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Technostress in Professional Settings

Technostress in Professional Settings is a research topic within Social Psychology. Science Explorer counts 4.4k research works in it since 1962. 10.6% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the impact of technostress, induced by the use of technology in the workplace, on employee well-being, job performance, and productivity. It delves into the causes, consequences, coping strategies, and implications of technostress in various professional settings.

  • Technostress
  • Workplace
  • Technology
  • Stress
  • Productivity
  • Coping Strategies
  • Health
  • User Satisfaction
  • Job Performance
  • Information Technology
Research works
4.4k
fractional, since 1962
In the world top 10%
465
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.6%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+236%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
22% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Technostress in Professional Settings

Which countries lead Technostress in Professional Settings research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (381 and 247 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 381 works
  2. 2 United States 247 works
  3. 3 India 239 works
  4. 4 Indonesia 229 works
  5. 5 Türkiye 177 works
  6. 6 Germany 132 works
  7. 7 Malaysia 102 works
  8. 8 Pakistan 76 works
  9. 9 Spain 73 works
  10. 10 United Kingdom 63 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.

China: 22.2%United States: 14.4%India: 13.9%Indonesia: 13.3%6 others listed: 36.3%22%largest
China381 · 22.2%United States247 · 14.4%India239 · 13.9%Indonesia229 · 13.3%6 others listed623 · 36.3%

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

Which institutions lead Technostress in Professional Settings research?

By volume in 2022-now, Human Growth Foundation publishes the most Technostress in Professional Settings research, followed by Binus University and Weatherford College.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Human Growth FoundationUnited States 29 works
  2. 2 Binus UniversityIndonesia 15 works
  3. 3 Weatherford CollegeUnited States 14 works
  4. 4 Universiti Teknologi MARAMalaysia 12 works
  5. 5 Telkom UniversityIndonesia 8 works
  6. 6 Universiti Sains MalaysiaMalaysia 8 works
  7. 7 National University of MalaysiaMalaysia 8 works
  8. 8 Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 7 works
  9. 9 Symbiosis International UniversityIndia 7 works
  10. 10 G.S. Science, Arts And Commerce CollegeIndia 7 works

Who are the leading researchers in Technostress in Professional Settings?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Technostress in Professional Settings include Josep María Haro, Norito Kawakami and Arnold B. Bakker.

  1. 1 Josep María Haro Spain 250k citations
  2. 2 Norito Kawakami Japan 202k citations
  3. 3 Arnold B. Bakker Netherlands 189k citations
  4. 4 Wilmar B. Schaufeli Netherlands 158k citations
  5. 5 Pim Cuijpers Netherlands 142k citations
  6. 6 Mark Damian Griffiths United Kingdom 133k 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 Technostress in Professional Settings?

The most cited paper in Technostress in Professional Settings is "IBM computer usability satisfaction questionnaires: Psychometric evaluation and instructions for use" (James R. Lewis, 1995), with 2,483 citations. Next come "Technostress: Technological Antecedents and Implications1" (2,040) and "The Consequences of Technostress for End Users in Organizations: Conceptual Development and Empirical Validation" (2,031).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 IBM computer usability satisfaction questionnaires: Psychometric evaluation and instructions for use James R. Lewis · International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction 1995 2,483
2 Technostress: Technological Antecedents and Implications1 Ramakrishna Ayyagari, Grover, Purvis · MIS Quarterly Dec 2011 2,040
3 The Consequences of Technostress for End Users in Organizations: Conceptual Development and Empirical Validation T. S. Ragu‐Nathan, Monideepa Tarafdar, Bhanu S. Ragu-Nathan et al. · Information Systems Research 20 Aug 2008 2,031
4 The Impact of Technostress on Role Stress and Productivity Monideepa Tarafdar, Qiang Tu, Bhanu S. Ragu-Nathan et al. · Journal of Management Information Systems Jul 2007 1,841
5 Achieving Effective Remote Working During the COVID‐19 Pandemic: A Work Design Perspective Bin Wang, Yukun Liu, Jing Qian et al. · Applied Psychology Open access 14 Oct 2020 1,691
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Technostress in Professional Settings research done?

The largest centres of Technostress in Professional Settings research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Jakarta (Indonesia), New York (United States) and Istanbul (Türkiye). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Lahore.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 45 works
  2. 2 JakartaIndonesia 39 works
  3. 3 New YorkUnited States 38 works
  4. 4 IstanbulTürkiye 34 works
  5. 5 BandungIndonesia 25 works
  6. 6 SeoulSouth Korea 23 works
  7. 7 LahorePakistan 22 works
  8. 8 Kuala LumpurMalaysia 22 works
  9. 9 ChennaiIndia 20 works
  10. 10 AnkaraTürkiye 19 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. LahorePK · 22.2 works4.4×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Technostress in Professional Settings than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Technostress in Professional Settings?

Among universities, judged by research, Weatherford College, Universiti Teknologi MARA and Binus 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%2.5%5%7.5%mean 3.25%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Weatherford CollegeUniversiti Teknologi…Binus UniversityTelkom University
above the meannear itbelow it

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
1Weatherford CollegeUnited States 76.26.4%4.1×14 -
2Universiti Teknologi MARAMalaysia 71.95.2%6.4×12 +141.0%
3Binus UniversityIndonesia 54.71.4%10.9×15 -
4Telkom UniversityIndonesia 9.90.0%6.4×8 -

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 Technostress in Professional Settings, country by country

Is Technostress in Professional Settings research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 236% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Technostress in Professional Settings.

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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 Technostress in Professional Settings as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0083% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Technostress in Professional Settings 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%Technostress in Professional Settings10.7% in 202520102020

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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