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Mental Health and Patient Involvement

Mental Health and Patient Involvement is a research topic within General Health Professions. Science Explorer counts 24k research works in it since 1951. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on patient and public engagement in healthcare research, particularly in the context of mental health services and recovery models. It explores the impact of patient and public involvement on research, service planning, and healthcare improvement. The cluster also delves into the role of peer support, stakeholder engagement, and systematic review methodologies in shaping research agendas and promoting user-centric healthcare practices.

  • Patient Engagement
  • Public Involvement
  • Recovery Model
  • Mental Health Services
  • Peer Support
  • Healthcare Improvement
  • Research Agenda
  • Service User Involvement
  • Systematic Review
  • Stakeholder Engagement
Research works
24k
fractional, since 1951
In the world top 10%
2.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+20%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
31% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Mental Health and Patient Involvement

This ranks research output and citation impact. It says nothing about the quality of diagnosis, treatment or care.

Which countries lead Mental Health and Patient Involvement research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (1.7k and 1.4k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.7k works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 1.4k works
  3. 3 Canada 644 works
  4. 4 Australia 629 works
  5. 5 Netherlands 225 works
  6. 6 Germany 193 works
  7. 7 Denmark 158 works
  8. 8 Norway 157 works
  9. 9 Sweden 156 works
  10. 10 China 147 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: 30.8%United Kingdom: 26.4%Canada: 11.9%Australia: 11.6%6 others listed: 19.2%31%largest
United States1,663 · 30.8%United Kingdom1,428 · 26.4%Canada644 · 11.9%Australia629 · 11.6%6 others listed1,036 · 19.2%

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

Which institutions lead Mental Health and Patient Involvement research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of Toronto publishes the most Mental Health and Patient Involvement research, followed by University College London and University of British Columbia.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of TorontoCanada 94 works
  2. 2 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 67 works
  3. 3 University of British ColumbiaCanada 54 works
  4. 4 King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 54 works
  5. 5 Harvard UniversityUnited States 46 works
  6. 6 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 45 works
  7. 7 The University of SydneyAustralia 45 works
  8. 8 The University of MelbourneAustralia 43 works
  9. 9 Monash UniversityAustralia 41 works
  10. 10 United States Department of Veterans AffairsUnited States 40 works

Who are the leading researchers in Mental Health and Patient Involvement?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Mental Health and Patient Involvement include David Moher, Douglas G. Altman and Ronald C. Kessler.

  1. 1 David Moher Canada 898k citations
  2. 2 Douglas G. Altman United Kingdom 862k citations
  3. 3 Ronald C. Kessler United States 360k citations
  4. 4 John P. A. Ioannidis United States 317k citations
  5. 5 Gordon Henry Guyatt Canada 315k citations
  6. 6 Elie A. Akl Canada 313k citations
  7. 7 Gregory Y.H. Lip United Kingdom 311k citations
  8. 8 Lesley A. Stewart United Kingdom 308k citations
  9. 9 Dan J. Stein South Africa 306k citations
  10. 10 Virginia Braun New Zealand 286k 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 Mental Health and Patient Involvement?

The most cited paper in Mental Health and Patient Involvement is "Scoping studies: towards a methodological framework" (Hilary Arksey, Lisa O’Malley, 2005), with 37,445 citations. Next come "Fostering implementation of health services research findings into practice: a consolidated framework for advancing implementation science" (15,434) and "Outcomes for Implementation Research: Conceptual Distinctions, Measurement Challenges, and Research Agenda" (9,334).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Scoping studies: towards a methodological framework Hilary Arksey, Lisa O’Malley · International Journal of Social Research Methodology Open access Feb 2005 37,445
2 Fostering implementation of health services research findings into practice: a consolidated framework for advancing implementation science Laura J. Damschroder, David Clark Aron, Rosalind E. Keith et al. · Implementation Science Open access 7 Aug 2009 15,434
3 Outcomes for Implementation Research: Conceptual Distinctions, Measurement Challenges, and Research Agenda Enola K. Proctor, Hiie Silmere, Ramesh Raghavan et al. · Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research Open access 18 Oct 2010 9,334
4 Why Don't Physicians Follow Clinical Practice Guidelines? Michael D. Cabana, Cynthia S. Rand, Neil R. Powe et al. · JAMA 20 Oct 1999 6,741
5 The updated Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research based on user feedback Laura J. Damschroder, Caitlin Marie Reardon, Marilla A. Opra Widerquist et al. · Implementation Science Open access 29 Oct 2022 4,361
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Where is Mental Health and Patient Involvement research done?

The largest centres of Mental Health and Patient Involvement research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Melbourne (Australia), Toronto (Canada) and Sydney (Australia).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 369 works
  2. 2 MelbourneAustralia 167 works
  3. 3 TorontoCanada 142 works
  4. 4 SydneyAustralia 101 works
  5. 5 New YorkUnited States 99 works
  6. 6 DublinIreland 76 works
  7. 7 BrisbaneAustralia 73 works
  8. 8 BostonUnited States 70 works
  9. 9 MontrealCanada 69 works
  10. 10 VancouverCanada 62 works
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Where is the best place to study Mental Health and Patient Involvement?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Toronto, University College London and University of Ottawa 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%10%20%mean 14.83%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of OttawaHarvard UniversityUniversity College L…University of Toronto
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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 of TorontoCanada 79.313.3%8.0×94 +23.9%
2University College LondonUnited Kingdom 77.214.0%7.3×67 +29.2%
3University of OttawaCanada 72.519.3%8.6×33 -0.2%
4Harvard UniversityUnited States 72.115.8%2.5×46 +42.9%
5King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 72.012.8%10.8×54 -1.0%
6The University of MelbourneAustralia 71.816.5%6.7×43 +19.5%
7Utrecht UniversityNetherlands 66.619.1%3.4×14 +29.5%
8University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 65.413.6%4.0×32 +6.1%
9Monash UniversityAustralia 65.012.0%7.4×41 +53.2%
10The University of SydneyAustralia 64.311.9%6.3×44 +23.9%

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 Mental Health and Patient Involvement, country by country

Is Mental Health and Patient Involvement research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 20% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Mental Health and Patient Involvement.

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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 Mental Health and Patient Involvement as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.025% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Mental Health and Patient Involvement 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%Mental Health and Patient Involvement9.7% 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.

Questions people ask

How much research is there on mental health, and is it growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 20% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Mental Health and Patient Involvement.

Is Mental Health and Patient Involvement research growing?
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