OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry is 6. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Development of a perinatal trauma screening tool: Detecting the silent struggle of perinatal post-traumatic stress disorder	88
Australia’s unethical deportation practice discriminates against New Zealanders with mental illness: ‘Everybody needs good neighbours!’	79
Childhood cumulative trauma, social support and stress as predictors of illness outcomes and quality of life in bipolar disorder	64
Research Letter: Effect of antivirals for COVID-19 on the mortality of older adults dispensed treatment with lithium, antipsychotics, antidepressants, anxiolytics and hypnotics	50
Thanks to Reviewers	40
Letter to the Editor regarding ‘Lithium plus antipsychotics or anticonvulsants for bipolar disorder: Comparing clinical response and metabolic changes’	34
Prescribing electroconvulsive therapy for depression: Not as simple as it used to be	34
The value of screening tools in assessing living kidney donors for psychosocial risk factors: A literature review and case series	31
Experiences of physical healthcare services in Māori and non-Māori with mental health and substance use conditions	29
Use of suicide prevention helpline services by first-time, frequent, and daily callers: A national cohort study	29
Emerging psychiatric treatments, barriers to care and public health challenges	28
A systematic review and meta-analysis of the prevalence of alcohol and other drug use and problematic use among people accessing mental health treatment in Australia	27
Bushfire and adolescent mental health: A systematic review	24
The cost of editorial independence, and the free speech it supports, is eternal vigilance	23
Research Letters: High-definition transcranial direct current stimulation of the inferior parietal lobe in anorexia nervosa: A proof-of-concept randomised controlled trial	22
Comorbid attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and bipolar disorder	21
A first-hand account of receiving repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation	21
Breaching the family walls: Modelling the impact of prolonged visa insecurity on asylum-seeking children	21
Implications of psychiatric diagnosis for Voluntary Assisted Dying in Victoria	21
Exploring the association of Indigeneity, social adversity status and externalizing symptoms in children and adolescents	20
Risk of parental major psychiatric disorders in patients with comorbid autism spectrum disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: A population-based family-link study	20
Letter to the Editor regarding: ‘Smoke and mirrors: Support from psychiatrists for nicotine e-cigarette availability in Australia’	20
Letter to the Editor: Author reply to Letter to the Editor regarding ‘Discharge destinations for young people with a first episode of psychosis after attending an early intervention for psychosis serv	19
Prevalence and determinants of mental health related to climate change in Australia	19
Distinguishing apathy and depression in dementia: A longitudinal study	18

Initial physical health assessment for psychosis in Australia and New Zealand: 2026 recommendations	18
From early intervention to equity	17
Using data in psychiatry: From measurement to meaning	17
Using machine learning-based Natural Language Processing to quantify emergency department presentations related to suicide or self-harm in the Australian Capital Territory	17
Growing the lived experience voice in psychiatry education and research: An academic department’s journey	16
Bridging the gap: Can single session interventions help enhance mental health treatment delivery for young people in Australia?	16
Novel youth mental health services in Australia: What differences are being reported about the clinical needs of those who attend and the outcomes achieved?	16
Letter to the Editor: Letter to the Editor regarding ‘The physical health and premature mortality of Indigenous Māori following first-episode psychosis diagnosis: A 15-year follow-up study’	16
Psychiatric diagnoses prior to the first onset of non-affective and affective psychoses	15
Mind the gap: Prioritising cognition in the care of people with schizophrenia and other psychosis	15
Art therapy with children and adolescents experiencing acute or severe mental health conditions: A systematic review	15
The impact of the suicide of ‘Parasite’ actor Lee Sun Kyun on suicide rates in South Korea: A time-series analysis	15
Self-reported prevalence of long-term mental health conditions highest in the oldest old: Data from the 2021 Australian Census	15
Adult attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder: How can we put the cart behind the horse?	14
Research Letters: What do clinicians think about psychedelic-assisted therapy? An Australian perspective	14
Dynamic modelling of the impact of community-based acute mental health services for children and adolescents	14
Letter to the Editor regarding ‘Renewal of academic psychiatry without addressing gender equity will render it Jurassic rather than endangered’	14
Author reply to Letter to the Editor regarding ‘Defending and demonstrating the psychodynamic orientation in psychiatry’	13
Anti-dementia medication use in Aotearoa New Zealand: An exploratory study using health data from the Integrated Data Infrastructure (IDI)	13
Letter to the Editor regarding ‘Heart rate variability in patients with dementia or neurocognitive disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis’	12
Police, ambulance and psychiatric co-response versus usual care for mental health and suicide emergency callouts: A quasi-experimental study	12
