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Mental Health via Writing

Mental Health via Writing is a research topic within Social Psychology. Science Explorer counts 12k research works in it since 1961. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the analysis of psychological language in social media, particularly related to emotional disclosure, mental health, and expressive writing. It involves the use of natural language processing and machine learning techniques to detect and understand patterns of depression, suicidal ideation, and other mental health indicators in online communication.

  • Psychological Language Analysis
  • Social Media
  • Emotional Disclosure
  • Mental Health
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Depression Detection
  • Expressive Writing
  • Machine Learning
  • Text Analysis
  • Suicidal Ideation
Research works
12k
fractional, since 1961
In the world top 10%
1.2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+166%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
31% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Mental Health via Writing

Which countries lead Mental Health via Writing research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.7k and 1.1k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.7k works
  2. 2 China 1.1k works
  3. 3 India 1.1k works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 342 works
  5. 5 Indonesia 221 works
  6. 6 Canada 220 works
  7. 7 Germany 203 works
  8. 8 Australia 199 works
  9. 9 Japan 147 works
  10. 10 South Korea 145 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: 30.9%China: 21.4%India: 20.0%United Kingdom: 6.4%6 others listed: 21.2%31%largest
United States1,651 · 30.9%China1,146 · 21.4%India1,069 · 20.0%United Kingdom342 · 6.4%6 others listed1,135 · 21.2%

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

Which institutions lead Mental Health via Writing research?

By volume in 2022-now, Harvard University publishes the most Mental Health via Writing research, followed by SRM Institute of Science and Technology and University of Toronto.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 53 works
  2. 2 SRM Institute of Science and TechnologyIndia 34 works
  3. 3 University of TorontoCanada 27 works
  4. 4 Binus UniversityIndonesia 27 works
  5. 5 Stanford UniversityUnited States 26 works
  6. 6 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 25 works
  7. 7 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 24 works
  8. 8 Telkom UniversityIndonesia 23 works
  9. 9 United States Department of Veterans AffairsUnited States 23 works
  10. 10 Chandigarh UniversityIndia 21 works

Who are the leading researchers in Mental Health via Writing?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Mental Health via Writing include Ronald C. Kessler, John P. A. Ioannidis and Dan J. Stein.

  1. 1 Ronald C. Kessler United States 360k citations
  2. 2 John P. A. Ioannidis United States 317k citations
  3. 3 Dan J. Stein South Africa 306k citations
  4. 4 Josep María Haro Spain 250k 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 via Writing?

The most cited paper in Mental Health via Writing is "The Psychological Meaning of Words: LIWC and Computerized Text Analysis Methods" (Yla Tausczik, James W. Pennebaker, 2009), with 5,900 citations. Next come "SANRA—a scale for the quality assessment of narrative review articles" (2,934) and "Mental health problems and social media exposure during COVID-19 outbreak" (2,823).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Psychological Meaning of Words: LIWC and Computerized Text Analysis Methods Yla Tausczik, James W. Pennebaker · Journal of Language and Social Psychology 8 Dec 2009 5,900
2 SANRA—a scale for the quality assessment of narrative review articles Christopher Baethge, Sandra Goldbeck-Wood, Stephan Mertens · Research Integrity and Peer Review ReviewOpen access 26 Mar 2019 2,934
3 Mental health problems and social media exposure during COVID-19 outbreak Junling Gao, Pinpin Zheng, Yingnan Jia et al. · PLoS ONE Open access 16 Apr 2020 2,823
4 Delivering Cognitive Behavior Therapy to Young Adults With Symptoms of Depression and Anxiety Using a Fully Automated Conversational Agent (Woebot): A Randomized Controlled Trial Kathleen Kara Fitzpatrick, Alison M. Darcy, Molly Vierhile · JMIR Mental Health Open access 6 Jun 2017 2,801
5 Cross-national prevalence and risk factors for suicidal ideation, plans and attempts Matthew K. Nock et al. · The British Journal of Psychiatry Open access 31 Jan 2008 2,701
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Where is Mental Health via Writing research done?

The largest centres of Mental Health via Writing research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), London (United Kingdom), Chennai (India) and New York (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Greater Noida.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 176 works
  2. 2 LondonUnited Kingdom 101 works
  3. 3 ChennaiIndia 99 works
  4. 4 New YorkUnited States 89 works
  5. 5 BengaluruIndia 81 works
  6. 6 SeoulSouth Korea 77 works
  7. 7 ShanghaiChina 75 works
  8. 8 DhakaBangladesh 71 works
  9. 9 PuneIndia 70 works
  10. 10 GuangzhouChina 60 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Greater NoidaIN · 25.3 works5.5×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

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Where is the best place to study Mental Health via Writing?

Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, Nanyang Technological University and University College London 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%30%mean 20.32%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Nanyang Technologica…National University …University 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.

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 86.824.1%2.6×53 +107.8%
2Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore 71.827.1%2.5×13 +139.5%
3University College LondonUnited Kingdom 65.424.7%1.6×17 +128.4%
4National University of SingaporeSingapore 64.924.9%1.9×14 +107.0%
5Stanford UniversityUnited States 60.113.4%2.8×26 +160.6%
6University of TorontoCanada 59.512.9%2.1×27 +65.1%
7National University of MalaysiaMalaysia 59.023.1%2.8×12 +593.6%
8University of ManchesterUnited Kingdom 57.523.4%1.8×9 +248.2%
9Columbia UniversityUnited States 56.211.8%2.9×21 +60.6%
10Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 55.917.8%2.1×12 +165.4%

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 via Writing, country by country

Is Mental Health via Writing research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 166% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Mental Health via Writing.

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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 via Writing as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.022% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Mental Health via Writing0.041% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Mental Health via Writing 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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