Psychological interventions for depression in children and adolescents: A bibliometric analysis

Table 1 Top 10 countries with most publications regarding psychological interventions for depression in children and adolescents

Rank	Country	Output	% of 1482	H-index
1	United States	581	39.20	69
2	Germany	235	15.86	41
3	United Kingdom	230	15.52	46
4	Australia	134	9.04	36
5	Canada	122	8.23	31
6	Netherlands	110	7.42	35
7	China	97	6.61	20
8	Italy	73	4.93	23
9	Switzerland	55	3.71	24
10	Spain	55	3.71	18

Table 2 Top 10 institutions with most publications regarding psychological interventions for depression in children and adolescents

Rank	Institutions	Output	% of 1482	H-index
1	University of London	116	7.83	31
2	Harvard University	89	6.01	33
3	University of California	67	4.52	27
4	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam	59	3.91	24
5	Columbia University	55	3.71	25
6	University of Melbourne	52	3.51	21
7	University of Toronto	50	3.37	18
8	University of Pittsburgh	46	3.10	25
9	ORYGEN1	41	2.77	21
10	University of Amsterdam	37	2.50	15

ORYGEN1 refers to The National Centre of Excellence in Youth Mental Health.

Table 3 Top 10 authors with most publications regarding psychological interventions for depression in children and adolescents

Rank	Authors	Output	% of 1482	H-index
1	Pim Cuijpers	30	2.02	15
2	Nick Midgley	22	1.48	10
3	Sarah E Hetrick	20	1.35	15
4	John R Weisz	20	1.35	12
5	Peng Xie	16	1.08	9
6	Xin-Yu Zhou	16	1.08	9
7	Randi Ulberg	15	1.01	5
8	Yu-Qing Zhang	13	0.88	8
9	Gerhard Andersson	13	0.88	7
10	David A Brent	12	0.81	10

Table 4 Top 10 journals with most publications regarding psychological interventions for depression in children and adolescents

Rank	Journals	Output	% of 1482	JIF1 (2022)	Quartile in category2 (2022)
1	Journal of Affective Disorders	85	5.74	6.6	Q1
2	Frontiers in Psychiatry	66	4.45	4.7	Q2
3	Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry	42	2.83	13.3	Q1
4	Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews	39	2.63	8.4	Q1
5	BMC Psychiatry	33	2.23	4.4	Q2
6	Trials	29	1.96	2.5	Q3
7	European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry	26	1.75	6.4	Q1
8	Plos One	26	1.75	3.7	Q2
9	BMJ Open	25	1.69	2.9	Q2
10	Depression and Anxiety	24	1.62	7.4	Q1

JIF1 (2022) refers to the impact factor of the Journal; Quartile in category2 (2022) is the division to which the journal belongs. Journal Citation Reports split journals into four equal parts based on JIF value, among which the top 25% attributed to Q1 and the top 25%–50% being Q2, etc.

Table 5 The clusters information of references co-citation analysis

Cluster ID	Size	Silhouette	Mean (year)	Top terms (log-likelihood ratio, p-level)
0	72	0.881	2008	Antidepressants
1	53	0.931	2017	Depression
2	32	0.887	2015	Self-harm
3	27	0.906	2015	College students
4	26	0.96	2019	Cognitive behavior therapy
5	25	0.887	2018	M-health
6	25	0.851	2012	FMRI
7	24	0.871	2017	CBASP
8	23	0.906	2011	Review
9	23	0.998	2009	Mothers
11	20	0.958	2012	Prevention and Control
12	14	0.964	2016	Dementia
13	13	0.985	2010	Interpersonal psychotherapy
14	12	0.992	2007	Very young children
15	11	0.978	2015	Therapy
18	5	0.988	2018	Psychoanalytic psychotherapy
19	4	0.997	2011	Intervention study
26	3	0.997	2013	Late adolescent