Optimism, Hope, and Well-being

Optimism, Hope, and Well-being is a research topic within Applied Psychology. Science Explorer counts 17k research works in it since 1950. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the role of optimism and hope theory in psychological well-being, social support, coping mechanisms, health behavior, and resilience. It delves into the impact of optimism on various aspects of life satisfaction and positive psychology.

Optimism
Hope Theory
Psychological Adjustment
Coping
Social Support
Health Behavior
Self-Efficacy
Resilience
Life Satisfaction
Positive Psychology

Research works: 17k
In the world top 10%: 1.8k
Top-10% rate: 10.2%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25: +27%
Largest producer: United States

Optimism, Hope, and Well-being

Which countries lead Optimism, Hope, and Well-being research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.2k and 504 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

1 United States 1.2k works
2 China 504 works
3 Türkiye 491 works
4 India 317 works
5 United Kingdom 264 works
6 Iran 256 works
7 Canada 144 works
8 Germany 143 works
9 Australia 131 works
10 Poland 119 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 States1,171 · 33.1%China504 · 14.2%Türkiye491 · 13.9%India317 · 8.9%6 others listed1,056 · 29.8%

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

Which institutions lead Optimism, Hope, and Well-being research?

By volume in 2022-now, Islamic Azad University, Tehran publishes the most Optimism, Hope, and Well-being research, followed by University of Richmond and Harvard University.

By volume, 2022-now

1 Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 76 works
2 University of RichmondUnited States 50 works
3 Harvard UniversityUnited States 31 works
4 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 18 works
5 Sapienza University of RomeItaly 16 works
6 University of TorontoCanada 16 works
7 Hacettepe UniversityTürkiye 14 works
8 University of MichiganUnited States 13 works
9 University of Hong KongChina 13 works
10 Sağlık Bilimleri ÜniversitesiTürkiye 12 works

Who are the leading researchers in Optimism, Hope, and Well-being?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Optimism, Hope, and Well-being include George Davey Smith, Daniel J. Kahneman and Richard M. Ryan.

1 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
2 Daniel J. Kahneman United States 395k citations
3 Richard M. Ryan United States 395k citations
4 Albert Bandura United States 370k citations
5 Ronald C. Kessler United States 360k citations
6 Mika Kivimäki United Kingdom 318k citations
7 John P. A. Ioannidis United States 317k citations
8 Gordon Henry Guyatt Canada 315k citations
9 Luigi Ferrucci United States 281k 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 Optimism, Hope, and Well-being?

The most cited paper in Optimism, Hope, and Well-being is "Subjective well-being: Three decades of progress." (Ed Diener, Eunkook Mark Suh, Richard E. Lucas et al., 1999), with 11,478 citations. Next come "Positive psychology: An introduction." (9,964) and "Assessing coping strategies: A theoretically based approach." (9,308).

Most cited papers
#	Paper	Released	Citations
1	Subjective well-being: Three decades of progress. Ed Diener, Eunkook Mark Suh, Richard E. Lucas et al. · Psychological Bulletin	Mar 1999	11,478
2	Positive psychology: An introduction. Martin E. P. Seligman, Mihály Csíkszentmihályi · American Psychologist	2000	9,964
3	Assessing coping strategies: A theoretically based approach. Charles S. Carver, M F Scheier, Jagdish K. Weintraub · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology	1989	9,308
4	You want to measure coping but your protocol’ too long: Consider the brief cope Charles S. Carver · International Journal of Behavioral Medicine	Mar 1997	7,423
5	Confirmation Bias: A Ubiquitous Phenomenon in Many Guises Raymond S. Nickerson · Review of General Psychology	Jun 1998	7,302

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Where is Optimism, Hope, and Well-being research done?

The largest centres of Optimism, Hope, and Well-being research in 2022-now are Istanbul (Türkiye), Tehran (Iran), Ankara (Türkiye) and London (United Kingdom). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Richmond.

Largest cities, 2022-now

1 IstanbulTürkiye 87 works
2 TehranIran 72 works
3 AnkaraTürkiye 59 works
4 LondonUnited Kingdom 58 works
5 BeijingChina 56 works
6 RichmondUnited States 55 works
7 New YorkUnited States 46 works
8 WarsawPoland 38 works
9 SeoulSouth Korea 33 works
10 TokyoJapan 31 works

Where it is the local speciality

RichmondUS · 55.4 works20×

← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Optimism, Hope, and Well-being than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Optimism, Hope, and Well-being?

Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, University of Hong Kong and Claremont Colleges 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.

