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Flow Experience in Various Fields

Flow Experience in Various Fields is a research topic within Developmental and Educational Psychology. Science Explorer counts 3.7k research works in it since 1950. 10.6% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the concept of flow theory and its application to student engagement in high school classrooms. It delves into psychological well-being, optimal experience, intrinsic motivation, and performance, while also investigating the neurocognitive and physiological correlates of flow experiences. The research emphasizes the importance of cognitive synchronization and the interplay between challenge and skill balance in educational settings.

  • Flow Theory
  • Student Engagement
  • High School Classrooms
  • Psychological Well-being
  • Optimal Experience
  • Intrinsic Motivation
  • Performance
  • Cognitive Synchronization
  • Neurocognitive Mechanisms
  • Physiological Correlates
Research works
3.7k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
390
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.6%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+81%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
24% of the 10 largest, 2022-now

Which countries lead Flow Experience in Various Fields research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (240 and 233 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 240 works
  2. 2 United States 233 works
  3. 3 Germany 106 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 89 works
  5. 5 Japan 75 works
  6. 6 Türkiye 57 works
  7. 7 India 56 works
  8. 8 Indonesia 56 works
  9. 9 Italy 43 works
  10. 10 Canada 42 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.

China: 24.1%United States: 23.4%Germany: 10.7%United Kingdom: 8.9%6 others listed: 32.9%24%largest
China240 · 24.1%United States233 · 23.4%Germany106 · 10.7%United Kingdom89 · 8.9%6 others listed328 · 32.9%

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

Which institutions lead Flow Experience in Various Fields research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Flow Experience in Various Fields research, followed by Sapienza University of Rome and University of Oxford.

Who are the leading researchers in Flow Experience in Various Fields?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Flow Experience in Various Fields include Edward L. Deci, JoAnn E. Manson and Trevor William Robbins.

  1. 1 Edward L. Deci United States 325k citations
  2. 2 JoAnn E. Manson United States 263k citations
  3. 3 Trevor William Robbins United Kingdom 199k citations
  4. 4 Arnold B. Bakker Netherlands 189k citations
  5. 5 Roy Frederick Baumeister United States 183k citations
  6. 6 Wilmar B. Schaufeli Netherlands 158k citations
  7. 7 Ester Cerin China 154k citations
  8. 8 Susan G. Michie United Kingdom 148k citations
  9. 9 Jim van Os Netherlands 146k citations
  10. 10 Nancy L. Pedersen Sweden 138k 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 Flow Experience in Various Fields?

The most cited paper in Flow Experience in Various Fields is "Measuring the Customer Experience in Online Environments: A Structural Modeling Approach" (Thomas P. Novak, Donna L. Hoffman, Yiu‐Fai Yung, 2000), with 3,188 citations. Next come "Gamification in theory and action: A survey" (2,499) and "Why do people play on-line games? An extended TAM with social influences and flow experience" (2,011).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Measuring the Customer Experience in Online Environments: A Structural Modeling Approach Thomas P. Novak, Donna L. Hoffman, Yiu‐Fai Yung · Marketing Science Feb 2000 3,188
2 Gamification in theory and action: A survey Katie Seaborn, Deborah I. Fels · International Journal of Human-Computer Studies Open access 5 Oct 2014 2,499
3 Why do people play on-line games? An extended TAM with social influences and flow experience Chin‐Lung Hsu, Hsi‐Peng Lu · Information & Management 15 Nov 2003 2,011
4 Challenging games help students learn: An empirical study on engagement, flow and immersion in game-based learning Juho Hamari, David J. Shernoff, Elizabeth Ashman Rowe et al. · Computers in Human Behavior Open access 15 Aug 2015 1,703
5 The Concept of Flow Jeanne Nakamura, Mihály Csíkszentmihályi Book chapter 2014 1,607
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Where is Flow Experience in Various Fields research done?

The largest centres of Flow Experience in Various Fields research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Tokyo (Japan), London (United Kingdom) and Budapest (Hungary). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Budapest.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 34 works
  2. 2 TokyoJapan 23 works
  3. 3 LondonUnited Kingdom 23 works
  4. 4 BudapestHungary 20 works
  5. 5 TaipeiTaiwan 19 works
  6. 6 SeoulSouth Korea 15 works
  7. 7 ShanghaiChina 14 works
  8. 8 GuangzhouChina 12 works
  9. 9 RomeItaly 12 works
  10. 10 New YorkUnited States 11 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. BudapestHU · 20.4 works6.6×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Flow Experience in Various Fields than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Flow Experience in Various Fields?

Among universities, judged by research, Sapienza University of Rome 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
1Sapienza University of RomeItaly 5.06.0%5.2×8 -

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 Flow Experience in Various Fields, country by country

Is Flow Experience in Various Fields research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 81% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Flow Experience in Various Fields.

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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 Flow Experience in Various Fields as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0048% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Flow Experience in Various Fields 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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