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Facilities and Workplace Management

Facilities and Workplace Management is a research topic within Social Psychology. Science Explorer counts 12k 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 impact of workspace environment, including open-plan offices, coworking spaces, and office design, on employee satisfaction, workplace productivity, and the role of facilities management. It delves into the psychological and physiological effects of the physical work environment, as well as the influence of innovation spaces on creativity and collaboration.

  • Workspace Environment
  • Open-Plan Offices
  • Employee Satisfaction
  • Workplace Productivity
  • Facilities Management
  • Coworking Spaces
  • Office Design
  • Environmental Psychology
  • Innovation Spaces
  • Physical Work Environment
Research works
12k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.3%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+27%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
18% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Facilities and Workplace Management

Which countries lead Facilities and Workplace Management research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (357 and 278 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 357 works
  2. 2 China 278 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 215 works
  4. 4 Malaysia 215 works
  5. 5 Nigeria 180 works
  6. 6 Indonesia 167 works
  7. 7 India 150 works
  8. 8 Italy 147 works
  9. 9 Australia 138 works
  10. 10 Germany 106 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: 18.3%China: 14.2%United Kingdom: 11.0%Malaysia: 11.0%6 others listed: 45.5%18%largest
United States357 · 18.3%China278 · 14.2%United Kingdom215 · 11.0%Malaysia215 · 11.0%6 others listed889 · 45.5%

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

Which institutions lead Facilities and Workplace Management research?

By volume in 2022-now, Universiti Teknologi MARA publishes the most Facilities and Workplace Management research, followed by University of Johannesburg and Politecnico di Milano.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Universiti Teknologi MARAMalaysia 41 works
  2. 2 University of JohannesburgSouth Africa 29 works
  3. 3 Politecnico di MilanoItaly 28 works
  4. 4 Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 23 works
  5. 5 University of Technology MalaysiaMalaysia 23 works
  6. 6 Universiti Sains MalaysiaMalaysia 19 works
  7. 7 University of MalayaMalaysia 19 works
  8. 8 Delft University of TechnologyNetherlands 18 works
  9. 9 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 18 works
  10. 10 University of MoratuwaSri Lanka 16 works

Who are the leading researchers in Facilities and Workplace Management?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Facilities and Workplace Management include Arnold B. Bakker, Christopher D. Manning and Adrian Ernest Bauman.

  1. 1 Arnold B. Bakker Netherlands 189k citations
  2. 2 Christopher D. Manning United States 179k citations
  3. 3 Adrian Ernest Bauman Australia 129k citations
  4. 4 Carlos H. Caldas United Kingdom 129k 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 Facilities and Workplace Management?

The most cited paper in Facilities and Workplace Management is "A review on buildings energy consumption information" (Luis Pérez‐Lombard, José Ortiz, Christine Pout, 2007), with 6,641 citations. Next come "Integrating motivational, social, and contextual work design features: A meta-analytic summary and theoretical extension of the work design literature." (2,317) and "Causes of delay in large construction projects" (1,705).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A review on buildings energy consumption information Luis Pérez‐Lombard, José Ortiz, Christine Pout · Energy and Buildings Open access 16 Mar 2007 6,641
2 Integrating motivational, social, and contextual work design features: A meta-analytic summary and theoretical extension of the work design literature. Stephen E. Humphrey, Jennifer D. Nahrgang, Frederick P. Morgeson · Journal of Applied Psychology 2007 2,317
3 Causes of delay in large construction projects Sadi Assaf, Sadiq Al-Hejji · International Journal of Project Management 16 Mar 2006 1,705
4 Job satisfaction and job performance: A meta-analysis. Michelle T. Iaffaldano, Paul M. Muchinsky · Psychological Bulletin Mar 1985 1,402
5 Existing building retrofits: Methodology and state-of-the-art Zhenjun Ma, Paul W. Cooper, Daniel Daly et al. · Energy and Buildings 23 Aug 2012 1,235
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Where is Facilities and Workplace Management research done?

The largest centres of Facilities and Workplace Management research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), Shah Alam (Malaysia) and Tokyo (Japan). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Lagos and Shah Alam.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 49 works
  2. 2 Kuala LumpurMalaysia 49 works
  3. 3 Shah AlamMalaysia 43 works
  4. 4 TokyoJapan 43 works
  5. 5 BeijingChina 40 works
  6. 6 JohannesburgSouth Africa 37 works
  7. 7 MilanItaly 35 works
  8. 8 MelbourneAustralia 35 works
  9. 9 Hong KongChina 33 works
  10. 10 IstanbulTürkiye 32 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. LagosNG · 20.8 works14×
  2. Shah AlamMY · 43.2 works13×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Facilities and Workplace Management than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Facilities and Workplace Management?

Among universities, judged by research, Western Sydney University, Eindhoven University of Technology and Hong Kong Polytechnic 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 25.03%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Western Sydney Unive…Eindhoven University…Hong Kong Polytechni…University of Johann…
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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
1Western Sydney UniversityAustralia 64.035.3%11.3×10 +13.8%
2Eindhoven University of TechnologyNetherlands 63.933.3%9.9×12 -3.2%
3Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 63.621.0%8.3×23 -26.4%
4University of JohannesburgSouth Africa 63.012.6%14.3×29 +81.2%
5University of Hong KongChina 59.129.2%3.3×10 +38.4%
6Deakin UniversityAustralia 58.927.1%7.4×11 +44.5%
7Politecnico di MilanoItaly 58.510.3%12.1×28 +5.2%
8The University of SydneyAustralia 55.035.1%2.0×8 +33.1%
9University College LondonUnited Kingdom 54.925.7%3.4×18 -10.5%
10Universidade Federal de Santa CatarinaBrazil 51.920.7%5.0×11 +117.8%

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 Facilities and Workplace Management, country by country

Is Facilities and Workplace Management research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 27% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Facilities and Workplace Management.

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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 Facilities and Workplace Management as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.013% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Facilities and Workplace Management 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%Facilities and Workplace Management10.3% 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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