OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Journal of Law and Psychiatry is 1. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Conflicting purposes: Guardianship law, mental health law and involuntary detentions	18
PTSD malingering detection in damage claim cases: Diagnostic accuracy in cases of personal injury as a result of motor vehicle accidents	16
Editorial Board	16
Men placed on waiting lists for psychiatric admission from Irish Prisons over five years: Clinical outcomes during a forensic “bed crisis”	12
Community treatment orders: A qualitative study of stakeholder perspectives	12
‘I was going into it blind’: Nearest Relatives, legal literacy, and the Mental Health Act 1983	12
Use of the least intrusive coercion at Danish psychiatric wards: A register-based cohort study of 131,632 first and subsequent coercive episodes within 35,812 admissions	11
Towards a consensus on training for advance care planning in mental health: Results from a Delphi study	10
Examining the health and criminal justice characteristics for young people on compulsory community treatment orders: An Australian birth cohort and data linkage study	10
Editorial Board	10
Comparisons of beliefs in mental health stigma in communities and those who police them	9
Bottlenecks in the Belgian forensic care system: A qualitative study on residual patients	9
Influencing factors for assessment of criminal responsibility in patients with mental disorders: A forensic case analysis between 2010 and 2020	9
Culpability for offenses in frontotemporal dementia and other brain disorders	9
Personality moderators of the cross-sectional relationship between job demands and both burnout and work engagement in judges: The boosting effects of conscientiousness and introversion	9
Editorial Board	9
Psychiatric advance directives and consent to electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in Australia: A legislative review and suggestions for the future	9
Suicidal ideation amongst incarcerated populations: An examination of contributing factors amongst male inmates in Southwest Nigeria	8
A repertoire and critical review of international resources relevant to medical assistance in dying where a mental disorder is the sole underlying medical condition	8
Is this an underestimated problem? Using coercion before psychiatric hospitalization	8
Blurred boundaries: Community treatment orders as instruments of racial surveillance	8
RIGHTCARE-PR: Reporting guidelines for human rights in child and adolescent psychiatry	8
Privacy and safety: Issues of dual compliance in high-secure and other forensic psychiatric hospitals	7
Diagnosing psychopathy in an intercultural setting: Applications and implications in postcolonial contemporary Mayotte	7
Capacity and incapacity: An appropriate border for non-consensual interventions?	7

A framework for the evidence-based practice of therapeutic jurisprudence: A legal therapeutic alliance	6
Validity and reliability of the Japanese version of the admission experience survey in individuals with mental illness	6
The psychometric properties of the Forensic Stigma Scale (FSS)	6
Large language models and psychiatry	6
The role of ‘micro-decisions’ in involuntary admissions decision-making for inpatient psychiatric care in general hospitals in South Africa	6
Evaluation of the sensitivity of the Health Screening of People in Police Custody (HELP-PC) tool in Northumbria Police, UK	6
Forensic aspects of dissociative positive symptoms in trauma-related disorders and borderline personality disorder	5
Abolition of coercion in mental health services – A European survey of feasibility	5
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) and decision-making: Legal & ethical hurdles for implementation in mental health	5
“Gut feeling and subtle signals”: Norwegian police officers' strategies for identifying cognitive disabilities in suspects during the initial stages of the legal process	5
Assessing the validity of self-report of psychopathy short-form (SRP-SF) in incarcerated offenders from Chile and Uruguay	5
Restraint in health and social care settings	5
Predictors of recovery in a medium secure service: Influence of the Welsh Government's Mental Health (2010) Measure	5
Best Interests decision-making processes in learning disability services in Northern Ireland	5
Editorial Board	5
Developmental factors in forensic assessments of children over the minimum age of criminal responsibility: A study of forensic reports in Norway 2013–2024	5
England and Wales draft Mental Health Bill: Implications for people with intellectual disabilities	5
Between expertise and judgment: Discordance between forensic psychiatric reports and judicial decisions in Brazilian litigation	4
Effects of psychological torture and cybertorture with emerging digital technologies under anti-torture legal obligations in China: A mixed methods research in risks and remedies	4
Addressing the false dichotomy between autonomy and preservation of life: Clinical, legal, and ethical considerations in severe and longstanding anorexia nervosa	4
Policing psychiatric illness: An organisational paradox for Health & Law	4
Sociodemographic and clinical factors associated with jail entry after a mental health crisis	4
The violence profile of male mentally disordered offenders in a high secure unit in Turkiye	4
