Digital Mental Health Interventions

Digital Mental Health Interventions is a research topic within Applied Psychology. Science Explorer counts 31k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the efficacy and implementation of digital mental health interventions, including internet-based cognitive behavioral therapy, mobile health applications, and behavioral activation treatments for depression and anxiety. The research explores topics such as therapist support, adherence to interventions, and the effectiveness of smartphone apps in managing mental health conditions.

Internet-based Interventions
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Mobile Health
Depression
Anxiety
Behavioral Activation
Therapist Support
Adherence
Smartphone Apps
Efficacy

Research works: 31k
In the world top 10%: 3.1k
Top-10% rate: 9.9%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25: +88%
Largest producer: United States

Digital Mental Health Interventions

Which countries lead Digital Mental Health Interventions research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (4k and 1.4k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

1 United States 4k works
2 China 1.4k works
3 United Kingdom 1.2k works
4 India 1.2k works
5 Germany 872 works
6 Canada 660 works
7 Australia 657 works
8 Netherlands 371 works
9 Indonesia 360 works
10 Italy 312 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 States3,970 · 36.1%China1,438 · 13.1%United Kingdom1,197 · 10.9%India1,175 · 10.7%6 others listed3,232 · 29.4%

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

Which institutions lead Digital Mental Health Interventions research?

By volume in 2022-now, Harvard University publishes the most Digital Mental Health Interventions research, followed by University of Toronto and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

By volume, 2022-now

1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 160 works
2 University of TorontoCanada 110 works
3 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 91 works
4 University of WashingtonUnited States 70 works
5 King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 70 works
6 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 70 works
7 Stanford UniversityUnited States 61 works
8 Design Intelligence (United States)United States 59 works
9 United States Department of Veterans AffairsUnited States 58 works
10 The University of MelbourneAustralia 52 works

Who are the leading researchers in Digital Mental Health Interventions?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Digital Mental Health Interventions include David Moher, Theo Vos and Ali H. Mokdad.

1 David Moher Canada 898k citations
2 Theo Vos United States 439k citations
3 Ali H. Mokdad United States 429k citations
4 Richard M. Ryan United States 395k citations
5 Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta Pakistan 371k citations
6 Ronald C. Kessler United States 360k citations
7 Emelia J. Benjamin United States 341k citations
8 John P. A. Ioannidis United States 317k citations
9 Gordon Henry Guyatt Canada 315k citations
10 Dan J. Stein South Africa 306k 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 Digital Mental Health Interventions?

The most cited paper in Digital Mental Health Interventions is "Amazon's Mechanical Turk" (Michael D. Buhrmester, Tracy Kwang, Samuel D. Gosling, 2011), with 10,128 citations. Next come "The Epidemiology of Major Depressive Disorder" (8,045) and "The Transtheoretical Model of Health Behavior Change" (7,919).

Most cited papers
#	Paper	Released	Citations
1	Amazon's Mechanical Turk Michael D. Buhrmester, Tracy Kwang, Samuel D. Gosling · Perspectives on Psychological Science	2011	10,128
2	The Epidemiology of Major Depressive Disorder Ronald C. Kessler, Patricia A. Berglund, Olga Demler et al. · JAMA	18 Jun 2003	8,045
3	The Transtheoretical Model of Health Behavior Change James O. Prochaska, Wayne F. Velicer · American Journal of Health Promotion Open access	Sep 1997	7,919
4	Acute and Longer-Term Outcomes in Depressed Outpatients Requiring One or Several Treatment Steps: A STARD Report Augustus John Rush, Madhukar H. Trivedi, Stephen R. Wisniewski et al. · American Journal of Psychiatry*	Nov 2006	5,676
5	Depression Is a Risk Factor for Noncompliance With Medical Treatment M. Robin DiMatteo, Heidi S. Lepper, Thomas W. Croghan · Archives of Internal Medicine	24 Jul 2000	4,215

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Where is Digital Mental Health Interventions research done?

The largest centres of Digital Mental Health Interventions research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), New York (United States), Beijing (China) and Seoul (South Korea). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Norman and Tilburg.

Largest cities, 2022-now

1 LondonUnited Kingdom 379 works
2 New YorkUnited States 205 works
3 BeijingChina 195 works
4 SeoulSouth Korea 168 works
5 SydneyAustralia 166 works
6 TorontoCanada 163 works
7 BostonUnited States 157 works
8 MelbourneAustralia 151 works
9 BengaluruIndia 127 works
10 ShanghaiChina 111 works

Where it is the local speciality

NormanUS · 63.7 works12×
TilburgNL · 22.2 works8.0×

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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Digital Mental Health Interventions than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Digital Mental Health Interventions?

Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, National University of Singapore and Stanford 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.

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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.

