"Motivation" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Those factors which cause an organism to behave or act in either a goal-seeking or satisfying manner. They may be influenced by physiological drives or by external stimuli.
| Descriptor ID |
D009042
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| MeSH Number(s) |
F01.658 F01.752.543.500.750
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| Concept/Terms |
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Motivation" by people in this website by year, and whether "Motivation" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1995 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1998 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2000 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2001 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2002 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2003 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2004 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2005 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 2006 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2007 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2008 | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| 2009 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2010 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2011 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 2012 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2013 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 2014 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 2015 | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| 2016 | 3 | 5 | 8 |
| 2017 | 1 | 9 | 10 |
| 2018 | 3 | 7 | 10 |
| 2019 | 3 | 6 | 9 |
| 2020 | 4 | 10 | 14 |
| 2021 | 5 | 8 | 13 |
| 2022 | 3 | 7 | 10 |
| 2023 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 2024 | 5 | 6 | 11 |
| 2025 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Motivation" by people in Profiles.
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Leveraging Generative Artificial Intelligence to Improve Motivation and Retrieval in Higher Education Learners. JMIR Med Educ. 2025 Mar 11; 11:e59210.
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Day-to-day discrimination and substance use treatment motivation among justice-involved adults experiencing homelessness. Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse. 2025 Mar 04; 51(2):263-272.
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An mHealth Intervention With Financial Incentives to Promote Smoking Cessation and Physical Activity Among Black Adults: Protocol for a Feasibility Randomized Controlled Trial. JMIR Res Protoc. 2025 Jan 31; 14:e69771.
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Applying a behavioral economic approach to understanding smoking processes: The indirect effect of past quit experiences. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2024 Dec 01; 265:112492.
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A social media game to increase physical activity among older adult women: protocol of a randomized controlled trial to evaluate CHALLENGE. BMC Public Health. 2024 Aug 12; 24(1):2172.
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Motivation toward vasectomy based on abortion law changes in Oklahoma. Can J Urol. 2024 Aug; 31(4):11950-11954.
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Blunted stimulus-preceding negativity during reward anticipation in major depressive disorder. J Affect Disord. 2024 Oct 01; 362:779-787.
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Financial Incentives for Smoking Cessation Among Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Adults: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Netw Open. 2024 Jul 01; 7(7):e2418821.
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Sadness and fear, but not happiness, motivate inhibitory behaviour: the influence of discrete emotions on the executive function of inhibition. Cogn Emot. 2024 Dec; 38(8):1160-1179.
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Surrogate endpoints in clinical trials of p16-positive squamous cell carcinoma of the oropharynx: an individual patient data meta-analysis. Lancet Oncol. 2024 Mar; 25(3):366-375.