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Which institutions have the most top-cited scientists in Education?

2,432 researchers whose main subfield is Education are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list. The Education University of Hong Kong has the most (35, 1.4%), followed by The University of Hong Kong (27) and UCL Institute of Education (26). A row opens its scientists in the subfield in the table of all authors.

#	Institution	Country	Listed authors	Top 100k	Highest-ranked author
1	The Education University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	35	23	Lo, Chung Kwan #2,171
2	The University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	27	21	Chan, Cecilia Ka Yuk #1,246
3	UCL Institute of Education	United Kingdom	26	17	Ball, Stephen John #473
4	Monash University	Australia	25	12	Selwyn, Neil #668
5	University of Wisconsin-Madison	United States	25	13	Ladson-Billings, Gloria J. #1,206
6	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	24	16	Marginson, Simon #795
7	Michigan State University	United States	22	15	Frank, Kenneth A. #22,077
8	Australian Catholic University	Australia	21	12	Pekrun, Reinhard H. #130
9	University of Georgia	United States	20	9	Fiorella, Logan #8,645
10	Chinese University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	19	13	CHIU, Thomas K.F. #219
11	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	United States	19	15	Pintrich, Paul R. #1,940
12	Arizona State University	United States	18	10	Graham, Steve E. #1,462
13	University of Toronto	Canada	18	11	Hidi, Suzanne E. #6,289
14	Stanford University	United States	17	15	Darling-Hammond, Linda #831
15	The Ohio State University	United States	16	8	Wolters, Christopher A. #6,869
16	University of Washington	United States	16	13	Gay, Geneva #7,567
17	University of Maryland, College Park	United States	15	10	Wigfield, Allan #1,306
18	Deakin University	Australia	15	12	Dawson, Phillip #7,973
19	University of California, Los Angeles	United States	15	10	Solórzano, Daniel G. #9,372
20	National Taiwan Normal University	Taiwan	14	7	Tsai, Chin‑Chung #3,347
21	Vanderbilt University	United States	14	9	Milner, H. Richard #9,101
22	University College London	United Kingdom	14	11	Bond, Melissa #11,109
23	University of Southern California	United States	14	10	Kezar, Adrianna J. #17,410
24	The University of Texas at Austin	United States	14	8	Borrego, Maura J. #24,336
25	UNSW Sydney	Australia	13	6	Sweller, John #59
26	Northwestern University	United States	13	9	Hedges, Larry V. #913
27	University of California, Berkeley	United States	13	7	Gutiérrez, Kris D. #15,143
28	The University of Arizona	United States	13	11	Moll, Luis C. #19,441
29	Harvard Graduate School of Education	United States	12	5	SNOW, CATHERINE E. #12,760
30	The University of Queensland	Australia	12	6	Gillies, Robyn M. #17,888
31	University of Minnesota Twin Cities	United States	12	7	Kendeou, Panayiota #27,393
32	Texas A&M University	United States	12	6	Hughes, Jan N. #31,252
33	The University of Manchester	United Kingdom	11	4	Ainscow, Mel #2,841
34	Helsingin Yliopisto	Finland	11	6	Salmela-Aro, Katariina #3,097
35	University of California, Irvine	United States	11	7	Kim, Young Suk #5,510
36	Columbia University	United States	11	8	Kuhn, Deanna #6,318
37	KU Leuven	Belgium	11	9	Kelchtermans, Geert #8,426
38	Universiteit Utrecht	Netherlands	11	6	Korthagen, Fred A.J. #8,652
39	The Open University	United Kingdom	11	10	Richardson, John Thomas Edwin #8,854