Clinical recommendations for the care of people with treatment-refractory obsessive-compulsive disorder when undergoing deep brain stimulation	12
Prevalence of psychiatric conditions in people with intellectual disability: A record linkage study in New South Wales, Australia	12
Trends in calls to a state poisons centre and presentation to emergency departments for intentional antidepressant overdose in Victoria, Australia	12
Use of psychotropic medications in adults with intellectual disability: A systematic review and meta-analysis	12
Suicide and suicidality in Australian Defence Force veterans: A systematic scoping review	12
Research Letter: Cumulative incidence of psychotropic drug prescriptions among children and adolescents in an Australian population cohort	11
Exploring the use of electroconvulsive therapy in the anticoagulated population: A systematic review	11
Perinatal depression: The use of the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale to derive clinical subtypes	11
Against the use of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children aged 2–15 years	11
The prevalence of self-reported mental illness among those imprisoned in New South Wales across three health surveys, from 2001 to 2015	11
Indigenous suicide rates in the United States, Australia and New Zealand between 2006 and 2019	11
Abuses in psychiatric care: The shameful story of the Lake Alice Child and Adolescent unit in Aotearoa New Zealand	11
Accessibility and responsiveness of Better Access treatment services: Insights from the use of linked administrative data in the evaluation of Better Access	11
Clinical risk prediction for bipolar disorder: If, when and how?	10
Treatment guesses in the Treatment for Adolescents with Depression Study: Accuracy, unblinding and influence on outcomes	10
Call to revise the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists’ clinical memorandum on deep brain stimulation for obsessive-compulsive disorder	10
Determining the future role of clinical practice guidelines: The experience of Australia and New Zealand	10
Electroconvulsive therapy in a tertiary Australian mental health facility between 2009 and 2020	10
Health service and medication costs associated with common mental disorders and subthreshold symptoms in women: Findings from the Geelong Osteoporosis Study in Australia	10
Ensuring the affordable becomes accessible–lessons from ketamine, a new treatment for severe depression	10
Letter to the editor: Serious concerns about ‘Concerns over the process and outcomes of the review by the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists into long-term psychodynamic psychot	9
Cardiometabolic monitoring in children and adolescents prescribed antipsychotics in Australian primary care, 2011 to 2017	9
Clinicians’ views on cognitive assessment with Aboriginal Australians	9
Body dysmorphic disorder and the ugly truth of Australian healthcare	9
Addressing the unmet needs of bipolar disorder in Australia and beyond	9
Moving towards more person-centred, culturally safe and evidence-informed care	9
Vitamin D status in pregnancy and childhood associates with intelligence quotient at age 7 years: An Odense child cohort study	9
Screen time and young people: A systematic review and meta-analysis of the evidence on self-harm and suicidality	9
Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists professional practice guidelines for the use of ketamine in psychiatric practice	9

Characteristics of deaths related to lithium toxicity in Australia, 2000–2024	9
Understanding and addressing racism in clinical encounters	9
Research Letter: Unveiling the boundaries: Analysing advertising breaches in the promotion of medicinal cannabis in Australia	9
Optimising brain health: Getting ambitious about prevention from midlife	9
The comparative mental health of Australian doctors before and during COVID-19: A population-based approach	9
Incidence of and risk factors for alcohol dependence in bipolar disorder: A population-based cohort and nested case–control study	9
Using data linkage for mental health research in Australia	9
Why didn’t the TGA consult with Australian researchers and clinicians with experience in psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy for treatment-resistant major depressive disorder?	9
Expanded access to publicly subsidised lisdexamfetamine treatment for adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: An interrupted time-series analysis	9
Examining the effectiveness of the Better Access initiative using data from real-world practice settings	9
RANZCP Abstracts	9
Should voluntary assisted dying be available to people with mental illness? The example of Canada	9
Research Letter: What do Australian consumers with lived experience of bipolar disorder want from early intervention services?	8
Thanks to Reviewers	8
Compulsory Community Treatment Orders and health outcomes for Māori in New Zealand	8
Perinatal outcomes of Aboriginal women with mental health disorders	8
Author Index	8
Development of best practice guidelines for clinical and community service providers to prevent suicide in LGBTQA+ young people: A Delphi expert consensus study	8
Through the looking glass: Resetting the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatry’s approach to gender equity	8
Secondary mental health service utilisation following emergency department contact for suicidal behaviour: A systematic review	8
Implementation of a ketamine programme for treatment-resistant depression in the public health system: Lessons from the first Australian public hospital clinic	8
Research Letter: Perceived rather than actual reduction in standard of living is associated with psychological distress: A cross-sectional survey of working Australians	8
