OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health is 29. 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
Sex and the streets: the open secret of sexual abuse among Pakistan’s two million street children	207
Psychophysiological mechanisms underlying the failure to speak: a comparison between children with selective mutism and social anxiety disorder on autonomic arousal	95
Global prevalence of nocturnal enuresis and associated factors among children and adolescents: a systematic review and meta-analysis	89
Social support and mental health among adolescents in Kenya, Indonesia, and Vietnam: A latent class analysis using the National Adolescent Mental Health Surveys	66
Randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of aripiprazole oral solution in children and adolescents with Tourette’s disorder	55
A school-setting pilot study of the e-learning version of the “Journey of the Brave”: a universal anxiety-prevention program based on cognitive behavioral therapy	54
What aspects of the pandemic had the greatest impact on adolescent mental health: duration of lockdown or subjective experience?	51
Bidirectional relationships between intolerance of uncertainty and generalized anxiety among adolescents: insights from cross-lagged panel network analysis	49
Transitioning to adult mental health services for young people with ADHD: an Italian-based survey on practices for pediatric and adult services	47
Characterizing mental health related service contacts in children and youth: a linkage study of health survey and administrative data	42
Change in screen time and overuse, and their association with psychological well-being among US-wide school-age children during the COVID-19 pandemic: analysis of the National Survey of Children’s Hea	41
Identifying multilevel and multisectoral strategies to develop a Theory of Change for improving child and adolescent mental health services in a case-study district in South Africa	41
Parent-adolescent informant discrepancy on the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire in the UK Millennium Cohort Study	39
Perceived school bullying and psychotic-like experiences in sexual minority adolescents: the mediating and moderating roles of resilience	37
The effects of training female students in emotion regulation techniques on their social problem-solving skills and social anxiety: a randomized controlled trial	36
The association of bullying and self-esteem with psychotic-like experiences and clinical high risk for psychosis symptoms	36
Evaluating a prototype digital mental health literacy intervention for children and young people aged 11–15 in Java, Indonesia: a mixed methods, multi-site case study evaluation	36
A comparison of expressed emotion between mothers and their adolescent daughters with and without a history of nonsuicidal self-injury	36
Neurocognition and functioning in adolescents at clinical high risk for psychosis	36
Validity, reliability and clinical utility of ASSIST-Y in assessing risk of substance-related harm and dependence in Spanish male adolescents	32
Correction: A systematic review of telehealth screening, assessment, and diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder	32
Emergence of psychiatric adverse events during antipsychotic treatment in AP-naïve children and adolescents	32
Mother–child interactions in adolescents with borderline personality disorder traits and the impact of early life maltreatment	31
Extended treatment of multimodal cognitive behavioral therapy in children and adolescents with obsessive–compulsive disorder improves symptom reduction: a within-subject design	31
Concordance between two intrapersonal psychological resilience scales: how should we be measuring resilience?	31

Psychosocial stress in families of young children after the pandemic: no time to rest	31
Trajectories and correlates of mental health among urban, school-age children during the COVID-19 pandemic: a longitudinal study	31
Child and adolescent mental health services in Khartoum State, Sudan: a desktop situational analysis	30
Identification of treatment elements for adolescents with callous unemotional traits: a systematic narrative review	29