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Psychological Treatments and Disorders

Psychological Treatments and Disorders is a research topic within Clinical Psychology. Science Explorer counts 10k 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 covers a wide range of topics related to mental health, psychoanalysis, psychiatry, and the study of emotions. It includes discussions on depression, adolescence, social discourse analysis, neuroscience, and cognitive therapy. The cluster also delves into the epidemiology of mental health issues and the intersection of mental health with social and cultural factors.

  • Psychoanalysis
  • Mental Health
  • Depression
  • Emotions
  • Psychiatry
  • Adolescence
  • Social Discourse
  • Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Therapy
  • Epidemiology
Research works
10k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
992
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-13%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Spain
27% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Psychological Treatments and Disorders

Which countries lead Psychological Treatments and Disorders research?

By volume, Spain and Argentina publish the most (372 and 209 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Spain 372 works
  2. 2 Argentina 209 works
  3. 3 Mexico 199 works
  4. 4 Brazil 162 works
  5. 5 Chile 116 works
  6. 6 Colombia 115 works
  7. 7 United States 92 works
  8. 8 Ecuador 68 works
  9. 9 Peru 37 works
  10. 10 France 29 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.

Spain: 26.6%Argentina: 15.0%Mexico: 14.2%Brazil: 11.6%6 others listed: 32.7%27%largest
Spain372 · 26.6%Argentina209 · 15.0%Mexico199 · 14.2%Brazil162 · 11.6%6 others listed457 · 32.7%

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

Which institutions lead Psychological Treatments and Disorders research?

By volume in 2022-now, Universidad de Buenos Aires publishes the most Psychological Treatments and Disorders research, followed by Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Universidad de Buenos AiresArgentina 36 works
  2. 2 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoMexico 28 works
  3. 3 Universidad Complutense de MadridSpain 26 works
  4. 4 Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y TécnicasArgentina 24 works
  5. 5 National University of RosarioArgentina 22 works
  6. 6 University of ChileChile 21 works
  7. 7 Texas Tech UniversityUnited States 19 works
  8. 8 Texas Tech University Health Sciences CenterUnited States 19 works
  9. 9 Universidad de ZaragozaSpain 18 works
  10. 10 Universidad Nacional de CórdobaArgentina 18 works

Who are the leading researchers in Psychological Treatments and Disorders?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Psychological Treatments and Disorders include Josep María Haro, Michel Foucault and Rafael Tabarés‐Seisdedos.

  1. 1 Josep María Haro Spain 250k citations
  2. 2 Michel Foucault France 208k citations
  3. 3 Rafael Tabarés‐Seisdedos Spain 193k citations
  4. 4 Simon Baron‐Cohen United Kingdom 166k citations
  5. 5 Noam Chomsky United States 141k citations
  6. 6 Christof Koch United States 137k citations
  7. 7 Eric J. Nestler United States 134k 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 Psychological Treatments and Disorders?

The most cited paper in Psychological Treatments and Disorders is "Egocentrism in Adolescence" (David Elkind, 1967), with 1,465 citations. Next come "Treatment of antisocial behavior in children: Current status and future directions." (887) and "Application of operant conditioning procedures to the behaviour problems of an autistic child" (703).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Egocentrism in Adolescence David Elkind · Child Development Dec 1967 1,465
2 Treatment of antisocial behavior in children: Current status and future directions. Alan E. Kazdin · Psychological Bulletin 1987 887
3 Application of operant conditioning procedures to the behaviour problems of an autistic child Montrose M. Wolf, Todd R. Risley, Hayden L. Mees · Behaviour Research and Therapy 1963 703
4 El hombre en busca de sentido Juan Gabriel Figueroa Velázquez, Arlén Cerón Islas · Boletín Científico de las Ciencias Económico Administrativas del ICEA Open access 5 Jun 2022 330
5 Motives for Nonsuicidal Self-Injury Among Women With Borderline Personality Disorder Nikolaus Kleindienst, Martin Bohus, Petra Ludäscher et al. · The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease Mar 2008 269
All 101 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Psychological Treatments and Disorders research done?

The largest centres of Psychological Treatments and Disorders research in 2022-now are Buenos Aires (Argentina), Madrid (Spain), Mexico City (Mexico) and Santiago (Chile). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Rosario, Córdoba and Lubbock.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 Buenos AiresArgentina 107 works
  2. 2 MadridSpain 102 works
  3. 3 Mexico CityMexico 76 works
  4. 4 SantiagoChile 70 works
  5. 5 BogotáColombia 50 works
  6. 6 LubbockUnited States 38 works
  7. 7 BarcelonaSpain 33 works
  8. 8 São PauloBrazil 32 works
  9. 9 MedellínColombia 30 works
  10. 10 Rio de JaneiroBrazil 24 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. RosarioAR · 22.5 works111×
  2. CórdobaAR · 22.0 works53×
  3. LubbockUS · 38.2 works44×
  4. Buenos AiresAR · 106.5 works37×
  5. MontevideoUY · 21.6 works35×
  6. MedellínCO · 29.9 works33×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Psychological Treatments and Disorders than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Psychological Treatments and Disorders?

Among universities, judged by research, Universidad de Zaragoza, Universidad de Sevilla and Universidad Complutense de Madrid 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.

0%20%40%mean 14.73%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Universidad de SevillaUniversidad de Zarag…Universidad de Bueno…Universidad Complute…
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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
1Universidad de ZaragozaSpain 80.024.3%30.4×18 +299.3%
2Universidad de SevillaSpain 64.132.6%12.4×10 +4.5%
3Universidad Complutense de MadridSpain 63.27.7%22.1×26 +34.0%
4Universidad de Buenos AiresArgentina 58.39.6%65.2×36 -40.4%
5Universidad Autónoma de MadridSpain 58.110.1%15.5×12 +45.2%
6University of ChileChile 56.910.8%43.4×21 -8.3%
7Universitat de BarcelonaSpain 56.617.5%11.9×12 -18.2%
8Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoMexico 54.910.8%20.7×28 -19.3%
9Texas Tech UniversityUnited States 51.49.5%35.6×19 -
10Pontificia Universidad Católica de ChileChile 50.614.4%22.6×10 -44.4%

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 Psychological Treatments and Disorders, country by country

Is Psychological Treatments and Disorders research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 13% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2016.

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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 Psychological Treatments and Disorders as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0077% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Psychological Treatments and Disorders0.0068% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Psychological Treatments and 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.

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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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