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Mentoring and Academic Development

Mentoring and Academic Development is a research topic within Social Psychology. Science Explorer counts 11k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the impact and dynamics of mentoring relationships across various domains, including career development, academic medicine, and youth mentoring. It delves into the effectiveness of formal mentoring programs, the influence of gender and diversity, and the role of mentoring in organizational commitment and professional success.

  • Mentoring
  • Relationships
  • Career Development
  • Youth
  • Academic Medicine
  • Diversity
  • Professional Success
  • Formal Programs
  • Gender
  • Organizational Commitment
Research works
11k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+27%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
72% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Mentoring and Academic Development

Which countries lead Mentoring and Academic Development research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (1.9k and 195 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.9k works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 195 works
  3. 3 Canada 139 works
  4. 4 Australia 92 works
  5. 5 China 71 works
  6. 6 India 69 works
  7. 7 South Africa 65 works
  8. 8 Germany 42 works
  9. 9 Russia 34 works
  10. 10 Spain 30 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: 72.2%United Kingdom: 7.3%Canada: 5.2%Australia: 3.5%6 others listed: 11.7%72%largest
United States1,918 · 72.2%United Kingdom195 · 7.3%Canada139 · 5.2%Australia92 · 3.5%6 others listed311 · 11.7%

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

Which institutions lead Mentoring and Academic Development research?

By volume in 2022-now, The Ohio State University publishes the most Mentoring and Academic Development research, followed by Harvard University and University of Michigan.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 The Ohio State UniversityUnited States 24 works
  2. 2 Harvard UniversityUnited States 22 works
  3. 3 University of MichiganUnited States 22 works
  4. 4 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 21 works
  5. 5 Pennsylvania State UniversityUnited States 17 works
  6. 6 University of TorontoCanada 16 works
  7. 7 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 16 works
  8. 8 Columbia UniversityUnited States 16 works
  9. 9 University of FloridaUnited States 15 works
  10. 10 University of PittsburghUnited States 15 works

Who are the leading researchers in Mentoring and Academic Development?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Mentoring and Academic Development include Emelia J. Benjamin, Andrea C. Tricco and Graham A. Colditz.

  1. 1 Emelia J. Benjamin United States 341k citations
  2. 2 Andrea C. Tricco Canada 258k citations
  3. 3 Graham A. Colditz United States 233k 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 Mentoring and Academic Development?

The most cited paper in Mentoring and Academic Development is "Racial microaggressions in everyday life: Implications for clinical practice." (Derald Wing Sue, Christina M. Capodilupo, Gina C. Torino et al., 2007), with 5,560 citations. Next come "Student Involvement: A Developmental Theory for Higher Education" (5,295) and "A life-span, life-space approach to career development" (4,302).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Racial microaggressions in everyday life: Implications for clinical practice. Derald Wing Sue, Christina M. Capodilupo, Gina C. Torino et al. · American Psychologist May 2007 5,560
2 Student Involvement: A Developmental Theory for Higher Education Alexander W. Astin Book chapter 23 Jun 2014 5,295
3 A life-span, life-space approach to career development Donald E. Super · Journal of Vocational Behavior Jun 1980 4,302
4 New Effect Size Rules of Thumb Shlomo S. Sawilowsky · Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods Open access Nov 2009 3,336
5 Mentoring at Work: Developmental Relationships in Organizational Life. Michael B. Arthur, Kathy E. Kram · Administrative Science Quarterly Sep 1985 2,693
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Where is Mentoring and Academic Development research done?

The largest centres of Mentoring and Academic Development research in 2022-now are New York (United States), Washington D.C. (United States), Boston (United States) and London (United Kingdom).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 New YorkUnited States 58 works
  2. 2 Washington D.C.United States 43 works
  3. 3 BostonUnited States 42 works
  4. 4 LondonUnited Kingdom 39 works
  5. 5 ChicagoUnited States 38 works
  6. 6 AtlantaUnited States 36 works
  7. 7 PhiladelphiaUnited States 30 works
  8. 8 BaltimoreUnited States 28 works
  9. 9 Los AngelesUnited States 28 works
  10. 10 TorontoCanada 26 works
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Where is the best place to study Mentoring and Academic Development?

Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, University of California, San Francisco and University of Georgia 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
1Harvard UniversityUnited States 77.320.6%2.5×22 +0.7%
2University of California, San FranciscoUnited States 68.916.2%7.3×14 +48.0%
3University of GeorgiaUnited States 67.418.8%7.9×9 +76.6%
4University of CalgaryCanada 67.320.2%6.4×12 +33.8%
5University of Maryland, College ParkUnited States 62.79.4%8.0×13 +63.1%
6Pennsylvania State UniversityUnited States 62.411.0%5.8×17 +77.4%
7The Ohio State UniversityUnited States 62.37.1%7.1×24 +102.9%
8Columbia UniversityUnited States 61.313.7%5.2×16 +82.8%
9University of MichiganUnited States 59.710.8%5.1×22 -16.5%
10Stanford UniversityUnited States 56.811.5%3.4×14 +31.0%

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 Mentoring and Academic Development, country by country

Is Mentoring and Academic Development research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 27% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Mentoring and Academic Development.

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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 Mentoring and Academic Development as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.013% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Mentoring and Academic Development 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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