top-cited scientists

Top-cited scientists in Behavioral Science & Comparative Psychology

2025 single-year list · 284 listed authors · Psychology & Cognitive Sciences

284 researchers whose main subfield is Behavioral Science & Comparative Psychology, part of Psychology & Cognitive Sciences, are in the 2025 list of top-cited scientists, out of 13,044 Scopus authors in the subfield. Authors qualify by ranking in the top 2% of their main subfield or in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c); 154 of these are in the top 100,000.

Listed authors
284
2.18% of the subfield’s Scopus authors
Scopus authors in the subfield
13,044
Median citations
18
top 1% from 595 · all authors in the subfield
Highest-ranked
#734
Dunbar, Robin I.M.

Top countries

  1. United States11440%
  2. United Kingdom5921%
  3. Canada166%
  4. Germany145%
  5. Australia145%
  6. Switzerland83%
  7. Italy72%
  8. Netherlands62%
  9. Sweden52%
  10. Austria41%

Top institutions

  1. University of St Andrews83%
  2. University of California, Davis72%
  3. University of Oxford52%
  4. University of Cambridge52%
  5. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor52%
  6. University of Bristol41%
  7. The University of Texas at Austin41%
  8. Cornell University41%
  9. Duke University41%
  10. Rijksuniversiteit Groningen41%

284 listed scientists in Behavioral Science & Comparative Psychology

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