Work-Family Balance Challenges

Work-Family Balance Challenges is a research topic within Sociology and Political Science. Science Explorer counts 24k 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 intricate dynamics of work and family interactions, including work-family conflict, telecommuting, gender inequality, family supportive policies, flexible work arrangements, parental leave, remote working, job satisfaction, gender roles, and work-life balance.

Work-Family Conflict
Telecommuting
Gender Inequality
Family Supportive Policies
Flexible Work Arrangements
Parental Leave
Remote Working
Job Satisfaction
Gender Roles
Work-Life Balance

Research works: 24k
In the world top 10%: 2.4k
Top-10% rate: 10.2%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25: +55%
Largest producer: United States

Work-Family Balance Challenges

Which countries lead Work-Family Balance Challenges research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.5k and 665 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

1 United States 1.5k works
2 China 665 works
3 India 523 works
4 Indonesia 478 works
5 United Kingdom 412 works
6 Türkiye 363 works
7 Germany 323 works
8 Australia 255 works
9 Canada 239 works
10 Italy 195 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 States1,464 · 29.8%China665 · 13.5%India523 · 10.6%Indonesia478 · 9.7%6 others listed1,787 · 36.3%

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

Which institutions lead Work-Family Balance Challenges research?

By volume in 2022-now, Sapienza University of Rome publishes the most Work-Family Balance Challenges research, followed by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Yonsei University.

By volume, 2022-now

1 Sapienza University of RomeItaly 35 works
2 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 25 works
3 Yonsei UniversitySouth Korea 23 works
4 University of TorontoCanada 21 works
5 Universiti Teknologi MARAMalaysia 21 works
6 The University of MelbourneAustralia 20 works
7 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 19 works
8 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 19 works
9 University of IndonesiaIndonesia 18 works
10 Renmin University of ChinaChina 17 works

Who are the leading researchers in Work-Family Balance Challenges?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Work-Family Balance Challenges include Ronald C. Kessler, Mika Kivimäki and Martin McKee.

1 Ronald C. Kessler United States 360k citations
2 Mika Kivimäki United Kingdom 318k citations
3 Martin McKee United Kingdom 270k citations
4 Bach Xuan Tran Vietnam 263k citations
5 Norito Kawakami Japan 202k 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 Work-Family Balance Challenges?

The most cited paper in Work-Family Balance Challenges is "Sources of Conflict between Work and Family Roles" (Jeffrey H. Greenhaus, Nicholas J. Beutell, 1985), with 6,397 citations. Next come "The dimensions of perfectionism" (4,280) and "When Work And Family Are Allies: A Theory Of Work-Family Enrichment" (3,798).

Most cited papers
#	Paper	Released	Citations
1	Sources of Conflict between Work and Family Roles Jeffrey H. Greenhaus, Nicholas J. Beutell · Academy of Management Review	1985	6,397
2	The dimensions of perfectionism Randy O. Frost, Patricia A. Marten, Cathleen Lahart et al. · Cognitive Therapy and Research	Oct 1990	4,280
3	When Work And Family Are Allies: A Theory Of Work-Family Enrichment Jeffrey H. Greenhaus, Gary N. Powell · Academy of Management Review	2006	3,798
4	The nature of procrastination: A meta-analytic and theoretical review of quintessential self-regulatory failure. Piers Steel · Psychological Bulletin	2007	3,390
5	Towards a model of work engagement Arnold B. Bakker, Evangelia Demerouti · Career Development International	9 May 2008	3,177

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Where is Work-Family Balance Challenges research done?

The largest centres of Work-Family Balance Challenges research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), London (United Kingdom), Seoul (South Korea) and Istanbul (Türkiye).

Largest cities, 2022-now

1 BeijingChina 107 works
2 LondonUnited Kingdom 106 works
3 SeoulSouth Korea 95 works
4 IstanbulTürkiye 84 works
5 TokyoJapan 66 works
6 MelbourneAustralia 66 works
7 New YorkUnited States 58 works
8 RomeItaly 56 works
9 ShanghaiChina 56 works
10 JakartaIndonesia 56 works

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Where is the best place to study Work-Family Balance Challenges?

Among universities, judged by research, Sapienza University of Rome, National University of Singapore and Beijing Normal 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.

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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.

