Top 100 most-cited scientists in Psychology & Cognitive Sciences

2025 single-year list · 100 authors, ranked by c-score excluding self-citations · all 4,136 in Psychology & Cognitive Sciences

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#	Author	Country	Subfield rank	c-score	Cites 2025	h	hm	Self-cit.	Papers	Active
1 #4 overall	Bandura, Albert Stanford University	USA	Social Psychology #1 · top <0.01%	5.222	12,668	41	32.9	0.2%	210	1953–2024
2 #7 overall	Ajzen, Icek University of Massachusetts Amherst	USA	Social Psychology #2 · top <0.01%	5.067	13,862	30	21.9	0.2%	104	1969–2026
3 #9 overall	Ryan, Richard M. Australian Catholic University	AUS	Social Psychology #3 · top 0.01%	5.053	25,049	58	33.6	1.3%	357	1980–2026
4 #11 overall	Gross, James J. Stanford University	USA	Experimental Psychology #1 · top <0.01%	5.020	12,874	54	32.0	4.2%	644	1989–2026
5 #26 overall	Diener, Edward University of Virginia	USA	Social Psychology #4 · top 0.01%	4.887	11,137	41	25.4	0.7%	357	1972–2025
6 #43 overall	Deci, Edward L. University of Rochester	USA	Social Psychology #5 · top 0.02%	4.756	18,981	42	22.7	0.5%	199	1971–2026
7 #58 overall	Fredrickson, Barbara L. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	USA	Social Psychology #6 · top 0.02%	4.696	6,465	33	20.3	3.2%	203	1990–2026
8 #64 overall	Baumeister, Roy F. The University of Queensland	AUS	Social Psychology #7 · top 0.03%	4.674	8,605	38	24.7	1.1%	505	1976–2026
9 #100 overall	Schwartz, Shalom H. Hebrew University of Jerusalem	ISR	Social Psychology #8 · top 0.03%	4.576	4,698	30	20.6	0.9%	177	1968–2026
10 #132 overall	Kahneman, Daniel Princeton School of Public and International Affairs	USA	Experimental Psychology #2 · top <0.01%	4.518	7,582	31	19.7	0.3%	196	1962–2024
11 #146 overall	Hobfoll, Stevan E. Anxiety-Resilience	USA	Psychiatry #3 · top <0.01%	4.500	6,389	21	11.3	1.2%	252	1976–2026
12 #155 overall	Borsboom, Denny Universiteit van Amsterdam	NLD	Psychiatry #4 · top <0.01%	4.480	8,876	37	16.3	2.6%	232	2002–2026
13 #174 overall	Feldman Barrett, Lisa Feldman Harvard Medical School	USA	Experimental Psychology #3 · top <0.01%	4.450	4,504	34	22.6	4.1%	316	1995–2026
14 #184 overall	Baron-Cohen, Simon B. Autism Research Centre	GBR	Developmental & Child Psychology #1 · top <0.01%	4.439	8,119	39	18.9	6.3%	792	1985–2026
15 #194 overall	Fiske, Susan T. Princeton University	USA	Social Psychology #9 · top 0.03%	4.422	5,476	34	20.6	1.7%	363	1975–2026
16 #225 overall	Eagly, Alice H. Northwestern University	USA	Social Psychology #10 · top 0.04%	4.385	4,257	34	21.1	0.8%	183	1965–2026
17 #236 overall	Beck, Aaron T. University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine	USA	Clinical Psychology #1 · top <0.01%	4.372	4,976	26	17.9	0.8%	430	1948–2026
18 #240 overall	Tversky, Amos Hebrew University of Jerusalem	ISR	Experimental Psychology #4 · top 0.01%	4.367	5,817	27	17.3	0.1%	125	1964–2024
