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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Thanks to Reviewers	82
Empty sella and periodic mental symptoms: A report of two cases	70
Research Letter: Effect of antivirals for COVID-19 on the mortality of older adults dispensed treatment with lithium, antipsychotics, antidepressants, anxiolytics and hypnotics	67
The value of screening tools in assessing living kidney donors for psychosocial risk factors: A literature review and case series	47
Letter to the Editor regarding ‘Lithium plus antipsychotics or anticonvulsants for bipolar disorder: Comparing clinical response and metabolic changes’	47
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	44
Clinical wisdom, science and evidence: The neglected gifts of psychodynamic thinking	43
The cost of editorial independence, and the free speech it supports, is eternal vigilance	43
Prescribing electroconvulsive therapy for depression: Not as simple as it used to be	42
Use of suicide prevention helpline services by first-time, frequent, and daily callers: A national cohort study	38
Experiences of physical healthcare services in Māori and non-Māori with mental health and substance use conditions	37
Bushfire and adolescent mental health: A systematic review	36
Childhood cumulative trauma, social support and stress as predictors of illness outcomes and quality of life in bipolar disorder	35
Letter to the Editor regarding: ‘Smoke and mirrors: Support from psychiatrists for nicotine e-cigarette availability in Australia’	32
Australia’s unethical deportation practice discriminates against New Zealanders with mental illness: ‘Everybody needs good neighbours!’	32
Exploring the association of Indigeneity, social adversity status and externalizing symptoms in children and adolescents	30
Research Letters: High-definition transcranial direct current stimulation of the inferior parietal lobe in anorexia nervosa: A proof-of-concept randomised controlled trial	27
Comorbid attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and bipolar disorder	26
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	26
Risk of parental major psychiatric disorders in patients with comorbid autism spectrum disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: A population-based family-link study	25
A first-hand account of receiving repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation	25
Implications of psychiatric diagnosis for Voluntary Assisted Dying in Victoria	23
Lithium plus antipsychotics or anticonvulsants for bipolar disorder: Comparing clinical response and metabolic changes	23
Breaching the family walls: Modelling the impact of prolonged visa insecurity on asylum-seeking children	22
Systematic review of Indigenous involvement and content in mental health interventions and their effectiveness for Indigenous populations	22

Prevalence and determinants of mental health related to climate change in Australia	22
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’	21
Research Letters: What do clinicians think about psychedelic-assisted therapy? An Australian perspective	20
Author reply to Letter to the Editor regarding ‘Defending and demonstrating the psychodynamic orientation in psychiatry’	20
Letter to the Editor regarding ‘Renewal of academic psychiatry without addressing gender equity will render it Jurassic rather than endangered’	19
Psychiatric diagnoses prior to the first onset of non-affective and affective psychoses	18
Self-reported prevalence of long-term mental health conditions highest in the oldest old: Data from the 2021 Australian Census	18
Adult attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder: How can we put the cart behind the horse?	17
Growing the lived experience voice in psychiatry education and research: An academic department’s journey	17
Anti-dementia medication use in Aotearoa New Zealand: An exploratory study using health data from the Integrated Data Infrastructure (IDI)	16
Distinguishing apathy and depression in dementia: A longitudinal study	16
The impact of the suicide of ‘Parasite’ actor Lee Sun Kyun on suicide rates in South Korea: A time-series analysis	16
Use of psychotropic medications in adults with intellectual disability: A systematic review and meta-analysis	16
Dynamic modelling of the impact of community-based acute mental health services for children and adolescents	16
Art therapy with children and adolescents experiencing acute or severe mental health conditions: A systematic review	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?	15
Mind the gap: Prioritising cognition in the care of people with schizophrenia and other psychosis	15
Bridging the gap: Can single session interventions help enhance mental health treatment delivery for young people in Australia?	15
Letter to the Editor regarding ‘Heart rate variability in patients with dementia or neurocognitive disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis’	14
Research Letter: Cumulative incidence of psychotropic drug prescriptions among children and adolescents in an Australian population cohort	14
Abuses in psychiatric care: The shameful story of the Lake Alice Child and Adolescent unit in Aotearoa New Zealand	14
