World Psychiatry

Papers
(The median citation count of World Psychiatry is 6. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
Increased risk of COVID‐19 infection and mortality in people with mental disorders: analysis from electronic health records in the United States441
A meta‐review of “lifestyle psychiatry”: the role of exercise, smoking, diet and sleep in the prevention and treatment of mental disorders409
Perinatal mental health: a review of progress and challenges399
The growing field of digital psychiatry: current evidence and the future of apps, social media, chatbots, and virtual reality333
Addressing mental health needs: an integral part of COVID‐19 response309
Anxiety and depression among general population in China at the peak of the COVID‐19 epidemic271
Adaptation of evidence‐based suicide prevention strategies during and after the COVID‐19 pandemic185
Validation of the new DSM‐5‐TR criteria for prolonged grief disorder and the PG‐13‐Revised (PG‐13‐R) scale183
Preventive psychiatry: a blueprint for improving the mental health of young people175
The clinical characterization of the adult patient with depression aimed at personalization of management169
The promise of machine learning in predicting treatment outcomes in psychiatry165
Safety of 80 antidepressants, antipsychotics, anti‐attention‐deficit/hyperactivity medications and mood stabilizers in children and adolescents with psychiatric disorders: a large scale systematic met162
The efficacy of psychotherapies and pharmacotherapies for mental disorders in adults: an umbrella review and meta‐analytic evaluation of recent meta‐analyses155
Designing and scaling up integrated youth mental health care153
Mortality in people with schizophrenia: a systematic review and meta‐analysis of relative risk and aggravating or attenuating factors150
Assessing the public health impacts of legalizing recreational cannabis use: the US experience149
Transdiagnostic clinical staging in youth mental health: a first international consensus statement149
The clinical characterization of the patient with primary psychosis aimed at personalization of management144
Validity and utility of Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP): I. Psychosis superspectrum142
What is resilience: an affiliative neuroscience approach141
Preventing suicide in the context of the COVID‐19 pandemic134
Psychotherapies for depression: a network meta‐analysis covering efficacy, acceptability and long‐term outcomes of all main treatment types131
Risk and protective factors for mental disorders beyond genetics: an evidence‐based atlas122
Psychiatry in the age of COVID‐19116
Hierarchical models of psychopathology: empirical support, implications, and remaining issues104
COVID‐19 and psychiatrists' responsibilities: a WPA position paper102
An organization‐ and category‐level comparison of diagnostic requirements for mental disorders in ICD‐11 and DSM‐596
Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation for smoking cessation: a pivotal multicenter double‐blind randomized controlled trial95
Validity and utility of Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP): III. Emotional dysfunction superspectrum93
Increased risk for COVID‐19 breakthrough infection in fully vaccinated patients with substance use disorders in the United States between December 2020 and August 202192
The clinical significance of duration of untreated psychosis: an umbrella review and random‐effects meta‐analysis92
Validity and utility of Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP): II. Externalizing superspectrum91
The relevance of COVID‐19 pandemic to psychiatry84
Prioritizing COVID‐19 vaccination for people with severe mental illness81
“Third‐wave” cognitive and behavioral therapies and the emergence of a process‐based approach to intervention in psychiatry80
Differential impact of COVID‐related lockdown on mental health in Germany76
Efficacy and acceptability of pharmacological, psychosocial, and brain stimulation interventions in children and adolescents with mental disorders: an umbrella review74
Nature and prevalence of combinations of mental disorders and their association with excess mortality in a population‐based cohort study70
COVID‐19 health anxiety70
Psychological processes mediating the association between developmental trauma and specific psychotic symptoms in adults: a systematic review and meta‐analysis69
Psychiatric diagnosis and treatment in the 21st century: paradigm shifts versus incremental integration69
PHQ‐9: global uptake of a depression scale68
Emerging experience with selected new categories in the ICD‐11: complex PTSD, prolonged grief disorder, gaming disorder, and compulsive sexual behaviour disorder65
