A Decade of Networking in Women’s Mental Health: A Bibliometric Analysis (Preprint)

BACKGROUND The vulnerability of women has positioned them to an untoward mental health status in comparison to men. The criticality of research in women's mental health is invincible reflecting the unique biopsychosocial, factors influencing her psychological well-being. Present Bibliometric analysis offers an approach to assessing the highlighting trends, influential works, and gaps in women's mental health research. OBJECTIVE Statistical descriptive analysis in combination with performance analysis and co-word analysis was used to understand the research trends, leading countries and country collaborations studying women's mental health. METHODS This study aims to perform a comprehensive bibliometric analysis of scholarly articles on women's mental health with secondary emphases on career and non-career women's mental health, by utilizing data extracted from the Scopus database from 2013 to 2024 analysing the 655 research articles. RESULTS The first publication appeared in 2013 with not much research through 2019. Consistent publishing started trending upward through 2020 during the pandemic with the largest increase between 2021 to 2023 constituting 90 publications. The United States of America is the leading country studying mental health and women including career women, with 1151 papers. Followed by the second-highest contributor the united-Kingdom, with 309 publications. Rajkumar (2020), reviewed the most influential piece of research with 2320 citations. Journal of Social Science and Medicine is noted as the leading journal publishing work on women's mental health, followed by the Journal of Affective Disorder. CONCLUSIONS The analysis reflects the rising importance of women's mental health in developing nations with meagre contributions coming from the developing and underdeveloped countries in the form of influential research in this area.