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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
The growing field of digital psychiatry: current evidence and the future of apps, social media, chatbots, and virtual reality455
Mortality in people with schizophrenia: a systematic review and meta‐analysis of relative risk and aggravating or attenuating factors245
Validation of the new DSM‐5‐TR criteria for prolonged grief disorder and the PG‐13‐Revised (PG‐13‐R) scale236
Designing and scaling up integrated youth mental health care234
Preventive psychiatry: a blueprint for improving the mental health of young people233
The promise of machine learning in predicting treatment outcomes in psychiatry227
The efficacy of psychotherapies and pharmacotherapies for mental disorders in adults: an umbrella review and meta‐analytic evaluation of recent meta‐analyses208
The clinical characterization of the patient with primary psychosis aimed at personalization of management174
Psychotherapies for depression: a network meta‐analysis covering efficacy, acceptability and long‐term outcomes of all main treatment types167
Risk and protective factors for mental disorders beyond genetics: an evidence‐based atlas155
Validity and utility of Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP): III. Emotional dysfunction superspectrum130
Hierarchical models of psychopathology: empirical support, implications, and remaining issues120
The clinical significance of duration of untreated psychosis: an umbrella review and random‐effects meta‐analysis119
Validity and utility of Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP): II. Externalizing superspectrum119
Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation for smoking cessation: a pivotal multicenter double‐blind randomized controlled trial118
Treatment‐resistant depression: definition, prevalence, detection, management, and investigational interventions118
An organization‐ and category‐level comparison of diagnostic requirements for mental disorders in ICD‐11 and DSM‐5117
Increased risk for COVID‐19 breakthrough infection in fully vaccinated patients with substance use disorders in the United States between December 2020 and August 2021109
The social determinants of mental health and disorder: evidence, prevention and recommendations107
“Third‐wave” cognitive and behavioral therapies and the emergence of a process‐based approach to intervention in psychiatry105
The lived experience of psychosis: a bottom‐up review co‐written by experts by experience and academics102
Candidate biomarkers in psychiatric disorders: state of the field97
Psychiatric diagnosis and treatment in the 21st century: paradigm shifts versus incremental integration95
Efficacy and acceptability of pharmacological, psychosocial, and brain stimulation interventions in children and adolescents with mental disorders: an umbrella review87
Mental health care for older adults: recent advances and new directions in clinical practice and research86
Emerging experience with selected new categories in the ICD‐11: complex PTSD, prolonged grief disorder, gaming disorder, and compulsive sexual behaviour disorder85
Prioritizing COVID‐19 vaccination for people with severe mental illness84
PHQ‐9: global uptake of a depression scale83
Cognitive behavior therapy vs. control conditions, other psychotherapies, pharmacotherapies and combined treatment for depression: a comprehensive meta‐analysis including 409 trials with 52,702 patien82
Psychological processes mediating the association between developmental trauma and specific psychotic symptoms in adults: a systematic review and meta‐analysis80
Differential impact of COVID‐related lockdown on mental health in Germany80
The World Mental Health Report: transforming mental health for all77
Initial treatment choices to achieve sustained response in major depression: a systematic review and network meta‐analysis74
A pandemic of social isolation?72
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‐analysis72
The Horyzons project: a randomized controlled trial of a novel online social therapy to maintain treatment effects from specialist first‐episode psychosis services71
The clinical characterization of the adult patient with bipolar disorder aimed at personalization of management71
New insights from the last decade of research in psychiatric genetics: discoveries, challenges and clinical implications69
The critical distinction between suicidal ideation and suicide attempts64
Community‐based social interventions for people with severe mental illness: a systematic review and narrative synthesis of recent evidence62
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 agents57
Oral and long‐acting antipsychotics for relapse prevention in schizophrenia‐spectrum disorders: a network meta‐analysis of 92 randomized trials including 22,645 participants55
Effectiveness of a WHO self‐help psychological intervention for preventing mental disorders among Syrian refugees in Turkey: a randomized controlled trial55
The alliance in mental health care: conceptualization, evidence and clinical applications55
Acute psychiatric care: approaches to increasing the range of services and improving access and quality of care54
Mental health problems among COVID‐19 survivors in Wuhan, China47
The impact of social network sites on mental health: distinguishing active from passive use46
Substance use disorders: a comprehensive update of classification, epidemiology, neurobiology, clinical aspects, treatment and prevention44
Candidate diagnostic biomarkers for neurodevelopmental disorders in children and adolescents: a systematic review43
