Child maltreatment remains a major health threat globally that requires the understanding of socioeconomic and cultural contexts to craft effective interventions. However, little is known about research agendas globally and the development of knowledge-producing networks in this field of study. This study aims to explore the bibliometric overview on child maltreatment publications to understand their growth from 1916 to 2018. Data from the Web of Science Core Collection were collected in May 2018. Only research articles and reviews written in the English language were included, with no restrictions by publication date. We analyzed publication years, number of papers, journals, authors, keywords and countries, and presented the countries collaboration and co-occurrence keywords analysis. From 1916 to 2018, 47,090 papers (53.0% in 2010⁻2018) were published in 9442 journals. Child Abuse & Neglect (2576 papers; 5.5%); Children and Youth Services Review (1130 papers; 2.4%) and Pediatrics (793 papers, 1.7%) published the most papers. The most common research areas were Psychology (16,049 papers, 34.1%), Family Studies (8225 papers, 17.5%), and Social Work (7367 papers, 15.6%). Among 192 countries with research publications, the most prolific countries were the United States (26,367 papers), England (4676 papers), Canada (3282 papers) and Australia (2664 papers). We identified 17 authors who had more than 60 scientific items. The most cited papers (with at least 600 citations) were published in 29 journals, headed by the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) (7 papers) and the Lancet (5 papers). This overview of global research in child maltreatment indicated an increasing trend in this topic, with the world’s leading centers located in the Western countries led by the United States. We called for interdisciplinary research approaches to evaluating and intervening on child maltreatment, with a focus on low-middle income countries (LMICs) settings and specific contexts.

Bloomberg School of Public Health Johns Hopkins University Baltimore MD 21205 USA

Center for Interdisciplinary Social Research Thanh Tay University Hanoi 100000 Vietnam Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management Centre Emile Bernheim Université Libre de Bruxelles Brussels B 1050 Belgium

Center for Research and Training Tam Anh Hospital Hanoi 100000 Vietnam

Department of Pediatrics Hanoi Medical University Hanoi 100000 Vietnam Department of Emergency Medicine Vietnam National Children's Hospital Hanoi 100000 Vietnam

Department of Psychological Medicine National University Hospital Singapore 119228 Singapore

Department of Psychological Medicine Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine National University of Singapore Singapore 119228 Singapore

Department of Public Health Sciences Karolinska Institutet SE 171 77 Stockholm Sweden

Department of Surgery Hanoi Medical University Hospital Hanoi 100000 Vietnam

Faculty of Graduate Studies National Economics University Hanoi 100000 Vietnam

Graduate School of Medicine Kyoto University Kyoto 606 8501 Japan

Institute for Global Health Innovations Duy Tan University Da Nang 550000 Vietnam

Institute for Preventive Medicine and Public Health Hanoi Medical University Hanoi 100000 Vietnam

Institute for Preventive Medicine and Public Health Hanoi Medical University Hanoi 100000 Vietnam Bloomberg School of Public Health Johns Hopkins University Baltimore MD 21205 USA Vietnam Young Physician Association Hanoi 100000 Vietnam

Institute for Preventive Medicine and Public Health Hanoi Medical University Hanoi 100000 Vietnam National Hospital of Obstetrics and Gynecology Hanoi 100000 Vietnam

Institute of Chemical Technology Mumbai 400 019 India

Institute of Philosophy Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences Hanoi 100000 Vietnam

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine University of London London WC1E 7HT UK

Nepal Health Research Council Kathmandu 44600 Nepal Institute of Occupational Medicine Social Medicine and Environmental Medicine Goethe University Frankfurt am Main 60323 Germany

School of Public Health University of Alberta Edmonton AB T6G 1C9 Canada

Sciences Po Paris Campus de Dijon 21000 Dijon France

Vietnam Czech Friendship Hospital Hai Phong 180000 Vietnam

Vietnam Young Physician Association Hanoi 100000 Vietnam

Youth Research Institute Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union Hanoi 100000 Vietnam

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