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Competency Development and Evaluation

Competency Development and Evaluation is a research topic within Social Psychology. Science Explorer counts 8.4k research works in it since 1950. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the concept of competence in various domains such as management, education, healthcare administration, and vocational training. It delves into topics like competency-based management, workplace learning, leadership competencies, and the impact of competence on organizational performance. The papers also discuss the development of competency models, training strategies, and the assessment of managerial competencies.

  • Competency
  • Management
  • Education
  • Workplace Learning
  • Vocational Education
  • Leadership
  • Healthcare Administration
  • Performance Management
  • Training and Development
  • Human Resource
Research works
8.4k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
861
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+28%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Indonesia
21% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Competency Development and Evaluation

Which countries lead Competency Development and Evaluation research?

By volume, Indonesia and the United States publish the most (230 and 178 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Indonesia 230 works
  2. 2 United States 178 works
  3. 3 China 157 works
  4. 4 India 97 works
  5. 5 Ukraine 87 works
  6. 6 Philippines 75 works
  7. 7 Russia 73 works
  8. 8 South Africa 68 works
  9. 9 Iran 65 works
  10. 10 Hungary 63 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.

Indonesia: 21.0%United States: 16.3%China: 14.4%India: 8.9%6 others listed: 39.4%21%largest
Indonesia230 · 21.0%United States178 · 16.3%China157 · 14.4%India97 · 8.9%6 others listed431 · 39.4%

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

Which institutions lead Competency Development and Evaluation research?

By volume in 2022-now, Islamic Azad University, Tehran publishes the most Competency Development and Evaluation research, followed by Eötvös Loránd University and University of Debrecen.

Who are the leading researchers in Competency Development and Evaluation?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Competency Development and Evaluation include Milena M Santric-Milicevic and Yvonna S. Lincoln.

  1. 1 Milena M Santric-Milicevic Serbia 181k citations
  2. 2 Yvonna S. Lincoln United States 148k 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 Competency Development and Evaluation?

The most cited paper in Competency Development and Evaluation is "Qualitative inquiry and research design: Choosing among five approaches, 2nd ed." (John W. Creswell, 2007), with 5,018 citations. Next come "Educational Research: Competencies for Analysis and Application" (1,700) and "The Science of Training: A Decade of Progress" (1,692).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Qualitative inquiry and research design: Choosing among five approaches, 2nd ed. John W. Creswell 2007 5,018
2 Educational Research: Competencies for Analysis and Application Robert F. Testa · Journal of Research in Music Education Dec 1979 1,700
3 The Science of Training: A Decade of Progress Eduardo Salas, Janis A. Cannon‐Bowers · Annual Review of Psychology ReviewOpen access Feb 2001 1,692
4 Talent management: A critical review Robert Edward Lewis, Robert J. Heckman · Human Resource Management Review 22 May 2006 1,338
5 What Is Competence? Françoise Delamare Le Deist, Jonathan Winterton · Human Resource Development International Mar 2005 1,338
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Competency Development and Evaluation research done?

The largest centres of Competency Development and Evaluation research in 2022-now are Jakarta (Indonesia), Budapest (Hungary), Bangkok (Thailand) and Moscow (Russia).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 JakartaIndonesia 35 works
  2. 2 BudapestHungary 34 works
  3. 3 BangkokThailand 29 works
  4. 4 MoscowRussia 28 works
  5. 5 KyivUkraine 25 works
  6. 6 TehranIran 25 works
  7. 7 BeijingChina 24 works
  8. 8 SurabayaIndonesia 21 works
  9. 9 BandungIndonesia 21 works
  10. 10 PretoriaSouth Africa 20 works
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Where is the best place to study Competency Development and Evaluation?

Among universities, judged by research, Eötvös Loránd University, Islamic Azad University, Tehran and Yogyakarta State 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 6.925%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Eötvös Loránd Univer…Yogyakarta State Uni…Islamic Azad Univers…University of Debrecen
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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
1Eötvös Loránd UniversityHungary 66.814.9%15.4×9 -5.8%
2Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 54.22.7%7.2×24 +18.6%
3Yogyakarta State UniversityIndonesia 39.69.7%7.3×8 +11.4%
4University of DebrecenHungary 23.40.4%14.8×8 +5.4%

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 Competency Development and Evaluation, country by country

Is Competency Development and Evaluation research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 28% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Competency Development and Evaluation.

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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 Competency Development and Evaluation as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.011% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Competency Development and Evaluation0.012% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Competency Development and Evaluation 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%Competency Development and Evaluation11.0% 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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