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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
The cost of editorial independence, and the free speech it supports, is eternal vigilance97
Childhood cumulative trauma, social support and stress as predictors of illness outcomes and quality of life in bipolar disorder73
Research Letter: Effect of antivirals for COVID-19 on the mortality of older adults dispensed treatment with lithium, antipsychotics, antidepressants, anxiolytics and hypnotics56
Thanks to Reviewers44
Australia’s unethical deportation practice discriminates against New Zealanders with mental illness: ‘Everybody needs good neighbours!’40
Development of a perinatal trauma screening tool: Detecting the silent struggle of perinatal post-traumatic stress disorder34
Letter to the Editor regarding ‘Lithium plus antipsychotics or anticonvulsants for bipolar disorder: Comparing clinical response and metabolic changes’32
The value of screening tools in assessing living kidney donors for psychosocial risk factors: A literature review and case series31
People with borderline personality disorder experiences of mental health services in an Australian context: Associated anxiety and structural stigma29
Emerging psychiatric treatments, barriers to care and public health challenges27
Prescribing electroconvulsive therapy for depression: Not as simple as it used to be26
Experiences of physical healthcare services in Māori and non-Māori with mental health and substance use conditions24
Use of suicide prevention helpline services by first-time, frequent, and daily callers: A national cohort study24
Bushfire and adolescent mental health: A systematic review24
Research Letters: High-definition transcranial direct current stimulation of the inferior parietal lobe in anorexia nervosa: A proof-of-concept randomised controlled trial23
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 Australia23
Comorbid attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and bipolar disorder22
Breaching the family walls: Modelling the impact of prolonged visa insecurity on asylum-seeking children22
A first-hand account of receiving repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation21
Letter to the Editor regarding: ‘Smoke and mirrors: Support from psychiatrists for nicotine e-cigarette availability in Australia’21
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 serv20
Art therapy with children and adolescents experiencing acute or severe mental health conditions: A systematic review20
Exploring the association of Indigeneity, social adversity status and externalizing symptoms in children and adolescents20
Implications of psychiatric diagnosis for Voluntary Assisted Dying in Victoria20
Anti-dementia medication use in Aotearoa New Zealand: An exploratory study using health data from the Integrated Data Infrastructure (IDI)19
Use of psychotropic medications in adults with intellectual disability: A systematic review and meta-analysis19
Mind the gap: Prioritising cognition in the care of people with schizophrenia and other psychosis18
Psychiatric diagnoses prior to the first onset of non-affective and affective psychoses18
Self-reported prevalence of long-term mental health conditions highest in the oldest old: Data from the 2021 Australian Census18
From early intervention to equity18
Dynamic modelling of the impact of community-based acute mental health services for children and adolescents17
Author reply to Letter to the Editor regarding ‘Defending and demonstrating the psychodynamic orientation in psychiatry’17
Using data in psychiatry: From measurement to meaning16
Letter to the Editor regarding ‘Renewal of academic psychiatry without addressing gender equity will render it Jurassic rather than endangered’15
Initial physical health assessment for psychosis in Australia and New Zealand: 2026 recommendations15
Growing the lived experience voice in psychiatry education and research: An academic department’s journey15
Research Letters: What do clinicians think about psychedelic-assisted therapy? An Australian perspective15
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’15
Using machine learning-based Natural Language Processing to quantify emergency department presentations related to suicide or self-harm in the Australian Capital Territory15
Perinatal depression: The use of the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale to derive clinical subtypes14
Letter to the Editor regarding ‘Heart rate variability in patients with dementia or neurocognitive disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis’14
Distinguishing apathy and depression in dementia: A longitudinal study14
Research Letter: Cumulative incidence of psychotropic drug prescriptions among children and adolescents in an Australian population cohort14
Novel youth mental health services in Australia: What differences are being reported about the clinical needs of those who attend and the outcomes achieved?14
The impact of the suicide of ‘Parasite’ actor Lee Sun Kyun on suicide rates in South Korea: A time-series analysis14
Indigenous suicide rates in the United States, Australia and New Zealand between 2006 and 201914
Abuses in psychiatric care: The shameful story of the Lake Alice Child and Adolescent unit in Aotearoa New Zealand14
Bridging the gap: Can single session interventions help enhance mental health treatment delivery for young people in Australia?14
Adult attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder: How can we put the cart behind the horse?14
Against the use of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children aged 2–15 years13
The Multisensory Hallucinations Schedule to assess hallucinations across multiple sensory modalities in psychosis: A pilot validation study13
Should voluntary assisted dying be available to people with mental illness? The example of Canada13
Prevalence of psychiatric conditions in people with intellectual disability: A record linkage study in New South Wales, Australia13
Optimising brain health: Getting ambitious about prevention from midlife13
Suicide and suicidality in Australian Defence Force veterans: A systematic scoping review13
Management of clozapine-resistant schizophrenia13