The lived experience of psychosis: a bottom‐up review co‐written by experts by experience and academics64
Initial treatment choices to achieve sustained response in major depression: a systematic review and network meta‐analysis63
An update on Individual Placement and Support62
A pandemic of social isolation?62
The unified protocol for transdiagnostic treatment of emotional disorders61
The Horyzons project: a randomized controlled trial of a novel online social therapy to maintain treatment effects from specialist first‐episode psychosis services60
Association of preceding psychosis risk states and non‐psychotic mental disorders with incidence of clinical psychosis in the general population: a prospective study in the NEMESIS‐2 cohort50
Effectiveness of a WHO self‐help psychological intervention for preventing mental disorders among Syrian refugees in Turkey: a randomized controlled trial48
Hikikomori: a hidden mental health need following the COVID‐19 pandemic46
The clinical characterization of the adult patient with bipolar disorder aimed at personalization of management46
Candidate biomarkers in psychiatric disorders: state of the field46
Cognitive behavior therapy vs. control conditions, other psychotherapies, pharmacotherapies and combined treatment for depression: a comprehensive meta‐analysis including 409 trials with 52,702 patien45
Mental health care for older adults: recent advances and new directions in clinical practice and research45
Oral and long‐acting antipsychotics for relapse prevention in schizophrenia‐spectrum disorders: a network meta‐analysis of 92 randomized trials including 22,645 participants44
The critical distinction between suicidal ideation and suicide attempts44
Community‐based social interventions for people with severe mental illness: a systematic review and narrative synthesis of recent evidence44
Mental health problems among COVID‐19 survivors in Wuhan, China44
The World Mental Health Report: transforming mental health for all41
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‐analysis41
Intergenerational psychiatry: a new look at a powerful perspective40
Brain networks and cognitive impairment in psychiatric disorders40
The emergence of cognitive COVID38
The future of psychopharmacology: a critical appraisal of ongoing phase 2/3 trials, and of some current trends aiming to de‐risk trial programmes of novel agents38
Acute psychiatric care: approaches to increasing the range of services and improving access and quality of care37
New insights from the last decade of research in psychiatric genetics: discoveries, challenges and clinical implications37
Psychiatric symptoms and cognitive impairment in “Long COVID”: the relevance of immunopsychiatry36
The p factor is the sum of its parts, for now36
The impact of social network sites on mental health: distinguishing active from passive use36
Testing structural models of psychopathology at the genomic level34
Neurocognitive deficits in schizophrenia are likely to be less severe and less related to the disorder than previously thought34
RDoC at 10: changing the discourse for psychopathology34
Treatment‐resistant depression: definition, prevalence, detection, management, and investigational interventions33
The importance of listening to patient preferences when making mental health care decisions33
Rationale for and usefulness of the inclusion of gaming disorder in the ICD‐1133
The evolution of Kraepelin's nosological principles32
The epidemic of fentanyl misuse and overdoses: challenges and strategies32
School mental health: a necessary component of youth mental health policy and plans30
Optimizing personalized management of depression: the importance of real‐world contexts and the need for a new convergence paradigm in mental health30
Anorexia nervosa and the long‐term risk of mortality in women30
Setting priority areas for WPA’s new triennium29
The clinical characterization of the adult patient with an anxiety or related disorder aimed at personalization of management28
Patients with schizophrenia are under‐vaccinated for COVID‐19: a report from Israel28
Racism and mental health27
Estimating the real‐world usage of mobile apps for mental health: development and application of two novel metrics26
The utility of patient‐reported outcome measures in mental health26
Post‐traumatic stress disorder in the aftermath of COVID‐19 pandemic26
The alliance in mental health care: conceptualization, evidence and clinical applications25
Reappraising the variability of effects of antipsychotic medication in schizophrenia: a meta‐analysis25
Candidate diagnostic biomarkers for neurodevelopmental disorders in children and adolescents: a systematic review25
Perinatal mental health and the COVID‐19 pandemic25
