Yang Chao, Zhang Kun, Wang Qian, Wang Shuai, Li Huan, Zhang Kai
Department of Psychiatry, Beijing Luhe Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100001, China.
Department of Psychiatry, Chaohu Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei 238000, Anhui Province, China.
World J Psychiatry. 2025 Jan 19;15(1):100730. doi: 10.5498/wjp.v15.i1.100730.
With the growing scholarly and clinical fascination with somatic symptom disorder (SSD), a bibliometric analysis is lacking.
To conduct a bibliometric analysis to investigate the current status and frontiers of SSD.
The documents related to SSD are obtained from the web of science core collection database (WoSCC), and VOSviewer 1.6.16 from January 1, 2000 to December 31, 2023, and the WoSCC's literature analysis wire were used to conduct the bibliometric analysis.
A total of 567 documents related to SSD were included, and 2325 authors across 947 institutions from 57 countries/regions have contributed to SSD research, published in 277 journals. The most productive author, institution, country and journal were Löwe B, University of Hamburg, Germany, and respectively. The first high-cited document was published in the in 2013 by Dimsdale JE and colleagues, which explored the rationale behind the SSD diagnosis introduction in diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders.
In conclusion, the main research hotspots and frontiers in the field of SSD are validity and reliability of the SSD criteria, functional impairment of SSD, and the treatment for SSD. More high-quality studies are needed to assess the diagnosis and treatment of SSD.
随着学术界和临床界对躯体症状障碍（SSD）的兴趣日益浓厚，目前缺乏文献计量学分析。
进行文献计量学分析，以探究SSD的现状和前沿。
从科学网核心合集数据库（WoSCC）获取2000年1月1日至2023年12月31日与SSD相关的文献，并使用VOSviewer 1.6.16和WoSCC的文献分析工具进行文献计量学分析。
共纳入567篇与SSD相关的文献，来自57个国家/地区947个机构的2325位作者参与了SSD研究，这些文献发表在277种期刊上。发文量最多的作者、机构、国家和期刊分别是洛维B、德国汉堡大学等。被引频次最高的首篇文献于2013年由丁斯代尔JE及其同事发表在某期刊上，该文献探讨了在《精神疾病诊断与统计手册》中引入SSD诊断背后的基本原理。
总之，SSD领域的主要研究热点和前沿是SSD标准的有效性和可靠性、SSD的功能损害以及SSD的治疗。需要更多高质量研究来评估SSD的诊断和治疗。
