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

•In the last decade, 398 articles on network analysis have been published.•Most research is concentrated in USA, followed by the Netherlands and UK.•The most frequent standardized keywords are methodologies and mood disorders. Psychopathology networks consist of aspects (e.g., symptoms) of mental di...

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Published in:Psychiatry research 2022-02, Vol.308, p.114380-114380, Article 114380
Main Authors: Berta, Ausín, Miguel Ángel, Castellanos, Clara, González-Sanguino, Rubén, Heradio
Format: Article
Language:English
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Bibliometrics
Humans
Mental Health
Network analysis
Psychological symptoms
Psychopathology
Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic
Symptoms networks
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Summary:•In the last decade, 398 articles on network analysis have been published.•Most research is concentrated in USA, followed by the Netherlands and UK.•The most frequent standardized keywords are methodologies and mood disorders. 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.
ISSN:0165-1781
1872-7123
DOI:10.1016/j.psychres.2021.114380