British Journal of Psychiatry

Papers
(The median citation count of British Journal of Psychiatry is 0. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Mental health and well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic: longitudinal analyses of adults in the UK COVID-19 Mental Health & Wellbeing study696
Mental health before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in two longitudinal UK population cohorts265
Abuse, self-harm and suicidal ideation in the UK during the COVID-19 pandemic230
Incidence and outcomes of eating disorders during the COVID-19 pandemic102
Rates of treatment-resistant schizophrenia from first-episode cohorts: systematic review and meta-analysis77
Safety planning-type interventions for suicide prevention: meta-analysis73
The scope of mental health research during the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath68
What should be done to support the mental health of healthcare staff treating COVID-19 patients?66
Post-traumatic stress disorder as a risk factor for dementia: systematic review and meta-analysis59
Coronavirus disease: challenges for psychiatry56
Clozapine treatment and risk of COVID-19 infection: retrospective cohort study50
Imagery rescripting and eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing as treatment for adults with post-traumatic stress disorder from childhood trauma: randomised clinical trial49
Efficacy of interventions to reduce coercive treatment in mental health services: umbrella review of randomised evidence43
Association between naturally occurring lithium in drinking water and suicide rates: systematic review and meta-analysis of ecological studies41
The digital divide: amplifying health inequalities for people with severe mental illness in the time of COVID-1940
Association between air pollution exposure and mental health service use among individuals with first presentations of psychotic and mood disorders: retrospective cohort study39
Excess mortality associated with eating disorders: population-based cohort study39
Time use and mental health in UK adults during an 11-week COVID-19 lockdown: a panel analysis39
Contacts with primary and secondary healthcare prior to suicide: case–control whole-population-based study using person-level linked routine data in Wales, UK, 2000–201735
Association of mental disorders with SARS-CoV-2 infection and severe health outcomes: nationwide cohort study35
Treatment concerns for psychiatric symptoms in patients with COVID-19 with or without psychiatric disorders34
Umbrella systematic review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses on comorbid physical conditions in people with autism spectrum disorder33
Unravelling the contribution of complex trauma to psychopathology and cognitive deficits: a cohort study32
Dissociative identity disorder: out of the shadows at last?31
Data-driven clustering differentiates subtypes of major depressive disorder with distinct brain connectivity and symptom features30
Psychotherapies for borderline personality disorder: a focused systematic review and meta-analysis30
Trends in generalised anxiety disorders and symptoms in primary care: UK population-based cohort study30
Comparison of clinical outcomes following 2 years of treatment of first-episode psychosis in urban early intervention services in Canada and India29
Mental health and COVID-19: is the virus racist?29
Co-occurring trajectories of anxiety and insistence on sameness behaviour in autism spectrum disorder28
Electroconvulsive therapy for depression: 80 years of progress28
Examining the effect of smoking on suicidal ideation and attempts: triangulation of epidemiological approaches28
Threat, hostility and violence in childhood and later psychotic disorder: population-based case–control study28
Risk factors of postpartum depression and depressive symptoms: umbrella review of current evidence from systematic reviews and meta-analyses of observational studies27
Educational attainment trajectories among children and adolescents with depression, and the role of sociodemographic characteristics: longitudinal data-linkage study27
Pre-pandemic mental health and disruptions to healthcare, economic and housing outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from 12 UK longitudinal studies27
Emotional abuse and neglect: time to focus on prevention and mental health consequences27
Autism and autistic traits in those who died by suicide in England26
Life expectancy and years of potential life lost in bipolar disorder: systematic review and meta-analysis25
Benzodiazepines: it's time to return to the evidence25
Deep learning identifies robust gender differences in functional brain organization and their dissociable links to clinical symptoms in autism24
Are we repeating mistakes of the past? A review of the evidence for esketamine24
Cost-effectiveness of WHO Problem Management Plus for adults with mood and anxiety disorders in a post-conflict area of Pakistan: randomised controlled trial24
The ethnic density effect in psychosis: a systematic review and multilevel meta-analysis24
Natural language processing in psychiatry: the promises and perils of a transformative approach23
Groups 4 Health versus cognitive–behavioural therapy for depression and loneliness in young people: randomised phase 3 non-inferiority trial with 12-month follow-up23
Efficacy of the Zero Suicide framework in reducing recurrent suicide attempts: cross-sectional and time-to-recurrent-event analyses22
Safe and informed prescribing of psychotropic medication during the COVID-19 pandemic21
Overlap between attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and neurodevelopmental, externalising and internalising disorders: separating unique from general psychopathology effects19
