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Emotional Intelligence and Performance

Emotional Intelligence and Performance is a research topic within Social Psychology. Science Explorer counts 29k research works in it since 1950. 10.4% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the effects of emotional intelligence on performance, attitude, leadership, social interaction, health, and workplace outcomes. It covers topics such as trait emotional intelligence, meta-analysis of emotional intelligence research, stress, and the relationship between emotional intelligence and job performance. The papers also delve into the implications of emotional intelligence in various domains such as education, nursing, and leadership.

  • Emotional Intelligence
  • Leadership
  • Performance
  • Attitude
  • Social Interaction
  • Health
  • Workplace
  • Trait Emotional Intelligence
  • Meta-Analysis
  • Stress
Research works
29k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.4%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+35%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
India
21% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Emotional Intelligence and Performance

Which countries lead Emotional Intelligence and Performance research?

By volume, India and the United States publish the most (1.1k and 890 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 India 1.1k works
  2. 2 United States 890 works
  3. 3 China 668 works
  4. 4 Pakistan 510 works
  5. 5 Indonesia 446 works
  6. 6 Türkiye 380 works
  7. 7 Malaysia 314 works
  8. 8 Spain 233 works
  9. 9 United Kingdom 233 works
  10. 10 Iran 221 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.

India: 21.2%United States: 18.0%China: 13.5%Pakistan: 10.3%6 others listed: 37.0%21%largest
India1,050 · 21.2%United States890 · 18.0%China668 · 13.5%Pakistan510 · 10.3%6 others listed1,827 · 37.0%

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

Which institutions lead Emotional Intelligence and Performance research?

By volume in 2022-now, Islamic Azad University, Tehran publishes the most Emotional Intelligence and Performance research, followed by Universiti Teknologi MARA and National University of Malaysia.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 74 works
  2. 2 Universiti Teknologi MARAMalaysia 43 works
  3. 3 National University of MalaysiaMalaysia 25 works
  4. 4 Tribhuvan UniversityNepal 25 works
  5. 5 Vellore Institute of Technology UniversityIndia 23 works
  6. 6 University of EducationPakistan 22 works
  7. 7 University of the PunjabPakistan 21 works
  8. 8 Government of Western AustraliaAustralia 19 works
  9. 9 Amity UniversityIndia 19 works
  10. 10 Universiti Putra MalaysiaMalaysia 17 works

Who are the leading researchers in Emotional Intelligence and Performance?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Emotional Intelligence and Performance include Richard M. Ryan, Albert Bandura and Norito Kawakami.

  1. 1 Richard M. Ryan United States 395k citations
  2. 2 Albert Bandura United States 370k citations
  3. 3 Norito Kawakami Japan 202k citations
  4. 4 David A. Kenny United States 198k citations
  5. 5 Arnold B. Bakker Netherlands 189k citations
  6. 6 Roy Frederick Baumeister United States 183k 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 Emotional Intelligence and Performance?

The most cited paper in Emotional Intelligence and Performance is "The role of positive emotions in positive psychology: The broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions." (Barbara L. Fredrickson, 2001), with 14,780 citations. Next come "Emotional Intelligence" (9,321) and "THE BIG FIVE PERSONALITY DIMENSIONS AND JOB PERFORMANCE: A META‐ANALYSIS" (8,760).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The role of positive emotions in positive psychology: The broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions. Barbara L. Fredrickson · American Psychologist Open access Mar 2001 14,780
2 Emotional Intelligence Peter Salovey, John D. Mayer · Imagination Cognition and Personality Mar 1990 9,321
3 THE BIG FIVE PERSONALITY DIMENSIONS AND JOB PERFORMANCE: A META‐ANALYSIS Murray R. Barrick, Michael Kelly Mount · Personnel Psychology Mar 1991 8,760
4 Unskilled and unaware of it: How difficulties in recognizing one's own incompetence lead to inflated self-assessments. Justin Kruger, David Alan Dunning · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 1999 7,146
5 What Good Are Positive Emotions? Barbara L. Fredrickson · Review of General Psychology Open access Sep 1998 5,669
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Emotional Intelligence and Performance research done?

The largest centres of Emotional Intelligence and Performance research in 2022-now are Lahore (Pakistan), Beijing (China), Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) and Istanbul (Türkiye). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Quetta.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LahorePakistan 121 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 105 works
  3. 3 Kuala LumpurMalaysia 92 works
  4. 4 IstanbulTürkiye 70 works
  5. 5 IslamabadPakistan 68 works
  6. 6 LondonUnited Kingdom 65 works
  7. 7 KarachiPakistan 64 works
  8. 8 TehranIran 63 works
  9. 9 BengaluruIndia 59 works
  10. 10 ChennaiIndia 52 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. QuettaPK · 21.3 works23×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Emotional Intelligence and Performance than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Emotional Intelligence and Performance?

Among universities, judged by research, Education University of Hong Kong, Chinese University of Hong Kong and Universidad de Málaga 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 31.88%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →King's College LondonChinese University o…Education University…Universidad de Málaga
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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
1Education University of Hong KongChina 62.134.4%7.7×8 +76.5%
2Chinese University of Hong KongChina 61.340.4%1.6×9 +122.8%
3Universidad de MálagaSpain 60.931.0%6.8×16 -17.2%
4King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 59.744.6%1.6×10 +207.9%
5Peking UniversityChina 57.642.3%1.1×16 +340.2%
6University of PatrasGreece 56.030.7%6.0×12 +223.8%
7Universiti Teknologi MARAMalaysia 49.74.1%7.7×42 +205.0%
8University of the Free StateSouth Africa 48.824.6%5.9×10 +167.0%
9Beijing Normal UniversityChina 48.327.2%2.8×16 +258.7%
10Cornell UniversityUnited States 46.139.5%1.1×11 -31.1%

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 Emotional Intelligence and Performance, country by country

Is Emotional Intelligence and Performance research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 35% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Emotional Intelligence and Performance.

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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 Emotional Intelligence and Performance as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.040% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Emotional Intelligence and Performance0.037% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Emotional Intelligence and Performance 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%Emotional Intelligence and Performance10.8% 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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Who researches emotional intelligence?

By volume in 2022-now, Islamic Azad University, Tehran publishes the most Emotional Intelligence and Performance research, followed by Universiti Teknologi MARA and National University of Malaysia. By volume, India and the United States publish the most (1.1k and 890 works in 2022-now).

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