Ten years of researches on generalized anxiety disorder (GAD): a scientometric review

Generalized anxiety disorders (GAD) is a chronic anxiety disorder characterized by autonomic excitability and hypervigilance. However, there was currently a lack of a quantitative synthesis of this time-varying science, as well as a measure of researchers’ networks and scientific productivity. Searching from the Web of Science Core Collection, PubMed, and Scopus on January 31st, 2024. The scientometric analysis was realized and the clinical research of GAD in recent ten years was explored. 9703 studies published from 2014 to 2023 were included, which aggregated into a well-structured network with credible clustering. It was worth studying the recent trend of productivity. Eleven clusters were identified by the co-citation reference network. The network structure was reasonable (Q = 0.5996) and the clustering reliability was high (S = 0.8378). The main trend of research is ‘’china’’, ‘’epidemic’’. These results can provide reference for the future development of funding agencies and research groups.