top-cited scientists

Top-cited scientists in Psychiatry

2025 single-year list · 1,893 listed authors · Clinical Medicine

1,893 researchers whose main subfield is Psychiatry, part of Clinical Medicine, are in the 2025 list of top-cited scientists, out of 90,846 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); 1,516 of these are in the top 100,000.

Listed authors
1,893
2.08% of the subfield’s Scopus authors
Scopus authors in the subfield
90,846
Median citations
27
top 1% from 1,899 · all authors in the subfield
Highest-ranked
#27
Kessler, Ronald C.

Top countries

  1. United States72939%
  2. United Kingdom26814%
  3. Australia1337%
  4. Canada1136%
  5. Germany1136%
  6. Netherlands744%
  7. Italy553%
  8. Switzerland322%
  9. China261%
  10. Denmark261%

Top institutions

  1. King's College London583%
  2. Massachusetts General Hospital251%
  3. Harvard Medical School211%
  4. University College London201%
  5. Yale School of Medicine181%
  6. University of Melbourne181%
  7. University of Toronto161%
  8. Karolinska Institutet151%
  9. UNSW Sydney141%
  10. University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine141%

1,893 listed scientists in Psychiatry

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