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Worldwide research productivity in the field of psychiatry

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Zhang, Jinghua, Chen, Xiaoou, Gao, Xin, Yang, Huizeng, Zhen, Zhong, Li, Qingwei, Lin, Yiqun, Zhao, Xiyan·2017·International Journal of Mental Health Systems

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BACKGROUND: The field of psychiatry has seen significant progress in recent years due to worldwide contributions. National productivity, however, in the field of psychiatry is still unclear. In our study, we investigated contributions of individual nations to the field of psychiatry. METHODS: The Web of Science was used to perform a search from 2011 to 2015 on the subject category "psychiatry". The total number of articles, citations and the per capita numbers were obtained to analyze the contributions of different countries. RESULTS: In psychiatry journals from 2011 to 2015, 84,760 articles were published worldwide. The most productive world areas were North America, East Asia, Europe and Oceania. The percentage of articles published in high-income countries was 87.77%, middle-income countries published 12.07%, and lower-income published 0.16%. Most articles were published by the United States (32.68%); the United Kingdom was next (8.59%), which was followed by Germany (6.77%), Australia (5.87%), and Canada (4.9%). The country with the highest number of citations (243,394) was the United States. A positive correlation was found between the population/GDP and the number of publications (P < 0.01). Australia ranked the highest when normalized to population size, and the Netherlands and Norway were next. The Netherlands ranked highest, followed by Israel and Australia when adjusted for GDP. CONCLUSIONS: The authorship of most of the psychiatry articles was from high-income countries and few papers came from low-income countries. The most productive country was the United States. However, when normalized to population size and GDP, some European and Oceania countries were most productive.

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Authors
Zhang, J., Chen, X., Gao, X., Yang, H., Zhen, Z., Li, Q., Lin, Y., & Zhao, X.
Affiliations
  • Tianjin Anding Hospital (CN)
  • First Teaching Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine (CN)
  • China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences (CN)
Corresponding author
Zhao, Xiyan
Venue
International Journal of Mental Health Systems
Published
2017-02-14
Volume
11
Issue
1
Pages
20-20
ISSN
1752-4458 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2588891160
Cited by
62
References
23
Citations by year
2026: 4 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 11 · 2023: 7 · 2022: 13 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 9 · 2018: 3
FWCI
3.92
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
cc-by
Locations
  • International Journal of Mental Health Systems (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
Funders
Chinese People’s Liberation Army
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty › scientometrics and bibliometrics research
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Psychology Research and Bibliometrics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Diverse Approaches in Healthcare and Education Studies
Keywords
research productivity, psychiatric research, citation analysis, high-income countries, low-income countries, international research collaboration, United States

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