Papers on “depression”
Research on “depression” in the 480 tracked journals: papers per year and category, the journals, institutions and countries publishing it, the keywords studied with it and its most-cited papers. It is not among the most frequent keywords of the last 30 days, so this page has no list of its latest papers. Also as Markdown.
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Key findings#
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “depression” appeared in 1,263 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in health economics and policy (844), economics (151) and information systems (125).
- 147 of them were published in 2025, against 92 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Harvard University (12), IZA - Institute of Labor Economics (12) and King's College London (12).
- The journals publishing most of them were Social Science & Medicine (119), SSM - Population Health (44) and Computers in Human Behavior (36).
- The most-cited of them is “Support vector machine” (Machine Learning, 2019), with 1,196 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Health Economics and Policy | 64 | 60 | 69 | 115 | 111 | 89 | 80 | 91 | 99 | 66 |
| Economics | 7 | 9 | 13 | 15 | 14 | 19 | 18 | 23 | 17 | 16 |
| Information Systems | 15 | 12 | 8 | 10 | 6 | 21 | 18 | 13 | 15 | 7 |
| Statistics | 1 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 6 |
| AI | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 4 |
| Management | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Higher Education and Research | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 |
| Operations Research | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 |
| Marketing | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Finance | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| All categories | 92 | 88 | 96 | 155 | 152 | 147 | 136 | 146 | 147 | 104 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Social Science & Medicine | 119 |
| 2 | SSM - Population Health | 44 |
| 3 | Computers in Human Behavior | 36 |
| 4 | International Journal for Equity in Health | 31 |
| 5 | Health and Quality of Life Outcomes | 27 |
| 6 | Journal of Happiness Studies | 22 |
| 7 | Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research | 19 |
| 8 | The Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research | 17 |
| 9 | International Journal of Mental Health Systems | 17 |
| 10 | Economics & Human Biology | 10 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Harvard University | 12 |
| 2 | IZA - Institute of Labor Economics | 12 |
| 3 | King's College London | 12 |
| 4 | Peking University | 11 |
| 5 | The University of Melbourne | 11 |
| 6 | University of Oxford | 11 |
| 7 | University of Toronto | 10 |
| 8 | Monash University | 9 |
| 9 | Columbia University | 8 |
| 10 | Deakin University | 8 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States | 167 |
| 2 | China | 107 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 76 |
| 4 | Australia | 39 |
| 5 | Germany | 35 |
| 6 | Canada | 29 |
| 7 | Spain | 23 |
| 8 | Italy | 21 |
| 9 | Hong Kong | 20 |
| 10 | Netherlands | 20 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | anxiety | 222 |
| 2 | mental health | 138 |
| 3 | COVID-19 pandemic | 56 |
| 4 | older adults | 51 |
| 5 | gender differences | 49 |
| 6 | psychological distress | 35 |
| 7 | life satisfaction | 31 |
| 8 | loneliness | 30 |
| 9 | post-traumatic stress disorder | 30 |
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Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “depression”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/depression
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