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Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies

Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies is a research topic within Clinical Psychology. Science Explorer counts 18k research works in it since 1950. 10.3% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD), exploring its prevalence, psychosocial outcomes, comorbidity with other disorders, treatment approaches such as cognitive-behavioral therapy and medication, impact on quality of life and self-esteem, and its association with cosmetic surgery and delusional infestation. The papers also discuss the influence of social anxiety and provide insights into the clinical and psychopathological aspects of BDD.

  • Body Dysmorphic Disorder
  • Cosmetic Surgery
  • Psychosocial Outcomes
  • Prevalence
  • Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
  • Comorbidity
  • Quality of Life
  • Delusional Infestation
  • Self-esteem
  • Social Anxiety
Research works
18k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.3%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+30%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
39% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies

Which countries lead Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (1.2k and 354 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.2k works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 354 works
  3. 3 India 254 works
  4. 4 Germany 219 works
  5. 5 Italy 206 works
  6. 6 China 205 works
  7. 7 Brazil 184 works
  8. 8 Australia 183 works
  9. 9 Türkiye 173 works
  10. 10 Canada 125 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: 38.8%United Kingdom: 11.4%India: 8.2%Germany: 7.0%6 others listed: 34.6%39%largest
United States1,207 · 38.8%United Kingdom354 · 11.4%India254 · 8.2%Germany219 · 7.0%6 others listed1,077 · 34.6%

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

Which institutions lead Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Harvard University publishes the most Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies research, followed by King's College London and University College London.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 46 works
  2. 2 King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 25 works
  3. 3 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 22 works
  4. 4 Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 22 works
  5. 5 The University of MelbourneAustralia 18 works
  6. 6 New York UniversityUnited States 18 works
  7. 7 University of TorontoCanada 17 works
  8. 8 University of California, San FranciscoUnited States 17 works
  9. 9 Stanford UniversityUnited States 17 works
  10. 10 Yale UniversityUnited States 17 works

Who are the leading researchers in Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies include Ronald C. Kessler, Dan J. Stein and Virginia Braun.

  1. 1 Ronald C. Kessler United States 360k citations
  2. 2 Dan J. Stein South Africa 306k citations
  3. 3 Virginia Braun New Zealand 286k citations
  4. 4 Victoria Clarke United Kingdom 285k citations
  5. 5 Josep María Haro Spain 250k 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 Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies?

The most cited paper in Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies is "The Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale" (Wayne K. Goodman, 1989), with 7,707 citations. Next come "The Prevalence and Correlates of Eating Disorders in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication" (5,014) and "Mortality Rates in Patients With Anorexia Nervosa and Other Eating Disorders" (2,891).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale Wayne K. Goodman · Archives of General Psychiatry Nov 1989 7,707
2 The Prevalence and Correlates of Eating Disorders in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication James I. Hudson, Eva Hiripi, Harrison Graham Pope et al. · Biological Psychiatry Open access 6 Jul 2006 5,014
3 Mortality Rates in Patients With Anorexia Nervosa and Other Eating Disorders Jon Arcelus, Alex J. Mitchell, Jackie A. Wales et al. · Archives of General Psychiatry Open access Jul 2011 2,891
4 The epidemiology of obsessive-compulsive disorder in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication Ayelet Meron Ruscio, Dan J. Stein, Wai Tat Chiu et al. · Molecular Psychiatry Open access 26 Aug 2008 2,817
5 The Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale: Measures of internal consistency Suck Won Kim, Maurice W. Dysken, Alfred M. Pheley et al. · Psychiatry Research Feb 1994 2,376
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Where is Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies research done?

The largest centres of Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), New York (United States), Melbourne (Australia) and Istanbul (Türkiye).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 130 works
  2. 2 New YorkUnited States 69 works
  3. 3 MelbourneAustralia 52 works
  4. 4 IstanbulTürkiye 49 works
  5. 5 SeoulSouth Korea 47 works
  6. 6 BostonUnited States 43 works
  7. 7 São PauloBrazil 43 works
  8. 8 RomeItaly 43 works
  9. 9 BeijingChina 41 works
  10. 10 TehranIran 37 works
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Where is the best place to study Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, King's College London, Harvard University and Deakin University score highest, combining 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 24.05%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Deakin UniversityKing's College LondonUniversity College L…Harvard University
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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.

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
1King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 68.923.7%7.1×25 +35.9%
2Harvard UniversityUnited States 67.314.5%3.5×46 +25.5%
3Deakin UniversityAustralia 63.938.7%4.9×9 +43.8%
4University College LondonUnited Kingdom 58.817.6%3.4×22 +70.6%
5University of PaduaItaly 54.930.8%4.0×13 +134.0%
6The University of SydneyAustralia 51.032.2%2.6×13 +14.4%
7The University of MelbourneAustralia 50.416.0%4.0×18 +46.6%
8La Trobe UniversityAustralia 50.319.2%7.3×9 +51.3%
9Karolinska InstitutetSweden 48.916.0%4.8×11 +16.3%
10Florida State UniversityUnited States 48.831.8%5.6×8 +24.1%

Universities only. The score blends 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 Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies, country by country

Is Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 30% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies.

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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 Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.019% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies 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.

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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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