{"id":118207,"date":"2026-02-19T17:19:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T17:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/118207\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T17:19:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T17:19:14","slug":"scrantons-dr-john-norcross-celebrated-as-a-top-0-05-scholar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/118207\/","title":{"rendered":"Scranton\u2019s Dr. John Norcross Celebrated as a \u2018Top 0.05%\u2019 Scholar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John\u00a0C.\u00a0Norcross, Ph.D.,\u00a0ABPP, distinguished\u00a0professor of\u00a0psychology at The University of Scranton, ranks among the top 0.05% of\u00a0scholars worldwide for his career contributions, according to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/scholargps.com\/highly-ranked-scholars?year=2025&amp;ranking_duration=LIFETIME&amp;specialty=Psychotherapy&amp;e_ref=7e1c2c99978c46ede4a6&amp;p=1\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">analytics platform ScholarGPS<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Norcross ranks fifth in the Psychotherapy-Lifetime category, as his peers in the top 10 include educators from Harvard University, Northwestern University, Vanderbilt University, Yale\u00a0University\u00a0and other leading institutions of higher learning.<\/p>\n<p>ScholarGPS\u2019 ranking\u00a0methodology\u00a0was developed on \u201csimplicity, transparency and fairness,\u201d\u00a0it said,\u00a0and it ranks authors on purely\u00a0quantitative\u00a0data that assesses their productivity,\u00a0impact\u00a0and quality. Dr. Norcross has authored more than 400 publications and has written or co-written 22 books. According to his ScholarGPS profile page, Dr. Norcross&#8217; work has been cited a predicted nearly 28,000 times.<\/p>\n<p>A graduate of Rutgers University, where he earned a bachelor\u2019s degree, and the University of Rhode Island, where he earned master\u2019s and doctoral degrees, Dr. Norcross has worked at The University of Scranton since 1985. He is an award-winning, internationally recognized expert on behavior change and psychotherapy. He is also a clinical professor of psychiatry at the State University of New York Upstate Medical University and a board-certified clinical psychologist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John\u00a0C.\u00a0Norcross, Ph.D.,\u00a0ABPP, distinguished\u00a0professor of\u00a0psychology at The University of Scranton, ranks among the top 0.05% of\u00a0scholars worldwide for his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[56091,43659,56089,56090,178,180,179,274],"class_list":{"0":"post-118207","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-john-norcross","9":"tag-psychology","10":"tag-psychotherapy","11":"tag-scholargps","12":"tag-scranton","13":"tag-scranton-headlines","14":"tag-scranton-news","15":"tag-the-university-of-scranton"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}