Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry

Papers
(The median citation count of Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry is 2. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
The value of screening tools in assessing living kidney donors for psychosocial risk factors: A literature review and case series70
Research Letter: Effect of antivirals for COVID-19 on the mortality of older adults dispensed treatment with lithium, antipsychotics, antidepressants, anxiolytics and hypnotics59
Antipsychotic utilisation and persistence in Australia: A nationwide 5-year study53
Australia’s unethical deportation practice discriminates against New Zealanders with mental illness: ‘Everybody needs good neighbours!’43
Empty sella and periodic mental symptoms: A report of two cases41
Clinical wisdom, science and evidence: The neglected gifts of psychodynamic thinking41
Eating disorders and meat avoidance: A call to understand the ‘why’ instead of the ‘what’38
Letter to the Editor regarding ‘Lithium plus antipsychotics or anticonvulsants for bipolar disorder: Comparing clinical response and metabolic changes’38
Thanks to Reviewers36
A systematic review and meta-analysis of the prevalence of alcohol and other drug use and problematic use among people accessing mental health treatment in Australia33
Experiences of physical healthcare services in Māori and non-Māori with mental health and substance use conditions33
Indian psychiatrists in the Australian workforce – From brain drain to brain exchange33
The cost of editorial independence, and the free speech it supports, is eternal vigilance31
Childhood cumulative trauma, social support and stress as predictors of illness outcomes and quality of life in bipolar disorder31
Prescribing electroconvulsive therapy for depression: Not as simple as it used to be31
Systematic review of Indigenous involvement and content in mental health interventions and their effectiveness for Indigenous populations30
Breaching the family walls: Modelling the impact of prolonged visa insecurity on asylum-seeking children29
Comorbid attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and bipolar disorder28
Risk of parental major psychiatric disorders in patients with comorbid autism spectrum disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: A population-based family-link study27
Letter to the Editor regarding: ‘Smoke and mirrors: Support from psychiatrists for nicotine e-cigarette availability in Australia’27
Letter to the Editor: Author reply to Letter to the Editor regarding ‘Discharge destinations for young people with a first episode of psychosis after attending an early intervention for psychosis serv26
A first-hand account of receiving repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation26
Implications of psychiatric diagnosis for Voluntary Assisted Dying in Victoria25
Lithium plus antipsychotics or anticonvulsants for bipolar disorder: Comparing clinical response and metabolic changes24
Exploring the association of Indigeneity, social adversity status and externalizing symptoms in children and adolescents23
Prevalence and determinants of mental health related to climate change in Australia22
Letter to the Editor: Letter to the Editor regarding ‘The physical health and premature mortality of Indigenous Māori following first-episode psychosis diagnosis: A 15-year follow-up study’22
Novel youth mental health services in Australia: What differences are being reported about the clinical needs of those who attend and the outcomes achieved?21
Anti-dementia medication use in Aotearoa New Zealand: An exploratory study using health data from the Integrated Data Infrastructure (IDI)21
The evidence is in: Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation is an effective, safe and well-tolerated treatment for patients with major depressive disorder21
Growing the lived experience voice in psychiatry education and research: An academic department’s journey20
Letter to the Editor regarding ‘Renewal of academic psychiatry without addressing gender equity will render it Jurassic rather than endangered’20
Dynamic modelling of the impact of community-based acute mental health services for children and adolescents20
Adult attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder: How can we put the cart behind the horse?20
Author reply to Letter to the Editor regarding ‘Defending and demonstrating the psychodynamic orientation in psychiatry’19
Characterising DSCATT: A case series of Australian patients with debilitating symptom complexes attributed to ticks19
Whose values are represented in value-based healthcare?19
Distinguishing apathy and depression in dementia: A longitudinal study18
Use of psychotropic medications in adults with intellectual disability: A systematic review and meta-analysis17
