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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. 14.8% 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%
6.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
14.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+2%
the tick is no change

Which countries lead Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (1.4k and 536 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 United States 1.4k works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 536 works
  3. 3 Germany 319 works
  4. 4 Brazil 173 works
  5. 5 Canada 156 works
  6. 6 France 149 works
  7. 7 Australia 146 works
  8. 8 Italy 142 works
  9. 9 Netherlands 101 works
  10. 10 China 84 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: 44.3%United Kingdom: 16.5%Germany: 9.8%Brazil: 5.3%6 others listed: 24.0%44%largest
United States1,436 · 44.3%United Kingdom536 · 16.5%Germany319 · 9.8%Brazil173 · 5.3%6 others listed778 · 24.0%

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

Which institutions lead Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications research?

By volume in 2022–2025, British Psychoanalytical Society publishes the most Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications research, followed by Russian State Agrarian Correspondence University and Sapienza University of Rome.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 British Psychoanalytical SocietyUnited Kingdom 30 works
  2. 2 Russian State Agrarian Correspondence UniversityRussia 28 works
  3. 3 Sapienza University of RomeItaly 25 works
  4. 4 New York UniversityUnited States 24 works
  5. 5 Institute of Contemporary PsychoanalysisUnited States 22 works
  6. 6 IS practiceBelgium 22 works
  7. 7 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 21 works
  8. 8 The DialogueUnited States 21 works
  9. 9 University of HaifaIsrael 20 works
  10. 10 New York Psychoanalytic Society and InstituteUnited States 19 works

Who are the leading researchers in Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications include Judith Butler, H.J. Eysenck and Sander L. Gilman.

  1. 1 Judith Butler United States 6.7k citations
  2. 2 H.J. Eysenck United Kingdom 5.7k citations
  3. 3 Sander L. Gilman United States 4.2k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

Where is Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications research done?

The largest centres of Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications research in 2022–2025 are London (United Kingdom), New York (United States), Los Angeles (United States) and Washington D.C. (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Balashikha.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 London United Kingdom 209 works
  2. 2 New York United States 179 works
  3. 3 Los Angeles United States 54 works
  4. 4 Washington D.C. United States 54 works
  5. 5 Rome Italy 53 works
  6. 6 Paris France 44 works
  7. 7 Berlin Germany 43 works
  8. 8 São Paulo Brazil 42 works
  9. 9 Madrid Spain 41 works
  10. 10 Chicago United States 36 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. BalashikhaRU · 28.1 works126×
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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 Haifa and Sigmund Freud Privatuniversität Wien 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 21.64%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →Universität Trier: 9, 41.7%University of Haifa: 20, 17.8%Sigmund Freud Privatuniversität Wien: 8, 17.7%Russian State Agrarian Correspondence University: 28, 3.0%University College London: 21, 30.1%Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis: 22, 6.8%Bar-Ilan University: 14, 16.9%Sapienza University of Rome: 25, 13.8%University of Oslo: 14, 25.1%University of Sheffield: 9, 43.5%Universität TrierUniversity of HaifaSigmund Freud Privat…Russian State Agrari…
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 Universität TrierGermany 66.841.7%26.8×9 +63.0%
2 University of HaifaIsrael 65.817.8%20.7×20 +88.8%
3 Sigmund Freud Privatuniversität WienAustria 58.217.7%68.3×8 +128.3%
4 Russian State Agrarian Correspondence UniversityRussia 54.73.0%146.8×28 +45.9%
5 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 53.630.1%3.6×21 +14.8%
6 Institute of Contemporary PsychoanalysisUnited States 52.16.8%903.3×22 -13.5%
7 Bar-Ilan UniversityIsrael 52.016.9%12.0×14 +3.7%
8 Sapienza University of RomeItaly 49.213.8%5.2×25 +63.1%
9 University of OsloNorway 49.025.1%6.4×14 -13.5%
10 University of SheffieldUnited Kingdom 48.943.5%3.9×9 +23.7%

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 2% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2017. The fastest-growing topics are Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications.

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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.