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. 2021 Jun 18:12:661108.
doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2021.661108. eCollection 2021.

A Bird's-Eye View of Exercise Intervention in Treating Depression Among Teenagers in the Last 20 Years: A Bibliometric Study and Visualization Analysis

Yanwei You  1 , Dizhi Wang  1 , Yuning Wang  1 , Zhipeng Li  1 , Xindong Ma  1
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A Bird's-Eye View of Exercise Intervention in Treating Depression Among Teenagers in the Last 20 Years: A Bibliometric Study and Visualization Analysis

Yanwei You et al. Front Psychiatry. .

Abstract

Background: Exercise is medicine. Multiple studies on the effects and mechanisms of exercise in treating depression among teenagers and adolescents have been widely reported. However, literature involving scientometric analysis of this topic is sparse. Here, we endeavored to conduct a bibliometric study and visualization analysis to give a bird's-eye view of publications between 2000 and 2020 on exercise therapy treating depression. Methods: Relevant original publications were obtained from the Science Citation Index Expanded in the Web of Science Core Collection (WoSCC) database between 2000 and 2020. CiteSpace (5.7.R 5) and VOSviewer (1.6.16) software were used to perform bibliometric analysis of countries, institutions, categories, journals, authors, references, and keywords involved in this topic. Results: A total number of 975 articles on this field were retrieved from the WoSCC database and we identified an overall increase in the amount of publications over the past two decades, with the United States and Harvard University leading the field. Most related publications were published in the journals with a focus on sport, medicine, rehabilitation, psychology, and health, as represented by the dual-map overlay. A series of authors and co-cited authors were identified as main contributors in the exercise-depression-teenager domain. Three major clusters were explored based on the reference co-citation analysis: "exercise," "suicide," and "concussion". Conclusions: Current concerns and hotspots of exercise intervention in depression treatments were summarized by "individual level," "social level," "role of exercise," and "research quality." We considered that the following four directions were potential future perspectives: "research on the effect of specific exercise intervention," "research on the essence of exercise and sports," "research on the combination mode of 'exercise + X'," and "research on the micro and molecular level," which should receive more attention.

Keywords: bibliometric; depression; exercise intervention; teenagers; visualization analysis.

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The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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The output of publications and growth trend in exercise-depression-teenager research.
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The collaboration of countries and institutions. (A) Map of countries with publications in exercise-depression-teenager research. (B) Map of institutions with publications in exercise-depression-teenager research. (C) The distribution of countries/regions engaged in exercise-depression-teenager research.
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The distribution of categories and journals. (A) Map of categories with publications in exercise-depression-teenager research. (B) Map of journals with publications in exercise-depression-teenager research. (C) Dual-map overlay of journals that published work related to exercise-depression-teenager research.
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(A) The overlay visualization map of authors active in exercise-depression-teenager research based on the time of appearance. (B) The network visualization of co-cited authors active in exercise-depression-teenager research.
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The timeline view of the knowledge map based on reference co-citation analysis of the exercise-depression-teenager field from 2000 to 2020.
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Figure 6
The distribution of the co-occurrence network of keywords in exercise-depression-teenager research.
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Figure 7
Top 50 keywords with the strongest citation burst in exercise-depression-teenager research.
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