Impact of mental disorders on clinical outcomes of physical diseases: an umbrella review assessing population attributable fraction and generalized impact fraction43
The emergence of cognitive COVID42
The epidemic of fentanyl misuse and overdoses: challenges and strategies42
Adverse childhood experiences: a meta‐analysis of prevalence and moderators among half a million adults in 206 studies42
The p factor is the sum of its parts, for now42
Comorbidity between major depressive disorder and physical diseases: a comprehensive review of epidemiology, mechanisms and management42
Anorexia nervosa and the long‐term risk of mortality in women41
The importance of listening to patient preferences when making mental health care decisions40
Rationale for and usefulness of the inclusion of gaming disorder in the ICD‐1139
Psychiatric symptoms and cognitive impairment in “Long COVID”: the relevance of immunopsychiatry39
Attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder as a risk factor for cardiovascular diseases: a nationwide population‐based cohort study36
Reappraising the variability of effects of antipsychotic medication in schizophrenia: a meta‐analysis36
Racism and mental health34
The utility of patient‐reported outcome measures in mental health34
The status of psychodynamic psychotherapy as an empirically supported treatment for common mental disorders – an umbrella review based on updated criteria33
DSM‐5‐TR: overview of what’s new and what’s changed32
The clinical characterization of the adult patient with an anxiety or related disorder aimed at personalization of management32
Outcomes in people with eating disorders: a transdiagnostic and disorder‐specific systematic review, meta‐analysis and multivariable meta‐regression analysis31
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 rate31
Thinking too much: rumination and psychopathology30
Patients with schizophrenia are under‐vaccinated for COVID‐19: a report from Israel30
Setting priority areas for WPA’s new triennium30
Metabolic side effects in persons with schizophrenia during mid‐ to long‐term treatment with antipsychotics: a network meta‐analysis of randomized controlled trials29
COVID‐19 vaccination uptake in people with severe mental illness: a UK‐based cohort study29
Alternatives to coercion in mental health care: WPA Position Statement and Call to Action28
Estimating the real‐world usage of mobile apps for mental health: development and application of two novel metrics28
Implementation of the WPA Action Plan 2020‐2023: an update27
Post‐traumatic stress disorder in the aftermath of COVID‐19 pandemic27
The lived experience of depression: a bottom‐up review co‐written by experts by experience and academics27
The role of self‐compassion in psychotherapy27
Empirical severity benchmarks for obsessive‐compulsive disorder across the lifespan27
Accelerating Medicines Partnership® Schizophrenia (AMP®SCZ): developing tools to enable early intervention in the psychosis high risk state27
Internalizing psychopathology and all‐cause mortality: a comparison of transdiagnostic vs. diagnosis‐based risk prediction25
Evolutionary psychiatry: foundations, progress and challenges24
Most at‐risk individuals will not develop a mental disorder: the limited predictive strength of risk factors23
Use of low‐dose quetiapine increases the risk of major adverse cardiovascular events: results from a nationwide active comparator‐controlled cohort study23
Transdiagnostic risk of mental disorders in offspring of affected parents: a meta‐analysis of family high‐risk and registry studies23
Implementation of the WPA Action Plan 2020‐202322
A prevalence assessment of prolonged grief disorder in Syrian refugees22
Dopamine and glutamate in individuals at high risk for psychosis: a meta‐analysis of in vivo imaging findings and their variability compared to controls22
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 198721
Systems‐based approaches to mental disorders are the only game in town21
Explaining the missing heritability of psychiatric disorders21
Long‐term efficacy of antipsychotic drugs in initially acutely ill adults with schizophrenia: systematic review and network meta‐analysis20
Patterns and correlates of patient‐reported helpfulness of treatment for common mental and substance use disorders in the WHO World Mental Health Surveys20
Improving mental health through fostering healthy lifestyles in young people: one of the targets in the WPA Action Plan 2023‐202619
The performance of ChatGPT in generating answers to clinical questions in psychiatry: a two‐layer assessment19
Klerman's “credo” reconsidered:neo‐Kraepelinianism, Spitzer's views, and what we can learn from the past19
Primary psychosis: more to know, much more to do19
World Health Organization's low‐intensity psychosocial interventions: a systematic review and meta‐analysis of the effects of Problem Management Plus andStep‐by‐Step19
Transforming mental health for all: a critical role for specialists19
The evolving epidemiology and differential etiopathogenesis of eating disorders: implications for prevention and treatment18
Cardiac vagal tone: a neurophysiological mechanism that evolved in mammals to dampen threat reactions and promote sociality17
The need for a new generation of digital mental health tools to support more accessible, effective and equitable care17
Why hierarchical dimensional approaches to classification will fail to transform diagnosis in psychiatry17
From exception to the norm: how mental health interventions have become part and parcel of the humanitarian response17