19 #245 overall	Lakens, Daniël Technische Universiteit Eindhoven	NLD	Social Psychology #11 · top 0.04%	4.364	4,201	23	14.2	2.4%	117	2009–2026
20 #250 overall	Spence, C. J. University of Oxford Medical Sciences Division	GBR	Experimental Psychology #5 · top 0.01%	4.362	4,452	23	19.9	13.0%	978	1994–2026
21 #253 overall	Steg, Linda Rijksuniversiteit Groningen	NLD	Social Psychology #12 · top 0.04%	4.358	5,545	36	23.1	3.3%	263	1995–2026
22 #261 overall	Baddeley, Alan D. University of York	GBR	Experimental Psychology #6 · top 0.02%	4.353	3,476	21	17.1	5.2%	433	1960–2026
23 #265 overall	Arnett, Jeffrey Jensen Clark University	USA	Developmental & Child Psychology #2 · top <0.01%	4.347	3,015	19	17.8	1.4%	132	1989–2026
24 #278 overall	Eccles, Jaquelynne S. University of California, Irvine	USA	Developmental & Child Psychology #3 · top 0.01%	4.338	4,979	28	20.5	2.6%	358	1974–2026
25 #280 overall	Masten, Ann S. University of Minnesota Twin Cities	USA	Developmental & Child Psychology #4 · top 0.02%	4.338	3,472	24	17.8	1.5%	198	1979–2026
26 #282 overall	Russell, James A. The University of British Columbia	CAN	Social Psychology #13 · top 0.05%	4.337	3,476	23	15.3	0.5%	182	1973–2024
27 #286 overall	Dweck, Carol Sorich Stanford University	USA	Social Psychology #15 · top 0.05%	4.337	4,715	32	19.0	3.1%	196	1970–2026
28 #291 overall	Seligman, Martin E.P. University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences	USA	Social Psychology #16 · top 0.06%	4.334	4,076	28	18.6	1.1%	257	1965–2026
29 #333 overall	Henrich, Joseph Harvard University	USA	Social Psychology #17 · top 0.06%	4.309	4,804	30	15.5	2.7%	182	1997–2026
30 #341 overall	Steinberg, Laurence Temple University	USA	Developmental & Child Psychology #5 · top 0.02%	4.305	4,144	28	19.0	4.6%	413	1979–2026
31 #348 overall	Higgins, E. Tory Columbia University	USA	Social Psychology #18 · top 0.06%	4.302	3,082	24	17.2	3.9%	336	1970–2025
32 #356 overall	Carver, Charles S. College of Arts and Sciences	USA	Social Psychology #19 · top 0.07%	4.290	4,045	24	15.3	2.8%	329	1973–2026
33 #366 overall	Cacioppo, John T. Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience	USA	Social Psychology #20 · top 0.07%	4.283	8,140	43	22.1	1.0%	384	1977–2021
34 #368 overall	Twenge, Jean M. San Diego State University	USA	Social Psychology #21 · top 0.08%	4.282	3,529	32	18.8	1.5%	166	1997–2026
35 #370 overall	Van Der Linden, Sander L. University of Cambridge	GBR	Social Psychology #22 · top 0.08%	4.280	4,427	36	18.3	8.8%	221	2011–2026
36 #385 overall	Jost, John T. New York University	USA	Social Psychology #23 · top 0.08%	4.272	3,944	31	18.0	3.7%	228	1994–2026
37 #393 overall	Tyler, Tom R. Yale University	USA	Social Psychology #24 · top 0.09%	4.267	2,593	27	19.4	2.6%	252	1971–2026
38 #395 overall	Clarke, Victoria University of the West of England	GBR	Social Psychology #25 · top 0.09%	4.265	41,850	25	13.2	0.1%	112	2000–2026
39 #396 overall	Ekman, Paul University of California, San Francisco	USA	Social Psychology #26 · top 0.09%	4.264	2,760	22	15.6	0.6%	152	1957–2021
