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Human Resource Development and Performance Evaluation

Human Resource Development and Performance Evaluation is a research topic within Applied Psychology. Science Explorer counts 14k 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 focuses on the motivation and transfer of training in organizational settings, exploring factors influencing learning outcomes, workplace climate, and performance improvement. It encompasses research on employee development, organizational learning, and the effectiveness of training programs.

  • Training Motivation
  • Training Transfer
  • Learning Outcomes
  • Organizational Learning
  • Employee Development
  • Meta-Analysis
  • Workplace Climate
  • Performance Improvement
  • Human Resource Development
  • Training Effectiveness
Research works
14k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.4%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+48%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
32% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Human Resource Development and Performance Evaluation

Which countries lead Human Resource Development and Performance Evaluation research?

By volume, the United States and Indonesia publish the most (626 and 284 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 626 works
  2. 2 Indonesia 284 works
  3. 3 India 266 works
  4. 4 Nigeria 147 works
  5. 5 Kenya 140 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 125 works
  7. 7 China 113 works
  8. 8 Malaysia 112 works
  9. 9 Philippines 85 works
  10. 10 South Africa 79 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: 31.7%Indonesia: 14.4%India: 13.4%Nigeria: 7.4%6 others listed: 33.1%32%largest
United States626 · 31.7%Indonesia284 · 14.4%India266 · 13.4%Nigeria147 · 7.4%6 others listed654 · 33.1%

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

Which institutions lead Human Resource Development and Performance Evaluation research?

By volume in 2022-now, Kenyatta University publishes the most Human Resource Development and Performance Evaluation research, followed by Islamic Azad University, Tehran and Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Kenyatta UniversityKenya 24 works
  2. 2 Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 23 works
  3. 3 Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and TechnologyKenya 21 works
  4. 4 Mount Kenya UniversityKenya 17 works
  5. 5 Tribhuvan UniversityNepal 13 works
  6. 6 Universiti Teknologi MARAMalaysia 12 works
  7. 7 University of Massachusetts AmherstUnited States 12 works
  8. 8 University of South AfricaSouth Africa 12 works
  9. 9 Universiti Putra MalaysiaMalaysia 10 works
  10. 10 University of NairobiKenya 10 works

Who are the leading researchers in Human Resource Development and Performance Evaluation?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Human Resource Development and Performance Evaluation include Mika Kivimäki, Peter M. Bentler and Arnold B. Bakker.

  1. 1 Mika Kivimäki United Kingdom 318k citations
  2. 2 Peter M. Bentler United States 233k citations
  3. 3 Arnold B. Bakker Netherlands 189k citations
  4. 4 John W. Creswell United States 186k 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 Human Resource Development and Performance Evaluation?

The most cited paper in Human Resource Development and Performance Evaluation is "A QUANTITATIVE APPROACH TO CONTENT VALIDITY1" (C. H. Lawshe, 1975), with 7,257 citations. Next come "Organizational Strategy, Structure, and Process" (7,119) and "Justice at the millennium: A meta-analytic review of 25 years of organizational justice research." (5,924).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A QUANTITATIVE APPROACH TO CONTENT VALIDITY1 C. H. Lawshe · Personnel Psychology Dec 1975 7,257
2 Organizational Strategy, Structure, and Process Raymond E. Miles, Charles C. Snow, Alan D. Meyer et al. · Academy of Management Review Jul 1978 7,119
3 Justice at the millennium: A meta-analytic review of 25 years of organizational justice research. Jason A. Colquitt, Donald Edward Conlon, Michael J. Wesson et al. · Journal of Applied Psychology Jun 2001 5,924
4 A review and meta-analysis of the antecedents, correlates, and consequences of organizational commitment. John E. Mathieu, Dennis M. Zajac · Psychological Bulletin Review Sep 1990 5,873
5 Qualitative inquiry and research design: Choosing among five approaches, 2nd ed. John W. Creswell 2007 5,018
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Human Resource Development and Performance Evaluation research done?

The largest centres of Human Resource Development and Performance Evaluation research in 2022-now are Nairobi (Kenya), Jakarta (Indonesia), Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) and London (United Kingdom). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Nairobi.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 NairobiKenya 74 works
  2. 2 JakartaIndonesia 46 works
  3. 3 Kuala LumpurMalaysia 32 works
  4. 4 LondonUnited Kingdom 30 works
  5. 5 BandungIndonesia 29 works
  6. 6 MakassarIndonesia 25 works
  7. 7 KampalaUganda 21 works
  8. 8 TehranIran 21 works
  9. 9 PretoriaSouth Africa 21 works
  10. 10 BeijingChina 20 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. NairobiKE · 74.0 works27×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Human Resource Development and Performance Evaluation than the world average.

See Human Resource Development and Performance Evaluation on the map

Where is the best place to study Human Resource Development and Performance Evaluation?

Among universities, judged by research, University of South Africa, University of Massachusetts Amherst and University of Johannesburg 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
1University of South AfricaSouth Africa 64.917.3%9.5×12 +104.8%
2University of Massachusetts AmherstUnited States 64.016.5%11.9×12 +1094.4%
3University of JohannesburgSouth Africa 61.126.7%4.6×8 +19.8%
4University of Cape CoastGhana 58.224.3%22.0×9 -27.5%
5Universiti Putra MalaysiaMalaysia 53.012.4%6.9×10 +203.9%
6Tribhuvan UniversityNepal 47.95.4%6.0×13 +281.2%
7Kenyatta UniversityKenya 47.80.3%61.1×24 -2.3%
8Mount Kenya UniversityKenya 43.50.0%98.5×17 +45.4%
9Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and TechnologyKenya 42.61.3%63.8×21 -28.7%
10Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 36.80.9%4.8×23 -18.6%

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 Human Resource Development and Performance Evaluation, country by country

Is Human Resource Development and Performance Evaluation research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 48% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Human Resource Development and Performance Evaluation.

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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 Human Resource Development and Performance Evaluation as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.018% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Human Resource Development and Performance Evaluation 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%Human Resource Development and Performance Evaluation11.1% 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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