OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of BMC Psychiatry is 46. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
The relationship between mental health and violence toward women during the COVID-19 pandemic	246
Medically assisted integrated rehabilitation program for people with opioid dependence: a quasi-experimental evaluation using multi-criteria decision analysis	123
Towards accurate screening and prevention for PTSD (2-ASAP): protocol of a longitudinal prospective cohort study	111
Change in attitudes after a suicide prevention media campaign in the Mid-Norway region	103
“Are we genuinely going to have our voices heard?” The experience of co-producing a blended intervention to prevent relapse in obsessive-compulsive disorder: a qualitative study on the perspectives of	103
Investigation of the correlation between urinary aromatic amines and the risk of depression through an examination of the NHANES data from 2013 to 2014	99
Assessing the role of mega cisterna magna in criminal responsibility: implications for neurocognitive disorders in forensic evaluations	96
Correction: Evaluating the effect of action-like video game play and of casual video game play on anxiety in adolescents with elevated anxiety: protocol for a multi-center, parallel group, assessor-bl	95
Differences of regional homogeneity and cognitive function between psychotic depression and drug-naïve schizophrenia	93
Off–label long acting injectable antipsychotics in real–world clinical practice: a cross-sectional analysis of prescriptive patterns from the STAR Network DEPOT study	91
Temporal trends of psychiatric disorders incidence by sex, education and immigration status among young and middle-aged adults in Sweden, 2004–2019	90
A longitudinal examination of the measurement properties and invariance of the Sleep Condition Indicator in Chinese healthcare students	80
Exploring the impact of mental health conditions on vaccine uptake in high-income countries: a systematic review	77
Suicidal behavior and associated factors among prisoners at Dessie town correctional institution, Dessie, Ethiopia	77
The prevalence of and perception toward mental illness: a cross-sectional study among Indonesian mental health nurses	73
Association of HTR3B gene polymorphisms with depression and its executive dysfunction: a case–control study	73
Subjective quality of life and schizophrenia: results from a large cohort study based in Chinese primary care	71
The mediating effect of sleep quality on the relationship between social support and depressive symptoms among Chinese nurses during the omicron outbreak	70
Prevalence and factors associated with post traumatic stress disorder among field police patrol officers serving in Kampala Metropolitan region	70
A rare case of isovaleric acidemia and schizophrenia: a case report	67
Validation of the Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 in patients with COPD: a cross-sectional study	65
A review of the scope of non-suicidal self-injury behavior in adolescents with depressive disorders: an analysis of related influencing factors	63
Association between watching eating broadcasts like mukbang and cookbang and generalized anxiety disorder among Korean adolescents	63
Prenatal, perinatal and parental risk factors for autism spectrum disorder in China: a case- control study	60
Network analysis of the relationships among psychotic-like experiences, suicidal ideation and school connectedness among children and adolescents	60

Validation of sleep-wake estimation from thigh-worn accelerometers against polysomnography in adolescents with and without mental disorders	56
The treatment characteristics of oral antipsychotics in treatment of adolescents with schizophrenia in China	56
Effect of pilates on the physical and mental health of drug-dependent individuals — a randomized controlled trial	56
The component-to-trait relationship between intolerance of uncertainty and obsessive–compulsive personality traits: a network analysis	53
Exploring current approaches towards patient prioritisation for clinical pharmacy services in UK mental health inpatient care	53
Efficacy of an internet-based, therapist-guided cognitive behavioral therapy intervention for adolescents and young adults with body dysmorphic disorder: a randomized controlled trial	52
The effect of cognitive behavioral therapy on sexual function in reproductive aged women with hypothyroidism: a randomized controlled clinical trial	50
Relationship between parental perfectionism and child’s disordered eating: mediating role of parental distress and validation of the arabic version of the eating disorders examination questionnaire-sh	50
Factors associated with non-adherence to clinic visits among patients with severe mental illness enrolled in the SMILE study in Uganda	50
Beliefs about sleep: links with ruminations, nightmare, and anxiety	50
The dynamic trajectory of autistic life and its changing challenges: a scoping review	50
Measuring patient satisfaction with four items: validity of the client satisfaction questionnaire 4 in an outpatient population	49
Clinicians’ perceptions and practices of diagnostic assessment in psychiatric services	49
Evaluating the association of vitamin D3, parathyroid hormone, and C-reactive protein serum levels in patients with an acute psychotic episode: a cross-sectional study in tertiary centre in Iran	49
Strangulation during the night: diagnosis of sleep-associated violence	49
Altered gut microbiota and its metabolites correlate with plasma cytokines in schizophrenia inpatients with aggression	48
Mental health of LGBTQ+ workers: a systematic review	48
Sex-differential cognitive performance on MCCB of youth with BD-II depression	47
Association between the serum alpha-1-acid glycoprotein concentrations and depression in US adult women: a cross-sectional study	47
Exploring social emotion processing in autism: evaluating the reading the mind in the eyes test using network analysis	46
Predictors of nonresponse to treatment and low adherence to internet-based cognitive behavioral therapy in depressed/anxious women facing the couple’s fertility problems: a secondary analysis of a ran	46
Course of mental distress among psychotherapists throughout two years of the COVID- 19 pandemic: individual and inter-relational resources make a difference—cross-sectional and longitudinal results of	46
An online tiered screening procedure to identify mental health problems among refugees	46
Guilt and shame and its relation to oxytocin in patients with depression and alcohol addiction	46
Self-harm hospitalizations and neighbourhood level material and social deprivation in Canada: an ecological study	46