OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Brazilian Journal of 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Influence of migration on the thought process of individuals at ultra-high risk for psychosis	130
Ditching candidate gene association studies: lessons from psychiatric genetics	81
Heterogeneous trajectories in schizophrenia: insights from neurodevelopment and neuroprogression models	59
Digital psychopathology: a not yet explored frontier in mental status examination	37
Decision tree-based classification as a support to diagnosis in the Alzheimer's disease continuum using cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers: insights from automated analysis	34
Do baseline participant characteristics impact the effectiveness of a mobile health intervention for depressive symptoms? A post-hoc subgroup analysis of the CONEMO trials	33
Examining differences in brain metabolism associated with childhood maltreatment and suicidal attempt in euthymic patients with bipolar disorder: A PET and Machine Learning Study	30
Abnormal insula network characteristics in panic disorder	27
Trajectories of positive attributes from childhood to early adulthood and their association with environmental factors	26
A systematic review of observational, naturalistic, and neurophysiological outcome measures of nonpharmacological interventions for autism	24
Brazilian Research Consortium on Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders guidelines for the treatment of adult obsessive-compulsive disorder. Part II: cognitive-behavioral therapy	24
Long-term effects of antipsychotics on mortality in patients with schizophrenia: a systematic review and meta-analysis	23
Naltrexone-induced psychois in a patient with alcohol use disorder	21
Tourette syndrome and multiple sclerosis: a case report	21
Interventional psychiatry: the revolution has arrived	20
The kynurenine pathway in Alzheimer's disease: a meta-analysis of central and peripheral levels	20
Effects of home-use transcranial direct current stimulation on clusters of depressive symptoms: an ancillary analysis of the PSYLECT study	19
Underage drinking in Brazil: findings from a community household survey	19
The role of psychiatry in areas affected by natural disasters	18
The efficacy and safety of complementary and alternative medicine for depression: an umbrella review	17
The association between maternal fears about their infant/ toddler during the COVID-19 pandemic and depression and anxiety: a birth cohort study	16
Overdose death rates in Brazil: an ecological analysis by region	16
Yanomami humanitarian tragedy: an urgent colonial heritage issue	15
Gender differences in progression to crack-cocaine use and the role of sexual and physical violence	15
Neural correlates of negative and disease-specific emotional stimuli in panic disorder: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study	15

Patient Health Questionnaire-9: a clinimetric analysis	14
Perinatal risk factors for the onset of bipolar disorder in young adulthood: a 22-year birth cohort	13
Facial processing in bipolar disorder is mediated by clinical and biological aspects	12
The association of blood biomarkers with cerebral white matter and myelin content in bipolar disorder: A systematic review	12
Association between methyl-CpG-binding domain protein 5 gene and depressive symptoms in Mexican population: Results from MxGDAR/Encodat cohort	12
Ibogaine microdosing in a patient with bipolar depression: a case report	12
Unraveling Disordered Eating: A Call for Early Intervention and Action	11
Wilhelm Heinrich Erb (1840-1921): recognizing his impact on Kraepelin’s work after 100 years	11
No changes in plasma Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF) levels in Treatment-Resistant Depression patients submitted to Convulsive Therapies	11
Serum tumor necrosis factor-like weak inducer of apoptosis levels are elevated in schizophrenia	11
Depression and suicide in patients with diabetes	11
Bidirectional associations between hyperopia, myopia, astigmatism, and strabismus, and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in children: a national population-based cohort study	10
Development and analysis of the psychometric properties of the Fear of Childbirth Motivators Questionnaire (QMMP)	10
Convergent evidence for the antiviral effects of several FDA-approved phenothiazine antipsychotics against SARS-CoV-2 and other coronaviruses	10
Risk assessment of ayahuasca use in a religious context: self-reported risk factors and adverse effects	10
Concomitant deep brain stimulation and vagus nerve stimulation for treatment-resistant depression: a case report	9
The rise of so-called adolescent "zombie" behavior: a spotlight on synthetic cannabinoid abuse	9
One size does not fit all: trans-diagnostic immune signatures for personalized treatment of psychoses	9
Clozapine prescription trends in Brazil in the last decade	9
Brazilian Psychiatric Association guidelines on the integration of spirituality into mental health clinical practice: Part 1. Spiritual history and differential diagnosis	8
Mental health problems among healthcare workers involved with the COVID-19 outbreak	8
Adolescent depression and resting-state fMRI brain networks: a scoping review of longitudinal studies	8
Physical health in affective disorders: a narrative review of the literature	8
Stalking in clinical psychiatry: when the doctor becomes the victim	8
The mind possessed: well-being, personality, and cognitive characteristics of individuals regularly experiencing religious possession	8
Vaccine protection against COVID-19-related death in patients with schizophrenia: A retrospective cohort study	8
Domestic violence in the COVID-19 pandemic: a forensic psychiatric perspective	8
Are we correctly diagnosing and screening for bipolar depression?	7
Guidelines for assessing and treating suicidal individuals: toward validated approaches for difficult clinical cases	7
Brazil has a problem: where is its research on eating disorders?	7
The frontier between residual and subsyndromal symptoms in bipolar disorder: revisiting concepts and discussing clinical relevance	7
