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Psychological and Educational Research Studies

Psychological and Educational Research Studies is a research topic within Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Science Explorer counts 5.1k 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 psychology of curiosity, encompassing topics such as epistemic curiosity, exploration, learning, interest, and their implications for psychological well-being, education, motivation, and emotional development.

  • Curiosity
  • Exploration
  • Learning
  • Interest
  • Epistemic Curiosity
  • Psychological Well-being
  • Education
  • Motivation
  • Emotion
  • Development
Research works
5.1k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
525
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+49%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
39% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Psychological and Educational Research Studies

Which countries lead Psychological and Educational Research Studies research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (339 and 122 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 339 works
  2. 2 China 122 works
  3. 3 Germany 77 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 76 works
  5. 5 Indonesia 58 works
  6. 6 Canada 42 works
  7. 7 Japan 41 works
  8. 8 Australia 39 works
  9. 9 Türkiye 38 works
  10. 10 India 34 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: 39.1%China: 14.1%Germany: 8.9%United Kingdom: 8.8%6 others listed: 29.2%39%largest
United States339 · 39.1%China122 · 14.1%Germany77 · 8.9%United Kingdom76 · 8.8%6 others listed252 · 29.2%

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

Which institutions lead Psychological and Educational Research Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of Virginia publishes the most Psychological and Educational Research Studies research, followed by Yogyakarta State University and Beijing Normal University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of VirginiaUnited States 7 works
  2. 2 Yogyakarta State UniversityIndonesia 6 works
  3. 3 Beijing Normal UniversityChina 6 works
  4. 4 University of North TexasUnited States 6 works
  5. 5 Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore 6 works
  6. 6 Purdue University West LafayetteUnited States 5 works
  7. 7 Columbia UniversityUnited States 5 works
  8. 8 Harvard UniversityUnited States 5 works
  9. 9 Leibniz AssociationGermany 5 works
  10. 10 University of HelsinkiFinland 5 works

Who are the leading researchers in Psychological and Educational Research Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Psychological and Educational Research Studies 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 Roy Frederick Baumeister United States 183k citations
  5. 5 Ian J. Deary United Kingdom 176k 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 Psychological and Educational Research Studies?

The most cited paper in Psychological and Educational Research Studies is "The Experiential Aspects of Consumption: Consumer Fantasies, Feelings, and Fun" (Morris B. Holbrook, Elizabeth C. Hirschman, 1982), with 8,178 citations. Next come "Unskilled and unaware of it: How difficulties in recognizing one's own incompetence lead to inflated self-assessments." (7,146) and "Attitudinal effects of mere exposure." (6,760).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Experiential Aspects of Consumption: Consumer Fantasies, Feelings, and Fun Morris B. Holbrook, Elizabeth C. Hirschman · Journal of Consumer Research Sep 1982 8,178
2 Unskilled and unaware of it: How difficulties in recognizing one's own incompetence lead to inflated self-assessments. Justin Kruger, David Alan Dunning · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 1999 7,146
3 Attitudinal effects of mere exposure. Robert B. Zajonc · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 1968 6,760
4 The Four-Phase Model of Interest Development Suzanne E. Hidi, K. Ann Renninger · Educational Psychologist May 2006 4,657
5 Habituation: A model phenomenon for the study of neuronal substrates of behavior. Richard F. Thompson, William Alden Spencer · Psychological Review 1966 2,650
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Where is Psychological and Educational Research Studies research done?

The largest centres of Psychological and Educational Research Studies research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), New York (United States), London (United Kingdom) and Seoul (South Korea).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 17 works
  2. 2 New YorkUnited States 16 works
  3. 3 LondonUnited Kingdom 15 works
  4. 4 SeoulSouth Korea 12 works
  5. 5 YogyakartaIndonesia 11 works
  6. 6 ShanghaiChina 11 works
  7. 7 Washington D.C.United States 10 works
  8. 8 TokyoJapan 10 works
  9. 9 MelbourneAustralia 9 works
  10. 10 SingaporeSingapore 9 works
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Is Psychological and Educational Research Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 49% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Psychological and Educational Research Studies.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Psychological and Educational Research Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0056% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Psychological and Educational Research Studies 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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