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Papers

(The median citation count of International Journal of Psychiatry in Clinical Practice is 2. 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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Health care workers' mental health in the face of COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis	60
COVID-19 pandemic and mental health in Lebanon: a cross-sectional study	50
COVID-19, loneliness, social isolation and risk of dementia in older people: a systematic review and meta-analysis of the relevant literature	50
Covid-19 fear, happiness and stress in adults: the mediating role of psychological resilience and coping with stress	39
Meta-analysis of prevalence: the psychological sequelae among COVID-19 survivors	36
Effects of lockdown on emergency room admissions for psychiatric evaluation: an observational study from the AUSL Romagna, Italy	31
Presentation and management of anxiety in individuals with acute symptomatic or asymptomatic COVID-19 infection, and in the post-COVID-19 recovery phase	29
Esketamine nasal spray in patients with treatment-resistant depression: the real-world experience in the French cohort early-access programme	29
Subthreshold depression – concept, operationalisation and epidemiological data. A scoping review	16
Grey matter volume abnormalities in the first depressive episode of medication-naïve adult individuals: a systematic review of voxel based morphometric studies	14
Diabetes and mood disorders: shared mechanisms and therapeutic opportunities	14
The effects of childhood emotional maltreatment and alexithymia on depressive and manic symptoms and suicidal ideation in females with bipolar disorder: emotion dysregulation as a mediator	14
Psychological distress experienced by self-quarantined undergraduate university students in Lebanon during the COVID-19 outbreak	13
Psychological pain and depression: it’s hard to speak when it hurts	12
COVID-19 pandemic: demographic and clinical correlates of disturbed sleep among 6,041 Canadians	12
Capacity to consent to treatment in psychiatry inpatients – a systematic review	11
Mental fatigue in individuals with psychiatric disorders: a scoping review	11
A preliminary investigation of Cyberchondria and its correlates in a clinical sample of patients with obsessive–compulsive disorder, anxiety and depressive disorders attending a tertiary psychiatric c	10
The effects of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors on male and female fertility: a brief literature review	9
ADHD prevalence in the psychiatric population	9
Association of negative symptoms with cognitive impairment in Chinese Han patients with chronic schizophrenia	9
Psychotic symptoms prior or concomitant to diagnosis of multiple sclerosis: a systematic review of case reports and case series	9
The assessment of affective temperament and life quality in myofascial pain syndrome patients	8
Comparable reliability and acceptability of telepsychiatry and face-to-face psychiatric assessments in the emergency room setting	8
Assessment tools for complex post traumatic stress disorder: a systematic review	8