40 #410 overall	Nolen-Hoeksema, Susan Yale University	USA	Clinical Psychology #2 · top 0.01%	4.259	3,611	25	17.7	0.6%	139	1986–2019
41 #429 overall	Keyes, Corey Lee M. Emory University	USA	Social Psychology #27 · top 0.10%	4.247	3,245	19	14.7	1.1%	94	1995–2025
42 #451 overall	Haidt, Jonathan Leonard N. Stern School of Business	USA	Social Psychology #28 · top 0.10%	4.235	4,077	30	15.7	0.8%	106	1993–2024
43 #459 overall	Simon, Herbert A. Carnegie Mellon University	USA	Experimental Psychology #7 · top 0.02%	4.232	2,402	20	16.9	0.2%	221	1941–2019
44 #483 overall	Blakemore, Sarah Jayne University of Cambridge	GBR	Experimental Psychology #8 · top 0.02%	4.218	3,787	32	17.8	4.5%	236	1998–2026
45 #489 overall	Pinquart, Martin Philipps-Universität Marburg	DEU	Developmental & Child Psychology #6 · top 0.02%	4.215	2,334	26	18.0	1.6%	227	1991–2026
46 #495 overall	McLaughlin, Katie A. University of Oregon	USA	Psychiatry #12 · top 0.01%	4.213	6,206	38	18.9	7.7%	386	2005–2026
47 #496 overall	Hofmann, Stefan G. Philipps-Universität Marburg	DEU	Clinical Psychology #3 · top 0.02%	4.212	4,665	31	17.6	7.9%	579	1994–2026
48 #508 overall	Lazarus, Richard S. University of California, Berkeley	USA	Social Psychology #29 · top 0.10%	4.205	2,350	24	18.4	0.1%	83	1948–2021
49 #513 overall	Neff, Kristin D. The University of Texas at Austin	USA	Social Psychology #30 · top 0.11%	4.204	2,755	28	16.4	1.5%	66	2001–2025
50 #516 overall	Watson, David B. University of Notre Dame	USA	Clinical Psychology #4 · top 0.02%	4.202	6,027	28	14.6	4.0%	297	1980–2025
51 #520 overall	Gilbert, Paul University of Derby	GBR	Clinical Psychology #5 · top 0.03%	4.200	2,674	22	17.0	7.7%	330	1986–2026
52 #524 overall	Loewenstein, George F. Carnegie Mellon University	USA	Economics #11 · top 0.02%	4.199	4,100	29	18.5	2.9%	337	1989–2026
53 #526 overall	Dehaene, Stanislas Collège de France	FRA	Experimental Psychology #9 · top 0.02%	4.199	4,590	34	17.8	8.7%	497	1986–2026
54 #530 overall	Ryff, Carol Diane S. University of Wisconsin-Madison	USA	Public Health #5 · top <0.01%	4.197	3,120	22	15.6	2.2%	253	1975–2026
55 #534 overall	Diamond, Adele University of British Columbia, Faculty of Medicine	CAN	Developmental & Child Psychology #7 · top 0.03%	4.193	2,865	17	11.7	0.9%	95	1985–2026
56 #544 overall	Bürkner, Paul Christian Technische Universität Dortmund	DEU	Statistics & Probability #16 · top 0.06%	4.189	3,512	17	9.5	3.4%	128	2014–2026
57 #566 overall	Elliot, Andrew J. University of Rochester	USA	Social Psychology #31 · top 0.11%	4.180	3,312	27	18.5	3.5%	258	1991–2026
58 #577 overall	Slovic, Paul Oregon Research Institute	USA	Strategic, Defence & Security Studies #1 · top <0.01%	4.175	3,165	25	14.6	2.2%	406	1962–2026
59 #578 overall	Rayner, Keith Department of Psychology	USA	Experimental Psychology #10 · top 0.03%	4.174	2,744	22	15.8	2.8%	381	1971–2023
