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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. 30.8% 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%
7.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
30.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+37%
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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 (1.4k and 1.2k works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 United States 1.4k works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 1.2k works
  3. 3 Canada 564 works
  4. 4 Australia 549 works
  5. 5 Netherlands 199 works
  6. 6 Germany 164 works
  7. 7 Denmark 142 works
  8. 8 Norway 141 works
  9. 9 Sweden 131 works
  10. 10 Ireland 110 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: 30.5%United Kingdom: 26.4%Canada: 12.2%Australia: 11.8%6 others listed: 19.1%30%largest
United States1,412 · 30.5%United Kingdom1,223 · 26.4%Canada564 · 12.2%Australia549 · 11.8%6 others listed887 · 19.1%

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

Which institutions lead Mental Health and Patient Involvement research?

By volume in 2022–2025, University College London publishes the most Mental Health and Patient Involvement research, followed by King's College London and University of Toronto.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 51 works
  2. 2 King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 43 works
  3. 3 University of TorontoCanada 43 works
  4. 4 The University of SydneyAustralia 36 works
  5. 5 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 34 works
  6. 6 University of British ColumbiaCanada 33 works
  7. 7 Monash UniversityAustralia 33 works
  8. 8 The University of MelbourneAustralia 31 works
  9. 9 La Trobe UniversityAustralia 24 works
  10. 10 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 24 works

Where is Mental Health and Patient Involvement research done?

The largest centres of Mental Health and Patient Involvement research in 2022–2025 are London (United Kingdom), Melbourne (Australia), Toronto (Canada) and Sydney (Australia).

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 London United Kingdom 318 works
  2. 2 Melbourne Australia 148 works
  3. 3 Toronto Canada 122 works
  4. 4 Sydney Australia 86 works
  5. 5 New York United States 85 works
  6. 6 Brisbane Australia 62 works
  7. 7 Dublin Ireland 60 works
  8. 8 Montreal Canada 60 works
  9. 9 Boston United States 58 works
  10. 10 Vancouver Canada 53 works
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Where is the best place to study Mental Health and Patient Involvement?

Among universities, judged by research, University College London, Newcastle University and King's College London 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 35.89%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →University College London: 51, 36.7%Newcastle University: 21, 35.0%King's College London: 43, 35.9%La Trobe University: 24, 35.0%Maastricht University: 17, 35.6%Curtin University: 16, 33.8%Monash University: 33, 36.9%University of East Anglia: 9, 38.8%University of Southern Denmark: 15, 31.7%Flinders University: 13, 39.5%University College L…King's College LondonNewcastle UniversityLa Trobe University
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 74.036.7%6.8×51 +163.7%
2 Newcastle UniversityUnited Kingdom 70.035.0%9.5×21 +154.9%
3 King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 69.835.9%10.6×43 -1.6%
4 La Trobe UniversityAustralia 67.435.0%14.7×24 +84.1%
5 Maastricht UniversityNetherlands 67.335.6%9.3×17 +124.0%
6 Curtin UniversityAustralia 66.533.8%9.2×16 +159.3%
7 Monash UniversityAustralia 66.136.9%7.2×33 +99.6%
8 University of East AngliaUnited Kingdom 65.738.8%9.7×9 +191.1%
9 University of Southern DenmarkDenmark 65.031.7%8.6×15 +241.4%
10 Flinders UniversityAustralia 63.739.5%10.8×13 +76.0%

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is Mental Health and Patient Involvement research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 37% higher than in 2013–2017, 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.

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.