Global research status and trends of somatic symptom disorder: A bibliometric study

Table 1 Ranking of the most productive 10 authors, institutions and countries

	Ranking	Items	Counts	% of 568	Citations	H-index
Authors	1	Löwe B	38	6.69	825	15
	2	Witthöft M	23	4.049	290	8
	3	Toussaint A	18	3.169	502	11
	4	Fritzsche K	16	2.817	205	7
	5	Huang WL	16	2.817	176	8
	6	Henningsen P	15	2.641	590	9
	7	Leonhart R	15	2.641	203	7
	8	Van Der Feltz-cornelis CM	15	2.641	163	9
	9	Rief W	14	2.465	492	8
	10	Sattel H	13	2.289	145	7
Affiliations	1	University of Hamburg	60	10.563	941	16
	2	Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz	37	6.514	487	11
	3	Technical University of Munich	33	5.81	900	14
	4	University of Freiburg	26	4.577	294	10
	5	Harvard University	23	4.049	402	8
	6	Ruprecht Karls University Heidelberg	23	4.049	279	9
	7	Philipps University Marburg	21	3.697	576	12
	8	University of London	20	3.521	368	12
	9	National Taiwan University	16	2.817	176	8
	10	University of Munich	16	2.817	195	7
Countries	1	Germany	185	32.57	2433	26
	2	United States	102	17.958	1456	23
	3	Netherlands	50	8.803	657	14
	4	England	49	8.627	935	16
	5	Italy	46	8.099	609	14
	6	China	43	7.57	523	10
	7	Canada	34	5.986	557	13
	8	Japan	26	4.577	125	6
	9	Australia	23	4.049	508	11
	10	Switzerland	21	3.697	318	10

Table 2 Ranking of the most productive 10 journals based on publications

Ranking	Publication titles	Record count	Citations
1	Journal of Psychosomatic Research	57	865
2	Frontiers In Psychiatry	29	193
3	Psychosomatic Medicine	25	450
4	Bmc Psychiatry	18	107
5	General Hospital Psychiatry	11	174
6	Frontiers In Psychology	8	55
7	Psychological Medicine	6	158
8	Psychosomatics	6	76
9	Psychotherapeut	6	11
10	Journal of Affective Disorders	5	153

Table 3 Ranking of the top 20 highest cited references

Ranking	Publications	Journal	Year	Citations	First author
1	Somatic symptom disorder: An important change in DSM	Journal of Psychosomatic Research	2013	154	Dimsdale JE
2	Development and validation of the somatic symptom disorder-B criteria scale	Psychosomatic Medicine	2016	136	Toussaint A
3	Functional somatic disorders: Discussion paper for a new common classification for research and clinical use	BMC Medicine	2020	103	Burton C
4	Chronic pain, psychopathology, and DSM-5 somatic symptom disorder	Canadian Journal of Psychiatry	2015	127	Katz J
5	Total somatic symptom score as a predictor of health outcome in somatic symptom disorders	British Journal of Psychiatry	2013	94	Tomenson B
6	Irritable bowel syndrome: Relations with functional, mental, and somatoform disorders	World Journal of Gastroenterology	2014	102	Hausteiner-Wiehle C
7	Core outcome domains for clinical trials on somatic symptom disorder, bodily distress disorder, and functional somatic syndromes: European network on somatic symptom disorders recommendations	Psychosomatic Medicine	2017	77	Rief W
8	Detecting DSM-5 somatic symptom disorder: criterion validity of the patient health questionnaire-15 and the somatic symptom scale-8 in combination with the somatic symptom disorder-B criteria scale	Psychological Medicine	2020	80	Toussaint A
9	Management of somatic symptom disorder	Dialogues In Clinical Neuroscience	2018	78	Henningsen P
10	Validation of patient health questionnaire for major depression in Chinese outpatients with multiple somatic symptoms: A multicenter cross-sectional study	Journal of Affective Disorders	2015	83	Xiong NN
11	Somatic symptom disorder	American Family Physician	2016	76	Kurlansik SL
12	Health anxiety and hypochondriasis in the light of DSM-5	Anxiety Stress and Coping	2016	75	Bailer J
13	DSM-5 illness anxiety disorder and somatic symptom disorder: Comorbidity, correlates, and overlap with DSM-IV hypochondriasis	Journal of Psychosomatic Research	2017	70	Newby JM
14	Pediatric somatic symptom disorders	Current Psychiatry Reports	2017	66	Malas N
15	Exposure-based cognitive-behavioral therapy via the Internet and as bibliotherapy for somatic symptom disorder and illness anxiety disorder: Randomized controlled trial	British Journal of Psychiatry	2016	67	Hedman E
16	The efficacy of cognitive behavioral therapy in somatoform disorders and medically unexplained physical symptoms: A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials	Journal of Affective Disorders	2019	61	Jing L
17	Patients with unexplained physical symptoms have poorer quality of life and higher costs than other patient groups: A cross-sectional study on burden	BMC Health Services Research	2013	60	Zonneveld LNL
18	Health anxiety and illness-related fears across diverse chronic illnesses: A systematic review on conceptualization, measurement, prevalence, course, and correlates	Plos One	2020	66	Lebel S
19	Identifying the key characteristics of clinical fear of cancer recurrence: An international Delphi study	Psycho-Oncology	2020	60	Mutsaers B
20	Structural alterations in functional neurological disorder and related conditions: a software and hardware problem?	Neuroimage-Clinical	2019	58	Bègue I