40	Faculty of Education	Australia	10	5	Hattie, John Allan C. #607
41	The University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom	10	4	Williamson, Ben #1,889
42	The Faculty of Education	United Kingdom	10	7	Taber, Keith S. #2,546
43	The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	United States	10	10	Espelage, Dorothy Lynn #4,492
44	Indiana University Bloomington	United States	10	6	Hmelo-Silver, Cindy E. #5,508
45	Purdue University	United States	10	8	Ertmer, Peggy A. #5,875
46	NC State University	United States	10	4	Martin, Florence #13,525
47	The University of Sydney	Australia	10	7	Watt, Helen M.G. #17,663
48	Curtin University	Australia	10	6	Cooper, Grant #25,216
49	University of Illinois at Chicago	United States	10	5	Weissberg, Roger P. #28,546
50	National Institute of Education	Singapore	10	5	Lim, Fei Victor #34,381
51	Pennsylvania State University	United States	10	5	Belland, Brian R. #45,495
52	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	United States	10	7	Ennis, Robert H. #56,587
53	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	9	7	Reay, Diane #2,792
54	Griffith University	Australia	9	4	Billett, Stephen Richard #6,213
55	Universitetet i Oslo	Norway	9	6	Scherer, Ronny #6,461
56	University of Jyväskylä	Finland	9	4	Nurmi, Jari-Erik Erik #12,442
57	University of Pennsylvania	United States	9	6	Ingersoll, Richard M. #13,722
58	University of Bristol	United Kingdom	9	6	Maclure, Maggie #15,417
59	University of Melbourne	Australia	9	5	Sahlberg, Pasi #34,519
60	University of Florida	United States	9	4	Redding, Christopher H. #37,678
61	Florida State University	United States	8	5	Shute, Valerie J. #3,772
62	New York University	United States	8	6	Tuck, Eve #5,545
63	University of Delaware	United States	8	3	Desimone, Laura M. #5,561
64	Western Sydney University	Australia	8	2	Davies, Bronwyn #25,653
65	Itä-Suomen yliopisto	Finland	8	5	Saqr, Mohammed #27,225
66	University of Virginia	United States	8	2	Cornell, Dewey G. #45,218
67	The University of British Columbia	Canada	8	5	Perry, Nancy E. #57,150
68	University of Calgary	Canada	7	4	Garrison, D. Randy #1,800
69	University of Missouri	United States	7	6	Cooper, Harris M. #4,202
70	University of Macau	Macao	7	5	Yuan, Rui (Eric) #6,077
71	Boston College	United States	7	6	Bers, Marina Umaschi #7,389
72	University of Alberta	Canada	7	6	van Manen, Max J. #8,580
73	University of Colorado Boulder	United States	7	4	Penuel, William R. #9,286
74	University of Surrey	United Kingdom	7	4	Winstone, Naomi E. #13,490
75	State University of New York Albany	United States	7	3	Andrade, Heidi Goodrich #14,651
76	University of Haifa	Israel	7	6	Share, David L. #16,903
77	Universität Potsdam	Germany	7	3	Scheiter, Katharina S. #24,715
78	University of Oregon	United States	7	3	Mazzei, Lisa A. #25,627
79	University of Houston	United States	7	4	Fletcher, Jack M.M. #26,039
80	Universiteit van Amsterdam	Netherlands	7	3	Voogt, Joke M. #27,903
81	University of Connecticut	United States	7	5	McCoach, Dorothy Betsy #35,540
82	RMIT University	Australia	7	3	Berry, Amanda K. #69,161
83	University of California, Santa Barbara	United States	6	3	Mayer, Richard E. #61
84	Johns Hopkins University	United States	6	5	Slavin, Robert E. #4,516
85	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München	Germany	6	2	Frenzel, Anne Christiane #5,658
86	University of Auckland	New Zealand	6	5	Brown, Gavin T.L. #8,326
87	University of South Australia	Australia	6	4	Siemens, George #9,032
88	University of Birmingham	United Kingdom	6	3	Gillborn, David A. #9,156
