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Two researchers from the Experimental Psychology have made it onto the 2025 list.

Masud and Daniel
Masu Husain, Daniel Freeman

The Clarivate Highly Cited list identifies and celebrates researchers who have demonstrated a "significant and broad influence" in science or medicine-related disciplines.

The researchers selected have authored multiple highly cited papers which rank in the top one per cent in their fields over the past eleven years according to the Web of Science. The list is then refined by Clarivate using qualitative analysis and expert judgement for evidence of community-wide recognition.

There were 59 researchers from the University of Oxford who were on the list, two of which were from Experimental Psychology. They are:

There were 59 researchers from the University of Oxford who were on the list, four of which were from the Department of Psychiatry. They are:

 

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