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The following is a summary of “Cognitive rehabilitation in schizophrenia research: a bibliometric and visualization analysis,” published in the December 2024 issue of Psychiatry by Shu et al.
Cognitive impairment is a core feature of schizophrenia. Despite growing research on cognitive rehabilitation, systematic reviews remain limited.
Researchers conducted a retrospective study to analyze the current state and trends of cognitive rehabilitation in schizophrenia over the past 2 decades.
They retrieved articles on cognitive rehabilitation in schizophrenia from the Core database of Web of Science, published between 2004 and 2024. They applied bibliometrics for quantitative and qualitative analysis of authors, institutions, countries, journals, references, and keywords using CiteSpace, VOSviewer, and the R software package Bibliometrix.
The results showed 2,413 articles, including 1,774 regular and 373 review articles. The US had the highest productivity and citation counts, collaborating with over 40 nations, followed by the UK and Spain. King’s College London was the leading institution. The article with the highest average citation rate was by Susan R. McGurk from Dartmouth Centre for Psychiatric Research. Schizophrenia research was the most influential journal, cited over 10,000 times.
They provided a comprehensive review of cognitive rehabilitation research for schizophrenia from 2004 to 2024, identifying key trends and future hotspots. Research on neural plasticity and virtual reality’s safety and efficacy emerged as significant areas for future exploration.
Source: frontiersin.org/journals/psychiatry/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1509539/full
