OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Comprehensive Psychiatry is 12. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Towards understanding and addressing mental health challenges in Africa: An integrated perspective	157
Adaption and validation of the Rwandese version of the Mood Disorder Questionnaire for the screening of bipolar disorder	122
Prenatal anticipatory stress: Baby preparation and worry scale-revised in the Dutch context	96
On the use of positive test strategies when diagnosing mental disorders	89
Evaluation of the psychometric properties of the UBACC questionnaire in a multi-country psychiatric study in Africa	88
The relationship between anxious-depressive symptoms and harmful cannabis use: Multiple mediation models via rumination, negative urgency, protective behavioral strategies and refusal self-efficacy	67
Schizophrenia genetic risk and labour market outcomes in the Finnish general population: Are schizophrenia-related traits penalised or rewarded?	66
Assessing the effectiveness of high-definition transcranial direct current stimulation for treating obsessive-compulsive disorder: Results from a randomized, double-blind, controlled trial	48
The longitudinal structure of negative symptoms in treatment resistant schizophrenia	45
Diligent for better or worse: Conscientiousness is associated with higher likelihood of suicidal behavior and more severe suicidal intent in later life	43
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
Pallidum volume as a predictor for the effectiveness of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy and psycho-education in unmedicated patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder	35
Advances in problematic usage of the internet research – A narrative review by experts from the European network for problematic usage of the internet	34
Suicidal thoughts and behaviors in adults with hoarding disorder	32
Nonsuicidal self-injury behaviour in a city of China and its association with family environment, media use and psychopathology	31
Pathways to suicidal ideation for young people engaged in mental health care	31
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	31
Aberrant anterior insula underlies interoceptive deficits in alexithymia among schizophrenia patients	31
Virtual reality-based theory of mind intervention in schizophrenia: Preliminary efficacy results	28
Depressive symptoms, social support, and health-related quality of life: A community-based study in Shanghai, China	28
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	28
Validation of the aberrant salience inventory in a general and clinical Spanish population	27
Personalized virtual reality exposure for panic disorder and agoraphobia: A preliminary neurophysiological study	26
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	26
The relationship between cognitive phenotypes of compulsivity and impulsivity and clinical variables in obsessive-compulsive disorder: A systematic review and Meta-analysis	26

Problematic use of the internet in individuals with psychiatric disorders – A scoping review and meta-analysis	24
Beyond criticism, hostility, and emotional overinvolvement: Development and psychometric validation of the Comprehensive Expressed Emotion Scale (CEES) in schizophrenia	24
Does social defeat cause negative symptoms? A prospective study in a multi-national community sample	23
Characteristics and stability of hallucinations and delusions in patients with borderline personality disorder	23
The impact of events scale-revised (IES-R): Validation of the Ukrainian version	23
Are circadian rhythms more favorable with lithium than with other mood stabilizers? An exploratory actigraphy study in euthymic bipolar disorder type 1	22
Risk of suicidality in mental and neurological disorders in low and middle-income countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis	22
Diagnosing and treating catatonia in low- and middle-income countries – a scoping review	22
Associations between metabolic disorders and sleep disturbance in patients with schizophrenia	22
Exercise moderates longitudinal group psychopathology networks in individuals with eating disorders	22
Evaluation of whether commonly used risk assessment tools are applicable to women in forensic psychiatric institutions	22
Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (r-TMS) and selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor-resistance in obsessive-compulsive disorder: A meta-analysis and clinical implications	21
Assessment of subjective sleep quality and issues in aggression: Intermittent Explosive Disorder compared with psychiatric and healthy controls	21
Lifestyle behaviours and mental health and wellbeing of tertiary students during COVID-19 lockdown in Australia: A cross-sectional study	20
Working memory performance in disordered gambling and gaming: A systematic review	20
Permissive beliefs in the context of gaming, online shopping and alcohol drinking – Systematic development of a self-report measure	20
The LEADING guideline: Reporting standards for expert panel, best-estimate diagnosis, and longitudinal expert all data (LEAD) methods	20
Comparative effects of pharmacological treatment for weight gain in patients treated with antipsychotics. A systematic review and network meta-analysis	20
Cardiometabolic screening and monitoring in patients prescribed antipsychotic drugs in primary care: A population-based cohort study	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