What do clinicians think about psychedelic-assisted therapy? An Australian perspective17
Self-reported prevalence of long-term mental health conditions highest in the oldest old: Data from the 2021 Australian Census17
Trends in calls to a state poisons centre and presentation to emergency departments for intentional antidepressant overdose in Victoria, Australia15
Research Letter: Cumulative incidence of psychotropic drug prescriptions among children and adolescents in an Australian population cohort15
Abuses in psychiatric care: The shameful story of the Lake Alice Child and Adolescent unit in Aotearoa New Zealand15
Bridging the gap: Can single session interventions help enhance mental health treatment delivery for young people in Australia?15
A call to action for the improved identification, diagnosis, treatment and care of people with young onset dementia14
Correlates of anxiety and depression in a community cohort of people who smoke methamphetamine14
Using the Patient Health Questionnaire to estimate prevalence and gender differences of somatic symptoms and psychological co-morbidity in a secondary inpatient population with abdominal pain14
The evidence for the use of long-term benzodiazepines in the setting of treatment-refractory anxiety disorders14
Letter to the Editor regarding ‘Heart rate variability in patients with dementia or neurocognitive disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis’14
Theory of mind and stereotypic behavior promote daily functioning in patients with schizophrenia14
Prevalence of psychiatric conditions in people with intellectual disability: A record linkage study in New South Wales, Australia13
Clinical recommendations for the care of people with treatment-refractory obsessive-compulsive disorder when undergoing deep brain stimulation13
Indigenous suicide rates in the United States, Australia and New Zealand between 2006 and 201913
Against the use of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children aged 2–15 years13
Positive mental health framework of transdiagnostic protective factors in elucidating the association between adverse childhood experiences and severe mental disorders13
Perinatal depression: The use of the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale to derive clinical subtypes12
Suicide and suicidality in Australian Defence Force veterans: A systematic scoping review12
Police, ambulance and psychiatric co-response versus usual care for mental health and suicide emergency callouts: A quasi-experimental study12
Mental state of demoralisation across diverse clinical settings: A systematic review, meta-analysis and proposal for its use as a ‘specifier’ in mental illness11
Call to revise the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists’ clinical memorandum on deep brain stimulation for obsessive-compulsive disorder11
The prevalence of self-reported mental illness among those imprisoned in New South Wales across three health surveys, from 2001 to 201511
Health service and medication costs associated with common mental disorders and subthreshold symptoms in women: Findings from the Geelong Osteoporosis Study in Australia11
Treatment guesses in the Treatment for Adolescents with Depression Study: Accuracy, unblinding and influence on outcomes11
Ensuring the affordable becomes accessible–lessons from ketamine, a new treatment for severe depression10
Using data linkage for mental health research in Australia10
Electroconvulsive therapy in a tertiary Australian mental health facility between 2009 and 202010
Determining the future role of clinical practice guidelines: The experience of Australia and New Zealand10
Clinical risk prediction for bipolar disorder: If, when and how?10
The comparative mental health of Australian doctors before and during COVID-19: A population-based approach10
RANZCP Abstracts10
Exploring the use of electroconvulsive therapy in the anticoagulated population: A systematic review10
Incidence of and risk factors for alcohol dependence in bipolar disorder: A population-based cohort and nested case–control study10
Association between amyloid-beta deposition and cortical thickness in dementia with Lewy bodies9
Research Letter: Unveiling the boundaries: Analysing advertising breaches in the promotion of medicinal cannabis in Australia9
Vitamin D status in pregnancy and childhood associates with intelligence quotient at age 7 years: An Odense child cohort study9
The making of child and adolescent psychiatrists in Australia and New Zealand9
Body dysmorphic disorder and the ugly truth of Australian healthcare9
Clinicians’ views on cognitive assessment with Aboriginal Australians9
Understanding and addressing racism in clinical encounters9
Comorbid substance use in psychosis: Someone else’s problem?9
Characteristics of deaths related to lithium toxicity in Australia, 2000–20249
Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists professional practice guidelines for the use of ketamine in psychiatric practice9
Expanded access to publicly subsidised lisdexamfetamine treatment for adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: An interrupted time-series analysis9
Why didn’t the TGA consult with Australian researchers and clinicians with experience in psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy for treatment-resistant major depressive disorder?8
Building a National Clinical Trials Network in child and youth mental health: Growing Minds Australia8
Letter to the editor: Serious concerns about ‘Concerns over the process and outcomes of the review by the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists into long-term psychodynamic psychot8
Reviving academic psychiatry in Australia and New Zealand8
Secondary mental health service utilisation following emergency department contact for suicidal behaviour: A systematic review8
Development of best practice guidelines for clinical and community service providers to prevent suicide in LGBTQA+ young people: A Delphi expert consensus study8
Compulsory Community Treatment Orders and health outcomes for Māori in New Zealand8
Letters to the Editor: Letter to the Editor regarding ‘Is the narrative the message? The relationship between suicide-related narratives in media reports and subsequent suicides’8
Australian guidelines for the prevention and treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder: Updates in the third edition8
Thanks to Reviewers8
Cui bono? Is Australia taking a step to managed healthcare as in the United States?8
Research Letter: Perceived rather than actual reduction in standard of living is associated with psychological distress: A cross-sectional survey of working Australians8
A biomarker and endophenotype for anorexia nervosa?8
Electroconvulsive therapy during COVID-19: A case report of a new treatment protocol for older adults on maintenance treatment7
Avoiding pitfalls in the treatment of delirium7
Voluntary assisted dying: The expanded role of psychiatrists in Australia and New Zealand7
The psychosocial impacts of the 15 March terrorist attack on the Christchurch Muslim community: A descriptive, cross-sectional assessment7
Letter to the Editor: Letter to the Editor regarding ‘Do compulsory mental health patients have a right to receive a second psychiatric opinion on their treatment under Australian mental health legisl7
Psychiatric service delivery for older people in hospital and residential aged care: An updated systematic review7
Research Letter: What do Australian consumers with lived experience of bipolar disorder want from early intervention services?7
Letters to the Editor: Letter to the Editor regarding ‘A challenge to the dopamine orthodoxy in schizophrenia?’7
Implementation of a ketamine programme for treatment-resistant depression in the public health system: Lessons from the first Australian public hospital clinic7
Neurocognitive function of patients with melancholic and non-melancholic major depressive episodes: An exploratory study7
Research Letter: Could ChatGPT and Bard provide helpful responses to a person seeking advice on how to support someone with a mental health problem?7
Author Index7
Associations between mortality and exposure to psychotropic medication: A population-based cohort study for depressive disorders7
Perinatal outcomes of Aboriginal women with mental health disorders7
Changes in antidepressant use in Australia: A nationwide analysis (2015–2021)7
Palliative psychiatry in a narrow and in a broad sense: A concept clarification7
Alternative metrics for characterizing longer-term clinical outcomes in difficult-to-treat depression: II. Sensitivity to treatment effects6
On- and off-label utilisation of antipsychotics in Australia (2000–2021): Retrospective analysis of two medication datasets6
Parent and child mental health trajectories April 2020 to May 2021: Strict lockdown versus no lockdown in Australia6
Proximity of alcohol outlets and presentation to hospital by young people after self-harm: A retrospective geospatial study using the integrated data infrastructure6
Bilateral symmetrical dystonia secondary to aripiprazole6
Substance use disorder screening and brief intervention in routine clinical practice in specialist adult mental health services: A systematic review6
Setting the top 10 eating disorder research and translation priorities for Australia6
Suicide among health professionals in Australia: A retrospective mortality study of trends over the last two decades6
Transforming mental health facilities: Current trends and considerations6
Development of a research capacity and culture tool for people with lived experience of mental health challenges6
RANZCP 2025: Book of Abstracts6
