Citation Rankings
Highly Cited Researchers
Social Sciences / Psychology Highly Cited Researchers 28 Scientists Citation Rankings (Sort by last 6 years Citation Index) - 2025
The Citation Rankings (Highly Cited Researchers) list highlight the most cited and influential researchers across a vast range of scientific fields, covering 197 main and sub-disciplines, including the Art and Humanities Citation Rankings and Social Sciences and Humanities Citation Rankings. This service, offered exclusively by AD Scientific Index, aims to provide a balanced perspective by excluding data from CERN and other statistical sources that disproportionately favor certain researchers, particularly in the social sciences and humanities. This unique approach addresses the advantages researchers with multi-author publications and CERN involvement hold over others. Furthermore, citation rankings help uncover rule violations and unethical practices within the research community. For more detailed citation analyses, explore the Scientists Last 6 Years Citation Index, Universities Total Citations Rankings 2025, and Universities Last 6 Years Citations Rankings 2025.
* 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
144,960
55,514
0.383
* 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
23,786
9,017
0.379
* 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
26,178
8,540
0.326
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
11,481
5,993
0.522
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
Cognitive Neuroscience
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
9,410
3,712
0.394
* 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
4,523
2,602
0.575
* 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
4,342
2,059
0.474
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 8
Clinical Psychology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,824
1,508
0.827
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 9
Cognitive Neuroscience
Neuroimaging
Altered States of Consciousness
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,539
1,128
0.733
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
Psychometrics
Causal Inference
Open Science
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
2,015
1,089
0.540
* 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
1,512
837
0.554
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 12
occupational health psychology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
2,385
723
0.303
* 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
1,180
511
0.433
* 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
140
123
0.879
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 15
Psychometrics
Item Response Theory
Bayesian Statistics
Cognitive Abilities
Julia
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
56
56
1.000
* 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
432
43
0.100
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 17
Computational bayesian models for neural surprise signals
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
115
43
0.374
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 18
Psychologie
Radikalisierung
Terrorismus
Extremismus
Psychosoziale Notfallversorgung
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
43
43
1.000
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 19
Social psychology
innovation research
agent based modelling
social network analysis
computational social science
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
37
37
1.000
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 20
Psychology
Psychometrics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
45
36
0.800
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 21
New Work
stress management
work psychology
positive psychology
happiness at work
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
36
36
1.000
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 22
Cognitive Neuroscience
Experimental Psychology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
63
34
0.540
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 23
NLP
Bias
Psycholinguistics
Metascience
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
33
33
1.000
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 24
psychoanalysis epistemology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
105
28
0.267
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 25
Psychologie biopsychologische orientierte Anthropologie
Natur-Kultur-Beziehungen
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
339
20
0.059
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
2,161
75
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 1
Uwe Flick
Freie Universität Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
144,960
55,514
0.383
Qualitative Research
Health Psychology
Mixed Methods
Social Representations
Qualitative Methods
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
36,739
1,596
15
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
Hauke Heekeren
Freie Universität Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
23,786
9,017
0.379
Cognitive Neuroscience
Decision Neuroscience
Social Neuroscience
Aging
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
39,802
1,725
18
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
Arthur M Jacobs
Freie Universität Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
26,178
8,540
0.326
Experimental Psychology
Affective Neuroscience
Neurocognitive Poetics
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
65,496
2,853
34
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
Babette Renneberg
Freie Universität Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
11,481
5,993
0.522
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
120,777
5,156
65
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
Felix Blankenburg
Freie Universität Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
9,410
3,712
0.394
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
182,055
7,609
94
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
Stefan Krumm
Freie Universität Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
4,523
2,602
0.575
situational judgment tests
experimental test validation
personnel selection
virtual teamwork
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
233,376
9,511
117
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
Lars Schulze
Freie Universität Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
4,342
2,059
0.474
Psychopathology
Psychotherapy
Neuroscience
Emotion
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
315,638
12,444
147
Ranking Based On Selection: 8
Manuel Heinrich
Freie Universität Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,824
1,508
0.827
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
405,289
15,488
200
Ranking Based On Selection: 9
Timo Torsten Schmidt
Freie Universität Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,539
1,128
0.733
Cognitive Neuroscience
Neuroimaging
Altered States of Consciousness
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
416,704
15,853
206
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
Steffi Pohl
Freie Universität Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
2,015
1,089
0.540
Psychometrics
Causal Inference
Open Science
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
507,229
18,786
240
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
Jenny S Wesche
Freie Universität Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,512
837
0.554
Leadership
organizational behavior
technology at work
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
559,768
20,517
261
Ranking Based On Selection: 12
Amelie U Wiedemann
Freie Universität Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
2,385
723
0.303
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
689,096
24,758
315
Ranking Based On Selection: 13
Flavia Adani
Freie Universität Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,180
511
0.433
Psycholinguistics
Language Acquisition
Syntax
Sentence Processing
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,339,726
46,707
553
Ranking Based On Selection: 14
Teresa Sylvester
Freie Universität Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
140
123
0.879
Experimental Psychology
Affective Neuroscience
Developmental Psychology
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,682,785
55,857
662
Ranking Based On Selection: 15
Tobias Alfers
Freie Universität Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
56
56
1.000
Psychometrics
Item Response Theory
Bayesian Statistics
Cognitive Abilities
Julia
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,773,051
57,802
696
Ranking Based On Selection: 16
Wolfgang Battmann
Freie Universität Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
432
43
0.100
behavioral economics
organizational psychology
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,774,185
57,822
697
Ranking Based On Selection: 17
Kathrin Tertel
Freie Universität Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
115
43
0.374
Computational bayesian models for neural surprise signals
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,780,211
57,940
698
Ranking Based On Selection: 18
Mika Josephine Moeller
Freie Universität Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
43
43
1.000
Psychologie
Radikalisierung
Terrorismus
Extremismus
Psychosoziale Notfallversorgung
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,832,964
58,988
712
Ranking Based On Selection: 19
Diego Dametto
Freie Universität Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
37
37
1.000
Social psychology
innovation research
agent based modelling
social network analysis
computational social science
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,837,294
59,067
714
Ranking Based On Selection: 20
Augustin Mutak
Freie Universität Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
45
36
0.800
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,841,796
59,186
716
Ranking Based On Selection: 21
Manon Elisa Schwake
Freie Universität Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
36
36
1.000
New Work
stress management
work psychology
positive psychology
happiness at work
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,853,839
59,465
723
Ranking Based On Selection: 22
Carolina Shimabukuro
Freie Universität Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
63
34
0.540
Cognitive Neuroscience
Experimental Psychology
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,869,525
59,776
731
Ranking Based On Selection: 23
Louis Johannes Schiekiera
Freie Universität Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
33
33
1.000
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,911,230
60,546
743
Ranking Based On Selection: 24
Eckart Leiser
Freie Universität Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
105
28
0.267
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
2,001,305
62,153
774
Ranking Based On Selection: 25
Peter Walschburger
Freie Universität Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
339
20
0.059
Psychologie biopsychologische orientierte Anthropologie
Natur-Kultur-Beziehungen