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2,775 researchers in the United States whose main field is Social Sciences are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list: 3.8% of all listed authors in the United States, and 1st of 82 countries in the field. 1,904 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). University of California, Los Angeles has the most (74), followed by University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (63) and Stanford University (61). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors

2,775

3.8% of all in the United States

In the global top 100,000

1,904

68.6% of them

Country rank in the field

of 82 countries in Social Sciences

Highest-ranked

#61

Mayer, Richard E.

#	Institution	Listed authors	Top 100k	Rank worldwide	Highest-ranked author
1	University of California, Los Angeles	74	56	#1	Bentler, Peter M. #105
2	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	63	50	#4	Inglehart, Ronald F. #408
3	Stanford University	61	54	#5	Hainmueller, Jens #337
4	University of California, Berkeley	49	39	#6	Kaiser, Henry F. #1,497
5	Columbia University	49	37	#7	Small, Mario Luis #4,073
6	University of Wisconsin-Madison	45	31	#9	Ladson-Billings, Gloria J. #1,206
7	The Ohio State University	44	29	#11	Browne, Michael W. #4,155
8	The University of Texas at Austin	39	23	#14	Gerring, John #1,609
9	University of Washington	39	30	#15	Gay, Geneva #7,567
10	University of Maryland, College Park	38	24	#17	Wigfield, Allan #1,306
11	University of California, Irvine	38	29	#18	Duncan, Greg J. #4,600
12	Michigan State University	38	31	#19	McCright, Aaron M. #5,641
13	Princeton University	37	32	#20	Massey, Douglas S. #1,097
14	Harvard University	37	29	#21	Norris, Pippa #1,150
15	University of Georgia	36	20	#22	Mudde, Cas E. #600
16	Arizona State University	35	23	#24	McNeish, Daniel M. #748
17	Northwestern University	34	24	#25	Hedges, Larry V. #913
18	University of Minnesota Twin Cities	34	25	#26	Bryson, John M. #7,334
19	University of Pennsylvania	32	23	#29	Mutz, Diana C. #2,241
20	The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	31	24	#30	Escobar, Arturo #1,586
21	New York University	31	26	#32	DiMaggio, Paul J. #4,782
22	Yale University	30	20	#34	Alexander, Jeffrey C. #3,906
23	Vanderbilt University	29	23	#35	Preacher, Kristopher J. #351
24	The University of Chicago	29	25	#36	Anselin, Luc E. #406
25	Cornell University	29	26	#38	Kizilcec, René F. #6,088
26	Pennsylvania State University	29	22	#39	Amato, Paul R. #6,356
27	Duke University	28	24	#43	Mignolo, Walter D. #1,049
28	Indiana University Bloomington	28	23	#44	Hmelo-Silver, Cindy E. #5,508
29	University of Southern California	26	20	#52	Castells, Manuel #10,694
30	The University of Arizona	25	22	#56	Moll, Luis C. #19,441
31	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	24	14	#59	Denzin, Norman K. #3,594
32	University of California, Santa Barbara	23	19	#61	Mayer, Richard E. #61
33	Florida State University	22	14	#65	Shute, Valerie J. #3,772
34	Johns Hopkins University	20	18	#70	Slavin, Robert E. #4,516
35	University of Colorado Boulder	18	15	#77	Penuel, William R. #9,286
36	Texas A&M University	18	12	#78	Rodrigue, Jean Paul #25,348
37	University of Delaware	17	10	#80	Desimone, Laura M. #5,561
38	Rutgers University–New Brunswick	17	6	#81	Krook, Mona Lena #8,084
39	University of Notre Dame	17	15	#83	Williams, Richard A. #13,807
40	University of Pittsburgh	16	12	#85	Peters, B. Guy #1,886
41	Arizona State University Downtown Phoenix Campus	16	11	#86	Bozeman, Barry #3,109