Effect of frequent assessment of suicidal thinking on its incidence and severity: high-resolution real-time monitoring study19
Comparative efficacy and acceptability of psychotherapies for panic disorder with or without agoraphobia: systematic review and network meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials19
Investigating the causal nature of the relationship of subcortical brain volume with smoking and alcohol use19
Risk of mortality and complications in patients with schizophrenia and diabetes mellitus: population-based cohort study19
Characterisation of age and polarity at onset in bipolar disorder19
Effectiveness of exercise-based interventions in reducing depressive symptoms in people without clinical depression: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials19
Three challenges that the COVID-19 pandemic represents for psychiatry19
Neural effects of antidepressant medication and psychological treatments: a quantitative synthesis across three meta-analyses19
The neurodevelopmental nature of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder in adults18
Risk of miscarriage in women with psychiatric disorders18
The WHO QualityRights initiative: building partnerships among psychiatrists, people with lived experience and other key stakeholders to improve the quality of mental healthcare18
Accuracy of dopaminergic imaging as a biomarker for mild cognitive impairment with Lewy bodies17
Psychiatric disorders diagnosed in adolescence and subsequent long-term exclusion from education, employment or training: longitudinal national birth cohort study17
Mental health services in Ukraine during the early phases of the 2022 Russian invasion16
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on presentations to health services following self-harm: systematic review16
Extending the vulnerability–stress model of mental disorders: three-dimensional NPSR1 × environment × coping interaction study in anxiety16
A retrospective study of intramuscular clozapine prescription for treatment initiation and maintenance in treatment-resistant psychosis16
Psychological distress, self-harm and attempted suicide in UK 17-year olds: prevalence and sociodemographic inequalities16
Video intervention to increase treatment-seeking by healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic: randomised controlled trial16
Looking across health and healthcare outcomes for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and psychiatric disorders: population-based longitudinal study16
Paramedics in pandemics: protecting the mental wellness of those behind enemy lines16
Clozapine-induced myocarditis: electronic health register analysis of incidence, timing, clinical markers and diagnostic accuracy16
Using epidemiological evidence to forecast population need for early treatment programmes in mental health: a generalisable Bayesian prediction methodology applied to and validated for first-episode p16
Factors influencing self-harm thoughts and behaviours over the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK: longitudinal analysis of 49 324 adults15
Mortality after electroconvulsive therapy15
Assessing the relationship between psychosocial stressors and psychiatric resilience among Chilean disaster survivors15
Psychological interventions as an alternative and add-on to antidepressant medication to prevent depressive relapse: systematic review and meta-analysis14
A full CIRCLE: inclusion of autistic doctors in the Royal College Of Psychiatrists’ values and Equality Action Plan14
Contribution of birth weight to mental health, cognitive and socioeconomic outcomes: two-sample Mendelian randomisation14
Safety of psychological interventions for adult post-traumatic stress disorder: meta-analysis on the incidence and relative risk of deterioration, adverse events and serious adverse events13
Psychological consequences of long COVID: comparing trajectories of depressive and anxiety symptoms before and after contracting SARS-CoV-2 between matched long- and short-COVID groups13
Predicting persistence of hallucinations from childhood to adolescence13
Galenic syndromes: combinations of mental state and personality disorders too closely entwined to be separated13
Long-term economic and social outcomes of youth suicide attempts13
Clinical, societal and personal recovery in schizophrenia spectrum disorders across time: states and annual transitions13
Predicting relapse or recurrence of depression: systematic review of prognostic models13
Cognitive trajectories following onset of psychosis: a meta-analysis13
Telepsychiatry: learning from the pandemic13
The impact of shielding during the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health: evidence from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing13
Hallucinations in the general population across the adult lifespan: prevalence and psychopathologic significance12
Reconceptualising the treatment gap for common mental disorders: a fork in the road for global mental health?12
Coronavirus disease 2019: achieving good mental health during social isolation12
Safe enough? Rethinking the concept of cultural safety in healthcare and training11
Evaluation of point-of-care thumb-size bispectral electroencephalography device to quantify delirium severity and predict mortality11
Suicides from 2016 to 2020 in Finland and the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic11
Media guidelines for the responsible reporting and depicting of non-suicidal self-injury11
Services for self-harm: progress and promise?11
Offspring's risk for suicidal behaviour in relation to parental death by suicide: systematic review and meta-analysis and a model for familial transmission of suicide11
Methylphenidate and mortality in children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder: population-based cohort study11
