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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Psychol.
Sec. Health Psychology
Volume 15 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1411340

A Bibliometric Analysis of the Knowledge Related to Mental Health During and Post COVID-19 Pandemic

Provisionally accepted
Lili Wang Lili Wang 1Lingxiao Ye Lingxiao Ye 1Yanyan Jin Yanyan Jin 1Pan Xingying Pan Xingying 2Xuesong Wang Xuesong Wang 3*
  • 1 Ningbo Medical Centre Lihuili Hospital, Ningbo, China
  • 2 Yuyao People's Hospital, Yuyao, Zhejiang, China
  • 3 Hebei University of Chinese Medicine, Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, China

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    Objective COVID-19 led to a horrific global pandemic, with strict lockdowns and prolonged indoor stays increasing the risk of mental health problems, affecting people of different ages, genders, regions, and types of work to varying degrees. This study provides a bibliometric summary of the knowledge map related to mental health during and post COVID-19 pandemic.Methods Publications related to mental health during and post COVID-19 pandemic were searched in the Web of Science Core Collection (WoSCC) database through March 19, 2024. After screening the search results, the literature included in the final was first quantitatively analyzed using GraphPad Prism software and then visualized using VOSviewer, CiteSpace, and R (the bibliometrix package).The 7047 publications from 110 countries were included, with the highest number of publications from China and the United States, and the number of publications related to mental health during and post the COVID-19 pandemic increased annually until 2023, after which it began to decline.The major institutions

    Keywords: Bibliometric, COVID-19 pandemic, Mental Health, Depression, Anxiety, Citespace, VOSviewers, R software

    Received: 03 Apr 2024; Accepted: 16 May 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Wang, Ye, Jin, Xingying and Wang. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Xuesong Wang, Hebei University of Chinese Medicine, Shijiazhuang, 050200, Hebei Province, China

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