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Ego Development and Educational Practices

Ego Development and Educational Practices is a research topic within Clinical Psychology. Science Explorer counts 2.6k research works in it since 1950. 10.3% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the concept of ego development, leadership complexity, and their implications in a VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous) world. It delves into topics such as constructive-developmental theory, hierarchical complexity, adult development, enneagram personality system, and the impact of ego development on organizational performance and regulatory science. The papers also discuss coaching, transformative learning, and the role of leadership in navigating complexity.

  • Ego Development
  • Leadership
  • VUCA World
  • Developmental Perspective
  • Hierarchical Complexity
  • Adult Development
  • Enneagram
  • Organizational Performance
  • Regulatory Science
  • Coaching
Research works
2.6k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
272
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.3%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+38%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
51% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Ego Development and Educational Practices

Which countries lead Ego Development and Educational Practices research?

By volume, the United States and India publish the most (293 and 62 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 293 works
  2. 2 India 62 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 51 works
  4. 4 Germany 36 works
  5. 5 South Africa 30 works
  6. 6 Canada 24 works
  7. 7 Australia 23 works
  8. 8 China 19 works
  9. 9 Indonesia 19 works
  10. 10 Türkiye 17 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: 51.2%India: 10.8%United Kingdom: 8.8%Germany: 6.2%6 others listed: 23.0%51%largest
United States293 · 51.2%India62 · 10.8%United Kingdom51 · 8.8%Germany36 · 6.2%6 others listed132 · 23.0%

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

Which institutions lead Ego Development and Educational Practices research?

By volume in 2022-now, Liberty University publishes the most Ego Development and Educational Practices research, followed by University of South Africa and Woodbury University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Liberty UniversityUnited States 13 works
  2. 2 University of South AfricaSouth Africa 6 works
  3. 3 Woodbury UniversityUnited States 6 works
  4. 4 Poornaprajna Institute of Scientific ResearchIndia 5 works
  5. 5 Regent UniversityUnited States 5 works
  6. 6 George Fox UniversityUnited States 4 works
  7. 7 Primary SourceUnited States 4 works
  8. 8 Stellenbosch UniversitySouth Africa 4 works
  9. 9 IDS (Germany)Germany 4 works
  10. 10 Virginia Union UniversityUnited States 3 works

Who are the leading researchers in Ego Development and Educational Practices?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Ego Development and Educational Practices include Richard M. Ryan.

  1. 1 Richard M. Ryan United States 395k 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 Ego Development and Educational Practices?

The most cited paper in Ego Development and Educational Practices is "Two Decades of Research and Development in Transformational Leadership" (Bernard M. Bass, 1999), with 3,254 citations. Next come "The ecology of developmental processes." (2,752) and "IMPACT OF TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP ON FOLLOWER DEVELOPMENT AND PERFORMANCE: A FIELD EXPERIMENT." (1,783).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Two Decades of Research and Development in Transformational Leadership Bernard M. Bass · European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology Mar 1999 3,254
2 The ecology of developmental processes. Urie Bronfenbrenner, Pamela Morris 1998 2,752
3 IMPACT OF TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP ON FOLLOWER DEVELOPMENT AND PERFORMANCE: A FIELD EXPERIMENT. Tom Dvir, Dov Eden, Bruce J. Avolio et al. · Academy of Management Journal Aug 2002 1,783
4 Positive Psychology, Positive Prevention, and Positive Therapy Martin E. P. Seligman Book chapter 20 Dec 2001 1,698
5 Personality in Adulthood: A Five-Factor Theory Perspective Robert R. McCrae, Paul T. Costa 19 Oct 2005 1,664
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Where is Ego Development and Educational Practices research done?

The largest centres of Ego Development and Educational Practices research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Lynchburg (United States), Bengaluru (India) and New York (United States).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 15 works
  2. 2 LynchburgUnited States 13 works
  3. 3 BengaluruIndia 10 works
  4. 4 New YorkUnited States 10 works
  5. 5 PretoriaSouth Africa 10 works
  6. 6 Washington D.C.United States 7 works
  7. 7 BurbankUnited States 6 works
  8. 8 RichmondUnited States 6 works
  9. 9 IstanbulTürkiye 5 works
  10. 10 BrisbaneAustralia 5 works
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Where is the best place to study Ego Development and Educational Practices?

Among universities, judged by research, Liberty 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.

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
1Liberty UniversityUnited States 0.83.7%608.4×13 -16.7%

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 Ego Development and Educational Practices, country by country

Is Ego Development and Educational Practices research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 38% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2026. The fastest-growing topics are Ego Development and Educational Practices.

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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 Ego Development and Educational Practices as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0020% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Ego Development and Educational Practices 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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