OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of World Psychiatry is 47. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
WPA scientific publications in the triennium 2020‐2023	527
Detecting and managing non‐suicidal self‐damaging behaviors	434
R. Spitzer and the depathologization of homosexuality: some considerations on the 50th anniversary	410
Trauma, coloniality and survivance among Indigenous peoples in the US	373
Patterns and correlates of patient‐reported helpfulness of treatment for common mental and substance use disorders in the WHO World Mental Health Surveys	322
Beyond symptom improvement: transdiagnostic and disorder‐specific ways to assess functional and quality of life outcomes across mental disorders in adults	227
Advancing global mental health through education	221
From inter‐brain connectivity to inter‐personal psychiatry	215
What is good acute psychiatric care (and how would you know)?	194
Reappraising the variability of effects of antipsychotic medication in schizophrenia: a meta‐analysis	190
Evidence‐informed is not enough: digital therapeutics also need to be evidence‐based	174
Therapist‐supported Internet‐based cognitive behaviour therapy yields similar effects as face‐to‐face therapy for psychiatric and somatic disorders: an updated systematic review and meta‐analysis	173
Increased risk for COVID‐19 breakthrough infection in fully vaccinated patients with substance use disorders in the United States between December 2020 and August 2021	165
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Prenatal exposure to antidepressants or antipsychotics and the risk of seizure in children	159
The aggregation of marginal gains: a pragmatic philosophy of clinical care in psychiatry	158
Breaking down barriers to conversations about sexual and reproductive health	156
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Prevention, treatment and care of substance use disorders in times of COVID‐19	129
Mental health literacy for supporting children: the need for a new field of research and intervention	127
Scientific validation of the ICD‐11 CDDR	118
Sex differences need to be considered when treating women with psychotropic drugs	116
The “Meet the WPA Council” Panel at the 21st World Congress of Psychiatry	114
Functional neurological disorder: defying dualism	106
Achieving equality, inclusiveness, and cultural sensitivity in mental health (EDIT)	105

Potential for prediction of psychosis and bipolar disorder in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: a longitudinal register study of all people born in Finland in 1987	102
Burnout: a case for its formal inclusion in classification systems	94
Alternatives to coercion in mental health care: WPA Position Statement and Call to Action	92
How common is secondary psychosis? Estimates from a systematic review and meta‐analysis	88
One world, one profession: psychiatry	86
Designing and scaling up integrated youth mental health care	86
Key considerations for clinical trials in psychopharmacology	80
The Hikikomori Diagnostic Evaluation (HiDE): a proposal for a structured assessment of pathological social withdrawal	75
A lived experience perspective on the new World Mental Health Report	68
How the ICD‐11 and the CDDR address the public health dimensions of substance use	66
What makes Internet‐based interventions work?	66
Education, policy and clinical care in mental health: an update on the activities of WPA Collaborating Centres	64
After the acute crisis – engaging people with psychosis in rehabilitation‐oriented care	64
Augmenting trauma‐focused cognitive behavior therapy for post‐traumatic stress disorder with memory specificity training: a randomized controlled trial	62
Outcomes in people with eating disorders: a transdiagnostic and disorder‐specific systematic review, meta‐analysis and multivariable meta‐regression analysis	62
The hypothesis of biologically based subtypes of schizophrenia: a 10‐year update	62
Ongoing phase 2/3 trials of psychotropic drugs: is help finally on the way?	61
Treatment of substance use disorders in prison settings: statement by the UNODC‐WHO Informal Scientific Network, UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs	56
The definition of treatment resistance in anxiety disorders: a Delphi method‐based consensus guideline	54
Emotion regulation and mental health: current evidence and beyond	53
Can a practical process‐oriented strategy prevent suicidal ideation and behavior?	48
Meeting the challenges of the new frontier of youth mental health care	47