OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Psychological Medicine is 41. 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
The psychological impact of COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns: a review and meta-analysis of longitudinal studies and natural experiments	533
COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in the UK: the Oxford coronavirus explanations, attitudes, and narratives survey (Oceans) II	460
Increases in depression and anxiety symptoms in adolescents and young adults during the COVID-19 pandemic	399
Longitudinal changes in mental health and the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from the UK Household Longitudinal Study	329
Trust in government regarding COVID-19 and its associations with preventive health behaviour and prosocial behaviour during the pandemic: a cross-sectional and longitudinal study	173
Coronavirus conspiracy suspicions, general vaccine attitudes, trust and coronavirus information source as predictors of vaccine hesitancy among UK residents during the COVID-19 pandemic	171
The mental health impact of COVID-19 and lockdown-related stressors among adults in the UK	108
Efficacy of dialectical behavior therapy for adolescent self-harm and suicidal ideation: a systematic review and meta-analysis	96
Causal inference with observational data: the need for triangulation of evidence	92
The genetic basis of major depression	89
Social relationships and depression during the COVID-19 lockdown: longitudinal analysis of the COVID-19 Social Study	85
Genetic architecture of schizophrenia: a review of major advancements	85
Refuting the myth of a ‘tsunami’ of mental ill-health in populations affected by COVID-19: evidence that response to the pandemic is heterogeneous, not homogeneous	83
Investigating the effect of national government physical distancing measures on depression and anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic through meta-analysis and meta-regression	81
Injection fears and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy	81
Genetic contributions to autism spectrum disorder	78
Continuum beliefs and mental illness stigma: a systematic review and meta-analysis of correlation and intervention studies	78
Genetics of substance use disorders: a review	74
Understanding different trajectories of mental health across the general population during the COVID-19 pandemic	72
Impact of guidance on intervention adherence in computerised interventions for mental health problems: a meta-analysis	71
Changes in telepsychiatry regulations during the COVID-19 pandemic: 17 countries and regions' approaches to an evolving healthcare landscape	65
The evidence for cognitive behavioural therapy in any condition, population or context: a meta-review of systematic reviews and panoramic meta-analysis	59
Non-suicidal self-injury among first-year college students and its association with mental disorders: results from the World Mental Health International College Student (WMH-ICS) initiative	59
Machine learning in the prediction of depression treatment outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis	58
Two decades of digital interventions for anxiety disorders: a systematic review and meta-analysis of treatment effectiveness	56

Role of the gut microbiome in three major psychiatric disorders	56
Anxiety in asthma: a systematic review and meta-analysis	56
The Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP) in psychiatric practice and research	55
Somatic symptom disorder: a scoping review on the empirical evidence of a new diagnosis	54
How much change is enough? Evidence from a longitudinal study on depression in UK primary care	53
Genetics of obsessive-compulsive disorder	51
Psychotic experiences in the general population, a review; definition, risk factors, outcomes and interventions	49
Mental health services for infectious disease outbreaks including COVID-19: a rapid systematic review	48
What is a mental disorder? An exemplar-focused approach	48
Overgeneral and specific autobiographical memory predict the course of depression: an updated meta-analysis	47
Enhanced cognitive-behavior therapy and family-based treatment for adolescents with an eating disorder: a non-randomized effectiveness trial	44
Schema therapy for violent PD offenders: a randomized clinical trial	43
Maternal mental health during the COVID-19 lockdown in China, Italy, and the Netherlands: a cross-validation study	43
Towards a definitive symptom structure of obsessive−compulsive disorder: a factor and network analysis of 87 distinct symptoms in 1366 individuals	43
How does the COVID-19 pandemic impact on population mental health? A network analysis of COVID influences on depression, anxiety and traumatic stress in the UK population	41
Genetic contributions to bipolar disorder: current status and future directions	41