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Mental Health Research Topics

Mental Health Research Topics is a research topic within Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Science Explorer counts 41k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the application of network analysis to understand the structure and dynamics of psychopathology and mental disorders. It explores topics such as emotion dynamics, depression symptoms, ecological momentary assessment, and the use of psychometric models to study clinical longitudinal data.

  • Network Analysis
  • Psychopathology
  • Mental Disorders
  • Emotion Dynamics
  • Depression Symptoms
  • Ecological Momentary Assessment
  • Symptom Networks
  • Personality Data
  • Psychometric Models
  • Clinical Longitudinal Data
Research works
41k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
4.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+34%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
35% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Mental Health Research Topics

Which countries lead Mental Health Research Topics research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (3.3k and 2.4k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 3.3k works
  2. 2 China 2.4k works
  3. 3 Germany 781 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 671 works
  5. 5 Netherlands 473 works
  6. 6 India 472 works
  7. 7 Canada 429 works
  8. 8 Italy 385 works
  9. 9 Australia 326 works
  10. 10 Japan 284 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: 34.7%China: 25.0%Germany: 8.2%United Kingdom: 7.1%6 others listed: 25.0%35%largest
United States3,284 · 34.7%China2,367 · 25.0%Germany781 · 8.2%United Kingdom671 · 7.1%6 others listed2,368 · 25.0%

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

Which institutions lead Mental Health Research Topics research?

By volume in 2022-now, Harvard University publishes the most Mental Health Research Topics research, followed by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and University of Toronto.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 132 works
  2. 2 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 80 works
  3. 3 University of TorontoCanada 68 works
  4. 4 Yale UniversityUnited States 66 works
  5. 5 University of AmsterdamNetherlands 64 works
  6. 6 Beijing Normal UniversityChina 60 works
  7. 7 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 59 works
  8. 8 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 56 works
  9. 9 KU LeuvenBelgium 55 works
  10. 10 Pennsylvania State UniversityUnited States 54 works

Who are the leading researchers in Mental Health Research Topics?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Mental Health Research Topics include David Moher, Theo Vos and George Davey Smith.

  1. 1 David Moher Canada 898k citations
  2. 2 Theo Vos United States 439k citations
  3. 3 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  4. 4 Daniel J. Kahneman United States 395k citations
  5. 5 Richard M. Ryan United States 395k citations
  6. 6 Julian P. T. Higgins United Kingdom 390k citations
  7. 7 Albert Bandura United States 370k citations
  8. 8 Ronald C. Kessler United States 360k citations
  9. 9 Emelia J. Benjamin United States 341k citations
  10. 10 Matthias Egger Switzerland 326k 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 Research Topics?

The most cited paper in Mental Health Research Topics is "Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Using lme4" (Douglas M. Bates, Martin Mächler, Benjamin M. Bolker et al., 2015), with 89,183 citations. Next come "An Inventory for Measuring Depression" (38,441) and "Principles and Practice of Structural Equation Modeling" (36,227).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Using lme4 Douglas M. Bates, Martin Mächler, Benjamin M. Bolker et al. · Journal of Statistical Software Open access 2015 89,183
2 An Inventory for Measuring Depression Aaron T. Beck · Archives of General Psychiatry Jun 1961 38,441
3 Principles and Practice of Structural Equation Modeling Rex B. Kline 27 May 1998 36,227
4 A Brief Measure for Assessing Generalized Anxiety Disorder Robert L. Spitzer, Kurt Kroenke, Janet B. W. Williams et al. · Archives of Internal Medicine 22 May 2006 32,782
5 The Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) for Schizophrenia Stanley R. Kay, Abraham Fiszbein, Lewis A. Opler · Schizophrenia Bulletin Open access 1987 21,651
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Where is Mental Health Research Topics research done?

The largest centres of Mental Health Research Topics research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), London (United Kingdom), Shanghai (China) and New York (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Tilburg, Mannheim and Marburg.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 377 works
  2. 2 LondonUnited Kingdom 222 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 161 works
  4. 4 New YorkUnited States 160 works
  5. 5 GuangzhouChina 146 works
  6. 6 AmsterdamNetherlands 146 works
  7. 7 SeoulSouth Korea 136 works
  8. 8 ChengduChina 117 works
  9. 9 BostonUnited States 107 works
  10. 10 TokyoJapan 102 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. TilburgNL · 30.6 works14×
  2. MannheimDE · 24.8 works8.7×
  3. MarburgDE · 24.3 works7.8×
  4. AmsterdamNL · 145.5 works7.0×
  5. GroningenNL · 58.4 works6.4×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Mental Health Research Topics than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Mental Health Research Topics?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Amsterdam, Harvard University and Leiden University 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%10%20%mean 16.71%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Leiden UniversityUniversity of Amster…Stanford UniversityHarvard 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.

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 AmsterdamNetherlands 85.017.4%9.9×64 +15.9%
2Harvard UniversityUnited States 79.915.5%3.8×132 +6.2%
3Leiden UniversityNetherlands 73.517.7%5.2×31 +23.2%
4Stanford UniversityUnited States 72.817.0%2.9×46 +0.7%
5King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 71.715.7%5.0×47 +16.8%
6University College LondonUnited Kingdom 70.613.2%3.4×59 +12.3%
7Utrecht UniversityNetherlands 70.317.6%4.5×35 +11.0%
8Beijing Normal UniversityChina 70.213.9%7.1×60 +302.0%
9Air Force Medical UniversityChina 69.621.6%10.3×18 +378.3%
10The University of MelbourneAustralia 68.517.5%3.1×37 +17.1%

Universities only. The score blends 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 Research Topics, country by country

Is Mental Health Research Topics research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 34% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Mental Health Research Topics.

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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 Research Topics as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.052% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Mental Health Research Topics0.053% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Mental Health Research Topics 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.

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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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