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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Bimodal effects of sunlight on major depressive disorder	101
The relationship between anxious-depressive symptoms and harmful cannabis use: Multiple mediation models via rumination, negative urgency, protective behavioral strategies and refusal self-efficacy	92
On the use of positive test strategies when diagnosing mental disorders	78
Pallidum volume as a predictor for the effectiveness of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy and psycho-education in unmedicated patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder	67
Diligent for better or worse: Conscientiousness is associated with higher likelihood of suicidal behavior and more severe suicidal intent in later life	54
Prenatal anticipatory stress: Baby preparation and worry scale-revised in the Dutch context	40
Evaluation of the psychometric properties of the UBACC questionnaire in a multi-country psychiatric study in Africa	35
Towards understanding and addressing mental health challenges in Africa: An integrated perspective	34
Assessing the effectiveness of high-definition transcranial direct current stimulation for treating obsessive-compulsive disorder: Results from a randomized, double-blind, controlled trial	32
The longitudinal structure of negative symptoms in treatment resistant schizophrenia	32
Adaption and validation of the Rwandese version of the Mood Disorder Questionnaire for the screening of bipolar disorder	32
Therapeutic drug monitoring of sertraline in children and adolescents: A naturalistic study with insights into the clinical response and treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder	30
Schizophrenia genetic risk and labour market outcomes in the Finnish general population: Are schizophrenia-related traits penalised or rewarded?	26
Advances in problematic usage of the internet research – A narrative review by experts from the European network for problematic usage of the internet	26
Nonsuicidal self-injury behaviour in a city of China and its association with family environment, media use and psychopathology	26
Depressive symptoms, social support, and health-related quality of life: A community-based study in Shanghai, China	25
Suicidal thoughts and behaviors in adults with hoarding disorder	25
Virtual reality-based theory of mind intervention in schizophrenia: Preliminary efficacy results	25
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	25
The impact of events scale-revised (IES-R): Validation of the Ukrainian version	24
Personalized virtual reality exposure for panic disorder and agoraphobia: A preliminary neurophysiological study	24
The relationship between cognitive phenotypes of compulsivity and impulsivity and clinical variables in obsessive-compulsive disorder: A systematic review and Meta-analysis	24
Exercise moderates longitudinal group psychopathology networks in individuals with eating disorders	23
Does social defeat cause negative symptoms? A prospective study in a multi-national community sample	23
Are circadian rhythms more favorable with lithium than with other mood stabilizers? An exploratory actigraphy study in euthymic bipolar disorder type 1	22

Characteristics and stability of hallucinations and delusions in patients with borderline personality disorder	21
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	21
Validation of the aberrant salience inventory in a general and clinical Spanish population	21
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	21
Problematic use of the internet in individuals with psychiatric disorders – A scoping review and meta-analysis	20
Less inhibited and more depressed? The puzzling association between mood, inhibitory control and depressive symptoms	20
The course of borderline personality disorder from adolescence to early adulthood: A 5-year follow-up study	20
Associations between metabolic disorders and sleep disturbance in patients with schizophrenia	20
Permissive beliefs in the context of gaming, online shopping and alcohol drinking – Systematic development of a self-report measure	19
Cardiometabolic screening and monitoring in patients prescribed antipsychotic drugs in primary care: A population-based cohort study	19
Evaluation of whether commonly used risk assessment tools are applicable to women in forensic psychiatric institutions	19
Assessment of subjective sleep quality and issues in aggression: Intermittent Explosive Disorder compared with psychiatric and healthy controls	18
Lifestyle behaviours and mental health and wellbeing of tertiary students during COVID-19 lockdown in Australia: A cross-sectional study	18
Subclinical hypothyroidism and symptoms of depression: Evidence from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES)	17
Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (r-TMS) and selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor-resistance in obsessive-compulsive disorder: A meta-analysis and clinical implications	17
Prevalence and factors associated with depression and anxiety among young school-going adolescents in the Western Cape Province of South Africa	17
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)	17
