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Identity, Memory, and Therapy

Identity, Memory, and Therapy is a research topic within Developmental and Educational Psychology. Science Explorer counts 12k research works in it since 1951. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the development of narrative identity, autobiographical memory, and psychological well-being in emerging adulthood. It delves into the formation of life stories, memory specificity, and the impact of cultural and social factors on identity construction during life transitions. The research emphasizes the role of narrative identity in shaping individuals' experiences and well-being as they navigate the complexities of emerging adulthood.

  • Narrative Identity
  • Autobiographical Memory
  • Emerging Adulthood
  • Identity Formation
  • Life Stories
  • Memory Specificity
  • Psychological Well-being
  • Adolescence
  • Cultural Psychology
  • Life Transitions
Research works
12k
fractional, since 1951
In the world top 10%
1.2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+21%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
43% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Identity, Memory, and Therapy

Which countries lead Identity, Memory, and Therapy research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (823 and 205 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 823 works
  2. 2 China 205 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 185 works
  4. 4 Germany 130 works
  5. 5 Canada 120 works
  6. 6 Japan 96 works
  7. 7 Indonesia 87 works
  8. 8 Australia 86 works
  9. 9 Italy 84 works
  10. 10 Türkiye 81 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: 43.4%China: 10.8%United Kingdom: 9.7%Germany: 6.8%6 others listed: 29.2%43%largest
United States823 · 43.4%China205 · 10.8%United Kingdom185 · 9.7%Germany130 · 6.8%6 others listed555 · 29.2%

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

Which institutions lead Identity, Memory, and Therapy research?

By volume in 2022-now, Aarhus University publishes the most Identity, Memory, and Therapy research, followed by University of Toronto and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Aarhus UniversityDenmark 24 works
  2. 2 University of TorontoCanada 20 works
  3. 3 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 17 works
  4. 4 Harvard UniversityUnited States 16 works
  5. 5 Cornell UniversityUnited States 15 works
  6. 6 Washington University in St. LouisUnited States 14 works
  7. 7 Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 13 works
  8. 8 Columbia UniversityUnited States 11 works
  9. 9 University of British ColumbiaCanada 11 works
  10. 10 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 11 works

Who are the leading researchers in Identity, Memory, and Therapy?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Identity, Memory, and Therapy include Richard M. Ryan, Ronald C. Kessler and Dan J. Stein.

  1. 1 Richard M. Ryan United States 395k citations
  2. 2 Ronald C. Kessler United States 360k citations
  3. 3 Dan J. Stein South Africa 306k citations
  4. 4 Luigi Ferrucci United States 281k citations
  5. 5 JoAnn E. Manson United States 263k citations
  6. 6 André Gerardus Uitterlinden Netherlands 246k citations
  7. 7 John C. Morris United States 241k citations
  8. 8 Nicholas G. Martin Australia 228k 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 Identity, Memory, and Therapy?

The most cited paper in Identity, Memory, and Therapy is "TARGET ARTICLE: "Posttraumatic Growth: Conceptual Foundations and Empirical Evidence"" (Richard G. Tedeschi, Lawrence G. Calhoun, 2004), with 6,215 citations. Next come "A cognitive model of posttraumatic stress disorder" (6,137) and "The posttraumatic growth inventory: Measuring the positive legacy of trauma" (5,216).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 TARGET ARTICLE: "Posttraumatic Growth: Conceptual Foundations and Empirical Evidence" Richard G. Tedeschi, Lawrence G. Calhoun · Psychological Inquiry 2004 6,215
2 A cognitive model of posttraumatic stress disorder Anke Ehlers, David M. Clark · Behaviour Research and Therapy Apr 2000 6,137
3 The posttraumatic growth inventory: Measuring the positive legacy of trauma Richard G. Tedeschi, Lawrence G. Calhoun · Journal of Traumatic Stress 1996 5,216
4 Development and validation of ego-identity status. James E. Marcia · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 1966 5,161
5 The construction of autobiographical memories in the self-memory system. Martin A. Conway, Christopher W. Pleydell-Pearce · Psychological Review 2000 3,955
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Where is Identity, Memory, and Therapy research done?

The largest centres of Identity, Memory, and Therapy research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), New York (United States), Beijing (China) and Istanbul (Türkiye). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Aarhus.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 48 works
  2. 2 New YorkUnited States 44 works
  3. 3 BeijingChina 36 works
  4. 4 IstanbulTürkiye 33 works
  5. 5 TorontoCanada 30 works
  6. 6 TokyoJapan 29 works
  7. 7 BudapestHungary 26 works
  8. 8 MoscowRussia 26 works
  9. 9 AarhusDenmark 25 works
  10. 10 BostonUnited States 25 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. AarhusDK · 25.0 works9.3×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Identity, Memory, and Therapy than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Identity, Memory, and Therapy?

Among universities, judged by research, Washington University in St. Louis, University of Toronto and Aarhus 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%10%20%30%mean 16.52%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Washington Universit…Harvard UniversityAarhus UniversityUniversity of Toronto
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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
1Washington University in St. LouisUnited States 70.318.0%7.5×14 +109.7%
2University of TorontoCanada 70.16.8%4.0×20 +24.3%
3Aarhus UniversityDenmark 68.810.1%11.3×24 -28.9%
4Harvard UniversityUnited States 68.816.2%2.0×16 +25.9%
5Cornell UniversityUnited States 66.018.3%4.4×15 +55.9%
6University College LondonUnited Kingdom 64.215.6%2.7×11 +70.4%
7The University of MelbourneAustralia 56.922.2%3.1×9 +85.8%
8KU LeuvenBelgium 56.321.4%3.9×9 -21.7%
9Sapienza University of RomeItaly 55.224.9%2.7×8 +121.0%
10Columbia UniversityUnited States 49.211.7%4.0×11 +68.0%

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 Identity, Memory, and Therapy, country by country

Is Identity, Memory, and Therapy research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 21% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Identity, Memory, and Therapy.

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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 Identity, Memory, and Therapy as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.011% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Identity, Memory, and Therapy0.014% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Identity, Memory, and Therapy 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%Identity, Memory, and Therapy10.3% 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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