OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Comprehensive Psychiatry is 9. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Cognitive behavioural therapy with exposure and response prevention in the treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials	102
Generalized anxiety and depressive symptoms in various age groups during the COVID-19 lockdown in Poland. Specific predictors and differences in symptoms severity	99
Valid measurement of DSM-5 persistent complex bereavement disorder and DSM-5-TR and ICD-11 prolonged grief disorder: The Traumatic Grief Inventory-Self Report Plus (TGI-SR+)	71
Problematic use of the internet during the COVID-19 pandemic: Good practices and mental health recommendations	71
Psychological distress surveillance and related impact analysis of hospital staff during the COVID-19 epidemic in Chongqing, China	64
Advances in problematic usage of the internet research – A narrative review by experts from the European network for problematic usage of the internet	60
Tracing 20 years of research on problematic use of the internet and social media: Theoretical models, assessment tools, and an agenda for future work	56
Prevalence and associated factors of depression, anxiety, and stress among Hubei pediatric nurses during COVID-19 pandemic	55
Social media recruitment for mental health research: A systematic review	52
Phenotyping mental health: Age, community size, and depression differently modulate COVID-19-related fear and generalized anxiety	51
Changes in lifestyle resulting from confinement due to COVID-19 and depressive symptomatology: A cross-sectional a population-based study	37
Media use before, during and after COVID-19 lockdown according to parents in a clinically referred sample in child and adolescent psychiatry: Results of an online survey in Switzerland	33
Gaming disorder: A summary of its characteristics and aetiology	28
The psychological impact of the coronavirus disease pandemic on hospital workers in Daegu, South Korea	26
Rules, role models or overall climate at home? Relative associations of different family aspects with adolescents' problematic social media use	25
Mental health assessment of Spanish healthcare workers during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. A cross-sectional study	25
Characterizing the building blocks of Problematic Use of the Internet (PUI): The role of obsessional impulses and impulsivity traits among Italian young adults	24
Prior depression predicts greater stress during Covid-19 mandatory lockdown among college students in France	24
Social media as an incubator of personality and behavioral psychopathology: Symptom and disorder authenticity or psychosomatic social contagion?	23
Treatment-resistant OCD: Pharmacotherapies in adults	22
Motor abnormalities are associated with poor social and functional outcomes in schizophrenia	22
Crocin alleviates schizophrenia-like symptoms in rats by upregulating silent information regulator-1 and brain derived neurotrophic factor	22
Family functioning as a moderator in the relation between perceived stress and psychotic-like experiences among adolescents during COVID-19	20
Associations between interpersonal dependency and severity of prolonged grief disorder symptoms in bereaved surviving family members	20
The global assessment of OCD	19

Deficits in executive functions but not in decision making under risk in individuals with problematic social-network use	19
Violent and non-violent offending in patients with schizophrenia: Exploring influences and differences via machine learning	19
Differences in the use of emotion regulation strategies between anorexia and bulimia nervosa: A systematic review and meta-analysis	19
Suicidality in patients with obsessive-compulsive and related disorders (OCRDs): A meta-analysis	19
Group and sex differences in social cognition in bipolar disorder, schizophrenia/schizoaffective disorder and healthy people	18
A network analysis on self-harming and problematic smartphone use – The role of self-control, internalizing and externalizing problems in a sample of self-harming adolescents	17
Mindfulness-based intervention for clinical and subthreshold perinatal depression and anxiety: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trial	17
Nonadherence after hospital discharge in patients with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder: A six-month naturalistic follow-up study	17
Translation and Validation of the Gaming Disorder Test and Gaming Disorder Scale for Adolescents into Chinese for Taiwanese Young Adults	16
Suicidality in family caregivers of people with long-term illnesses and disabilities: A scoping review	16
Subclinical hypothyroidism and symptoms of depression: Evidence from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES)	16
Psychosocial and peripartum determinants of postpartum depression: Findings from a prospective population-based cohort. The ABCD study	16
Persistence rate of DSM-5 somatic symptom disorder: 4-year follow-up in patients from a psychosomatic outpatient clinic	15
Psychological distress among healthcare workers accessing occupational health services during the COVID-19 pandemic in Zimbabwe	15
Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (r-TMS) and selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor-resistance in obsessive-compulsive disorder: A meta-analysis and clinical implications	15
