University of New Mexico	6	4	#169	Grubbs, Joshua B. #39,258
93	Clark University	5	5	#172	Arnett, Jeffrey Jensen #265
94	Claremont Graduate University	5	5	#175	Hogg, Michael A. #860
95	The University of North Carolina at Greensboro	5	4	#176	Silvia, Paul J. #1,180
96	University of Florida	5	4	#178	Lang, Peter J. #3,326
97	The University of Chicago Booth School of Business	5	5	#179	Epley, Nicholas #4,597
98	The City University of New York	5	4	#180	Widom, Cathy Spatz #4,982
99	Stanford Graduate School of Education	5	5	#181	Cohen, Geoffrey L. #5,330
100	College of Science	5	5	#184	Andrews-Hanna, Jessica R. #8,367
101	University of Illinois at Chicago	5	5	#186	Schonert-Reichl, Kimberly A. #9,842
102	Google LLC	5	4	#187	Morris, Meredith Ringel #10,191
103	Georgetown University	5	5	#190	Ullman, Michael T. #12,415
104	University of Utah, College of Social and Behavioral Science	5	4	#192	Diamond, Lisa M. #13,501
105	University of North Texas	5	4	#198	Parsons, Thomas D. #18,420
106	Fordham University	5	5	#200	Budescu, David V. #19,714
107	Loyola University Chicago	5	4	#202	Bryant, Fred B. #23,197
108	University of South Florida, Tampa	5	5	#204	Donchin, Emanuel #26,525
109	Vanderbilt University Medical Center	5	4	#205	Taylor, Julie Lounds #28,950
110	University of Iowa	5	5	#207	Hoffman, Lesa R. #34,655
111	University of Washington School of Medicine	5	4	#208	Sibley, Margaret H. #35,673
112	Utah State University	5	3	#209	Twohig, Michael P. #36,621
113	Drexel University	5	5	#210	Vivanti, Giacomo #44,082
114	Florida International University	5	4	#213	Comer, Jonathan S. #51,689
115	San Diego State University	4	4	#215	Twenge, Jean M. #368
116	National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)	4	4	#218	Bornstein, Marc H. #1,555
117	Iowa State University	4	4	#222	Russell, Daniel Wayne #2,670
118	Texas Tech University	4	2	#225	Little, Todd D. #3,563
119	University of Nebraska–Lincoln	4	4	#226	Neimeyer, Robert A. #4,194
120	Donald Bren School of Information & Computer Sciences	4	3	#227	Dourish, Paul #4,748
121	Duke University School of Medicine	4	4	#228	Dawson, Geraldine #4,990
122	Brandeis University	4	4	#231	Lachman, Margie E. #5,502
123	University of Massachusetts Boston	4	4	#235	Levitt, Heidi M. #7,293
124	Harvard Graduate School of Education	4	4	#237	Rowe, Meredith L. #8,131
125	The University of Vermont	4	3	#238	Achenbach, Thomas M. #8,171
126	Virginia Commonwealth University	4	3	#239	Worthington, Everett L. #8,965
127	Binghamton University State University of New York	4	4	#242	Wilson, David Sloan #12,693
128	University of Nevada, Reno	4	2	#244	Jones, Daniel Nelson #15,150
129	Oregon State University	4	3	#246	Segerstrom, Suzanne C. #16,407
130	New Mexico State University	4	4	#247	Stephan, Walter G. #19,095
131	Stanford Engineering	4	3	#248	Bernstein, Michael S. #19,596
132	Massachusetts General Hospital	4	1	#249	Kuperberg, Gina R. #19,626
133	Stanford University School of Medicine	4	4	#250	Hammack, Phillip L. #20,709
134	Emory University School of Medicine	4	3	#259	Klin, Ami J. #28,791
135	Yale School of Medicine	4	2	#260	Brackett, Marc A. #32,811
136	Oklahoma State University	4	2	#261	Morris, Amanda Sheffield #33,240
137	Columbia Business School	4	4	#262	Matz, Sandra C. #34,279
138	The Department of Psychology, The University of Chicago	4	4	#265	Keysar, Boaz #35,243
139	Colorado State University	4	1	#271	Rhodes, Matthew G. #51,980
140	University of Louisville	4	2	#273	Bresin, Konrad #52,854
141	University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine	3	2	#276	Beck, Aaron T. #236
142	Leonard N. Stern School of Business	3	3	#279	Haidt, Jonathan #451
143	Department of Psychology	3	3	#281	Rayner, Keith #578
