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Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research

Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research is a research topic within Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Science Explorer counts 9.4k 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 focuses on the conceptualization and measurement of time perspective, including future orientation, well-being, health behavior, adolescent development, self-control, motivation, personality traits, academic engagement, and socioeconomic disparities.

  • Time Perspective
  • Future Orientation
  • Well-being
  • Health Behavior
  • Adolescent Development
  • Self-control
  • Motivation
  • Personality Traits
  • Academic Engagement
  • Socioeconomic Disparities
Research works
9.4k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
966
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+33%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
26% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research

Which countries lead Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (435 and 356 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 435 works
  2. 2 China 356 works
  3. 3 Türkiye 141 works
  4. 4 Poland 132 works
  5. 5 Indonesia 130 works
  6. 6 Germany 123 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 112 works
  8. 8 Russia 88 works
  9. 9 Italy 88 works
  10. 10 India 80 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: 25.8%China: 21.1%Türkiye: 8.4%Poland: 7.8%6 others listed: 36.9%26%largest
United States435 · 25.8%China356 · 21.1%Türkiye141 · 8.4%Poland132 · 7.8%6 others listed621 · 36.9%

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

Which institutions lead Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research research?

By volume in 2022-now, Islamic Azad University, Tehran publishes the most Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research research, followed by Beijing Normal University and Southwest University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 30 works
  2. 2 Beijing Normal UniversityChina 14 works
  3. 3 Southwest UniversityChina 12 works
  4. 4 University of WarsawPoland 10 works
  5. 5 Polish Academy of SciencesPoland 10 works
  6. 6 Stanford UniversityUnited States 10 works
  7. 7 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 9 works
  8. 8 Erasmus University RotterdamNetherlands 8 works
  9. 9 Maria Curie-Skłodowska UniversityPoland 8 works
  10. 10 University of ZurichSwitzerland 8 works

Who are the leading researchers in Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research include Daniel J. Kahneman, Richard M. Ryan and Albert Bandura.

  1. 1 Daniel J. Kahneman United States 395k citations
  2. 2 Richard M. Ryan United States 395k citations
  3. 3 Albert Bandura United States 370k citations
  4. 4 Hermann Brenner Germany 343k citations
  5. 5 Edward L. Deci United States 325k citations
  6. 6 Dan J. Stein South Africa 306k citations
  7. 7 Josep María Haro Spain 250k citations
  8. 8 Nicholas G. Martin Australia 228k 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 Temporal Perspectives Research?

The most cited paper in Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research 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 "Взаимосвязь статуса занятости и пола с уровнем психологического благополучия" (8,003).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
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 Взаимосвязь статуса занятости и пола с уровнем психологического благополучия Ниводничева М.Р., Беляева С.И. · Cifra LLC Journals Open access 17 Aug 2026 8,003
4 Subjective well-being: The science of happiness and a proposal for a national index. Ed Diener · American Psychologist 2000 6,548
5 Distinguishing optimism from neuroticism (and trait anxiety, self-mastery, and self-esteem): A reevaluation of the Life Orientation Test. Michael F. Scheier, Charles S. Carver, Michael W. Bridges · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 1994 5,746
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Where is Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research research done?

The largest centres of Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Warsaw (Poland), Moscow (Russia) and Istanbul (Türkiye). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Warsaw.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 63 works
  2. 2 WarsawPoland 42 works
  3. 3 MoscowRussia 37 works
  4. 4 IstanbulTürkiye 29 works
  5. 5 TehranIran 22 works
  6. 6 LondonUnited Kingdom 22 works
  7. 7 TokyoJapan 22 works
  8. 8 Hong KongChina 21 works
  9. 9 SeoulSouth Korea 19 works
  10. 10 ShanghaiChina 19 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. WarsawPL · 41.7 works5.1×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research?

Among universities, judged by research, Stanford University, Beijing Normal University and University of Zurich 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 13.075%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Stanford UniversityUniversity of ZurichBeijing Normal Unive…Islamic Azad Univers…
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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
1Stanford UniversityUnited States 57.928.7%2.7×10 +67.4%
2Beijing Normal UniversityChina 57.417.7%7.3×14 +210.9%
3University of ZurichSwitzerland 52.927.9%4.9×8 +38.2%
4Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 49.20.4%7.4×30 +41.6%
5Southwest UniversityChina 44.014.5%8.9×12 +68.4%
6Erasmus University RotterdamNetherlands 40.88.7%6.7×8 +65.7%
7University of WarsawPoland 25.35.0%8.3×10 -24.5%
8Maria Curie-Skłodowska UniversityPoland 21.61.7%18.1×8 +46.6%

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 Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research, country by country

Is Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 33% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research.

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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 Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.013% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research 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%Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research10.8% 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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