89	Oulun Yliopisto	Finland	6	3	Järvelä, Sanna M. #10,013
90	Queensland University of Technology	Australia	6	4	English, Lyn D. #11,028
91	Universiteit Twente	Netherlands	6	3	de Jong, Ton A.J.M. #12,061
92	Macquarie University	Australia	6	4	Bower, Matt G. #12,919
93	King Faisal University	Saudi Arabia	6	5	Sobaih, Abu Elnasr E. #19,645
94	Harvard University	United States	6	3	Hill, Heather C. #20,073
95	Beijing Normal University	China	6	5	Tlili, Ahmed #21,408
96	Georgia State University	United States	6	2	Pigott, Terri D. #24,065
97	University of Pittsburgh	United States	6	3	Singh, Chandralekha #29,282
98	King's College London	United Kingdom	6	2	Black, Paul J. #29,471
99	Stockholms universitet	Sweden	6	4	Airey, John #59,401
100	Universidad de Granada	Spain	6	1	Moreno-Guerrero, Antonio José #94,973
101	Open Universiteit	Netherlands	5	1	Kirschner, Paul A. #1,765
102	University of South Africa	South Africa	5	3	Mhlanga, David #2,571
103	Durham University	United Kingdom	5	4	Hall, Stuart #6,444
104	Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet	Norway	5	2	Giannakos, Michail N. #7,177
105	Korea University	South Korea	5	4	Linnenbrink-Garcia, Lisa #9,656
106	University of South Florida, Tampa	United States	5	2	Zeidler, Dana Lewis #14,908
107	Stanford Graduate School of Education	United States	5	4	Shavelson, Richard J. #20,613
108	University of Leeds	United Kingdom	5	4	Al-Samarraie, Hosam #21,030
109	Rijksuniversiteit Groningen	Netherlands	5	3	Avraamidou, Lucy #21,397
110	Technische Universität München	Germany	5	3	Seidel, Tina #22,164
111	Göteborgs Universitet	Sweden	5	1	Marton, Ference I. #27,696
112	University of Exeter	United Kingdom	5	3	Norwich, Brahm #28,343
113	University of North Texas	United States	5	4	Spector, Jonathan Michael #35,478
114	Tampere University	Finland	5	2	Sannino, Annalisa #37,223
115	University of Massachusetts Amherst	United States	5	3	Sireci, Stephen G. #38,533
116	University of Cyprus	Cyprus	5	3	Angeli Valanides, Charoula Nicos #41,763
117	Universiteit Gent	Belgium	5	4	van Houtte, Mieke #41,830
118	The University of Newcastle, Australia	Australia	5	1	Gore, Jennifer M. #41,856
119	The University of Adelaide	Australia	5	2	Pardo, Abelardo #44,858
120	University of Glasgow	United Kingdom	5	4	Kennedy, Aileen #60,903
121	Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Israel	5	2	Zohar, Anat #69,579
122	Central China Normal University	China	5	3	Salas-Pilco, Sdenka Zobeida #70,171
123	Universiti Sains Malaysia	Malaysia	5	1	Thien, Lei Mee #90,615
124	Rutgers University–New Brunswick	United States	5	1	Cleary, Timothy J. #93,354
125	University of Technology Sydney	Australia	4	2	Boud, David J. #1,256
126	University of California, Riverside	United States	4	2	Yosso, Tara J. #3,510
127	Lancaster University	United Kingdom	4	4	Tight, Malcolm #6,586
128	Wageningen University & Research	Netherlands	4	3	Wals, Arjen E.J. #8,334
129	Universität Freiburg	Germany	4	2	Renkl, Alexander R. #8,481
130	College of Education	United States	4	2	Schraw, Gregory J. #8,848
131	Faculty of Social Sciences	United Kingdom	4	2	Tomlinson, Michael #10,711
132	The University of New Mexico	United States	4	2	Moreno, Roxana M. #11,005
133	Syracuse University	United States	4	2	Tinto, Vincent #11,835
134	Brigham Young University	United States	4	2	Graham, Charles R. #12,232
135	Stellenbosch University	South Africa	4	1	Deardorff, Darla K. #14,818
136	Universidad de Sevilla	Spain	4	3	Moriña, Anabel #15,432
137	University of Victoria	Canada	4	4	Roth, Wolff Michael #15,517