Perinatal depression: The use of the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale to derive clinical subtypes	13
Trends in calls to a state poisons centre and presentation to emergency departments for intentional antidepressant overdose in Victoria, Australia	13
Against the use of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children aged 2–15 years	13
The evidence for the use of long-term benzodiazepines in the setting of treatment-refractory anxiety disorders	13
Indigenous suicide rates in the United States, Australia and New Zealand between 2006 and 2019	13
Clinical recommendations for the care of people with treatment-refractory obsessive-compulsive disorder when undergoing deep brain stimulation	13
Mental state of demoralisation across diverse clinical settings: A systematic review, meta-analysis and proposal for its use as a ‘specifier’ in mental illness	12
RANZCP Abstracts	12
Suicide and suicidality in Australian Defence Force veterans: A systematic scoping review	12
Police, ambulance and psychiatric co-response versus usual care for mental health and suicide emergency callouts: A quasi-experimental study	12
The prevalence of self-reported mental illness among those imprisoned in New South Wales across three health surveys, from 2001 to 2015	12
Prevalence of psychiatric conditions in people with intellectual disability: A record linkage study in New South Wales, Australia	12
Incidence of and risk factors for alcohol dependence in bipolar disorder: A population-based cohort and nested case–control study	11
Electroconvulsive therapy in a tertiary Australian mental health facility between 2009 and 2020	11
Call to revise the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists’ clinical memorandum on deep brain stimulation for obsessive-compulsive disorder	11
The comparative mental health of Australian doctors before and during COVID-19: A population-based approach	11
Clinical risk prediction for bipolar disorder: If, when and how?	11
Health service and medication costs associated with common mental disorders and subthreshold symptoms in women: Findings from the Geelong Osteoporosis Study in Australia	11
Exploring the use of electroconvulsive therapy in the anticoagulated population: A systematic review	11
Vitamin D status in pregnancy and childhood associates with intelligence quotient at age 7 years: An Odense child cohort study	11
Optimising brain health: Getting ambitious about prevention from midlife	11
Ensuring the affordable becomes accessible–lessons from ketamine, a new treatment for severe depression	10
Clinicians’ views on cognitive assessment with Aboriginal Australians	10
Characteristics of deaths related to lithium toxicity in Australia, 2000–2024	10
Treatment guesses in the Treatment for Adolescents with Depression Study: Accuracy, unblinding and influence on outcomes	10
Comorbid substance use in psychosis: Someone else’s problem?	10
Moving towards more person-centred, culturally safe and evidence-informed care	10
Addressing the unmet needs of bipolar disorder in Australia and beyond	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	10

Association between amyloid-beta deposition and cortical thickness in dementia with Lewy bodies	10
Using data linkage for mental health research in Australia	10
Research Letter: Unveiling the boundaries: Analysing advertising breaches in the promotion of medicinal cannabis in Australia	10
Body dysmorphic disorder and the ugly truth of Australian healthcare	10
Cardiometabolic monitoring in children and adolescents prescribed antipsychotics in Australian primary care, 2011 to 2017	10
Determining the future role of clinical practice guidelines: The experience of Australia and New Zealand	10
Understanding and addressing racism in clinical encounters	10
Research Letter: Perceived rather than actual reduction in standard of living is associated with psychological distress: A cross-sectional survey of working Australians	9
Development of best practice guidelines for clinical and community service providers to prevent suicide in LGBTQA+ young people: A Delphi expert consensus study	9
Thanks to Reviewers	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
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’	9
Reviving academic psychiatry in Australia and New Zealand	9
Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists professional practice guidelines for the use of ketamine in psychiatric practice	9
Secondary mental health service utilisation following emergency department contact for suicidal behaviour: A systematic review	9
Through the looking glass: Resetting the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatry’s approach to gender equity	9
Building a National Clinical Trials Network in child and youth mental health: Growing Minds Australia	9
Expanded access to publicly subsidised lisdexamfetamine treatment for adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: An interrupted time-series analysis	9
Compulsory Community Treatment Orders and health outcomes for Māori in New Zealand	8
Avoiding pitfalls in the treatment of delirium	8
The psychosocial impacts of the 15 March terrorist attack on the Christchurch Muslim community: A descriptive, cross-sectional assessment	8
