OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Journal of Bipolar Disorders 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Lithium’s antiviral effects: a potential drug for CoViD-19 disease?	49
Pre-pubertal bipolar disorder: origins and current status of the controversy	37
Digital health developments and drawbacks: a review and analysis of top-returned apps for bipolar disorder	35
Has Bipolar Disorder become a predominantly female gender related condition? Analysis of recently published large sample studies	29
Overview of lithium's use: a nationwide survey	27
Digital phenotyping: towards replicable findings with comprehensive assessments and integrative models in bipolar disorders	27
Differences between bipolar disorder types 1 and 2 support the DSM two-syndrome concept	24
The effects of vagus nerve stimulation on the course and outcomes of patients with bipolar disorder in a treatment-resistant depressive episode: a 5-year prospective registry	20
Chronic kidney disease in lithium-treated patients, incidence and rate of decline	19
Evaluating endophenotypes for bipolar disorder	18
Deficits in explicit emotion regulation in bipolar disorder: a systematic review	18
Smartphone-based activity measurements in patients with newly diagnosed bipolar disorder, unaffected relatives and control individuals	17
Improving early recognition and intervention in people at increased risk for the development of bipolar disorder: study protocol of a prospective-longitudinal, naturalistic cohort study (Early-BipoLif	17
Late chronotype predicts more depressive symptoms in bipolar disorder over a 5 year follow-up period	16
Socio-demographic and clinical predictors of outcome to long-term treatment with lithium in bipolar disorders: a systematic review of the contemporary literature and recommendations from the ISBD/IGSL	15
Recommendations for the use of long-term experience sampling in bipolar disorder care: a qualitative study of patient and clinician experiences	14
An evidence map of actigraphy studies exploring longitudinal associations between rest-activity rhythms and course and outcome of bipolar disorders	13
Cortisol levels in unmedicated patients with unipolar and bipolar major depression using hair and saliva specimens	11
‘Pediatric Bipolar Disorder’ rates are still lower than claimed: a re-examination of eight epidemiological surveys used by an updated meta-analysis	10
Respiratory infections during lithium and valproate medication: a within-individual prospective study of 50,000 patients with bipolar disorder	10
Anticipating manic and depressive transitions in patients with bipolar disorder using early warning signals	10
Misperception of sleep in bipolar disorder: an exploratory study using questionnaire versus actigraphy	10
Sleep and physical activity in patients with newly diagnosed bipolar disorder in remission, their first-degree unaffected relatives and healthy controls	10
New vision on the mental problems of Vincent van Gogh; results from a bottom-up approach using (semi-)structured diagnostic interviews	9
Survey of psychiatrist use of digital technology in clinical practice	9

Affective lability as a prospective predictor of subsequent bipolar disorder diagnosis: a systematic review	9
A pilot investigation of emotional regulation difficulties and mindfulness-based strategies in manic and remitted bipolar I disorder and major depressive disorder	9
Reliability and validity of the functioning assessment short test for older adults with bipolar disorder (FAST-O)	9
Psychological symptoms during and after Austrian first lockdown in individuals with bipolar disorder? A follow-up control-group investigation	9
25 Years of the International Bipolar Collaborative Network (BCN)	8
Patients’ adherence to smartphone apps in the management of bipolar disorder: a systematic review	8
Clinicians’ preferences and attitudes towards the use of lithium in the maintenance treatment of bipolar disorders around the world: a survey from the ISBD Lithium task force	8
Associations between circadian misalignment and telomere length in BD: an actigraphy study	8
Regional lithium prescription rates and recurrence in bipolar disorder	8
Potential pharmacogenomic targets in bipolar disorder: considerations for current testing and the development of decision support tools to individualize treatment selection	8
Countering the declining use of lithium therapy: a call to arms	8
Psychedelics in the treatment of unipolar and bipolar depression	8
Long-term outcome of postpartum psychosis: a prospective clinical cohort study in 106 women	8
