Scientometric study of scientific production in psyciatry

Abstract

Psychiatry is a branch of medicine that deals with the treatment of various kind of mental disorder such as diagnosis, treatment, prevention of mental and emotional disorders. In the contemporary world we witness a lot of casualties that lead to the human mental disorder but there are very little evidences to show the trend of psychiatry researches in the world.The objective of this study is to depict the scientific production of scientists in the field of psychiatry for a period of 10 years. The database of Web of Science (WoS) was used to extract all publication under the topic of psychiatry throughout 2000 – 2009.The study showed that the USA with producing more than 38% of world profiles in the field is the most prolific country followed by England (10.72%) and Germany (10.67%). English is the dominant language of publications. The majority of publications (68%) are in the form of journal articles. Harvard University with sharing 3.37% of world publications in the field is the most active university followed by Columbia University (2.20%) and Yale University (2.07%) respectively. Based on the Bradford law the Journal of Psychiatric Services is the most productive one among core Journals in the field.