Publication Name	World Journal of Psychiatry
Manuscript ID	90834
Country	China

Category	Psychiatry
Manuscript Type	Scientometrics
Article Title	Explosion of research on psychopathology and social media use after COVID-19: A scientometric study
Manuscript Source	Unsolicited Manuscript
All Author List	Meng-Di Zhang, Rong-Quan He, Jia-Yuan Luo, Wan-Ying Huang, Jing-Yu Wei, Jian Dai, Hong Huang, Zhen Yang, Jin-Liang Kong and Gang Chen
Funding Agency and Grant Number	Funding Agency Grant Number Guangxi Higher Education Undergraduate Teaching Reform Project 2022JGA146 Guangxi Educational Science Planning Key Project 2022ZJY2791 Guangxi Medical University Key Textbook Construction Project Gxmuzdjc2223 Guangxi Medical High-Level Key Talents Training “139” Program
Corresponding Author	Gang Chen, MD, PhD, Doctor, Professor, Department of Pathology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, No. 22 Shuangyong Road, Nanning 530021, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China. chengang@gxmu.edu.cn
Key Words	Psychopathology; Social media; Bibliometrics; Web of Science; PubMed; Scopus
Core Tip	Rapid changes in the social health environment and the media have seriously affected human mental health. It is therefore important to capture research topics and trends in psychopathology and social media before and after the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) epidemic through bibliometrics. The study, which examined 4588 publications from the Web of Science, PubMed, and Scopus databases, identified an explosion in the number of findings after the COVID-19 outbreak, whereas such studies had been rare before the pandemic. As researchers increasingly focus on gender differences in psychopathological states and identify strong links between COVID-19 and depression, the detection of depression will become a new trend in the field of psychopathology and social media use.
Citation	<p>Zhang MD, He RQ, Luo JY, Huang WY, Wei JY, Dai J, Huang H, Yang Z, Kong JL, Chen G. Explosion of research on psychopathology and social media use after COVID-19: A scientometric study. <i>World J Psychiatry</i> 2024; 14(5): 742-759</p>

Received	2023-12-14 18:49
Peer-Review Started	2023-12-14 18:49
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Return for Revision	2024-02-19 03:32
Revised	2024-03-02 13:02
Second Decision	2024-04-03 01:38
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Accepted by Company Editor-in-Chief	2024-04-03 02:50
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