OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences is 4. 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
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
Trends in suicide rates during the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions in a major German city	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

A call for greater conceptual clarity in the field of mental health and psychosocial support in humanitarian settings	27
Homophobia and mental health: a scourge of modern era	27
Prevalence of anxiety and depression in people with different types of cancer or haematologic malignancies: a cross-sectional study	26
The role of cognitive and social leisure activities in dementia risk: assessing longitudinal associations of modifiable and non-modifiable risk factors	26
Mental health and caregiving experiences of family carers supporting people with psychosis	25
Who benefits from individual placement and support? A meta-analysis	25
Does retirement trigger depressive symptoms? A systematic review and meta-analysis	25
Global, regional and national burden of autism spectrum disorder from 1990 to 2019: results from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019	23
Mental health and the global climate crisis	23
Effects of lithium on suicide and suicidal behaviour: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised trials	22
Excess mortality in patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders in Malaga (Spain): A cohort study	21
The treatment gap for mental disorders in adults enrolled in HIV treatment programmes in South Africa: a cohort study using linked electronic health records	20
Adverse childhood experiences and global mental health: avenues to reduce the burden of child and adolescent mental disorders	20
Mental impact of Covid-19 among Spanish healthcare workers. A large longitudinal survey	20
Moving beyond a ‘one-size-fits-all’ rationale in global mental health: prospects of a precision psychology paradigm	19
Global trends and regional differences in the burden of anxiety disorders and major depressive disorder attributed to bullying victimisation in 204 countries and territories, 1999–2019: an analysis of	19
Specific and cumulative lifetime stressors in the aetiology of major depression: A longitudinal community-based population study	18
Risk of COVID-19 diagnosis and death in patients with mental illness: a cohort study	18
Stress reactivity as a putative mechanism linking childhood trauma with clinical outcomes in individuals at ultra-high-risk for psychosis: Findings from the EU-GEI High Risk Study	18
Stigma against mental health disorders in Nepal conceptualised with a ‘what matters most’ framework: a scoping review	17
Neuroimaging studies exploring the neural basis of social isolation	17
Blind spots in stigma research? Broadening our perspective on mental illness stigma by exploring ‘what matters most’ in modern Western societies	17
Connectivity changes in major depressive disorder after rTMS: a review of functional and structural connectivity data	16
Prevalence of psychiatric disorders for Indigenous Australians: a population-based birth cohort study	16
Population-based cohort study of oral contraceptive use and risk of depression	15
Association between physical-activity trajectories and cognitive decline in adults 50 years of age or older	15
Disability and post-traumatic stress symptoms in the Ukrainian General Population during the 2022 Russian Invasion	14
Measuring subjective stress among young people in Hong Kong: validation and predictive utility of the single-item subjective level of stress (SLS-1) in epidemiological and longitudinal community sampl	14
Risk factors of post-traumatic stress disorder 10 years after Wenchuan earthquake: a population-based case–control study	13
Changing trends in the global burden of mental disorders from 1990 to 2019 and predicted levels in 25 years	13
Ethnicity and power in the mental health system: experiences of white British and black Caribbean people with psychosis	13
The quality of mental health care delivered to patients with schizophrenia and related disorders in the Italian mental health system. The QUADIM project: a multi-regional Italian investigation based o	12
Profiles of exposure to potentially traumatic events in refugees living in Australia	12
Childhood adversities and bipolar disorder: a neuroimaging focus	12
What makes the psychosis ‘clinical high risk’ state risky: psychosis itself or the co-presence of a non-psychotic disorder?	12
The prevalence of hazardous and harmful drinking in the UK Police Service, and their co-occurrence with job strain and mental health problems	12
The effect of the COVID-19 lockdown on mental health care use in South Africa: an interrupted time-series analysis	11
A three-arm randomised controlled trial to evaluate the efficacy of a positive psychology and social networking intervention in promoting mental health among HIV-infected men who have sex with men in	11
Magnitude of terminological bias in international health services research: a disambiguation analysis in mental health	11
Parental education and youth suicidal behaviours: a systematic review and meta-analysis	11
Twelve-month follow-up of a randomised clinical trial of a brief group psychological intervention for common mental disorders in Syrian refugees in Jordan	11
Has the COVID-19 pandemic influenced suicide rates differentially according to socioeconomic indices and ethnicity? More evidence is needed globally	11
