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Art Therapy and Mental Health

Art Therapy and Mental Health is a research topic within Conservation. Science Explorer counts 9.7k research works in it since 1950. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the intersection of art therapy, public health, and social prescribing, with a focus on its application in supporting individuals dealing with cancer, trauma, and mental well-being. The research emphasizes the efficacy of art therapy interventions in improving emotional expression, quality of life, and coping resources for various patient populations. It also delves into the neurobiological underpinnings of art therapy and its potential as a complementary approach in healthcare.

  • Art Therapy
  • Public Health
  • Social Prescribing
  • Cancer Patients
  • Mental Well-being
  • Creative Arts Interventions
  • Trauma Therapy
  • Neuroscience
  • Emotional Expression
  • Quality of Life
Research works
9.7k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
986
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+45%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
31% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Art Therapy and Mental Health

Which countries lead Art Therapy and Mental Health research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (769 and 516 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 769 works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 516 works
  3. 3 China 323 works
  4. 4 Canada 192 works
  5. 5 Australia 172 works
  6. 6 Indonesia 116 works
  7. 7 India 100 works
  8. 8 Spain 94 works
  9. 9 Germany 84 works
  10. 10 Türkiye 81 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.

United States: 31.5%United Kingdom: 21.1%China: 13.2%Canada: 7.8%6 others listed: 26.4%31%largest
United States769 · 31.5%United Kingdom516 · 21.1%China323 · 13.2%Canada192 · 7.8%6 others listed646 · 26.4%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Art Therapy and Mental Health research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of Haifa publishes the most Art Therapy and Mental Health research, followed by University College London and University of Toronto.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of HaifaIsrael 28 works
  2. 2 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 24 works
  3. 3 University of TorontoCanada 23 works
  4. 4 The University of MelbourneAustralia 19 works
  5. 5 Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 16 works
  6. 6 Newcastle UniversityUnited Kingdom 15 works
  7. 7 Film IndependentUnited States 15 works
  8. 8 University of FloridaUnited States 14 works
  9. 9 New York UniversityUnited States 13 works
  10. 10 University of British ColumbiaCanada 13 works

Who are the leading researchers in Art Therapy and Mental Health?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Art Therapy and Mental Health include Vivian Andrea Welch and Bruce Leonard Miller.

  1. 1 Vivian Andrea Welch Canada 218k citations
  2. 2 Bruce Leonard Miller United States 196k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Art Therapy and Mental Health?

The most cited paper in Art Therapy and Mental Health is "Relationships between mindfulness practice and levels of mindfulness, medical and psychological symptoms and well-being in a mindfulness-based stress reduction program" (James Carmody, Ruth A. Baer, 2007), with 1,843 citations. Next come "Health of the Nation Outcome Scales (HoNOS)" (1,220) and "Assessment of insight in psychosis" (1,100).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Relationships between mindfulness practice and levels of mindfulness, medical and psychological symptoms and well-being in a mindfulness-based stress reduction program James Carmody, Ruth A. Baer · Journal of Behavioral Medicine Book chapter 24 Sep 2007 1,843
2 Health of the Nation Outcome Scales (HoNOS) J. K. Wing, Anne Beevor, R. H. Curtis et al. · The British Journal of Psychiatry 1998 1,220
3 Assessment of insight in psychosis XAVIER F. AMADOR, David H. Strauss, S.A. Yale et al. · American Journal of Psychiatry Jun 1993 1,100
4 Psychoanalytic Explorations in Art Jacques Schnier, Ernst Kris · College Art Journal 1953 1,037
5 Mental Health of Children and Adolescents Amidst COVID-19 and Past Pandemics: A Rapid Systematic Review Salima Moez Meherali, Neelam Saleem Punjani, Samantha Louie‐Poon et al. · International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ReviewOpen access 26 Mar 2021 908
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Where is Art Therapy and Mental Health research done?

The largest centres of Art Therapy and Mental Health research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), New York (United States), Melbourne (Australia) and Toronto (Canada). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Haifa and Newcastle upon Tyne.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 150 works
  2. 2 New YorkUnited States 54 works
  3. 3 MelbourneAustralia 46 works
  4. 4 TorontoCanada 42 works
  5. 5 BeijingChina 31 works
  6. 6 Los AngelesUnited States 30 works
  7. 7 HaifaIsrael 29 works
  8. 8 SydneyAustralia 29 works
  9. 9 Newcastle upon TyneUnited Kingdom 28 works
  10. 10 ShanghaiChina 26 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. HaifaIL · 29.5 works12×
  2. Newcastle upon TyneGB · 28.0 works10×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Art Therapy and Mental Health than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Art Therapy and Mental Health?

Among universities, judged by research, University College London, Newcastle University and University of Haifa score highest, combining citation excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 18.59%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University College L…University of OxfordNewcastle UniversityUniversity of Haifa
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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.

Citation excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1University College LondonUnited Kingdom 91.231.4%4.9×24 +11.4%
2Newcastle UniversityUnited Kingdom 70.318.8%10.0×15 +78.8%
3University of HaifaIsrael 64.96.1%40.5×28 +40.8%
4University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 62.127.9%2.4×10 +43.6%
5University of TorontoCanada 61.17.2%3.6×23 +45.7%
6Queen Mary University of LondonUnited Kingdom 59.922.0%7.0×9 +276.2%
7The University of MelbourneAustralia 58.511.7%5.5×19 +18.0%
8University of FloridaUnited States 58.022.6%4.1×14 +187.4%
9University of EdinburghUnited Kingdom 57.424.1%3.6×10 +45.7%
10The University of SydneyAustralia 50.914.1%3.0×12 +58.2%

Universities only. The score blends citation 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 Art Therapy and Mental Health, country by country

Is Art Therapy and Mental Health research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 45% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Art Therapy and Mental Health.

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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 Art Therapy and Mental Health as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.013% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Art Therapy and Mental Health 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.

still counting5%10%15%Art Therapy and Mental Health10.4% in 2025200020102020

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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