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Top Applied Psychology Research Institutions

Harvard University ranks first in 2022-now, followed by Stanford University and University of Oxford, out of 27 ranked institutions.

Quality score: the square root of excellence (the share of works in the world top 10% against what the place's own topics predict, on English-language articles and reviews) times the square root of the journal factor (its papers in the Nature Index's selective journals against what its topics predict), times output to the power 0.3 times breadth (how much of the selected area it works in) to the power 0.25. Floor: 40 fractional works in this field.

Ranked by research quality, 2022-now

#InstitutionScoreTop-10% rateWorksCitationsAll time
1Harvard UniversityUnited States · Cambridge 100.0 16.3% 198 2.3k#1
2Stanford UniversityUnited States · Stanford 79.0 18.4% 89 1.3k#2
3University of OxfordUnited Kingdom · Oxford 66.7 14.1% 67 768#13
4University of TorontoCanada · Toronto 57.9 12.9% 152 1.4k#11
5University of WashingtonUnited States · Seattle 51.2 10.4% 92 896#14
6Cornell UniversityUnited States · Ithaca 45.6 13.9% 65 570#9
7Columbia UniversityUnited States · New York 41.0 9.4% 63 625#7
8University of PennsylvaniaUnited States · Philadelphia 36.9 12.3% 71 691#4
9University College LondonUnited Kingdom · London 33.3 14.0% 94 1.1k#3
10University of MichiganUnited States · Ann Arbor 30.1 11.3% 86 643#5
11New York UniversityUnited States · New York 27.2 12.9% 66 799#6
12Yale UniversityUnited States · New Haven 24.6 11.0% 61 547#10
13The University of MelbourneAustralia · Melbourne 22.2 13.0% 86 928#21
14King's College LondonUnited Kingdom · London 19.9 13.4% 86 885#53
15Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States · Baltimore 17.8 9.8% 71 644#15
16The University of QueenslandAustralia · Brisbane 15.9 20.3% 67 813#51
17UNSW SydneyAustralia · Sydney 14.0 12.0% 71 658#39
18Monash UniversityAustralia · Melbourne 12.3 13.1% 62 605#40
19University of British ColumbiaCanada · Vancouver 10.7 13.7% 80 785#33
20The University of SydneyAustralia · Sydney 9.1 15.8% 77 805#66
21Pennsylvania State UniversityUnited States · State College 7.6 10.4% 77 590#47
22United States Department of Veterans AffairsUnited States · Washington 6.2 8.9% 71 514#35
23Indiana UniversityUnited States · Bloomington 4.9 7.5% 68 415#48
24Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance · Paris 3.6 8.0% 63 399#84
25The Ohio State UniversityUnited States · Columbus 2.3 9.0% 67 442#62
26University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States · Chapel Hill 114.5 4.2% 149 469#41
27Islamic Azad University, TehranIran · Tehran 0.0 1.0% 142 192-

institutions ranked worldwide in Applied Psychology (27). rank on the quality score within the stated pool. The score track runs 0 to 100; the rate track carries no average mark, because the average differs by field (about 6% in Dentistry, 21% in Economics).

How spread out this pool is

Every row above on one axis, one tick each. Right is a higher score. A field where the top few are far clear of everyone and one that runs down evenly look identical as a table.

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Ranked by volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 231 works
  2. 2 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 191 works
  3. 3 University of TorontoCanada 174 works
  4. 4 Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 149 works
  5. 5 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 107 works
  6. 6 Stanford UniversityUnited States 104 works
  7. 7 University of WashingtonUnited States 103 works
  8. 8 King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 103 works
  9. 9 University of MichiganUnited States 100 works
  10. 10 The University of MelbourneAustralia 96 works
  11. 11 University of British ColumbiaCanada 93 works
  12. 12 Pennsylvania State UniversityUnited States 90 works
  13. 13 The University of SydneyAustralia 88 works
  14. 14 New York UniversityUnited States 82 works
  15. 15 United States Department of Veterans AffairsUnited States 82 works

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