A decade of networking in women’s mental health: A bibliometric analysis

The vulnerability of women has positioned them to an untoward mental health status in comparison to men. The criticality of research on women's mental health is invincible, reflecting the unique biopsychosocial, factors influencing their psychological well-being. The present bibliometric analysis offers an approach for assessing trends, influential works, and gaps in women's mental health research. This study aims to perform a comprehensive bibliometric analysis of scholarly articles on women's mental health with a secondary emphasis on career and noncareer women's mental health, by utilizing data extracted from the Scopus database from 2013 - 2024 and analyzing the 655 research articles. Statistical descriptive analysis in combination with performance analysis and coword analysis was used to understand the research trends, leading countries and country collaborations studying women's mental health. The first publication appeared in 2013, with little research through 2019. Consistent publishing started increasing through 2020, with the largest increase occurring between 2021 to and 2023, constituting 90 publications. The United States of America is the leading country for studying mental health and women, including career women, with 1151 papers. This was followed by the second-highest contributor, the united kingdom, with 309 publications. Rajkumar (2020), reviewed the most influential piece of research, with 2320 citations. The 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 Disorders. The analysis reflects the increasing importance of women's mental health in developing nations, with meager contributions coming from developing and underdeveloped countries in the form of influential research in this area.