Association between serum lithium level and incidence of COVID-19 infection11
Clinical utility of the parent-reported Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire as a screen for emotional and behavioural difficulties in children and adolescents with intellectual disability11
Using polygenic scores and clinical data for bipolar disorder patient stratification and lithium response prediction: machine learning approach11
Disambiguation of psychotherapy: a search for meaning11
Predicting patients who will drop out of out-patient psychotherapy using machine learning algorithms11
The potential of precision psychiatry: what is in reach?11
Clozapine-induced gastrointestinal hypomotility: presenting features and outcomes, UK pharmacovigilance reports, 1992–201711
Mental disorder in people convicted of homicide: long-term national trends in rates and court outcome10
Psychiatric euthanasia, suicide and the role of gender10
The healthcare resource impact of maternal mental illness on children and adolescents: UK retrospective cohort study10
Real-world effectiveness, its predictors and onset of action of cholinesterase inhibitors and memantine in dementia: retrospective health record study10
Cost and health impacts of adherence to the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence schizophrenia guideline recommendations10
Is mindfulness for psychosis harmful? Deconstructing a myth10
Antidepressant prescribing for adult people with an intellectual disability living in England10
Recommendations for monitoring and reporting harm in mindfulness for psychosis research10
‘Shock tactics’, ethics and fear: an academic and personal perspective on the case against electroconvulsive therapy10
Anxiety disorders and age-related changes in physiology10
Using machine learning to predict suicide in the 30 days after discharge from psychiatric hospital in Denmark10
Optimising plasma clozapine levels to improve treatment response: an individual patient data meta-analysis and receiver operating characteristic curve analysis9
Structural brain abnormalities in schizophrenia in adverse environments: examining the effect of poverty and violence in six Latin American cities9
Efficacy and safety of a 4-week course of repeated subcutaneous ketamine injections for treatment-resistant depression (KADS study): randomised double-blind active-controlled trial9
Healthcare resource use and costs for people with type 2 diabetes mellitus with and without severe mental illness in England: longitudinal matched-cohort study using the Clinical Practice Research Dat9
Gender equality in academic publishing: action from the BJPsych9
Genetic and early environmental predictors of adulthood self-reports of trauma9
Multicentre, England-wide randomised controlled trial of the ‘Foundations’ smartphone application in improving mental health and well-being in a healthcare worker population9
Psychiatry and neurodevelopmental disorders: experts by experience, clinical care and research9
General hospital services in the UK for adults presenting after self-harm: little evidence of progress in the past 25 years9
Classification of suicidal thoughts and behaviour in children: results from penalised logistic regression analyses in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development study8
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on psychotropic medication uptake: time-series analysis of a population-wide cohort8
Negative symptoms in schizophrenia: reconsidering evidence and focus in clinical trials8
Health-risk behaviours among people with severe mental ill health: understanding modifiable risk in the Closing the Gap Health Study8
Consistent brain structural abnormalities and multisite individualised classification of schizophrenia using deep neural networks8
The case for removing intellectual disability and autism from the Mental Health Act8
Associations between antipsychotic use, substance use and relapse risk in patients with schizophrenia: real-world evidence from two national cohorts8
The World Health Organization's QualityRights materials for training, guidance and transformation: preventing coercion but marginalising psychiatry8
Effects of genomic copy number variants penetrant for schizophrenia on cortical thickness and surface area in healthy individuals: analysis of the UK Biobank8
Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of psychiatric mother and baby units: quasi-experimental study8
Towards safer risperidone prescribing in Alzheimer's disease8
Association of severe mental illness with stroke outcomes and process-of-care quality indicators: nationwide cohort study8
Prediction models in first-episode psychosis: systematic review and critical appraisal8
Comorbidity between types of eating disorder and general medical conditions8
Association between a history of clinical depression and dementia, and the role of sociodemographic factors: population-based cohort study7
Prevalence of common mental disorders and treatment receipt for people from ethnic minority backgrounds in England: repeated cross-sectional surveys of the general population in 2007 and 20147
Psychiatry and COVID-19: putting our best foot forward7
Is psychosis a syndemic manifestation of historical and contemporary adversity? Findings from UK Biobank7
Research into mental health supported accommodation – desperately needed but challenging to deliver7
Post-COVID syndrome and adults with intellectual disability: another vulnerable population forgotten?7
Mental health services in the wake of COVID-19 and opportunities for change7
Subthreshold post-traumatic stress disorder as a risk factor for post-traumatic stress disorder: results from a sample of USA veterans7