RANZCP Abstracts13
Accessibility and responsiveness of Better Access treatment services: Insights from the use of linked administrative data in the evaluation of Better Access12
Determining the future role of clinical practice guidelines: The experience of Australia and New Zealand12
Call to revise the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists’ clinical memorandum on deep brain stimulation for obsessive-compulsive disorder12
Exploring the use of electroconvulsive therapy in the anticoagulated population: A systematic review12
Clinical risk prediction for bipolar disorder: If, when and how?12
Using data linkage for mental health research in Australia12
Health service and medication costs associated with common mental disorders and subthreshold symptoms in women: Findings from the Geelong Osteoporosis Study in Australia11
Ensuring the affordable becomes accessible–lessons from ketamine, a new treatment for severe depression11
Characteristics of deaths related to lithium toxicity in Australia, 2000–202411
Electroconvulsive therapy in a tertiary Australian mental health facility between 2009 and 202011
Clinicians’ views on cognitive assessment with Aboriginal Australians11
Screen time and young people: A systematic review and meta-analysis of the evidence on self-harm and suicidality11
Vitamin D status in pregnancy and childhood associates with intelligence quotient at age 7 years: An Odense child cohort study11
Treatment guesses in the Treatment for Adolescents with Depression Study: Accuracy, unblinding and influence on outcomes11
Understanding and addressing racism in clinical encounters11
Why didn’t the TGA consult with Australian researchers and clinicians with experience in psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy for treatment-resistant major depressive disorder?10
Body dysmorphic disorder and the ugly truth of Australian healthcare10
Diagnostic complexity and comorbidity: Implications for identification, outcomes, health care and involuntary treatment10
Compulsory Community Treatment Orders and health outcomes for Māori in New Zealand10
Moving towards more person-centred, culturally safe and evidence-informed care10
Cardiometabolic monitoring in children and adolescents prescribed antipsychotics in Australian primary care, 2011 to 201710
Research Letter: Unveiling the boundaries: Analysing advertising breaches in the promotion of medicinal cannabis in Australia10
Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists professional practice guidelines for the use of ketamine in psychiatric practice10
Expanded access to publicly subsidised lisdexamfetamine treatment for adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: An interrupted time-series analysis10
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 psychot10
Addressing the unmet needs of bipolar disorder in Australia and beyond10
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’9
Letter to the Editor regarding ‘Middle childhood profiles of social-emotional competencies and difficulties differentiate risk of health service presentations with adolescent mental disorders’9
Research Letter: Perceived rather than actual reduction in standard of living is associated with psychological distress: A cross-sectional survey of working Australians9
Developing policy and regulation for the safer use of artificial intelligence technologies for mental health in Australia9
Thanks to Reviewers9
Secondary mental health service utilisation following emergency department contact for suicidal behaviour: A systematic review9
Cardiometabolic screening, elevated results and clinical follow-up actions in Ma-ori and non-Ma-ori with psychosis in Canterbury, Aotearoa New Zealand9
Psychiatry across the lifespan: From early risk to advanced age9
Examining the effectiveness of the Better Access initiative using data from real-world practice settings9
Through the looking glass: Resetting the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatry’s approach to gender equity9
Development of best practice guidelines for clinical and community service providers to prevent suicide in LGBTQA+ young people: A Delphi expert consensus study9
Author reply to Letter to the Editor regarding ‘Middle childhood profiles of social-emotional competencies and difficulties differentiate risk of health service presentations with adolescent mental di9
Evolving approaches to mood disorders9
Research Letter: What do Australian consumers with lived experience of bipolar disorder want from early intervention services?9
RANZCP 2025: Book of Abstracts8
Neurocognitive function of patients with melancholic and non-melancholic major depressive episodes: An exploratory study8
Associations between mortality and exposure to psychotropic medication: A population-based cohort study for depressive disorders8
Letter to the Editor regarding ‘Exposures to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder medications reported to the New South Wales Poisons Information Centre (2014–2023): A retrospective study’8
Viewpoint: Evidence and practice in Indigenous mental health8
Research Letter: Could ChatGPT and Bard provide helpful responses to a person seeking advice on how to support someone with a mental health problem?8
Exploring the measurement validity of the Your Experience of Service survey8
Perinatal outcomes of Aboriginal women with mental health disorders8
Psychiatric service delivery for older people in hospital and residential aged care: An updated systematic review8
Youth mental health and suicidality in Australia: Developmental pathways and barriers to care8
Polypharmacy in psychiatry: Evidence-based medicine or a Sisyphean solution?8
Proximity of alcohol outlets and presentation to hospital by young people after self-harm: A retrospective geospatial study using the integrated data infrastructure8
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 legisl8
The psychosocial impacts of the 15 March terrorist attack on the Christchurch Muslim community: A descriptive, cross-sectional assessment8
Letters to the Editor: Letter to the Editor regarding ‘A challenge to the dopamine orthodoxy in schizophrenia?’8