Subsyndromal generalised anxiety disorder: operationalisation and epidemiology – a systematic literature survey	8
A review of evaluation approaches for telemental health programs	8
Self- and caregiver-perceived disability, subjective well-being, quality of life and psychopathology improvement in long-acting antipsychotic treatments: a 2-year follow-up study	7
Relationship between impulsivity, comorbid anxiety and neurocognitive functions in bipolar disorder	7
How significant is the assessment of the DSM-5 'anxious distress' specifier in patients with major depressive disorder without comorbid anxiety disorders in the continuation/maintenance phase?	7
Treatment strategies in management of schizophrenia patients with persistent symptoms in daily practice: a retrospective study	7
Bright light therapy accelerates the antidepressant effect of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in treatment resistant depression: a pilot study	7
Effects of lockdown on emergency room admissions for psychiatric evaluation: an observational study from 4 centres in Italy	6
Delirium associated with the use of macrolide antibiotics: a review	6
Factors influencing lithium versus valproate prescription preference in the maintenance treatment of bipolar patients: a report from the Italian Early Career Psychiatrists (SOPSI-GG)	6
General antidepressants prescribing trends 2009–2018 in Slovenia: a cross-sectional retrospective database study	6
Do neurocognitive functions in cannabis induced psychosis groups differ from schizophrenia with cannabis use? A controlled cross-sectional study	5
Is common carotid artery intima-media thickness (cIMT) a risk assessment marker in children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder?	5
Mental health during the first wave of COVID-19 in Canada, the USA, Brazil and Italy	5
A systematic review of maternal and infant outcomes after clozapine continuation in pregnancy	5
Brain-Derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) plasma level increases in patients with resistant schizophrenia treated with electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)	5
Sick leave duration as a potential marker of functionality and disease severity in depression	5
Confabulations in post-acute and chronic alcoholic Korsakoff’s syndrome: a cross-sectional study conducted in two centres	5
Preparing for the next pandemic by understanding the impact of COVID-19 mitigation measures on patients with eating Disorders: observations from an inpatient setting	4
High utilisers of emergency departments: the profile and journey of patients with mental health issues	4
Assessment of cognitive performances in major depressed patients: a 6-month follow-up study	4
Psychiatry’s pursuit of euthymia: another wild goose chase or an opportunity for principle-based facilitation?	4
Plasma IL-6 levels in unmedicated, comorbidity free obsessive-compulsive disorder	4
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A new approach for seasonal pattern: is it related to bipolarity dimension? Findings from an Italian multicenter study	4
Functional interventions as augmentation strategies for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD): scoping review and expert survey from the international college of obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders	4
Dopamine partial agonists: a discrete class of antipsychotics	4
Adjunctive vagus nerve stimulation for treatment-resistant depression: a preliminary study	4
Clinical features and predictors of non-response in severe catatonic patients treated with electroconvulsive therapy	4
Assessment of compliance and relapse in patients with schizophrenia before and after the onset of COVID-19 pandemic	4
Effect of quetiapine on inflammation and immunity: a systematic review	4
Mitochondrial DNA copy number may be associated with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder severity in treatment: a one-year follow-up study	4
Depression and suicidal ideation in schizophrenia spectrum disorder: a cross-sectional study from a lower middle-income country	4
Aripiprazole for the treatment of schizophrenia: Recommendations of a panel of Spanish experts on its use in clinical practice	4
Differences of apathy perfusion correlates between Alzheimer’s disease and frontotemporal dementia. A 99mTc-HMPAO SPECT study with automated Brodmann areas analysis	3
Dignity, coercion and involuntary psychiatric care: a study of involuntary and voluntary psychiatry inpatients in Dublin	3
Predictors of sick leave days in patients affected by major depressive disorder receiving antidepressant treatment in general practice setting in Germany	3
The importance of suicide risk assessment in patients affected by neurofibromatosis	3
Matrix metalloproteinase-3 serum levels in schizophrenic patients	3
Serum B12, homocysteine, and anti-parietal cell antibody levels in children with autism	3
Psychiatric manifestations of post-COVID-19 syndrome: the potential benefit of Silexan	3
Association between Tumor Necrosis factor-Alpha(TNF-a) polymorphisms and Schizophrenia: an updated meta-analysis	3
Part of the solution yet part of the problem: factors of schizophrenia stigma in mental health professionals	3
Sociodemographic and clinical characteristics related with hyperprolactinaemia in psychiatric clinical population	3
Affective temperaments and the risk of gestational diabetes mellitus	3
Prevalence of vitamin D deficiency among psychiatric inpatients: a systematic review	3
Increased NLRP3 inflammasome expression in peripheral blood mononuclear cells of patients with schizophrenia: a case-control study	3
Changing patterns of prenatal depression and anxiety status in different trimesters and modified form of Zung scales for pregnant women	3
Gender differences in empathy and clinical symptoms in chronic schizophrenia patients: a large sample study based on a Chinese Han population	2
Profile of patients attending psychiatric emergency care during the coronavirus 2019 (COVID 19) pandemic: a comparative cross-sectional study between lockdown and post-lockdown periods in Lombardy, It	2

A comparison of phenomenological, clinical and familial psychiatric features of pediatric OCD and trichotillomania	2
Adverse drug reactions associated with concurrent acute psychiatric treatment and Covid-19 drug therapy	2
Associations of dysfunctional attitudes, ruminations and metacognitive beliefs about rumination with pharmacological treatment response in patients with first episode of major depression	2
Engendering misunderstanding: autism and borderline personality disorder	2
Hospitalisation outcomes for patients with severe mental illness treated by female vs. male psychiatry residents	2
Episodic obsessive-compulsive disorder and bipolar spectrum disorder: new evidence from a large Italian OCD sample	2
‘Sleep and emotions: How much are they affected by confinement due to COVID-19? A longitudinal study’	2
Unmet needs in the diagnosis and treatment of Parkinson’s disease psychosis and dementia-related psychosis	2
Questions arising from the application of the ICD-11 diagnoses of complex post traumatic stress disorder and personality disorder	2
Health care utilisation in treatment-resistant depression: a Swedish population-based cohort study	2
Which clinical factors and biochemical parameters are associated with late-life major depression?	2
Depression and atrial fibrillation in a reciprocal liaison: a neuro-cardiac link	2
Orexin a levels of adolescents with major depressive disorder	2
Levels of lymphocyte-associated regulators of complement system CD55 and CD59 are changed in schizophrenia patients	2
Impact of early use of long-acting injectable antipsychotics on functional outcome in first episode psychosis: a 3-year longitudinal study	2
Effects of exercise on obsessive-compulsive disorder symptoms: a systematic review and meta-analysis	2
Validation of the Turkish version of the self-evaluation of negative symptoms scale (SNS)	2
Effects of electroconvulsive therapy on nitrosative stress and oxidative DNA damage parameters in patients with a depressive episode	2