144	University of Central Florida	3	3	#287	Hancock, Peter Adrien #3,191
145	The University of Toledo	3	3	#289	Gratz, Kim L. #4,180
146	Fuqua School of Business	3	3	#290	Ariely, Dan #4,543
147	University at Buffalo, The State University of New York	3	2	#291	Green, Melanie C. #5,553
148	The University of Texas at Dallas	3	3	#294	Abdi, Hervé #5,988
149	UW-Madison College of Engineering	3	2	#295	Carayon, Pascale #6,778
150	University of South Carolina	3	3	#296	Huebner, Eugene Scott #7,205
151	Weill Cornell Medicine	3	3	#298	Kernberg, Otto Friedmann #7,916
152	College of Health and Human Sciences	3	3	#300	Karpicke, Jeffrey D. #8,229
153	The College of New Jersey	3	3	#303	Waterman, Alan S. #9,863
154	Wake Forest University	3	3	#309	Fleeson, William #12,274
155	Barnard College	3	2	#313	Beilock, Sian L. #13,440
156	UCSF School of Medicine	3	2	#314	Nagata, Jason M. #13,740
157	The Warren Alpert Medical School	3	3	#316	Nesi, Jacqueline #14,134
158	Wu Tsai Institute	3	2	#317	Aslin, Richard N. #14,362
159	Indiana University	3	2	#318	Goldstone, Robert L. #14,389
160	Illinois State University	3	2	#319	Sprecher, Susan #14,639
161	Claremont McKenna College	3	3	#324	Halpern, Diane F. #15,908
162	University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)	3	2	#327	Isen, Alice M. #17,073
163	Oakland University	3	2	#330	Zeigler-Hill, Virgil #19,502
164	University of South Florida	3	2	#331	Thompson, Joel Kevin #20,259
165	The University of Tennessee, Knoxville	3	3	#338	Szymanski, Dawn M. #22,923
166	Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis	3	3	#343	Luby, Joan L. #27,041
167	Baylor University	3	2	#345	Tsang, Jo-Ann Ann C. #27,789
168	Rutgers University Center for Cognitive Science	3	2	#346	Fodor, Jerry A. #28,217
169	Clemson University	3	2	#349	Freeman, Guo #28,524
170	Adelphi University	3	2	#351	Bornstein, Robert F. #32,404
171	The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center	3	3	#353	Arnold, Lawrence Eugene #33,748
172	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	3	3	#354	Ollendick, Thomas H. #34,057
173	University of Cincinnati	3	2	#356	Chemero, Anthony P. #36,501
174	Pace University	3	2	#358	Rosenthal, Lisa #37,490
175	Kent State University	3	3	#359	Dunlosky, John T. #39,394
176	University of Richmond	3	2	#363	Forsyth, Donelson R. #42,670
177	Department of Comparative Human Development, The University of Chicago	3	2	#365	Rogers, Leoandra Onnie #44,390
178	Google DeepMind	3	3	#216	Cai, Carrie Jun #59,375
179	Sanford Health	3	3	#376	Crosby, Ross D. #69,991
180	Baskin School of Engineering	3	0	#385	Isbister, Katherine #102,918

The top 100 in Psychology & Cognitive Sciences in the United States, in order

1
Bandura, Albert
Stanford University
2
Ajzen, Icek
University of Massachusetts Amherst
3
Gross, James J.
Stanford University
4
Diener, Edward
University of Virginia
5
Deci, Edward L.
University of Rochester
6
Fredrickson, Barbara L.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
7
Kahneman, Daniel
Princeton School of Public and International AffairsNobel laureate
8
Hobfoll, Stevan E.
Anxiety-Resilience
9
Feldman Barrett, Lisa Feldman
Harvard Medical School
10
Fiske, Susan T.
Princeton University
11
Eagly, Alice H.
Northwestern University
12
Beck, Aaron T.
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
13
Arnett, Jeffrey Jensen
Clark University
14
Eccles, Jaquelynne S.
University of California, Irvine
15
Masten, Ann S.
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
16
Dweck, Carol Sorich
Stanford University
17
Seligman, Martin E.P.
University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences
18
Henrich, Joseph
Harvard University
19
Steinberg, Laurence
Temple University
20
Higgins, E. Tory
Columbia University
21
Carver, Charles S.
