Six professors of the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work are recognized among the top 2% of scientists in the world for 2023 in a study by Elsevier and Stanford University. The ranking considers 22 scientific fields and 174 subfields. Based on the bibliometric information contained in the Scopus database, it represents approximately 100,000 scientific researchers from a pool of more than 8 million globally.

The school’s faculty named for 2023 are:

• María Aranda, Margaret W. Driscoll/Louise M. Clevenger Professor in Social Policy and Administration; Executive Director, USC Edward R. Roybal Institute on Aging; Director of Outreach, Recruitment and Engagement Core, USC Alzheimer's Disease Research Center
• John Blosnich, Associate Professor and Director of the Center for LGBTQ+ Health Equity
• Carl Castro, Professor, Director of Military and Veterans Programs, Director of the Center for Innovation and Research on Veterans and Military Families, Director of the RAND-USC Epstein Family Foundation Center for Veterans Policy Research
• Michàlle Mor Barak, Dean Endowed Professor of Social Work and Business
• Hans Oh, Assistant Professor
• Eric Rice, Professor, Associate Dean for Research and Co-Director, USC Center for AI in Society