#	University	Score	Top 10%	Specialisation	Works	Growth
1	Harvard UniversityUnited States	78.1	16.7%	3.7×	160	+21.7%
2	National University of SingaporeSingapore	69.4	20.1%	2.5×	41	+169.0%
3	Stanford UniversityUnited States	68.4	18.7%	3.0×	61	+42.1%
4	University College LondonUnited Kingdom	68.3	14.2%	3.2×	70	+64.3%
5	University of TorontoCanada	67.3	12.7%	4.0×	110	+48.3%
6	King's College LondonUnited Kingdom	66.2	12.7%	6.0×	70	+47.2%
7	Deakin UniversityAustralia	66.0	18.8%	5.0×	31	+51.4%
8	University of OxfordUnited Kingdom	63.8	14.7%	2.5×	48	+26.4%
9	City University of Hong KongChina	63.0	26.5%	1.3×	10	+155.2%
10	ETH ZurichSwitzerland	62.5	25.3%	1.1×	11	+41.2%
11	The University of SydneyAustralia	62.1	15.8%	3.0×	51	+19.4%
12	Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina	61.7	18.5%	2.1×	25	+155.4%
13	Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore	60.9	21.4%	1.4×	15	+23.1%
14	Karolinska InstitutetSweden	60.7	8.9%	6.1×	47	+40.1%
15	University of Hong KongChina	60.6	14.9%	2.7×	34	+120.0%
16	University of WashingtonUnited States	60.5	9.8%	4.5×	70	+28.0%
17	University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom	60.0	20.4%	1.6×	27	+28.9%
18	University of ZurichSwitzerland	59.7	15.4%	3.3×	32	+43.4%
19	University of California, IrvineUnited States	59.4	16.1%	4.0×	34	+76.3%
20	Macquarie UniversityAustralia	59.3	13.1%	6.8×	34	+30.0%
21	Nottingham Trent UniversityUnited Kingdom	59.3	23.1%	5.4×	12	+0.2%
22	The University of MelbourneAustralia	59.0	11.2%	3.4×	52	+23.1%
23	Peking UniversityChina	58.3	19.1%	1.1×	30	+254.1%
24	Imperial College LondonUnited Kingdom	57.8	14.8%	2.3×	32	+61.1%
25	University of British ColumbiaCanada	57.5	12.2%	3.1×	51	+44.1%
26	UNSW SydneyAustralia	56.9	9.7%	4.1×	52	+8.7%
27	University of AmsterdamNetherlands	56.9	12.9%	3.0×	25	+22.0%
28	New York UniversityUnited States	56.7	14.9%	3.0×	46	+84.8%
29	University of Milano-BicoccaItaly	56.4	20.3%	2.7×	11	+126.0%
30	Cornell UniversityUnited States	55.9	13.2%	2.2×	40	+70.6%
31	Monash UniversityAustralia	55.5	11.9%	2.8×	38	+34.5%
32	Sungkyunkwan UniversitySouth Korea	55.5	16.5%	2.5×	23	+619.5%
33	King Saud UniversitySaudi Arabia	55.5	19.0%	1.1×	15	+94.7%
34	Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamNetherlands	55.3	13.0%	6.4×	36	-1.5%
35	Yale UniversityUnited States	55.2	13.0%	2.8×	42	+36.5%
36	The University of QueenslandAustralia	55.2	15.5%	2.1×	28	+35.6%
37	Zhejiang UniversityChina	55.2	21.4%	0.6×	22	+339.9%
38	University of MichiganUnited States	54.9	10.7%	2.4×	50	+25.9%
39	Northeastern UniversityUnited States	54.9	18.9%	3.8×	16	+106.1%
40	University of PittsburghUnited States	54.8	11.9%	3.1×	34	+17.1%
41	Chinese University of Hong KongChina	52.6	9.4%	2.9×	29	+210.9%
42	University of JordanJordan	52.4	20.0%	2.5×	9	+378.0%
43	Tilburg UniversityNetherlands	52.0	11.4%	9.4×	21	+44.6%
44	Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman UniversitySaudi Arabia	52.0	17.2%	2.4×	8	+279.7%
45	University of MacauChina	50.6	14.7%	2.1×	9	+96.8%
46	Stony Brook UniversityUnited States	50.3	19.6%	2.2×	10	+34.6%
47	Palo Alto UniversityUnited States	49.2	16.6%	13.1×	13	+13.0%
48	London School of Hygiene & Tropical MedicineUnited Kingdom	49.2	7.9%	4.9×	10	+139.8%
49	University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States	48.2	3.0%	3.7×	91	+161.3%
50	Universität UlmGermany	47.5	11.9%	8.0×	23	-5.1%
51	Dartmouth CollegeUnited States	46.0	13.7%	6.3×	22	-17.0%
52	Hong Kong Baptist UniversityChina	44.6	11.9%	3.9×	10	+570.8%
53	Bern University of Applied SciencesSwitzerland	42.1	5.7%	11.1×	11	+142.9%
54	Witten/Herdecke UniversityGermany	36.0	5.1%	9.0×	11	+378.5%
55	Sri Lanka Institute of Information TechnologySri Lanka	23.8	0.0%	10.2×	11	+206.5%
56	University of ReginaCanada	22.6	2.0%	6.9×	10	-7.0%

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 Digital Mental Health Interventions, country by country

Is Digital Mental Health Interventions research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 88% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Digital Mental Health Interventions.

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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 Digital Mental Health Interventions as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.056% in 2024.

Fractional works of Digital Mental Health Interventions 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.

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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Which countries lead Digital Mental Health Interventions research?

By volume, 2022-now

How concentrated that is

Which institutions lead Digital Mental Health Interventions research?

By volume, 2022-now

Who are the leading researchers in Digital Mental Health Interventions?

What are the most cited papers in Digital Mental Health Interventions?

Where is Digital Mental Health Interventions research done?

Largest cities, 2022-now

Where it is the local speciality

Where is the best place to study Digital Mental Health Interventions?

Is Digital Mental Health Interventions research growing?

Its share of all research

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Which topics inside it are moving

Related research

Discussion