Voice analyses using smartphone-based data in patients with bipolar disorder, unaffected relatives and healthy control individuals, and during different affective states	7
Psychological therapy for mood instability within bipolar spectrum disorder: a randomised, controlled feasibility trial of a dialectical behaviour therapy-informed approach (the ThrIVe-B programme)	7
Combination of dextromethorphan and memantine in treating bipolar spectrum disorder: a 12-week double-blind randomized clinical trial	7
Low-dose lithium against dementia	7
Role of endogenous ouabain in the etiology of bipolar disorder	7
A call for improving lithium literacy among clinicians and patients	7
Bipolar offspring and mothers: interactional challenges at infant age 3 and 12 months—a developmental pathway to enhanced risk?	6
Associations between the cortisol awakening response and patient-evaluated stress and mood instability in patients with bipolar disorder: an exploratory study	6
Melanopsin-mediated pupillary responses in bipolar disorder—a cross-sectional pupillometric investigation	6
Lurasidone in the long-term treatment of Japanese patients with bipolar I disorder: a 52 week open label study	6
Characterization of affective lability across subgroups of psychosis spectrum disorders	6
Blood pressure in bipolar disorder: evidence of elevated pulse pressure and associations between mean pressure and mood instability	6
Internet of things issues related to psychiatry	6
Prepubertal bipolar disorder: a diagnostic quandary?	6
Variations in seasonal solar insolation are associated with a history of suicide attempts in bipolar I disorder	6
Valproic acid autoinduction: a case-based review	6
Transdiagnostic comparison of visual working memory capacity in bipolar disorder and schizophrenia	5
Sleep disturbances in the context of neurohormonal dysregulation in patients with bipolar disorder	5
Efficacy and safety of adjunctive therapy to lamotrigine, lithium, or valproate monotherapy in bipolar depression: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials	5
Long-term work disability due to type I and II bipolar disorder: findings of a six-year prospective study	5
Prefrontal dopamine D1 receptor manipulation influences anxiety behavior and induces neuroinflammation within the hippocampus	5
The feasibility of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for people with bipolar disorder: a qualitative study	5
Defining phenotypes of long-term lithium and valproate response, including combination therapy: a modified application of the Alda scale in patients with bipolar disorders	5
Role of child maltreatment and gender for bipolar symptoms in young adults	5
The futility of long-term predictions in bipolar disorder: mood fluctuations are the result of deterministic chaotic processes	4
Dissecting the genetic architecture of suicide attempt and repeated attempts in Korean patients with bipolar disorder using polygenic risk scores	4
Impact of modification to DSM-5 criterion A for hypomania/mania in newly diagnosed bipolar patients: findings from the prospective BIO study	4
The relations between executive functions and occupational functioning in individuals with bipolar disorder: a scoping review	4
The German research consortium for the study of bipolar disorder (BipoLife): a magnetic resonance imaging study protocol	4
The course of psychiatric symptoms in older age bipolar disorder during the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Antidepressant efficacy of low-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in antidepressant-nonresponding bipolar depression: a single-blind randomized sham-controlled trial	4
Risk of childhood trauma exposure and severity of bipolar disorder in Colombia	4
Predicting the risk and timing of major mood disorder in offspring of bipolar parents: exploring the utility of a neural network approach	4
A multi-center naturalistic study of a newly designed 12-sessions group psychoeducation program for patients with bipolar disorder and their caregivers	4
Controversies regarding lithium-associated weight gain: case–control study of real-world drug safety data	4
A systematic review of interventions in the early course of bipolar disorder I or II: a report of the International Society for Bipolar Disorders Taskforce on early intervention	4
Using density of antecedent events and trajectory path analysis to investigate family-correlated patterns of onset of bipolar I disorder: a comparison of cohorts from Europe and USA	4

Patient-evaluated cognitive function measured with smartphones and the association with objective cognitive function, perceived stress, quality of life and function capacity in patients with bipolar d