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. 2023 Jan 6:10:1040676.
doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.1040676. eCollection 2022.

Bibliometric and visualization analysis of research trend in mental health problems of children and adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic

Zeming Guo  1 , Yiran Zhang  1 , Qin Liu  1
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Bibliometric and visualization analysis of research trend in mental health problems of children and adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic

Zeming Guo et al. Front Public Health. .

Abstract

Objectives: To analyze the evolution of research on children and adolescents mental health issues during COVID-19 pandemic and discuss research hotspots and cutting-edge developments.

Methods: The literature obtained from the web of science core collection as of June 28, 2022, was analyzed using Citespace, VOSviewer bibliometric visualization mapping software.

Results: A total of 6,039 relevant papers were found, of which 5,594 were included in the study. The number of literatures is growing since 2020; and the country, institution, and journal publications were analyzed. The co-citation analysis shows that there are more research articles among the highly cited articles and a lack of systematic reviews that use critical thinking for review. In the cluster analysis, mental health and life change were the most representative. The timeline view of the keywords shows that Online learning (#0), Public health (#1), and Mental health (#2) are the three largest clusters and shows the change over time.

Conclusion: This study helped analyze the mental health of children and adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic and identified hot trends and shortcomings, which are important references for the theoretical basis of future research and decision making and technical guidance for systematic reviews.

Keywords: COVID-19; Citespace; adolescent; bibliometric analysis; children; mental health.

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Conflict of interest statement

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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Figure 1
Bibliometric and visualization analysis framework (A) and Annual publication distribution (B).
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Figure 2
Geographical distribution in the past 3 years (A). The size of the circle displays the number of publications, and the thickness of links represents cooperation strength between countries. Overlay Geographical visualization was based on publication-weights and average publication year scores (B).
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Figure 3
Visualization map of cooperation network between institutions, based on the publication-weights and average publication year scores.
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Figure 4
Visualization map of author network. The size of the circle displays the number of publications of this author.
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Figure 5
Visualization map of co-citation journals.
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Figure 6
Visualization map of co-citation documents. Nodes refer to citations, and links represent co-citations between different documents.
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Figure 7
Cluster of co-citation document network.
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Figure 8
Timeline visualization of keyword clusters.
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