Workaholism, burnout, and well-being
Workaholism, burnout, and well-being is a research topic within Social Psychology. Science Explorer counts 7.1k research works in it since 1957. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.
This cluster of papers explores the dimensions, antecedents, and consequences of workaholism, including its relationship with job demands, well-being, personality traits, coping strategies, and organizational culture. It delves into the impact of workaholism on job performance, psychological health, and relationship quality, as well as the distinction between workaholism and work engagement.
- Workaholism
- Work Engagement
- Job Demands
- Well-being
- Personality Traits
- Job Performance
- Psychological Health
- Relationship Quality
- Coping Strategies
- Organizational Culture
- Research works
- 7.1k fractional, since 1957
- In the world top 10%
- 728 per year above
- Top-10% rate
- 10.2% share of its works in the world top 10%
- Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
- +27% the tick is no change
- Largest producer
Türkiye
31% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Which countries lead Workaholism, burnout, and well-being research?
By volume, Türkiye and China publish the most (421 and 214 works in 2022-now).
By volume, 2022-now
- 1
Türkiye
421 works
- 2
China
214 works
- 3
United States
189 works
- 4
India
149 works
- 5
Brazil
83 works
- 6
Spain
61 works
- 7
Poland
59 works
- 8
Indonesia
59 works
- 9
United Kingdom
56 works
- 10
Germany
54 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.
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
Which institutions lead Workaholism, burnout, and well-being research?
By volume in 2022-now, Selçuk University publishes the most Workaholism, burnout, and well-being research, followed by Vytautas Magnus University and Sakarya University.
By volume, 2022-now
- 1
Selçuk UniversityTürkiye
9 works
- 2
Vytautas Magnus University
Lithuania
9 works
- 3
Sakarya UniversityTürkiye
9 works
- 4
University of GdańskPoland
8 works
- 5
Islamic Azad University, Tehran
Iran
8 works
- 6
Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey UniversityTürkiye
8 works
- 7
Kahramanmaraş Sütçü İmam UniversityTürkiye
8 works
- 8
Sivas Cumhuriyet ÜniversitesiTürkiye
8 works
- 9
Renmin University of ChinaChina
7 works
- 10
Suleyman Demirel University
Kazakhstan
7 works
Who are the leading researchers in Workaholism, burnout, and well-being?
The most-cited researchers publishing on Workaholism, burnout, and well-being include Richard M. Ryan, Ronald C. Kessler and Norito Kawakami.
- 1
Richard M. Ryan
United States
395k citations
- 2
Ronald C. Kessler
United States
360k citations
- 3
Norito Kawakami
Japan
202k citations
- 4
Arnold B. Bakker
Netherlands
189k citations
- 5
Michael Gideon Marmot
United Kingdom
170k citations
- 6
Wilmar B. Schaufeli
Netherlands
158k citations
Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.
Where is Workaholism, burnout, and well-being research done?
The largest centres of Workaholism, burnout, and well-being research in 2022-now are Istanbul (Türkiye), Ankara (Türkiye), Beijing (China) and Seoul (South Korea).
Where is the best place to study Workaholism, burnout, and well-being?
Among universities, judged by research, Sakarya University, University of Gdańsk and Vytautas Magnus 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.
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.
| # | University | Score | Top 10% | Specialisation | Works | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sakarya UniversityTürkiye |
87.7 | 5.4% | 16.9× | 9 | +63.3% |
| 2 | University of GdańskPoland |
64.3 | 2.9% | 20.5× | 8 | +99.1% |
| 3 | Vytautas Magnus UniversityLithuania |
57.4 | 0.2% | 56.6× | 9 | +25.3% |
| 4 | Selçuk UniversityTürkiye |
54.7 | 1.5% | 15.2× | 9 | +27.0% |
| 5 | Islamic Azad University, TehranIran |
8.4 | 1.5% | 2.5× | 8 | -33.2% |
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 Workaholism, burnout, and well-being, country by countryIs Workaholism, burnout, and well-being research growing?
Output in 2022-2025 was 27% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2023. The fastest-growing topics are Workaholism, burnout, and well-being.
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 Workaholism, burnout, and well-being as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0093% in 2024.
Fractional works of Workaholism, burnout, and well-being 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
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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