Psychology Research Strength
Explore universities with the strongest current Psychology topic signals in the ITS Research Intelligence database, alongside institution-level research performance and growth.
Research landscape
Psychology currently has 45 index-ready universities contributing strong topic signals in the local database. Their aggregated topic-signal volume is 117,774 works. The average overall ITS Research Performance Score across this set is 0.0, while average five-year publication growth is -9.5%.
The ranking below combines the strength of an institution’s field signal with its overall research-performance score and recent growth. It should be read as a research-intelligence indicator, not as a complete subject ranking of teaching, reputation, facilities or student outcomes.
Leading universities in Psychology
| Rank | University | Country | Field score | Field signal | Overall works | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | King's College London | United Kingdom | 66.5 | 12,088 | 77,599 | -12.2% |
| #2 | University of Pittsburgh | United States | 62.0 | 3,535 | 92,221 | 86.4% |
| #3 | Université Paris Cité | France | 60.7 | 5,445 | 86,947 | -20.8% |
| #4 | The University of Melbourne | Australia | 60.0 | 4,808 | 102,835 | -15.1% |
| #5 | University of Kansas | United States | 59.9 | 4,386 | 21,406 | -2.8% |
| #6 | Aarhus University | Denmark | 59.8 | 5,030 | 63,686 | -28.5% |
| #7 | Yale University | United States | 59.8 | 3,373 | 116,263 | 40.1% |
| #8 | Universidade de São Paulo | Brazil | 59.6 | 4,706 | 128,674 | -22.8% |
| #9 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | United States | 58.8 | 3,468 | 100,281 | 11.4% |
| #10 | Columbia University | United States | 58.7 | 3,887 | 78,881 | -12.3% |
| #11 | Duke University | United States | 58.5 | 3,779 | 68,734 | -12.6% |
| #12 | Aalborg University | Denmark | 57.9 | 3,883 | 32,192 | -30.7% |
| #13 | University of California, Los Angeles | United States | 57.9 | 3,632 | 93,873 | -20.9% |
| #14 | Pennsylvania State University | United States | 57.2 | 3,228 | 63,076 | -16.9% |
| #15 | Florida State University | United States | 56.7 | 2,782 | 22,889 | -4.2% |
| #16 | Arizona State University | United States | 56.2 | 2,625 | 47,052 | -5.9% |
| #17 | Temple University | United States | 56.2 | 2,666 | 20,345 | -9.2% |
| #18 | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | The Netherlands | 56.0 | 2,692 | 46,058 | -15.8% |
| #19 | University of South Florida | United States | 55.7 | 2,560 | 30,252 | -14.3% |
| #20 | New York University | United States | 55.6 | 2,344 | 68,911 | -2.6% |
| #21 | University of Minnesota | United States | 54.9 | 2,409 | 55,139 | -22.9% |
| #22 | Tehran University of Medical Sciences | Iran | 54.7 | 2,350 | 39,016 | -25.2% |
| #23 | University of Amsterdam | The Netherlands | 54.0 | 1,828 | 64,708 | 1.4% |
| #24 | Brown University | United States | 53.7 | 1,867 | 45,712 | -10.1% |
| #25 | Universidad de Buenos Aires | Argentina | 53.6 | 2,174 | 31,997 | -39.1% |
| #26 | University of Miami | United States | 53.4 | 1,775 | 39,924 | -9.6% |
| #27 | The University of Queensland | Australia | 53.1 | 1,797 | 75,537 | -18.9% |
| #28 | University of Illinois Chicago | United States | 52.7 | 1,489 | 43,061 | 3.3% |
| #29 | Vanderbilt University | United States | 52.4 | 1,594 | 34,732 | -14.6% |
| #30 | UNSW Sydney | Australia | 52.3 | 1,607 | 74,768 | -18.2% |
| #31 | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey | United States | 52.1 | 1,479 | 52,409 | -9.5% |
| #32 | University of Missouri | United States | 51.9 | 1,399 | 26,737 | -4.7% |
| #33 | Texas Tech University | United States | 51.7 | 1,302 | 27,384 | 1.5% |
| #34 | Leiden University | The Netherlands | 51.6 | 1,381 | 33,250 | -9.5% |
| #35 | Utrecht University | The Netherlands | 51.6 | 1,728 | 79,529 | -53.2% |
| #36 | Philipps University of Marburg | Germany | 51.3 | 1,036 | 21,032 | 31.8% |
| #37 | University of South Carolina | United States | 50.9 | 1,243 | 23,773 | -10.2% |
| #38 | Stony Brook University | United States | 50.8 | 1,270 | 26,965 | -15.7% |
| #39 | University at Buffalo, State University of New York | United States | 50.3 | 1,080 | 26,875 | -1.3% |
| #40 | University of Houston | United States | 50.1 | 1,073 | 22,866 | -4.4% |
| #41 | University of Connecticut | United States | 49.9 | 1,170 | 24,293 | -24.0% |
| #42 | Indiana University Bloomington | United States | 49.8 | 1,070 | 21,627 | -11.7% |
| #43 | Wayne State University | United States | 49.0 | 991 | 23,017 | -18.4% |
| #44 | George Washington University | United States | 48.5 | 908 | 28,601 | -15.2% |
| #45 | University of Cincinnati | United States | 47.7 | 837 | 24,254 | -21.8% |
How to interpret this field page
Field classifications are inferred from the scholarly works associated with institutions in OpenAlex. An institution can therefore appear strongly in several fields at once, and topic classifications may evolve as the scholarly graph is updated. ITS Research Solution does not infer a faculty or department simply from the existence of a topic signal.
Why every database record does not become an SEO page
ITS Research Solution only indexes pages when the underlying data is rich enough to support useful comparison and interpretation. Registry-only records, short research histories, missing topics and low-completeness profiles stay in the database but remain outside the public sitemap. This prevents repetitive, thin institution and subject pages.