The dynamic nature of refugee children's resilience: a cohort study of Syrian refugees in Lebanon	11
Potentially preventable hospitalisations for physical health conditions in community mental health service users: a population-wide linkage study	11
Mediation of Internet addiction on association between childhood maltreatment and suicidal behaviours among Chinese adolescents	11
Housing First for homeless people with severe mental illness: extended 4-year follow-up and analysis of recovery and housing stability from the randomizedUn Chez Soi d'Abordtrial	11
Indirect social contact interventions to reduce mental health-related stigma in low- and middle-income countries: systematic review	11
Enhancing the capabilities of forcibly displaced people: a human development approach to conflict- and displacement-related stressors	11
Covid-19-related stressors, mental disorders, depressive and anxiety symptoms: a cross-sectional, nationally-representative, face-to-face survey in Serbia	11
The role of social deprivation and depression in dementia risk: findings from the longitudinal survey of health, ageing and retirement in Europe	11

Prediction of parental alienation on depression in left-behind children: A 12-month follow-up investigation	11
Socio-political context as determinant of childhood maltreatment: a population-based study among women and men in East and West Germany	10
How to deprescribe esketamine in resistant depression? A point of view after first clinical uses	10
EMA and FDA psychiatric drug trial guidelines: assessment of guideline development and trial design recommendations	10
Evaluation of competency-driven training for facilitators delivering a psychological intervention for children in Lebanon: a proof-of-concept study	10
Association of antipsychotic use with breast cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies with over 2 million individuals	10
Suicide, self-harm and thoughts of suicide or self-harm in infectious disease epidemics: a systematic review and meta-analysis – CORRIGENDUM	10
Income disparity in school readiness and the mediating role of perinatal maternal mental health: a longitudinal birth cohort study	10
#patientstoo – Professional sexual misconduct by healthcare professionals towards patients: a representative study	9
Trauma exposure and factors associated with ICD-11 PTSD and complex PTSD in adolescence: a cross-cultural study in Japan and Lithuania	9
Health and social care service utilisation and associated expenditure among community-dwelling older adults with depressive symptoms	9
Association between benzodiazepine receptor agonist use and mortality in patients hospitalised for COVID-19: a multicentre observational study	9
Long-term psychological profile of general population following COVID-19 outbreak: symptom trajectories and evolution of psychopathological network	9
Schizophrenia as a risk factor for cardiovascular and metabolic health outcomes: a comparative risk assessment	9
Genetic and psychosocial stressors have independent effects on the level of subclinical psychosis: findings from the multinational EU-GEI study	9
A critique of narrative reviews of the evidence-base for ECT in depression	8
Impact of celebrity disclosure on mental health-related stigma	8
Significant regional inequalities in the prevalence of intellectual disability and trends from 1990 to 2019: a systematic analysis of GBD 2019	8
Post-traumatic stress disorder among LGBTQ people: a systematic review and meta-analysis	8
Inequalities in the prevalence of major depressive disorder in Brazilian slum populations: a cross-sectional analysis	8
Phenomenology as a resource for translational research in mental health: methodological trends, challenges and new directions	8
Prevalence of pica and rumination behaviours in adults and associations with eating disorder and general psychopathology: findings form a population-based study	8
An outstanding message of hope: the WHO World Mental Health Report 2022	8
Mapping the selection, availability, price and affordability of essential medicines for mental health conditions at a global level	8
The mental health of all children in contact with social services: a population-wide record-linkage study in Northern Ireland	7
COVID-19 after two years: trajectories of different components of mental health in the Spanish population	7
Preventing the mental health consequences of war in refugee populations	7
Estimating prevalence of child and youth mental disorder and mental health-related service contacts: a comparison of survey data and linked administrative health data	7
Ethnic inequities in multimorbidity among people with psychosis: a retrospective cohort study	7
Population heterogeneity in developmental trajectories of internalising and externalising mental health symptoms in childhood: differential effects of parenting styles	7
A Bayesian approach to estimating the population prevalence of mood and anxiety disorders using multiple measures	7
Temperature and mental health–related emergency department and hospital encounters among children, adolescents and young adults	7
The rise in acceptance of mental health professionals: help-seeking recommendations of the German public 1990–2020	6
Needs for care of residents with schizophrenia spectrum disorders and association with daily activities and mood monitored with experience sampling method: the DIAPASON study	6