Validation of the Italian version of the Camouflaging Autistic Traits Questionnaire (CAT-Q) in a University population	17
Risk of suicidality in mental and neurological disorders in low and middle-income countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis	17
Working memory performance in disordered gambling and gaming: A systematic review	17
Unveiling the relationship between social anxiety, loneliness, motivations, and problematic smartphone use: A network approach	16
Corrigendum to “The global assessment of OCD” [comprehensive psychiatry, volume 118, October 2022, 152,342 1–17]	16
Efficacy of a dialogic book-sharing intervention in a South African birth cohort: A randomized controlled trial	16
Persistence rate of DSM-5 somatic symptom disorder: 4-year follow-up in patients from a psychosomatic outpatient clinic	16
Identifying factors strongest associated with clinical, societal and personal recovery in people with psychosis with a long duration of illness	16
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	14
Views about neuromodulation interventions for depression by stakeholder group, treatment modality, and depression severity	14
Polygenic risk scores differentiate schizophrenia patients with toxoplasma gondii compared to toxoplasma seronegative patients	14
Beyond the surface: Understanding obsessive symptoms and body perceptions, from shape concerns to fear of blushing	14
A correlational study of socioeconomic factors and the prevalence of hikikomori in Japan from 2010 to 2019	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
Identifying internalizing transdiagnostic profiles through motivational and cognitive control systems: Relations with symptoms, functionality, and quality of life	14
Mindfulness-based intervention for clinical and subthreshold perinatal depression and anxiety: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trial	13
Prior depression predicts greater stress during Covid-19 mandatory lockdown among college students in France	13
Gender differences in prevalence and clinical correlates of anxiety symptoms in first-episode and drug-naïve patients with major depressive disorder	12
Reliability, validity and psychometric properties of the Greek version of the Altman self rating mania scale	12
The clinical utility and relevance in clinical practice of DSM-5 specifiers for major depressive disorder: A Delphi expert consensus study	12
Social media as an incubator of personality and behavioral psychopathology: Symptom and disorder authenticity or psychosomatic social contagion?	12
Premorbid temperament as predictor of onset of depression: 23-year follow-up	12
Differences in the use of emotion regulation strategies between anorexia and bulimia nervosa: A systematic review and meta-analysis	12
Identifying populations at ultra-high risk of suicide using a novel machine learning method	12
Gender bias in antidepressant direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising	12
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	11
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	11
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	11
Internet severity and activities addiction questionnaire (ISAAQ): Psychometrics of item response theory and clustering of online activities	11
Childhood trauma increases vulnerability to attempt suicide in adulthood through avoidant attachment	11
Gender and trait rumination moderates the link between trait impulsivity and gambling problems severity in young adults	11
The influence of psychological traits and prior experience on treatment expectations	11

An investigation into symptoms of depression and anxiety and emotion regulation among older adolescents from low-income settings in South Africa	11
Predictors for early and long-term readmission in involuntarily admitted patients	10
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)	10
Adverse childhood experiences and cognition: A cross-sectional study in Xhosa people living with schizophrenia and matched medical controls	10
Is it acceptable and feasible to measure prolonged grief disorder symptoms in daily life using experience sampling methodology?	10
Group and sex differences in social cognition in bipolar disorder, schizophrenia/schizoaffective disorder and healthy people	10
Associations between the Personality Inventory for DSM-5 trait facets and aggression among outpatients with personality disorder: A multimethod study	10
Correlates of risk-taking behaviour and suicidality among humanitarian aid workers	10
Sex-differential patterns of neuropsychological functioning in adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder	10
Clinical assessment and treatment of PANS/PANDAS	9
Association between schizophrenia and prostate cancer risk: Results from a pool of cohort studies and Mendelian randomization analysis	9
Subtypes of major depressive disorders and objectively measured physical activity and sedentary behaviors in the community	9
Suicidality in family caregivers of people with long-term illnesses and disabilities: A scoping review	9
Therapists who foster social identification build stronger therapeutic working alliance and have better client outcomes	9
Infralow-frequency transcranial magnetic stimulation as a therapy for generalized anxiety disorder: A randomized clinical trial	9