College of Arts and Sciences
22
Cacioppo, John T.
Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience
23
Twenge, Jean M.
San Diego State University
24
Jost, John T.
New York University
25
Tyler, Tom R.
Yale University
26
Ekman, Paul
University of California, San Francisco
27
Nolen-Hoeksema, Susan
Yale University
28
Keyes, Corey Lee M.
Emory University
29
Haidt, Jonathan
Leonard N. Stern School of Business
30
Simon, Herbert A.
Carnegie Mellon UniversityNobel laureate
31
McLaughlin, Katie A.
University of Oregon
32
Lazarus, Richard S.
University of California, Berkeley
33
Neff, Kristin D.
The University of Texas at Austin
34
Watson, David B.
University of Notre Dame
35
Loewenstein, George F.
Carnegie Mellon University
36
Ryff, Carol Diane S.
University of Wisconsin-Madison
37
Elliot, Andrew J.
University of Rochester
38
Slovic, Paul
Oregon Research Institute
39
Rayner, Keith
Department of Psychology
40
Bonanno, George A.
Columbia University
41
Tomasello, Michael
Duke University
42
Sternberg, Robert J.
Cornell University
43
Leary, Mark R.
Duke University
44
Davidson, Richard J.
University of Wisconsin-Madison
45
Rutter, Sir Michael
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
46
Endsley, Mica R.
SA Technologies Inc
47
Carstensen, Laura L.
Stanford University
48
McCrae, Robert R.
University of Baltimore
49
Keltner, Dacher J.
University of California, Berkeley
50
Hogg, Michael A.
Claremont Graduate University
51
Holt-Lunstad, Julianne
Brigham Young University
52
Schacter, Daniel L. L.
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
53
Pennebaker, James W.
The University of Texas at Austin
54
Kenny, David A.
University of Connecticut
55
Adolphs, Ralph
Division of Biology and Biological Engineering
56
Schwarz, Norbert
University of Southern California
57
Park, Crystal L.
University of Connecticut
58
Rueda, M Rosario I.
University of Oregon
59
Hayes, Steven C.
University of Nevada
60
McNally, Richard J.
Harvard University
61
Cowan, Nelson
University of Missouri
62
Hagger, Martin S.
UC Merced
63
Rand, David G.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
64
Nosek, Brian A.
Center for Open Science
65
Maslach, Christina
University of California, Berkeley
66
Folkman, Susan
University of California, San Francisco
67
Cicchetti, Dante
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
68
Silvia, Paul J.
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
69
Pettigrew, Thomas Fraser
University of California, Santa Cruz
70
Finkelhor, David
University of New Hampshire Durham
71
Bailenson, Jeremy N.
Stanford University
72
Schultz, Wesley P.
Claremont Graduate University
73
Sheeran, Paschal J.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
74
Evans, Gary W.
College of Human Ecology
75
Markus, Hazel Rose
Stanford SPARQ
76
Greenwald, Anthony G.
University of Washington
77
Eisenberg, Nancy
Arizona State University
78
Kazdin, Alan E.
Yale University
79
Pennycook, Gordon
Cornell University
80
Hyde, Janet Shibley
University of Wisconsin-Madison
81
Belsky, J.
University of California, Davis
82
Salthouse, Timothy A.
University of Virginia
83
Porges, S. W.
Indiana University Bloomington
84
Bornstein, Marc H.
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
85
Cialdini, Robert B.
Arizona State University
86
Rosenthal, Robert
University of California, Riverside
87
Weber, Elke U.
Princeton University
88
Csíkszentmihályi, Mihály
Claremont Graduate University
89
Triandis, Harry C.
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
90
Lord, Catherine E.
University of California, Los Angeles
91
Taylor, Shelley E.
University of California, Los Angeles
92
Mcadams, Dan P.
Northwestern University
93
Lent, Robert W.
University of Maryland, College Park
94
Roberts, Brent W.
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
95
Lucas, Richard E.
Michigan State University
96
Howard, Matt C.
Mitchell College of Business
97
Duckworth, Angela Lee
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
98
Clayton, Susan D.
The College of Wooster
99
Ratcliff, Roger
The Ohio State University
100
Buss, David Michael
The University of Texas at Austin

2,211 listed scientists in Psychology & Cognitive Sciences in the United States

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