Development and psychometric validation of new questionnaires assessing experienced discrimination and internalised stigma among people with Covid-19	6
Frequency and machine learning predictors of severe depressive symptoms and suicidal ideation among university students	6
The effectiveness of volunteer befriending for improving the quality of life of patients with schizophrenia in Bosnia and Herzegovina – an exploratory randomised controlled trial	6
COVID-19 risk, course and outcome in people with mental disorders: a systematic review and meta-analyses	6
The mental health and well-being of adolescents with/without intellectual disability in the UK	6
A response to yet another defence of ECT in the absence of robust efficacy and safety evidence	6
Trajectories of labour market marginalisation among young adults with newly diagnosed attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)	6
Depressive symptoms and suicidality by menopausal stages among middle-aged Korean women	6
The impact of child psychiatric conditions on future educational outcomes among a community cohort in Brazil	6
Estimating the difference in prevalence of common mental disorder diagnoses for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples compared to the general Australian population	6
State of Ireland's mental health: findings from a nationally representative survey	6
Colorectal cancer treatment in people with severe mental illness: a systematic review and meta-analysis	6
Calling for policy actions to increase access to long-acting antipsychotics in low-income and middle-income countries	6
Association of long-term exposure to air pollution with chronic sleep deprivation in adults from 141 urban communities in South Korea: a community-level longitudinal study, 2008‒2016	6
Emergency department presentations with suicide and self-harm ideation: a missed opportunity for intervention?	6
Previous disorders and depression outcomes in individuals with 12-month major depressive disorder in the World Mental Health surveys	6
Are all children treated equally? Psychiatric care and treatment receipt among migrant, descendant and majority Swedish children: a register-based study	6
Sociodemographic and clinical characteristics in child and youth mental health; comparison of routine outcome measurements of an Australian and Dutch outpatient cohort	6
Hospital admission at the time of a postpartum psychiatric emergency department visit: the influence of the social determinants of health	5
Considerations for supporting meaningful stakeholder engagement in global mental health research	5
Transition to retirement impact on risk of depression and suicidality: results from a longitudinal analysis of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE)	5
Boosting the development of individual placement and support in Europe	5
Epidemiology of intimate partner violence perpetration and victimisation in a representative sample	5
Effect of COVID-19 pandemic on utilisation of community-based mental health care in North-East of Italy: A psychiatric case register study	5
Long-term effectiveness of Self-Help Plus in refugees and asylum seekers resettled in Western Europe: 12-month outcomes of a randomised controlled trial	5
Associations of bullying victimisation in different frequencies and types with suicidal behaviours among school-going adolescents in low- and middle-income countries	5
Crimes and sentences in individuals with intellectual disability in a forensic psychiatric context: a register-based study	5
Estimating the impact of child and early adolescent depression on subsequent educational attainment: secondary analysis of an existing data linkage	5
Maternal migraine and the risk of psychiatric disorders in offspring: a population-based cohort study	5
Clinical outcomes in brief psychotic episodes: a systematic review and meta-analysis	5
Cardiovascular and metabolic risk of antipsychotics in children and young adults: a multinational self-controlled case series study	5
Roles of obesity in mediating the causal effect of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder on diabetes	4
The association between child maltreatment and problematic alcohol use in adulthood in a large multi-ethnic cohort: the HELIUS study	4
The Bay Area Muslim mental health community advisory board: evaluation of a community based participatory approach	4
Male intake of omega-3 fatty acids and risk of intimate partner violence perpetration: a nationwide birth cohort – the Japan Environment and Children's Study	4
Specific effects of five subtypes of childhood maltreatment on suicide behaviours in Chinese adolescents: the moderating effect of sex and residence	4
Still too much delay in recognition of autism spectrum disorder	4
To what extent do social support and mastery mediate the association between childhood maltreatment and depression? A sequential causal mediation analysis	4
Lifetime risk of suicide among survivors of the atomic bombings of Japan	4
Preclinical and clinical evidence on the approach-avoidance conflict evaluation as an integrative tool for psychopathology	4
Heterogeneity of quality of life in young people attending primary mental health services	4
Changes on 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	4
Adherence to dietary guidelines and risk of dementia: a prospective cohort study of 94 184 individuals	4
Assessing the factorial validity and the internal reliability of the International Trauma Questionnaire (ITQ); PTSD and complex PTSD among survivors of sexual violence in Ireland	4