Criminal insanity in Bulgaria and Norway: Analysing the prospect of a common approach	4
Involuntary patients awareness of their entitlement to appeal an admission and existence of the mental health review board in South Africa	4
Attitudes and ethical beliefs of Russian psychiatrists towards the use of coercive treatment practices	4
Role of psychopathology on children credibility of sexual abuse testimony	4
Forensic psychiatry patients, services, and legislation in Nunavut and Greenland	4
Sociodemographic, psychiatric and criminal characteristics of elderly offenders under evaluation for criminal responsibility in Turkey	4
Antisocial personality disorder and determinants among prisoners in South Gondar zone correctional institutions, Northwest Ethiopia: An institution-based cross-sectional study	4
Insight, the law and psychiatry: Going round in circles or playing nice?	4
‘Evaluation of testamentary capacity: A systematic review’	4
Control in the community: A qualitative analysis of the experience of persons on conditional discharge in Hong Kong	4
Perception of the criminality of attempted suicide in Nepal and its impact on suicide reporting	4
Homicides by offenders with psychotic illness in Italy and Turkiye: A comparison of offender and crime-scene profiles	4
Editorial Board	3
An integrative review exploring decision-making processes in forensic psychopathology investigations	3
Perspectives on the eligibility criteria for euthanasia for mental suffering caused by psychiatric disorder under the Belgian Euthanasia Law: A qualitative interview study among mental healthcare work	3
Editorial Board	3
An International Comparison of Psychiatric Advance Directive Policy: Across eleven jurisdictions and alongside advance directive policy	3
Assessing mental capacity in the context of abuse and neglect: A relational lens	3
Exploring structural stigma towards mental disorders: An analysis of trial verdicts	3
Informal coercion towards discharge: The entanglement of formal and informal coercion in social resource introduction	3
Compulsory treatment in Portuguese-speaking countries: An analysis and comparison of the legal framework	3
Mental health professionals' perceptions and attitudes towards seclusion: The ambivalent relationship between safety and therapeutic considerations	3
Editorial Board	3
The use of community treatment orders in people with substance induced psychosis	3
Mind over matter: Mental illness and sentencing outcomes among homicide cases in Singapore	3
Cognitive biases in forensic psychiatry: A scoping review	3
Editorial Board	3

A mixed-methods analysis of the influence of bio-behavioral scientific evidence on U.S. judges' reasoning and sentencing decision-making	3
Contextual factors influencing the use of coercive measures in Portuguese mental health care	3
Means of restraint in residential care when there is no acute danger. Time for the European committee on the prevention of torture to set the standard	3
Artificial intelligence in insanity evaluation. Potential opportunities and current challenges	3
The collaborative development through multidisciplinary and advocate consensus of an accessible notice of rights for people with intellectual disabilities in police custody	3
Bias analysis in forensic and non-forensic psychiatric assessments	3
Homicide perpetrators with psychotic illness found not criminally responsible in Turkiye and Russia: An international comparison	3
The use of coercive measures in a high security setting in Belgium: Prevalence and risk factors	3
Coercive measures in disability and mental health care services: Mechanical restraints from a bioethical and legal perspective in Spain	2
Juror decision making: Does juror stigma, mental health literacy, or the description of a defendant's mental health status, impact decision-making in a mock criminal trial?	2
Prescription patterns of benzodiazepines and Z-drugs in Berlin prisons	2
Mental health, medical incapacity, and political leadership in the United Kingdom: A multidisciplinary analysis of the intersections between psychiatry and constitutional law	2
Editorial Board	2
Individual liberty, safety and police liabilities under the mental health (care and treatment) act	2
Decision-making capacity law developments in Aotearoa New Zealand	2
Using the interRAI brief mental health screener to identify persons with mental disorders having repeat contact with police	2
Restricted patients and detention in the community: The human rights implications of supervised discharge under the Mental Health Bill 2025	2
Risk factors for involuntary admission in a Romanian patient sample	2
Can coercion in psychiatry be justified? A theoretical adversarial collaboration approach	2
Is assisted dying a treatment?	2
Persons with mental disorders and assisted dying practices in Spain: An overview	2
Decision-making by and for adults with impaired capacity: The potential of the Dutch levenstestament	2
Between psychopathy and deviant socialization: A close look at the mafia men	2
Hospital break. An eight-year review of escapes and absconds from two high security forensic centers	2
Legal consciousness of psychiatric patients in Israeli hospitals: Awareness and satisfaction	2
Unlocking the impact of the CRPD on Swedish mental health law	2
Analysing risk factors for involuntary admission from an intersectional perspective: A latent class analysis	2
