4238 - THE RISE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL THERAPY: A BIBLIOMETRIC OVERVIEW

Session: 4237 - ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND MACHINE LEARNING IN ASSESSING AND PROMOTING HEALTH BEHAVIORS
AUTHORS:
Loïs Vanhée (Department of Computing Science Umeå University ~ Umeå, ~ Sweden)
Abstract text:
Recent years have seen a sharply rising interest on the scientific area dedicated to study of 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 array of bibliographic metrics, including: production trends over time, leading contributors at various levels, co-authorship, citation, and keywords co-occurence 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.