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Education, Achievement, and Giftedness

Education, Achievement, and Giftedness is a research topic within Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Science Explorer counts 15k 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 psychology of achievement motivation and learning, focusing on topics such as self-efficacy, goal orientation, academic emotions, gender differences, interest development, math anxiety, teacher expectations, student engagement, and motivational interventions in educational contexts.

  • Achievement Motivation
  • Self-Efficacy
  • Goal Orientation
  • Academic Emotions
  • Gender Differences
  • Interest Development
  • Math Anxiety
  • Teacher Expectations
  • Student Engagement
  • Motivational Interventions
Research works
15k
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
+35%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
34% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Education, Achievement, and Giftedness

Which countries lead Education, Achievement, and Giftedness research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (903 and 541 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 903 works
  2. 2 China 541 works
  3. 3 Germany 263 works
  4. 4 Türkiye 221 works
  5. 5 Indonesia 147 works
  6. 6 India 127 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 123 works
  8. 8 Spain 118 works
  9. 9 Philippines 106 works
  10. 10 Australia 97 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: 34.1%China: 20.5%Germany: 9.9%Türkiye: 8.4%6 others listed: 27.1%34%largest
United States903 · 34.1%China541 · 20.5%Germany263 · 9.9%Türkiye221 · 8.4%6 others listed717 · 27.1%

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

Which institutions lead Education, Achievement, and Giftedness research?

By volume in 2022-now, Beijing Normal University publishes the most Education, Achievement, and Giftedness research, followed by Education University of Hong Kong and University of Hong Kong.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Beijing Normal UniversityChina 43 works
  2. 2 Education University of Hong KongChina 23 works
  3. 3 University of Hong KongChina 21 works
  4. 4 East China Normal UniversityChina 20 works
  5. 5 Purdue University West LafayetteUnited States 17 works
  6. 6 Mi̇lli̇ Eği̇ti̇m BakanliğiTürkiye 16 works
  7. 7 Chinese University of Hong KongChina 16 works
  8. 8 UNSW SydneyAustralia 14 works
  9. 9 Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu KielGermany 14 works
  10. 10 Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 14 works

Who are the leading researchers in Education, Achievement, and Giftedness?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Education, Achievement, and Giftedness include Richard M. Ryan, Albert Bandura and Edward L. Deci.

  1. 1 Richard M. Ryan United States 395k citations
  2. 2 Albert Bandura United States 370k citations
  3. 3 Edward L. Deci United States 325k citations
  4. 4 Peter M. Bentler United States 233k citations
  5. 5 Nicholas G. Martin Australia 228k citations
  6. 6 Dorret Irene Boomsma Netherlands 186k citations
  7. 7 Ian J. Deary United Kingdom 176k 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 Education, Achievement, and Giftedness?

The most cited paper in Education, Achievement, and Giftedness is "Self-determination theory and the facilitation of intrinsic motivation, social development, and well-being." (Richard M. Ryan, Edward L. Deci, 2000), with 27,839 citations. Next come "Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivations: Classic Definitions and New Directions" (18,640) and "Self-efficacy mechanism in human agency." (15,425).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Self-determination theory and the facilitation of intrinsic motivation, social development, and well-being. Richard M. Ryan, Edward L. Deci · American Psychologist 2000 27,839
2 Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivations: Classic Definitions and New Directions Richard M. Ryan, Edward L. Deci · Contemporary Educational Psychology Open access 2000 18,640
3 Self-efficacy mechanism in human agency. Albert Bandura · American Psychologist Feb 1982 15,425
4 Self‐determination theory and work motivation Marylène Gagné, Edward L. Deci · Journal of Organizational Behavior 14 Apr 2005 7,722
5 Motivational Beliefs, Values, and Goals Jacquelynne S. Eccles, Allan Wigfield · Annual Review of Psychology Review Feb 2002 7,477
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Education, Achievement, and Giftedness research done?

The largest centres of Education, Achievement, and Giftedness research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Ankara (Türkiye), Shanghai (China) and London (United Kingdom). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Tai Po.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 102 works
  2. 2 AnkaraTürkiye 47 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 46 works
  4. 4 LondonUnited Kingdom 29 works
  5. 5 SeoulSouth Korea 28 works
  6. 6 New YorkUnited States 28 works
  7. 7 Hong KongChina 27 works
  8. 8 SydneyAustralia 26 works
  9. 9 IstanbulTürkiye 25 works
  10. 10 Tai PoChina 24 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Tai PoCN · 23.5 works36×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Education, Achievement, and Giftedness than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Education, Achievement, and Giftedness?

Among universities, judged by research, Beijing Normal University, Education University of Hong Kong and Chinese University of Hong Kong 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.

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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
1Beijing Normal UniversityChina 72.516.7%14.8×43 +223.5%
2Education University of Hong KongChina 63.418.6%43.5×23 +98.9%
3Chinese University of Hong KongChina 62.625.8%5.9×16 +50.9%
4University of Hong KongChina 59.817.8%6.1×21 +85.5%
5University of PaduaItaly 58.734.2%2.9×9 +123.2%
6East China Normal UniversityChina 54.714.1%11.4×20 +110.7%
7Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenGermany 50.831.0%2.6×8 +59.7%
8Shaanxi Normal UniversityChina 48.524.3%8.9×9 +499.4%
9University of AucklandNew Zealand 48.221.4%5.3×11 +40.6%
10University of ViennaAustria 46.525.6%4.5×8 +134.8%

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 Education, Achievement, and Giftedness, country by country

Is Education, Achievement, and Giftedness research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 35% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Education, Achievement, and Giftedness.

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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 Education, Achievement, and Giftedness as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.014% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Education, Achievement, and Giftedness 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%Education, Achievement, and Giftedness10.3% 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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