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Mental Health Treatment and Access

Mental Health Treatment and Access is a research topic within Social Psychology. Science Explorer counts 45k 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 explores the impact of stigma on mental health care, focusing on the prevalence, epidemiology, and global burden of mental disorders. It also delves into help-seeking behavior, public attitudes towards mental illness, and the challenges in accessing appropriate health services for individuals experiencing psychological distress.

  • Stigma
  • Mental Disorders
  • Depression
  • Global Burden
  • Help-Seeking Behavior
  • Prevalence
  • Epidemiology
  • Public Attitudes
  • Health Services
  • Psychological Distress
Research works
45k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
4.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+20%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
39% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Mental Health Treatment and Access

Which countries lead Mental Health Treatment and Access research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (2.9k and 1k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 2.9k works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 1k works
  3. 3 China 714 works
  4. 4 India 669 works
  5. 5 Australia 567 works
  6. 6 Canada 485 works
  7. 7 Germany 392 works
  8. 8 Indonesia 271 works
  9. 9 Spain 238 works
  10. 10 Iran 229 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: 38.7%United Kingdom: 13.4%China: 9.6%India: 9.0%6 others listed: 29.3%39%largest
United States2,879 · 38.7%United Kingdom1,001 · 13.4%China714 · 9.6%India669 · 9.0%6 others listed2,181 · 29.3%

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

Which institutions lead Mental Health Treatment and Access research?

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

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 109 works
  2. 2 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 80 works
  3. 3 University of TorontoCanada 79 works
  4. 4 King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 73 works
  5. 5 United States Department of Veterans AffairsUnited States 65 works
  6. 6 National Institute of Mental Health and NeurosciencesIndia 60 works
  7. 7 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 55 works
  8. 8 The University of MelbourneAustralia 53 works
  9. 9 Columbia UniversityUnited States 52 works
  10. 10 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 50 works

Who are the leading researchers in Mental Health Treatment and Access?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Mental Health Treatment and Access include Christopher J L Murray, Simon Iain Hay and Theo Vos.

  1. 1 Christopher J L Murray United States 583k citations
  2. 2 Simon Iain Hay United States 452k citations
  3. 3 Theo Vos United States 439k citations
  4. 4 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  5. 5 Ali H. Mokdad United States 429k citations
  6. 6 Julian P. T. Higgins United Kingdom 390k citations
  7. 7 Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta Pakistan 371k citations
  8. 8 Ronald C. Kessler United States 360k citations
  9. 9 Hermann Brenner Germany 343k citations
  10. 10 Valery L. Feigin New Zealand 341k 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 Treatment and Access?

The most cited paper in Mental Health Treatment and Access is "The PHQ-9" (Kurt Kroenke, Robert L. Spitzer, Janet B. W. Williams, 2001), with 45,744 citations. Next come "An Inventory for Measuring Depression" (38,441) and "Prejudice, social stress, and mental health in lesbian, gay, and bisexual populations: Conceptual issues and research evidence." (14,720).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The PHQ-9 Kurt Kroenke, Robert L. Spitzer, Janet B. W. Williams · Journal of General Internal Medicine Open access Sep 2001 45,744
2 An Inventory for Measuring Depression Aaron T. Beck · Archives of General Psychiatry Jun 1961 38,441
3 Prejudice, social stress, and mental health in lesbian, gay, and bisexual populations: Conceptual issues and research evidence. Ilan H. Meyer · Psychological Bulletin Open access Sep 2003 14,720
4 Depression and Quality of Life in Older Persons: A Review Heidi Sivertsen, Guro Hanevold Bjørkløf, Knut Engedal et al. · Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders 2015 14,132
5 Lifetime and 12-Month Prevalence of DSM-III-R Psychiatric Disorders in the United States Ronald C. Kessler · Archives of General Psychiatry 1994 12,546
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Where is Mental Health Treatment and Access research done?

The largest centres of Mental Health Treatment and Access research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), New York (United States), Melbourne (Australia) and Sydney (Australia).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 326 works
  2. 2 New YorkUnited States 182 works
  3. 3 MelbourneAustralia 142 works
  4. 4 SydneyAustralia 118 works
  5. 5 BostonUnited States 113 works
  6. 6 TorontoCanada 106 works
  7. 7 BengaluruIndia 98 works
  8. 8 TehranIran 85 works
  9. 9 BeijingChina 85 works
  10. 10 Chapel HillUnited States 80 works
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Where is the best place to study Mental Health Treatment and Access?

Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, Harvard Global Health Institute and University of Oxford 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.

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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
1Harvard UniversityUnited States 76.417.4%3.5×109 +11.2%
2Harvard Global Health InstituteUnited States 72.123.9%36.7×10 +26.5%
3University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 71.820.8%2.6×36 +45.9%
4London School of Hygiene & Tropical MedicineUnited Kingdom 70.815.7%12.3×19 +19.8%
5University College LondonUnited Kingdom 69.016.2%3.6×56 +18.7%
6University of TorontoCanada 66.711.9%4.0×79 +24.6%
7King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 66.015.8%8.6×73 -19.5%
8Columbia UniversityUnited States 64.611.0%4.9×52 +18.7%
9UNSW SydneyAustralia 64.318.4%4.8×43 +3.5%
10The University of MelbourneAustralia 64.221.3%4.9×53 -12.0%

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 Treatment and Access, country by country

Is Mental Health Treatment and Access research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 20% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Mental Health Treatment and Access.

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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 Treatment and Access as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.045% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Mental Health Treatment and Access0.048% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Mental Health Treatment and Access 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 Treatment and Access9.9% 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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