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Behavioral and Psychological Studies

Behavioral and Psychological Studies is a research topic within Developmental and Educational Psychology. Science Explorer counts 36k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the use of behavioral interventions and evidence-based practices in special education, with an emphasis on functional analysis, positive behavior support, single-subject research, and intervention design standards. It explores topics such as classroom management, functional communication training, and response to intervention in the context of addressing behavioral challenges and promoting academic and social success for students with emotional or behavioral disorders.

  • Behavioral Interventions
  • Special Education
  • Evidence-Based Practice
  • Functional Analysis
  • Positive Behavior Support
  • Single-Subject Research
  • Intervention Design Standards
  • Classroom Management
  • Functional Communication Training
  • Response to Intervention
Research works
36k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-9%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
67% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Behavioral and Psychological Studies

Which countries lead Behavioral and Psychological Studies research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (2.3k and 213 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 2.3k works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 213 works
  3. 3 Brazil 170 works
  4. 4 China 161 works
  5. 5 Canada 123 works
  6. 6 Germany 114 works
  7. 7 Australia 92 works
  8. 8 Japan 87 works
  9. 9 Spain 85 works
  10. 10 Türkiye 72 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.

United States: 67.2%United Kingdom: 6.3%Brazil: 5.0%China: 4.7%6 others listed: 16.8%67%largest
United States2,287 · 67.2%United Kingdom213 · 6.3%Brazil170 · 5.0%China161 · 4.7%6 others listed573 · 16.8%

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

Which institutions lead Behavioral and Psychological Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of Kansas publishes the most Behavioral and Psychological Studies research, followed by Center for Autism and Related Disorders and University of South Florida.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of KansasUnited States 36 works
  2. 2 Center for Autism and Related DisordersUnited States 33 works
  3. 3 University of South FloridaUnited States 32 works
  4. 4 University of FloridaUnited States 29 works
  5. 5 Vanderbilt UniversityUnited States 29 works
  6. 6 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 29 works
  7. 7 Utah State UniversityUnited States 26 works
  8. 8 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 25 works
  9. 9 Endicott CollegeUnited States 24 works
  10. 10 University of KentuckyUnited States 23 works

Who are the leading researchers in Behavioral and Psychological Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Behavioral and Psychological Studies include Richard M. Ryan, Albert Bandura and Amos Tversky.

  1. 1 Richard M. Ryan United States 395k citations
  2. 2 Albert Bandura United States 370k citations
  3. 3 Amos Tversky United States 327k citations
  4. 4 Edward L. Deci United States 325k citations
  5. 5 John P. A. Ioannidis United States 317k citations
  6. 6 Dan J. Stein South Africa 306k citations
  7. 7 Donald B. Rubin United States 301k citations
  8. 8 Jeremy Grimshaw Canada 281k citations
  9. 9 Icek Ajzen United States 267k citations
  10. 10 James Thomas United Kingdom 242k 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 Behavioral and Psychological Studies?

The most cited paper in Behavioral and Psychological Studies is "The theory of planned behavior" (Icek Ajzen, 1991), with 87,913 citations. Next come "Common method biases in behavioral research: A critical review of the literature and recommended remedies." (80,679) and "G*Power 3: A flexible statistical power analysis program for the social, behavioral, and biomedical sciences" (66,357).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The theory of planned behavior Icek Ajzen · Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes Dec 1991 87,913
2 Common method biases in behavioral research: A critical review of the literature and recommended remedies. Philip M. Podsakoff, SCOTT B. MACKENZIE, Jeong Yeon Lee et al. · Journal of Applied Psychology 2003 80,679
3 G*Power 3: A flexible statistical power analysis program for the social, behavioral, and biomedical sciences Franz Faul, Edgar Erdfelder, Albert-Georg Lang et al. · Behavior Research Methods Open access May 2007 66,357
4 A power primer. Jacob Cohen · Psychological Bulletin 1992 42,833
5 Self-efficacy: Toward a unifying theory of behavioral change. Albert Bandura · Psychological Review 1977 35,570
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Behavioral and Psychological Studies research done?

The largest centres of Behavioral and Psychological Studies research in 2022-now are New York (United States), Baltimore (United States), London (United Kingdom) and São Paulo (Brazil). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Seal Beach, Beverly Cove and San Fernando.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 New YorkUnited States 80 works
  2. 2 BaltimoreUnited States 49 works
  3. 3 LondonUnited Kingdom 49 works
  4. 4 São PauloBrazil 42 works
  5. 5 AtlantaUnited States 38 works
  6. 6 ChicagoUnited States 38 works
  7. 7 BostonUnited States 37 works
  8. 8 PhiladelphiaUnited States 37 works
  9. 9 LawrenceUnited States 34 works
  10. 10 San FernandoUnited States 33 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Seal BeachUS · 21.2 works1510×
  2. Beverly CoveUS · 23.5 works578×
  3. San FernandoUS · 33.4 works362×
  4. LoganUS · 25.6 works32×
  5. WacoUS · 23.0 works31×
  6. LawrenceUS · 34.1 works28×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Behavioral and Psychological Studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Behavioral and Psychological Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, Vanderbilt University, Columbia University and Johns Hopkins 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%10%20%mean 13.41%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Vanderbilt UniversityLouisiana State Univ…Johns Hopkins Univer…Columbia University
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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
1Vanderbilt UniversityUnited States 71.821.7%11.0×29 -27.9%
2Columbia UniversityUnited States 64.311.7%5.3×21 +18.8%
3Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 62.912.4%4.5×25 -13.4%
4Louisiana State UniversityUnited States 62.216.2%11.3×14 +28.2%
5University of KansasUnited States 60.98.6%19.7×36 -23.0%
6Endicott CollegeUnited States 60.18.4%658.7×24 +15.4%
7Utah State UniversityUnited States 59.113.8%38.7×26 -6.9%
8Rutgers, The State University of New JerseyUnited States 57.510.9%6.3×18 +18.8%
9University of WashingtonUnited States 57.314.0%4.3×18 -5.5%
10University College LondonUnited Kingdom 56.616.4%2.4×14 -15.1%

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 Behavioral and Psychological Studies, country by country

Is Behavioral and Psychological Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 9% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021.

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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 Behavioral and Psychological Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.016% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Behavioral and Psychological Studies 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.

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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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