top-cited scientists

Top-cited scientists in Psychoanalysis

2025 single-year list · 78 listed authors · Psychology & Cognitive Sciences

78 researchers whose main subfield is Psychoanalysis, part of Psychology & Cognitive Sciences, are in the 2025 list of top-cited scientists, out of 3,511 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); 13 of these are in the top 100,000.

Listed authors
78
2.22% of the subfield’s Scopus authors
Scopus authors in the subfield
3,511
Median citations
3
top 1% from 184 · all authors in the subfield
Highest-ranked
#7,916
Kernberg, Otto Friedmann

Top countries

  1. United States3849%
  2. United Kingdom1823%
  3. Germany1013%
  4. Austria23%
  5. Canada23%
  6. Italy23%
  7. Belgium11%
  8. France11%
  9. Israel11%
  10. Norway11%

Top institutions

  1. University College London68%
  2. New York University34%
  3. Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California23%
  4. Harvard University23%
  5. The William Alanson White Institute23%
  6. Yale School of Medicine23%
  7. Universitätsmedizin Mainz23%
  8. International Psychoanalytical Association23%
  9. British Psychoanalytical Society23%
  10. Harvard Medical School23%

78 listed scientists in Psychoanalysis

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