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Record W4408804230 · doi:10.5498/wjp.v15.i4.104600

Comprehensive bibliometric analysis of transcranial magnetic stimulation-based depression treatment from 2003 to 2022: Research hotspots and trends

2025· article· en· W4408804230 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Zhengyu Li, Yu-Wei Zhang, Haoran Yang, Hongjin Wu, Song Zhang, Yingfu Jiao, Weifeng Yu, Jie Xiao, Po Gao, Heng Yang

Bibliographic record

VenueWorld Journal of Psychiatry · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldNeuroscience
TopicTranscranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsTranscranial magnetic stimulationDepression (economics)MedicineStimulationInternal medicine

Abstract

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BACKGROUND: Depression has become a global public health problem. In recent years, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) has gained considerable attention as a non-invasive treatment for depression. AIM: To investigate the research hotspots and trends in the field of TMS-based depression treatment from a bibliometric perspective. METHODS: Using the Web of Science Core Collection, articles published between 2003 and 2022 on TMS-based depression treatment were retrieved from the science citation index expanded. The publication trends and research hotspots were analyzed using VOSviewer, CiteSpace, and the bibliometric online analysis platform. Regression analysis was performed using Microsoft Excel 2021 to predict publication growth trends. RESULTS: We identified a total of 702 articles on TMS-based depression treatment with a predominance of clinical studies. Analysis of collaborative networks showed that the United States, the University of Toronto, and Daskalakis ZJ were identified as the most impactful country, institution, and researcher, respectively. In keyword burst analysis, it was found that theta burst stimulation (TBS), functional connectivity, and frequency were the most recent research hotspots. CONCLUSION: TMS provides a novel therapeutic option for patients with treatment-resistant depression. Neuroimaging technology enables more precise TMS treatment, while the novel TMS modality, TBS, enhances both therapeutic efficacy and patient experience in TMS-based depression treatment. The integration of neuroimaging techniques with TBS represents a promising research direction for advancing TMS-based depression treatment. This study presents systematic information and recommendations to guide future research on TMS-based depression treatment.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Direct model labels (unvalidated)

Per-model category and study-design labels from the labeling rounds. They are machine output, unvalidated, and the disagreement between models ships as data. No study design here is MEDLINE-validated yet.

Model armCategoriesStudy designConfidence
gemmaBibliometrics
Domain: not available · Genre: Empirical
About the Canadian research system: no · About a Canadian topic: no
Observationallow
gptBibliometrics
Domain: not available · Genre: Empirical
About the Canadian research system: no · About a Canadian topic: no
Other designlow
models splitAgreement compares identical category sets and study designs across arms.

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesBibliometrics
Consensus categoriesBibliometrics
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.424
Threshold uncertainty score0.919

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0910.188
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.060
GPT teacher head0.382
Teacher spread0.323 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Labeled directly by 2 models reading the full record.

Bibliometrics

The models disagree on parts of this classification; every voice is preserved in the section at the end of the page.

Study designObservational · Other design
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Citations1
Published2025
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