Abstract
BackgroundMental disorder is harmful to human health, effects social life seriously and still brings a heavy burden for countries all over the world. Scientific collaboration has become the indispensable choice for progress in the field of biomedicine. However, there have been few scientific publications on scientific collaboration in psychiatry research so far. The aim of this study was to measure the activities of scientific collaboration in psychiatry research at the level of authors, institutions and countries.MethodsWe retrieved 36557 papers about psychiatry from Science Ciation Index Expanded (SCI-Expanded) in web of science. Additionally, some methods such as social network analysis (SNA), K-plex analysis and Core-Periphery were used in this study.ResultsCollaboration has been increasing at the level of authors, institutions and countries in psychiatry in the last ten years. We selected the top 100 prolific authors, institutions and 30 countries to construct collaborative map respectively. Freedman, R and Seidman, LJ were the central authors, Harvard university was the central institution and the USA was the central country of the whole network. Notably, the rate of economic development of countries affected collaborative behavior.ConclusionThe results show that we should encourage multiple collaboration types in psychiatry research as they not only help researchers to master the current research hotspots but also provide scientific basis for clinical research on psychiatry and suggest policies to promote the development of this area.
Highlights
Mental disorder is harmful to human health, effects social life seriously and still brings a heavy burden for countries all over the world
Mental disorder is harmful to human health and effects social life seriously [1]
According to a recent survey of the World Health Organization, it has been estimated that mental disorder ranks the first in terms of dis-ability life years (DALYs) which will surpass that of cardiovascular disease, respiratory system disease and malignant tumor [2,3,4]
Summary
Mental disorder is harmful to human health, effects social life seriously and still brings a heavy burden for countries all over the world. According to a recent survey of the World Health Organization, it has been estimated that mental disorder ranks the first in terms of dis-ability life years (DALYs) which will surpass that of cardiovascular disease, respiratory system disease and malignant tumor [2,3,4]. This troubling situation has brought a rigorous challenge for the psychiatry researchers to prevent and control mental disorder. Research collaboration becomes the indispensable choice for progression in the biomedicine field because it will improve communication, the sharing of competence and production of new scientific knowledge. In 2011 and 2012, Yu Q, Duan ZG et al used the method of co-authorship to analyze collaboration in Chinese oncology and cardiology & cardiovasology field [10,11]
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