Mental Health and Psychiatry
Mental Health and Psychiatry is a research topic within Philosophy. Science Explorer counts 41k research works in it since 1950. 24.6% 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%
- 10k per year above
- Top-10% rate
- 24.6% share of its works in the world top 10%
- Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
- +2% the tick is no change
Which countries lead Mental Health and Psychiatry research?
By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (1.1k and 653 works in 2022–2025).
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 United States 1.1k works
- 2 United Kingdom 653 works
- 3 Germany 363 works
- 4 Italy 226 works
- 5 Netherlands 216 works
- 6 Canada 191 works
- 7 Australia 190 works
- 8 India 167 works
- 9 Spain 166 works
- 10 France 152 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.
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
Which institutions lead Mental Health and Psychiatry research?
By volume in 2022–2025, King's College London publishes the most Mental Health and Psychiatry research, followed by Sapienza University of Rome and University of Oxford.
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 40 works
- 2 Sapienza University of RomeItaly 28 works
- 3 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 28 works
- 4 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 27 works
- 5 Harvard UniversityUnited States 23 works
- 6 University of TorontoCanada 22 works
- 7 Wikimedia NederlandNetherlands 20 works
- 8 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 20 works
- 9 The University of MelbourneAustralia 19 works
- 10 Charité - Universitätsmedizin BerlinGermany 18 works
Who are the leading researchers in Mental Health and Psychiatry?
The most-cited researchers publishing on Mental Health and Psychiatry include Dan J. Stein, John J. McGrath and Michel Foucault.
- 1 Dan J. Stein South Africa 7.7k citations
- 2 John J. McGrath Australia 5.3k citations
- 3 Michel Foucault Poland 4.6k citations
- 4 James G. Scott Australia 4.3k citations
Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.
Where is Mental Health and Psychiatry research done?
The largest centres of Mental Health and Psychiatry research in 2022–2025 are London (United Kingdom), New York (United States), Rome (Italy) and Moscow (Russia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Utrecht.
Largest cities, 2022–2025
Where it is the local speciality
- UtrechtNL · 48.6 works8.9×
Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Mental Health and Psychiatry than the world average.
Where is the best place to study Mental Health and Psychiatry?
Among universities, judged by research, King's College London, University of Oxford and University of Exeter 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.
One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.
| # | University | Score | Top 10% | Specialisation | Works | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | King's College LondonUnited Kingdom | 72.4 | 32.6% | 11.0× | 40 | -30.9% |
| 2 | University of OxfordUnited Kingdom | 59.4 | 34.8% | 4.5× | 28 | +50.2% |
| 3 | University of ExeterUnited Kingdom | 58.1 | 51.6% | 4.8× | 10 | +80.4% |
| 4 | University College LondonUnited Kingdom | 56.8 | 36.3% | 4.1× | 27 | +6.8% |
| 5 | University of CopenhagenDenmark | 54.1 | 43.0% | 4.4× | 14 | +11.7% |
| 6 | University of BirminghamUnited Kingdom | 53.1 | 33.5% | 6.1× | 17 | +0.6% |
| 7 | Tilburg UniversityNetherlands | 53.0 | 30.0% | 11.8× | 9 | -17.4% |
| 8 | University of AntwerpBelgium | 51.2 | 7.0% | 8.0× | 11 | +237.9% |
| 9 | Harvard UniversityUnited States | 50.9 | 33.3% | 3.8× | 23 | +6.5% |
| 10 | The University of MelbourneAustralia | 50.9 | 33.7% | 4.1× | 19 | +35.3% |
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 Psychiatry research growing?
Output in 2018–2022 was 2% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Mental Health and Psychiatry.
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.