COVID‐19 vaccination uptake in people with severe mental illness: a UK‐based cohort study24
Internalizing psychopathology and all‐cause mortality: a comparison of transdiagnostic vs. diagnosis‐based risk prediction24
Implementation of the WPA Action Plan 2020‐2023: an update23
Thinking too much: rumination and psychopathology23
The general factor of psychopathology: a comparison with the general factor of intelligence with respect to magnitude and predictive validity23
Attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder as a risk factor for cardiovascular diseases: a nationwide population‐based cohort study23
Managing dual disorders: a statement by the Informal Scientific Network, UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs23
Impact of mental disorders on clinical outcomes of physical diseases: an umbrella review assessing population attributable fraction and generalized impact fraction23
WPA Action Plan 2020‐2023: a way forward22
Smartphone relapse prediction in serious mental illness: a pathway towards personalized preventive care22
WPA educational initiatives: where are we after three years?22
What is global mental health?21
Implementation of the WPA Action Plan 2020‐202321
Use of low‐dose quetiapine increases the risk of major adverse cardiovascular events: results from a nationwide active comparator‐controlled cohort study20
Most at‐risk individuals will not develop a mental disorder: the limited predictive strength of risk factors20
Dopamine and glutamate in individuals at high risk for psychosis: a meta‐analysis of in vivo imaging findings and their variability compared to controls20
A prevalence assessment of prolonged grief disorder in Syrian refugees20
Alcohol and the developing adolescent brain20
Experimental approaches to social disconnection in the general community: can we learn from schizophrenia research?19
Rethinking the concept of insight19
The role of self‐compassion in psychotherapy19
The application of implementation science to community mental health18
Prenatal mental health and the effects of stress on the foetus and the child. Should psychiatrists look beyond mental disorders?18
Primary psychosis: more to know, much more to do18
The network structure of ICD‐11 complex post‐traumatic stress disorder across different traumatic life events17
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Pregnancy specific anxiety: an under‐recognized problem16
Effectiveness of cognitive remediation in the ultra‐high risk state for psychosis16
Explaining the missing heritability of psychiatric disorders16
Alternatives to coercion in mental health care: WPA Position Statement and Call to Action16
Patterns and correlates of patient‐reported helpfulness of treatment for common mental and substance use disorders in the WHO World Mental Health Surveys16
Accelerating Medicines Partnership® Schizophrenia (AMP®SCZ): developing tools to enable early intervention in the psychosis high risk state16
A 16‐year follow‐up of patients with serious mental illness and co‐occurring substance use disorder16
Three questions to consider before developing a mental health app16
Cardiac vagal tone: a neurophysiological mechanism that evolved in mammals to dampen threat reactions and promote sociality15
Klerman's “credo” reconsidered:neo‐Kraepelinianism, Spitzer's views, and what we can learn from the past15
Transforming mental health for all: a critical role for specialists15
Challenges to mental health services for refugees: a global perspective15
Empirical severity benchmarks for obsessive‐compulsive disorder across the lifespan15
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 198715
Metacognition in psychosis: a renewed path to understanding of core disturbances and recovery‐oriented treatment14
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Psychiatric comorbidity in immune‐mediated inflammatory diseases14
Meaning in life is a fundamental protective factor in the context of psychopathology14
Why hierarchical dimensional approaches to classification will fail to transform diagnosis in psychiatry14
The status of psychodynamic psychotherapy as an empirically supported treatment for common mental disorders – an umbrella review based on updated criteria14
Person‐centred care planning as foundational to clinical practice14
From exception to the norm: how mental health interventions have become part and parcel of the humanitarian response14
Psychiatric diagnosis and treatment in the 21st century: paradigm shifts or power shifts?13
Risk of new‐onset psychiatric sequelae of COVID‐19 in the early and late post‐acute phase13
Updates from the WPA Section on Education in Psychiatry13
Some good news for psychiatry: resource allocation preferences of the public during the COVID‐19 pandemic13
