OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Affective Disorders is 69. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Association between antenatal common mental disorders symptoms, and adverse obstetric and perinatal outcomes: A community-based prospective cohort study in Eastern Ethiopia	823
The temporal dynamics of mood and their association with depressive symptoms in Huntington's disease	477
Editorial Board	377
Effectiveness of light therapy as adjunctive treatment in bipolar depression: A pilot study	272
Association between weight loss since the age of 20 years and the risk of suicide death: A population-based cohort study	230
Clinical indicators of the suicide crisis and response to ketamine	214
The emergence of eating disorders is considerably more complex than commonly perceived	195
Altered dynamic functional connectivity of insular subregions could predict symptom severity of male patients with autism spectrum disorder	154
Digital literacy—A new perspective on studying digital interventions for mental health issues	150
Repeated subcutaneous esketamine on treatment-resistant depression: An open-label dose titration study	149
Corrigendum to “Characterising depression trajectories in young people at high familial risk of depression” [J. Affect. Disord. 337 (2023) 66–74 (15 September)]	146
The role of lithium treatment on comorbid anxiety symptoms in patients with bipolar depression	145
Evaluating the effect of exercise-based interventions on functioning in people with transdiagnostic depressive symptoms: A systematic review of randomised controlled trials	144
Age-friendliness of community and sleep quality: The role of mental health	143
Prevalence and correlates of suicidal ideation in World Trade Center responders: Results from a population-based health monitoring cohort	121
Are we still uncertain about the latent structure of intolerance of uncertainty: Results from factor mixture modeling in a Serbian sample	119
Predictors of mother-infant interaction quality in women at risk of postpartum psychosis: The role of emotion recognition	118
Cognition-related connectome gradient dysfunctions of thalamus and basal ganglia in drug-naïve first-episode major depressive disorder	116
Individual response to electroconvulsive therapy is not correlated between multiple treatment courses	114
Effects of cigarette abstinence on negative and positive affect by depression symptom levels: A lab study	112
Mothers' and their children's emotional and behavioral symptom trajectories and subsequent maternal adjustment: Twenty-seven years of motherhood	111
Spillover effect of psychological distress from distressed to non-distressed spouse: A cohort study for midlife married couples in Japan	109
Electroencephalography (EEG) spectral signatures of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), selective norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs) and vortioxetine in major depressive disorder:	103
Effects of escitalopram therapy on effective connectivity among core brain networks in major depressive disorder	102
Prenatal determinants of anxiety symptoms in middle childhood. Evidence from Growing Up in New Zealand	101

Depression, anxiety, and stress in young adult gamers and their relationship with addictive behaviors: A latent profile analysis	100
Does awareness of diabetic status increase risk of depressive or anxious symptoms? Findings from the China Multi-Ethnic cohort (CMEC) study	98
Maternal thoughts of self-harm and their association with future offspring mental health problems	96
Splitting the reward: Differences in inflammatory marker associations with neural connectivity between reward anticipation and reward outcome in adolescents at high risk for depression	95
Does BMI matter when treating depression with esketamine? A retrospective analysis of real-world data	94
The abnormal choline to creatine ratio of the right anterior cingulate gyrus is linked to cognitive impairment in youth with major depressive disorder	94
Editorial Board	93
Divergent spatiotemporal signatures characterize impaired facial emotional recognition in major depressive disorder: An event-related microstate study	93
Cognitive hierarchy in mood disorders and relations to daily functioning	92
Negative life events increase the risk of suicidal ideation in 6653 Chinese freshmen: From a 1-year longitudinal study	91
Association between grip strength and cognitive function in older adults: results from a cross-sectional study and Mendelian randomization analyses	91
Causal effects of childhood obesity on neuroticism and subjective well-being: A two-sample Mendelian randomization study	91
The effect of adjunctive cariprazine on symptoms of anhedonia in patients with major depressive disorder	91
Association between healthy eating Index-2020 and anxiety: Insights from NHANES highlighting fruit and vegetable intake	90
Polysocial risk score and depressive symptoms of college students in a northwest Chinese city: The mediating role of resilience	90
Is psychiatric diagnostic remission associated with reduced prevalence of moderate to severe pain interference and improved functioning among adults with lifetime psychiatric disorders?	89
Why is rumination unhelpful in adolescents? Two studies examining the causal role of abstract processing	89
Posttraumatic stress symptoms, posttraumatic growth, and personality factors: A network analysis	87
Poor mental health is associated with loneliness and boredom during Covid-19-related restriction periods in patients with pre-existing depression	86
The impact of depression-mediated gut microbiota composition on Irritable Bowel Syndrome: A Mendelian study	82
Cerebral cortex changes in FD, IBS, and GERD: A Mendelian randomization study	82
Age-related heterogeneity revealed by disruption of white matter structural networks in patients with first-episode untreated major depressive disorder	82
The effect of pomegranate supplementation on symptom severity and quality of life in women with premenstrual syndrome: A randomised controlled trial	81
Depressive symptoms changes in the new-onset stroke patients: A cross-lagged panel network analysis	81
Measuring distress in older population: Rasch analysis of the Kessler Psychological Distress Scale	81
The cost-effectiveness of depression screening for the general adult population	80
Associations of resilience and respiratory sinus arrhythmia with alienation among college students	80
Mechanisms underlying the relationship between the intersectionality of multiple social identities with depression among US adults: A population-based study on the mediating roles of lifestyle behavio	79
Change in cardiovascular health among adults with current or past major depressive disorder enrolled in intensive smoking cessation treatment	79
Changes over time in anxiety, depression, and stress symptoms among healthcare workers in French emergency departments during the first COVID-19 outbreak	78
Expose to volatile organic compounds is associated with increased risk of depression: A cross-sectional study	78
Validation of the Oxford Depression Questionnaire: Sensitivity to change, minimal clinically important difference, and response threshold for the assessment of emotional blunting	78
Epilepsy and psychiatric comorbidities: A bidirectional mendelian randomization study	77
Assessing the differential item functioning of PHQ-9 items for diverse racial and ethnic adults with mental health and/or substance use disorder diagnoses: A retrospective cohort study	75
Targeting the gut microbiota-inflammation-brain axis as a potential therapeutic strategy for psychiatric disorders: A Mendelian randomization analysis	74
Serum signature of antibodies to Toxoplasma gondii, rubella virus, and cytomegalovirus in females with bipolar disorder: A cross-sectional study	74
Day-to-day variability in sleep and activity predict the onset of a hypomanic episode in patients with bipolar disorder	74
Associations of sleep quality, anxiety symptoms and social support with subjective well-being among Chinese perimenopausal women	72
Potential associations between altered brain function, cognitive deficits and gene expressing profiles in bipolar disorder across three clinical stages	72
Trends in parent-rated emotional symptoms, conduct problems, and hyperactivity/inattention among U.S. children and adolescents, 2004–2019	72
Depression and anxiety have a larger impact on bullied girls than on boys to experience self-harm and suicidality: A mediation analysis	72
Long-term effect of persistent postpartum depression on children's psychological problems in childhood	71
Association of trajectories and cumulative exposure of antenatal depression with high birth weight	70
Intelligent classification of major depressive disorder using rs-fMRI of the posterior cingulate cortex	70
The association between soft drinks consumption and risk of mental disorders among Iranian adults: The LIPOKAP study	69
The role of P2X4R in regulating CA1 hippocampal synaptic impairment in LPS-induced depression	69