Bipolar eyes: Windows to the pole?6
The clinical and functional outcomes of a large naturalistic cohort of young people accessing national early psychosis services6
Suicide mortality after a nonfatal suicide attempt: A systematic review and meta-analysis6
Improving metabolic risk in patients with mental illness through ‘mental health care plans’ in primary health care6
Galvanizing research ‘Down Under’ to resist pressure from above6
RANZCP 2024 CONGRESS: Book of Abstracts6
Suicides in Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people following hospital admission for suicidal ideation and self-harm: A retrospective cohort data linkage study from the Northern Territory6
Disrupted daily routines mediate the socioeconomic gradient of depression amid public health crises: A repeated cross-sectional study6
Online Mental Health Assessment in a psychiatry emergency department in adults using touchscreen mobile devices: A randomised controlled trial6
What works for whom when treating major depression with psychotherapy?6
Polypharmacy in psychiatry: Evidence-based medicine or a Sisyphean solution?6
Data from four consecutive cohorts of students in Australia (2019–2022) show the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on domestic and international university students’ mental health6
Letter to the Editor: Letter to the Editor regarding ‘Abuses in psychiatric care: The shameful story of the Lake Alice Child and Adolescent unit in Aotearoa New Zealand’6
The evolution of charcoal-burning suicide: A systematic scoping review5
Where next for cognitive remediation in Australasian mental health care?5
Have you been paying attention? Adult-onset attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder5
Underestimating the complexity of managing mood disorders in pregnancy: Commentary on the 2020 RANZCP Clinical Practice Guidelines for mood disorders5
Associations of maternal perinatal depressive disorders with autism spectrum disorder in offspring: Findings from a data-linkage cohort study5
A comparison of experiences of care and expressed emotion among caregivers of young people with first-episode psychosis or borderline personality disorder features5
Speech processing in voice-hearers: Bridging the gap between empirical research and clinical implications5
A systematic scoping review of dissociation in borderline personality disorder and implications for research and clinical practice: Exploring the fog5
How many Early Career Psychiatrists participate in research and what are the motivating factors?5
MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for post-traumatic stress disorder: The devil is in the detail5
Matching needs to services: Development of a service needs index for determining care pathways in youth mental health5
Patterns of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder medicine use in the era of new non-stimulant medicines: A population-based study among Australian children and adults (2013–2020)5
Smoke and mirrors: Support from psychiatrists for nicotine e-cigarette availability in Australia5
Is the narrative the message? The relationship between suicide-related narratives in media reports and subsequent suicides5
Psychological distress among Australian workers accessing the COVID-19 Superannuation Early Access Scheme5
A challenge to the dopamine orthodoxy in schizophrenia?5
Mental health–related service and medicine use among a cohort of urban Aboriginal children and young people: Data linkage study5
Trends of perinatal mental health referrals and psychiatric admissions in Queensland5
Can we raise the bar?5
Mental ill-health and substance use among sexuality diverse adolescents: The critical role of school climate and teacher self-efficacy5
Nonsuicidal self-injury in a cross-sectional community survey of New Zealand adults: Associations with demographic and psychological characteristics5
Plasma neurofilament light in behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia compared to mood and psychotic disorders5
Systematic review and meta-analysis of the placebo effect in panic disorder: Implications for research and clinical practice5
Patterns of health service use for children with mental disorders in an Australian state population cohort5
Fair funding for mental health research5
Use of advance directives to promote supported decision-making in mental health care: Implications of international trends for reform in New Zealand5
A mental health research crisis in Australia5
Prevalence of suicidal and self-harm ideation in fathers during the perinatal and early parenting period: A systematic review and meta-analysis5
Vitamin D status in pregnancy and cord blood is associated with symptoms of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder at age 5 years: Results from Odense Child Cohort5
