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Leadership and Management research

Leadership and Management is a subfield of Nursing. Science Explorer counts 11k research works in it since 1950. 17.4% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

In short: academic degree.

Research works
11k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.9k
per year above
Top-10% rate
17.4%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Topics
1
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+27%
the tick is no change

This ranks research output and citation impact. It says nothing about the quality of diagnosis, treatment or care.

Which countries lead Leadership and Management research?

On research quality in 2022–2025, China, South Korea and the United States rank highest in Leadership and Management. By volume, South Korea and Egypt publish the most (594 and 350 works in 2022–2025).

By research quality, 2022–2025

  1. 1 China · #3 all time 34.0% top 10% · 280 works
  2. 2 South Korea · #1 all time 24.7% top 10% · 594 works
  3. 3 United States · #2 all time 14.6% top 10% · 287 works
  4. 4 Türkiye · #4 all time 14.9% top 10% · 244 works
  5. 5 Egypt · #8 all time 10.6% top 10% · 350 works
  6. 6 Indonesia · #6 all time 8.1% top 10% · 326 works

The track on each row is that row’s top-10% rate. The ranking itself is the composite score, which the rate is only one part of.

Of 6 countries ranked in Leadership and Management. Composite of field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%); the bracket is the all-time rank.

All countries ranked in Leadership and Management

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 South Korea 594 works
  2. 2 Egypt 350 works
  3. 3 Indonesia 326 works
  4. 4 United States 287 works
  5. 5 China 280 works
  6. 6 Türkiye 244 works
  7. 7 Japan 185 works
  8. 8 Iran 137 works
  9. 9 India 113 works
  10. 10 Pakistan 87 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

South Korea: 22.8%Egypt: 13.5%Indonesia: 12.5%United States: 11.0%6 others listed: 40.2%23%largest
South Korea594 · 22.8%Egypt350 · 13.5%Indonesia326 · 12.5%United States287 · 11.0%6 others listed1,046 · 40.2%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Leadership and Management research?

By volume in 2022–2025, Ain Shams University publishes the most Leadership and Management research, followed by Tanta University and Benha University.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Ain Shams UniversityEgypt 40 works
  2. 2 Tanta UniversityEgypt 37 works
  3. 3 Benha UniversityEgypt 32 works
  4. 4 Mansoura UniversityEgypt 23 works
  5. 5 Minia UniversityEgypt 23 works
  6. 6 Menoufia UniversityEgypt 22 works
  7. 7 Alexandria UniversityEgypt 19 works
  8. 8 Assiut UniversityEgypt 17 works
  9. 9 Damanhour UniversityEgypt 16 works
  10. 10 Zagazig UniversityEgypt 16 works

Who are the leading researchers in Leadership and Management?

Among the most productive authors in Leadership and Management, Wilmar B. Schaufeli, Arnold B. Bakker and Jeroen J. G. van Merriënboer rank highest on the composite score.

  1. 1 Wilmar B. Schaufeli Netherlands · #130 worldwide 5.3k citations · 157 works
  2. 2 Arnold B. Bakker Netherlands · #293 worldwide 6k citations · 124 works
  3. 3 Jeroen J. G. van Merriënboer Netherlands · #645 worldwide 2.2k citations · 128 works
  4. 4 Young‐Eun Kim South Korea · #1,721 worldwide 2.8k citations · 79 works
  5. 5 Paul E. Spector United States · #5,502 worldwide 1.3k citations · 78 works
  6. 6 Robin P. Peeters Netherlands · #6,058 worldwide 774 citations · 106 works
  7. 7 Hamid Asayesh Iran · #9,946 worldwide 4.3k citations · 47 works
  8. 8 Joel Brockner United States · #10,630 worldwide 915 citations · 62 works
  9. 9 Heesup Han South Korea · #13,175 worldwide 2.1k citations · 145 works
  10. 10 Jin‐Wook Lee South Korea · #21,530 worldwide 806 citations · 75 works

Re-ranked on the composite score from the 1,456 highest-output authors in Leadership and Management. Identities come from OpenAlex author disambiguation, which occasionally merges or splits people.

Top 100 Leadership and Management researchers

Where is Leadership and Management research done?

The largest centres of Leadership and Management research in 2022–2025 are Seoul (South Korea), Cairo (Egypt), Jakarta (Indonesia) and Tokyo (Japan). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Tanta.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Seoul South Korea 168 works
  2. 2 Cairo Egypt 65 works
  3. 3 Jakarta Indonesia 49 works
  4. 4 Tokyo Japan 47 works
  5. 5 Istanbul Türkiye 44 works
  6. 6 Daejeon South Korea 43 works
  7. 7 Busan South Korea 43 works
  8. 8 Tanta Egypt 39 works
  9. 9 Tehran Iran 34 works
  10. 10 Daegu South Korea 34 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. TantaEG · 38.9 works37×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Leadership and Management than the world average.

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Leadership and Management research by country

The best places for Leadership and Management research inside each country, with that country's researchers and world standing.

Where is the best place to study Leadership and Management?

Among universities, judged by research, Ewha Womans University, Gachon University and Tanta University score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 20.93%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →Ewha Womans University: 14, 39.1%Gachon University: 8, 41.8%Tanta University: 37, 8.9%Keimyung University: 9, 28.6%Alexandria University: 19, 8.1%Eulji University: 10, 38.4%Ain Shams University: 40, 10.0%Minia University: 23, 11.7%Benha University: 32, 9.9%Mansoura University: 23, 12.8%Gachon UniversityEwha Womans UniversityKeimyung UniversityTanta University
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 Ewha Womans UniversitySouth Korea 68.439.1%23.1×14 +22.2%
2 Gachon UniversitySouth Korea 63.641.8%12.0×8 +14.2%
3 Tanta UniversityEgypt 61.08.9%38.0×37 +37.5%
4 Keimyung UniversitySouth Korea 61.028.6%30.0×9 +123.4%
5 Alexandria UniversityEgypt 60.68.1%12.8×19 +145.8%
6 Eulji UniversitySouth Korea 60.638.4%66.2×10 +12.6%
7 Ain Shams UniversityEgypt 59.510.0%17.7×40 —
8 Minia UniversityEgypt 58.611.7%38.8×23 +55.9%
9 Benha UniversityEgypt 58.29.9%32.4×32 —
10 Mansoura UniversityEgypt 58.112.8%16.1×23 —

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is Leadership and Management research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 27% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Healthcare Education and Workforce Issues.

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The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

What does Leadership and Management include?