OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of World Psychiatry is 15. 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.)

Article	Citations
The growing field of digital psychiatry: current evidence and the future of apps, social media, chatbots, and virtual reality	455
Mortality in people with schizophrenia: a systematic review and meta‐analysis of relative risk and aggravating or attenuating factors	245
Validation of the new DSM‐5‐TR criteria for prolonged grief disorder and the PG‐13‐Revised (PG‐13‐R) scale	236
Designing and scaling up integrated youth mental health care	234
Preventive psychiatry: a blueprint for improving the mental health of young people	233
The promise of machine learning in predicting treatment outcomes in psychiatry	227
The efficacy of psychotherapies and pharmacotherapies for mental disorders in adults: an umbrella review and meta‐analytic evaluation of recent meta‐analyses	208
The clinical characterization of the patient with primary psychosis aimed at personalization of management	174
Psychotherapies for depression: a network meta‐analysis covering efficacy, acceptability and long‐term outcomes of all main treatment types	167
Risk and protective factors for mental disorders beyond genetics: an evidence‐based atlas	155
Validity and utility of Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP): III. Emotional dysfunction superspectrum	130
Hierarchical models of psychopathology: empirical support, implications, and remaining issues	120
The clinical significance of duration of untreated psychosis: an umbrella review and random‐effects meta‐analysis	119
Validity and utility of Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP): II. Externalizing superspectrum	119
Treatment‐resistant depression: definition, prevalence, detection, management, and investigational interventions	118
Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation for smoking cessation: a pivotal multicenter double‐blind randomized controlled trial	118
An organization‐ and category‐level comparison of diagnostic requirements for mental disorders in ICD‐11 and DSM‐5	117
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	109
The social determinants of mental health and disorder: evidence, prevention and recommendations	107
“Third‐wave” cognitive and behavioral therapies and the emergence of a process‐based approach to intervention in psychiatry	105
The lived experience of psychosis: a bottom‐up review co‐written by experts by experience and academics	102
Candidate biomarkers in psychiatric disorders: state of the field	97
Psychiatric diagnosis and treatment in the 21st century: paradigm shifts versus incremental integration	95
Efficacy and acceptability of pharmacological, psychosocial, and brain stimulation interventions in children and adolescents with mental disorders: an umbrella review	87
Mental health care for older adults: recent advances and new directions in clinical practice and research	86

Emerging experience with selected new categories in the ICD‐11: complex PTSD, prolonged grief disorder, gaming disorder, and compulsive sexual behaviour disorder	85
Prioritizing COVID‐19 vaccination for people with severe mental illness	84
PHQ‐9: global uptake of a depression scale	83
Cognitive behavior therapy vs. control conditions, other psychotherapies, pharmacotherapies and combined treatment for depression: a comprehensive meta‐analysis including 409 trials with 52,702 patien	82
Psychological processes mediating the association between developmental trauma and specific psychotic symptoms in adults: a systematic review and meta‐analysis	80
Differential impact of COVID‐related lockdown on mental health in Germany	80
The World Mental Health Report: transforming mental health for all	77
Initial treatment choices to achieve sustained response in major depression: a systematic review and network meta‐analysis	74
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‐analysis	72
The Horyzons project: a randomized controlled trial of a novel online social therapy to maintain treatment effects from specialist first‐episode psychosis services	71
The clinical characterization of the adult patient with bipolar disorder aimed at personalization of management	71
New insights from the last decade of research in psychiatric genetics: discoveries, challenges and clinical implications	69
The critical distinction between suicidal ideation and suicide attempts	64
Community‐based social interventions for people with severe mental illness: a systematic review and narrative synthesis of recent evidence	62
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 agents	57
Effectiveness of a WHO self‐help psychological intervention for preventing mental disorders among Syrian refugees in Turkey: a randomized controlled trial	55
The alliance in mental health care: conceptualization, evidence and clinical applications	55
Oral and long‐acting antipsychotics for relapse prevention in schizophrenia‐spectrum disorders: a network meta‐analysis of 92 randomized trials including 22,645 participants	55
Acute psychiatric care: approaches to increasing the range of services and improving access and quality of care	54
Mental health problems among COVID‐19 survivors in Wuhan, China	47
The impact of social network sites on mental health: distinguishing active from passive use	46
Substance use disorders: a comprehensive update of classification, epidemiology, neurobiology, clinical aspects, treatment and prevention	44
Candidate diagnostic biomarkers for neurodevelopmental disorders in children and adolescents: a systematic review	43
Impact of mental disorders on clinical outcomes of physical diseases: an umbrella review assessing population attributable fraction and generalized impact fraction	43
The emergence of cognitive COVID	42
The epidemic of fentanyl misuse and overdoses: challenges and strategies	42
Adverse childhood experiences: a meta‐analysis of prevalence and moderators among half a million adults in 206 studies	42
The p factor is the sum of its parts, for now	42
Comorbidity between major depressive disorder and physical diseases: a comprehensive review of epidemiology, mechanisms and management	42
Anorexia nervosa and the long‐term risk of mortality in women	41
The importance of listening to patient preferences when making mental health care decisions	40
Rationale for and usefulness of the inclusion of gaming disorder in the ICD‐11	39
Psychiatric symptoms and cognitive impairment in “Long COVID”: the relevance of immunopsychiatry	39
Attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder as a risk factor for cardiovascular diseases: a nationwide population‐based cohort study	36
Reappraising the variability of effects of antipsychotic medication in schizophrenia: a meta‐analysis	36
Racism and mental health	34
The utility of patient‐reported outcome measures in mental health	34
The status of psychodynamic psychotherapy as an empirically supported treatment for common mental disorders – an umbrella review based on updated criteria	33
DSM‐5‐TR: overview of what’s new and what’s changed	32
The clinical characterization of the adult patient with an anxiety or related disorder aimed at personalization of management	32
Outcomes in people with eating disorders: a transdiagnostic and disorder‐specific systematic review, meta‐analysis and multivariable meta‐regression analysis	31
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 rate	31
Patients with schizophrenia are under‐vaccinated for COVID‐19: a report from Israel	30
Setting priority areas for WPA’s new triennium	30
Thinking too much: rumination and psychopathology	30
COVID‐19 vaccination uptake in people with severe mental illness: a UK‐based cohort study	29
Metabolic side effects in persons with schizophrenia during mid‐ to long‐term treatment with antipsychotics: a network meta‐analysis of randomized controlled trials	29
Alternatives to coercion in mental health care: WPA Position Statement and Call to Action	28
Estimating the real‐world usage of mobile apps for mental health: development and application of two novel metrics	28