60 #587 overall	Wagenmakers, Eric Jan M. Universiteit van Amsterdam	NLD	Experimental Psychology #11 · top 0.03%	4.172	5,756	36	15.5	5.3%	347	2000–2026
61 #599 overall	Bonanno, George A. Columbia University	USA	Psychiatry #20 · top 0.02%	4.167	3,260	26	14.8	6.3%	277	1986–2026
62 #601 overall	Brysbaert, Marc Universiteit Gent	BEL	Experimental Psychology #12 · top 0.03%	4.167	3,329	27	15.8	6.4%	283	1984–2026
63 #612 overall	Tomasello, Michael Duke University	USA	Developmental & Child Psychology #8 · top 0.03%	4.164	3,650	23	17.9	6.7%	702	1983–2026
64 #614 overall	Sternberg, Robert J. Cornell University	USA	Education #13 · top 0.01%	4.163	2,199	20	16.3	12.4%	831	1974–2026
65 #624 overall	Leary, Mark R. Duke University	USA	Social Psychology #33 · top 0.12%	4.159	3,863	24	16.0	1.0%	186	1979–2026
66 #634 overall	Fonagy, Peter University College London	GBR	Psychiatry #21 · top 0.02%	4.156	5,074	32	17.9	12.5%	915	1982–2026
67 #644 overall	Davidson, Richard J. University of Wisconsin-Madison	USA	Experimental Psychology #13 · top 0.03%	4.153	4,210	31	16.3	6.2%	598	1970–2026
68 #657 overall	Rutter, Sir Michael Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center	USA	Developmental & Child Psychology #9 · top 0.04%	4.148	3,145	23	15.3	1.9%	645	1958–2022
69 #679 overall	Goodman, Robert M. King's College London	GBR	Developmental & Child Psychology #11 · top 0.04%	4.139	2,824	19	10.7	2.0%	196	1989–2021
70 #719 overall	Epskamp, Sacha National University of Singapore	SGP	Social Sciences Methods #7 · top 0.21%	4.125	6,495	29	10.7	2.8%	102	2011–2026
71 #734 overall	Dunbar, Robin I.M. University of Oxford Medical Sciences Division	GBR	Behavioral Science & Comparative Psychology #1 · top <0.01%	4.120	2,537	22	16.7	12.2%	511	1971–2026
72 #737 overall	Endsley, Mica R. SA Technologies Inc	USA	Human Factors #1 · top <0.01%	4.118	1,896	19	14.9	4.3%	157	1988–2026
73 #751 overall	Carstensen, Laura L. Stanford University	USA	Experimental Psychology #14 · top 0.04%	4.114	2,603	24	14.4	2.7%	172	1981–2026
74 #758 overall	McCrae, Robert R. University of Baltimore	USA	Social Psychology #34 · top 0.12%	4.109	3,377	25	16.3	1.1%	268	1976–2024
75 #765 overall	Berry, John W. Queen’s University	CAN	Social Psychology #35 · top 0.13%	4.107	2,017	19	13.9	4.5%	204	1966–2026
76 #844 overall	Keltner, Dacher J. University of California, Berkeley	USA	Social Psychology #36 · top 0.13%	4.087	5,097	37	19.8	3.8%	238	1993–2026
77 #852 overall	Bialystok, Ellen Faculty of Health	CAN	Experimental Psychology #15 · top 0.04%	4.083	2,139	23	16.7	2.1%	258	1978–2026
78 #860 overall	Hogg, Michael A. Claremont Graduate University	USA	Social Psychology #37 · top 0.13%	4.081	2,121	23	16.8	7.0%	268	1983–2026
79 #872 overall	Holt-Lunstad, Julianne Brigham Young University	USA	Public Health #8 · top <0.01%	4.078	2,999	19	11.9	2.3%	91	1999–2026
80 #887 overall	Schacter, Daniel L. L. Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences	USA	Experimental Psychology #16 · top 0.04%	4.074	3,524	25	17.0	6.3%	539	1976–2026
