OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences is 27. 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
Global, regional and national burden of anxiety disorders from 1990 to 2019: results from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019	191
Psychological impact of COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare workers in a highly burdened area of north-east Italy	140
Prevalence of depressive symptoms among Chinese university students amid the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review and meta-analysis	93
The lack of statistical power of subgroup analyses in meta-analyses: a cautionary note	86
Psychometric properties of burnout measures: a systematic review	77
Trends in suicide rates during the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions in a major German city	72
Mental health problems in the general population during and after the first lockdown phase due to the SARS-Cov-2 pandemic: rapid review of multi-wave studies	72
Psychological impact of the quarantine during the COVID-19 pandemic on the general European adult population: a systematic review of the evidence	71
Role of age, gender and marital status in prognosis for adults with depression: An individual patient data meta-analysis	56
Sleep disturbance and psychiatric disorders: a bidirectional Mendelian randomisation study	47
Changes in depression and suicidal ideation under severe lockdown restrictions during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain: a longitudinal study in the general population	46
Mental disorder symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic in Latin America – a systematic review and meta-analysis	46
The association between sleep and depressive symptoms in US adults: data from the NHANES (2007–2014)	45
Reducing stigma and discrimination associated with COVID-19: early stage pandemic rapid review and practical recommendations	44
Causal effect of tooth loss on depression: evidence from a population-wide natural experiment in the USA	38
Excess mortality and life-years lost in people with bipolar disorder: an 11-year population-based cohort study	36
Alcohol, coffee and tea intake and the risk of cognitive deficits: a dose–response meta-analysis	36
The impact of COVID-19 on subthreshold depressive symptoms: a longitudinal study	35
Thirty-day suicidal thoughts and behaviours in the Spanish adult general population during the first wave of the Spain COVID-19 pandemic	34
Uncovering survivorship bias in longitudinal mental health surveys during the COVID-19 pandemic	33
Suicide, self-harm and thoughts of suicide or self-harm in infectious disease epidemics: a systematic review and meta-analysis	32
Clinical outcomes in individuals at clinical high risk of psychosis who do not transition to psychosis: a meta-analysis	32
Depression and increased risk of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in individuals with obesity	30
Clozapine haematological monitoring for neutropenia: a global perspective	29
Use of antipsychotics in Denmark 1997–2018: a nation-wide drug utilisation study with focus on off-label use and associated diagnoses	28

Homophobia and mental health: a scourge of modern era	27
A call for greater conceptual clarity in the field of mental health and psychosocial support in humanitarian settings	27