The mental health of refugees in the USA: changes and the unchanged.

Aim: The objective of this study was to better understand what the scientific community is saying about refugees and mental health, how it is discussed, and to understand the impact of their outputs over time through a bibliometric analysis. Subjects and methods: This research uses bibliometric analysis on 465 documents, including peer-reviewed journal articles and books, sourced from an online database of peer-reviewed literature. Results: Contrary to the exponential rate in which research productivity has grown in the past 20 years, the literature on the mental health of refugees in the United States has not shown significant changes. The researched themes, methods, and their findings appear to have echoed much of it from the past. Conclusions: Some implications of such echoing include that the means by which the scientific communities approach the topic of mental health of refugees has largely been unchanged. Also, various refugee communities in the US appear to share similar mental health conditions and experiences, irrespective of when and where they resettle. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]