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Person‐centred care planning as foundational to clinical practice17
Meaning in life is a fundamental protective factor in the context of psychopathology17
Risk of new‐onset psychiatric sequelae of COVID‐19 in the early and late post‐acute phase16
Psychiatric comorbidity in immune‐mediated inflammatory diseases16
Borderline personality disorder: a comprehensive review of diagnosis and clinical presentation, etiology, treatment, and current controversies16
Metacognition in psychosis: a renewed path to understanding of core disturbances and recovery‐oriented treatment16
The role of gamification in digital mental health16
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Challenges to mental health services for refugees: a global perspective15
The relationship between physical and mental health: an update from the WPA Working Group on Managing Comorbidity of Mental and Physical Health15
Updates from the WPA Section on Education in Psychiatry15
Psychiatric diagnosis and treatment in the 21st century: paradigm shifts or power shifts?15
A clinically useful conceptualization of emotion regulation grounded in functional contextualism and evolutionary theory15
Subjectivity, psychosis and the science of psychiatry15
Adverse childhood experiences and mental health problems in a nationally representative study of heterosexual, homosexual and bisexual Danes15
New trends in network modeling of psychopathology15
Evidence‐informed is not enough: digital therapeutics also need to be evidence‐based15
Living through interminable adversity: the mental health of the Afghan people14
Moving away from the scarcity fallacy: three strategies to reduce the mental health treatment gap in LMICs14
Future WPA President's public mental health agenda14
New resources for understanding patients’ values in the context of shared clinical decision‐making14
Some good news for psychiatry: resource allocation preferences of the public during the COVID‐19 pandemic14
Rediscovering the mental health of populations14
Challenges and chances for mental health care in the 21st century13
Suicide‐related Internet search queries in India following media reports of a celebrity suicide: an interrupted time series analysis13
20‐year trajectories of positive and negative symptoms after the first psychotic episode in patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorder: results from the OPUS study13
WPA educational initiatives: reaching different stakeholders in the mental health field13
Intimate partner violence and mental health: lessons from the COVID‐19 pandemic13
Post‐traumatic stress disorder as moderator of other mental health conditions12
Selective outcome reporting and the effectiveness of psychotherapies for depression12
Coming out proud to erase the stigma of mental illness12
The ICD‐11 is now officially in effect12
Meeting the challenges of the new frontier of youth mental health care12
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Public attitudes towards migrants: understanding cross‐national and individual differences12
Protective and compensatory childhood experiences and their impact on adult mental health12
Victimization in people with severe mental health problems: the need to improve research quality, risk stratification and preventive measures12
Self‐interpretation and meaning‐making processes: re‐humanizing research on early psychosis11
Clinical relevance of general and specific dimensions in bifactor models of psychotic disorders11
Loneliness and abuse as risk factors for suicide in older adults: new developments and the contribution of the WPA Section on Old Age Psychiatry11
Youth psychiatry: time for a new sub‐specialty within psychiatry11
The need for publicly funded research on therapeutic use of psychedelic drugs11
From inter‐brain connectivity to inter‐personal psychiatry11
Assessing the impact of environmental factors on the adolescent brain: the importance of regional analyses and genetic controls11
Computer‐based virtual reality assessment of functional capacity in primary psychosis11
The WPA Code of Ethics for Psychiatry11
Youth mental health: risks and opportunities in the digital world10
Update on implementation of WPA Action Plan 2020‐202310
No service is an island: towards an ecosystem approach to mental health service evaluation10
Socioeconomic and sociocultural factors affecting access to psychotherapies: the way forward10
Tolerability and efficacy of paroxetine and naltrexone for treatment of compulsive sexual behaviour disorder10
Generative artificial intelligence in mental health care: potential benefits and current challenges10
Biomarkers in psychiatric disorders: status quo, impediments and facilitators10
The WHO EQUIP Foundational Helping Skills Trainer's Curriculum10
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Mental health of children and parents after very preterm birth9
Continuous outcome measurement in modern data‐informed psychotherapies9
Youth mental health care in a context of large‐scale collective stress9
Enabling a youth‐ and mental health‐sensitive greener post‐pandemic recovery9
Implementing 21st century “end‐to‐end” and technology‐enhanced care for young people9
How clinicians can support women in making decisions about psychopharmacological treatments in pregnancy9
WPA Working Group on Public Mental Health: objectives and recommended actions9
Mortality in persons with recent primary or secondary care contacts for mental disorders in Finland9
The WPA Action Plan 2020‐2023: an updated report9
