Ye Qian, Yang Yiling, Qi Yue, Li Jiale, Lei Huijuan, Sun Lina, Zhang Jie
School of Nursing, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.
Department of Child & Adolescence Psychology, The Zhongshan Third People's Hospital, Zhongshan, Guangdong, China.
Front Psychiatry. 2025 Jul 23;16:1608930. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2025.1608930. eCollection 2025.
Adolescent eating disorders represent a category of mental illness, marked by elevated mortality and morbidity rates and a significant adverse impact on the quality of life of both patients and their families. As one of the most important directions in eating disorders, adolescent eating disorders have significant research value, social value, and practical significance. Surprisingly, the overall research landscape in this domain has yet to be systematically explored through bibliometric analysis. Consequently, this study aims to employ bibliometric methods to analyze published literature, providing a comprehensive and systematic summary of the current research advancements and hotspots in the field of adolescent eating disorders, as well as to forecast potential research directions and future trends.
We retrieved studies related to adolescent eating disorders from the Web of Science Core Collection database, covering the period from January 1, 2011, to December 31, 2024. We conducted a bibliometric analysis of the literature, employed the visualization tools CiteSpace and VoSviewer. Our study focused on the number of publications, countries, institutions, journals that have cited the works, references, authors, and keywords, to uncover patterns and trends in the field.
A total of 1,077 articles were retrieved. The number of publications in this field has shown a steady upward trend. The United States leads in adolescent eating disorder research. The University of California is the most productive institution, with 134 papers. The International Journal of Eating Disorders is the most cited journal, with 993 citations. The reference " " has the highest citation frequency. Le Grange Daniel is the most prolific author. High-frequency keywords include "prevalence", "weight", and "risk factors". Emerging keywords are "mental health", "emotion management", "social media", and "validation".
Adolescent eating disorders are gaining increasing global attention. Presently, research on this issue focuses on comorbidities between adolescent eating disorders and other mental illnesses, and their etiology, risk factors, and clinical assessment. In the future, the core research directions in this field will center on verifying the long-term effectiveness of eating disorder treatments, refining personalized assessment and treatment models, and furthering interdisciplinary integration in interventional approaches.
青少年饮食失调是一类精神疾病，死亡率和发病率较高，对患者及其家庭的生活质量有重大负面影响。作为饮食失调领域最重要的方向之一，青少年饮食失调具有重要的研究价值、社会价值和现实意义。令人惊讶的是，该领域的整体研究格局尚未通过文献计量分析进行系统探索。因此，本研究旨在运用文献计量方法分析已发表的文献，全面系统地总结青少年饮食失调领域的当前研究进展和热点，并预测潜在的研究方向和未来趋势。
我们从科学引文索引核心合集数据库中检索了与青少年饮食失调相关的研究，涵盖2011年1月1日至2024年12月31日的时间段。我们对文献进行了文献计量分析，使用了可视化工具CiteSpace和VOSviewer。我们的研究重点是出版物数量、国家、机构、引用这些作品的期刊、参考文献、作者和关键词，以揭示该领域的模式和趋势。
共检索到1077篇文章。该领域的出版物数量呈稳步上升趋势。美国在青少年饮食失调研究方面领先。加利福尼亚大学是产出最多的机构，有134篇论文。《国际饮食失调杂志》是被引用最多的期刊，被引次数为993次。参考文献“ ”的引用频率最高。勒·格兰奇·丹尼尔是最多产的作者。高频关键词包括“患病率”“体重”和“风险因素”。新兴关键词是“心理健康”“情绪管理”“社交媒体”和“验证”。
青少年饮食失调在全球范围内受到越来越多的关注。目前，关于这个问题的研究集中在青少年饮食失调与其他精神疾病的共病情况及其病因、风险因素和临床评估上。未来，该领域的核心研究方向将集中在验证饮食失调治疗的长期有效性、完善个性化评估和治疗模式以及进一步推进干预方法的跨学科整合。
