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Mental Health and Psychiatry

Mental Health and Psychiatry is a research topic within Philosophy. Science Explorer counts 41k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores philosophical perspectives on health, psychiatric disorders, and the DSM, with a focus on phenomenology, self-experience in schizophrenia spectrum disorders, embodiment, and person-centered medicine. It delves into redefining health, examining anomalous self-experience, and understanding the temporal structure of consciousness in psychiatric conditions.

  • Phenomenology
  • Psychiatric Disorders
  • DSM
  • Self-Experience
  • Health Definition
  • Schizophrenia Spectrum
  • Embodiment
  • Neuroscience
  • Person-Centered Medicine
  • Temporal Experience
Research works
41k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
4.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-2%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
33% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Mental Health and Psychiatry

Which countries lead Mental Health and Psychiatry research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (1.2k and 715 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.2k works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 715 works
  3. 3 Germany 396 works
  4. 4 Italy 245 works
  5. 5 Netherlands 245 works
  6. 6 Canada 210 works
  7. 7 Australia 204 works
  8. 8 India 195 works
  9. 9 Spain 186 works
  10. 10 France 170 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: 32.5%United Kingdom: 18.8%Germany: 10.4%Italy: 6.5%6 others listed: 31.8%33%largest
United States1,236 · 32.5%United Kingdom715 · 18.8%Germany396 · 10.4%Italy245 · 6.5%6 others listed1,210 · 31.8%

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

Which institutions lead Mental Health and Psychiatry research?

By volume in 2022-now, Harvard University publishes the most Mental Health and Psychiatry research, followed by King's College London and University College London.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 62 works
  2. 2 King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 45 works
  3. 3 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 38 works
  4. 4 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 34 works
  5. 5 University of TorontoCanada 33 works
  6. 6 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 31 works
  7. 7 McGill UniversityCanada 29 works
  8. 8 Wikimedia NederlandNetherlands 29 works
  9. 9 Sapienza University of RomeItaly 28 works
  10. 10 University of CopenhagenDenmark 24 works

Who are the leading researchers in Mental Health and Psychiatry?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Mental Health and Psychiatry include Theo Vos, George Davey Smith and Ronald C. Kessler.

  1. 1 Theo Vos United States 439k citations
  2. 2 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  3. 3 Ronald C. Kessler United States 360k citations
  4. 4 Mika Kivimäki United Kingdom 318k citations
  5. 5 Gordon Henry Guyatt Canada 315k citations
  6. 6 Karl John Friston United Kingdom 310k citations
  7. 7 Dan J. Stein South Africa 306k citations
  8. 8 Peter Christian Gøtzsche Denmark 292k citations
  9. 9 John Q. Trojanowski United States 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 Psychiatry?

The most cited paper in Mental Health and Psychiatry is "The Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale" (John E. Overall, Donald R. Gorham, 1962), with 11,002 citations. Next come "Validation and Utility of a Self-report Version of PRIME-MD The PHQ Primary Care Study" (9,950) and "A Diagnostic Interview" (5,726).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale John E. Overall, Donald R. Gorham · Psychological Reports Jun 1962 11,002
2 Validation and Utility of a Self-report Version of PRIME-MD The PHQ Primary Care Study Robert L. Spitzer · JAMA 10 Nov 1999 9,950
3 A Diagnostic Interview Jean Endicott · Archives of General Psychiatry Jul 1978 5,726
4 National Institute of Mental Health Diagnostic Interview Schedule Lee N. Robins · Archives of General Psychiatry Apr 1981 5,296
5 The Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-III-R (SCID) Robert L. Spitzer · Archives of General Psychiatry Aug 1992 4,407
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Where is Mental Health and Psychiatry research done?

The largest centres of Mental Health and Psychiatry research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), New York (United States), Rome (Italy) and Utrecht (Netherlands). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Utrecht and Nijmegen.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 225 works
  2. 2 New YorkUnited States 98 works
  3. 3 RomeItaly 63 works
  4. 4 UtrechtNetherlands 59 works
  5. 5 MoscowRussia 58 works
  6. 6 MelbourneAustralia 56 works
  7. 7 ParisFrance 54 works
  8. 8 BerlinGermany 53 works
  9. 9 MontrealCanada 50 works
  10. 10 MadridSpain 49 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. UtrechtNL · 58.9 works9.6×
  2. NijmegenNL · 20.9 works6.0×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

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Where is the best place to study Mental Health and Psychiatry?

Among universities, judged by research, King's College London, The University of Melbourne and Harvard University 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 23.39%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →The University of Me…King'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.

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
1King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 78.621.7%10.9×45 -1.6%
2The University of MelbourneAustralia 73.231.3%4.4×23 +0.7%
3Harvard UniversityUnited States 72.217.5%4.1×62 -2.8%
4University College LondonUnited Kingdom 69.420.6%5.0×38 -13.4%
5University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 65.915.9%5.1×34 +5.9%
6University of CopenhagenDenmark 62.725.7%5.3×24 -23.3%
7University of EdinburghUnited Kingdom 62.627.2%3.5×15 +7.2%
8McGill UniversityCanada 61.416.0%6.2×29 -1.7%
9University of YorkUnited Kingdom 60.325.1%5.5×9 +13.8%
10Technical University of MunichGermany 56.732.9%1.9×8 +77.5%

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 Psychiatry, country by country

Is Mental Health and Psychiatry research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 2% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025.

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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 Psychiatry as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.024% in 2024.

still counting0.025%0.050%0.075%Mental Health and Psychiatry0.023% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Mental Health and Psychiatry 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 Psychiatry10.3% 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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