Behavioral Neuroscience research
Behavioral Neuroscience is a subfield of Neuroscience. Science Explorer counts 64k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.
In short: field of scientific study.
- Research works
- 64k fractional, since 1950
- In the world top 10%
- 6.3k per year above
- Top-10% rate
- 9.9% share of its works in the world top 10%
- Topics
- 1
- Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
- +0% the tick is no change
- Largest producer
United States
41% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Which countries lead Behavioral Neuroscience research?
On research quality in 2022-now, the United States, China and Germany rank highest in Behavioral Neuroscience. By volume, the United States and China publish the most (2.7k and 1.4k works in 2022-now).
By research quality, 2022-now
- 1
United States #1 all time
1.06× citation excellence · 1.45× journals · 100% breadth
9.8% top 10% · 2.4k works
- 2
China #2 all time
1.25× citation excellence · 1.17× journals · 100% breadth
15.5% top 10% · 1.2k works
- 3
Germany #4 all time
1.15× citation excellence · 1.27× journals · 100% breadth
9.4% top 10% · 407 works
- 4
United Kingdom #3 all time
1.23× citation excellence · 1.44× journals · 100% breadth
11.5% top 10% · 272 works
- 5
Canada #5 all time
1.14× citation excellence · 1.23× journals · 100% breadth
10.0% top 10% · 281 works
- 6
Italy #13 all time
1.35× citation excellence · 0.65× journals · 100% breadth
14.6% top 10% · 224 works
- 7
Japan #15 all time
0.58× citation excellence · 0.94× journals · 100% breadth
5.3% top 10% · 338 works
- 8
India #19 all time
0.67× citation excellence · 0.36× journals · 100% breadth
7.5% top 10% · 252 works
- 9
Brazil #17 all time
0.69× citation excellence · 0.29× journals · 100% breadth
4.8% top 10% · 242 works
- 10
Russia #25 all time
0.26× citation excellence · 0.14× journals · 100% breadth
2.8% top 10% · 279 works
The track on each row is that row's top-10% rate. The ranking itself is the quality score, which compares the rate with what each place's own topics predict, adds its share of papers in the Nature Index journals, and counts output and breadth too.
Of 10 countries ranked in Behavioral Neuroscience. Ranked on the quality score for 2022-now; the bracket is the all-time rank.
All countries ranked in Behavioral NeuroscienceBy volume, 2022-now
- 1
United States
2.7k works
- 2
China
1.4k works
- 3
Germany
469 works
- 4
Japan
380 works
- 5
Canada
323 works
- 6
United Kingdom
318 works
- 7
Russia
306 works
- 8
India
300 works
- 9
Brazil
271 works
- 10
Italy
258 works
How concentrated that is
The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
Which institutions lead Behavioral Neuroscience research?
Harvard University (United States) ranks first in Behavioral Neuroscience on research quality in 2022-now, followed by Russian Academy of Sciences.
By research quality, 2022-now
- 1
Harvard University United States · Cambridge · #1 all time
16.0% top 10% · 96 works
- 2
Russian Academy of Sciences Russia · Moscow · #92 all time
3.0% top 10% · 115 works
The track on each row is that row's top-10% rate. The ranking itself is the quality score, which compares the rate with what each place's own topics predict, adds its share of papers in the Nature Index journals, and counts output and breadth too.
Of 2 institutions above the floor of 40 fractional works in Behavioral Neuroscience.
Top 100 Behavioral Neuroscience institutionsBy volume, 2022-now
- 1
Russian Academy of SciencesRussia
125 works
- 2
Harvard UniversityUnited States
109 works
- 3
University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States
81 works
- 4
University of TorontoCanada
48 works
- 5
Emory UniversityUnited States
45 works
- 6
United States Department of Veterans AffairsUnited States
44 works
- 7
National Institutes of HealthUnited States
42 works
- 8
Yale UniversityUnited States
40 works
- 9
University of California, Los AngelesUnited States
38 works
- 10
McGill UniversityCanada
38 works
Who are the leading researchers in Behavioral Neuroscience?