81 #908 overall	Furnham, Adrian F. Handelshøyskolen BI	NOR	Social Psychology #38 · top 0.14%	4.070	3,289	22	13.7	5.9%	1,268	1979–2026
82 #922 overall	Pennebaker, James W. The University of Texas at Austin	USA	Social Psychology #39 · top 0.14%	4.067	2,883	27	16.5	2.3%	264	1975–2026
83 #932 overall	Kenny, David A. University of Connecticut	USA	Social Psychology #40 · top 0.14%	4.065	6,316	21	14.1	0.6%	173	1972–2025
84 #949 overall	Adolphs, Ralph Division of Biology and Biological Engineering	USA	Experimental Psychology #17 · top 0.04%	4.060	2,584	26	16.9	5.0%	296	1993–2026
85 #971 overall	Schwarz, Norbert University of Southern California	USA	Social Psychology #41 · top 0.15%	4.056	3,043	25	15.9	1.7%	335	1980–2026
86 #1,000 overall	Park, Crystal L. University of Connecticut	USA	Social Psychology #42 · top 0.15%	4.045	2,585	23	13.3	5.2%	422	1990–2026
87 #1,017 overall	Rueda, M Rosario I. University of Oregon	USA	Experimental Psychology #18 · top 0.05%	4.040	2,931	22	12.7	0.3%	286	1960–2020
88 #1,020 overall	Hayes, Steven C. University of Nevada	USA	Clinical Psychology #6 · top 0.03%	4.040	3,424	22	12.6	4.5%	402	1974–2026
89 #1,029 overall	Feldman, Ruth Reichman University	ISR	Developmental & Child Psychology #12 · top 0.05%	4.037	2,040	20	16.0	7.4%	278	1996–2026
90 #1,043 overall	McNally, Richard J. Harvard University	USA	Clinical Psychology #7 · top 0.04%	4.034	3,218	22	13.8	3.3%	421	1981–2026
91 #1,062 overall	Cowan, Nelson University of Missouri	USA	Experimental Psychology #19 · top 0.05%	4.030	1,857	19	14.1	9.1%	346	1974–2026
92 #1,063 overall	Hagger, Martin S. UC Merced	USA	Sport Sciences #1 · top <0.01%	4.030	2,926	25	15.9	12.6%	469	1997–2026
93 #1,086 overall	Barsalou, Lawrence W. University of Glasgow	GBR	Experimental Psychology #20 · top 0.05%	4.025	1,653	17	14.9	2.7%	118	1977–2026
94 #1,100 overall	Rand, David G. Massachusetts Institute of Technology	USA	Experimental Psychology #21 · top 0.06%	4.021	5,242	33	20.0	4.2%	258	2008–2026
95 #1,106 overall	Nosek, Brian A. Center for Open Science	USA	Social Psychology #43 · top 0.15%	4.021	5,657	35	13.9	3.4%	177	2001–2026
96 #1,119 overall	Maslach, Christina University of California, Berkeley	USA	Social Psychology #44 · top 0.16%	4.019	3,673	18	11.8	0.2%	96	1971–2023
97 #1,129 overall	Folkman, Susan University of California, San Francisco	USA	Social Psychology #45 · top 0.16%	4.016	2,295	22	13.7	0.7%	115	1980–2022
98 #1,170 overall	Cicchetti, Dante University of Minnesota Twin Cities	USA	Developmental & Child Psychology #13 · top 0.05%	4.007	3,300	26	16.8	4.2%	455	1976–2026
99 #1,174 overall	Botvinick, Matthew Michael Google DeepMind	GBR	Experimental Psychology #22 · top 0.06%	4.006	4,103	32	15.1	2.4%	184	1992–2026
100 #1,180 overall	Silvia, Paul J. The University of North Carolina at Greensboro	USA	Social Psychology #46 · top 0.16%	4.005	2,356	23	16.4	9.7%	284	1999–2026

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