Psychosis prediction 2.0: why child and adolescent mental health services should be a key focus for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder prevention research7
Association between previous and future antipsychotic adherence in patients initiating clozapine: real-world observational study7
Neurodevelopmental disorders and neurodiversity: definition of terms from Scotland's National Autism Implementation Team7
Comparing the mental health trajectories of four different types of keyworkers with non-keyworkers: 12-month follow-up observational study of 21 874 adults in England during the COVID-19 pandemic7
Processing of social and monetary rewards in autism spectrum disorders6
Envisioning a future for transgender and gender-diverse people beyond the DSM6
Real-world effectiveness of pharmacological treatments for bipolar disorder: register-based national cohort study6
Warnings against romanticising moral injury6
Mortality in psychotic depression: 18-year follow-up study6
Randomised controlled trial of the short-term effects of osmotic-release oral system methylphenidate on symptoms and behavioural outcomes in young male prisoners with attention deficit hyperactivity d6
Optimal dose of aripiprazole for augmentation therapy of antidepressant-refractory depression: preliminary findings based on a systematic review and dose–effect meta-analysis6
Neuroimaging-based brain-age prediction of first-episode schizophrenia and the alteration of brain age after early medication6
Green care in psychiatry6
Ethnic inequalities in involuntary admission under the Mental Health Act: an exploration of mediation effects of clinical care prior to the first admission6
Network structure of ICD-11 adjustment disorder: a cross-cultural comparison of three African countries6
Cigarette smoking and schizophrenia: Mendelian randomisation study6
Negative symptoms in children and adolescents with early-onset psychosis and at clinical high-risk for psychosis: systematic review and meta-analysis6
Real-world clinical and cost-effectiveness of community clozapine initiation: mirror cohort study6
New directions in research on childhood adversity6
Suicide and other causes of death among working-age and older adults in the year after discharge from in-patient mental healthcare in England: matched cohort study5
Relationship between polygenic risk scores and symptom dimensions of schizophrenia and schizotypy in multiplex families with schizophrenia5
Towards personalised predictive psychiatry in clinical practice: an ethical perspective5
Interpretation of the Montgomery–Åsberg Depression Rating Scale (MADRS)5
Dose–response association of handgrip strength and risk of depression: a longitudinal study of 115 601 older adults from 24 countries5
Diagnostic promiscuity: the use of real-world data to study multimorbidity in mental health5
Clinical and cost-effectiveness of social recovery therapy for the prevention and treatment of long-term social disability among young people with emerging severe mental illness (PRODIGY): randomised 5
Set-shifting-related basal ganglia deformation as a novel familial marker of obsessive–compulsive disorder5
Effect of non-suicidal self-injury on suicidal ideation: real-time monitoring study5
Psychological interventions for depression in children and young people with an intellectual disability and/or autism: systematic review5
The Penrose hypothesis in the second half of the 20th century: investigating the relationship between psychiatric bed numbers and the prison population in England between 1960 and 2018–20195
Autistic traits and mental health in women with the fragile-X premutation: maternal status versus genetic risk5
The COVID-19 pandemic should be last orders for poor care of people with neurodevelopmental disorders5
Effectiveness of medical treatment for bipolar disorder regarding suicide, self-harm and psychiatric hospital admission: between- and within-individual study on Danish national data5
Psychosocial and behavioural interventions for the negative symptoms of schizophrenia: a systematic review of efficacy meta-analyses5
Role of cardiometabolic risk in the association between accumulation of affective symptoms across adulthood and mid-life cognitive function: national cohort study5
Differences in mental health problems, coping self-efficacy and social support between adults victimised before and adults victimised after the COVID-19 outbreak: population-based prospective study5
Gang membership and sexual violence: associations with childhood maltreatment and psychiatric morbidity5
On the role of artificial intelligence in psychiatry4
The WHO World Mental Health Report: a call for action4
Latent subtypes of manic and/or irritable episode symptoms in two population-based cohorts4
A double-blind placebo-controlled study of brexpiprazole for the treatment of borderline personality disorder4
The case against removing intellectual disability and autism from the Mental Health Act4
Obstetric near misses among women with serious mental illness: data linkage cohort study4
SARS-CoV-2 susceptibility and COVID-19 illness course and outcome in people with pre-existing neurodegenerative disorders: systematic review with frequentist and Bayesian meta-analyses4
The relationship between alcohol-related hospital admission and specialist alcohol treatment provision across local authorities in England since passage of the Health and Social Care Act 20124
Precursors and correlates of transient and persistent longitudinal profiles of psychotic experiences from late childhood through early adulthood4
Risk and resilience in trajectories of post-traumatic stress symptoms among first responders after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake: 7-year prospective cohort study4
Long-term outcomes of females with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder: increased risk for self-harm4
