Facts on psychotraumatology

Figures & data

Figure 1. Visualization of content in EJPT based on PubMed author keywords to 23 January 2019 (VOSviewer).

Figure 2. Article metrics example for Kessler et al., 2017 (retrieved 21 January 2019).

Figure 3. Impact factor development European Journal of Psychotraumatology.

Table 1. Finalists for the ESTSS EJPT best paper of 2019.

Trauma and trauma care in Europe (Schafer et al., 2018)	‘The review paper provides an important overview of the current state of trauma care systems in 15 European countries (ESTSS society members only) by including state of the art of interventions, current challenges in caring for survivors and the topics that need to be most urgently addressed. Thus, the review facilitates a European collaboration where it’s possible to benefit from history and experience and take important steps in relation to facilitating evidence-based treatment while taking cultural and economic diversity into consideration’; ‘helpful overview of posttraumatic mental health promotion across Europe’; ‘relates to the core of ESTSS’
e-PTSD: an overview on how new technologies can improve prediction and assessment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) (Bourla, Mouchabac, El Hage W. & Ferreri F., 2018)	‘This paper provides a helpful overview of how novel technological methods can help researchers and clinicians identify those in need of support following trauma exposure. Not only does it review various methods, but it might also generate research ideas in the readers’; ‘ for their thought-provoking topics and their relevance in bridging up clinical practice and theoretical/technical advance’; ‘Given the increasing presence and use of digital media, it is a promising avenue for efficient early and large scale detection of PTSD symptoms’; ‘technology has the future’
Application of data pooling to longitudinal studies of early post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD): the International Consortium to Predict PTSD (ICPP) project (Qi et al., 2018)	‘This article describes an important approach to advancing our scientific understanding of the longitudinal course of PTSD by pooling the results from individual investigators’; ‘to create an international repository database’; ‘development of a new, major resource for the field’; ‘because data harmonization is critically important for the advancement of the field’; ‘a good example of added value of pooling data and collaborating internationally’
PTSD and Complex PTSD: ICD-11 updates on concept and measurement in the UK, USA, Germany and Lithuania (Karatzias et al., 2017)	‘This comprehensive multi-national review provides the most thorough and up-to-date summary of research on the very important and controversial topic of the nature and structure of PTSD and its complex variants’; ‘aims at opening discussion for current (and future usage of) criteria and invites to keep on researching its prevalence, addressing the need of using cPTSD as a different identity from PTSD’
Effectiveness of an intensive treatment programme combining prolonged exposure and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing for severe post-traumatic stress disorder (Van Woudenberg et al., 2018)	This is one of several articles* that were described as: ‘very promising innovations in treatment’ or ‘interesting examples of novel treatment delivery modalities and as attempts to reduce patients dropping out of trauma-focused treatments before they receive an appropriate dose of treatment’ ‘It describes a fresh new perspective on delivering exposure therapy and clearly describes that controlled studies are needed, which I’m sure will be inspired by this paper’ *A five-day inpatient EMDR treatment programme for PTSD: pilot study (Mendez, Nijdam, Ter Heide, van der Aa, & Olff, 2018) Intensive prolonged exposure therapy for chronic PTSD patients following multiple trauma and multiple treatment attempts (Hendriks et al., 2018) Therapist rotation: a novel approach for implementation of trauma-focused treatment in post-traumatic stress disorder (Van Minnen et al., 2018) Moving forward in treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder: innovations to exposure-based therapy (Nijdam & Vermetten, 2018)

Kessler, R. C., Aguilar-Gaxiola, S., Alonso, J., Benjet, C., Bromet, E. J., Cardoso, G., … Survey, W. W. M. H. (2017). Trauma and PTSD in the WHO World Mental Health Surveys. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 8. doi:10.1080/20008198.2017.1353383

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Schafer, I., Hopchet, M., Vandamme, N., Ajdukovic, D., El-Hage, W., Egreteau, L., … Murphy, D. (2018). Trauma and trauma care in Europe. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 9(1). doi:10.1080/20008198.2018.1556553

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Bourla, A., Mouchabac, S., El Hage, W., & Ferreri, F. (2018). e-PTSD: an overview on how new technologies can improve prediction and assessment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 9(Supp 1). doi: 10.1080/20008198.2018.1424448

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Qi, W., Ratanatharathorn, A., Gevonden, M., Bryant, R., Delahanty, D., & Matsuoka, Y., & Icpp. (2018). Application of data pooling to longitudinal studies of early post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD): the International Consortium to Predict PTSD (ICPP) project. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 9(1). doi:10.1080/20008198.2018.1476442

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Karatzias, T., Cloitre, M., Maercker, A., Kazlauskas, E., Shevlin, M., Hyland, P., … Brewin, C. R. (2017). PTSD and Complex PTSD: ICD-11 updates on concept and measurement in the UK, USA, Germany and Lithuania. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 8. doi:10.1080/20008198.2017.1418103

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Van Woudenberg, C., Voorendonk, E. M., Bongaerts, H., Zoet, H. A., Verhagen, M., Lee, C. W., … De Jongh, A. (2018). Effectiveness of an intensive treatment programme combining prolonged exposure and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing for severe post-traumatic stress disorder. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 9(1). doi:10.1080/20008198.2018.1487225

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Mendez, M. Z., Nijdam, M. J., Ter Heide, F. J. J., van der Aa, N., & Olff, M. (2018). A five-day inpatient EMDR treatment programme for PTSD: pilot study. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 9(1). doi:10.1080/20008198.2018.1425575

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Hendriks, L., de Kleine, R. A., Broekman, T. G., Hendriks, G. J., & van Minnen, A. (2018). Intensive prolonged exposure therapy for chronic PTSD patients following multiple trauma and multiple treatment attempts. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 9(1). doi:10.1080/20008198.2018.1425574

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Van Minnen, A., Hendriks, L., De Kleine, R., Hendriks, G.-J., Verhagen, M., & De Jongh, A. (2018). Therapist rotation: a novel approach for implementation of trauma-focused treatment in post-traumatic stress disorder. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 9(1). doi: 10.1080/20008198.2018.1492836

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Nijdam, M. J., & Vermetten, E. (2018). Moving forward in treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder: innovations to exposure-based therapy. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 9(1). doi:10.1080/20008198.2018.1458568

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