Institute of Occupational Medicine, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Free University Berlin and Humboldt University Berlin, Germany.
Indian J Psychiatry. 2012 Oct;54(4):320-6. doi: 10.4103/0019-5545.104807.
Bipolar affective disorder (BaD) has a great impact on health systems worldwide. Although bibliometric studies have been done on this subject, these studies did not do an analysis of the contents of papers, the cooperation between countries, or of the names currently used to describe the condition. Furthermore, the number of publications since the last bibliometric study has doubled.
This study was to examine the recent developments in the field, explore main topics/subject areas of the top 10 authors in this research field, and to compare diagnosis-defined data between International Classification of Diseases, 10(th) edition (ICD-10) and Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fourth edition (DSM-IV).
Using distinct search terms, the Web of Science database developed by the Thompson Reuters Institute of Scientific Information was scanned for relevant items published between 1900 and 2008. Results were analyzed using scientometric methods and density-equalizing calculations.
We found an important increase of publications on the subject over the last decade. Most published studies came from North America and Europe, while the countries cooperating with each other were comparable to other areas of medical research. Although there has been an increase in publications on BaD (m=3.3 publications per year in the last decade), the number of works using the term bipolar disorder (BD) was considerably higher (m=141.8 publications per year in the last decade). We found that the subject areas, genetics and pharmacology were focuses of research for the 10 most prolific authors, all of whom where psychiatrists.
Research interest in BaD is rising. Reflecting the two main disease classification systems, DSM and ICD, both terms BD and BaD are used in research, with a preponderance of the former. The research of the most prolific authors engages genetic and pharmacological questions.
双相情感障碍（BaD）对全球卫生系统有重大影响。尽管已经针对该主题进行了文献计量学研究，但这些研究并未分析论文的内容、国家之间的合作，或目前用于描述该病症的名称。此外，自上次文献计量学研究以来，出版物的数量增加了一倍。
本研究旨在检查该领域的最新发展，探讨该研究领域排名前 10 的作者的主要主题/学科领域，并比较国际疾病分类，第 10 版（ICD-10）和精神障碍诊断与统计手册，第四版（DSM-IV）中的诊断定义数据。
使用不同的搜索词，通过汤森路透科学信息研究所开发的 Web of Science 数据库对 1900 年至 2008 年期间发表的相关项目进行了扫描。使用科学计量学方法和密度均等化计算对结果进行了分析。
我们发现，过去十年中，该主题的出版物数量显著增加。大多数发表的研究来自北美和欧洲，而相互合作的国家与其他医学研究领域相当。尽管 BaD 的出版物数量有所增加（过去十年中每年有 3.3 篇），但使用术语双相障碍（BD）的作品数量明显更高（过去十年中每年有 141.8 篇）。我们发现，主题领域，遗传学和药理学是 10 位最有影响力的作者的研究重点，他们都是精神病学家。
对 BaD 的研究兴趣正在上升。反映两种主要疾病分类系统，DSM 和 ICD，BD 和 BaD 这两个术语都在研究中使用，前者占优势。最有影响力的作者的研究涉及遗传和药理学问题。