42	University of Oregon	16	12	#87	Acker, Joan #4,791
43	Brown University	16	15	#88	Kraft, Matthew A. #5,313
44	University of Illinois at Chicago	16	9	#90	Ullman, Sarah E. #8,560
45	University of Virginia	16	8	#91	Lawless, Jennifer L. #15,526
46	Harvard Law School	15	7	#93	Sunstein, Cass R. #233
47	University of California, San Diego	15	13	#95	Roberts, Margaret E. #4,391
48	The George Washington University	15	12	#96	Weitzer, Ronald #7,312
49	University of Florida	15	9	#101	Redding, Christopher H. #37,678
50	University of California, Riverside	14	11	#103	Yosso, Tara J. #3,510
51	State University of New York Albany	14	10	#105	Andrade, Heidi Goodrich #14,651
52	Washington University in St. Louis	14	13	#107	Tavits, Margit #19,977
53	John F. Kennedy School of Government	13	13	#110	Jasanoff, Sheila S. #1,431
54	University of Cincinnati	13	8	#111	Collins, Patricia Hill #1,979
55	University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences	13	12	#112	Levendusky, Matthew S. #5,867
56	Boston College	13	10	#113	Bers, Marina Umaschi #7,389
57	Georgetown University	13	12	#115	Voeten, Erik #9,327
58	NC State University	13	5	#116	Martin, Florence #13,525
59	Georgia State University	13	7	#119	Pigott, Terri D. #24,065
60	Syracuse University	12	7	#124	Sultana, Farhana #1,640
61	University of Missouri	12	8	#125	Cooper, Harris M. #4,202
62	The University of Utah	12	9	#128	Wei, Yehua Dennis #10,875
63	Brigham Young University	12	6	#131	Graham, Charles R. #12,232
64	Harvard Graduate School of Education	12	5	#132	SNOW, CATHERINE E. #12,760
65	University of Massachusetts Amherst	12	9	#134	Haas, Peter M. #18,883
66	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	11	9	#141	Thelen, Kathleen #2,258
67	Boston University	11	5	#142	Schmidt, Vivien A. #3,070
68	Columbia Law School	11	7	#143	Crenshaw, Kimberlé Williams #4,216
69	University of North Texas	11	6	#146	Lund, Brady Daniel #5,556
70	Purdue University	11	9	#147	Ertmer, Peggy A. #5,875
71	Tufts University	11	6	#148	Drezner, Daniel W. #10,064
72	University of Denver	11	4	#152	Zhao, Suisheng #22,437
73	Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences	10	10	#158	Sampson, Robert J. #1,394
74	University of California, Davis	10	8	#165	Sabatier, Paul A. #6,815
75	University of Connecticut	10	8	#173	Maldonado-Torres, Nelson #15,549
76	University of Houston	10	6	#174	de Genova, Nicholas P. #18,029
77	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	10	9	#178	Sui, Daniel Z. #41,050
78	American University	9	8	#182	Acharya, Amitav #1,543
79	George Mason University	9	7	#186	Gorski, Paul C. #17,857
80	University of Iowa	9	8	#187	Bowman, Nicholas A. #18,239
81	University of Kentucky	8	5	#189	Borgatti, Stephen P. #1,719
82	Princeton School of Public and International Affairs	8	8	#190	Keohane, Robert O. #2,644
83	University of South Florida, Tampa	8	4	#192	Ellis, Carolyn S. #4,641
84	University of California, Santa Cruz	8	5	#193	Haraway, Donna J. #6,293
85	Temple University	8	7	#205	Kaplan, Avi #25,813
86	University of South Carolina	8	4	#206	DiStefano, Christine A. #37,028
87	The University of Tennessee, Knoxville	8	1	#209	Presser, Lois #77,838
88	Emory University	7	6	#212	Agnew, Robert S. #2,305
89	Portland State University	7	3	#213	Morgan, David L. #2,620
90	Hoover Institution	7	6	#219	Diamond, Larry #10,497
91	The City University of New York	7	5	#220	Alba, Richard D. #12,180
92	Clark University	7	7	#222	Bebbington, Anthony J. #12,498
93	The University of Chicago Law School	7	2	#230	Posner, Eric A. #26,063
94	Georgia Institute of Technology	7	6	#231	Hicks, Diana M. #28,911
