OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Comprehensive Psychiatry is 11. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Evaluation of the psychometric properties of the UBACC questionnaire in a multi-country psychiatric study in Africa	141
Towards understanding and addressing mental health challenges in Africa: An integrated perspective	114
Adaption and validation of the Rwandese version of the Mood Disorder Questionnaire for the screening of bipolar disorder	86
Assessing the effectiveness of high-definition transcranial direct current stimulation for treating obsessive-compulsive disorder: Results from a randomized, double-blind, controlled trial	85
Prenatal anticipatory stress: Baby preparation and worry scale-revised in the Dutch context	83
The longitudinal structure of negative symptoms in treatment resistant schizophrenia	61
Pallidum volume as a predictor for the effectiveness of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy and psycho-education in unmedicated patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder	60
On the use of positive test strategies when diagnosing mental disorders	45
Therapeutic drug monitoring of sertraline in children and adolescents: A naturalistic study with insights into the clinical response and treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder	40
Diligent for better or worse: Conscientiousness is associated with higher likelihood of suicidal behavior and more severe suicidal intent in later life	40
The relationship between anxious-depressive symptoms and harmful cannabis use: Multiple mediation models via rumination, negative urgency, protective behavioral strategies and refusal self-efficacy	36
Advances in problematic usage of the internet research – A narrative review by experts from the European network for problematic usage of the internet	33
Schizophrenia genetic risk and labour market outcomes in the Finnish general population: Are schizophrenia-related traits penalised or rewarded?	33
Aberrant anterior insula underlies interoceptive deficits in alexithymia among schizophrenia patients	30
Suicidal thoughts and behaviors in adults with hoarding disorder	30
Pathways to suicidal ideation for young people engaged in mental health care	29
Nonsuicidal self-injury behaviour in a city of China and its association with family environment, media use and psychopathology	29
Depressive symptoms, social support, and health-related quality of life: A community-based study in Shanghai, China	28
Virtual reality-based theory of mind intervention in schizophrenia: Preliminary efficacy results	28
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	28
A prospective investigation of impacts of comorbid attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) on clinical features and long-term treatment response in adult patients with obsessive-compulsive dis	27
Commentary on the article: “Maintenance of wellness in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder who discontinue medication after exposure/response prevention augmentation A randomized clinical tria	26
Validation of the aberrant salience inventory in a general and clinical Spanish population	26
Associations between metabolic disorders and sleep disturbance in patients with schizophrenia	25
Does social defeat cause negative symptoms? A prospective study in a multi-national community sample	24

The impact of events scale-revised (IES-R): Validation of the Ukrainian version	23
Exercise moderates longitudinal group psychopathology networks in individuals with eating disorders	22
Problematic use of the internet in individuals with psychiatric disorders – A scoping review and meta-analysis	22
Beyond criticism, hostility, and emotional overinvolvement: Development and psychometric validation of the Comprehensive Expressed Emotion Scale (CEES) in schizophrenia	21
The relationship between cognitive phenotypes of compulsivity and impulsivity and clinical variables in obsessive-compulsive disorder: A systematic review and Meta-analysis	21
Characteristics and stability of hallucinations and delusions in patients with borderline personality disorder	21
Are circadian rhythms more favorable with lithium than with other mood stabilizers? An exploratory actigraphy study in euthymic bipolar disorder type 1	21
Personalized virtual reality exposure for panic disorder and agoraphobia: A preliminary neurophysiological study	21
Risk of suicidality in mental and neurological disorders in low and middle-income countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis	20
Cardiometabolic screening and monitoring in patients prescribed antipsychotic drugs in primary care: A population-based cohort study	20
Permissive beliefs in the context of gaming, online shopping and alcohol drinking – Systematic development of a self-report measure	20
Evaluation of whether commonly used risk assessment tools are applicable to women in forensic psychiatric institutions	20
Assessment of subjective sleep quality and issues in aggression: Intermittent Explosive Disorder compared with psychiatric and healthy controls	20
Validation of the Italian version of the Camouflaging Autistic Traits Questionnaire (CAT-Q) in a University population	19
Psychometric properties of the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) across cross-cultural subgroups, genders, and sexual orientations: Findings from the International Sex Survey (ISS)	19
The LEADING guideline: Reporting standards for expert panel, best-estimate diagnosis, and longitudinal expert all data (LEAD) methods	19
Lifestyle behaviours and mental health and wellbeing of tertiary students during COVID-19 lockdown in Australia: A cross-sectional study	19
Prevalence and factors associated with depression and anxiety among young school-going adolescents in the Western Cape Province of South Africa	19
Comparative effects of pharmacological treatment for weight gain in patients treated with antipsychotics. A systematic review and network meta-analysis	19
Working memory performance in disordered gambling and gaming: A systematic review	19
The course of borderline personality disorder from adolescence to early adulthood: A 5-year follow-up study	18
