Clinical psychology Ph.D. program rankings: evaluating eminence on faculty publications and citations.

The authors counted every peer-reviewed paper and citation from faculty at 157 APA-approved clinical psychology Ph.D. programs.

They used public databases, not reputation surveys, to build a new ranking list.

Programs that publish the most heavily cited work rose to the top of the data-driven list.

Some well-known schools scored lower when only hard counts were used.

Sturmey (2009) shows that behavioral activation is now evidence-based. If you want training in that treatment, Baker et al. (2005) tells you which Ph.D. programs produce the most-cited behavior research.

Slanzi et al. (2024) teaches you to collect data with Countee; Baker et al. (2005) uses the same spirit—turn raw counts into better decisions.

Burney et al. (2023) urge behavior analysts to add qualitative interviews for social validity. Baker et al. (2005) stays purely quantitative, so the two pieces complement rather than clash.

Use the table to guide interns or yourself toward programs that publish often in behavior analysis. A school that lands high on this citation list is more likely to offer solid supervision and ongoing research you can join.