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Depression and Anxiety
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Depression and Anxiety

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Psychology 39 347 239 42
Medicine 431 177 149 38

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 572
Documents by Best Scientists*: 304
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 25
SCIMAGO H-index: 168
SCIMAGO SJR: 2.007
Impact Factor: 3.3

Overview

Top Research Topics at Depression and Anxiety?

The concepts of Psychiatry, Clinical psychology, Anxiety, Depression (differential diagnoses) and Comorbidity are tackled in Depression and Anxiety. The studies on Psychiatry discussed can also contribute to research in the domains of Injury prevention and Suicide prevention. It holds forums on Injury prevention that merges themes from other disciplines such as Occupational safety and health and Human factors and ergonomics.

The majority of Suicide prevention studies presented zero in on Suicidal ideation. Some problems in Clinical psychology that were presented in Depression and Anxiety overlapped with concepts under Cognitive behavioral therapy, Randomized controlled trial and Cognition. Anxiety studies presented in Depression and Anxiety focus on topics such as Panic disorder, Generalized anxiety disorder, Anxiety disorder, Social anxiety and Panic.

Agoraphobia is a key component of Panic disorder research discussed in it. In Depression and Anxiety, Young adult, Internal medicine and Physical therapy are investigated in conjunction with one another to address concerns in Depression (differential diagnoses) research. The studies in Internal medicine featured incorporate elements of Placebo and Endocrinology.

  • Psychiatry (52.56%)
  • Clinical psychology (50.71%)
  • Anxiety (49.29%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Development of a new resilience scale: The Connor‐Davidson Resilience Scale (CD‐RISC) (4071 citations)
  • Clinician-administered PTSD scale: A review of the first ten years of research (1590 citations)
  • Role of serotonergic and noradrenergic systems in the pathophysiology of depression and anxiety disorders. (765 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Depression and Anxiety:

The journal publications tackle a plethora of topics, such as Psychiatry, Clinical psychology, Anxiety, Depression (differential diagnoses) and Comorbidity. The most cited publications with studies in Psychiatry featured incorporate elements of Suicidal ideation, Internal medicine and Psychometrics. The featured Clinical psychology studies in the journal publications mainly concentrate on Injury prevention but also cover areas of interest in Human factors and ergonomics and Occupational safety and health.

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

  • Internal medicine
  • Anxiety
  • Major depressive disorder

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

Depression and Anxiety mainly deals with areas of study such as Depression (differential diagnoses), Anxiety, Clinical psychology, Mental health and Randomized controlled trial. The research on Depression (differential diagnoses) tackled can also make contributions to studies in the areas of Odds ratio, Internal medicine, Logistic regression and Confidence interval. In addition to Anxiety research, it aims to explore topics under Psychopathology, Epidemiology and Mood.

Depression and Anxiety holds forums on Clinical psychology that merges themes from other disciplines such as Psychological intervention, Worry, Generalized anxiety disorder, Cognitive behavioral therapy and Comorbidity. Research on Mental health presented in it concerns the broader topic of Psychiatry. Topics in Psychiatry explored in the journal were investigated in conjunction with research in Pregnancy and Risk factor.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • The psychiatric sequelae of the COVID-19 pandemic in adolescents, adults, and health care workers. (27 citations)
  • Thirty-day suicidal thoughts and behaviors among hospital workers during the first wave of the Spain COVID-19 outbreak. (15 citations)
  • Detecting suicidal thoughts: The power of ecological momentary assessment (12 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

The top authors publishing in Depression and Anxiety (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Murray B. Stein (49 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 4 less than at the previous edition,
  • Michelle G. Craske (41 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Ronald C. Kessler (37 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Richard G. Heimberg (32 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • M. Katherine Shear (30 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Depression and Anxiety (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Harvard University (249 papers) published 10 papers at the last edition, 8 less than at the previous edition,
  • Columbia University (174 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 7 less than at the previous edition,
  • University of California, San Diego (124 papers) published 5 papers at the last edition, 7 less than at the previous edition,
  • Emory University (118 papers) published 7 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Veterans Health Administration (115 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 9 less than at the previous edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2021 edition, 0.88% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 31.86% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 15.04% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 9.73% of all publications and 43.36% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

  • Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
  • Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
  • Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
  • Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
  • Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

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Top Publications

  • COVID stress syndrome: Concept, structure, and correlates.

    Steven Taylor;Caeleigh A. Landry;Michelle M. Paluszek;Thomas A. Fergus

    (2020)
    696 Citations
  • U.S. Census Bureau-assessed prevalence of anxiety and depressive symptoms in 2019 and during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic.

    Jean M. Twenge;Thomas E. Joiner

    (2020)
    407 Citations
  • Defining treatment-resistant depression.

    Bradley N Gaynes;Linda Lux;Gerald Gartlehner;Gerald Gartlehner;Gary Asher

    (2020)
    300 Citations
  • Exposure to COVID-19 pandemic stress: Associations with depression and anxiety in emerging adults in the United States.

    Autumn Kujawa;Haley Green;Bruce E. Compas;Lindsay Dickey

    (2020)
    294 Citations
  • Behavioral inhibition

    Unknown

    (2021)
    248 Citations
  • Anxiety, pandemic-related stress and resilience among physicians during the COVID-19 pandemic.

    Mariela Mosheva;Mariela Mosheva;Nimrod Hertz-Palmor;Shirel Dorman Ilan;Noam Matalon

    (2020)
    207 Citations
  • The psychiatric sequelae of the COVID-19 pandemic in adolescents, adults, and health care workers.

    Stephen Murata;Taylor Rezeppa;Brian Thoma;Laura Marengo

    (2021)
    203 Citations
  • A systematic review and meta‐analysis on the effects of transcranial direct current stimulation in depressive episodes

    Lais B. Razza;Priscila Palumbo;Adriano H. Moffa;Andre F. Carvalho;Andre F. Carvalho

    (2020)
    164 Citations

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