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

572 researchers in the United States whose main subfield is Social 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 States, and 1st of 47 countries in the subfield. 562 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 (17), followed by Stanford University (11) and University of California, Los Angeles (11). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors

572

0.8% of all in the United States

In the global top 100,000

562

98.3% of them

Country rank in the subfield

of 47 countries in Social Psychology

Highest-ranked

Bandura, Albert

#	Institution	Listed authors	Top 100k	Rank worldwide	Highest-ranked author
1	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	17	17	#1	Kaplan, Stephen #1,903
2	Stanford University	11	11	#4	Bandura, Albert #4
3	University of California, Los Angeles	11	11	#5	Taylor, Shelley E. #1,691
4	The Ohio State University	11	11	#6	Tylka, Tracy Lynn #2,133
5	University of California, Santa Barbara	11	11	#7	Major, Brenda N. #10,940
6	Northwestern University	10	10	#9	Eagly, Alice H. #225
7	Columbia University	10	10	#10	Higgins, E. Tory #348
8	Yale University	10	10	#11	Tyler, Tom R. #393
9	University of California, Berkeley	10	9	#12	Lazarus, Richard S. #508
10	University of Minnesota Twin Cities	10	10	#13	Vohs, Kathleen D. #4,258
11	University of Connecticut	9	9	#14	Kenny, David A. #932
12	New York University	8	8	#16	Jost, John T. #385
13	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	8	8	#17	Triandis, Harry C. #1,644
14	University of Kansas	8	8	#18	Snyder, Charles Rick #2,896
15	University of Massachusetts Amherst	7	7	#21	Ajzen, Icek #7
16	University of Rochester	7	7	#22	Deci, Edward L. #43
17	Princeton University	7	7	#23	Fiske, Susan T. #194
18	The University of Texas at Austin	7	7	#24	Neff, Kristin D. #513
19	University of Wisconsin-Madison	7	7	#25	Hyde, Janet Shibley #1,413
20	University of California, Davis	7	7	#26	Emmons, Robert A. #2,326
21	Stanford Graduate School of Business	7	7	#28	Gelfand, Michèle Joy #4,410
22	Cornell University	7	7	#30	Ong, Anthony D. #17,578
23	Carnegie Mellon University	6	6	#32	Cohen, Sheldon A. #285
24	Harvard University	6	6	#33	Henrich, Joseph #333
25	University of Southern California	6	6	#34	Schwarz, Norbert #971
26	University of Washington	6	6	#35	Greenwald, Anthony G. #1,355
27	Arizona State University	6	6	#37	Cialdini, Robert B. #1,583
28	Michigan State University	6	6	#38	Lucas, Richard E. #1,772
29	Harvard Business School	6	6	#39	Gino, Francesca #5,652
30	Kellogg School of Management Northwestern University	6	6	#42	Rucker, Derek D. #14,215
31	University of Pennsylvania	6	5	#43	Baron, Jonathan L. #14,323
32	Duke University	5	5	#46	Leary, Mark R. #624
33	University of California, Santa Cruz	5	5	#47	Pettigrew, Thomas Fraser #1,191
34	University of California, Riverside	5	5	#48	Rosenthal, Robert #1,603
35	Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania	5	5	#49	Duckworth, Angela Lee #1,794
36	College of Liberal Arts and Sciences	5	5	#50	Anderson, Craig A. #4,044
37	Washington University in St. Louis	5	5	#55	Chopik, William J. #12,107
38	University of Virginia	4	4	#57	Diener, Edward #26
39	Leonard N. Stern School of Business	4	4	#59	Haidt, Jonathan #451
40	Claremont Graduate University	4	4	#60	Hogg, Michael A. #860
41	George Mason University	4	4	#63	Kashdan, Todd Barrett #2,457
42	Florida State University	4	4	#66	Fincham, Frank D. #6,165
43	Pennsylvania State University	4	4	#67	Beaty, Roger E. #7,940
44	University of California, Irvine	4	4	#72	Piff, Paul K. #16,839
45	State University of New York Albany	4	4	#74	Muraven, Mark B. #21,465
46	Columbia Business School	4	4	#76	Matz, Sandra C. #34,279
47	Indiana University Bloomington	4	3	#77	Smith, Eliot R. #36,573
48	University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences	3	3	#81	Seligman, Martin E.P. #291
49	University of California, San Francisco	3	3	#83	Ekman, Paul #396
50	University of Missouri	3	3	#84	Sheldon, Kennon M. #2,032
51	University of Maryland, College Park	3	2	#85	Kruglanski, Arie W. #2,501
52	University of Georgia	3	3	#87	Campbell, William Keith #3,651
53	The University of Chicago Booth School of Business	3	3	#89	Epley, Nicholas #4,597
54	Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences	3	3	#93	Langer, Ellen J. #9,157
55	Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health	3	3	#94	Lomas, Tim #9,213
56	Oakland University	3	2	#100	Zeigler-Hill, Virgil #19,502
57	The University of Arizona	3	3	#101	Segrin, Chris G. #20,763
58	University of Colorado Boulder	3	3	#102	Judd, Charles M. #23,941
59	Stony Brook University	3	3	#103	Aron, Arthur P. #24,879
60	Baylor University	3	3	#105	Tsang, Jo-Ann Ann C. #27,789
61	University of Delaware	3	3	#106	Zuckerman, Marvin #33,479
62	The University of New Mexico	3	3	#108	Grubbs, Joshua B. #39,258
63	University of Richmond	3	2	#109	Forsyth, Donelson R. #42,670
64	University of South Florida, Tampa	3	3	#111	Bosson, Jennifer K. #58,175