Public awareness and anxiety during COVID-19 epidemic in China: A cross-sectional study	15
Screening for adult ADHD using brief rating tools: What can we conclude from a positive screen? Some caveats	15
Psychological therapies for people with intellectual disabilities: An updated systematic review and meta-analysis	15
Therapeutic drug monitoring of sertraline in children and adolescents: A naturalistic study with insights into the clinical response and treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder	15
Nonsuicidal self-injury behaviour in a city of China and its association with family environment, media use and psychopathology	14
Multiple modifiable lifestyle factors and the risk of perinatal depression during pregnancy: Findings from the GUSTO cohort	14
Item-level analysis of mental health symptom trajectories during the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK: Associations with age, sex and pre-existing psychiatric conditions	14
Characteristics of 262 adults with skin picking disorder	14
Non-suicidal self-injury and attachment trauma in adolescent inpatients with psychiatric disorders	13
Elevated social anxiety symptoms across childhood and adolescence predict adult mental disorders and cannabis use	13
Meta-analysis of cognitive behaviour therapy and selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors for the treatment of hypochondriasis: Implications for trial design	13
Non-invasive and invasive brain stimulation in alcohol use disorders: A critical review of selected human evidence and methodological considerations to guide future research	13
Optimizing first line treatments for adults with OCD	13
Association between schizophrenia and prostate cancer risk: Results from a pool of cohort studies and Mendelian randomization analysis	13
A correlational study of socioeconomic factors and the prevalence of hikikomori in Japan from 2010 to 2019	13
Validation of the Italian version of the Camouflaging Autistic Traits Questionnaire (CAT-Q) in a University population	13
Cross-disorder comparison of sensory over-responsivity in chronic tic disorders and obsessive-compulsive disorder	13
Cross-cultural generalizability of the ICD-11 PGD symptom network: Identification of central symptoms and culturally specific items across German-speaking and Chinese bereaved	13
Novel approaches for treating Internet Gaming Disorder: A review of technology-based interventions	13
Gambling and gaming during COVID-19: The role of mental health and social motives in gambling and gaming problems	12
Lifestyle behaviours and mental health and wellbeing of tertiary students during COVID-19 lockdown in Australia: A cross-sectional study	12
The impact of transcranial Direct Current stimulation on rumination: A systematic review of the sham-controlled studies in healthy and clinical samples	12
Predominant polarity in bipolar disorder: Findings from the bipolar disorder course and outcome study from India (BiD-CoIN study)	12
Childhood maltreatment and trauma is common and severe in body dysmorphic disorder	11
Inpatient psychiatry unit devoted to COVID-19 patients	11
Behavioral problems in children with primary monosymptomatic nocturnal enuresis	11
The role of gender in a large international OCD sample: A Report from the International College of Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders (ICOCS) Network	11
Associations between COVID-19 pandemic impact, dimensions of behavior and eating disorders: A longitudinal UK-based study	10
Opening the curtains for better sleep in psychotic disorders - considerations for improving sleep treatment	10
Exploring Internet gaming disorder: an updated perspective of empirical evidence (from 2016 to 2021)	10
Bimodal effects of sunlight on major depressive disorder	10
Does social defeat cause negative symptoms? A prospective study in a multi-national community sample	10
A case-control study on physical activity preferences, motives, and barriers in patients with psychiatric conditions	9
Heterogeneity of smartphone impact on everyday life and its relationship with personality and psychopathology: A latent profile analysis	9
Childhood trauma increases vulnerability to attempt suicide in adulthood through avoidant attachment	9

Gender differences in prevalence and clinical correlates of anxiety symptoms in first-episode and drug-naïve patients with major depressive disorder	9
A cross-sectional analysis of mental health disorders in a mental health services-seeking population of children, adolescents, and young adults in the context of ongoing violence and displacement in n	9
Individuals at ultra-high risk of psychosis and first-degree relatives of patients with schizophreniaexperience impaired family functionality and social support deficit in comparison to healthy contro	9
Psychometric evaluation of the Chinese version of social anxiety scale for social media users and cross-sectional investigation into this disorder among college students	9
Autobiographical memory in schizophrenia: The role of metacognition	9
Early intervention in obsessive-compulsive disorder: From theory to practice	9
Depressive symptoms, social support, and health-related quality of life: A community-based study in Shanghai, China	9
Separation anxiety disorder among outpatients with major depressive disorder: Prevalence and clinical correlates	9