Psychiatry across the lifespan: From early risk to advanced age	8
Perinatal outcomes of Aboriginal women with mental health disorders	8
Research Letter: What do Australian consumers with lived experience of bipolar disorder want from early intervention services?	8
Author Index	8
Letters to the Editor: Letter to the Editor regarding ‘A challenge to the dopamine orthodoxy in schizophrenia?’	8
Voluntary assisted dying: The expanded role of psychiatrists in Australia and New Zealand	8
Psychiatric service delivery for older people in hospital and residential aged care: An updated systematic review	8
Associations between mortality and exposure to psychotropic medication: A population-based cohort study for depressive disorders	8
Neurocognitive function of patients with melancholic and non-melancholic major depressive episodes: An exploratory study	8
Implementation of a ketamine programme for treatment-resistant depression in the public health system: Lessons from the first Australian public hospital clinic	8
Changes in antidepressant use in Australia: A nationwide analysis (2015–2021)	8
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
Proximity of alcohol outlets and presentation to hospital by young people after self-harm: A retrospective geospatial study using the integrated data infrastructure	7
Improving metabolic risk in patients with mental illness through ‘mental health care plans’ in primary health care	7
Development of a research capacity and culture tool for people with lived experience of mental health challenges	7
Bipolar eyes: Windows to the pole?	7
Online Mental Health Assessment in a psychiatry emergency department in adults using touchscreen mobile devices: A randomised controlled trial	7
Exploring the measurement validity of the Your Experience of Service survey	7
Polypharmacy in psychiatry: Evidence-based medicine or a Sisyphean solution?	7
Substance use disorder screening and brief intervention in routine clinical practice in specialist adult mental health services: A systematic review	7
What works for whom when treating major depression with psychotherapy?	7
RANZCP 2025: Book of Abstracts	7
Parent and child mental health trajectories April 2020 to May 2021: Strict lockdown versus no lockdown in Australia	7
Can we raise the bar?	6
Suicide among health professionals in Australia: A retrospective mortality study of trends over the last two decades	6
Alternative metrics for characterizing longer-term clinical outcomes in difficult-to-treat depression: II. Sensitivity to treatment effects	6
Setting the top 10 eating disorder research and translation priorities for Australia	6
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
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
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
Have you been paying attention? Adult-onset attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder	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
Addressing body dysmorphic disorder through mindfulness: A new therapeutic frontier	6
The evolution of charcoal-burning suicide: A systematic scoping review	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
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
MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for post-traumatic stress disorder: The devil is in the detail	6
Galvanizing research ‘Down Under’ to resist pressure from above	6
Palliative psychiatry in a narrow and in a broad sense: A concept clarification	6
RANZCP 2024 CONGRESS: Book of Abstracts	6
Letter to the Editor regarding ‘Defending and demonstrating the psychodynamic orientation in psychiatry’	6
Plasma neurofilament light in behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia compared to mood and psychotic disorders	6
Speech processing in voice-hearers: Bridging the gap between empirical research and clinical implications	6
How many Early Career Psychiatrists participate in research and what are the motivating factors?	6
Trends of perinatal mental health referrals and psychiatric admissions in Queensland	6
A systematic scoping review of dissociation in borderline personality disorder and implications for research and clinical practice: Exploring the fog	6
Mental ill-health and substance use among sexuality diverse adolescents: The critical role of school climate and teacher self-efficacy	6
Machine learning prediction will be part of future treatment of depression	6
Transforming mental health facilities: Current trends and considerations	6
On- and off-label utilisation of antipsychotics in Australia (2000–2021): Retrospective analysis of two medication datasets	6
Nonsuicidal self-injury in a cross-sectional community survey of New Zealand adults: Associations with demographic and psychological characteristics	6
A mental health research crisis in Australia	6
Associations of maternal perinatal depressive disorders with autism spectrum disorder in offspring: Findings from a data-linkage cohort study	6
Matching needs to services: Development of a service needs index for determining care pathways in youth mental health	6
Mental health–related service and medicine use among a cohort of urban Aboriginal children and young people: Data linkage study	6