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Personality Disorders and Psychopathology

Personality Disorders and Psychopathology is a research topic within Clinical Psychology. Science Explorer counts 24k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the psychopathology, diagnosis, and treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). It explores the dimensional alternative to traditional nosologies, prevalence, comorbidity, and the effectiveness of therapies such as Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Mentalization-Based Treatment. The research also delves into the neurobiological correlates, emotion dysregulation, and personality traits associated with BPD.

  • Borderline Personality Disorder
  • Psychopathology
  • DSM-5
  • Personality Traits
  • Mentalization-Based Treatment
  • Emotion Dysregulation
  • Diagnostic Classification
  • Affective Instability
  • Dialectical Behavior Therapy
  • Neurobiological Correlates
Research works
24k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+6%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
32% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Personality Disorders and Psychopathology

Which countries lead Personality Disorders and Psychopathology research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (1k and 352 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1k works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 352 works
  3. 3 Germany 338 works
  4. 4 China 338 works
  5. 5 Italy 217 works
  6. 6 Iran 216 works
  7. 7 Netherlands 184 works
  8. 8 Canada 184 works
  9. 9 Australia 167 works
  10. 10 Spain 162 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: 31.7%United Kingdom: 11.1%Germany: 10.7%China: 10.7%6 others listed: 35.8%32%largest
United States1,003 · 31.7%United Kingdom352 · 11.1%Germany338 · 10.7%China338 · 10.7%6 others listed1,130 · 35.8%

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

Which institutions lead Personality Disorders and Psychopathology research?

By volume in 2022-now, Islamic Azad University, Tehran publishes the most Personality Disorders and Psychopathology research, followed by Harvard University and Heidelberg University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 76 works
  2. 2 Harvard UniversityUnited States 50 works
  3. 3 Heidelberg UniversityGermany 32 works
  4. 4 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 28 works
  5. 5 University of TorontoCanada 26 works
  6. 6 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 23 works
  7. 7 University of OsloNorway 21 works
  8. 8 University of ZurichSwitzerland 18 works
  9. 9 Sapienza University of RomeItaly 18 works
  10. 10 Beijing Normal UniversityChina 18 works

Who are the leading researchers in Personality Disorders and Psychopathology?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Personality Disorders and Psychopathology include George Davey Smith, Ronald C. Kessler and Mika Kivimäki.

  1. 1 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  2. 2 Ronald C. Kessler United States 360k citations
  3. 3 Mika Kivimäki United Kingdom 318k citations
  4. 4 John P. A. Ioannidis United States 317k citations
  5. 5 Dan J. Stein South Africa 306k citations
  6. 6 Gonçalo R. Abecasis United States 300k citations
  7. 7 Naohiro Yonemoto Japan 297k citations
  8. 8 Luigi Ferrucci United States 281k citations
  9. 9 Louisa J Degenhardt Australia 269k citations
  10. 10 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 Personality Disorders and Psychopathology?

The most cited paper in Personality Disorders and Psychopathology is "The PHQ-9" (Kurt Kroenke, Robert L. Spitzer, Janet B. W. Williams, 2001), with 45,744 citations. Next come "Lifetime Prevalence and Age-of-Onset Distributions of DSM-IV Disorders in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication" (20,746) and "Lifetime and 12-Month Prevalence of DSM-III-R Psychiatric Disorders in the United States" (12,546).

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 Lifetime Prevalence and Age-of-Onset Distributions of DSM-IV Disorders in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication Ronald C. Kessler, Patricia A. Berglund, Olga Demler et al. · Archives of General Psychiatry Jun 2005 20,746
3 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
4 Prevalence, Severity, and Comorbidity of 12-Month DSM-IV Disorders in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication Ronald C. Kessler, Wai Tat Chiu, Olga Demler et al. · Archives of General Psychiatry Open access Jun 2005 12,219
5 Short screening scales to monitor population prevalences and trends in non-specific psychological distress Ronald C. Kessler, Gavin Andrews, Lisa J. Colpe et al. · Psychological Medicine Aug 2002 10,488
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Where is Personality Disorders and Psychopathology research done?

The largest centres of Personality Disorders and Psychopathology research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Tehran (Iran), New York (United States) and Beijing (China).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 123 works
  2. 2 TehranIran 82 works
  3. 3 New YorkUnited States 66 works
  4. 4 BeijingChina 64 works
  5. 5 RomeItaly 54 works
  6. 6 IstanbulTürkiye 51 works
  7. 7 MoscowRussia 46 works
  8. 8 AmsterdamNetherlands 44 works
  9. 9 MadridSpain 42 works
  10. 10 MelbourneAustralia 41 works
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Where is the best place to study Personality Disorders and Psychopathology?

Among universities, judged by research, Beijing Normal University, Harvard 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%20%40%mean 19.7%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Beijing Normal Unive…University College L…Heidelberg 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
1Beijing Normal UniversityChina 71.132.0%5.4×18 +550.1%
2Harvard UniversityUnited States 60.811.1%3.8×50 +3.0%
3University College LondonUnited Kingdom 60.518.6%4.2×28 -6.2%
4Heidelberg UniversityGermany 59.615.5%9.9×32 -6.9%
5University of HoustonUnited States 59.521.8%11.5×16 +37.4%
6University of ZurichSwitzerland 58.020.2%6.2×18 +9.0%
7Karolinska InstitutetSweden 54.619.2%5.4×13 +30.0%
8University of AmsterdamNetherlands 53.619.5%6.2×15 -0.4%
9King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 51.919.4%4.4×16 +1.0%
10National University of SingaporeSingapore 51.319.7%2.3×11 +240.6%

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 Personality Disorders and Psychopathology, country by country

Is Personality Disorders and Psychopathology research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 6% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Personality Disorders and Psychopathology.

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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 Personality Disorders and Psychopathology as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.018% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Personality Disorders and Psychopathology 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%Personality Disorders and Psychopathology10.2% 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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