The 100 Top-Cited Studies About Pain and Depression.

Liang Du,Yonggang Zhang,Hao Wang,Shanxia Luo,Guina Liu,Lingli Zheng

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2019.03072

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https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.03072

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Abstract

With the estimated high prevalence in the population, the two symptoms of pain and depression threaten the well-being of millions worldwide. Researches of the two symptoms increased year by year. Top-cited studies will help to understand the achievement and guide researchers toward the direction of the research field. However, it is unclear for researches in the field of pain and depression. In this paper, we reviewed the bibliometric characteristics of the top-cited papers about pain and depression. We will review the evidence of authorship, country of origin, institution, journal, study type, and publication year for the 100 top-cited studies on pain and depression based on the Web of Science Core collection. We also highlight studies with the highest cited times. Our study concluded that pain and depression were correlated, which may share common biological pathways.

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With the estimated prevalence in the adult population ranges from 5 to 60% (Gureje et al, 1998; Blyth et al, 2001; Smith et al, 2001), the pain has become the most common problem worldwide.Likewise, depression, the first cause of disability before 2030 forecasted by WHO (2017), prevalence of which in primary care is estimated at 5–10% (Katon and Schulberg, 1992)
Forty seven of the 100 top-cited articles indicated that pain caused depression, 23 papers mentioned they were corelated, 9 papers revealed that depression caused pain, while 3 studies found no significant correlation between pain and depression
With the growing awareness of the link between pain and depression, an increasing number of literatures have focused on the interaction between these two conditions

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With the estimated prevalence in the adult population ranges from 5 to 60% (Gureje et al, 1998; Blyth et al, 2001; Smith et al, 2001), the pain has become the most common problem worldwide.Likewise, depression, the first cause of disability before 2030 forecasted by WHO (2017), prevalence of which in primary care is estimated at 5–10% (Katon and Schulberg, 1992). With the estimated prevalence in the adult population ranges from 5 to 60% (Gureje et al, 1998; Blyth et al, 2001; Smith et al, 2001), the pain has become the most common problem worldwide. Current evidence suggests that pain and depression have reciprocal influence (Kroenke et al, 2011) and often co-occur (Kroenke et al, 2010). Growing number of studies investigated the comorbidity of pain and depression (Campbell et al, 2003; Chopra and Arora, 2014; Li, 2015), yet there is no relevant evidence in the aspect of bibliometrics analysis. Citation analysis is one of the key methods of bibliometric method, aiming at constructing indicators of research performance from a quantitative analysis of scholarly documents (Moed, 2009). The frequency of citation indicates the relative significance in the particular discipline (Iyengar et al, 2009; Kanter, 2009)

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