Sustainable Technology for Adolescents and youth to Reduce Stress (STARS): a WHO transdiagnostic chatbot for distressed youth9
Effectiveness and cost‐effectiveness of online recorded recovery narratives in improving quality of life for people with non‐psychotic mental health problems: a pragmatic randomized controlled trial9
Mental health for all: fostering healthy lifestyles9
Current evidence on the efficacy of mental health smartphone apps for symptoms of depression and anxiety. A meta‐analysis of 176 randomized controlled trials9
Functional magnetic resonance imaging in schizophrenia: current evidence, methodological advances, limitations and future directions9
The WPA Scientific Sections: a global resource for education, research and care9
Learning from the global response to COVID‐19 to accelerate innovation in mental health trials9
Keeping Dr. Google under control: how to prevent and manage cyberchondria8
Are language features associated with psychosis risk universal? A study in Mandarin‐speaking youths at clinical high risk for psychosis8
Glucocorticoid use and risk of suicide: a Danish population‐based case‐control study8
The evolving nosology of personality disorder and its clinical utility8
WPA Volunteering Programme: a pilot project in Mexico8
Philosophy of psychiatry: theoretical advances and clinical implications8
CopeNYP: a brief remote psychological intervention reduces health care workers’ depression and anxiety symptoms during COVID‐19 pandemic8
The retention challenge in remote therapy and learning seen through the lens of the COVID‐19 pandemic8
Public health psychiatry: an idea whose time has come8
Understanding depression beyond the “mind‐body” dichotomy8
Biomarkers for clinical use in psychiatry: where are we and will we ever get there?8
The important gain is that we are lumpers and splitters now; it is the splitting that needs our hard work8
WPA education initiatives in the triennium 2020‐20238
Update from the WPA Secretary for Education8
Ethical challenges in contemporary psychiatry: an overview and an appraisal of possible strategies and research needs8
The Lifestyle Psychiatry project of the WPA Section on Medicine, Psychiatry and Primary Care8
Pushing forward public mental health agenda and promotion of mental health8
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Severe breakthrough COVID‐19 infections in vaccinated patients with schizophrenia in Israel8
A clinically useful model of psychopathology must account for interpersonal dynamics7
From treatment resistance to sequential treatments of depression7
Prevention in the mental health field should be implemented synergically at different levels7
Trans‐theoretical clinical models and the implementation of precision mental health care7
Prenatal exposure to antidepressants or antipsychotics and the risk of seizure in children7
Detecting and managing non‐suicidal self‐damaging behaviors7
Incremental advances in psychiatric molecular genetics and nosology7
Bridging between youth psychiatry and child and adolescent psychiatry7
After the acute crisis – engaging people with psychosis in rehabilitation‐oriented care7
Prevention, treatment and care of substance use disorders in times of COVID‐197
The 2021‐2024 Work Plan of WPA Collaborating Centres7
Violence and schizophrenia: the role of social determinants of health and the need for early intervention7
Lack of robust meta‐analytic evidence to favour cognitive behavioural therapy for prevention of psychosis7
Absolute and relative outcomes of psychotherapies for eight mental disorders: a systematic review and meta‐analysis7
Peer involvement and accessibility as key ingredients for 21st century youth mental health care services7
Toward a systems‐based approach to understanding the role of the sympathetic nervous system in depression7
The drug treatment deadlock in psychiatry and the route forward7
WPA Working Group on Medical Students: current initiatives and future priorities7
A question of continuity: a self‐determination theory perspective on “third‐wave” behavioral theories and practices7
Use of DSM‐5 diagnoses vs. other clinical information by US academic‐affiliated psychiatrists in assessing and treating psychotic disorders6
A lived experience perspective on the new World Mental Health Report6
Psychometrics, interpretation and clinical implications of hierarchical models of psychopathology6
A path towards progress: lessons from the hard things about digital mental health6
International classification systems: views of early career psychiatrists6
Full speed ahead on indicated prevention of psychosis6
The definition of treatment resistance in anxiety disorders: a Delphi method‐based consensus guideline6
Burnout: a case for its formal inclusion in classification systems6
Prevention in psychiatry: a role for epigenetics?6
Hierarchical dimensional models of psychopathology: yes, but…6
Prenatal prevention of psychiatric illness and childhood development population‐wide6
Continuity of care and therapeutic relationships as critical elements in acute psychiatric care6
Plan of the WPA Secretary for Scientific Meetings for the triennium 2020‐20236
Association between stressful life events and psychosis relapse: a 2‐year prospective study in first‐episode psychosis6
The global impact of celebrity suicides: implications for prevention6
Characterizing transdiagnostic premorbid biotypes can help progress in selective prevention in psychiatry6
Impact of air pollution and climate change on mental health outcomes: an umbrella review of global evidence6
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