Counting only their work in Behavioral Neuroscience, Bruce S. McEwen, Clemens Kirschbaum and Michael Joseph Meaney have the most papers in the world top 10% for their subfield and year beyond the 10% expected.
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Bruce S. McEwen
United States · #3,557 worldwide overall
85.2 of 212 papers here in the top 10%
- 2
Clemens Kirschbaum
Germany · #43,756 worldwide overall
43.6 of 168 papers here in the top 10%
- 3
Michael Joseph Meaney
Canada · #13,711 worldwide overall
33.2 of 77 papers here in the top 10%
- 4
E. R. de Kloet
United Kingdom · #50,075 worldwide overall
36.7 of 149 papers here in the top 10%
- 5
Wylie Vale
United States · #18,355 worldwide overall
32.2 of 111 papers here in the top 10%
- 6
Charles B. Nemeroff
United States · #60,708 worldwide overall
33.5 of 126 papers here in the top 10%
- 7
George Panagiotis Chrousos
Greece · #274,079 worldwide overall
43.2 of 162 papers here in the top 10%
- 8
Robert Morris Sapolsky
United States · #48,779 worldwide overall
24.8 of 55 papers here in the top 10%
- 9
George F. Koob
United States · #11,043 worldwide overall
25.0 of 71 papers here in the top 10%
- 10
Carmine Maria Pariante
United Kingdom · #57,067 worldwide overall
29.5 of 116 papers here in the top 10%
Ranked on their work in Behavioral Neuroscience alone: how many more of their papers here reached the world top 10% for their subfield and year than the 10% expected, among 271,825 ranked researchers with a paper here. Each paper counts once, so many strong papers outrank one famous one, and a long record of ordinary papers does not climb. Identities come from OpenAlex author disambiguation, which occasionally merges or splits people.
Top 100 Behavioral Neuroscience researchersWhere is Behavioral Neuroscience research done?
The largest centres of Behavioral Neuroscience research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Moscow (Russia), New York (United States) and London (United Kingdom). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Belmont and Columbia.
Largest cities, 2022-now
- 1
BeijingChina
199 works
- 2
MoscowRussia
130 works
- 3
New YorkUnited States
127 works
- 4
LondonUnited Kingdom
112 works
- 5
TokyoJapan
99 works
- 6
ShanghaiChina
89 works
- 7
GuangzhouChina
83 works
- 8
BostonUnited States
81 works
- 9
Chapel HillUnited States
80 works
- 10
Seoul
South Korea
76 works
Where it is the local speciality
- BelmontUS · 20.2 works51×
- ColumbiaUS · 24.1 works6.6×
Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Behavioral Neuroscience than the world average.
Behavioral Neuroscience research by country
The best places for Behavioral Neuroscience research inside each country, with that country's researchers and world standing.
Where is the best place to study Behavioral Neuroscience?
Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, Yale University and Emory University score highest, combining standing in the field's ranking, citation excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.
One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.
Universities only. The score blends standing (50%), citation excellence (20%), size (15%), specialisation (5%), growth (5%), international reach (5%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise. Standing is the score in this field's institution ranking, three quarters over all time and a quarter 2022-now; excellence averages the two windows too. Four years alone undercount fields such as AI, where many conference and arXiv papers from 2022 on carry no affiliation in the data.
Every institution in Behavioral Neuroscience, country by countryIs Behavioral Neuroscience research growing?
Output in 2022-2025 was 0% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Stress Responses and Cortisol.
The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.
Its share of all research
Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Behavioral Neuroscience as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.038% in 2024.
Fractional works of Behavioral Neuroscience over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.
How much of it reaches the world top 10%
Year by year.
Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.
Which topics inside it are moving
Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.
What does Behavioral Neuroscience include?
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