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Career Development and Diversity

Career Development and Diversity is a research topic within Safety Research. Science Explorer counts 16k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the application of Social Cognitive Theory in the context of career development, with a focus on STEM education, gender disparities, and the experiences of underrepresented minorities. It delves into topics such as self-efficacy beliefs, role models, academic aspirations, and work satisfaction, aiming to create more inclusive science education and address the challenges faced by individuals pursuing careers in science and engineering. The research also emphasizes the importance of social influences, cultural stereotypes, and environmental factors in shaping career choices and outcomes.

  • Social Cognitive Theory
  • Career Development
  • STEM Education
  • Gender Disparities
  • Underrepresented Minorities
  • Self-Efficacy Beliefs
  • Role Models
  • Academic Aspirations
  • Work Satisfaction
  • Inclusive Science Education
Research works
16k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+41%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
63% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Career Development and Diversity

Which countries lead Career Development and Diversity research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (2.4k and 345 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 2.4k works
  2. 2 China 345 works
  3. 3 Indonesia 219 works
  4. 4 Türkiye 175 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 161 works
  6. 6 India 140 works
  7. 7 Canada 140 works
  8. 8 Germany 92 works
  9. 9 Australia 91 works
  10. 10 Malaysia 80 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: 62.8%China: 8.9%Indonesia: 5.6%Türkiye: 4.5%6 others listed: 18.2%63%largest
United States2,432 · 62.8%China345 · 8.9%Indonesia219 · 5.6%Türkiye175 · 4.5%6 others listed705 · 18.2%

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

Which institutions lead Career Development and Diversity research?

By volume in 2022-now, Purdue University West Lafayette publishes the most Career Development and Diversity research, followed by Arizona State University and Virginia Tech.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Purdue University West LafayetteUnited States 58 works
  2. 2 Arizona State UniversityUnited States 40 works
  3. 3 Virginia TechUnited States 37 works
  4. 4 The Ohio State UniversityUnited States 32 works
  5. 5 University of MichiganUnited States 32 works
  6. 6 Pennsylvania State UniversityUnited States 30 works
  7. 7 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 28 works
  8. 8 North Carolina State UniversityUnited States 26 works
  9. 9 Texas A&M UniversityUnited States 25 works
  10. 10 University of FloridaUnited States 25 works

Who are the leading researchers in Career Development and Diversity?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Career Development and Diversity include Albert Bandura, Arnold B. Bakker and M. S. Dresselhaus.

  1. 1 Albert Bandura United States 370k citations
  2. 2 Arnold B. Bakker Netherlands 189k citations
  3. 3 M. S. Dresselhaus United States 169k 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 Career Development and Diversity?

The most cited paper in Career Development and Diversity is "Self-efficacy mechanism in human agency." (Albert Bandura, 1982), with 15,425 citations. Next come "Toward a Unifying Social Cognitive Theory of Career and Academic Interest, Choice, and Performance" (7,642) and "A life-span, life-space approach to career development" (4,302).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Self-efficacy mechanism in human agency. Albert Bandura · American Psychologist Feb 1982 15,425
2 Toward a Unifying Social Cognitive Theory of Career and Academic Interest, Choice, and Performance Robert W. Lent, Steven D. Brown, Gail Hackett · Journal of Vocational Behavior Aug 1994 7,642
3 A life-span, life-space approach to career development Donald E. Super · Journal of Vocational Behavior Jun 1980 4,302
4 The Self-Efficacy Scale: Construction and Validation Mark Sherer, James E. Maddux, Blaise Mercandante et al. · Psychological Reports Oct 1982 4,042
5 Development and Validation of the Short Grit Scale (Grit–S) Angela Lee Duckworth, Patrick D. Quinn · Journal of Personality Assessment 11 Feb 2009 3,386
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Where is Career Development and Diversity research done?

The largest centres of Career Development and Diversity research in 2022-now are Washington D.C. (United States), West Lafayette (United States), Beijing (China) and London (United Kingdom). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Blacksburg and West Lafayette.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 Washington D.C.United States 58 works
  2. 2 West LafayetteUnited States 58 works
  3. 3 BeijingChina 57 works
  4. 4 LondonUnited Kingdom 46 works
  5. 5 New YorkUnited States 45 works
  6. 6 ChicagoUnited States 41 works
  7. 7 TempeUnited States 40 works
  8. 8 BlacksburgUnited States 37 works
  9. 9 AtlantaUnited States 37 works
  10. 10 ColumbusUnited States 35 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. BlacksburgUS · 37.2 works12×
  2. West LafayetteUS · 58.1 works12×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Career Development and Diversity than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Career Development and Diversity?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Macau, University of Pittsburgh and University of Georgia 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 17.88%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of MacauUniversity of GeorgiaUniversity of Pittsb…Arizona 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
1University of MacauChina 70.432.4%6.5×9 +266.7%
2University of PittsburghUnited States 60.116.2%7.0×25 +28.2%
3University of GeorgiaUnited States 57.921.9%8.8×17 +83.7%
4Arizona State UniversityUnited States 56.712.5%13.8×40 +1.1%
5Nazarbayev UniversityKazakhstan 56.621.4%17.8×12 +451.9%
6Qatar UniversityQatar 55.224.7%7.9×10 +425.9%
7University of MichiganUnited States 54.411.6%4.6×32 +14.9%
8Beijing Normal UniversityChina 54.222.2%4.0×14 +327.8%
9Virginia TechUnited States 54.15.4%15.0×37 +32.1%
10Pennsylvania State UniversityUnited States 53.810.5%6.2×30 +49.3%

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 Career Development and Diversity, country by country

Is Career Development and Diversity research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 41% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Career Development and Diversity.

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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 Career Development and Diversity as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.027% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Career Development and Diversity 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 counting5%10%15%Career Development and Diversity10.0% in 2025200020102020

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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