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Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders

Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders is a research topic within Clinical Psychology. Science Explorer counts 22k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers covers a wide range of topics related to obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and its related conditions, including Tourette syndrome. The papers discuss the development and validation of assessment tools, various treatment approaches such as cognitive-behavior therapy and deep brain stimulation, neuroimaging studies, genetic associations, and the impact of OCD on neurocognitive functioning. Additionally, there is a focus on specific symptom dimensions, such as hoarding behavior, and the prevalence and epidemiology of these conditions.

  • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
  • Tourette Syndrome
  • Neuroimaging
  • Cognitive-Behavior Therapy
  • Deep Brain Stimulation
  • Genetic Studies
  • Hoarding Behavior
  • Neuropsychological Performance
  • Psychometric Validation
  • Functional Neuroanatomy
Research works
22k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+9%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
36% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders

Which countries lead Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (1.1k and 345 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.1k works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 345 works
  3. 3 China 320 works
  4. 4 Germany 252 works
  5. 5 Italy 224 works
  6. 6 India 196 works
  7. 7 Australia 188 works
  8. 8 Canada 182 works
  9. 9 Türkiye 175 works
  10. 10 Spain 147 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: 36.1%United Kingdom: 10.9%China: 10.1%Germany: 7.9%6 others listed: 35.0%36%largest
United States1,147 · 36.1%United Kingdom345 · 10.9%China320 · 10.1%Germany252 · 7.9%6 others listed1,111 · 35.0%

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

Which institutions lead Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders research?

By volume in 2022-now, Harvard University publishes the most Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders research, followed by Yale University and University of Toronto.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 71 works
  2. 2 Yale UniversityUnited States 33 works
  3. 3 University of TorontoCanada 32 works
  4. 4 Baylor College of MedicineUnited States 31 works
  5. 5 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 29 works
  6. 6 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 28 works
  7. 7 King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 23 works
  8. 8 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 23 works
  9. 9 Stanford UniversityUnited States 22 works
  10. 10 University of CalgaryCanada 22 works

Who are the leading researchers in Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders include Ronald C. Kessler, Mika Kivimäki and Karl John Friston.

  1. 1 Ronald C. Kessler United States 360k citations
  2. 2 Mika Kivimäki United Kingdom 318k citations
  3. 3 Karl John Friston United Kingdom 310k citations
  4. 4 Dan J. Stein South Africa 306k citations
  5. 5 Victoria Clarke United Kingdom 285k citations
  6. 6 Amirhossein Sahebkar Iran 258k citations
  7. 7 Josep María Haro Spain 250k citations
  8. 8 Kaj Blennow Sweden 247k citations
  9. 9 Isabela M. Benseñor Brazil 245k citations
  10. 10 John Hardy United Kingdom 243k 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 Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders?

The most cited paper in Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders is "Psychometric properties of the Beck Depression Inventory: Twenty-five years of evaluation" (Aaron T. Beck, Robert A. Steer, Margery G. Carbin, 1988), with 11,867 citations. Next come "The Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale" (7,707) and "Assessment of eating disorders: Interview or self‐report questionnaire?" (5,143).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Psychometric properties of the Beck Depression Inventory: Twenty-five years of evaluation Aaron T. Beck, Robert A. Steer, Margery G. Carbin · Clinical Psychology Review 1988 11,867
2 The Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale Wayne K. Goodman · Archives of General Psychiatry Nov 1989 7,707
3 Assessment of eating disorders: Interview or self‐report questionnaire? Christopher G. Fairburn, Sarah J. Beglin · International Journal of Eating Disorders Dec 1994 5,143
4 Development and validation of a multidimensional eating disorder inventory for anorexia nervosa and bulimia David Matthew Garner, Marion P. Olmstead, Janet Polivy · International Journal of Eating Disorders 1983 4,592
5 Cognitive behaviour therapy for eating disorders: a “transdiagnostic” theory and treatment Christopher G. Fairburn, Zafra Cooper, Roz Shafran · Behaviour Research and Therapy 24 Apr 2003 3,412
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders research done?

The largest centres of Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), New York (United States), Beijing (China) and Istanbul (Türkiye). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in New Haven.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 125 works
  2. 2 New YorkUnited States 67 works
  3. 3 BeijingChina 55 works
  4. 4 IstanbulTürkiye 47 works
  5. 5 TorontoCanada 46 works
  6. 6 BostonUnited States 45 works
  7. 7 MelbourneAustralia 43 works
  8. 8 SydneyAustralia 43 works
  9. 9 RomeItaly 42 works
  10. 10 TehranIran 42 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. New HavenUS · 33.9 works6.8×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders?

Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, Deakin University and Stanford 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% →Deakin UniversityStanford UniversityKing's College LondonHarvard 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 72.613.3%5.9×71 +5.4%
2Deakin UniversityAustralia 66.522.7%7.9×13 +61.3%
3Stanford UniversityUnited States 66.119.4%3.9×22 +12.0%
4King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 64.617.6%7.2×23 -16.5%
5University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 63.614.0%3.0×16 +31.5%
6University of CalgaryCanada 63.514.5%8.5×22 +28.0%
7Baylor College of MedicineUnited States 63.412.6%16.4×31 +19.3%
8University of AmsterdamNetherlands 63.122.7%5.8×13 +0.4%
9Yale UniversityUnited States 62.814.9%7.9×33 -28.4%
10Karolinska InstitutetSweden 62.615.4%8.5×18 -9.3%

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 Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders, country by country

Is Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 9% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021. The fastest-growing topics are Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders.

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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 Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.018% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders 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%Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders10.2% 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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