Prevalence and factors associated with depression and anxiety among young school-going adolescents in the Western Cape Province of South Africa	19
The course of borderline personality disorder from adolescence to early adulthood: A 5-year follow-up study	19
Less inhibited and more depressed? The puzzling association between mood, inhibitory control and depressive symptoms	18
Corrigendum to “The global assessment of OCD” [comprehensive psychiatry, volume 118, October 2022, 152,342 1–17]	17
Translation and Validation of the Gaming Disorder Test and Gaming Disorder Scale for Adolescents into Chinese for Taiwanese Young Adults	17
Identifying factors strongest associated with clinical, societal and personal recovery in people with psychosis with a long duration of illness	17
Identifying internalizing transdiagnostic profiles through motivational and cognitive control systems: Relations with symptoms, functionality, and quality of life	16
Views about neuromodulation interventions for depression by stakeholder group, treatment modality, and depression severity	16
Unveiling the relationship between social anxiety, loneliness, motivations, and problematic smartphone use: A network approach	16
Beyond the surface: Understanding obsessive symptoms and body perceptions, from shape concerns to fear of blushing	16
Efficacy of a dialogic book-sharing intervention in a South African birth cohort: A randomized controlled trial	16
The double-edged sword of distress tolerance: Exploring the role of distress overtolerance in nonsuicidal self-injury	16
The relative risks of different forms of sports betting in a U.S. sample: A brief report	16
HUGS@Home - An initial evaluation of a psychological first aid programme for families and friends of first responders	16
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)	15
Identifying populations at ultra-high risk of suicide using a novel machine learning method	15
Internet severity and activities addiction questionnaire (ISAAQ): Psychometrics of item response theory and clustering of online activities	15
The clinical utility and relevance in clinical practice of DSM-5 specifiers for major depressive disorder: A Delphi expert consensus study	15
Mindfulness-based intervention for clinical and subthreshold perinatal depression and anxiety: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trial	15
Premorbid temperament as predictor of onset of depression: 23-year follow-up	15
Childhood trauma increases vulnerability to attempt suicide in adulthood through avoidant attachment	15
Gender bias in antidepressant direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising	15
Social media as an incubator of personality and behavioral psychopathology: Symptom and disorder authenticity or psychosomatic social contagion?	15
An extended model of gambling motives: The first results with the long and short versions of the gambling motives questionnaire-revised	15
The influence of psychological traits and prior experience on treatment expectations	15
Gender and trait rumination moderates the link between trait impulsivity and gambling problems severity in young adults	14
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	14
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	14
An investigation into symptoms of depression and anxiety and emotion regulation among older adolescents from low-income settings in South Africa	14

Predictors for early and long-term readmission in involuntarily admitted patients	14
Associations between the Personality Inventory for DSM-5 trait facets and aggression among outpatients with personality disorder: A multimethod study	13
Clinical assessment and treatment of PANS/PANDAS	13
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)	13
Cognitive performance in young adults who endorse a cannabis use disorder	13
Infralow-frequency transcranial magnetic stimulation as a therapy for generalized anxiety disorder: A randomized clinical trial	13
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	13
Adverse childhood experiences and cognition: A cross-sectional study in Xhosa people living with schizophrenia and matched medical controls	13
Effect of stress on the relationship between relief-seeking and cue-induced alcohol craving and anxiety: A virtual reality cue exposure study	13
Affective dysregulation and sex differences in somatic symptom disorder: A 6-month longitudinal and mediation analysis	13
Correlates of risk-taking behaviour and suicidality among humanitarian aid workers	12
Long-term risk of psychiatric disorders in women with endometriosis: A retrospective cohort study	12
A remotely-applied, cognitive control-based video game intervention to reduce depressive symptoms in a sub-clinical population: A randomized controlled trial (RCT)	12
Subtypes of major depressive disorders and objectively measured physical activity and sedentary behaviors in the community	12
Efficient screening and outcome assessment for borderline personality disorder: A psychometric evaluation of the uBPDc	12
Sex-differential patterns of neuropsychological functioning in adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder	12
Therapists who foster social identification build stronger therapeutic working alliance and have better client outcomes	12
Association between schizophrenia and prostate cancer risk: Results from a pool of cohort studies and Mendelian randomization analysis	12