OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences is 11. 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
Mental disorder symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic in Latin America – a systematic review and meta-analysis	46
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
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
Clinical outcomes in individuals at clinical high risk of psychosis who do not transition to psychosis: a meta-analysis	32
Suicide, self-harm and thoughts of suicide or self-harm in infectious disease epidemics: a systematic review and 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
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
Does retirement trigger depressive symptoms? A systematic review and meta-analysis	25
Mental health and caregiving experiences of family carers supporting people with psychosis	25
Who benefits from individual placement and support? A meta-analysis	25
Mental health and the global climate crisis	23
Global, regional and national burden of autism spectrum disorder from 1990 to 2019: results from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019	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
Mental impact of Covid-19 among Spanish healthcare workers. A large longitudinal survey	20
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
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
Moving beyond a ‘one-size-fits-all’ rationale in global mental health: prospects of a precision psychology paradigm	19
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
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
Blind spots in stigma research? Broadening our perspective on mental illness stigma by exploring ‘what matters most’ in modern Western societies	17
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
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
Association between physical-activity trajectories and cognitive decline in adults 50 years of age or older	15
Population-based cohort study of oral contraceptive use and risk of depression	15
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
Disability and post-traumatic stress symptoms in the Ukrainian General Population during the 2022 Russian Invasion	14
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
Risk factors of post-traumatic stress disorder 10 years after Wenchuan earthquake: a population-based case–control study	13
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 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
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
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