Bibliometric analysis of medicine – related publications on refugees, asylum-seekers, and internally displaced people: 2000 – 2015

Sweileh, Waleed M.

doi:10.1186/s12914-017-0116-4

BMC International Health and Human Rights

Table 4 Top 20 cited articles

From: Bibliometric analysis of medicine – related publications on refugees, asylum-seekers, and internally displaced people: 2000 – 2015

SCR	Title	Number of citations	Type of article	Reference
1^st	Prevalence of serious mental disorder in 7000 refugees resettled in western countries: A systematic review	458	Review	[54]
2^nd	Predisplacement and postdisplacement factors associated with mental health of refugees and internally displaced persons: A meta-analysis	377	Review	[55]
3^rd	Mental health of Cambodian refugees 2 decades after resettlement in the United States	256	Article	[56]
4^th	A comparison of narrative exposure therapy, supportive counseling, and psychoeducation for treating posttraumatic stress disorder in an African refugee settlement	240	Article	[57]
5^th	Measuring trauma and health status in refugees: A critical review	227	Review	[58]
6^th	Longitudinal study of psychiatric symptoms, disability, mortality, and emigration among Bosnian refugees	202	Article	[59]
7^th	Review of child and adolescent refugee mental health	195	Review	[60]
8^th	Long-term effect of psychological trauma on the mental health of Vietnamese refugees resettled in Australia: A population-based study	186	Article	[61]
9^th	Cognitive-behavior therapy vs exposure therapy in the treatment of PTSD in refugees	185	Article	[62]
10^th	Psychological trauma and evidence for enhanced vulnerability for posttraumatic stress disorder through previous trauma among West Nile refugees	164	Article	[63]
11^th	Trauma, post-migration living difficulties, and social support as predictors of psychological adjustment in resettled Sudanese refugees	160	Article	[64]
12^th	Emerging paradigms in the mental health care of refugees	159	Review	[65]
13^th	Asylum seekers and refugees in Britain: Health needs of asylum seekers and refugees	159	Review	[66]
14^th	Policies of deterrence and the mental health of asylum seekers	150	Article	[67]
15^th	Language acquisition, unemployment and depressive disorder among Southeast Asian refugees: A 10-year study	142	Article	[68]
16^th	Mental health of immigrants and refugees	141	Review	[69]
17^th	The health of immigrants and refugees in Canada	136	Review	[70]
18^th	Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder by Trained Lay Counselors in an African Refugee Settlement: A Randomized Controlled Trial	124	Article	[71]
19^th	Impact of a long asylum procedure on the prevalence of psychiatric disorders in Iraqi asylum seekers in The Netherlands	122	Article	[72]
20^th	Comorbidity of PTSD and depression among refugee children during war conflict	121	Article	[73]

SCR Standard competition ranking. Equal countries were given the same ranking number, and then a gap is left in the ranking numbers
Bold = indicates a review article

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