Letters to the Editor: Letter to the Editor regarding ‘Is the narrative the message? The relationship between suicide-related narratives in media reports and subsequent suicides’	8
Psychiatry across the lifespan: From early risk to advanced age	8
The psychosocial impacts of the 15 March terrorist attack on the Christchurch Muslim community: A descriptive, cross-sectional assessment	8
Developing policy and regulation for the safer use of artificial intelligence technologies for mental health in Australia	8
Associations between mortality and exposure to psychotropic medication: A population-based cohort study for depressive disorders	7
Letters to the Editor: Letter to the Editor regarding ‘A challenge to the dopamine orthodoxy in schizophrenia?’	7
RANZCP 2025: Book of Abstracts	7
Letter to the Editor regarding ‘Exposures to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder medications reported to the New South Wales Poisons Information Centre (2014–2023): A retrospective study’	7
Substance use disorder screening and brief intervention in routine clinical practice in specialist adult mental health services: A systematic review	7
On- and off-label utilisation of antipsychotics in Australia (2000–2021): Retrospective analysis of two medication datasets	7
The development of a cultural validity assessment tool for First Nations people	7
Psychiatric service delivery for older people in hospital and residential aged care: An updated systematic review	7
Letter to the Editor regarding ‘Artificial intelligence and academic publishing in psychiatry’	7
Access to mental health under Medicare has stalled – What now?	7
Exploring the measurement validity of the Your Experience of Service survey	7
Letter to the Editor: Letter to the Editor regarding ‘Do compulsory mental health patients have a right to receive a second psychiatric opinion on their treatment under Australian mental health legisl	7
Palliative psychiatry in a narrow and in a broad sense: A concept clarification	7
Improving metabolic risk in patients with mental illness through ‘mental health care plans’ in primary health care	7
Doubtful medical cannabis prescribing practices identified from 55 medical cannabis websites	7
Neurocognitive function of patients with melancholic and non-melancholic major depressive episodes: An exploratory study	7
Youth mental health and suicidality in Australia: Developmental pathways and barriers to care	7
Polypharmacy in psychiatry: Evidence-based medicine or a Sisyphean solution?	7
Proximity of alcohol outlets and presentation to hospital by young people after self-harm: A retrospective geospatial study using the integrated data infrastructure	7
Online Mental Health Assessment in a psychiatry emergency department in adults using touchscreen mobile devices: A randomised controlled trial	7
What works for whom when treating major depression with psychotherapy?	7
Letter to the Editor: Letter to the Editor regarding ‘Abuses in psychiatric care: The shameful story of the Lake Alice Child and Adolescent unit in Aotearoa New Zealand’	6
Vitamin D status in pregnancy and cord blood is associated with symptoms of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder at age 5 years: Results from Odense Child Cohort	6
Galvanizing research ‘Down Under’ to resist pressure from above	6
Data from four consecutive cohorts of students in Australia (2019–2022) show the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on domestic and international university students’ mental health	6
Development of a research capacity and culture tool for people with lived experience of mental health challenges	6
Involuntary treatment for substance use disorders in Victoria – An audit of people treated under the Severe Substance Dependence Treatment Act from 2011 to 2023	6
Suicide among health professionals in Australia: A retrospective mortality study of trends over the last two decades	6
Research Letter: Could ChatGPT and Bard provide helpful responses to a person seeking advice on how to support someone with a mental health problem?	6
Effectiveness of specialist-delivered interventions in severe mental illness: A systematic review and meta-analysis	6
Prevalence of suicidal and self-harm ideation in fathers during the perinatal and early parenting period: A systematic review and meta-analysis	6
Can we raise the bar?	6
Mental health–related service and medicine use among a cohort of urban Aboriginal children and young people: Data linkage study	6
Setting the top 10 eating disorder research and translation priorities for Australia	6
Machine learning prediction will be part of future treatment of depression	6
Suicides in Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people following hospital admission for suicidal ideation and self-harm: A retrospective cohort data linkage study from the Northern Territory	6
RANZCP 2024 CONGRESS: Book of Abstracts	6
Shame and trauma are critical to understanding the impacts of psychosis: Examining clinical correlates within a tertiary psychosis service cohort	6
Plasma neurofilament light in behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia compared to mood and psychotic disorders	6
Transforming mental health facilities: Current trends and considerations	6
Alternative metrics for characterizing longer-term clinical outcomes in difficult-to-treat depression: II. Sensitivity to treatment effects	6
Bipolar eyes: Windows to the pole?	6
MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for post-traumatic stress disorder: The devil is in the detail	6
Mental ill-health and substance use among sexuality diverse adolescents: The critical role of school climate and teacher self-efficacy	6