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Appreciative Inquiry and Organizational Change

Appreciative Inquiry and Organizational Change is a research topic within Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management. Science Explorer counts 1.6k research works in it since 1950. 10.7% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on Appreciative Inquiry as a method for organizational development, positive change, and transformation. It explores its application in various domains such as leadership, health care, education, and community engagement. The papers also discuss the use of Appreciative Inquiry as a tool for action research, social innovation, and evaluation.

  • Appreciative Inquiry
  • Organizational Development
  • Positive Change
  • Action Research
  • Leadership
  • Health Care
  • Social Innovation
  • Education
  • Community Engagement
  • Evaluation
Research works
1.6k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
171
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.7%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+52%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Romania
40% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Appreciative Inquiry and Organizational Change

Which countries lead Appreciative Inquiry and Organizational Change research?

By volume, Romania and the United States publish the most (143 and 65 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Romania 143 works
  2. 2 United States 65 works
  3. 3 Moldova 50 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 22 works
  5. 5 Spain 16 works
  6. 6 Australia 14 works
  7. 7 Poland 14 works
  8. 8 Canada 12 works
  9. 9 Italy 10 works
  10. 10 South Africa 9 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.

Romania: 40.3%United States: 18.2%Moldova: 14.0%United Kingdom: 6.3%6 others listed: 21.2%40%largest
Romania143 · 40.3%United States65 · 18.2%Moldova50 · 14.0%United Kingdom22 · 6.3%6 others listed75 · 21.2%

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

Which institutions lead Appreciative Inquiry and Organizational Change research?

By volume in 2022-now, Babeș-Bolyai University publishes the most Appreciative Inquiry and Organizational Change research, followed by Moldova State University and "Dunarea de Jos" University of Galati.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Babeș-Bolyai UniversityRomania 17 works
  2. 2 Moldova State UniversityMoldova 17 works
  3. 3 "Dunarea de Jos" University of GalatiRomania 16 works
  4. 4 Ştefan cel Mare Police AcademyMoldova 16 works
  5. 5 University of BucharestRomania 13 works
  6. 6 Alexandru Ioan Cuza UniversityRomania 12 works
  7. 7 Biblioteca Nacional de EspañaSpain 8 works
  8. 8 West University of TimişoaraRomania 6 works
  9. 9 Lucian Blaga University of SibiuRomania 6 works
  10. 10 Romanian AcademyRomania 6 works

Who are the leading researchers in Appreciative Inquiry and Organizational Change?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Appreciative Inquiry and Organizational Change include Michael Quinn Patton and David Hume.

  1. 1 Michael Quinn Patton United States 121k citations
  2. 2 David Hume Australia 107k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Appreciative Inquiry and Organizational Change?

The most cited paper in Appreciative Inquiry and Organizational Change is "The reinvention of decision making." (Judith M. Orasanu, Terry Connolly, 1993), with 558 citations. Next come "Appreciation: Individual Differences in Finding Value and Meaning as a Unique Predictor of Subjective Well‐Being" (557) and "Human Communication: A Unified View" (445).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The reinvention of decision making. Judith M. Orasanu, Terry Connolly 1993 558
2 Appreciation: Individual Differences in Finding Value and Meaning as a Unique Predictor of Subjective Well‐Being Mitchel G. Adler, Nancy S. Fagley · Journal of Personality 5 Nov 2004 557
3 Human Communication: A Unified View John R. Pierce · IEEE Transactions on Communications Oct 1973 445
4 The hermeneutics of faith and the hermeneutics of suspicion Ruthellen Josselson · Narrative Inquiry Jul 2004 435
5 On studying information seeking methodologically: the implications of connecting metatheory to method Brenda L. Dervin · Information Processing & Management Nov 1999 372
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Where is Appreciative Inquiry and Organizational Change research done?

The largest centres of Appreciative Inquiry and Organizational Change research in 2022-now are Chisinau (Moldova), Bucharest (Romania), Cluj-Napoca (Romania) and Iași (Romania). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Chisinau, Cluj-Napoca and Bucharest.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 ChisinauMoldova 46 works
  2. 2 BucharestRomania 41 works
  3. 3 Cluj-NapocaRomania 22 works
  4. 4 IașiRomania 18 works
  5. 5 GalatiRomania 16 works
  6. 6 MadridSpain 10 works
  7. 7 LondonUnited Kingdom 8 works
  8. 8 TimișoaraRomania 8 works
  9. 9 Târgu MureşRomania 6 works
  10. 10 SibiuRomania 6 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. ChisinauMD · 45.9 works268×
  2. Cluj-NapocaRO · 22.5 works77×
  3. BucharestRO · 41.2 works56×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Appreciative Inquiry and Organizational Change than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Appreciative Inquiry and Organizational Change?

Among universities, judged by research, Babeș-Bolyai University, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University and "Dunarea de Jos" University of Galati 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%2%4%6%mean 3.3%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Babeș-Bolyai Univers…Alexandru Ioan Cuza …"Dunarea de Jos" Uni…Moldova State Univer…
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Babeș-Bolyai UniversityRomania 88.35.7%163.5×17 +182.0%
2Alexandru Ioan Cuza UniversityRomania 53.05.1%192.4×12 +168.0%
3"Dunarea de Jos" University of GalatiRomania 47.62.4%293.4×16 +313.3%
4Moldova State UniversityMoldova 30.61.6%537.0×17 -53.6%
5University of BucharestRomania 25.01.7%153.3×13 +672.2%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Appreciative Inquiry and Organizational Change, country by country

Is Appreciative Inquiry and Organizational Change research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 52% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Appreciative Inquiry and Organizational Change.

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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.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Appreciative Inquiry and Organizational Change as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00099% in 2024.

still counting0.0020%0.0040%Appreciative Inquiry and Organizational Change0.0032% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Appreciative Inquiry and Organizational Change over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting10%20%Appreciative Inquiry and Organizational Change10.2% in 202520102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

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.

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