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Mental Health and Well-being

Mental Health and Well-being is a research topic within Sociology and Political Science. Science Explorer counts 8.5k research works in it since 1970. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the social impact of the technological revolution, particularly in developing countries. It covers topics such as social solidarity built on crowdfunding platforms, digital literacy, community empowerment, e-commerce, health belief models, and corporate social responsibility. The papers also delve into the challenges and opportunities for education and the influence of cultural values on societal development.

  • Technological Revolution
  • Social Solidarity
  • Digital Literacy
  • Community Empowerment
  • E-Commerce
  • Health Belief Model
  • Information Anxiety
  • Corporate Social Responsibility
  • Educational Competitiveness
  • Cultural Values
Research works
8.5k
fractional, since 1970
In the world top 10%
836
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+89%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Indonesia
86% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Mental Health and Well-being

Which countries lead Mental Health and Well-being research?

By volume, Indonesia and ?? publish the most (4.4k and 187 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Indonesia 4.4k works
  2. 2 ?? 187 works
  3. 3 Iran 142 works
  4. 4 Malaysia 95 works
  5. 5 United States 76 works
  6. 6 India 54 works
  7. 7 Philippines 40 works
  8. 8 Pakistan 37 works
  9. 9 Türkiye 35 works
  10. 10 China 32 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.

Indonesia: 86.4%??: 3.6%Iran: 2.8%Malaysia: 1.9%6 others listed: 5.3%86%largest
Indonesia4,442 · 86.4%??187 · 3.6%Iran142 · 2.8%Malaysia95 · 1.9%6 others listed274 · 5.3%

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

Which institutions lead Mental Health and Well-being research?

By volume in 2022-now, Institut Agama Islam Negeri Bengkulu publishes the most Mental Health and Well-being research, followed by State University of Padang and University of Indonesia.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Institut Agama Islam Negeri BengkuluIndonesia 115 works
  2. 2 State University of PadangIndonesia 95 works
  3. 3 University of IndonesiaIndonesia 80 works
  4. 4 Universitas Islam Negeri Sumatera UtaraIndonesia 78 works
  5. 5 Airlangga UniversityIndonesia 73 works
  6. 6 Indonesia University of EducationIndonesia 67 works
  7. 7 Universitas Negeri SurabayaIndonesia 62 works
  8. 8 Padjadjaran UniversityIndonesia 61 works
  9. 9 State University of MakassarIndonesia 60 works
  10. 10 Sunan Kalijaga State Islamic University YogyakartaIndonesia 57 works

Who are the leading researchers in Mental Health and Well-being?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Mental Health and Well-being include Palash Chandra Banik.

  1. 1 Palash Chandra Banik Bangladesh 60k 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 Well-being?

The most cited paper in Mental Health and Well-being is "METODE PENELITIAN DESKRIPTIF KUALITATIF DALAM PERSPEKTIF BIMBINGAN DAN KONSELING" (Wiwin Yuliani, 2018), with 393 citations. Next come "Psycho‐spiritual well‐being in patients with advanced cancer: an integrative review of the literature" (387) and "Frequency of depression, anxiety and stress among university students" (270).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 METODE PENELITIAN DESKRIPTIF KUALITATIF DALAM PERSPEKTIF BIMBINGAN DAN KONSELING Wiwin Yuliani · QUANTA Jurnal Kajian Bimbingan dan Konseling dalam Pendidikan Open access Feb 2018 393
2 Psycho‐spiritual well‐being in patients with advanced cancer: an integrative review of the literature Hung‐Ru Lin, Susan Bauer‐Wu · Journal of Advanced Nursing 3 Sep 2003 387
3 Frequency of depression, anxiety and stress among university students Saba Asif, Azka Muddassar, Talala Zainab Shahzad et al. · Pakistan Journal of Medical Sciences Open access 15 Jun 2020 270
4 Mental health status of students’ parents during COVID‐19 pandemic and its influence factors Mengting Wu, Wenyan Xu, Yuhong Yao et al. · General Psychiatry Open access 21 Jul 2020 234
5 Meditation therapy for anxiety disorders Thawatchai Krisanaprakornkit, Wimonrat Sriraj, Nawanant Piyavhatkul et al. · Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews Open access 19 Jan 2006 232
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Where is Mental Health and Well-being research done?

The largest centres of Mental Health and Well-being research in 2022-now are Jakarta (Indonesia), Bandung (Indonesia), Surabaya (Indonesia) and Yogyakarta (Indonesia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Yogyakarta and Bukittinggi.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 JakartaIndonesia 450 works
  2. 2 BandungIndonesia 345 works
  3. 3 SurabayaIndonesia 317 works
  4. 4 YogyakartaIndonesia 285 works
  5. 5 SemarangIndonesia 251 works
  6. 6 MedanIndonesia 238 works
  7. 7 MakassarIndonesia 195 works
  8. 8 MalangIndonesia 183 works
  9. 9 PadangIndonesia 148 works
  10. 10 BengkuluIndonesia 145 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Yogyakarta24.3 works32×
  2. BukittinggiID · 23.1 works23×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Mental Health and Well-being than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Mental Health and Well-being?

Among universities, judged by research, State University of Malang, Institut Agama Islam Negeri Bengkulu and State University of Padang 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 13.9%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →State University of …Indonesia University…Institut Agama Islam…State University of …
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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
1State University of MalangIndonesia 74.217.5%11.7×51 +102.7%
2Institut Agama Islam Negeri BengkuluIndonesia 69.910.9%18.0×115 +132.7%
3State University of PadangIndonesia 66.110.0%19.4×96 +87.2%
4Indonesia University of EducationIndonesia 65.613.0%14.7×67 +217.6%
5Universitas Islam Negeri Sjech M. Djamil Djambek BukittinggiIndonesia 65.223.2%17.8×12 +158.9%
6Padjadjaran UniversityIndonesia 64.513.7%15.3×61 +14.4%
7University of IndonesiaIndonesia 63.810.3%14.9×80 +16.2%
8Universitas Gadjah MadaIndonesia 61.611.9%9.3×41 +16.9%
9Yogyakarta State UniversityIndonesia 60.213.2%14.6×38 +96.9%
10State University of JakartaIndonesia 59.615.3%14.5×35 +65.3%

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 Well-being, country by country

Is Mental Health and Well-being research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 89% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Mental Health and Well-being.

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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 Well-being as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.013% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Mental Health and Well-being0.027% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Mental Health and Well-being 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 Well-being9.5% in 20252020

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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