The top 10 trending research topics

Today is our birthday – The Oxford Review is 1-year-old so I thought I would look at the numbers and list the top 10 research topics from 2016/17.

• For the 2018/19 research trends click here
• For the 2019/20 research trends click here

1. The numbers
2. Top 10 research topics
3. 2017 – new tools, techniques, and instruments

The numbers

• Our algorithms have searched through over 1.2 million peer-reviewed research papers published over 7,871 research journals contained in 847 research databases in 2016
• We have physically read and considered 4,561 research papers
• Our practitioners chose 260 research studies to fully review based on usefulness, their ability to be actionable and practical and their interest to our members
• Out of the 260 papers turned into briefings for our members we have produced
  • 12 Copies of The Oxford Review containing 156 research briefings
  • 104 weekly Research Briefings
  • 12 Research video briefings
  • 5 Infographics
• and Completed 15 special reports for organisations and businesses including Danone, The State Department, The NHS, 2 police forces, 2 Banks, 1 retail store, 3 multinationals and 7 repeat orders for different topics
• David has been asked to talk at 43 conferences and has actually managed to do 21 of these including the UK Police Chiefs Conference and the British Academy where his talk was voted one of the top 3 most interesting talks.
• Social media
  • We have also posted 8,760 research based tweets,
  • 156 Facebook posts
    • 82 LinkedIn posts and
    • 96 blog posts!
• We have also received 92 emails of appreciation and 0 email of complaint
• And redesigned our website three times and (we estimate) written over 14,000 emails!
• We have also redesigned The Oxford Review twice and
• The Research Briefings 3 times to make them even quicker and easier to assimilate and more useful
• We have gone out, interviewed and listened to 304 people about the design of the Oxford Review in a continual effort to make them better, quicker and more and more useful.

And now the top 10 research topics from 2016/17 – drum roll…..

Top 10 Research Topics

The top 10 research topics (11 actually as no 10 was tied) in order of research interest:

1. Organisational Ambidexterity
2. Culture Change
3. Organisational Change
4. Uncertainty / ambiguity
5. Knowledge Management
6. Co-optition
7. Emotional Resilience
8. Emotional Intelligence and Emotion Regulation
9. Developing Innovation mindsets / capability
10. = Leadership and Management Ethics
11. =Use of social media in organisations particularly for
    1. Communication and collaboration
    2. Learning in organisations

Not bad for our first year! Looking forward 2017

2017

This year we are expanding and as well as:

• The monthly Oxford Review
• Weekly research briefings
• Video research briefings, and
• Infographics

our members are also now getting tools, instruments, models and techniques for

• Leaders
• Managers
• HR Professionals
• L&D Professionals
• Org Dev Professionals
• Executive & Org Dev Coaches, and
• Management & Org Dev Consultants

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