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Team Dynamics and Performance

Team Dynamics and Performance is a research topic within Social Psychology. Science Explorer counts 16k 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 temporal dynamics, cognitive processes, and performance outcomes of team collaboration, with a focus on shared mental models, virtual teams, transactive memory systems, and group communication. It delves into the challenges and strategies for effective teamwork in global, virtual, and distributed settings, emphasizing the importance of leadership, knowledge sharing, and cognitive diversity in enhancing team effectiveness.

  • Team Processes
  • Shared Mental Models
  • Virtual Teams
  • Transactive Memory Systems
  • Group Communication
  • Team Effectiveness
  • Global Collaboration
  • Leadership in Teams
  • Knowledge Sharing
  • Cognitive Diversity
Research works
16k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+7%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
40% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Team Dynamics and Performance

Which countries lead Team Dynamics and Performance research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (711 and 250 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 711 works
  2. 2 China 250 works
  3. 3 Germany 231 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 137 works
  5. 5 Netherlands 83 works
  6. 6 Japan 82 works
  7. 7 Canada 74 works
  8. 8 India 68 works
  9. 9 Australia 66 works
  10. 10 France 65 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: 40.2%China: 14.2%Germany: 13.1%United Kingdom: 7.8%6 others listed: 24.8%40%largest
United States711 · 40.2%China250 · 14.2%Germany231 · 13.1%United Kingdom137 · 7.8%6 others listed438 · 24.8%

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

Which institutions lead Team Dynamics and Performance research?

By volume in 2022-now, Pennsylvania State University publishes the most Team Dynamics and Performance research, followed by Arizona State University and Clemson University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Pennsylvania State UniversityUnited States 16 works
  2. 2 Arizona State UniversityUnited States 14 works
  3. 3 Clemson UniversityUnited States 12 works
  4. 4 United States Department of DefenseUnited States 11 works
  5. 5 Aarhus UniversityDenmark 11 works
  6. 6 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 11 works
  7. 7 University of MichiganUnited States 10 works
  8. 8 Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamNetherlands 9 works
  9. 9 Cornell UniversityUnited States 9 works
  10. 10 University of Central FloridaUnited States 9 works

Who are the leading researchers in Team Dynamics and Performance?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Team Dynamics and Performance include David A. Kenny, Arnold B. Bakker and Roy Frederick Baumeister.

  1. 1 David A. Kenny United States 198k citations
  2. 2 Arnold B. Bakker Netherlands 189k citations
  3. 3 Roy Frederick Baumeister United States 183k citations
  4. 4 Herbert A. Simon United States 179k 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 Team Dynamics and Performance?

The most cited paper in Team Dynamics and Performance is "Psychological Safety and Learning Behavior in Work Teams" (Amy C. Edmondson, 1999), with 11,679 citations. Next come "Analyzing the Past to Prepare for the Future: Writing a Literature Review" (7,348) and "ASSESSING THE WORK ENVIRONMENT FOR CREATIVITY." (5,598).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Psychological Safety and Learning Behavior in Work Teams Amy C. Edmondson · Administrative Science Quarterly Open access Jun 1999 11,679
2 Analyzing the Past to Prepare for the Future: Writing a Literature Review Jane Webster, Richard Thomas Watson · MIS Quarterly Open access Jun 2002 7,348
3 ASSESSING THE WORK ENVIRONMENT FOR CREATIVITY. Teresa M. Amabile, Riccardo Conti, Heather M. Coon et al. · Academy of Management Journal Oct 1996 5,598
4 The Duality of Technology: Rethinking the Concept of Technology in Organizations Wanda J. Orlikowski · Organization Science Open access Aug 1992 4,920
5 Using Technology and Constituting Structures: A Practice Lens for Studying Technology in Organizations Wanda J. Orlikowski · Organization Science Aug 2000 4,722
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Where is Team Dynamics and Performance research done?

The largest centres of Team Dynamics and Performance research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Tokyo (Japan), London (United Kingdom) and Shanghai (China).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 53 works
  2. 2 TokyoJapan 31 works
  3. 3 LondonUnited Kingdom 28 works
  4. 4 ShanghaiChina 26 works
  5. 5 SeoulSouth Korea 23 works
  6. 6 New YorkUnited States 21 works
  7. 7 MunichGermany 20 works
  8. 8 AmsterdamNetherlands 17 works
  9. 9 NanjingChina 17 works
  10. 10 State CollegeUnited States 16 works
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Where is the best place to study Team Dynamics and Performance?

Among universities, judged by research, Clemson University, Arizona State University and Pennsylvania State 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%10%20%30%mean 14.4333%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Clemson UniversityArizona State Univer…Pennsylvania State U…Vrije Universiteit A…
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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
1Clemson UniversityUnited States 77.026.8%19.0×12 +24.1%
2Arizona State UniversityUnited States 69.321.4%9.8×14 -6.2%
3Pennsylvania State UniversityUnited States 59.913.3%6.6×16 +16.1%
4Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamNetherlands 49.49.8%10.2×9 +124.3%
5University of MichiganUnited States 47.420.0%2.9×10 +12.3%
6Carnegie Mellon UniversityUnited States 37.613.5%9.4×9 -48.3%
7Aarhus UniversityDenmark 31.59.5%5.8×11 -2.5%
8University of Central FloridaUnited States 29.211.5%10.7×9 -5.3%
9Cornell UniversityUnited States 16.64.1%3.1×9 -31.6%

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 Team Dynamics and Performance, country by country

Is Team Dynamics and Performance research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 7% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Team Dynamics and Performance.

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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 Team Dynamics and Performance as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0094% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Team Dynamics and Performance 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%Team Dynamics and Performance10.6% 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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