The Dutch Compulsory Care Act: Possible effects on emergency involuntary admissions, treatment, and length of stay	2
No man's land: Troubling the borders of mental health and capacity law	2
Adult safeguarding legislation: Navigating the borderlands between mental capacity, mental health and social care law and practice	2
Editorial Board	2
Forensic mental health research: The potential of Danish national registers	2
“It just felt like a rubber stamp”: Family experiences of mental health review board hearings in Ontario, Canada	2
Mental health disorders, adverse childhood experiences and accelerated reoffending among justice-involved youth in Australia: A longitudinal recurrent event analysis	2
Modeling the effects of Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) training for police officers: How knowledge, attitudes, and self-efficacy drive de-escalation skills and referral decisions	2
Editorial Board	2
Unreasonable minds and imperfect self-defense	2
Personality disorder, mental capacity and compulsory intervention	2
Stakeholder experiences with compulsory treatment at home: A focus-group study	2
The Mental Health Bill 2024 in the Republic of Ireland: Potential implications for adults with intellectual disabilities	1
What place has ‘capacity’ in the criminal law relating to sex post JB?	1
Elusive cases in forensic psychiatry? Exploring subgroups of schizophrenia spectrum disorder patients in Germany	1
The reform of Irish mental health law: Aligning with human rights obligations?	1
Editorial Board	1
Abolition: Is this the only pathway to upholding human rights and ensuring epistemic justice in psychiatry? A key informant qualitative study	1
Validity and reliability of Mexican version of MacArthur competence assessment tool for treatment decision (MacCAT-T) in patients with schizophrenia	1
The influence of the convention on the rights of persons with disabilities on the European court of human rights in the area of mental health law: Divergence and unexplored potential	1
Overview of forensic outpatients on the Medical Treatment and Supervision Act in Japan	1
Experts' decision-making processes in Swedish forensic psychiatric investigations: A case vignette study	1
Australian and New Zealand doctors' experiences of disciplinary notifications, investigations, proceedings and interventions relating to alleged mental health impairment: a qualitative analysis of int	1
Criminal legal system contact in fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD): Experiences and support needs	1
Stigma management during reintegration of older incarcerated adults with mental health issues: A qualitative analysis	1
Global prevalence of borderline personality disorder and self-reported symptoms of adults in prison: A systematic review and meta-analysis	1
“Everyone means well but the one person who's really going to go to bat” - experiences and perspectives of substitute decision makers in caring for their loved ones with serious mental illness	1
Quality of life after involuntary psychiatric admission	1
RECAPACITA project: Comparing neuropsychological profiles in people with severe mental disorders, with and without capacity modification	1
Forensic psychiatry assessment and human rights in Ukraine: response to Butenko et al's paper ‘Forensic psychiatry misuse in proceedings of administrative offenses’ (2023)Type of submission	1
Corrigendum to ‘The mediating role of state anger in the associations between intentions to participate in the criminal trial and psychopathology in traumatically bereaved people’ [International Journ	1
Rational capacity and criminal responsibility in the USA	1
Cognition in older offenders in North Rhine-Westphalia: A comparison of prisoners and patients in forensic psychiatry hospitals	1
Perceived fairness as main determinant of patients' satisfaction with care during psychiatric hospitalisation: An observational study	1
The importation model mediated: New evidence for security threat group in the prediction of prison misconduct	1
Distinctive and common risk factors contributing to violent offending in patients with schizophrenia compared to people without a mental illness	1
Editorial Board	1
A shifting paradigm? A scoping review of the factors influencing recovery and rehabilitation in recent forensic research	1
A systematic mapping review identifying key features of restraint research in inpatient pediatric psychiatry: A human rights perspective	1
The mediating role of state anger in the associations between intentions to participate in the criminal trial and psychopathology in traumatically bereaved people	1
Reasons behind the rise in involuntary psychiatric treatment under mental health act 2016, Queensland, Australia – Clinician perspectives	1
Persons with mental disorders and assisted dying practices in Spain: In response to Ramos et al.	1
Factors influencing decision-making capacity assessments in involuntary care and treatment in Norway: A qualitative exploration of multi-stakeholder perspectives	1
Editorial Board	1
The rights to legal capacity, personal freedom, and safety during psychiatric hospitalizations at a general hospital	1
Editorial Board	1
Recidivism among forensic psychiatric patients undergoing outpatient treatment for mental health disorders – A meta-analysis	1