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Cultural Differences and Values

Cultural Differences and Values is a research topic within Social Psychology. Science Explorer counts 29k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers encompasses a wide range of research on cultural psychology, values, and cross-cultural variability. It explores topics such as individualism-collectivism, social axioms, emotional experiences, neural substrates of culture, and the influence of globalization on psychological phenomena. The research delves into the complexities of cultural differences and their impact on various aspects of human behavior and cognition.

  • Cultural Psychology
  • Values
  • Individualism-Collectivism
  • Cross-Cultural Variability
  • Social Axioms
  • Cultural Differences
  • Globalization
  • Emotion
  • Neural Substrates
  • Self-Construal
Research works
29k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.9k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+5%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
37% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Cultural Differences and Values

Which countries lead Cultural Differences and Values research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.4k and 792 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.4k works
  2. 2 China 792 works
  3. 3 Germany 331 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 325 works
  5. 5 Canada 193 works
  6. 6 Japan 172 works
  7. 7 India 164 works
  8. 8 Italy 161 works
  9. 9 Russia 148 works
  10. 10 Türkiye 143 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: 37.2%China: 20.5%Germany: 8.6%United Kingdom: 8.4%6 others listed: 25.4%37%largest
United States1,441 · 37.2%China792 · 20.5%Germany331 · 8.6%United Kingdom325 · 8.4%6 others listed982 · 25.4%

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

Which institutions lead Cultural Differences and Values research?

By volume in 2022-now, Sapienza University of Rome publishes the most Cultural Differences and Values research, followed by University of Chicago and National Research University Higher School of Economics.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Sapienza University of RomeItaly 36 works
  2. 2 University of ChicagoUnited States 31 works
  3. 3 National Research University Higher School of EconomicsRussia 31 works
  4. 4 Beijing Normal UniversityChina 26 works
  5. 5 University of TorontoCanada 23 works
  6. 6 New York UniversityUnited States 23 works
  7. 7 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 21 works
  8. 8 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 21 works
  9. 9 Hebrew University of JerusalemIsrael 20 works
  10. 10 Stanford UniversityUnited States 19 works

Who are the leading researchers in Cultural Differences and Values?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Cultural Differences and Values include Daniel J. Kahneman, Richard M. Ryan and Albert Bandura.

  1. 1 Daniel J. Kahneman United States 395k citations
  2. 2 Richard M. Ryan United States 395k citations
  3. 3 Albert Bandura United States 370k citations
  4. 4 Ronald C. Kessler United States 360k citations
  5. 5 Amos Tversky United States 327k citations
  6. 6 Edward L. Deci United States 325k citations
  7. 7 Dan J. Stein South Africa 306k citations
  8. 8 Yousef Saleh Khader Jordan 274k citations
  9. 9 Icek Ajzen United States 267k citations
  10. 10 Xiaogang Wang China 260k 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 Cultural Differences and Values?

The most cited paper in Cultural Differences and Values is "The moderator-mediator variable distinction in social psychological research: Conceptual, strategic, and statistical considerations." (Reuben M. Baron, David A. Kenny, 1986), with 72,222 citations. Next come "Culture and the Self: Implications for Cognition, Emotion, and Motivation" (21,129) and "Social Cognitive Theory: An Agentic Perspective" (15,325).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The moderator-mediator variable distinction in social psychological research: Conceptual, strategic, and statistical considerations. Reuben M. Baron, David A. Kenny · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 1986 72,222
2 Culture and the Self: Implications for Cognition, Emotion, and Motivation Hazel Rose Markus, Shinobu Kitayama · Psychological Review Apr 1991 21,129
3 Social Cognitive Theory: An Agentic Perspective Albert Bandura · Annual Review of Psychology Review Feb 2001 15,325
4 Universals in the Content and Structure of Values: Theoretical Advances and Empirical Tests in 20 Countries Shalom H. Schwartz · Advances in experimental social psychology Book chapter 1992 14,493
5 Observational Study of Behavior: Sampling Methods Jeanne Altmann · Behaviour 1974 14,015
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Where is Cultural Differences and Values research done?

The largest centres of Cultural Differences and Values research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Moscow (Russia), Shanghai (China) and London (United Kingdom).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 141 works
  2. 2 MoscowRussia 87 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 77 works
  4. 4 LondonUnited Kingdom 76 works
  5. 5 New YorkUnited States 74 works
  6. 6 TokyoJapan 58 works
  7. 7 Hong KongChina 56 works
  8. 8 RomeItaly 52 works
  9. 9 SeoulSouth Korea 50 works
  10. 10 GuangzhouChina 48 works
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Where is the best place to study Cultural Differences and Values?

Among universities, judged by research, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, University of Chicago and Stanford 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 19.24%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Stanford UniversityHong Kong Polytechni…Hebrew University of…University of Chicago
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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
1Hebrew University of JerusalemIsrael 67.618.2%7.6×20 +12.3%
2University of ChicagoUnited States 66.310.8%7.3×31 +50.2%
3Stanford UniversityUnited States 64.027.7%2.6×20 -22.5%
4Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 62.419.5%4.2×18 +41.2%
5Sapienza University of RomeItaly 61.011.1%6.3×36 +194.1%
6New York UniversityUnited States 60.818.3%4.1×23 -7.2%
7Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamNetherlands 60.216.3%7.8×16 +19.1%
8University of OsloNorway 58.626.1%3.7×12 +15.1%
9Harvard UniversityUnited States 56.829.5%0.9×15 -20.0%
10Northwestern UniversityUnited States 55.714.9%3.3×14 +28.7%

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 Cultural Differences and Values, country by country

Is Cultural Differences and Values research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 5% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021. The fastest-growing topics are Cultural Differences and Values.

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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 Cultural Differences and Values as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.023% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Cultural Differences and Values 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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