Potential Increasing Trend in Schizophrenia Relapse Prevention in the Past 40 Years: A Bibliometric Analysis.

Abstract

Objectives: Schizophrenia is an organic disease and a severe mental disorder with a relatively high risk of relapse. The increasing rate of schizophrenia relapse has motivated researchers and academics to continue to innovate and develop interventions for schizophrenia relapse prevention. This bibliometric study aims to analyze the publication trend of schizophrenia relapse prevention based on publications from 1973 to 2023, analyze the contribution of international collaboration of different journals, highlight the most influential authors and articles, and predict the future development of this topic.

Methods: The study included 683 articles obtained from the Scopus database, Vosviewers software and Tableau analysis.

Results: We found that the use of schizophrenia relapse prevention has increased significantly in the last three decades, but with fluctuations and still increasing within five years (25-40 publications). This indicates that this topic is still of interest. In terms of the largest contributions, the United States produced the highest number of publications on related topics, with John M. Kane writing the most articles, while Stefan Leucht had the highest H-index. Frequently used keywords included "relapse AND schizophrenia" AND "prevention".

Conclusions: These results serve as an important reference for determining the current state of the art and future research directions.