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Top Cognitive Neuroscience Researchers

Howard Gardner ranks first, out of 5,542 ranked researchers.

Composite score: field-normalised excellence, output and total citations weighted 50 / 30 / 20, each as a percentile so no single heavy-tailed measure dominates. Floor: 15 works, and an institution the snapshot can resolve.

The ranking

  1. 1 Howard Gardner United States · #205 worldwide 3.7k citations · 123 works
  2. 2 Alan Yuille United States · #243 worldwide 8.4k citations · 313 works
  3. 3 John T. Cacioppo United States · #364 worldwide 3.7k citations · 119 works
  4. 4 Reisa A. Sperling United States · #416 worldwide 2.1k citations · 153 works
  5. 5 Stephen M. Smith United Kingdom · #444 worldwide 3.5k citations · 106 works
  6. 6 James A. Russell United States · #453 worldwide 5k citations · 104 works
  7. 7 Edward T. Bullmore United Kingdom · #709 worldwide 2.6k citations · 165 works
  8. 8 Simon Baron‐Cohen United Kingdom · #719 worldwide 3.8k citations · 212 works
  9. 9 John C. Morris United States · #720 worldwide 5.1k citations · 361 works
  10. 10 Paul M. Matthews United Kingdom · #744 worldwide 2.2k citations · 118 works
  11. 11 Marcus E. Raichle United States · #860 worldwide 3.6k citations · 95 works
  12. 12 Masashi Yanagisawa Japan · #1,094 worldwide 2.2k citations · 108 works
  13. 13 Alan Baddeley United Kingdom · #1,115 worldwide 2.9k citations · 106 works
  14. 14 Jerome A. Yesavage United States · #1,257 worldwide 2.4k citations · 95 works
  15. 15 Heiko Braak Germany · #1,274 worldwide 2.9k citations · 90 works
  16. 16 Mel Slater United Kingdom · #1,307 worldwide 2.4k citations · 100 works
  17. 17 Stephen Grossberg United States · #1,406 worldwide 2.9k citations · 146 works
  18. 18 U. Rajendra Acharya Singapore · #1,415 worldwide 1.7k citations · 150 works
  19. 19 Tomaso Poggio United States · #1,473 worldwide 3k citations · 138 works
  20. 20 Barry J. Everitt United Kingdom · #1,474 worldwide 2.2k citations · 159 works
  21. 21 Gaël Varoquaux France · #1,504 worldwide 2k citations · 109 works
  22. 22 Rosalind W. Picard United States · #1,535 worldwide 2.5k citations · 112 works
  23. 23 L. Gauthier United States · #1,570 worldwide 3.7k citations · 141 works
  24. 24 Michael Rutter United Kingdom · #1,683 worldwide 2.2k citations · 146 works
  25. 25 Daniel C. Dennett United States · #1,701 worldwide 1.3k citations · 101 works
  26. 26 Joseph D. Buxbaum United States · #1,850 worldwide 2k citations · 87 works
  27. 27 Dan J. Stein South Africa · #1,863 worldwide 7.7k citations · 620 works
  28. 28 Jonathan D. Cohen United States · #1,868 worldwide 2.4k citations · 97 works
  29. 29 A. M. Litke United States · #1,926 worldwide 7.4k citations · 336 works
  30. 30 Anne M. Fagan United States · #1,978 worldwide 1.7k citations · 125 works
  31. 31 Joseph Biederman United States · #2,014 worldwide 1.9k citations · 156 works
  32. 32 Roy F. Baumeister United States · #2,038 worldwide 3.6k citations · 181 works
  33. 33 Steven T. DeKosky United States · #2,073 worldwide 1.9k citations · 124 works
  34. 34 Luís Augusto Rohde Brazil · #2,118 worldwide 1.6k citations · 113 works
  35. 35 Olaf Sporns United States · #2,129 worldwide 2.6k citations · 81 works
  36. 36 Michael I. Posner United States · #2,169 worldwide 1.9k citations · 84 works
  37. 37 Susan T. Fiske United States · #2,195 worldwide 3k citations · 120 works
  38. 38 John R. Anderson United States · #2,214 worldwide 2.3k citations · 124 works
  39. 39 Roland Wiest Switzerland · #2,222 worldwide 1.4k citations · 108 works
  40. 40 Anthony E. Lang Canada · #2,244 worldwide 2.3k citations · 193 works
  41. 41 Aude Oliva United States · #2,359 worldwide 1.9k citations · 82 works
  42. 42 William J. Jagust United States · #2,389 worldwide 1.7k citations · 153 works
  43. 43 Sonia Ancoli‐Israel United States · #2,421 worldwide 1.5k citations · 98 works
  44. 44 Daniel H. Geschwind United States · #2,503 worldwide 1.5k citations · 91 works
  45. 45 Mark R. Rosenzweig United States · #2,521 worldwide 2.1k citations · 158 works
  46. 46 Christof Koch United States · #2,536 worldwide 2.4k citations · 201 works
  47. 47 D. Louis Collins Canada · #2,617 worldwide 1.8k citations · 133 works
  48. 48 Richard M. Shiffrin United States · #2,751 worldwide 1.9k citations · 82 works
  49. 49 Yaakov Stern United States · #2,848 worldwide 2.1k citations · 178 works
  50. 50 Jan J. Koenderink Netherlands · #2,893 worldwide 1.7k citations · 109 works
  51. 51 David Cohen France · #3,010 worldwide 1.4k citations · 109 works
