Abstract
The 57 countries of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation are suffering from an increasing burden from mental health disorders. We investigated their research outputs during 2008–17 in the Web of Science in order to compare them with the burden from different mental health disorders and in different countries. The papers were identified with a complex filter based on title words and journals. Their addresses were parsed to give fractional country counts, show international collaboration, and also reveal country concentration on individual disorders and types of research. We found 17,920 papers in the decade, with output quadrupling. Foreign contributions accounted for 15% of addresses; they were from Europe (7%), Canada + USA (5%) and elsewhere (3%). They were much greater for Qatar and Uganda (> 60%), but less than 10% for Iran and Turkey. Schizophrenia and bipolar disorder were over-researched, but suicide and self-harm were seriously neglected, relative to their mental health disorder burdens. Although OIC research has been expanding rapidly, some countries have published little on this subject, perhaps because of stigma. Turkey collaborates relatively little internationally and as a result its papers received few citations. Among the large OIC countries, it has almost the highest relative mental health disorders burden, which is also growing rapidly.
Highlights
1.1 ObjectiveThe purpose of this paper is to compare the burden of mental illness in the 57 countries of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) with the amount and distribution of their research to see if their portfolios are appropriate for the mental health disorder challenges that they face
Articles and reviews were identified in the Web of Science (WoS) by means of a complex filter based on 184 named mental disorder journals such as: Addiction or Behavior Genetics or Cognitive Therapy and Research or Depression and Anxiety or Eating Disorders or Forum der Psychoanalyse and 236 title words, or phrases, such as: addict or bipolar or carbamazepine or dement or eating-disorder or frigidity or gambling or hysteria or inject-drugs which included the names of disorders, and drugs and other measures used to treat them
It led to an increase in the numbers of OIC countries whose journals were covered in the WoS from ten to 18
Summary
The purpose of this paper is to compare the burden of mental illness in the 57 countries of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) with the amount and distribution of their research to see if their portfolios are appropriate for the mental health disorder challenges that they face. Most of them are in the Middle East or North Africa (MENA). Mental health disorders research in OIC countries: Bibliometric study. EC/FP7/602536] (GL) and an unrestricted grant from Pfizer (RS). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript
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