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ReviewApplied psychology. Health and well-being2025

The rise of artificial intelligence for cognitive behavioral therapy: A bibliometric overview.

Loïs Vanhée, Gerhard Andersson, Danilo Garcia, Sverker Sikström

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Review in Applied psychology. Health and well-being, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Loïs VanhéeDepartment of Computing Sciences, Umeå University, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-4147-4558
Gerhard AnderssonDepartment of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Linköping University, Sweden.
Danilo GarciaDepartment of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Linköping University, Sweden.
Sverker SikströmDepartment of Psychology, Lund University, Sweden.

Funding

Swedish Research Council 2023-04505WASP-DDLS (the AI4CBT Project)
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recent years have seen a sharply rising interest in the scientific area dedicated to the study of the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) research and applications (AI4CBT for brevity). Yet, little is known about how this interest is realized and hence the overall status, prospects, and possible challenges of AI4CBT as a field (e.g. breadth of the field, key topics and methods, key producing countries/institutions/authors, interdisciplinary grounding). This paper addresses this gap by developing a broad-spectrum bibliometric analysis towards acquiring a comprehensive overview of the AI4CBT field. Four key dimensions are analyzed (productivity, producers, productions, and contents) along the array of bibliographic metrics, including production trends over time, leading contributors at various levels, co-authorship, citation, and keywords co-occurrence networks, publication formats, key venues, methodological trends, and disciplinary assessment. The paper concludes by framing the status of AI4CBT as a scientific field, allowing to tie it to scientific and applicative challenges and opportunities that AI4CBT may encounter and offer as it further develops.

Indexed as

Artificial IntelligenceBibliometricsCognitive Behavioral TherapyHumansartificial intelligencebibliometric analysiscognitive behavioral therapyInterdisciplinarity analysistopic analysis

Identifiers

PMID40274359
PMCPMC12021536

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