Letter to the Editor regarding ‘Defending and demonstrating the psychodynamic orientation in psychiatry’5
Machine learning prediction will be part of future treatment of depression5
Addressing body dysmorphic disorder through mindfulness: A new therapeutic frontier5
Serving our community, reaching out to our region4
Cerebrospinal fluid Alzheimer disease biomarkers for assessing cognitive and neuropsychiatric symptoms: Expanding the ‘toolkit’ in the psychiatrist’s diagnostic armamentarium4
Research Letter: Dispensing of psychotropic medications in Australia between 2013 and 20224
Understanding and detecting behaviours prior to a suicide attempt: A mixed-methods study4
Predictors of suicidal ideation severity among treatment-seeking young people with major depressive disorder: The role of state and trait anxiety4
“Finding hope in the lived experience of psychosis: Reflections on trauma, use of power and re-visioning psychiatry”: Book review4
Why talking about loneliness matters to the mental health of consumers and to the work of the psychiatrist4
Whakairo: A values-led approach to psychiatric epidemiology4
Cumulative incidence of adolescent mental disorders following childhood maltreatment: An Australian longitudinal population cohort study4
Trends in prescription of psychotropic medications to children and adolescents in Australian primary care from 2011 to 20184
Understanding subjective experience in psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy: The need for phenomenology4
Suicide crises among women and mothers during and around the time of pregnancy: Prevalence and timing of initial contact with first responders and health services4
Management of cardiovascular disease risk in people with comorbid mental illness: A cross sectional study in Australian general practice4
Major depression as a predictor of the intergenerational transmission of attachment security: Findings from a pregnancy cohort study4
Author Index4
Co-occurring psychological distress and alcohol or other drug use among Indigenous Australians: Data from the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Survey4
Commando care for individuals living with severe mental illness: Equally Well goes beyond metabolic health alone4
Return from the precipice: New Zealand’s rapid prison population decrease and its implications4
Country and community vs poverty and conflict: Teasing apart the key demographic and psychosocial resilience and risk factors for Indigenous clinic-referred children and adolescents4
Correlates of suicidality in young people with depressive disorders: A systematic review4
Letter to the editor regarding “Understanding subjective experience in psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy: The need for phenomenology”4
Antidepressant utilization patterns and predictors of treatment continuation in pregnant women: A 16-year population-based cohort4
Vocational functioning in young people accessing services for first-episode psychosis and ultra-high risk of psychosis: A longitudinal naturalistic cohort study4
Predictors of individual mental health and psychological resilience after Australia’s 2019–2020 bushfires4
The epidemiology of mental and substance use disorders in Australia 2020–22: Prevalence, socio-demographic correlates, severity, impairment and changes over time4
Psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy, patient vulnerability and abuses of power4
Letter to the Editor: Letter to the Editor regarding ‘Early impacts of the “National Suicide Prevention Trial” on trends in suicide and hospital admissions for self-harm in Australia’4
The temporal relationship between mental health service use and stalking perpetration4
Genomics-driven screening for causal determinants of suicide attempt4
The Kessler Psychological Distress Scale in Australian adolescents: Analysis of the second Australian Child and Adolescent Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing4
Associations of suicide-related media reporting characteristics with help-seeking and suicide in Oregon and Washington4
Psychotogenic potential of prescribed drugs3
You can’t have one without the other: The case for integrated perinatal and infant mental health services3
Prolonged grief disorder in ICD-11 and DSM-5-TR: Challenges and controversies3
A non-randomised controlled trial of a community-based accommodation and psychosocial support programme for adults experiencing mental illness and homelessness3
John Cade’s lithium: A granular look at his achievement3
Association between mental health workforce supply and clusters of high and low rates of youth suicide: An Australian study using suicide mortality data from 2016 to 20203
The association between alcohol use disorder and suicidal ideation in a New Zealand birth cohort3
Lived experience and the work we do3
Truth-telling about suicide: Empowering Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to engage with the media3
