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Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior

Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior is a research topic within Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management. Science Explorer counts 48k 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 focuses on work engagement, organizational behavior, and related factors such as job demands-resources model, mediation analysis, leadership, employee commitment, psychological capital, job satisfaction, and human resource management. The papers explore the relationships between these factors and their impact on individual and organizational outcomes.

  • Work Engagement
  • Organizational Behavior
  • Job Demands-Resources Model
  • Mediation Analysis
  • Leadership
  • Employee Commitment
  • Psychological Capital
  • Job Satisfaction
  • Transformational Leadership
  • Human Resource Management
Research works
48k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
4.9k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.3%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+26%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
22% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior

Which countries lead Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (2.1k and 1.9k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 2.1k works
  2. 2 United States 1.9k works
  3. 3 India 1.2k works
  4. 4 Türkiye 1.1k works
  5. 5 Indonesia 751 works
  6. 6 Pakistan 594 works
  7. 7 Malaysia 531 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 441 works
  9. 9 Germany 406 works
  10. 10 Australia 337 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: 22.3%United States: 20.2%India: 12.7%Türkiye: 12.0%6 others listed: 32.8%22%largest
China2,082 · 22.3%United States1,885 · 20.2%India1,190 · 12.7%Türkiye1,118 · 12.0%6 others listed3,060 · 32.8%

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

Which institutions lead Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior research?

By volume in 2022-now, Renmin University of China publishes the most Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior research, followed by Universiti Teknologi MARA and Islamic Azad University, Tehran.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Renmin University of ChinaChina 69 works
  2. 2 Universiti Teknologi MARAMalaysia 49 works
  3. 3 Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 47 works
  4. 4 University of JohannesburgSouth Africa 43 works
  5. 5 Beijing Normal UniversityChina 40 works
  6. 6 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 39 works
  7. 7 Symbiosis International UniversityIndia 36 works
  8. 8 Universiti Sains MalaysiaMalaysia 35 works
  9. 9 University of the PunjabPakistan 34 works
  10. 10 Universiti Putra MalaysiaMalaysia 33 works

Who are the leading researchers in Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior include Richard M. Ryan, Albert Bandura and Edward L. Deci.

  1. 1 Richard M. Ryan United States 395k citations
  2. 2 Albert Bandura United States 370k citations
  3. 3 Edward L. Deci United States 325k citations
  4. 4 Mika Kivimäki United Kingdom 318k citations
  5. 5 Peter M. Bentler United States 233k citations
  6. 6 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  7. 7 Marko Sarstedt Germany 221k citations
  8. 8 Christian M. Ringle Germany 215k citations
  9. 9 Norito Kawakami Japan 202k citations
  10. 10 David A. Kenny United States 198k 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 Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior?

The most cited paper in Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior is "Self-Reports in Organizational Research: Problems and Prospects" (Philip M. Podsakoff, Dennis W. Organ, 1986), with 17,177 citations. Next come "The measurement of experienced burnout" (14,438) and "An Integrative Model Of Organizational Trust" (14,322).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Self-Reports in Organizational Research: Problems and Prospects Philip M. Podsakoff, Dennis W. Organ · Journal of Management Dec 1986 17,177
2 The measurement of experienced burnout Christina Maslach, Susan E. Jackson · Journal of Organizational Behavior Apr 1981 14,438
3 An Integrative Model Of Organizational Trust Roger C. Mayer, James H. Davis, F. David Schoorman · Academy of Management Review Jul 1995 14,322
4 The Job Demands‐Resources model: state of the art Arnold B. Bakker, Evangelia Demerouti · Journal of Managerial Psychology Open access 15 Mar 2007 12,685
5 The measurement and antecedents of affective, continuance and normative commitment to the organization Natalie J. Allen, John P. Meyer · Journal of Occupational Psychology Open access Mar 1990 11,671
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Where is Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior research done?

The largest centres of Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Istanbul (Türkiye), Seoul (South Korea) and Shanghai (China).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 347 works
  2. 2 IstanbulTürkiye 249 works
  3. 3 SeoulSouth Korea 166 works
  4. 4 ShanghaiChina 159 works
  5. 5 LahorePakistan 136 works
  6. 6 IslamabadPakistan 133 works
  7. 7 JakartaIndonesia 125 works
  8. 8 AnkaraTürkiye 123 works
  9. 9 Kuala LumpurMalaysia 114 works
  10. 10 LondonUnited Kingdom 107 works
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Where is the best place to study Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Sharjah, Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Renmin University of China 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 24.82%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of SharjahSouthwestern Univers…Hong Kong Polytechni…Renmin University of…
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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 SharjahUnited Arab Emirates 77.631.2%5.7×20 +141.0%
2Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 71.726.2%2.7×30 +40.2%
3Renmin University of ChinaChina 69.513.7%16.3×69 +57.6%
4Southwestern University of Finance and EconomicsChina 68.327.9%10.6×20 +44.4%
5RMIT UniversityAustralia 66.928.3%4.0×20 +35.0%
6Abu Dhabi UniversityUnited Arab Emirates 66.027.5%13.4×13 +72.5%
7Gachon UniversitySouth Korea 65.727.7%6.3×20 +170.5%
8Makerere UniversityUganda 64.429.0%6.7×15 +139.9%
9Macau University of Science and TechnologyChina 63.317.3%8.6×24 +179.9%
10University of Business and TechnologySaudi Arabia 62.919.4%14.7×18 +124.1%

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 Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior, country by country

Is Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 26% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior.

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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 Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.057% in 2024.

still counting0.025%0.050%0.075%Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior0.064% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior 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%Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior10.6% 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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