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Society for Human Resource Management

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Research works
30
▼ 27% vs 2018-21
Citations
1.2k
39.1 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
10.8%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
26%
world 40%
International
9%
world 18%
Society for Human Resource Management

Not ranked overall: Society for Human Resource Management is under the volume floor below which a citation excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

Which fields of science does Society for Human Resource Management work in?

In all years, 86% of research at Society for Human Resource Management is in Social Sciences, 9% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Business, Management and Accounting (37%), Psychology (18%), Social Sciences (14%). It does 3.1× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 26 fractional works · 85.6% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 11 fractional works · 36.5% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 8 fractional works · 27.4% of its workStrategy and Management: 2 fractional works · 6.5% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 1 fractional works · 1.9% of its workManagement Information Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBusiness and International Management: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychology: 5 fractional works · 17.7% of its workSocial Psychology: 3 fractional works · 8.9% of its workApplied Psychology: 2 fractional works · 5.1% of its workGeneral Psychology: 1 fractional works · 3.3% of its workClinical Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSocial Sciences: 4 fractional works · 13.5% of its workSociology and Political Science: 1 fractional works · 4.5% of its workEducation: 1 fractional works · 3.3% of its workSafety Research: 1 fractional works · 2.7% of its workPublic Administration: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workDemography: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCommunication: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGender Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDecision Sciences: 4 fractional works · 12.5% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 4 fractional works · 12.1% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2 fractional works · 5.0% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 2 fractional works · 5.0% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth Sciences: 3 fractional works · 9.3% of its workHealth Professions: 2 fractional works · 8.1% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 1 fractional works · 4.5% of its workHealth Information Management: 1 fractional works · 2.2% of its workPharmacy: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workRadiological and Ultrasound Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMedicine: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPhysical Sciences: 1 fractional works · 4.0% of its workComputer Science: 1 fractional works · 4.0% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 1 fractional works · 2.0% of its workInformation Systems: 1 fractional works · 2.0% of its workLife Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workALL ITS WORKSociety for HumanResource…30fractional works, all years
Life Sciences1%Physical Sciences4%Health Sciences9%Social Sciences86%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in all years. Every slice is a page; the interactive view zooms down to single topics and colours each by how much more of it this institution does than the world.

Its 4 domains and 10 fields, with their numbers
    1. Business, Management and Accounting1136.5%
    2. Psychology517.7%
    3. Social Sciences413.5%
    4. Decision Sciences412.5%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance25.0%
    6. Arts and Humanities00.4%
    1. Health Professions28.1%
    2. Medicine01.2%
    1. Computer Science14.0%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences01.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

Field profile

Location quotient across every field it publishes in: outside the ring is more than an institution of this size would be expected to publish, inside it is less.

Health Professions: 5.18× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.25× its world share, 0 worksMedicineBusiness, Management and Accounting: 14.41× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 2.13× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 2.15× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.90× its world share, 1 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
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Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Business, Management and Accounting, 14.4×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 6 fields, with their numbers
  1. Business, Management and Accounting14.41×1 works
  2. Health Professions5.18×0 works
  3. Psychology2.15×0 works
  4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance2.13×0 works
  5. Social Sciences1.90×1 works
  6. Medicine0.25×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Society for Human Resource Management?

Ranked on the quality score, Debra J. Cohen, Alexander Alonso and Tom E. Lawson lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Society for Human Resource Management.

  1. 1 Debra J. Cohen United States · #659,286 worldwide 3.2k citations · 42 works
  2. 2 Alexander Alonso United States · #915,573 worldwide 1.1k citations · 48 works
  3. 3 Tom E. Lawson United States · #4,560,516 worldwide 110 citations · 21 works
All ranked researchers at Society for Human Resource Management

What are the most cited papers from Society for Human Resource Management?

The most cited paper from Society for Human Resource Management is "Perceived Organizational Support: A Meta-Analytic Evaluation of Organizational Support Theory" (James N. Kurtessis, Robert Eisenberger, Michael T. Ford et al., 2015), with 2,300 citations. Next come "Teams Are Changing: Are Research and Practice Evolving Fast Enough?" (356) and "Promise and peril in implementing pay‐for‐performance" (204).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Perceived Organizational Support: A Meta-Analytic Evaluation of Organizational Support Theory James N. Kurtessis, Robert Eisenberger, Michael T. Ford et al. · Journal of Management Open access 12 Mar 2015 2,300
2 Teams Are Changing: Are Research and Practice Evolving Fast Enough? Scott I. Tannenbaum, John E. Mathieu, Eduardo Salas et al. · Industrial and Organizational Psychology Open access 3 Feb 2012 356
3 Promise and peril in implementing pay‐for‐performance Michael Beer, Mark D. Cannon, James N. Baron et al. · Human Resource Management Mar 2004 204
4 An examination of the use of high‐investment human resource systems for core and support employees David P. Lepak, M. Susan Taylor, Amanuel G. Tekleab et al. · Human Resource Management 18 May 2007 192
5 The Very Separate Worlds of Academic and Practitioner Publications in Human Resource Management: Reasons for the Divide and Concrete Solutions for Bridging the Gap Debra J. Cohen · Academy of Management Journal Oct 2007 190
All 48 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Society for Human Resource Management?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Leadership, Employee Engagement, Organizational Culture, Competitive Advantage, Organizational Performance, Social Cognitive Theory, Global and Talent Management.