138	George Mason University	United States	4	3	Gorski, Paul C. #17,857
139	National Yunlin University of Science and Technology	Taiwan	4	3	Wu, Ting Ting #18,162
140	University College Dublin	Ireland	4	2	Becker, Brett A. #23,155
141	The Open University of Israel	Israel	4	3	Berkovich, Izhak #31,196
142	The University of Sheffield	United Kingdom	4	2	Neumann, Michelle M. #32,208
143	University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education	United States	4	2	Grossman, Pam L. #32,485
144	University of California, San Diego	United States	4	2	Museus, Samuel D. #35,541
145	Swinburne University of Technology	Australia	4	4	Nicol, David J. #36,156
146	Université McGill	Canada	4	3	Muis, Krista Renee #37,301
147	College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences	United Kingdom	4	1	Renold, E. #37,754
148	Universität Zürich	Switzerland	4	2	Petko, Dominik #42,088
149	Bar-Ilan University	Israel	4	1	Saiegh-Haddad, Elinor #44,325
150	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	United States	4	3	Stern, Marc J. #60,517
151	College of Social Sciences	United Kingdom	4	3	McGrath, Simon #62,266
152	Montclair State University	United States	4	2	Villegas, Ana María #63,298
153	Universitetet i Bergen	Norway	4	2	Krumsvik, Rune Johan #75,025
154	University of the Sunshine Coast	Australia	4	1	Goos, Merrilyn E. #81,923
155	College of Education, Qatar University	Qatar	4	2	Mansour, Nasser S. #88,386
156	Washington State University Pullman	United States	4	0	Beddoes, Kacey D. #116,059
157	Texas Tech University	United States	4	0	Bolliger, Doris U. #138,192
158	National Taichung University of Education	Taiwan	3	2	Hwang, Gwojen #471
159	Cornell University	United States	3	2	Sternberg, Robert J. #614
160	Dublin City University	Ireland	3	1	Panadero, Ernesto #985
161	Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College	United States	3	2	Chi, Michelene T.H. #3,239
162	Arizona State University Downtown Phoenix Campus	United States	3	1	Gee, James Paul #3,747
163	Edith Cowan University	Australia	3	2	Jackson, Denise A. #3,945
164	University of Johannesburg	South Africa	3	2	Onwuegbuzie, Anthony John #4,465
165	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University	Hong Kong	3	1	Zou, Di #5,421
166	Tsinghua University	China	3	3	Peters, Michael A. #5,472
167	Miami University	United States	3	2	Osborne, Jason W. #5,955
168	Simon Fraser University	Canada	3	1	Winne, Philip H. #6,271
169	University of South Carolina	United States	3	1	Huebner, Eugene Scott #7,205
170	Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen	Germany	3	1	Trautwein, Ulrich #7,463
171	School of Education and Social Policy	United States	3	2	Coburn, Cynthia E. #8,041
172	ETH Zürich	Switzerland	3	2	Kapur, Manu #8,483
173	Linköpings Universitet	Sweden	3	1	Thornberg, Robert L. #8,717
174	Baylor University	United States	3	1	Watkins, Marley W. #8,896
175	College of Education, Zhejiang University	China	3	1	Gutiérrez-Castillo, Juan Jesús #10,284
176	Federation University Australia	Australia	3	2	Kemmis, Stephen #12,044
177	Radboud Universiteit	Netherlands	3	2	Molenaar, Inge #14,640
178	American Institutes for Research	United States	3	1	Fuchs, Lynn S. #15,095
179	The City University of New York	United States	3	2	Ehri, Linnea Carlson #17,080
180	University of Iowa	United States	3	2	Bowman, Nicholas A. #18,239
181	Vrije Universiteit Brussel	Belgium	3	2	Tondeur, Jo #20,513
182	Universität Wien	Austria	3	3	Goetz, Thomas #20,923