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

1
Bandura, Albert
Stanford University
2
Ajzen, Icek
University of Massachusetts Amherst
3
Diener, Edward
University of Virginia
4
Deci, Edward L.
University of Rochester
5
Fredrickson, Barbara L.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
6
Fiske, Susan T.
Princeton University
7
Eagly, Alice H.
Northwestern University
8
Cohen, Sheldon A.
Carnegie Mellon University
9
Dweck, Carol Sorich
Stanford University
10
Seligman, Martin E.P.
University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences
11
Henrich, Joseph
Harvard University
12
Higgins, E. Tory
Columbia University
13
Carver, Charles S.
College of Arts and Sciences
14
Cacioppo, John T.
Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience
15
Twenge, Jean M.
San Diego State University
16
Jost, John T.
New York University
17
Tyler, Tom R.
Yale University
18
Ekman, Paul
University of California, San Francisco
19
Keyes, Corey Lee M.
Emory University
20
Haidt, Jonathan
Leonard N. Stern School of Business
21
Lazarus, Richard S.
University of California, Berkeley
22
Neff, Kristin D.
The University of Texas at Austin
23
Elliot, Andrew J.
University of Rochester
24
Stern, Paul C.
Social and Environmental Research Institute
25
Leary, Mark R.
Duke University
26
McCrae, Robert R.
University of Baltimore
27
Keltner, Dacher J.
University of California, Berkeley
28
Hogg, Michael A.
Claremont Graduate University
29
Pennebaker, James W.
The University of Texas at Austin
30
Kenny, David A.
University of Connecticut
31
Schwarz, Norbert
University of Southern California
32
Park, Crystal L.
University of Connecticut
33
Nosek, Brian A.
Center for Open Science
34
Maslach, Christina
University of California, Berkeley
35
Folkman, Susan
University of California, San Francisco
36
Silvia, Paul J.
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
37
Pettigrew, Thomas Fraser
University of California, Santa Cruz
38
Schultz, Wesley P.
Claremont Graduate University
39
Evans, Gary W.
College of Human Ecology
40
Markus, Hazel Rose
Stanford SPARQ
41
Greenwald, Anthony G.
University of Washington
42
Hyde, Janet Shibley
University of Wisconsin-Madison
43
Cialdini, Robert B.
Arizona State University
44
Rosenthal, Robert
University of California, Riverside
45
Csíkszentmihályi, Mihály
Claremont Graduate University
46
Triandis, Harry C.
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
47
Taylor, Shelley E.
University of California, Los Angeles
48
Mcadams, Dan P.
Northwestern University
49
Roberts, Brent W.
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
50
Lucas, Richard E.
Michigan State University
51
Howard, Matt C.
Mitchell College of Business
52
Duckworth, Angela Lee
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
53
Clayton, Susan D.
The College of Wooster
54
Buss, David Michael
The University of Texas at Austin
55
Weiner, Bernard
University of California, Los Angeles
56
Kaplan, Stephen
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
57
Sirgy, Joseph M.
Virginia Tech, Pamplin College of Business
58
Lyubomirsky, Sonja
University of California, Riverside
59
Sheldon, Kennon M.
University of Missouri
60
Oishi, Shigehiro
University of Virginia
61
Tylka, Tracy Lynn
The Ohio State University
62
Rozin, Paul N.
University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences
63
Williams, Kipling D.
The Citadel - The Military College of South Carolina
64
Emmons, Robert A.
University of California, Davis
65
Kashdan, Todd Barrett
George Mason University
66
Goldberg, Lewis R.
Oregon Research Institute
67
Kruglanski, Arie W.
University of Maryland, College Park
68
Dovidio, John F.
Yale University
69
Gosling, Samuel D.
The University of Texas at Austin
70
Russell, Daniel Wayne
Iowa State University
71
Wood, Wendy
University of Southern California
72
Kaufman, James C.
University of Connecticut
73
Snyder, Charles Rick
University of Kansas
74
Ferguson, Christopher John
Stetson University
75
Brislin, Richard W.
Shidler College of Business
76
Maslow, Abraham H.Vii
Brooklyn College
77
Tetlock, Philip E.
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
78
Steele, Claude M.
Stanford University
79
Batson, C. Daniel
University of Kansas
80
Brewer, Marilynn B.
The Ohio State University
81
Campbell, William Keith
University of Georgia
82
Bushman, Brad J.
The Ohio State University
83
Walton, Gregory M.
Stanford University
84
Oyserman, Daphna
University of Southern California
85
Anderson, Craig A.
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
86
Trope, Yaacov
New York University
87
Herek, Gregory M.
University of California, Davis
88
Glick, Peter
Lawrence University, Appleton
89
Vohs, Kathleen D.
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
90
Gelfand, Michèle Joy
Stanford Graduate School of Business
91
Pargament, Kenneth I.
Bowling Green State University
92
Gollwitzer, Peter M.
New York University
93
Epley, Nicholas
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
94
Fraley, Robert Chris
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
95
McCullough, Michael E.
University of California, San Diego
96
Swann, William B.
The University of Texas at Austin
97
Heilman, Madeline E.
New York University
98
Tangney, June Price
George Mason University
99
Funder, David C.
University of California, Riverside
100
Petty, Richard E.
The Ohio State University

572 listed scientists in Social Psychology in the United States

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