95	University of Kansas	7	5	#233	Haider-Markel, Donald P. #49,070
96	University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee	7	3	#235	Gauchat, Gordon W. #66,339
97	College of Arts and Sciences	6	5	#237	Bollen, Kenneth Alan #487
98	The Graduate Center	6	6	#239	Harvey, David #1,418
99	University of California	6	5	#241	Barad, Karen #3,205
100	Faculty of Arts and Sciences	6	6	#242	Nyhan, Brendan #3,649
101	University of Miami	6	5	#243	Piquero, Alex R. #4,063
102	Baylor University	6	1	#247	Watkins, Marley W. #8,896
103	The University of New Mexico	6	4	#250	Moreno, Roxana M. #11,005
104	University of Nebraska–Lincoln	6	4	#257	Edwards, Katie M. #19,763
105	Bowling Green State University	6	4	#260	Giordano, Peggy C. #24,623
106	Oregon State University	6	4	#261	Gardner, Susan K. #28,915
107	University of Virginia School of Law	6	4	#264	Citron, Danielle Keats #32,891
108	Washington State University Pullman	6	1	#265	Rosa, Eugene A. #32,922
109	Hunter College	6	3	#267	Edelman, Marc #33,732
110	Washington University in St. Louis, George Warren Brown School of Social Work	6	2	#272	Font, Sarah A. #46,759
111	University at Buffalo, The State University of New York	6	4	#274	Finn, Jeremy D. #48,448
112	Rice University	6	6	#276	Schwindt-Bayer, Leslie A. #49,926
113	Northeastern University	6	4	#277	Moghadam, Valentine M. #50,175
114	Georgetown Law	6	2	#278	Cohen, Julie E. #62,466
115	College of Computing & Informatics	5	3	#282	Chen, Chaomei #296
116	University of Rochester	5	4	#283	Druckman, James N. #598
117	University of Central Florida	5	3	#292	Kapucu, Naim #8,598
118	University of New Hampshire Durham	5	4	#296	Straus, Murray A. #13,823
119	Stanford Graduate School of Education	5	4	#300	Shavelson, Richard J. #20,613
120	Rutgers University	5	3	#301	Levy, Jack S. #20,965
121	Wayne State University	5	3	#302	Klein, Julie Thompson #21,767
122	University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa	5	3	#318	Jones, Reece #49,838
123	Florida International University	5	1	#319	Grove, Kevin J. #52,950
124	Montclair State University	5	2	#322	Villegas, Ana María #63,298
125	Texas Tech University	5	1	#324	Huston, Sandra J. #81,928
126	NYU Law	5	1	#325	Ferejohn, John A. #87,621
127	Miami University	4	3	#332	Osborne, Jason W. #5,955
128	Barry University	4	3	#333	Bowen, Glenn A. #6,605
129	The University of Oklahoma	4	3	#338	Perry, Samuel L. #8,665
130	College of Education	4	2	#339	Schraw, Gregory J. #8,848
131	California State University, Long Beach	4	2	#340	Jeynes, William H. #8,876
132	University of Colorado Denver	4	4	#341	Weible, Christopher M. #10,423
133	Ball State University	4	3	#343	Finch, William Holmes #13,778
134	School of Global Policy and Strategy	4	3	#344	Walter, Barbara F. #14,348
135	Stony Brook University	4	4	#345	Huddy, Leonie #15,171
136	Duquesne University	4	4	#346	Schreiber, James B. #17,660
137	Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs	4	2	#349	Nabatchi, Tina #20,028
138	NWEA	4	2	#354	Wise, Steven L. #22,883
139	The University of Texas at San Antonio	4	3	#355	Ellison, Christopher G. #23,299
140	Dartmouth College	4	3	#358	Wohlforth, William C. #30,050
141	Indiana University	4	2	#359	Kuh, George D. #30,212
142	University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education	4	2	#361	Grossman, Pam L. #32,485
143	Tulane University	4	1	#368	Gotham, Kevin Fox #47,303
144	Santa Clara University	4	3	#375	Urdan, Tim C. #64,291
145	Boise State University	4	2	#376	Lunstrum, Elizabeth #67,615
146	University of Nebraska Omaha	4	1	#378	Nix, Justin #69,677
