top-cited scientists

Top-cited scientists in Social Psychology

2025 single-year list · 1,102 listed authors · Psychology & Cognitive Sciences

1,102 researchers whose main subfield is Social Psychology, part of Psychology & Cognitive Sciences, are in the 2025 list of top-cited scientists, out of 27,908 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); 1,065 of these are in the top 100,000.

Listed authors
1,102
3.95% of the subfield’s Scopus authors
Scopus authors in the subfield
27,908
Median citations
29
top 1% from 1,384 · all authors in the subfield
Highest-ranked
#4
Bandura, Albert

Top countries

  1. United States57252%
  2. United Kingdom979%
  3. Canada666%
  4. Australia616%
  5. Netherlands515%
  6. Germany494%
  7. Israel192%
  8. Italy172%
  9. Spain161%
  10. Poland151%

Top institutions

  1. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor172%
  2. The University of British Columbia131%
  3. Rijksuniversiteit Groningen121%
  4. Stanford University111%
  5. University of California, Los Angeles111%
  6. The Ohio State University111%
  7. University of California, Santa Barbara111%
  8. The University of Queensland101%
  9. Northwestern University101%
  10. Columbia University101%

1,102 listed scientists in Social Psychology

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