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Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments

Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments is a research topic within Psychiatry and Mental health. Science Explorer counts 36k 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 study of interoception, the sense of the internal state of the body, and its association with somatic symptoms, including alexithymia, health anxiety, psychogenic nonepileptic seizures, and depersonalization disorder. The papers also explore the relationship between interoception, emotion regulation, and various mental health conditions such as anxiety and dissociation.

  • Interoception
  • Somatic Symptoms
  • Alexithymia
  • Health Anxiety
  • Psychogenic Nonepileptic Seizures
  • Emotion Regulation
  • Medically Unexplained Symptoms
  • Depersonalization Disorder
  • Anxiety
  • Dissociation
Research works
36k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+13%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
30% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments

This ranks research output and citation impact. It says nothing about the quality of diagnosis, treatment or care.

Which countries lead Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments research?

By volume, the United States and Germany publish the most (1.5k and 544 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.5k works
  2. 2 Germany 544 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 530 works
  4. 4 Türkiye 495 works
  5. 5 China 493 works
  6. 6 Italy 375 works
  7. 7 India 324 works
  8. 8 France 220 works
  9. 9 Australia 217 works
  10. 10 Spain 206 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: 29.9%Germany: 11.2%United Kingdom: 10.9%Türkiye: 10.2%6 others listed: 37.8%30%largest
United States1,451 · 29.9%Germany544 · 11.2%United Kingdom530 · 10.9%Türkiye495 · 10.2%6 others listed1,835 · 37.8%

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

Which institutions lead Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments research?

By volume in 2022-now, Harvard University publishes the most Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments research, followed by University College London and Islamic Azad University, Tehran.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 97 works
  2. 2 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 48 works
  3. 3 Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 38 works
  4. 4 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 35 works
  5. 5 King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 34 works
  6. 6 Sapienza University of RomeItaly 32 works
  7. 7 Aarhus UniversityDenmark 31 works
  8. 8 University of TorontoCanada 31 works
  9. 9 Sağlık Bilimleri ÜniversitesiTürkiye 30 works
  10. 10 InsermFrance 28 works

Who are the leading researchers in Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments include Ronald C. Kessler, Hermann Brenner and Valery L. Feigin.

  1. 1 Ronald C. Kessler United States 360k citations
  2. 2 Hermann Brenner Germany 343k citations
  3. 3 Valery L. Feigin New Zealand 341k citations
  4. 4 Mika Kivimäki United Kingdom 318k citations
  5. 5 Gordon Henry Guyatt Canada 315k citations
  6. 6 Karl John Friston United Kingdom 310k citations
  7. 7 Dan J. Stein South Africa 306k citations
  8. 8 Peter Jüni Switzerland 303k citations
  9. 9 Naohiro Yonemoto Japan 297k 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 Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments?

The most cited paper in Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments is "The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale" (A. S. Zigmond, R Philip Snaith, 1983), with 47,341 citations. Next come "An Inventory for Measuring Depression" (38,441) and "Pharmacological interventions for somatoform disorders in adults" (11,357).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale A. S. Zigmond, R Philip Snaith · Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica Jun 1983 47,341
2 An Inventory for Measuring Depression Aaron T. Beck · Archives of General Psychiatry Jun 1961 38,441
3 Pharmacological interventions for somatoform disorders in adults Maria Kleinstäuber, Michael Witthöft, Andrés Steffanowski et al. · Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews Open access 7 Nov 2014 11,357
4 An inventory for measuring clinical anxiety: Psychometric properties. Aaron T. Beck, Norman B. Epstein, Gary P. Brown et al. · Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology 1988 10,944
5 Validation and Utility of a Self-report Version of PRIME-MD The PHQ Primary Care Study Robert L. Spitzer · JAMA 10 Nov 1999 9,950
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Where is Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments research done?

The largest centres of Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Istanbul (Türkiye), Moscow (Russia) and Rome (Italy).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 178 works
  2. 2 IstanbulTürkiye 118 works
  3. 3 MoscowRussia 84 works
  4. 4 RomeItaly 81 works
  5. 5 New YorkUnited States 80 works
  6. 6 BeijingChina 80 works
  7. 7 BostonUnited States 74 works
  8. 8 ParisFrance 71 works
  9. 9 TokyoJapan 67 works
  10. 10 MelbourneAustralia 64 works
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Where is the best place to study Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments?

Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, University College London and King's College London 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.

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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
1Harvard UniversityUnited States 77.816.6%4.7×97 +7.2%
2University College LondonUnited Kingdom 75.520.6%4.7×48 -1.7%
3King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 62.517.5%6.2×34 -13.5%
4Aarhus UniversityDenmark 62.313.4%5.6×31 +41.8%
5University of EdinburghUnited Kingdom 60.727.9%2.9×16 -9.6%
6Karolinska InstitutetSweden 59.121.1%4.2×15 +2.6%
7The University of MelbourneAustralia 58.522.9%3.0×22 +7.6%
8Stanford UniversityUnited States 58.315.2%2.4×23 +23.4%
9University of TorontoCanada 56.914.9%2.4×31 -2.2%
10University of SussexUnited Kingdom 54.918.3%5.8×9 -35.9%

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 Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments, country by country

Is Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 13% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments.

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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 Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.030% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments 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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