▲ more of its work than of the world's◆ about the world's share▼ less than the world's

Size is fractional works in all years in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this institution's work against its share of the world's. The 40 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 40 words, with their numbers
  1. Leadership9▲ 83×9 topics
  2. Employee Engagement6▲ 192×4 topics
  3. Organizational Culture5▲ 64×4 topics
  4. Competitive Advantage4▲ 351×2 topics
  5. Organizational Performance4▲ 97×4 topics
  6. Social Cognitive Theory4▲ 376×2 topics
  7. Global4▲ 418×1 topic
  8. Talent Management4▲ 520×1 topic
  9. Ethical Behavior3▲ 358×2 topics
  10. Ethical Decision Making3▲ 323×1 topic
  11. Moral Identity3▲ 489×1 topic
  12. Organizational Learning3▲ 104×4 topics
  13. Organizational Change2▲ 98×4 topics
  14. Performance Improvement2▲ 270×3 topics
  15. Employee Development2▲ 295×2 topics
  16. Healthcare Regulation2▲ 90×2 topics
  17. Labor Market2▲ 22×3 topics
  18. Learning Outcomes2▲ 25×2 topics
  19. Change Management2▲ 162×3 topics
  20. Innovation2▲ 5.2×3 topics
  21. Meta-Analysis2▲ 9.2×2 topics
  22. Organizational Behavior1▲ 47×2 topics
  23. Psychological Capital1▲ 62×2 topics
  24. Training Motivation1▲ 355×1 topic
  25. Training Transfer1▲ 355×1 topic
  26. Human Resource Management1▲ 45×2 topics
  27. Job Satisfaction1▲ 17×3 topics
  28. Knowledge Management1▲ 9.3×3 topics
  29. Customer Satisfaction1▲ 25×2 topics
  30. Performance Measurement1▲ 20×2 topics
  31. Competency Models1▲ 227×1 topic
  32. Occupational Licensing1▲ 1167×1 topic
  33. Strategic Thinking1▲ 227×1 topic
  34. Blended Learning1▲ 35×1 topic
  35. Job Demands-Resources Model1▲ 79×1 topic
  36. Open-Plan Offices1▲ 316×1 topic
  37. Psychology1▲ 24×1 topic
  38. Quality Improvement1▲ 16×2 topics
  39. Work Engagement1▲ 58×1 topic
  40. Workspace Environment1▲ 316×1 topic

Which research topics does Society for Human Resource Management publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Human Resource and Talent Management, Career Development and Diversity, Climate Change Communication and Perception and Health Policy Implementation Science.

Human Resource and Talen…1Human Resource and Talent Management: 1 fractional worksCareer Development and Diversity: 0 fractional worksClimate Change Communication and Perception: 0 fractional worksHealth Policy Implementation Science: 0 fractional worksBehavioral Health and In…0Behavioral Health and Interventions: 0 fractional worksOccupational Health and Safety Research: 0 fractional worksSupply Chain Resilience and Risk Management: 0 fractional worksJob Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior: 0 fractional worksCOVID-19 Pandemic Impacts: 0 fractional worksWorkplace Health and Well-being: 0 fractional works
Organizational Behavior and Human Resource ManagementSafety ResearchSociology and Political ScienceGeneral Health Professions4 others

Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.

  1. 1 Human Resource and Talent Management Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management 1 works
  2. 2 Career Development and Diversity Safety Research 0 works
  3. 3 Climate Change Communication and Perception Sociology and Political Science 0 works
  4. 4 Health Policy Implementation Science General Health Professions 0 works
  5. 5 Behavioral Health and Interventions Applied Psychology 0 works
  6. 6 Occupational Health and Safety Research Radiological and Ultrasound Technology 0 works
  7. 7 Supply Chain Resilience and Risk Management Strategy and Management 0 works
  8. 8 Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management 0 works
  9. 9 COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts Economics and Econometrics 0 works
  10. 10 Workplace Health and Well-being General Health Professions 0 works

How open and international is its research?

Against the world's own shares: the tick on each track. Both are shares of its output, so they sit on one scale and can be read against each other as well as against the world.

openly available25.7%not open74.3%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors9.0%domestic only91.0%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Society for Human Resource Management's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 27% lower than in 2018-2021.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Society for Human Resource Management as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000023% in 2024.

still counting0.00010%0.00020%0.00030%Society for Human Resource Management0.000017% in 2025200020102020

Fractional works of Society for Human Resource Management over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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