Name: List of Top Disciplines of Psychology sorted by citations
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Published: 2026-01-17T13:50:59Z
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178(top 5%)

papers

4.1K(top 5%)

citations

34(top 5%)

h-index

60(top 5%)

g-index

222

all documents

4.9K

doc citations

1.8K

citing journals

Top Disciplines (by citations)

#	Discipline	Articles	Citations	R ARank	R CRank
1	Psychology	16	559	432	453
2	Psychiatry	8	364	784	833
3	Education	9	331	248	158
4	Clinical Psychology	3	323	470	140
5	Educational Technology	2	314	175	41
6	Neurology	7	313	1299	1627
7	Learning disabilities	8	300	54	49
8	Pediatric Neurology	1	267	978	382
8	Nervous system	1	267	1345	473
10	language	2	263	176	78
11	Eating Disorders	3	262	479	234
11	Feeding and Eating Disorders	3	262	475	234
13	Adolescent	6	199	527	742
14	counseling	5	191	234	163
15	Social Psychology	7	167	276	356
15	Climate change	1	167	1820	1623
15	Biodiversity conservation	1	167	2368	1831
15	Eutrophication	1	167	1698	1595
15	Environment	1	167	4407	2927
15	Pollution	1	167	3537	2176
21	Cognition	8	146	129	234
22	Sociology	1	128	1137	475
22	War and Society	1	128	73	74
22	warfare	1	128	100	84
22	peace	1	128	121	88
22	international cooperation	1	128	156	110
27	Developmental Psychology	4	125	223	344
28	Information Theory	5	120	107	143
28	Linguistics	5	120	121	152
28	Artificial Intelligence	5	120	377	552
28	Psycholinguistics	5	120	124	180
28	Intelligence	5	120	71	93
33	adolescence	3	110	261	366
33	Adolescent Psychology	4	110	214	369
35	psychotherapy	3	109	204	206
36	Asia	2	103	901	305
37	Science	4	100	4699	8404
37	Visual Perception	4	100	1198	1683
37	Memory	4	100	1216	1701
37	Attention	4	100	1201	1695
37	Perception	4	100	1207	1694
42	Behavior	3	98	748	1016
43	human development	2	96	344	364
44	Vocational guidance	3	95	186	189
45	Dyslexia	2	93	28	20
46	Child Development	7	80	221	675
46	Child psychology	10	80	231	1088
48	Decision making	1	76	674	245
49	Vocational Education	1	75	338	179
50	health behavior	2	66	197	248
50	Research Design	2	66	216	357
50	Health	2	66	1083	1258
53	Personality Disorders	2	50	95	158
53	Growth	3	50	541	1298
55	Child	3	49	1549	2212
55	Mental Disorders	2	49	1223	1790
55	Mental Health Services	2	49	467	431
58	Educational Psychology	8	47	100	462
59	Anatomy	1	43	2645	2400
59	Molecular Biology	1	43	14639	14672
59	Dementia	3	43	975	2056
59	Alzheimer's disease	3	43	981	2084
63	Child welfare	1	40	278	209
63	Social work	1	40	724	532
65	brain mapping	1	39	1525	1788
66	educational innovations	1	35	186	242
67	Biology	3	34	8484	14590
68	medical education	2	32	554	1007
69	Psychophysiology	3	31	815	1965
70	Reading	2	29	111	159
71	Social Issues	1	27	24	43
71	Social problems	1	27	105	185
73	Hippocampus	2	25	133	475
73	drug addiction	1	25	1274	1815
73	child behavior	1	25	67	116
73	alcoholism	1	25	1420	1960
77	visualization	4	21	299	705
77	Research	4	21	2660	9961
79	Physiology	1	18	5694	8501
80	School Psychology	3	16	72	219
80	school psychologists	3	16	49	155
82	Career development	1	15	132	208
83	Neurochemistry	1	14	1857	3864
84	Geriatric Psychiatry	2	13	665	2024
84	Cognitive Science	2	13	258	933
86	United States	2	11	3002	6343
87	Hematology	1	9	3277	4906
87	blood transfusion	1	9	1158	1811
87	Autism	1	9	709	1485
90	Forensic Psychology	1	8	283	549
90	Forensic Psychiatry	1	8	381	729
92	Mental Health	1	7	886	1547
92	pain management	1	7	744	1962
92	pain	1	7	905	2271
92	Australia	1	7	1632	2872
96	Intellectual disability	1	6	690	1393
97	Human biology	1	4	507	1093
98	Public Policy	1	3	481	1314
98	Community Psychiatry	1	3	696	1293
98	Social welfare	1	3	561	1743
98	Socialization	1	3	157	399
102	Ophthalmology	1	2	368	952
102	Social perception	1	2	6	45
102	personality	1	2	292	666
102	Social behavior	1	2	452	1235
102	Vision	1	2	75	229
107	Developmental Neurobiology	2	1	267	2005
107	Evolution	1	1	1773	4346
109	Pediatrics	1	0	1839	4854
109	Neuropsychology	1	0	664	1929

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Top Disciplines (by citations)