Citation Rankings
Highly Cited Researchers
Social Sciences / Psychology Highly Cited Researchers 28 Scientists Citation Rankings - 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.
* Total 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
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
Experimental Psychology
Affective Neuroscience
Neurocognitive Poetics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
26,178
8,540
0.326
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
Cognitive Neuroscience
Decision Neuroscience
Social Neuroscience
Aging
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
23,786
9,017
0.379
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
11,481
5,993
0.522
* Total 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
* Total 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
* Total 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
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 8
occupational health psychology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
2,385
723
0.303
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 9
Psychometrics
Causal Inference
Open Science
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
2,015
1,089
0.540
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
Clinical Psychology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,824
1,508
0.827
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
Cognitive Neuroscience
Neuroimaging
Altered States of Consciousness
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,539
1,128
0.733
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 12
Leadership
organizational behavior
technology at work
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,512
837
0.554
* Total 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
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 14
behavioral economics
organizational psychology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
432
43
0.100
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 15
Psychologie biopsychologische orientierte Anthropologie
Natur-Kultur-Beziehungen
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
339
20
0.059
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 16
Experimental Psychology
Affective Neuroscience
Developmental Psychology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
140
123
0.879
* Total 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
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 18
psychoanalysis epistemology
Citation Metrics
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Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
105
28
0.267
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 19
Cognitive Neuroscience
Experimental Psychology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
63
34
0.540
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 20
Psychometrics
Item Response Theory
Bayesian Statistics
Cognitive Abilities
Julia
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
56
56
1.000
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 21
Psychology
Psychometrics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
45
36
0.800
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 22
Psychologie
Radikalisierung
Terrorismus
Extremismus
Psychosoziale Notfallversorgung
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
43
43
1.000
* Total 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
37
37
1.000
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 24
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
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 25
NLP
Bias
Psycholinguistics
Metascience
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
33
33
1.000
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,574
42
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
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
28,320
1,226
16
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
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
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
32,594
1,416
22
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
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
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
85,687
3,777
55
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
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
108,029
4,704
63
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
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
230,128
9,258
112
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
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
238,979
9,572
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
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
394,627
14,751
183
Ranking Based On Selection: 8
Amelie U Wiedemann
Freie Universität Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
2,385
723
0.303
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
446,377
16,364
204
Ranking Based On Selection: 9
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
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
478,497
17,357
217
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
Manuel Heinrich
Freie Universität Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,824
1,508
0.827
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
535,722
19,065
245
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
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
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
541,809
19,257
248
Ranking Based On Selection: 12
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
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
628,717
21,831
279
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
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
992,252
33,673
438
Ranking Based On Selection: 14
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
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,090,664
37,247
464
Ranking Based On Selection: 15
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
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,467,911
49,547
586
Ranking Based On Selection: 16
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
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,551,550
51,896
622
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
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,588,592
52,875
631
Ranking Based On Selection: 18
Eckart Leiser
Freie Universität Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
105
28
0.267
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,777,288
57,438
687
Ranking Based On Selection: 19
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
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,812,620
58,231
699
Ranking Based On Selection: 20
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
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,882,922
59,618
715
Ranking Based On Selection: 21
Augustin Mutak
Freie Universität Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
45
36
0.800
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,893,119
59,830
721
Ranking Based On Selection: 22
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
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,937,080
60,660
743
Ranking Based On Selection: 23
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
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,944,301
60,805
746
Ranking Based On Selection: 24
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
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,967,208
61,269
755
Ranking Based On Selection: 25
Louis Johannes Schiekiera
Freie Universität Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
33
33
1.000