Bibliometric Analysis of Publication Output on Power Motive

Abstract

There are many different factors in the field of psychology that are related to education. The power motive is one of the basic psychological needs identified by psychologists, alongside the need for achievement and the need for affiliation. It refers to the desire to have an impact on other people‟s behavior or emotions.Researchers and educators can benefit from using bibliometric analysis to comprehend related studies on power motive.The current study aims to investigate the bibliometric analysis of the output of publications pertaining to the term "power motive." By using the keywords “power motive”, the references and bibliographic records have been obtained from the largest abstract and citation database i.e. Scopus databases. To meet out all the objectives of present study; „Biblioshiny‟ software was used for advanced bibliometric analysis. The results showed that total 265 documents were published in 157 different sources, with an average citation of 25.82 per document during 1968:2023. There is a gradual increase in the number of publications from 2004 onwards and recorded the greatest quantity of publications in 2021. The United States, Germany and Canada are the top three countries in terms of total publications. The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, is the top contributing institution with the greatest number of publications, trailed by Trier University and Friedrich-Alexander-Universität. It was also found that the maximum number of papers has received citations.