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Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions

Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions is a research topic within Clinical Psychology. Science Explorer counts 21k research works in it since 1952. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the role of mindfulness, self-compassion, and acceptance and commitment therapy in promoting psychological well-being. It delves into the mechanisms of mindfulness, its effects on emotion regulation, stress reduction, and cognitive flexibility, as well as its applications in various interventions such as meditation and cognitive therapy.

  • Mindfulness
  • Self-Compassion
  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
  • Meditation
  • Emotion Regulation
  • Neuroscience
  • Stress Reduction
  • Psychological Flexibility
  • Cognitive Therapy
  • Well-being
Research works
21k
fractional, since 1952
In the world top 10%
2.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+49%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
30% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions

Which countries lead Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions research?

By volume, the United States and India publish the most (1.9k and 1.4k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.9k works
  2. 2 India 1.4k works
  3. 3 China 915 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 503 works
  5. 5 Iran 346 works
  6. 6 Türkiye 318 works
  7. 7 Canada 282 works
  8. 8 Australia 277 works
  9. 9 Germany 264 works
  10. 10 Indonesia 241 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: 29.8%India: 21.3%China: 14.2%United Kingdom: 7.8%6 others listed: 26.8%30%largest
United States1,919 · 29.8%India1,371 · 21.3%China915 · 14.2%United Kingdom503 · 7.8%6 others listed1,727 · 26.8%

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

Which institutions lead Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions research?

By volume in 2022-now, Islamic Azad University, Tehran publishes the most Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions research, followed by Harvard University and All India Institute of Medical Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 139 works
  2. 2 Harvard UniversityUnited States 63 works
  3. 3 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 47 works
  4. 4 Central Council for Research in Yoga & NaturopathyIndia 43 works
  5. 5 Swami Vivekananda Yoga Anusandhana SamsthanaIndia 41 works
  6. 6 McGill UniversityCanada 33 works
  7. 7 University of TorontoCanada 33 works
  8. 8 Beijing Normal UniversityChina 29 works
  9. 9 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 29 works
  10. 10 Banaras Hindu UniversityIndia 29 works

Who are the leading researchers in Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions include Richard M. Ryan, Ronald C. Kessler and Edward L. Deci.

  1. 1 Richard M. Ryan United States 395k citations
  2. 2 Ronald C. Kessler United States 360k citations
  3. 3 Edward L. Deci United States 325k citations
  4. 4 Dan J. Stein South Africa 306k citations
  5. 5 Josep María Haro Spain 250k citations
  6. 6 James Thomas United Kingdom 242k citations
  7. 7 Kai You Wang China 224k 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 Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions?

The most cited paper in Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions is "Self-Efficacy: The Exercise of Control" (Albert Bandura, Wendy Freeman, Richard Lightsey, 1999), with 40,874 citations. Next come "The benefits of being present: Mindfulness and its role in psychological well-being." (13,566) and "Mindfulness-based interventions in context: Past, present, and future." (7,655).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Self-Efficacy: The Exercise of Control Albert Bandura, Wendy Freeman, Richard Lightsey · Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy 1999 40,874
2 The benefits of being present: Mindfulness and its role in psychological well-being. Kirk Warren Brown, Richard M. Ryan · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 2003 13,566
3 Mindfulness-based interventions in context: Past, present, and future. Jon Kabat‐Zinn · Clinical Psychology Science and Practice 2003 7,655
4 Using Self-Report Assessment Methods to Explore Facets of Mindfulness Ruth A. Baer, Gregory T. Smith, Jaclyn Hopkins et al. · Assessment 27 Jan 2006 7,643
5 Self-determination theory: A macrotheory of human motivation, development, and health. Edward L. Deci, Richard M. Ryan · Canadian Psychology/Psychologie canadienne Aug 2008 6,668
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Where is Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions research done?

The largest centres of Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions research in 2022-now are New Delhi (India), Bengaluru (India), Beijing (China) and London (United Kingdom). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Haridwar and Imphal.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 New DelhiIndia 145 works
  2. 2 BengaluruIndia 133 works
  3. 3 BeijingChina 124 works
  4. 4 LondonUnited Kingdom 112 works
  5. 5 TehranIran 96 works
  6. 6 IstanbulTürkiye 78 works
  7. 7 Hong KongChina 70 works
  8. 8 MelbourneAustralia 69 works
  9. 9 BostonUnited States 67 works
  10. 10 New YorkUnited States 62 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. HaridwarIN · 44.0 works73×
  2. ImphalIN · 20.6 works13×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions?

Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, Poornaprajna Institute of Scientific Research and The University of Melbourne 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 58.519.0%2.6×63 +26.6%
2Poornaprajna Institute of Scientific ResearchIndia 56.045.3%65.5×8 -
3The University of MelbourneAustralia 52.824.6%2.9×24 +70.1%
4Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 51.91.4%11.0×139 +15.9%
5McGill UniversityCanada 50.514.8%4.4×33 +46.0%
6Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 49.113.0%3.8×25 +121.2%
7Sapienza University of RomeItaly 48.827.3%1.8×16 +138.3%
8Chinese University of Hong KongChina 48.118.0%3.5×19 +7.4%
9University of DerbyUnited Kingdom 48.022.7%32.4×17 -6.0%
10University of Wisconsin–MadisonUnited States 47.020.8%2.8×20 +17.2%

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 Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions, country by country

Is Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 49% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions.

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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 Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.032% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions0.041% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions 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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Output in 2022-2025 was 49% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions.

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