OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of World Psychiatry is 49. 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
WPA scientific publications in the triennium 2020‐2023	622
Detecting and managing non‐suicidal self‐damaging behaviors	358
R. Spitzer and the depathologization of homosexuality: some considerations on the 50th anniversary	306
Reappraising the variability of effects of antipsychotic medication in schizophrenia: a meta‐analysis	301
Trauma, coloniality and survivance among Indigenous peoples in the US	300
What is good acute psychiatric care (and how would you know)?	286
Evidence‐informed is not enough: digital therapeutics also need to be evidence‐based	266
A question of continuity: a self‐determination theory perspective on “third‐wave” behavioral theories and practices	262
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	223
From inter‐brain connectivity to inter‐personal psychiatry	200
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	159
Rationale for and usefulness of the inclusion of gaming disorder in the ICD‐11	151
Patterns and correlates of patient‐reported helpfulness of treatment for common mental and substance use disorders in the WHO World Mental Health Surveys	150
Prevention in psychiatry: a role for epigenetics?	149
Estimating the reproducibility of psychotherapy effects in mood and anxiety disorders: the possible utility of multicenter trials	144
Cognitive behavioral therapy, process‐based approaches, and evolution in the context of physical health	141
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Achieving equality, inclusiveness, and cultural sensitivity in mental health (EDIT)	134
The “Meet the WPA Council” Panel at the 21st World Congress of Psychiatry	132
Prenatal exposure to antidepressants or antipsychotics and the risk of seizure in children	130
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	130
Implementation of the WPA Action Plan 2020‐2023	125
Scientific validation of the ICD‐11 CDDR	121
Mental health literacy for supporting children: the need for a new field of research and intervention	115
Alternatives to coercion in mental health care: WPA Position Statement and Call to Action	113

The aggregation of marginal gains: a pragmatic philosophy of clinical care in psychiatry	107
Prevention, treatment and care of substance use disorders in times of COVID‐19	104
How common is secondary psychosis? Estimates from a systematic review and meta‐analysis	100
Burnout: a case for its formal inclusion in classification systems	97
Sex differences need to be considered when treating women with psychotropic drugs	91
Functional neurological disorder: defying dualism	89
Designing and scaling up integrated youth mental health care	87
A lived experience perspective on the new World Mental Health Report	84
Augmenting trauma‐focused cognitive behavior therapy for post‐traumatic stress disorder with memory specificity training: a randomized controlled trial	82
One world, one profession: psychiatry	79
The Hikikomori Diagnostic Evaluation (HiDE): a proposal for a structured assessment of pathological social withdrawal	79
“Third‐wave” cognitive and behavioral therapies and the emergence of a process‐based approach to intervention in psychiatry	78
Outcomes in people with eating disorders: a transdiagnostic and disorder‐specific systematic review, meta‐analysis and multivariable meta‐regression analysis	76
Key considerations for clinical trials in psychopharmacology	71
Malpractice claims in psychiatry: approaches to reducing risk	71
Education, policy and clinical care in mental health: an update on the activities of WPA Collaborating Centres	70
The hypothesis of biologically based subtypes of schizophrenia: a 10‐year update	70
Metacognition in psychosis: a renewed path to understanding of core disturbances and recovery‐oriented treatment	62
Prevention in the mental health field should be implemented synergically at different levels	57
After the acute crisis – engaging people with psychosis in rehabilitation‐oriented care	54
How the ICD‐11 and the CDDR address the public health dimensions of substance use	52
The growing field of digital psychiatry: current evidence and the future of apps, social media, chatbots, and virtual reality	52
Selective outcome reporting and the effectiveness of psychotherapies for depression	50
Ongoing phase 2/3 trials of psychotropic drugs: is help finally on the way?	50
Intimate partner violence and mental health: lessons from the COVID‐19 pandemic	49