Lowering dementia risk and slowing progression of disease: the role of cognitive reserve and cognitive training4
Investigating default mode network connectivity disruption in children of mothers with depression4
Telepsychiatry versus face-to-face treatment: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials4
Impact of COVID-19 on mental health research: is this the breaking point?4
Associations between hemispheric asymmetry and schizophrenia-related risk genes in people with schizophrenia and people at a genetic high risk of schizophrenia4
In-patient psychiatric care and non-substance-related psychiatric diagnoses among individuals seeking treatment for alcohol and substance use disorders: associations with all-cause mortality and suici4
Joker: how ‘entertaining’ films may affect public attitudes towards mental illness – psychiatry in movies4
Antiseizure medications prescribing for behavioural and psychiatric concerns in adults with an intellectual disability living in England4
On the uses and abuses of narcissism as a public health issue4
Building youth and family resilience for better mental health: developing and testing a hybrid model of intervention in low- and middle-income countries4
Doctors' identity and barriers to seeking care when unwell4
Longitudinal effect of clozapine-associated sedation on motivation in schizophrenia: naturalistic longitudinal study3
Changes in brain function during negative emotion processing in the long-term course of depression3
Endocrine disease history and the risk of postpartum depression3
Lessons from the pandemic: why having a good understanding of occupational psychiatry is more important now than ever before3
Esketamine: uncertain safety and efficacy data in depression3
Longitudinal trajectories in negative symptoms and changes in brain cortical thickness: 10-year follow-up study3
Childhood trauma, perceived stress and anhedonia in individuals at clinical high risk for psychosis: multigroup mediation analysis3
Comment on ‘The vulnerability paradox in global mental health and its applicability to suicide’3
Appraisal of patient-level health economic models of severe mental illness: systematic review3
Efficacy of psychological interventions for post-traumatic stress disorder in children and adolescents exposed to single versus multiple traumas: meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials3
Authors' reply3
Impact of anxiety and depression across childhood and adolescence on adverse outcomes in young adulthood: a UK birth cohort study3
Post-traumatic stress disorder as a risk factor for dementia: systematic review and meta-analysis – ERRATUM3
Antipsychotic and antidepressant prescribing for 704 297 children and young people with and without intellectual disabilities: record linkage study3
Delusional content at initial presentation to a catchment-based early intervention service for psychosis3
Association between particulate matter air pollution and risk of depression and suicide: systematic review and meta-analysis - RETRACTION3
The integrity of the research record: a mess so big and so deep and so tall3
Variations in COVID-19 vaccination uptake among people in receipt of psychotropic drugs: cross-sectional analysis of a national population-based prospective cohort3
Balancing non-discrimination and risk management in mental health legislation for autism3
Proposed Assisted Dying Bill: implications for mental healthcare and psychiatrists3
Healthcare utilisation prior to suicide in persons with alcohol use disorder: national cohort and nested case–control study3
Effectiveness of cognitive–behavioural therapies of varying complexity in reducing depression in adults: systematic review and network meta-analysis3
The co-occurrence of smoking and suicide3
The potential unintended consequences of Mental Health Act reforms in England and Wales on people with intellectual disability and/or autism2
Five points to consider when reading a translational machine-learning paper2
Understanding the effects of a complex psychological intervention on symptoms of depression in Goa, India: findings from a causal mediation analysis2
The shadow costs of dissociative identity disorder2
Autistic psychiatrists: Royal College of Psychiatrists response2
Treating negative symptoms of schizophrenia: current approaches and future perspectives2
Criminal sanctions for suicidality in the 21st Century UK2
Identification of specific genes involved in schizophrenia aetiology – what difference does it make?2
Stigmatising views towards individuals with eating disorders: trends and associations from 1998 to 2008 using a repeated cross-sectional design2
Negative symptoms in the clinic: we treat what we can describe2
Should intramuscular clozapine be adopted into mainstream clinical practice?2
The Retreat at York of 1796 – psychiatry in pictures2
Potential unintended consequences of removal of intellectual disability and autism from the Mental Health Act2
Algorithmic fairness in precision psychiatry: analysis of prediction models in individuals at clinical high risk for psychosis2
Cultural research deconstructs the psychosocial construct ‘expressed emotion’2
The conundrum of therapeutic intoxication2
Severe mental illness, race/ethnicity, multimorbidity and mortality following COVID-19 infection: nationally representative cohort study2
The management of depression: the evidence speaks for itself2
Association between post-traumatic stress disorder severity and death by suicide in US military veterans: retrospective cohort study2
Artificial intelligence and increasing misinformation2
Using polygenic scores and clinical data for bipolar disorder patient stratification and lithium response prediction: machine learning approach – CORRIGENDUM2
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