#	University	Score	Top 10%	Specialisation	Works	Growth
1	Harvard UniversityUnited States	71.0	21.2%	2.2×	31	+18.3%
2	University of Hong KongChina	62.9	23.4%	3.1×	13	+106.1%
3	Claremont CollegesUnited States	61.2	19.2%	17.7×	8	+130.2%
4	University of RichmondUnited States	55.4	6.0%	135.0×	50	+1925.0%
5	Beijing Normal UniversityChina	52.0	19.3%	2.8×	10	+134.2%
6	University of LimerickIreland	50.2	14.5%	11.0×	10	+99.4%
7	Peking UniversityChina	49.7	22.1%	1.1×	10	+68.1%
8	Stanford UniversityUnited States	49.4	15.7%	1.5×	10	+42.5%
9	Cornell UniversityUnited States	49.4	22.0%	1.7×	10	-1.4%
10	Tel Aviv UniversityIsrael	48.6	19.5%	3.1×	11	+59.5%
11	The University of MelbourneAustralia	47.8	15.5%	2.2×	11	+12.2%
12	Washington University in St. LouisUnited States	47.4	16.7%	3.1×	10	+50.0%
13	University of TorontoCanada	47.0	13.0%	1.7×	16	+14.7%
14	University of California, Los AngelesUnited States	45.7	23.3%	1.6×	8	-5.3%
15	Baylor UniversityUnited States	45.3	9.5%	13.0×	10	+126.1%
16	The University of SydneyAustralia	45.1	17.7%	1.7×	9	+16.7%
17	Islamic Azad University, TehranIran	43.8	0.8%	10.2×	76	-10.8%
18	Sapienza University of RomeItaly	43.7	8.7%	3.1×	16	+368.1%
19	University of MichiganUnited States	42.8	15.5%	1.9×	13	-5.5%
20	King's College LondonUnited Kingdom	42.8	17.8%	2.6×	10	+0.4%
21	Pennsylvania State UniversityUnited States	42.6	13.0%	2.4×	12	+26.8%
22	University of British ColumbiaCanada	39.6	14.3%	1.8×	10	-20.5%
23	University of WashingtonUnited States	39.5	12.9%	1.6×	8	+77.0%
24	University of St.GallenSwitzerland	38.0	7.3%	17.9×	8	+395.1%
25	Yale UniversityUnited States	37.7	10.9%	2.1×	10	-0.5%
26	University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States	35.5	4.2%	2.2×	18	+23.0%
27	North-West UniversitySouth Africa	35.2	10.4%	6.7×	8	+6.3%
28	Indiana UniversityUnited States	34.4	14.0%	2.7×	12	-14.5%
29	Atatürk UniversityTürkiye	34.4	7.1%	7.3×	12	+115.8%
30	Monash UniversityAustralia	32.8	9.6%	1.9×	8	+38.3%
31	Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States	32.2	9.1%	1.4×	10	+29.1%
32	Columbia UniversityUnited States	30.4	10.9%	1.7×	8	-7.2%
33	Ondokuz Mayıs UniversityTürkiye	26.9	0.6%	9.7×	12	+191.8%
34	University of LouisvilleUnited States	26.8	0.0%	8.2×	10	+143.6%
35	Hacettepe UniversityTürkiye	26.6	0.8%	6.2×	14	+38.6%
36	Sağlık Bilimleri ÜniversitesiTürkiye	26.1	0.1%	5.0×	12	+33.8%
37	Jagiellonian UniversityPoland	26.0	5.3%	2.7×	8	+185.0%
38	Duke UniversityUnited States	25.8	4.6%	2.4×	9	+0.1%
39	Iranshahr UniversityIran	22.3	7.6%	23.3×	8	-27.3%

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 Optimism, Hope, and Well-being, country by country

Is Optimism, Hope, and Well-being research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 27% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2023. The fastest-growing topics are Optimism, Hope, and Well-being.

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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 Optimism, Hope, and Well-being as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.022% in 2024.

Fractional works of Optimism, Hope, and Well-being 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.

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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Which countries lead Optimism, Hope, and Well-being research?

By volume, 2022-now

How concentrated that is

Which institutions lead Optimism, Hope, and Well-being research?

By volume, 2022-now

Who are the leading researchers in Optimism, Hope, and Well-being?

What are the most cited papers in Optimism, Hope, and Well-being?

Where is Optimism, Hope, and Well-being research done?

Largest cities, 2022-now

Where it is the local speciality

Where is the best place to study Optimism, Hope, and Well-being?

Is Optimism, Hope, and Well-being research growing?

Its share of all research

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Which topics inside it are moving

Related research

Discussion