147	The University of Chicago Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice	4	1	#381	Mosley, Jennifer E. #78,309
148	Loyola University Chicago	4	2	#382	Oksala, Johanna #80,179
149	Northern Illinois University	4	2	#385	Demaray, Michelle Kilpatrick #85,248
150	Virginia Commonwealth University	4	0	#391	Case, Kim A. #119,100
151	University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School	4	0	#393	Pollman, Elizabeth #135,919
152	The University of North Carolina at Greensboro	3	2	#396	Schunk, Dale H. #812
153	Carnegie Mellon University	3	3	#397	Nagin, Daniel S. #1,085
154	Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College	3	2	#399	Chi, Michelene T.H. #3,239
155	Wellesley College	3	3	#402	Levitt, Peggy #5,500
156	William & Mary	3	2	#404	Tschannen-Moran, Megan #7,384
157	School of Education and Social Policy	3	2	#406	Coburn, Cynthia E. #8,041
158	SciTech Strategies, Inc.	3	2	#407	Small, Henry G. #8,227
159	Educational Testing Service	3	2	#409	Messick, Samuel J. #9,239
160	San Diego State University	3	3	#410	Getis, Arthur #10,019
161	Kellogg School of Management Northwestern University	3	3	#414	Rivera, Lauren A. #13,078
162	School of Public Affairs and Administration at Rutgers University–Newark	3	3	#417	Van Ryzin, Gregg G. #16,818
163	Clemson University	3	1	#420	Jones, Michael D. #19,044
164	University of California, San Francisco	3	2	#421	Strauss, Anselm L. #19,738
165	Texas State University	3	3	#422	Arar, Khalid Husny #19,948
166	University of Louisville	3	3	#424	Enders, Adam M. #20,966
167	Donald Bren School of Information & Computer Sciences	3	2	#425	Butts, Carter T. #22,276
168	The University of Texas at Dallas	3	2	#432	Griffith, Daniel A. #29,072
169	Iowa State University	3	3	#433	DeLisi, Matt #30,883
170	College of Arts & Sciences	3	2	#434	Mijs, Jonathan J.B. #31,211
171	UC Merced	3	3	#440	Shadish, William R. #35,355
172	University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB)	3	2	#441	Mislevy, Robert J. #35,636
173	Barnard College	3	3	#442	Berman, Sheri #35,981
174	Louisiana State University	3	3	#445	Bauer, Nichole M. #37,675
175	Southern Methodist University	3	2	#446	Walkington, Candace Ann #37,715
176	School of Social Work	3	1	#450	Bride, Brian E. #40,171
177	Middlebury College	3	3	#453	Hofer, Barbara K. #43,674
178	The University of Alabama	3	1	#461	Caillier, James Gerard #54,052
179	The University of North Carolina at Charlotte	3	1	#462	Cartwright, Kelly Branam #54,298
180	The University of Texas at El Paso	3	1	#464	Núñez, Anne Marie #55,571
181	Berkeley Law	3	1	#466	Edelman, Lauren B. #57,072
182	University of Rhode Island	3	1	#468	Hobbs, Renee #61,545
183	Kansas State University	3	1	#474	Seamon, David #66,730
184	Indiana University School of Education	3	2	#475	Barton, Keith C. #68,154
185	Rutgers School of Criminal Justice	3	3	#481	Apel, Robert J. #75,389
186	The University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy	3	3	#487	Fowler, Anthony #82,129
187	University of Maryland School of Social Work	3	1	#488	Barth, Richard P. #86,082
188	Institute for Advanced Study	3	1	#489	Brown, Wendy #87,532
189	Drexel University	3	1	#491	Ottinger, Gwen #90,509
190	Cornell Law School	3	2	#493	Rachlinski, Jeffrey J. #92,858
191	Stanford Law School	3	1	#496	Achiume, Emily Tendayi #97,778
192	Vanderbilt Law School	3	0	#498	Ruhl, J. B. #117,467
193	Washington and Lee University	3	0	#500	Stone, Glenn Davis #122,033
194	Rutgers University–Camden	3	0	#502	Wall, John #142,202
195	University of Michigan Law School	3	0	#504	Viljoen, Salomé #177,366