Suicide‐related Internet search queries in India following media reports of a celebrity suicide: an interrupted time series analysis13
Future WPA President's public mental health agenda13
Metabolic side effects in persons with schizophrenia during mid‐ to long‐term treatment with antipsychotics: a network meta‐analysis of randomized controlled trials13
DSM‐5‐TR: overview of what’s new and what’s changed13
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WPA Scientific Sections: a strengthened backbone for the 2020‐2023 triennium12
Systems‐based approaches to mental disorders are the only game in town12
Intimate partner violence and mental health: lessons from the COVID‐19 pandemic12
Intellectual developmental disorder and autism spectrum disorder in the WPA next triennium mainstream12
Evidence‐informed is not enough: digital therapeutics also need to be evidence‐based12
Psychotherapy supervision: an ever‐evolving signature pedagogy12
New resources for understanding patients’ values in the context of shared clinical decision‐making12
The role of gamification in digital mental health12
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Rediscovering the mental health of populations11
Living through interminable adversity: the mental health of the Afghan people11
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Adverse childhood experiences: a meta‐analysis of prevalence and moderators among half a million adults in 206 studies11
Subjectivity, psychosis and the science of psychiatry11
Clinical relevance of general and specific dimensions in bifactor models of psychotic disorders11
Adverse childhood experiences and mental health problems in a nationally representative study of heterosexual, homosexual and bisexual Danes11
Open access of psychological intervention manuals11
Selective outcome reporting and the effectiveness of psychotherapies for depression11
The need for publicly funded research on therapeutic use of psychedelic drugs10
The practice of psychiatry in health care and sustainable development: progress on the WPA Action Plan 2017‐202010
Victimization in people with severe mental health problems: the need to improve research quality, risk stratification and preventive measures10
The role of countertransference in contemporary psychiatric treatment10
Advances in virtual care for perinatal mental disorders10
Meeting the challenges of the new frontier of youth mental health care10
Substance use disorders: a comprehensive update of classification, epidemiology, neurobiology, clinical aspects, treatment and prevention10
From inter‐brain connectivity to inter‐personal psychiatry10
Self‐interpretation and meaning‐making processes: re‐humanizing research on early psychosis10
The social determinants of mental health and disorder: evidence, prevention and recommendations10
The evolving epidemiology and differential etiopathogenesis of eating disorders: implications for prevention and treatment10
WPA educational initiatives: reaching different stakeholders in the mental health field10
The WHO EQUIP Foundational Helping Skills Trainer's Curriculum9
Supporting psychological well‐being around the time of birth: what can we learn from maternity care?9
Assessing the impact of environmental factors on the adolescent brain: the importance of regional analyses and genetic controls9
Being thoughtful about cannabis legalization and social equity9
Report on the WPA Action Plan at the end of the triennium 2017‐20209
Challenges and chances for mental health care in the 21st century9
A clinically useful conceptualization of emotion regulation grounded in functional contextualism and evolutionary theory9
Computer‐based virtual reality assessment of functional capacity in primary psychosis9
World Health Organization's low‐intensity psychosocial interventions: a systematic review and meta‐analysis of the effects of Problem Management Plus andStep‐by‐Step9
Evolutionary psychiatry: foundations, progress and challenges9
The ICD‐11 is now officially in effect9
Prevalence and trends of common mental disorders from 2007‐2009 to 2019‐2022: results from the Netherlands Mental Health Survey and Incidence Studies (NEMESIS), including comparison of prevalence rate9
Learning from the global response to COVID‐19 to accelerate innovation in mental health trials9
Update from the WPA Secretary for Education8
New trends in network modeling of psychopathology8
The effects of recreational cannabis legalization might depend upon the policy model8
Glucocorticoid use and risk of suicide: a Danish population‐based case‐control study8
ICD‐11 sessions at the 19th World Congress of Psychiatry8
The need for a new generation of digital mental health tools to support more accessible, effective and equitable care8