Independent and combined associations of sugar-sweetened beverage consumption, TV viewing, and physical activity with severe depressive symptoms among 59,402 adults	7
Online narrative therapy intervention improves post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms, perceived stress, anxiety, and depression in nurses: a randomized controlled trial	6
Prevalence and risk factors for post-traumatic stress, anxiety, and depression in sepsis survivors after ICU discharge	6
Brazilian norms for Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9): so near or not too close?	6
Translating measurement into practice: Brazilian norms for the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) for assessing depressive symptoms	6
Risk of suicide in association with major depressive disorder among patients with dementia: a populationbased nested case-control study	6
Abbreviated Suicidal Narrative Inventory: factor structure, internal consistency, and validity in a Brazilian sample	6
Influence of TMX2-CTNND1 polymorphism on cortical thickness in schizophrenia patients and unaffected siblings: an exploratory study based on target region sequencing	6
Expectations when you are expecting in times of COVID-19	5
Identifying Depression Early in Adolescence: assessing the performance of a risk score for future onset of depression in an independent Brazilian sample	5
Behavioral self-regulation in pediatric bipolar disorder and healthy offspring of bipolar patients	5
Can personalized medicine mitigate confirmation bias in mental health?	5
A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of N-acetylcysteine as an adjuvant treatment for alcohol use disorder	5
Revisiting global cognitive and functional state 13 years after a clinical trial of lithium for mild cognitive impairment	5
Patterns of impairment in decision-making capacity in Alzheimer’s disease and its relationship with cognitive and clinical variables	5
Is maintenance needed for patients who respond to acute TMS therapy?	5
Pressure is not a privilege: what we can learn from Simone Biles	4
Tranylcypromine: a red flag for broader reflection	4
The notable humanist and scientist Aaron Beck (1921-2021), the revolutionary founder of cognitive therapy	4

Risk factors for eating disorders: a work in progress	4
Early adolescent life-related factors and predictors of violent behavior	4
Cannabidiol and mental health: possibilities, uncertainties, and controversies for addiction treatment	4
Cross-cultural adaptation of the Mind-Wandering Questionnaire (MWQ) for Brazilian Portuguese and evidence of its validity	4
Natural language processing in at-risk mental states: enhancing the assessment of thought disorders and psychotic traits with semantic dynamics and graph theory	4
Brazilian Psychiatric Association guidelines for the management of suicidal behavior. Part 1. Risk factors, protective factors, and assessment	4
Cannabinoid receptor gene polymorphisms and cognitive performance in patients with schizophrenia and controls	4
Back to the future: the Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry embraces change and innovation	4
Treatment-resistant bipolar depression: concepts and challenges for novel interventions	4
A randomized controlled trial of a dissonance-based eating disorder prevention intervention for body-dissatisfied Brazilian men: results from a 1-year follow-up	4
Risk factors for executive function impairment in adolescence: an analysis of data from the 2004 Pelotas Birth Cohort study	4
Increased body sway in phobic patients exposed to images of spiders	4
Dr. Raphael Mechoulam, cannabis and cannabinoids research pioneer (November 5, 1930-March 9, 2023) and his legacy for Brazilian pharmacology	4
Risk factors for eating disorders: an umbrella review of published meta-analyses	3
Association of urbanization with psychological well-being in Chinese adults aged 50 years and older: a population-based study	3
Associations of adult ADHD symptoms with binge eating spectrum conditions, psychiatric and somatic comorbidity, and healthcare utilization	3
A call for greater diversity and representativity within countries in psychiatric research: Lessons and challenges from a systematic review of schizophrenia research in Brazil	3
Positive psychology interventions to improve well-being and symptoms in people on the schizophrenia spectrum: a systematic review and meta-analysis	3
Association between exposure to toxoplasmosis and major psychiatric disorders: a systematic review	3
Effectiveness of online group cognitive behavioral therapy for adolescents with obsessive-compulsive disorder: a pilot study	3
Inflammatory cytokines and alcohol use disorder: systematic review and meta-analysis	3
Impact of maternal depressive symptoms on offspring executive functions: a systematic review	3
A network analysis of early trauma and impulsive behavior in individuals with alcohol, cocaine, and polysubstance use disorder	3
Mental health predictors of Internet Gaming Disorder: a longitudinal study	3
Treatment compliance and risk and protective factors for suicide ideation to completed suicide in adolescents: a systematic review	3
White matter hyperintensities and their role in major depressive episodes: a cross-sectional study in adults under 65	3
Effective recommendations towards healthy routines to preserve mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Ayahuasca and its interaction with the sigma-1 receptor: a potential treatment for COVID-19	3
The role of the microbiota-gut-brain axis in neuropsychiatric disorders	3
Longitudinal Gut Microbiota Composition During Perinatal period in Women with Different Intensities of Depressive Symptoms	3
Association between depressive symptoms and social support in a nationally representative sample of older adults (ELSI-Brasil)	3
The pathophysiology of high-lethality suicide attempts: a vital area of suicide research	3
Longitudinal Patterns of Disordered Eating Behaviors in Children and Adolescents from the Brazilian High-Risk Cohort Study for Mental Conditions	3
Brazilian Psychiatric Association consensus on the ideal infrastructure and team for psychiatric emergency services	3