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Teacher Professional Development and Motivation

Teacher Professional Development and Motivation is a research topic within Education. Science Explorer counts 11k 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 motivational factors influencing individuals' choice to pursue a career in teaching, focusing on the motivations, perceptions, and aspirations of student and pre-service teachers. It delves into the dynamics of teacher motivation, career choice satisfaction, and the impact of various factors on the decision to become a teacher.

  • Motivation
  • Teaching Career
  • Teacher Education
  • Career Choice
  • Student Teachers
  • Professional Engagement
  • Pre-service Teachers
  • Motivation Change
  • Teacher Recruitment
  • Job Satisfaction
Research works
11k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+32%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Türkiye
55% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Teacher Professional Development and Motivation

Which countries lead Teacher Professional Development and Motivation research?

By volume, Türkiye and the United States publish the most (1.2k and 254 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Türkiye 1.2k works
  2. 2 United States 254 works
  3. 3 China 182 works
  4. 4 Philippines 112 works
  5. 5 Germany 93 works
  6. 6 Indonesia 88 works
  7. 7 Pakistan 62 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 61 works
  9. 9 Australia 61 works
  10. 10 India 61 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.

Türkiye: 54.8%United States: 11.8%China: 8.4%Philippines: 5.2%6 others listed: 19.8%55%largest
Türkiye1,183 · 54.8%United States254 · 11.8%China182 · 8.4%Philippines112 · 5.2%6 others listed426 · 19.8%

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

Which institutions lead Teacher Professional Development and Motivation research?

By volume in 2022-now, Mi̇lli̇ Eği̇ti̇m Bakanliği publishes the most Teacher Professional Development and Motivation research, followed by Gazi University and Hacettepe University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Mi̇lli̇ Eği̇ti̇m BakanliğiTürkiye 126 works
  2. 2 Gazi UniversityTürkiye 43 works
  3. 3 Hacettepe UniversityTürkiye 29 works
  4. 4 Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart ÜniversitesiTürkiye 25 works
  5. 5 Ondokuz Mayıs UniversityTürkiye 23 works
  6. 6 Necmettin Erbakan UniversityTürkiye 22 works
  7. 7 Fırat UniversityTürkiye 20 works
  8. 8 Beijing Normal UniversityChina 19 works
  9. 9 Atatürk UniversityTürkiye 19 works
  10. 10 Sivas Cumhuriyet ÜniversitesiTürkiye 18 works

Who are the leading researchers in Teacher Professional Development and Motivation?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Teacher Professional Development and Motivation include Richard M. Ryan and Herbert W. Marsh.

  1. 1 Richard M. Ryan United States 395k citations
  2. 2 Herbert W. Marsh Australia 128k 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 Teacher Professional Development and Motivation?

The most cited paper in Teacher Professional Development and Motivation is "Teacher efficacy: capturing an elusive construct" (Megan Tschannen‐Moran, Anita Woolfolk Hoy, 2001), with 6,791 citations. Next come "Teacher Turnover and Teacher Shortages: An Organizational Analysis" (2,985) and "Effects on teachers' self-efficacy and job satisfaction: Teacher gender, years of experience, and job stress." (2,368).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Teacher efficacy: capturing an elusive construct Megan Tschannen‐Moran, Anita Woolfolk Hoy · Teaching and Teacher Education Oct 2001 6,791
2 Teacher Turnover and Teacher Shortages: An Organizational Analysis Richard M. Ingersoll · American Educational Research Journal Open access 2001 2,985
3 Effects on teachers' self-efficacy and job satisfaction: Teacher gender, years of experience, and job stress. Robert M. Klassen, Ming Ming Chiu · Journal of Educational Psychology Aug 2010 2,368
4 Teacher self-efficacy and teacher burnout: A study of relations Einar M. Skaalvik, Sidsel Skaalvik · Teaching and Teacher Education 24 Nov 2009 1,788
5 Teacher Self-Efficacy and Its Effects on Classroom Processes, Student Academic Adjustment, and Teacher Well-Being Marjolein Zee, Helma M. Y. Koomen · Review of Educational Research Open access 25 Jan 2016 1,749
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Where is Teacher Professional Development and Motivation research done?

The largest centres of Teacher Professional Development and Motivation research in 2022-now are Ankara (Türkiye), Istanbul (Türkiye), Beijing (China) and Konya (Türkiye).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 AnkaraTürkiye 254 works
  2. 2 IstanbulTürkiye 127 works
  3. 3 BeijingChina 34 works
  4. 4 KonyaTürkiye 34 works
  5. 5 EskişehirTürkiye 29 works
  6. 6 SamsunTürkiye 26 works
  7. 7 ÇanakkaleTürkiye 25 works
  8. 8 Kuala LumpurMalaysia 23 works
  9. 9 ManilaPhilippines 23 works
  10. 10 ErzurumTürkiye 22 works
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Where is the best place to study Teacher Professional Development and Motivation?

Among universities, judged by research, Education University of Hong Kong, Beijing Normal University and Gazi University 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 9.91%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Education University…Beijing Normal Unive…Gazi UniversityÇanakkale Onsekiz Ma…
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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
1Education University of Hong KongChina 79.035.6%34.0×13 +106.3%
2Beijing Normal UniversityChina 65.832.4%9.0×19 +394.9%
3Gazi UniversityTürkiye 52.64.7%34.2×43 +8.2%
4Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart ÜniversitesiTürkiye 44.21.8%36.4×25 +27.2%
5Necmettin Erbakan UniversityTürkiye 42.45.0%33.7×22 +13.7%
6Ondokuz Mayıs UniversityTürkiye 40.92.0%30.2×23 +92.1%
7Atatürk UniversityTürkiye 39.21.4%19.8×19 +26.7%
8Yozgat Bozok ÜniversitesiTürkiye 39.26.3%46.1×18 +188.4%
9Sivas Cumhuriyet ÜniversitesiTürkiye 38.95.1%26.2×18 +133.1%
10Sağlık Bilimleri ÜniversitesiTürkiye 37.44.8%8.8×13 +30.9%

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 Teacher Professional Development and Motivation, country by country

Is Teacher Professional Development and Motivation research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 32% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2023. The fastest-growing topics are Teacher Professional Development and Motivation.

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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 Teacher Professional Development and Motivation as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.014% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Teacher Professional Development and Motivation 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%Teacher Professional Development and Motivation10.4% 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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