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Edwin A. Locke

Edwin A. Locke publishes mostly in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Social Psychology and Applied Psychology, on topics such as Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior, Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports and Management Theory and Practice.

World rank
#904
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#380
of 358,040
Works
98
Citations
3.5k
Citations per work
35.3

What does Edwin A. Locke research?

Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 15.8%Social Psychology: 14.7%Applied Psychology: 6.3%Management Science and Operations Research: 5.3%other fields: 57.9%16%top field
Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management15.8%Social Psychology14.7%Applied Psychology6.3%Management Science and Operations Research5.3%other fields57.9%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management16% of their works
  2. 2Social Psychology15% of their works
  3. 3Applied Psychology6% of their works
  4. 4Management Science and Operations Research5% of their works
  5. 5Sociology and Political Science4% of their works
  6. 6Experimental and Cognitive Psychology4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Edwin A. Locke's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Organizational Behavior, Well-being, Work Engagement, Intrinsic Motivation, Job Demands-Resources Model, Mediation Analysis, Self-Determination Theory and Hawthorne Studies.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Organizational Behavior112 topics
  2. Well-being102 topics
  3. Work Engagement102 topics
  4. Intrinsic Motivation71 topic
  5. Job Demands-Resources Model71 topic
  6. Mediation Analysis71 topic
  7. Self-Determination Theory71 topic
  8. Hawthorne Studies41 topic
  9. Scientific Management41 topic
  10. Self-Regulation41 topic
  11. Soft Systems Methodology41 topic
  12. System Dynamics41 topic
  13. Theory of Planned Behaviour41 topic
  14. Passion31 topic
  15. Perseverance31 topic
  16. Institutional Theory21 topic
  17. Occupational Safety21 topic
  18. Organizational Change21 topic
  19. Safety Culture21 topic

Where does Edwin A. Locke work?

Edwin A. Locke's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Maryland, College Park, United States.

How many publications and citations does Edwin A. Locke have?

Science Explorer counts 98 works and 3,455 citations for Edwin A. Locke, ranking #904 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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