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* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :1
Qualitative Research
Health Psychology
Mixed Methods
Social Representations
Qualitative Methods
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
137,935
59,711
0.433
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :2
Cognitive Neuroscience
Decision Neuroscience
Social Neuroscience
Aging
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
22,951
9,963
0.434
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :3
Experimental Psychology
Affective Neuroscience
Neurocognitive Poetics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
25,341
9,507
0.375
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :4
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
10,764
6,048
0.562
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :5
Cognitive Neuroscience
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
9,189
4,130
0.449
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :6
situational judgment tests
experimental test validation
personnel selection
virtual teamwork
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
4,283
2,730
0.637
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :7
Psychopathology
Psychotherapy
Neuroscience
Emotion
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
4,078
2,175
0.533
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :8
Clinical Psychology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,629
1,438
0.883
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :9
Psychometrics
Causal Inference
Open Science
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,935
1,176
0.608
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :10
Cognitive Neuroscience
Neuroimaging
Altered States of Consciousness
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,384
1,076
0.777
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :11
Leadership
organizational behavior
technology at work
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,420
887
0.625
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :12
occupational health psychology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
2,318
822
0.355
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :13
Psycholinguistics
Language Acquisition
Syntax
Sentence Processing
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,138
559
0.491
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :14
Experimental Psychology
Affective Neuroscience
Developmental Psychology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
129
117
0.907
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :15
Computational bayesian models for neural surprise signals
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
111
53
0.477
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :16
behavioral economics
organizational psychology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
427
50
0.117
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :17
Psychology
Psychometrics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
41
38
0.927
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :18
Cognitive Neuroscience
Experimental Psychology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
61
35
0.574
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :19
Psychometrics
Item Response Theory
Bayesian Statistics
Cognitive Abilities
Julia
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
33
33
1.000
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :20
Psychologie
Radikalisierung
Terrorismus
Extremismus
Psychosoziale Notfallversorgung
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
32
31
0.969
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :21
psychoanalysis epistemology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
103
28
0.272
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :22
NLP
Bias
Mental Health
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
28
28
1.000
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :23
Social psychology
innovation research
agent based modelling
social network analysis
computational social science
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
28
28
1.000
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :24
Psychologie biopsychologische orientierte Anthropologie
Natur-Kultur-Beziehungen
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
338
24
0.071
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :25
New Work
stress management
work psychology
positive psychology
happiness at work
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
24
24
1.000
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
2,086
68
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 1
Uwe Flick
Freie Universität Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
137,935
59,711
0.433
Qualitative Research
Health Psychology
Mixed Methods
Social Representations
Qualitative Methods
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
34,126
1,491
14
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
Hauke Heekeren
Freie Universität Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
22,951
9,963
0.434
Cognitive Neuroscience
Decision Neuroscience
Social Neuroscience
Aging
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
36,482
1,600
19
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
Arthur M Jacobs
Freie Universität Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
25,341
9,507
0.375
Experimental Psychology
Affective Neuroscience
Neurocognitive Poetics
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
69,133
3,032
36
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
Babette Renneberg
Freie Universität Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
10,764
6,048
0.562
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
112,288
4,807
61
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
Felix Blankenburg
Freie Universität Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
9,189
4,130
0.449
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
181,272
7,584
93
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
Stefan Krumm
Freie Universität Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
4,283
2,730
0.637
situational judgment tests
experimental test validation
personnel selection
virtual teamwork
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
230,298
9,432
115
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
Lars Schulze
Freie Universität Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
4,078
2,175
0.533
Psychopathology
Psychotherapy
Neuroscience
Emotion
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
341,972
13,367
159
Ranking Based On Selection: 8
Manuel Heinrich
Freie Universität Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,629
1,438
0.883
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
405,735
15,446
191
Ranking Based On Selection: 9
Steffi Pohl
Freie Universität Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,935
1,176
0.608
Psychometrics
Causal Inference
Open Science
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
435,303
16,425
209
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
Timo Torsten Schmidt
Freie Universität Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,384
1,076
0.777
Cognitive Neuroscience
Neuroimaging
Altered States of Consciousness
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
502,138
18,555
236
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
Jenny S Wesche
Freie Universität Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,420
887
0.625
Leadership
organizational behavior
technology at work
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
529,150
19,433
249
Ranking Based On Selection: 12
Amelie U Wiedemann
Freie Universität Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
2,318
822
0.355
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
668,816
23,863
307
Ranking Based On Selection: 13
Flavia Adani
Freie Universität Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,138
559
0.491
Psycholinguistics
Language Acquisition
Syntax
Sentence Processing
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,352,760
46,960
554
Ranking Based On Selection: 14
Teresa Sylvester
Freie Universität Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
129
117
0.907
Experimental Psychology
Affective Neuroscience
Developmental Psychology
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,682,557
55,694
664
Ranking Based On Selection: 15
Kathrin Tertel
Freie Universität Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
111
53
0.477
Computational bayesian models for neural surprise signals
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,702,995
56,192
672
Ranking Based On Selection: 16
Wolfgang Battmann
Freie Universität Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
427
50
0.117
behavioral economics
organizational psychology
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,802,673
58,250
695
Ranking Based On Selection: 17
Augustin Mutak
Freie Universität Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
41
38
0.927
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,826,839
58,730
705
Ranking Based On Selection: 18
Carolina Shimabukuro
Freie Universität Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
61
35
0.574
Cognitive Neuroscience
Experimental Psychology
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,851,843
59,240
716
Ranking Based On Selection: 19
Tobias Alfers
Freie Universität Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
33
33
1.000
Psychometrics
Item Response Theory
Bayesian Statistics
Cognitive Abilities
Julia
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,868,571
59,570
725
Ranking Based On Selection: 20
Mika Josephine Moeller
Freie Universität Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
32
31
0.969
Psychologie
Radikalisierung
Terrorismus
Extremismus
Psychosoziale Notfallversorgung
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,893,843
60,070
733
Ranking Based On Selection: 21
Eckart Leiser
Freie Universität Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
103
28
0.272
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,901,872
60,192
738
Ranking Based On Selection: 22
Louis Johannes Schiekiera
Freie Universität Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
28
28
1.000
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,903,508
60,224
739
Ranking Based On Selection: 23
Diego Dametto
Freie Universität Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
28
28
1.000
Social psychology
innovation research
agent based modelling
social network analysis
computational social science
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,936,562
60,820
753
Ranking Based On Selection: 24
Peter Walschburger
Freie Universität Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
338
24
0.071
Psychologie biopsychologische orientierte Anthropologie
Natur-Kultur-Beziehungen
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,946,438
60,986
756
Ranking Based On Selection: 25
Manon Elisa Schwake
Freie Universität Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
24
24
1.000
New Work
stress management
work psychology
positive psychology
happiness at work