#	University	Score	Top 10%	Specialisation	Works	Growth
1	Sapienza University of RomeItaly	76.7	22.2%	4.3×	35	+582.8%
2	National University of SingaporeSingapore	65.8	24.3%	2.0×	17	+23.0%
3	Beijing Normal UniversityChina	64.5	23.2%	3.2×	17	+181.0%
4	Erasmus University RotterdamNetherlands	63.6	15.8%	3.8×	14	+36.5%
5	New York UniversityUnited States	57.4	18.7%	1.9×	15	+57.4%
6	University of GroningenNetherlands	56.4	19.5%	2.9×	14	+21.3%
7	Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina	55.2	21.0%	1.8×	11	+84.6%
8	Iscte – Instituto Universitário de LisboaPortugal	54.9	29.8%	13.6×	8	+27.7%
9	London School of Economics and Political ScienceUnited Kingdom	54.2	16.1%	8.4×	14	+126.7%
10	University of LisbonPortugal	53.4	17.0%	2.8×	15	+40.2%
11	King's College LondonUnited Kingdom	53.4	20.5%	2.0×	12	+124.2%
12	Stanford UniversityUnited States	53.2	22.7%	1.1×	11	+19.4%
13	Utrecht UniversityNetherlands	53.0	14.8%	2.9×	14	+5.9%
14	The University of MelbourneAustralia	52.9	20.7%	2.7×	20	-21.9%
15	Sichuan UniversityChina	52.8	33.8%	0.5×	8	+463.3%
16	University of TorontoCanada	52.7	10.0%	1.5×	21	+26.5%
17	The University of QueenslandAustralia	52.5	16.8%	2.5×	16	+56.7%
18	Yonsei UniversitySouth Korea	52.2	8.6%	3.6×	23	+142.2%
19	The University of Texas at AustinUnited States	51.1	16.7%	2.4×	14	+37.2%
20	Griffith UniversityAustralia	50.6	22.0%	3.5×	10	+31.1%
21	City University of New YorkUnited States	49.6	14.4%	3.6×	14	+45.4%
22	University of BolognaItaly	49.6	17.8%	2.1×	12	+119.1%
23	Renmin University of ChinaChina	49.4	8.7%	7.8×	17	+175.1%
24	Swinburne University of TechnologyAustralia	48.8	17.2%	5.2×	10	+78.3%
25	University College LondonUnited Kingdom	48.6	9.1%	1.8×	19	+6.7%
26	Arizona State UniversityUnited States	48.3	21.9%	2.5×	11	+30.6%
27	University of South FloridaUnited States	48.1	24.1%	2.9×	9	-0.2%
28	University of BathUnited Kingdom	47.9	17.4%	5.4×	9	+89.2%
29	Carleton UniversityCanada	46.5	6.4%	6.7×	13	+119.9%
30	The University of SydneyAustralia	46.4	18.8%	1.6×	14	+14.2%
31	Harvard UniversityUnited States	46.4	17.4%	0.5×	11	+37.2%
32	Deakin UniversityAustralia	46.3	14.0%	3.5×	11	+27.2%
33	University of OsloNorway	46.3	19.9%	2.0×	9	+53.2%
34	Chinese University of Hong KongChina	46.2	10.7%	2.3×	12	+80.5%
35	University of Hong KongChina	46.2	11.8%	1.6×	11	+19.7%
36	University of JohannesburgSouth Africa	45.9	12.5%	3.3×	14	+86.7%
37	Australian National UniversityAustralia	45.7	13.4%	3.1×	11	+76.4%
38	University of UtahUnited States	45.2	25.1%	1.9×	9	+28.8%
39	Purdue University West LafayetteUnited States	45.0	19.6%	1.9×	13	+4.2%
40	University of MichiganUnited States	44.9	16.7%	1.2×	13	+12.0%
41	University of BernSwitzerland	44.5	13.6%	2.7×	10	+86.0%
42	Hong Kong Baptist UniversityChina	43.2	7.7%	7.7×	10	+98.6%
43	University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States	41.6	3.9%	2.0×	25	-1.2%
44	Universiti Teknologi MARAMalaysia	41.0	0.8%	4.1×	21	+85.9%
45	Radboud University NijmegenNetherlands	38.8	12.0%	2.6×	11	-1.3%
46	KU LeuvenBelgium	38.6	17.0%	1.5×	10	-46.8%
47	University of the PunjabPakistan	38.3	2.7%	7.3×	14	+132.9%
48	Bucharest University of Economic StudiesRomania	36.1	9.8%	7.3×	8	+92.8%
49	University of IndonesiaIndonesia	35.1	3.6%	2.2×	18	+146.3%
50	Ghent UniversityBelgium	34.5	10.2%	1.5×	8	+89.0%
51	University of JyväskyläFinland	33.3	15.8%	7.3×	9	-29.0%
52	Northern University of MalaysiaMalaysia	33.1	7.5%	7.2×	9	+42.9%
53	Vytautas Magnus UniversityLithuania	24.8	1.0%	15.2×	9	+73.6%

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 Work-Family Balance Challenges, country by country

Is Work-Family Balance Challenges research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 55% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Work-Family Balance Challenges.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Work-Family Balance Challenges as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.029% in 2024.

Fractional works of Work-Family Balance Challenges 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.

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

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Which countries lead Work-Family Balance Challenges research?

By volume, 2022-now

How concentrated that is

Which institutions lead Work-Family Balance Challenges research?

By volume, 2022-now

Who are the leading researchers in Work-Family Balance Challenges?

What are the most cited papers in Work-Family Balance Challenges?

Where is Work-Family Balance Challenges research done?

Largest cities, 2022-now

Where is the best place to study Work-Family Balance Challenges?

Is Work-Family Balance Challenges research growing?

Its share of all research

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Which topics inside it are moving

Related research

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