Regional evolution of psychosocial services in Australia before and after the implementation of the National Disability Insurance Scheme3
Incidence and risk profiles for pneumonia in patients with schizophrenia receiving home-care case management intervention in Taiwan3
Tau in dementia with Lewy bodies3
Mental health symptoms in children and adolescents during COVID-19 in Australia3
Rates of homicide and homicide associated with severe mental illness in NSW between 1993 and 20163
Trauma exposure, post-traumatic stress disorder and alcohol and other drug use among Australian public safety personnel3
Age at diagnosis and diagnostic delay across attention-deficit hyperactivity and autism spectrums3
Health-related quality of life in children, adolescents and young adults with self-harm or suicidality: A systematic review3
Risk prevalence, readiness and confidence to change lifestyle risk factors among clients of community mental health services3
Not heading in the right direction: Five hundred psychiatrists’ views on resourcing, demand, and workforce across New Zealand mental health services3
Physical multimorbidity and mental illness: A global challenge3
Key demographic and mental disorder diagnostic differences between Australian First Nations and non-First Nations clinic-referred children and adolescents assessed in a culturally appropriate and safe3
Letter to the Editor regarding ‘Have you been paying attention? Adult-onset attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder’3
Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists professional practice guidelines for the administration of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation3
Deep brain stimulation for treatment-refractory obsessive-compulsive disorder should be an accepted therapy in Australia3
Response to Myles et al.: Changing the policy narrative on psychiatric inpatient care3
OPCAT: How an international treaty regarding torture is relevant to the Australian mental health system3
COVID 19 unveils tramadol dependence3
Letter to the Editor: Author reply to Letter to the Editor regarding ‘The physical health and premature mortality of Indigenous Māori following first-episode psychosis diagnosis: A 15-year follow-up s3
Interpersonal stress mediates the relationship between childhood trauma and depressive symptoms: Findings from two culturally different samples3
Biomarkers of neuroprogression and late staging in bipolar disorder: A systematic review3
Combinatorial panel with endophenotypes from multilevel information of diffusion tensor imaging and lipid profile as predictors for depression3
Factors associated with electroconvulsive therapy treatment for adults with serious psychiatric conditions in Australia3
Natural recovery in trichotillomania3
Glutamatergic neurotransmission in schizophrenia: A systematic review and quantitative synthesis of proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy studies across schizophrenia spectrum disorders3
First Nations Peoples in the forensic mental health system in New South Wales: Characteristics and rates of criminal charges post-release3
‘E koekoe te Tūī, e ketekete te Kākā, e kuku te Kererū, The Tūī chatters, the Kākā cackles, and the Kererū coos’: Insights into explanatory factors, treatment experiences and recovery for Māori with e3
Aftermath of anti-police protests in Nigeria: Burden and predictors of psychiatric morbidity among protesters and non-protesters3
Letter to the Editor regarding ‘What happened to the predicted COVID-19-induced suicide epidemic, and why?’3
Awareness of illness moderates self-assessment of psychotic symptoms3
How has private psychiatry in Australia responded to the COVID-19 pandemic?3
The neglected gift of conceptual depth3
Corrigendum to: Stevens, M. W. R., Dorstyn, D., Delfabbro, P. H., & King, D. L. (2021). Global prevalence of gaming disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Australian and N3
Multiple lifestyle risk behaviours and hierarchical dimensions of psychopathology in 6640 Australian adolescents2
A critique of International Classification of Diseases 11th Revision criteria for the mood disorders2
Meta-analysis of risk factors for suicide after psychiatric discharge and meta-regression of the duration of follow-up2
Characteristics of people on community treatment orders in Australia: Data from the 2010 National Survey of High Impact Psychosis2
Principles for delivering improved care of people with functional seizures: Closing the treatment gap2
Societal factors and psychological distress indicators associated with the recent rise in youth suicide in Taiwan: A time trend analysis2
Impact, integrity and editorial independence2
Mental health systems modelling for evidence-informed service reform in Australia2
0.08350396156311