Vice-Chancellor’s Distinguished Award – HIGHEST CITED RESEARCHER
Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Department of Industrial Psychology & People Management – College of Business and Economics (CBE)
Prof Arnold Bakker is a Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Department of Industrial Psychology and People Management, College of Business and Economics. He serves as the chair of the research group specialising in Work and Organizational Psychology at Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands. Prof Bakker enjoys a prominent international reputation as an organisational psychologist and frequently imparts his expertise to professional organisations, business audiences, and students alike. He is renowned for his contribution to the widely cited Job Demands–Resources (JD-R) theory, a cornerstone in psychology and management literature. His research focuses on positive aspects of organisations, including work engagement, flow, job crafting, playful work design, and happiness in the workplace. He has a particular interest in unravelling the processes contributing to job performance, such as the crossover of work-related emotions. Prof Bakker has developed various internet applications, such as the Job Demands–Resources monitor, the Happiness Indicator, and the Engagement App. His scholarly contributions have found publication in leading psychology journals, including American Psychologist, Current Directions in Psychological Science, Journal of Applied Psychology, and Journal of Organizational Behavior. Additionally, he serves as the series editor for two book series: “Current Issues in Work and Organisational Psychology”, published by Psychology Press and “Advances in Positive Organizational Psychology”, published by Emerald Publishing. Since 2013, Prof Bakker has consistently appeared on Thomson Reuters’ list of “Most influential scientific minds” and is the most-cited psychologist in the Netherlands, ranking 17th globally.
He, along with his colleagues, has developed an array of questionnaires for assessing various workplace factors, including work engagement, burnout, flow, job crafting, intrapreneurship, playful work design, job demands-resources, meaning-making, leisure crafting, strengths use, stop, and start control, emotional intelligence, among others. Many of these assessment tools are available in multiple languages, including English, Spanish, and Chinese. Prof Bakker appears on the Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher List in the category of Psychology (and has done so since 2014). He is also listed as one of the top researchers on the Elsevier List of top 2% researchers (he is listed as second in his category). His current Scopus h-index is 133, with 85552 citations, and his Google Scholar h-index is 203, with 272583 citations.
