Name: List of Top Disciplines of Psychology sorted by citations
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Published: 2026-01-17T11:30:22Z
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179(top 5%)

papers

4.9K(top 5%)

citations

35(top 5%)

h-index

66(top 5%)

g-index

221

all documents

6.1K

doc citations

1.9K

citing journals

Top Disciplines (by citations)

#	Discipline	Articles	Citations	R ARank	R CRank
1	Social Psychology	26	627	42	91
2	Child psychology	8	625	301	155
3	Biology	3	417	8484	3144
4	Pharmacology	11	414	853	931
5	Biochemistry	9	390	2177	1808
6	Eating Disorders	11	371	145	163
6	Feeding and Eating Disorders	11	371	144	163
8	preventive medicine	1	335	348	112
9	drug addiction	8	316	212	261
9	alcoholism	8	316	244	279
11	Physiology	2	270	3436	996
12	Behavior	7	225	323	499
13	Science	5	221	3823	4886
13	Visual Perception	5	221	920	734
13	Memory	5	221	937	747
13	Attention	5	221	923	737
13	Perception	5	221	928	747
18	Psychology	11	208	682	1168
19	Criminal psychology	8	197	62	110
20	Child Development	12	194	114	291
21	adolescence	5	167	142	233
22	Socialization	7	164	11	17
23	Psychophysiology	9	143	290	811
24	Toxicology	7	120	558	1150
25	Adolescent	5	116	637	1112
26	Forensic Psychology	5	113	53	53
26	Virology	3	113	926	1893
28	Cognition	4	111	293	325
29	Medicine	2	105	8044	6774
29	Health	2	105	1083	836
29	Stress	2	105	126	82
32	Forensic Psychiatry	5	99	76	108
33	Autism	2	98	413	403
34	Adolescent Psychology	3	93	306	427
35	Asia	2	87	901	356
36	United States	5	85	1361	1704
37	Suicide	2	71	249	255
38	Mental Disorders	3	66	905	1565
38	consumer behavior	2	66	73	97
40	investigative techniques	4	65	19	30
41	Criminal behavior	2	59	58	42
41	Mental illness	2	59	706	1131
43	Adolescent Medicine	1	58	152	172
44	Educational Psychology	4	50	218	437
45	Relationships	6	47	3	8
46	Consumer Protection	1	42	46	42
46	Consumer education	1	42	141	186
46	consumers	1	42	58	55
49	medical education	1	41	936	844
50	Neuropsychology	3	36	240	814
51	Body Image	1	33	20	31
52	Oncology	1	28	2573	3612
53	Brain	2	26	449	1200
54	personality	5	25	42	333
55	Community Psychology	4	24	191	839
56	Growth	3	23	541	1769
57	Pediatrics	2	21	1109	2647
57	Diabetes mellitus	1	21	1429	2218
57	Diabetes	1	21	2183	3214
60	Psychiatry	3	20	1819	4940
61	Neurophysiology	1	19	1091	1822
61	Post-traumatic stress disorder	1	19	637	906
63	Epidemiology	1	18	2014	2936
63	Social behavior	3	18	144	693
65	Social Sciences	1	17	1539	1595
66	Psychopharmacology	1	15	811	1270
66	color	1	15	238	299
68	Geriatric Psychiatry	1	14	1202	1930
69	School Psychology	1	12	160	264
69	school psychologists	1	12	126	185
71	Nutrition	1	11	3441	6242
71	Public Health	1	11	3758	6671
71	Health promotion	1	11	470	856
71	Diet	1	11	745	1493
71	violence	3	11	117	639
71	Aggression	3	11	72	527
77	Child	2	10	2291	5532
77	Obesity	2	10	2108	6511
79	Linguistics	2	9	322	1021
79	Therapeutics	1	9	2026	4744
79	drug therapy	1	9	2760	5721
82	Clinical Psychology	2	8	662	2024
83	Neurochemistry	1	7	1857	4422
83	Mental Health Services	1	7	739	1225
83	Research	1	7	8340	14390
86	Sports Medicine	1	6	1533	3225
86	Well-being	2	6	53	297
86	Sports	1	6	1261	2906
86	visualization	1	6	2393	1683
90	Statistics	1	5	2215	3346
90	Applied Linguistics	1	5	112	236
90	Psychometrics	1	5	112	263
93	Information Theory	1	4	515	1161
93	Artificial Intelligence	1	4	1948	4322
93	Special Education	1	4	283	503
93	Psycholinguistics	1	4	584	1261
93	Intelligence	1	4	392	928
93	Learning disabilities	1	4	608	1380
93	Intellectual disability	1	4	690	1535
100	Education	1	3	1630	3212
100	child behavior	1	3	67	199

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