Research on major depression in China: A perspective from bibliometric analysis

Chen, Pan; Bai, Wei; Li, Xiaohong; Feng, Yuan; Cheung, Teris; Su, Zhaohui; Balbuena, Lloyd; Xiang, Yu‐Tao

doi:10.1016/j.jad.2022.07.046

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“…To the best of our knowledge, this was the first bibliometric analysis to provide an overview of EBM research in the MDD field. The publications on MDD-related SR/MA showed an increasing trend during the past decades, which is consistent with the previous bibliometric analysis in the area of psychology ( 51 ), and are associated with the increasing trends of publications in the MDD field overall ( 4 , 52 ). MDD is a public health priority with a high prevalence and has gained increasing attention in medical research ( 53 ).…”

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“…The USA and the UK were among the most productive countries that also had the strongest collaboration in conducting MDD-related SR/MA. With a long tradition in psychology, the USA and the UK have been among the leading countries in the development of psychology and psychiatry ( 4 ). Similar to previous studies, they had the most publication number across various research areas such as psychiatric comorbidities of COVID-19 ( 56 ), schizophrenia ( 57 ), and depression or anxiety associated with coronary heart disease ( 35 ).…”

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“…The analysis of journals can be informative to authors when submitting an article to a journal for publication ( 4 ). All the top 10 journals with MDD-related SR/MA were at the higher-ranking level in the Psychiatry/Psychology categories, which are important platforms for the exchange of research findings on MDD-related SR/MA.…”

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“…Due to its high prevalence, disease burden and health economic cost ( 2 ), MDD has gained increasing research attention. Previous bibliometric research studies on MDD ( 3 , 4 ), have covered a wide range of different aspects such as epidemiology, etiology, symptomatology, diagnosis, treatment and prognosis, in which evidence-based medicine (EBM) approach is widely applied ( 5 ). For example, a systematic review (SR) and meta-analysis (MA) of 20 studies examined the global prevalence of MDD in older population (13.3%; 95% CI: 8.4–20.3%) ( 6 ).…”

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“…Furthermore, a key advantage of bibliometric analysis is citation analysis. As SR/MA usually have high citations ( 4 , 21 ), the bibliometric analysis could explore the degree of impact of MDD-related SR/MA. Previous bibliometric analyses have examined EBM in various fields, such as general medicine and health sciences ( 22 ), dentistry ( 23 ), and tuberculosis ( 24 ), which have provided an overview of the development structure of the respective fields.…”

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Systematic reviews and meta-analyses on major depressive disorder: a bibliometric perspective

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BackgroundThere is a vast amount of evidence-based medicine research on the major depressive disorder (MDD) available in the literature, however, no studies on the overall performance, productivity and impact of such research have been published to date. This study explored and mapped the research outputs of MDD-related systematic reviews and meta-analyses (SR/MA) from a bibliometric perspective.MethodsRelevant data were retrieved with search terms on MDD, systematic review and meta-analysis.ResultsA total of 4,870 papers with 365,402 citations published from 1983 to 2022 were included in the analysis. The publication output has grown steadily over time with the most publications originating from the USA (1,020; 20.94%), the UK (516; 10.60%) and China (448; 9.20%). The research collaborations between countries were most frequent between the USA and UK (266; 5.46%). Journal of Affective Disorders (379; 7.78%) was the most productive journal, while Cuijpers P was the most productive author (121; 2.48%), and University of Toronto (569; 11.78%) was the most productive institution. The top 10 most cited articles on MDD-related SR/MA had citations ranging from 1,806 to 3,448. The high-frequency keywords were mainly clustered into four themes, including psychiatric comorbidities, clinical trials, treatment, and brain stimulation in MDD.ConclusionThe rapid increase in the number of SR/MA of MDD in recent years highlights the importance of this research field. Psychiatric comorbidities, clinical interventions, and treatment of MDD have been identified as hot topics, while biological mechanisms in MDD are likely to be an emerging research priority.

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