Vogelzang B H, Scutaru C, Mache S, Vitzthum K, Quarcoo David, Groneberg D A
Institute of Occupational Medicine, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Free University and Humboldt University, D-14195 Berlin, Germany.
Indian J Psychol Med. 2011 Jan;33(1):59-65. doi: 10.4103/0253-7176.85397.
Depression is a major cause of suicide worldwide. This association has been reflected by numerous scientific publications reporting about studies to this theme. There is currently no overall evaluation of the global research activities in this field.
The aim of the current study was to analyze long-term developments and recent research trends in this area.
We searched the Web of Science databases developed by the Thompson Institute of Scientific Information for items concerning depression and suicide published between 1900 and 2007 and analyzed the results using scientometric methods and density-equalizing calculations.
We found that publications on this topic increased dramatically in the time period 1990 to 2007. The comparison of the different Journals showed that the Archives of General Psychiatry had the highest average citation rate (more than twice that of any other Journal). When comparing authors, we found that not all the authors who had high h-indexes cooperated much with other authors. The analysis of countries who published papers on this topic showed that they published papers in relation to their Gross Domestic Product and Purchasing Power Parity. Among the G8 countries, Russia had the highest male suicide rate in 1999 (more than twice that of any of the other G8 countries), despite having published least papers and cooperating least with other countries among the G8.
We conclude that, although there has been an increase in publications on this topic from 1990 to 2006, this increase is of a lower gradient than that of psoriasis and rheumatoid arthritis.
抑郁症是全球自杀的主要原因。众多关于该主题的科学出版物都反映了这种关联。目前尚无对该领域全球研究活动的全面评估。
本研究的目的是分析该领域的长期发展和近期研究趋势。
我们在汤森路透科学信息研究所开发的科学网数据库中搜索了1900年至2007年间发表的有关抑郁症和自杀的文献，并使用科学计量方法和密度均衡计算对结果进行了分析。
我们发现，1990年至2007年期间，关于该主题的出版物急剧增加。不同期刊的比较显示，《普通精神病学档案》的平均被引率最高（是其他任何期刊的两倍多）。在比较作者时，我们发现并非所有具有高h指数的作者都与其他作者有很多合作。对发表该主题论文的国家的分析表明，它们发表论文的数量与国内生产总值和购买力平价相关。在八国集团国家中，俄罗斯在1999年的男性自杀率最高（是其他任何八国集团国家的两倍多），尽管在八国集团中发表的论文最少，与其他国家的合作也最少。
我们得出结论，尽管1990年至2006年期间关于该主题的出版物有所增加，但这种增加的梯度低于牛皮癣和类风湿关节炎。
