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389 faculty · 132 courses · data as of 2026-07-02
John Gaddis, Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military & Naval History h-index 39
Cold War history; Historical methodology; Biography; Grand Strategy Bio: John Lewis Gaddis is Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History at Yale University, where he teaches courses on the Cold War, grand strategy
Notable: “The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past” (2003) · 482 citations
Paul Kennedy, J. Richardson Dilworth Professor of History h-index 33
Great power relations, 19th & 20th centuries; Military & naval history; British foreign & imperial history; Contemporary global security issues; United Nations history Bio: Paul Kennedy, the J. Richardson Dilworth P
Notable: “The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000” (1989) · 971 citations
Lauren Benton, Barton M. Biggs Professor of History and Professor of Law h-index 29
Comparative empires; history of international law; Atlantic history; global and international history; British and Iberian empires Bio: A comparative and world historian, Benton writes about global legal history and the history
Notable: “The Informal Economy: Studies in Advanced and Less Developed Countries.” (1990) · 804 citations
Daniel Kevles, Stanley Woodward Professor Emeritus of History, History of Medicine & American Studies h-index 26
Notable: “In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity” (1986) · 1,072 citations
Courses: Two-Term Senior Essay (First Term) · Two-Term Senior Essay (Second Term) · One-Term Senior Essay
John Bargh, James Rowland Angell Professor Psychology and Cognitive Science and of Management h-index 102
Notable: “The unbearable automaticity of being.” (1999) · 3,616 citations
Marcia Johnson, Sterling Professor of Psychology Emeritus h-index 95
Notable: “Contextual prerequisites for understanding: Some investigations of comprehension and recall” (1972) · 2,155 citations
Richard Aslin, Senior Scientist, Haskins Laboratories h-index 84
Notable: “Statistical Learning by 8-Month-Old Infants” (1996) · 5,689 citations
Joshua Knobe, Professor of Philosophy, of Linguistics and of Psychology h-index 62
Notable: “The Folk Concept of Intentionality” (1997) · 746 citations
Walter Jetz, Faculty h-index 107
Our work is interdisciplinary and combines elements of biogeography, community ecology, landscape ecology, macroecology, global change ecology, evolution, comparative biology, biodiversity informatics and conservation. We use mostly
Notable: “The global diversity of birds in space and time” (2012) · 4,021 citations
Michael Donoghue, Faculty h-index 106
Notable: “Phylogenies and Community Ecology” (2002) · 4,623 citations
Günter Wagner, Faculty h-index 86
Homology/character identity/novelty Any empirical research on the evolution of morphological characters has to be based on some idea of what the units of evolution are and what constitutes something new as compared to a modification
Notable: “Measurement of mRNA abundance using RNA-seq data: RPKM measure is inconsistent among samples” (2012) · 2,354 citations
Oswald Schmitz, Affiliated Faculty h-index 73
Professor Schmitz’s research examines the dynamics and structure of terrestrial food webs. His specific focus is on plant-herbivore interactions and how they are shaped by carnivores and soil-nutrient levels, both at the level of her
Notable: “Status and Ecological Effects of the World’s Largest Carnivores” (2014) · 3,636 citations
Courses: Conservation Biology · History of Life · Plants and People · Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (core course) · Plant Diversity and Evolution · Biology of Terrestrial Arthropods +16 more
Ian Shapiro, Sterling Professor h-index 69
Notable: “What Are the Origins of Political Trust?” (2001) · 1,370 citations
Steven Smith, Alfred Cowles Professor h-index 59
Notable: “Comparative Politics and the Comparative Method” (1971) · 3,076 citations
Alan Gerber, Sterling Professor h-index 55
Es on the political economy of evidence production and use in public policy and organizations. He has published extensively on the application of experimental methods to the study of campaign communications, and he has designed and performe
Notable: “The Effects of Canvassing, Telephone Calls, and Direct Mail on Voter Turnout: A Field Experiment” (2000) · 1,384 citations
Gregory Huber, Forst Family Professor h-index 46
In American Politics and Political Economy, including work on political institution and behavior. For a complete listing of ongoing research as well as current and former graduate students and postdocs, see
Notable: “Evaluating Online Labor Markets for Experimental Research: Amazon.com's Mechanical Turk” (2012) · 4,082 citations
Courses: Introduction to International Relations · Introduction to American Politics · Introduction to Political Philosophy · Comparative Politics: States, Regimes, and Conflict · The Moral Foundations of Politics · The Common Good +3 more
Y. Richard Yang, Professor of Computer Science h-index 79
Notable: “Epidemiological, clinical and virological characteristics of 74 cases of coronavirus-infected disease 2019 (COVID-19) with gastrointestinal symptoms” (2020) · 1,448 citations
Vladimir Rokhlin, Arthur K. Watson Professor of Computer Science h-index 58
Fast deterministic and randomized algorithms of computational mathematics, randomized algorithms, numerical harmonic analysis, numerical linear algebra, special functions, "fast" algorithms of numerical linear algebra. Rokhlin is a member of the Nation
Notable: “A fast algorithm for particle simulations” (1987) · 4,918 citations
Fan Zhang, Assistant Professor of Computer Science h-index 57
Notable: “Recent Third Pole’s Rapid Warming Accompanies Cryospheric Melt and Water Cycle Intensification and Interactions between Monsoon and Environment: Multidisciplinary Approach with Observations, Modeling, and Analysis” (2018) · 1,126 citations
Lin Zhong, Joseph C. Tsai Professor of Computer Science h-index 57
Notable: “Argos” (2012) · 655 citations
John Krystal, Robert L. McNeil, Jr. Professor of Translational Research h-index 158
Notable: “Antidepressant effects of ketamine in depressed patients” (2000) · 3,842 citations
Gregory McCarthy, Henry Ford II Professor of Psychology h-index 100
Notable: “Electrophysiological Studies of Face Perception in Humans” (1996) · 3,129 citations
Marvin Chun, Richard M. Colgate Professor of Psychology and Professor of Neuroscience h-index 86
Notable: “The Fusiform Face Area: A Module in Human Extrastriate Cortex Specialized for Face Perception” (1997) · 7,950 citations
Jane Taylor, Charles B. G. Murphy Professor of Psychiatry, of Psychology and of Neuroscience h-index 86
Notable: “Developmental Neurocircuitry of Motivation in Adolescence: A Critical Period of Addiction Vulnerability” (2003) · 1,733 citations
Courses: Human Brain · Neurobiology · Neuroscience Laboratory · Advanced Neuroscience Laboratory · Independent Research in Neuroscience · Nonempirical Research in Neuroscience +9 more
Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Partial — enrichment ongoing.
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About Yale University. Yale University in New Haven, CT reports an overall acceptance rate of 4.6%, an early-round acceptance rate of 10.8%, an SAT middle 50% of 1480–1560, a class size of 1,554, and a yield of 70.0% based on the most recent Common Data Set filings. Now requires standardized testing (reinstated for C/O 2029). Open curriculum within Yale College.