Post‐traumatic stress disorder as moderator of other mental health conditions8
How clinicians can support women in making decisions about psychopharmacological treatments in pregnancy8
Mortality in persons with recent primary or secondary care contacts for mental disorders in Finland8
Enabling a youth‐ and mental health‐sensitive greener post‐pandemic recovery8
The Lifestyle Psychiatry project of the WPA Section on Medicine, Psychiatry and Primary Care8
Comorbidity between major depressive disorder and physical diseases: a comprehensive review of epidemiology, mechanisms and management8
Paternal perinatal mental disorders are inextricably linked to maternal and child morbidity8
CopeNYP: a brief remote psychological intervention reduces health care workers’ depression and anxiety symptoms during COVID‐19 pandemic8
Socioeconomic and sociocultural factors affecting access to psychotherapies: the way forward8
Youth mental health care in a context of large‐scale collective stress8
Loneliness and abuse as risk factors for suicide in older adults: new developments and the contribution of the WPA Section on Old Age Psychiatry8
Postpartum psychosis: an important clue to the etiology of mental illness8
Tolerability and efficacy of paroxetine and naltrexone for treatment of compulsive sexual behaviour disorder8
The WPA Code of Ethics for Psychiatry7
Severe breakthrough COVID‐19 infections in vaccinated patients with schizophrenia in Israel7
Considering the health and social welfare impacts of non‐medical cannabis legalization7
Long‐term efficacy of antipsychotic drugs in initially acutely ill adults with schizophrenia: systematic review and network meta‐analysis7
Transdiagnostic risk of mental disorders in offspring of affected parents: a meta‐analysis of family high‐risk and registry studies7
Implementing 21st century “end‐to‐end” and technology‐enhanced care for young people7
Youth psychiatry: time for a new sub‐specialty within psychiatry7
20‐year trajectories of positive and negative symptoms after the first psychotic episode in patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorder: results from the OPUS study7
Bridging between youth psychiatry and child and adolescent psychiatry7
Coming out proud to erase the stigma of mental illness7
Cannabis and public health: a global experiment without control7
The performance of ChatGPT in generating answers to clinical questions in psychiatry: a two‐layer assessment7
Youth mental health: risks and opportunities in the digital world7
The retention challenge in remote therapy and learning seen through the lens of the COVID‐19 pandemic7
The 2021‐2024 Work Plan of WPA Collaborating Centres7
Moving away from the scarcity fallacy: three strategies to reduce the mental health treatment gap in LMICs6
Improving mental health through fostering healthy lifestyles in young people: one of the targets in the WPA Action Plan 2023‐20266
Trans‐theoretical clinical models and the implementation of precision mental health care6
Prevention, treatment and care of substance use disorders in times of COVID‐196
Dr. Strangelove, or how we learned to stop worrying and love uncertainty6
Prevention in psychiatry: a role for epigenetics?6
No service is an island: towards an ecosystem approach to mental health service evaluation6
The WPA Scientific Sections: a global resource for education, research and care6
Plan of the WPA Secretary for Scientific Meetings for the triennium 2020‐20236
Biomarkers in psychiatric disorders: status quo, impediments and facilitators6
Mental health economics: bridging research, practice and policy6
WPA Working Group on Medical Students: current initiatives and future priorities6
The evolving nosology of personality disorder and its clinical utility6
The important gain is that we are lumpers and splitters now; it is the splitting that needs our hard work6
Full speed ahead on indicated prevention of psychosis6
The relationship between physical and mental health: an update from the WPA Working Group on Managing Comorbidity of Mental and Physical Health6
WPA activities in the field of publications during the 2017‐2020 triennium6
Toward a systems‐based approach to understanding the role of the sympathetic nervous system in depression6
Strengthening the functioning of WPA through its Secretariat6
Prenatal exposure to antidepressants or antipsychotics and the risk of seizure in children6
Detecting and managing non‐suicidal self‐damaging behaviors6
A question of continuity: a self‐determination theory perspective on “third‐wave” behavioral theories and practices6
WPA Working Group on Public Mental Health: objectives and recommended actions6
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