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Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research is a research topic within Clinical Psychology. Science Explorer counts 24k 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 trauma, particularly posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), on individuals' mental health and the potential for resilience and growth following extremely aversive events. It covers topics such as the neurocircuitry of fear, stress, and anxiety disorders, psychological treatments for PTSD, psychometric evaluation of PTSD symptoms, and the epidemiology of traumatic events and PTSD. The papers also delve into the concept of posttraumatic growth and the role of cognitive therapy in addressing PTSD.

  • Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
  • Trauma
  • Resilience
  • Mental Health
  • Psychological Treatment
  • Neurocircuitry
  • PTSD Symptoms
  • Psychometric Evaluation
  • Cognitive Therapy
  • Epidemiology
Research works
24k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+27%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
52% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research

Which countries lead Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (2.7k and 447 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 2.7k works
  2. 2 China 447 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 446 works
  4. 4 Canada 320 works
  5. 5 Australia 301 works
  6. 6 Türkiye 288 works
  7. 7 Germany 268 works
  8. 8 Israel 212 works
  9. 9 Netherlands 167 works
  10. 10 Japan 133 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: 51.5%China: 8.4%United Kingdom: 8.4%Canada: 6.0%6 others listed: 25.7%52%largest
United States2,746 · 51.5%China447 · 8.4%United Kingdom446 · 8.4%Canada320 · 6.0%6 others listed1,369 · 25.7%

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

Which institutions lead Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research research?

By volume in 2022-now, United States Department of Veterans Affairs publishes the most Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research research, followed by Harvard University and United States Department of Defense.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States Department of Veterans AffairsUnited States 193 works
  2. 2 Harvard UniversityUnited States 81 works
  3. 3 United States Department of DefenseUnited States 62 works
  4. 4 Uniformed Services University of the Health SciencesUnited States 44 works
  5. 5 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 43 works
  6. 6 King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 39 works
  7. 7 Yale UniversityUnited States 36 works
  8. 8 Tel Aviv UniversityIsrael 36 works
  9. 9 Boston UniversityUnited States 34 works
  10. 10 University of TorontoCanada 33 works

Who are the leading researchers in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research include George Davey Smith, Ali H. Mokdad and Mark J. Daly.

  1. 1 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  2. 2 Ali H. Mokdad United States 429k citations
  3. 3 Mark J. Daly United States 403k citations
  4. 4 Ronald C. Kessler United States 360k citations
  5. 5 Hermann Brenner Germany 343k citations
  6. 6 Valery L. Feigin New Zealand 341k citations
  7. 7 Dan J. Stein South Africa 306k citations
  8. 8 Naohiro Yonemoto Japan 297k citations
  9. 9 John Q. Trojanowski United States 286k 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 Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research?

The most cited paper in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research is "The psychological impact of quarantine and how to reduce it: rapid review of the evidence" (Samantha K. Brooks, Rebecca Webster, Louise E. Smith et al., 2020), with 16,404 citations. Next come "Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in the National Comorbidity Survey" (10,490) and "Impact of Event Scale: A Measure of Subjective Stress" (7,970).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The psychological impact of quarantine and how to reduce it: rapid review of the evidence Samantha K. Brooks, Rebecca Webster, Louise E. Smith et al. · The Lancet Open access 26 Feb 2020 16,404
2 Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in the National Comorbidity Survey Ronald C. Kessler · Archives of General Psychiatry Dec 1995 10,490
3 Impact of Event Scale: A Measure of Subjective Stress Mardi J. Horowitz, Nancy Wilner, William F. Alvarez · Psychosomatic Medicine May 1979 7,970
4 You want to measure coping but your protocol’ too long: Consider the brief cope Charles S. Carver · International Journal of Behavioral Medicine Mar 1997 7,423
5 Loss, Trauma, and Human Resilience: Have We Underestimated the Human Capacity to Thrive After Extremely Aversive Events? George A. Bonanno · American Psychologist 2004 6,827
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Where is Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research research done?

The largest centres of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research research in 2022-now are New York (United States), London (United Kingdom), Boston (United States) and Washington D.C. (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Ariel and Honolulu.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 New YorkUnited States 141 works
  2. 2 LondonUnited Kingdom 125 works
  3. 3 BostonUnited States 116 works
  4. 4 Washington D.C.United States 90 works
  5. 5 MelbourneAustralia 73 works
  6. 6 BeijingChina 64 works
  7. 7 San DiegoUnited States 64 works
  8. 8 SydneyAustralia 61 works
  9. 9 IstanbulTürkiye 61 works
  10. 10 SeoulSouth Korea 59 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. ArielIL · 23.4 works26×
  2. HonoluluUS · 45.8 works17×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research?

Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, Boston University and King's 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 17.31%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University College L…King's College LondonHarvard UniversityBoston 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 74.014.8%4.0×81 +1.7%
2Boston UniversityUnited States 66.414.7%11.2×34 +23.3%
3King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 63.415.7%7.2×39 -3.4%
4University College LondonUnited Kingdom 63.222.7%1.9×20 -1.4%
5University of AmsterdamNetherlands 62.317.6%5.1×19 +49.2%
6Emory UniversityUnited States 61.910.7%6.5×33 +24.0%
7The University of MelbourneAustralia 60.016.5%3.6×25 +29.5%
8UNSW SydneyAustralia 58.713.2%5.0×28 +2.3%
9University of HaifaIsrael 58.618.2%17.4×25 +66.8%
10University of MünsterGermany 58.629.0%3.0×8 +17.3%

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 Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research, country by country

Is Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 27% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research.

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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 Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.025% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research0.031% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research 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%Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research10.1% 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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