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

1
Mayer, Richard E.
University of California, Santa Barbara
2
Bentler, Peter M.
University of California, Los Angeles
3
Zimmerman, Barry J.
City University
4
Sunstein, Cass R.
Harvard Law School
5
Chen, Chaomei
College of Computing & Informatics
6
Hainmueller, Jens
Stanford University
7
Preacher, Kristopher J.
Vanderbilt University
8
Anselin, Luc E.
The University of Chicago
9
Inglehart, Ronald F.
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
10
Muthén, Bengt O.
Mplus
11
Bollen, Kenneth Alan
College of Arts and Sciences
12
Druckman, James N.
University of Rochester
13
Mudde, Cas E.
University of Georgia
14
McNeish, Daniel M.
Arizona State University
15
Schunk, Dale H.
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
16
Darling-Hammond, Linda
Stanford University
17
Cronbach, Lee J.
Stanford University
18
Hedges, Larry V.
Northwestern University
19
Brubaker, Rogers
University of California, Los Angeles
20
Mignolo, Walter D.
Duke University
21
Nagin, Daniel S.
Carnegie Mellon University
22
Massey, Douglas S.
Princeton University
23
Norris, Pippa
Harvard University
24
Ladson-Billings, Gloria J.
University of Wisconsin-Madison
25
Nussbaum, Martha Craven
The University of Chicago
26
Portes, Alejandro
Princeton University
27
Wigfield, Allan
University of Maryland, College Park
28
Sampson, Robert J.
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
29
Harvey, David
The Graduate Center
30
Jasanoff, Sheila S.
John F. Kennedy School of Government
31
Graham, Steve E.
Arizona State University
32
Brenner, Neil
The University of Chicago
33
Kaiser, Henry F.
University of California, Berkeley
34
Acharya, Amitav
American University
35
Escobar, Arturo
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
36
Fraser, Nancy
The New School
37
Gerring, John
The University of Texas at Austin
38
Sultana, Farhana
Syracuse University
39
Charmaz, Kathy
Sonoma State University
40
Iyengar, Shanto
Stanford University
41
Moynihan, Donald P.
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
42
Borgatti, Stephen P.
University of Kentucky
43
Enders, Craig K.
University of California, Los Angeles
44
Imai, Kosuke
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
45
Peters, B. Guy
University of Pittsburgh
46
Uzzi, Brian Dondiego
Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems
47
Pintrich, Paul R.
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
48
Collins, Patricia Hill
University of Cincinnati
49
Pierson, Paul
University of California, Berkeley
50
King, Gary
Harvard University
51
Ikenberry, G. John
Princeton University
52
Mutz, Diana C.
University of Pennsylvania
53
Creswell, John W.
University of Michigan Medical School
54
Thelen, Kathleen
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
55
Agnew, Robert S.
Emory University
56
Krosnick, Jon A.
Resources For The Future Inc.
57
Mahoney, James
Northwestern University
58
Dunlap, Riley E.
Oklahoma State University
59
Morgan, David L.
Portland State University
60
Keohane, Robert O.
Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
61
Osborne, Jonathan Francis
Stanford University
62
Nye, Josheph S.
Harvard University
63
Fredricks, Jennifer A.
Union College, Schenectady
64
Mishra, Punya B.
Mary Lou Fulton College for Teaching and Learning Innovation
65
Wohl, Ellen E.
Warner College of Natural Resources
66
Schmidt, Vivien A.
Boston University
67
Bozeman, Barry
Arizona State University Downtown Phoenix Campus
68
Young, Iris Marion
The University of Chicago
69
Fearon, James D.
Stanford University
70
Barad, Karen
University of California
71
Chi, Michelene T.H.
Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College
72
Sheller, Mimi
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
73
Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo
Duke University
74
Ridgeway, Cecilia L.
Stanford University
75
Yosso, Tara J.
University of California, Riverside
76
Ansell, Christopher K.
University of California, Berkeley
77
Denzin, Norman K.
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
78
Nyhan, Brendan
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
79
Gee, James Paul
Arizona State University Downtown Phoenix Campus
80
Shute, Valerie J.
Florida State University
81
Pajares, Frank
Emory University
82
Chomsky, Noam
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
83
Alexander, Jeffrey C.
Yale University
84
Fotheringham, A. Stewart
Florida State University
85
Piquero, Alex R.
University of Miami
86
Small, Mario Luis
Columbia University
87
Browne, Michael W.
The Ohio State University
88
Cooper, Harris M.
University of Missouri
89
Crenshaw, Kimberlé Williams
Columbia Law School
90
Asparouhov, Tihomir
Mplus
91
Cech, Erin A.
Michigan Engineering
92
Roberts, Margaret E.
University of California, San Diego
93
Hochschild, Arlie Russell
University of California, Berkeley
94
Kalleberg, Arne L.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
95
Espelage, Dorothy Lynn
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
96
Slavin, Robert E.
Johns Hopkins University
97
Duncan, Greg J.
University of California, Irvine
98
Ellis, Carolyn S.
University of South Florida, Tampa
99
DiMaggio, Paul J.
New York University
100
Steiger, James H.
Vanderbilt University

2,775 listed scientists in Social Sciences in the United States

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