OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of World Journal of Biological Psychiatry is 7. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Association of Unc-51-like Kinase 4 ( ULK4 ) with the reactivity of the extended reward system in response to conditioned stimuli	138
Schizophrenia may be a risk of polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) and primary ovarian insufficiency (POI): A Mendelian randomisation study	119
Differentiating melancholic and non-melancholic depression via biological markers: A review	103
Bipolar disorder and inflammation: a clinical study of NLR and dNLR across mood states and subtypes	63
Basal glutamate in the hippocampus and the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in schizophrenia: Relationships to cognitive proficiency investigated with structural equation modelling	47
Reduced pre-treatment isolated effective coherence between the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and the subgenual anterior cingulate cortex as a potential predictive marker for remission following repet	32
Evaluation of retinal layer thickness in patients with bipolar disorder, their relatives, and healthy controls using optical coherence tomography	28
Psychiatric onset of prodromal dementia with Lewy bodies: Current insights into neuroimaging tools	28
Comment on ‘Impact of clozapine on the expression of miR-675-3p in plasma exosomes derived from patients with schizophrenia’	28
The potential of biomarkers for diagnosing insomnia: Consensus statement of the WFSBP Task Force on Sleep Disorders	24
Novel mutations found in genes involved in global developmental delay and intellectual disability by whole-exome sequencing, homology modeling, and systems biology	23
Lithium-associated hypercalcemia and hyperparathyroidism: A systematic review and meta-analysis	20
Investigation of the impact of rs3025343 near the dopamine ß-hydroxylase ( DBH ) gene on reward-related responses within the mesolimbic dopamine system	20
The cholinergic anti-inflammatory reflex as a function of depression severity in adolescent non-suicidal self-injury	18
Right ventrolateral and left dorsolateral 10 Hz transcranial magnetic stimulation as an add-on treatment for bipolar I and II depression: a double-blind, randomised, three‐arm, sham-controlled study	16
DNA methylation in people with anorexia nervosa: Epigenome-wide patterns in actively ill, long-term remitted, and healthy-eater women	14
Serum proteomics analysis of drug-naïve patients with generalised anxiety disorder: Tandem mass tags and multiple reaction monitoring	14
Peripheral and central innate immune alterations in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder: a systematic review of NK cells, monocytes and macrophages	14
Metformin attenuates depressive-like behaviour of methamphetamine withdrawal in mice: A mechanistic approach	14
Beyond first-line antidepressants: lithium, quetiapine, or esketamine? Integrating meta-analyses and preliminary head-to-head evidence	14
The administration of rhBmal1 reduces sleep deprivation-induced anxiety and cognitive impairment in mice	13
Subclinical hypomanic experiences in young adults after sleep deprivation are independent of depressive disorders, chronotype or 5-HTTLPR polymorphism	13
Resting-state functional connectivity within the reward system mediates subcortical integration during erotic stimulus processing	12
Neural stem/progenitor cells from olfactory neuroepithelium collected by nasal brushing as a cell model reflecting molecular and cellular dysfunctions in schizophrenia	11
Stress and depression risk in pregnancy associates with altered immune function	11

Late maternal separation provides resilience to chronic variable stress-induced anxiety- and depressive-like behaviours in male but not female mice	11
Glutathione antioxidant pathways in patients with schizophrenia: relationship with metabolic syndrome	11
Investigation of the role of the LC3 conjugation system in autophagy for human reward system reactivity	10
Could serum endocannabinoid and N-acylethanolamine levels be important in bipolar disorder?	10
Cardiac effects of electroconvulsive therapy – a systematic review	10
Environmental enrichment by targeting hippocampal claudins attenuates depressive-like behaviours in maternally separated male mice	9
Frequencies of CYP2C19 and CYP2D6 gene variants in a German inpatient sample with mood and anxiety disorders	9
SEP-363856 attenuates CUMS-induced depression-like behaviours and reverses hippocampal neuronal injuries	9
Involvement of the brain orexin system in a familial form of anorexia nervosa	9
The potential association between psychiatric symptoms and the use of levonorgestrel intrauterine devices (LNG-IUDs): A systematic review	9
Altered cerebral functional activity and its associated genetic profiles underlying chronic insomnia disorder before and after treatment	9
Exosomal miR-24-3p participates in the progression of depression by regulating neuronal damage and blood-brain barrier dysfunction	8
Impact of ZNF804A rs1344706 or CACNA1C rs1006737 polymorphisms on cognition in patients with severe mental disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis	8
Downregulation of lncRNAs Gomafu, NONMMUT033604.2, and NONMMUT064397.2 in the hippocampus of mice with model of post-traumatic stress disorder	8
Risperidone-ISM ^® effectiveness and tolerability in acute schizophrenia patients hospitalised due to a relapse: results from an international, prospe	8
Positive correlation between plasma and cerebrospinal fluid galectin-3 in suicide attempters	8
The role of the immune system in depersonalisation disorder	8
From local activity to effective connectivity: neuroimaging evidence of functional abnormalities in the inferior occipital gyrus in obsessive-compulsive disorder	8
Exploring the anti-depressant effects and nitric oxide modulation of quercetin: A preclinical study in Socially Isolated mice	8
Changes of laboratory parameters during olanzapine treatment in young people with anorexia nervosa: exploratory results from the OPEN study	7
Common changes in rat cortical gene expression after valproate or lithium treatment particularly affect pre- and post-synaptic pathways that regulate four neurotransmitters systems	7
Elevated regional cerebral blood flow in adults with 22q11.2 deletion syndrome	7
Phase-and disorder-specific differences in peripheral metabolites of the kynurenine pathway in major depression, bipolar affective disorder and schizophrenia	7