OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Law and Psychiatry is 3. 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
Editorial Board	19
Community treatment orders: A qualitative study of stakeholder perspectives	12
PTSD malingering detection in damage claim cases: Diagnostic accuracy in cases of personal injury as a result of motor vehicle accidents	11
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
Men placed on waiting lists for psychiatric admission from Irish Prisons over five years: Clinical outcomes during a forensic “bed crisis”	10
‘I was going into it blind’: Nearest Relatives, legal literacy, and the Mental Health Act 1983	10
Examining the health and criminal justice characteristics for young people on compulsory community treatment orders: An Australian birth cohort and data linkage study	9
Editorial Board	9
Conflicting purposes: Guardianship law, mental health law and involuntary detentions	9
The p factor, crime, and criminal justice: A criminological study of Caspi et al.'s general psychopathology general theory	9
Influencing factors for assessment of criminal responsibility in patients with mental disorders: A forensic case analysis between 2010 and 2020	8
Psychiatric advance directives and consent to electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in Australia: A legislative review and suggestions for the future	8
Comparisons of beliefs in mental health stigma in communities and those who police them	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	7
Privacy and safety: Issues of dual compliance in high-secure and other forensic psychiatric hospitals	7
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	7
RIGHTCARE-PR: Reporting guidelines for human rights in child and adolescent psychiatry	7
Culpability for offenses in frontotemporal dementia and other brain disorders	7
The debate about physician assisted suicide and euthanasia in Ireland – Implications for psychiatry	7
A framework for the evidence-based practice of therapeutic jurisprudence: A legal therapeutic alliance	6
Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) and suggestibility: A survey of United States federal case law	6
Capacity and incapacity: An appropriate border for non-consensual interventions?	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
Is this an underestimated problem? Using coercion before psychiatric hospitalization	6

The psychometric properties of the Forensic Stigma Scale (FSS)	6
Evaluation of the sensitivity of the Health Screening of People in Police Custody (HELP-PC) tool in Northumbria Police, UK	6
Diagnosing psychopathy in an intercultural setting: Applications and implications in postcolonial contemporary Mayotte	6
Assessing the validity of self-report of psychopathy short-form (SRP-SF) in incarcerated offenders from Chile and Uruguay	5
Abolition of coercion in mental health services – A European survey of feasibility	5
Forensic aspects of dissociative positive symptoms in trauma-related disorders and borderline personality disorder	5
Policing psychiatric illness: An organisational paradox for Health & Law	5
Editorial Board	5
Predictors of recovery in a medium secure service: Influence of the Welsh Government's Mental Health (2010) Measure	5
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) and decision-making: Legal & ethical hurdles for implementation in mental health	5
Role of psychopathology on children credibility of sexual abuse testimony	4
The contribution of psychopathic traits and substance use in the prediction of recidivism of sexual offenders	4
Editorial Board	4
Police use of force standards and mental health crises in the United States: Identifying research and policymaking targets	4
Compulsory treatment in Portuguese-speaking countries: An analysis and comparison of the legal framework	4
The violence profile of male mentally disordered offenders in a high secure unit in Turkiye	4
England and Wales draft Mental Health Bill: Implications for people with intellectual disabilities	4
Restricted patients in New Zealand: A failed social experiment with a hybrid form of civil/forensic compulsory mental health treatment	4
‘Evaluation of testamentary capacity: A systematic review’	4
Criminal insanity in Bulgaria and Norway: Analysing the prospect of a common approach	4
The collaborative development through multidisciplinary and advocate consensus of an accessible notice of rights for people with intellectual disabilities in police custody	4
Control in the community: A qualitative analysis of the experience of persons on conditional discharge in Hong Kong	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
Remodelling criminal insanity: Exploring philosophical, legal, and medical premises of the medical model used in Norwegian law	4
Homicides by offenders with psychotic illness in Italy and Turkiye: A comparison of offender and crime-scene profiles	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
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	4
Does adolescent drug use belong on the antisocial spectrum? Mediating the drug–crime connection with cognitive impulsivity	4
Perception of the criminality of attempted suicide in Nepal and its impact on suicide reporting	4
Artificial intelligence in insanity evaluation. Potential opportunities and current challenges	3
Editorial Board	3
Assessing mental capacity in the context of abuse and neglect: A relational lens	3
A mixed-methods analysis of the influence of bio-behavioral scientific evidence on U.S. judges' reasoning and sentencing decision-making	3
Bias analysis in forensic and non-forensic psychiatric assessments	3
Mental health disorders, adverse childhood experiences and accelerated reoffending among justice-involved youth in Australia: A longitudinal recurrent event analysis	3
The use of coercive measures in a high security setting in Belgium: Prevalence and risk factors	3
Homicide perpetrators with psychotic illness found not criminally responsible in Turkiye and Russia: An international comparison	3
The use of community treatment orders in people with substance induced psychosis	3
Mental health professionals' perceptions and attitudes towards seclusion: The ambivalent relationship between safety and therapeutic considerations	3
Editorial Board	3
Mind over matter: Mental illness and sentencing outcomes among homicide cases in Singapore	3
Exploring structural stigma towards mental disorders: An analysis of trial verdicts	3
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	3
Editorial Board	3
Contextual factors influencing the use of coercive measures in Portuguese mental health care	3
An International Comparison of Psychiatric Advance Directive Policy: Across eleven jurisdictions and alongside advance directive policy	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
Cognitive biases in forensic psychiatry: A scoping review	3

Editorial Board	3
Mental health, medical incapacity, and political leadership in the United Kingdom: A multidisciplinary analysis of the intersections between psychiatry and constitutional law	3