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Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications

Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications is a research topic within Clinical Psychology. Science Explorer counts 46k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the therapeutic alliance in psychotherapy research, exploring its relation to psychotherapy outcome, evidence-based practice, and psychological interventions. The papers cover topics such as patient feedback, attachment theory, and the efficacy of psychotherapy, drawing from meta-analytic reviews and empirical studies.

  • Therapeutic Alliance
  • Psychotherapy Outcome
  • Evidence-based Practice
  • Meta-analysis
  • Psychological Interventions
  • Patient Feedback
  • Treatment Relationship
  • Psychotherapy Efficacy
  • Attachment Theory
  • Clinical Psychology
Research works
46k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
4.6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-7%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
44% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications

Which countries lead Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (1.6k and 614 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.6k works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 614 works
  3. 3 Germany 377 works
  4. 4 Brazil 187 works
  5. 5 Canada 174 works
  6. 6 Australia 169 works
  7. 7 Italy 161 works
  8. 8 France 160 works
  9. 9 Netherlands 119 works
  10. 10 China 107 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: 43.9%United Kingdom: 16.7%Germany: 10.2%Brazil: 5.1%6 others listed: 24.1%44%largest
United States1,619 · 43.9%United Kingdom614 · 16.7%Germany377 · 10.2%Brazil187 · 5.1%6 others listed890 · 24.1%

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

Which institutions lead Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications research?

By volume in 2022-now, British Psychoanalytical Society publishes the most Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications research, followed by Harvard University and Russian State Agrarian Correspondence University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 British Psychoanalytical SocietyUnited Kingdom 34 works
  2. 2 Harvard UniversityUnited States 32 works
  3. 3 Russian State Agrarian Correspondence UniversityRussia 28 works
  4. 4 New York UniversityUnited States 26 works
  5. 5 Sapienza University of RomeItaly 26 works
  6. 6 University of HaifaIsrael 25 works
  7. 7 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 24 works
  8. 8 IS practiceBelgium 24 works
  9. 9 Institute of Contemporary PsychoanalysisUnited States 24 works
  10. 10 Université Paris CitéFrance 21 works

Who are the leading researchers in Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications include Theo Vos, Richard M. Ryan and Albert Bandura.

  1. 1 Theo Vos United States 439k citations
  2. 2 Richard M. Ryan United States 395k citations
  3. 3 Albert Bandura United States 370k citations
  4. 4 Ronald C. Kessler United States 360k citations
  5. 5 John P. A. Ioannidis United States 317k citations
  6. 6 Dan J. Stein South Africa 306k citations
  7. 7 Victoria Clarke United Kingdom 285k citations
  8. 8 Pierre Bourdıeu France 268k citations
  9. 9 Josep María Haro Spain 250k 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 Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications?

The most cited paper in Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications is "Self-efficacy: Toward a unifying theory of behavioral change." (Albert Bandura, 1977), with 35,570 citations. Next come "In search of how people change: Applications to addictive behaviors." (8,637) and "Clinical significance: A statistical approach to defining meaningful change in psychotherapy research." (7,971).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Self-efficacy: Toward a unifying theory of behavioral change. Albert Bandura · Psychological Review 1977 35,570
2 In search of how people change: Applications to addictive behaviors. James O. Prochaska, Carlo C. DiClemente, John C. Norcross · American Psychologist Open access Sep 1992 8,637
3 Clinical significance: A statistical approach to defining meaningful change in psychotherapy research. Neil S. Jacobson, Paula A. Truax · Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology 1991 7,971
4 Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: An Experiential Approach to Behavior Change Steven C. Hayes, Kirk D. Strosahl, Kelly G. Wilson 15 Aug 1999 5,970
5 Acute and Longer-Term Outcomes in Depressed Outpatients Requiring One or Several Treatment Steps: A STAR*D Report Augustus John Rush, Madhukar H. Trivedi, Stephen R. Wisniewski et al. · American Journal of Psychiatry Nov 2006 5,676
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Where is Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications research done?

The largest centres of Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), New York (United States), Washington D.C. (United States) and Rome (Italy). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Balashikha.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 239 works
  2. 2 New YorkUnited States 194 works
  3. 3 Washington D.C.United States 59 works
  4. 4 RomeItaly 58 works
  5. 5 Los AngelesUnited States 58 works
  6. 6 BerlinGermany 50 works
  7. 7 ParisFrance 48 works
  8. 8 São PauloBrazil 44 works
  9. 9 MadridSpain 43 works
  10. 10 TorontoCanada 39 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. BalashikhaRU · 28.1 works121×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications?

Among universities, judged by research, Universität Trier, University of Amsterdam and University of Manchester score highest, combining citation 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 21.7%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Amster…Universität TrierUniversity of Manche…Sapienza 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.

Citation 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
1Universität TrierGermany 66.035.1%30.1×10 +100.9%
2University of AmsterdamNetherlands 64.737.2%3.8×10 +2.5%
3University of ManchesterUnited Kingdom 64.025.5%4.1×15 +34.0%
4Sapienza University of RomeItaly 62.916.2%5.0×26 +73.5%
5University College LondonUnited Kingdom 61.118.9%3.4×24 -16.9%
6University of OsloNorway 60.821.9%6.9×20 -15.3%
7Heidelberg UniversityGermany 58.617.8%6.1×21 -11.3%
8University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 57.211.0%2.8×18 +76.1%
9University of BernSwitzerland 55.023.6%3.7×9 +20.7%
10Harvard UniversityUnited States 54.89.8%2.2×32 -23.0%

Universities only. The score blends citation 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 Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications, country by country

Is Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 7% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2017.

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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 Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.022% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications 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%Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications10.3% 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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