A bibliometric analysis of 10 years of research on symptom networks in psychopathology and mental health.

Autor: Berta A; School of Psychology, Personality, Evaluation and Clinical Psychology Department, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain. Electronic address: bausin@ucm.es., Miguel Ángel C; School of Psychology, Psychobiology and Methodology in Behavioral Sciences Department, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain., Clara GS; School of Psychology, Personality, Evaluation and Clinical Psychology Department, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain., Rubén H; Department of Computer Systems and Software Engineering, National Distance Education University, Madrid, Spain.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Psychiatry research [Psychiatry Res] 2022 Feb; Vol. 308, pp. 114380. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Jan 02.
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2021.114380
Abstrakt: Psychopathology networks consist of aspects (e.g., symptoms) of mental disorders (nodes) and the connections between those aspects (edges). This article aims to analyze the research literature on network analysis in psychopathology and mental health for the last ten years. Statistical descriptive analysis was complemented with two bibliometric techniques: performance analysis and co-word analysis. There is an increase in publications that has passed from 1 article published in 2010 to 172 papers published in 2020. The 398 articles in the sample have 1,910 authors in total, being most of them occasional contributors. The Journal of Affective Disorders is the one with the highest number of publications on network analysis in psychopathology and mental health, followed by the Journal of Abnormal Psychology and Psychological Medicine stand out. The present study shows that this perspective in psychopathology and mental health is a recent field of study, but with solid advances in recent years from a wide variety of researchers, mainly from USA and Europe, who have extensively studied symptom networks in depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorders. However, gaps are identified in other psychological behaviors such as suicide, populations such as the elderly, and gender studies.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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