Identifying factors strongest associated with clinical, societal and personal recovery in people with psychosis with a long duration of illness	17
Less inhibited and more depressed? The puzzling association between mood, inhibitory control and depressive symptoms	17
Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (r-TMS) and selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor-resistance in obsessive-compulsive disorder: A meta-analysis and clinical implications	17
Corrigendum to “The global assessment of OCD” [comprehensive psychiatry, volume 118, October 2022, 152,342 1–17]	16
Views about neuromodulation interventions for depression by stakeholder group, treatment modality, and depression severity	16
Efficacy of a dialogic book-sharing intervention in a South African birth cohort: A randomized controlled trial	16
Identifying internalizing transdiagnostic profiles through motivational and cognitive control systems: Relations with symptoms, functionality, and quality of life	15
Translation and Validation of the Gaming Disorder Test and Gaming Disorder Scale for Adolescents into Chinese for Taiwanese Young Adults	15
The relative risks of different forms of sports betting in a U.S. sample: A brief report	15
HUGS@Home - An initial evaluation of a psychological first aid programme for families and friends of first responders	15
Unveiling the relationship between social anxiety, loneliness, motivations, and problematic smartphone use: A network approach	15
Beyond the surface: Understanding obsessive symptoms and body perceptions, from shape concerns to fear of blushing	14
Mindfulness-based intervention for clinical and subthreshold perinatal depression and anxiety: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trial	14
Gender and trait rumination moderates the link between trait impulsivity and gambling problems severity in young adults	14
Gender differences in prevalence and clinical correlates of anxiety symptoms in first-episode and drug-naïve patients with major depressive disorder	14
Mental health outcomes in frontline healthcare workers in Brazil during the COVID-19 epidemic: Results of an online survey in four regions using respondent-driven sampling (RDS)	14
Premorbid temperament as predictor of onset of depression: 23-year follow-up	14
Social media as an incubator of personality and behavioral psychopathology: Symptom and disorder authenticity or psychosomatic social contagion?	14
The clinical utility and relevance in clinical practice of DSM-5 specifiers for major depressive disorder: A Delphi expert consensus study	14
The double-edged sword of distress tolerance: Exploring the role of distress overtolerance in nonsuicidal self-injury	14
Correlates of risk-taking behaviour and suicidality among humanitarian aid workers	13
Internet severity and activities addiction questionnaire (ISAAQ): Psychometrics of item response theory and clustering of online activities	13
Childhood trauma increases vulnerability to attempt suicide in adulthood through avoidant attachment	13
Cognitive performance in young adults who endorse a cannabis use disorder	13
Predictors for early and long-term readmission in involuntarily admitted patients	13
The influence of psychological traits and prior experience on treatment expectations	13
An investigation into symptoms of depression and anxiety and emotion regulation among older adolescents from low-income settings in South Africa	13
Identifying populations at ultra-high risk of suicide using a novel machine learning method	13
Affective dysregulation and sex differences in somatic symptom disorder: A 6-month longitudinal and mediation analysis	13

An extended model of gambling motives: The first results with the long and short versions of the gambling motives questionnaire-revised	13
Gender bias in antidepressant direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising	13
The relationship between childhood trauma and insomnia among college students with major depressive disorder: Mediation by the role of negative life events and dysfunctional attitudes	13
Effect of stress on the relationship between relief-seeking and cue-induced alcohol craving and anxiety: A virtual reality cue exposure study	13
Infralow-frequency transcranial magnetic stimulation as a therapy for generalized anxiety disorder: A randomized clinical trial	12
Association between schizophrenia and prostate cancer risk: Results from a pool of cohort studies and Mendelian randomization analysis	12
A remotely-applied, cognitive control-based videogame intervention to reduce depressive symptoms in a sub-clinical population: A randomized controlled trial (RCT)	12
Identifying the most important research, policy and practice questions for substance use, problematic alcohol use and behavioural addictions in autism (SABA-A): A priority setting partnership	12
Clinical assessment and treatment of PANS/PANDAS	12
Adverse childhood experiences and cognition: A cross-sectional study in Xhosa people living with schizophrenia and matched medical controls	12
Therapists who foster social identification build stronger therapeutic working alliance and have better client outcomes	12
Subtypes of major depressive disorders and objectively measured physical activity and sedentary behaviors in the community	11
The power of youth: Long-term differential effects of developmental functioning trajectory on social functioning, quality of life and personal recovery across the schizophrenia spectrum	11
Sex-differential patterns of neuropsychological functioning in adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder	11
A comprehensive measure assessing different types of problematic use of the internet among Chinese adolescents: The Assessment of Criteria for Specific Internet-use Disorders (ACSID-11)	11
A scoping review on serotenergic psychedelics for obsessive compulsive and body image disorders	11
Associations between the Personality Inventory for DSM-5 trait facets and aggression among outpatients with personality disorder: A multimethod study	11
Is it acceptable and feasible to measure prolonged grief disorder symptoms in daily life using experience sampling methodology?	11
Adverse childhood experiences and problematic use of the internet among a child and adolescent psychiatric clinical population.	11