OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health is 28. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Characterizing mental health related service contacts in children and youth: a linkage study of health survey and administrative data	197
Sex and the streets: the open secret of sexual abuse among Pakistan’s two million street children	93
Psychophysiological mechanisms underlying the failure to speak: a comparison between children with selective mutism and social anxiety disorder on autonomic arousal	82
The effects of training female students in emotion regulation techniques on their social problem-solving skills and social anxiety: a randomized controlled trial	64
Neurocognition and functioning in adolescents at clinical high risk for psychosis	53
A comparison of expressed emotion between mothers and their adolescent daughters with and without a history of nonsuicidal self-injury	50
The association of bullying and self-esteem with psychotic-like experiences and clinical high risk for psychosis symptoms	48
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	47
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	45
Bidirectional relationships between intolerance of uncertainty and generalized anxiety among adolescents: insights from cross-lagged panel network analysis	40
Validity, reliability and clinical utility of ASSIST-Y in assessing risk of substance-related harm and dependence in Spanish male adolescents	39
Perceived school bullying and psychotic-like experiences in sexual minority adolescents: the mediating and moderating roles of resilience	39
Parent-adolescent informant discrepancy on the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire in the UK Millennium Cohort Study	38
Global prevalence of nocturnal enuresis and associated factors among children and adolescents: a systematic review and meta-analysis	36
What aspects of the pandemic had the greatest impact on adolescent mental health: duration of lockdown or subjective experience?	36
Social support and mental health among adolescents in Kenya, Indonesia, and Vietnam: A latent class analysis using the National Adolescent Mental Health Surveys	35
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	34
Randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of aripiprazole oral solution in children and adolescents with Tourette’s disorder	34
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	33
Extended treatment of multimodal cognitive behavioral therapy in children and adolescents with obsessive–compulsive disorder improves symptom reduction: a within-subject design	32
Transitioning to adult mental health services for young people with ADHD: an Italian-based survey on practices for pediatric and adult services	32
Social rejection sensitivity and its role in adolescent emotional disorder symptomatology	32
Emergence of psychiatric adverse events during antipsychotic treatment in AP-naïve children and adolescents	31
Lifestyle changes, mental health, and health-related quality of life in children aged 6–7 years before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in South Germany	31
Child and adolescent mental health services in Khartoum State, Sudan: a desktop situational analysis	31

Is physical exercise associated with reduced adolescent social anxiety mediated by psychological resilience?: evidence from a longitudinal multi-wave study in China	31
Correction: A systematic review of telehealth screening, assessment, and diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder	30
Latent profiles of childhood psychological maltreatment and their links to adult mental health in China and the UK	28
Concordance between two intrapersonal psychological resilience scales: how should we be measuring resilience?	28