  52. 52 Leon O. Chua United States · #3,026 worldwide 4.1k citations · 243 works
  53. 53 Daniel L. Schacter United States · #3,030 worldwide 1.7k citations · 118 works
  54. 54 John C. Rothwell United Kingdom · #3,035 worldwide 2.2k citations · 246 works
  55. 55 Daniel J. Buysse United States · #3,072 worldwide 1.3k citations · 90 works
  56. 56 Mircea Steriade Canada · #3,084 worldwide 1.3k citations · 96 works
  57. 57 Pattie Maes United States · #3,144 worldwide 2.2k citations · 155 works
  58. 58 William C. Dement United States · #3,171 worldwide 1.6k citations · 74 works
  59. 59 Martin N. Rossor United Kingdom · #3,174 worldwide 1.9k citations · 175 works
  60. 60 Richard J. Davidson United States · #3,176 worldwide 2.5k citations · 150 works
  61. 61 David F. Dinges United States · #3,218 worldwide 1.5k citations · 70 works
  62. 62 David S. Knopman United States · #3,219 worldwide 3.2k citations · 310 works
  63. 63 Sandra E. Black Canada · #3,268 worldwide 2.3k citations · 223 works
  64. 64 Kristine Yaffe United States · #3,289 worldwide 2.4k citations · 204 works
  65. 65 Jeffrey L. Cummings United States · #3,306 worldwide 2.3k citations · 226 works
  66. 66 Uta Frith United Kingdom · #3,396 worldwide 2.1k citations · 66 works
  67. 67 J. Allan Hobson United States · #3,414 worldwide 1.4k citations · 71 works
  68. 68 Michael Fox United States · #3,457 worldwide 1.2k citations · 72 works
  69. 69 Abraham Z. Snyder United States · #3,471 worldwide 3k citations · 65 works
  70. 70 Ted J. Kaptchuk United States · #3,549 worldwide 888 citations · 70 works
  71. 71 Bharat B. Biswal United States · #3,588 worldwide 1.6k citations · 79 works
  72. 72 Brenda W.J.H. Penninx Netherlands · #3,593 worldwide 4k citations · 291 works
  73. 73 Stephen M. Kosslyn United States · #3,613 worldwide 1.1k citations · 82 works
  74. 74 Tien Yin Wong Singapore · #3,630 worldwide 4.3k citations · 462 works
  75. 75 Tom M. Mitchell United States · #3,636 worldwide 2.3k citations · 65 works
  76. 76 Jerome Engel United States · #3,671 worldwide 1.5k citations · 69 works
  77. 77 Maurizio Corbetta Italy · #3,678 worldwide 1.8k citations · 70 works
  78. 78 Sandra Weıntraub United States · #3,711 worldwide 1.3k citations · 72 works
  79. 79 Bradley F. Boeve United States · #3,791 worldwide 2.1k citations · 219 works
  80. 80 Sarah E. Medland Australia · #3,861 worldwide 1.7k citations · 132 works
  81. 81 Gary H. Glover United States · #3,901 worldwide 1k citations · 83 works
  82. 82 Álvaro Pascual‐Leone United States · #4,025 worldwide 1.4k citations · 144 works
  83. 83 Walter Paulus Germany · #4,039 worldwide 1.5k citations · 137 works
  84. 84 Christian F. Beckmann Netherlands · #4,042 worldwide 1.5k citations · 73 works
  85. 85 Andy Clark United Kingdom · #4,109 worldwide 1.3k citations · 104 works
  86. 86 Andrew Kertesz Canada · #4,144 worldwide 1.4k citations · 64 works
  87. 87 James L. McClelland United States · #4,162 worldwide 1.9k citations · 82 works
  88. 88 Stephen Salloway United States · #4,268 worldwide 1k citations · 79 works
  89. 89 Giulio Tononi United States · #4,586 worldwide 1.3k citations · 103 works
  90. 90 Nick C. Fox United Kingdom · #4,667 worldwide 2.3k citations · 238 works
  91. 91 Tzyy‐Ping Jung United States · #4,776 worldwide 1.5k citations · 109 works
  92. 92 Peter J. Lang United States · #4,788 worldwide 2.4k citations · 61 works
  93. 93 John H. Krystal United States · #4,799 worldwide 1.4k citations · 111 works
  94. 94 Шун-ичи Амари Japan · #4,828 worldwide 1.6k citations · 113 works
  95. 95 Harald Walach Germany · #4,900 worldwide 973 citations · 117 works
  96. 96 José M. Ferro Portugal · #4,949 worldwide 801 citations · 95 works
  97. 97 Simon C. Gandevia Australia · #4,962 worldwide 1.3k citations · 83 works
  98. 98 Allan I Pack United States · #5,053 worldwide 1k citations · 98 works
  99. 99 David H. Brainard United States · #5,061 worldwide 1.1k citations · 71 works
  100. 100 H. Hécaen France · #5,085 worldwide 901 citations · 64 works

authors from the 6,000 highest-output in Cognitive Neuroscience, re-ranked on the composite score. Author identities come from OpenAlex disambiguation and inherit its errors: a merged record can put one name over two people’s work, and a split one can halve a career. Every row links out to the OpenAlex record so the underlying claim is checkable, and anything that looks wrong can be reported from the row. That report files a correction against the bibliographic record for a human to review — it is not a removal or delisting request, and no such route exists yet.

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