OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Comprehensive Psychiatry is 10. 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.)

Article	Citations
Preventing problematic internet use during the COVID-19 pandemic: Consensus guidance	482
Stress and anxiety among university students in France during Covid-19 mandatory confinement	411
The psychological impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the general population of Saudi Arabia	336
How to manage obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) under COVID-19: A clinician's guide from the International College of Obsessive Compulsive Spectrum Disorders (ICOCS) and the Obsessive-Compulsive and	116
Is cyberchondria a new transdiagnostic digital compulsive syndrome? A systematic review of the evidence	114
Generalized anxiety and depressive symptoms in various age groups during the COVID-19 lockdown in Poland. Specific predictors and differences in symptoms severity	92
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	80
The relationship between emotion regulation and well-being in patients with mental disorders: A meta-analysis	77
Overlapping patterns of recreational and medical cannabis use in a large community sample of cannabis users	76
Vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) therapy in patients with treatment resistant depression: A systematic review and meta-analysis	66
Psychological distress surveillance and related impact analysis of hospital staff during the COVID-19 epidemic in Chongqing, China	58
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+)	57
Problematic use of the internet during the COVID-19 pandemic: Good practices and mental health recommendations	53
Phenotyping mental health: Age, community size, and depression differently modulate COVID-19-related fear and generalized anxiety	47
Prevalence and associated factors of depression, anxiety, and stress among Hubei pediatric nurses during COVID-19 pandemic	47
Tracing 20 years of research on problematic use of the internet and social media: Theoretical models, assessment tools, and an agenda for future work	42
Advances in problematic usage of the internet research – A narrative review by experts from the European network for problematic usage of the internet	40
Social media recruitment for mental health research: A systematic review	39
Changes in lifestyle resulting from confinement due to COVID-19 and depressive symptomatology: A cross-sectional a population-based study	36
Post-stroke depression and functional impairments – A 3-year prospective study	36
Importance of SARs-Cov-2 anosmia: From phenomenology to neurobiology	34
The association of trait impulsivity and suicidal ideation and its fluctuation in the context of the Interpersonal Theory of Suicide	30
Increased IL-8 concentrations in the cerebrospinal fluid of patients with unipolar depression	28
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	26
The psychological impact of the coronavirus disease pandemic on hospital workers in Daegu, South Korea	26

Characterizing the building blocks of Problematic Use of the Internet (PUI): The role of obsessional impulses and impulsivity traits among Italian young adults	24
The mental state and risk factors of Chinese medical staff and medical students in early stages of the COVID-19 epidemic	24
Prevalence and associated risk factors of insomnia among pregnant women in China	23
Prior depression predicts greater stress during Covid-19 mandatory lockdown among college students in France	21
Mental health assessment of Spanish healthcare workers during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. A cross-sectional study	21
Functional connectivity of supplementary motor area during finger-tapping in major depression	21
Risk for Substance Use Disorders in young adulthood: Associations with developmental experiences of homelessness, foster care, and adverse childhood experiences	21
Family functioning as a moderator in the relation between perceived stress and psychotic-like experiences among adolescents during COVID-19	18
Motor abnormalities are associated with poor social and functional outcomes in schizophrenia	17
Crocin alleviates schizophrenia-like symptoms in rats by upregulating silent information regulator-1 and brain derived neurotrophic factor	17
Violent and non-violent offending in patients with schizophrenia: Exploring influences and differences via machine learning	17
Suicidality in patients with obsessive-compulsive and related disorders (OCRDs): A meta-analysis	17
Rules, role models or overall climate at home? Relative associations of different family aspects with adolescents' problematic social media use	16
Group and sex differences in social cognition in bipolar disorder, schizophrenia/schizoaffective disorder and healthy people	16
Differences in the use of emotion regulation strategies between anorexia and bulimia nervosa: A systematic review and meta-analysis	16
Short defeat and entrapment scale: A psychometric investigation in three German samples	15
Nonadherence after hospital discharge in patients with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder: A six-month naturalistic follow-up study	15
Persistence rate of DSM-5 somatic symptom disorder: 4-year follow-up in patients from a psychosomatic outpatient clinic	14
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	14
Associations between interpersonal dependency and severity of prolonged grief disorder symptoms in bereaved surviving family members	14
Deficits in executive functions but not in decision making under risk in individuals with problematic social-network use	14
Social media as an incubator of personality and behavioral psychopathology: Symptom and disorder authenticity or psychosomatic social contagion?	13
Psychosocial and peripartum determinants of postpartum depression: Findings from a prospective population-based cohort. The ABCD study	13
Therapeutic drug monitoring of sertraline in children and adolescents: A naturalistic study with insights into the clinical response and treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder	13
Mediating effect of resilience during pregnancy on the association between maternal trait anger and postnatal depression	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
Public awareness and anxiety during COVID-19 epidemic in China: A cross-sectional study	13
Cross-disorder comparison of sensory over-responsivity in chronic tic disorders and obsessive-compulsive disorder	13
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	13
A correlational study of socioeconomic factors and the prevalence of hikikomori in Japan from 2010 to 2019	12
Translation and Validation of the Gaming Disorder Test and Gaming Disorder Scale for Adolescents into Chinese for Taiwanese Young Adults	12
Nonsuicidal self-injury behaviour in a city of China and its association with family environment, media use and psychopathology	12
Screening for adult ADHD using brief rating tools: What can we conclude from a positive screen? Some caveats	12
Non-suicidal self-injury and attachment trauma in adolescent inpatients with psychiatric disorders	12
Psychological distress among healthcare workers accessing occupational health services during the COVID-19 pandemic in Zimbabwe	12
Alleviation of cognitive deficits and high copper levels by an NMDA receptor antagonist in a rat depression model	12
Effects of age on depressive symptomatology and response to antidepressant treatment in patients with major depressive disorder aged 18 to 65 years	12
Suicidality in family caregivers of people with long-term illnesses and disabilities: A scoping review	12
Gaming disorder: A summary of its characteristics and aetiology	11
Emotional dysregulation and callous unemotional traits as possible predictors of short-term response to methylphenidate monotherapy in drug-naïve youth with ADHD	11
Subclinical hypothyroidism and symptoms of depression: Evidence from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES)	11
Transitional objects of grief	11
Mindfulness-based intervention for clinical and subthreshold perinatal depression and anxiety: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trial	11
Treatment-resistant OCD: Pharmacotherapies in adults	11
Novel approaches for treating Internet Gaming Disorder: A review of technology-based interventions	10
Validation of the Italian version of the Camouflaging Autistic Traits Questionnaire (CAT-Q) in a University population	10
Attentional biases in depression: Relation to disorder severity, rumination, and anhedonia	10
Predominant polarity in bipolar disorder: Findings from the bipolar disorder course and outcome study from India (BiD-CoIN study)	10
Meta-analysis of cognitive behaviour therapy and selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors for the treatment of hypochondriasis: Implications for trial design	10
Gambling and gaming during COVID-19: The role of mental health and social motives in gambling and gaming problems	10

Inpatient psychiatry unit devoted to COVID-19 patients