Bibliometric analysis of global research status and trends of social anxiety in adolescents

NIU Ying; ZHANG Yuqing; LI Yuhan; LIU Zhifen; LI Gaizhi

doi:10.11852/zgetbjzz2024-0384

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Chinese Journal of Child Health Care ›› 2025, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (7) : 783-789. DOI: 10.11852/zgetbjzz2024-0384

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Bibliometric analysis of global research status and trends of social anxiety in adolescents

NIU Ying¹, ZHANG Yuqing², LI Yuhan³, LIU Zhifen⁴, LI Gaizhi^4,5

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Objective To analyze the current research status of social anxiety in adolescents, and to identify research hotspots and frontiers through CiteSpace, so as to provide insights and references for the direction of scientific research in this field. Methods Relevant literature on social anxiety in adolescents from January 1st, 2003, to December 31st, 2023, was searched in the Web of Science Core Collection (WOSCC). CiteSpace was utilized to conduct co-occurrence, clustering, and burst analysis of authors, countries/regions, and keywords. Results A total of 433 articles were included. Pine Daniel S has published the most articles (15) in the field of social anxiety in adolescents, and the United States ranked first in terms of publication volume (136 articles). Keyword analysis revealed that "comorbidity", "prevalence", "risk factors", "behavioral inhibition", "social skills", "cognitive behavioral therapy", "psychopathology", and "model" were the research hotspots and trends in this field. Conclusions Popular topics in this research field focus on the prevalence, comorbidity, mechanisms of occurrence and development, and treatment of social anxiety in adolescents. Future research should further clarify the etiology of social anxiety in adolescents and explore biomarkers for social anxiety disorder in adolescents using neuroimaging techniques, as well as interventions with better therapeutic effects.

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adolescents / social anxiety / social anxiety disorder / visualization analysis

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NIU Ying, ZHANG Yuqing, LI Yuhan, LIU Zhifen, LI Gaizhi. Bibliometric analysis of global research status and trends of social anxiety in adolescents[J]. Chinese Journal of Child Health Care. 2025, 33(7): 783-789 https://doi.org/10.11852/zgetbjzz2024-0384

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