The lived experience of depression: a bottom‐up review co‐written by experts by experience and academics	27
The role of self‐compassion in psychotherapy	27
Empirical severity benchmarks for obsessive‐compulsive disorder across the lifespan	27
Accelerating Medicines Partnership^® Schizophrenia (AMP^®SCZ): developing tools to enable early intervention in the psychosis high risk state	27
Implementation of the WPA Action Plan 2020‐2023: an update	27
Post‐traumatic stress disorder in the aftermath of COVID‐19 pandemic	27
Internalizing psychopathology and all‐cause mortality: a comparison of transdiagnostic vs. diagnosis‐based risk prediction	25
Evolutionary psychiatry: foundations, progress and challenges	24
Most at‐risk individuals will not develop a mental disorder: the limited predictive strength of risk factors	23
Use of low‐dose quetiapine increases the risk of major adverse cardiovascular events: results from a nationwide active comparator‐controlled cohort study	23
Transdiagnostic risk of mental disorders in offspring of affected parents: a meta‐analysis of family high‐risk and registry studies	23
Implementation of the WPA Action Plan 2020‐2023	22
A prevalence assessment of prolonged grief disorder in Syrian refugees	22
Dopamine and glutamate in individuals at high risk for psychosis: a meta‐analysis of in vivo imaging findings and their variability compared to controls	22
Systems‐based approaches to mental disorders are the only game in town	21
Explaining the missing heritability of psychiatric disorders	21
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	21
Patterns and correlates of patient‐reported helpfulness of treatment for common mental and substance use disorders in the WHO World Mental Health Surveys	20
Long‐term efficacy of antipsychotic drugs in initially acutely ill adults with schizophrenia: systematic review and network meta‐analysis	20
The performance of ChatGPT in generating answers to clinical questions in psychiatry: a two‐layer assessment	19
Klerman's “credo” reconsidered:neo‐Kraepelinianism, Spitzer's views, and what we can learn from the past	19
Primary psychosis: more to know, much more to do	19
World Health Organization's low‐intensity psychosocial interventions: a systematic review and meta‐analysis of the effects of Problem Management Plus andStep‐by‐Step	19
Transforming mental health for all: a critical role for specialists	19
Improving mental health through fostering healthy lifestyles in young people: one of the targets in the WPA Action Plan 2023‐2026	19
The evolving epidemiology and differential etiopathogenesis of eating disorders: implications for prevention and treatment	18
Cardiac vagal tone: a neurophysiological mechanism that evolved in mammals to dampen threat reactions and promote sociality	17
The need for a new generation of digital mental health tools to support more accessible, effective and equitable care	17
Why hierarchical dimensional approaches to classification will fail to transform diagnosis in psychiatry	17
From exception to the norm: how mental health interventions have become part and parcel of the humanitarian response	17
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Person‐centred care planning as foundational to clinical practice	17
Meaning in life is a fundamental protective factor in the context of psychopathology	17
Risk of new‐onset psychiatric sequelae of COVID‐19 in the early and late post‐acute phase	16
Psychiatric comorbidity in immune‐mediated inflammatory diseases	16
Borderline personality disorder: a comprehensive review of diagnosis and clinical presentation, etiology, treatment, and current controversies	16
Metacognition in psychosis: a renewed path to understanding of core disturbances and recovery‐oriented treatment	16
The role of gamification in digital mental health	16
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 theory	15
Subjectivity, psychosis and the science of psychiatry	15
Adverse childhood experiences and mental health problems in a nationally representative study of heterosexual, homosexual and bisexual Danes	15
New trends in network modeling of psychopathology	15
Evidence‐informed is not enough: digital therapeutics also need to be evidence‐based	15
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Challenges to mental health services for refugees: a global perspective	15
The relationship between physical and mental health: an update from the WPA Working Group on Managing Comorbidity of Mental and Physical Health	15
Updates from the WPA Section on Education in Psychiatry	15