183	National Cheng Kung University	Taiwan	3	3	Huang, Yueh Min #23,841
184	Universiteit Leiden	Netherlands	3	1	Boekaerts, Monique #25,106
185	Temple University	United States	3	2	Kaplan, Avi #25,813
186	Oregon State University	United States	3	1	Gardner, Susan K. #28,915
187	Indiana University	United States	3	1	Kuh, George D. #30,212
188	University of Stirling	United Kingdom	3	1	Priestley, Mark R. #30,383
189	Tel Aviv University	Israel	3	2	Oplatka, Izhar #31,474
190	Tufts University	United States	3	2	Hammer, David A. #32,102
191	Universität Augsburg	Germany	3	2	Sailer, Michael #33,303
192	Technion - Israel Institute of Technology	Israel	3	2	Barak, Miri I. #34,202
193	University of Sussex	United Kingdom	3	1	Eraut, Michael R. #34,867
194	Swansea University	United Kingdom	3	2	Newton, Philip M. #35,137
195	Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien	Germany	3	1	Brod, Garvin #37,356
196	Southern Methodist University	United States	3	2	Walkington, Candace Ann #37,715
197	The University of Notre Dame Australia	Australia	3	3	Merga, Margaret Kristin #39,690
198	Vanderbilt University's Peabody College	United States	3	2	Welsh, Richard Osbourne #41,249
199	An-Najah National University	Palestine	3	2	Khlaif, Zuheir N. #44,051
200	University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg	South Africa	3	1	Janks, Hilary #46,257
201	University of Otago	New Zealand	3	2	Robins, Anthony V. #47,147
202	CQUniversity Australia	Australia	3	2	Yadegaridehkordi, Elaheh #47,691
203	University at Buffalo, The State University of New York	United States	3	2	Finn, Jeremy D. #48,448
204	Shanghai International Studies University	China	3	1	Huang, Fang #50,837
205	University of Nottingham	United Kingdom	3	2	Ainsworth, Shaaron Elizabeth #53,547
206	Lehigh University	United States	3	2	DuPaul, George J. #55,886
207	Universität Trier	Germany	3	3	Preckel, Franzis #56,051
208	University of Southern Queensland	Australia	3	2	Perera, Harsha N. #57,222
209	University of Miami	United States	3	2	Xing, Wanli #59,943
210	University of Rhode Island	United States	3	1	Hobbs, Renee #61,545
211	Department of Educational Research, Lancaster University	United Kingdom	3	2	McArthur, Jan #61,664
212	University of Kansas	United States	3	2	Zhao, Yong #62,044
213	East China Normal University	China	3	2	Zhang, Wei #64,463
214	NWEA	United States	3	1	Kuhfeld, Megan R. #65,187
215	University of York	United Kingdom	3	1	Kyriacou, Chris #66,003
216	Universität Kassel	Germany	3	2	Teichler, Ulrich #68,016
217	Indiana University School of Education	United States	3	2	Barton, Keith C. #68,154
218	University of Wollongong	Australia	3	1	Chandler, Paul C. #69,689
219	James Cook University	Australia	3	1	Nakata, Martin N. #72,647
220	Murdoch University	Australia	3	2	Rudolph, Jürgen #74,592
221	Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education	Germany	3	1	Prediger, Susanne #82,117
222	Northern Illinois University	United States	3	1	Demaray, Michelle Kilpatrick #85,248
223	Yonsei University	South Korea	3	1	Kim, S.W. #87,227
224	University of Thessaly	Greece	3	1	Kalogiannakis, Michail #91,072
225	University of Münster	Germany	3	0	Bromme, Rainer #101,385
226	Florida International University	United States	3	0	Hazari, Zahra #107,611
227	The University of Alabama	United States	3	0	Han, Hyemin #109,775
228	Virginia Commonwealth University	United States	3	0	Case, Kim A. #119,100
229	Seoul National University	South Korea	3	0	Shin, Jung Cheol #122,031
230	Ben-Gurion University of the Negev	Israel	3	0	Katz, Idit #156,481