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Psychology, Coaching, and Therapy

Psychology, Coaching, and Therapy is a research topic within Social Psychology. Science Explorer counts 19k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the intersection of coaching, psychodrama, and professional development, focusing on the impact of coaching relationships, self-efficacy, personality match, and emotional regulation in workplace settings. It also delves into the outcomes and effectiveness of coaching, as well as the role of supervision in coaching practices.

  • Coaching
  • Psychodrama
  • Workplace
  • Relationship
  • Self-Efficacy
  • Personality Match
  • Outcomes
  • Supervision
  • Emotional Regulation
  • Professional Development
Research works
19k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+2%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Germany
75% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Psychology, Coaching, and Therapy

Which countries lead Psychology, Coaching, and Therapy research?

By volume, Germany and Austria publish the most (2.5k and 237 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Germany 2.5k works
  2. 2 Austria 237 works
  3. 3 Switzerland 210 works
  4. 4 United States 198 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 66 works
  6. 6 Estonia 42 works
  7. 7 Netherlands 28 works
  8. 8 China 25 works
  9. 9 Canada 19 works
  10. 10 Italy 16 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.

Germany: 74.7%Austria: 7.1%Switzerland: 6.3%United States: 6.0%6 others listed: 5.9%75%largest
Germany2,485 · 74.7%Austria237 · 7.1%Switzerland210 · 6.3%United States198 · 6.0%6 others listed196 · 5.9%

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

Which institutions lead Psychology, Coaching, and Therapy research?

By volume in 2022-now, München Klinik publishes the most Psychology, Coaching, and Therapy research, followed by Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin and University of Münster.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 München KlinikGermany 61 works
  2. 2 Charité - Universitätsmedizin BerlinGermany 52 works
  3. 3 University of MünsterGermany 44 works
  4. 4 PraxisEstonia 42 works
  5. 5 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenGermany 41 works
  6. 6 Leibniz AssociationGermany 41 works
  7. 7 Medizinische Hochschule HannoverGermany 40 works
  8. 8 Heidelberg UniversityGermany 32 works
  9. 9 TU Dortmund UniversityGermany 32 works
  10. 10 LVR-Klinik KölnGermany 29 works

Who are the leading researchers in Psychology, Coaching, and Therapy?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Psychology, Coaching, and Therapy include Albert Bandura, Hermann Brenner and Matthias Egger.

  1. 1 Albert Bandura United States 370k citations
  2. 2 Hermann Brenner Germany 343k citations
  3. 3 Matthias Egger Switzerland 326k citations
  4. 4 Pierre Bourdıeu France 268k citations
  5. 5 Florian Fischer Germany 257k citations
  6. 6 Marko Sarstedt Germany 221k citations
  7. 7 Michel Foucault France 208k citations
  8. 8 Trevor William Robbins United Kingdom 199k citations
  9. 9 Francis S. Collins United States 185k 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 Psychology, Coaching, and Therapy?

The most cited paper in Psychology, Coaching, and Therapy is "Stichwort: Professionelle Kompetenz von Lehrkräften" (Jürgen Baumert, Mareike Kunter, 2006), with 1,437 citations. Next come "Does coaching work? A meta-analysis on the effects of coaching on individual level outcomes in an organizational context" (769) and "The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life" (683).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Stichwort: Professionelle Kompetenz von Lehrkräften Jürgen Baumert, Mareike Kunter · Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft Dec 2006 1,437
2 Does coaching work? A meta-analysis on the effects of coaching on individual level outcomes in an organizational context Tim Theeboom, Bianca Beersma, Annelies E. M. Van Vianen · The Journal of Positive Psychology ReviewOpen access 13 Sep 2013 769
3 The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life Karl Lenz · J.B. Metzler eBooks Book chapter 2022 683
4 Psychologische Therapie Franz Caspar, Irena Pjanic, Stefan Westermann Book chapter 21 Sep 2017 646
5 The effectiveness of workplace coaching: A meta‐analysis of learning and performance outcomes from coaching Rebecca J. Jones, Stephen A. Woods, Yves R. F. Guillaume · Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology Open access 15 Apr 2015 612
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Where is Psychology, Coaching, and Therapy research done?

The largest centres of Psychology, Coaching, and Therapy research in 2022-now are Berlin (Germany), Munich (Germany), Hamburg (Germany) and Vienna (Austria).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BerlinGermany 231 works
  2. 2 MunichGermany 170 works
  3. 3 HamburgGermany 145 works
  4. 4 ViennaAustria 126 works
  5. 5 CologneGermany 103 works
  6. 6 MünsterGermany 95 works
  7. 7 Frankfurt am MainGermany 71 works
  8. 8 HanoverGermany 63 works
  9. 9 StuttgartGermany 58 works
  10. 10 ZurichSwitzerland 53 works
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Where is the best place to study Psychology, Coaching, and Therapy?

Among universities, judged by research, TH Köln - University of Applied Sciences, TU Dortmund University and Universität Trier 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 14.39%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Universität TrierTH Köln - University…University of KasselTU Dortmund University
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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
1TH Köln - University of Applied SciencesGermany 67.323.1%72.4×12 +220.6%
2TU Dortmund UniversityGermany 66.611.3%41.5×32 +278.1%
3Universität TrierGermany 65.632.1%39.2×9 +29.1%
4University of KasselGermany 64.916.5%54.3×26 -9.3%
5Bielefeld UniversityGermany 64.613.0%42.3×29 +5.6%
6Freie Universität BerlinGermany 62.710.5%19.1×24 +156.0%
7Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenGermany 61.89.5%15.8×41 -18.8%
8Heidelberg UniversityGermany 61.411.9%13.9×32 -18.7%
9University of ViennaAustria 60.06.7%16.2×25 +100.2%
10University of MünsterGermany 59.99.3%33.9×44 -18.1%

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 Psychology, Coaching, and Therapy, country by country

Is Psychology, Coaching, and Therapy research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 2% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Psychology, Coaching, and Therapy.

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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 Psychology, Coaching, and Therapy as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.014% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Psychology, Coaching, and Therapy0.016% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Psychology, Coaching, and Therapy 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%Psychology, Coaching, and Therapy9.8% 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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