Letter to the Editor regarding ‘Artificial intelligence and academic publishing in psychiatry’8
Implementation of a ketamine programme for treatment-resistant depression in the public health system: Lessons from the first Australian public hospital clinic8
Development of a research capacity and culture tool for people with lived experience of mental health challenges7
Improving metabolic risk in patients with mental illness through ‘mental health care plans’ in primary health care7
Doubtful medical cannabis prescribing practices identified from 55 medical cannabis websites7
The development of a cultural validity assessment tool for First Nations people7
RANZCP 2024 CONGRESS: Book of Abstracts7
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’7
MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for post-traumatic stress disorder: The devil is in the detail7
Setting the top 10 eating disorder research and translation priorities for Australia7
On- and off-label utilisation of antipsychotics in Australia (2000–2021): Retrospective analysis of two medication datasets7
Access to mental health under Medicare has stalled – What now?7
Letter to the Editor regarding ‘The future of psychiatry: Reclaiming relevance in an era of technological and systemic transformation’7
Alternative metrics for characterizing longer-term clinical outcomes in difficult-to-treat depression: II. Sensitivity to treatment effects7
Machine learning prediction will be part of future treatment of depression7
Substance use disorder screening and brief intervention in routine clinical practice in specialist adult mental health services: A systematic review7
Bipolar eyes: Windows to the pole?7
Online Mental Health Assessment in a psychiatry emergency department in adults using touchscreen mobile devices: A randomised controlled trial7
Psychiatrists’ role in disaster situations: A narrative review of empirical evidence7
Galvanizing research ‘Down Under’ to resist pressure from above7
Suicide among health professionals in Australia: A retrospective mortality study of trends over the last two decades7
Palliative psychiatry in a narrow and in a broad sense: A concept clarification7
Mental health–related service and medicine use among a cohort of urban Aboriginal children and young people: Data linkage study6
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
Transforming mental health facilities: Current trends and considerations6
Shame and trauma are critical to understanding the impacts of psychosis: Examining clinical correlates within a tertiary psychosis service cohort6
Patterns of health service use for children with mental disorders in an Australian state population cohort6
Associations of maternal perinatal depressive disorders with autism spectrum disorder in offspring: Findings from a data-linkage cohort study6
Prevalence of suicidal and self-harm ideation in fathers during the perinatal and early parenting period: A systematic review and meta-analysis6
Can we raise the bar?6
The evolution of charcoal-burning suicide: A systematic scoping review6
Mental ill-health and substance use among sexuality diverse adolescents: The critical role of school climate and teacher self-efficacy6
Matching needs to services: Development of a service needs index for determining care pathways in youth mental health6
Psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy, patient vulnerability and abuses of power6
Effectiveness of specialist-delivered interventions in severe mental illness: A systematic review and meta-analysis6
Nonsuicidal self-injury in a cross-sectional community survey of New Zealand adults: Associations with demographic and psychological characteristics6
Addressing body dysmorphic disorder through mindfulness: A new therapeutic frontier6
Letter to the Editor regarding ‘Defending and demonstrating the psychodynamic orientation in psychiatry’6
Corrigendum to: “Psilocybin in the real world: Regulatory, ethical, and operational challenges in Australia’s clinical landscape”6
Involuntary treatment for substance use disorders in Victoria – An audit of people treated under the Severe Substance Dependence Treatment Act from 2011 to 20236
Predictors of individual mental health and psychological resilience after Australia’s 2019–2020 bushfires6
Plasma neurofilament light in behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia compared to mood and psychotic disorders6
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 Cohort6
Smoke and mirrors: Support from psychiatrists for nicotine e-cigarette availability in Australia5
Defining and measuring psychosocial disability in Australia: Assessment of national surveys and administrative datasets5
Research Letter: Dispensing of psychotropic medications in Australia between 2013 and 20225
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
Commando care for individuals living with severe mental illness: Equally Well goes beyond metabolic health alone5
Predictors of mental illness onset in adolescents and adults with intellectual disability: A retrospective cohort study in New South Wales, Australia5
Determinants and comorbidities: Studying the context of psychiatric symptoms5
Is the narrative the message? The relationship between suicide-related narratives in media reports and subsequent suicides5
Addressing exclusionary epidemiology in psychosis population prevalence studies5
Author Index5
Patterns of psychotropic medication use among young people living in out-of-home care: A scoping review and meta-analysis of international literature5
Predictors of suicidal ideation severity among treatment-seeking young people with major depressive disorder: The role of state and trait anxiety5
Have you been paying attention? Adult-onset attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder5
Fair funding for mental health research5
Could the Bondi Junction tragedy have been prevented? Lessons for forensic-informed community care5
Persistence of antidepressant treatment in children and adolescents: A population-based cohort study5
Understanding subjective experience in psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy: The need for phenomenology5
Vocational functioning in young people accessing services for first-episode psychosis and ultra-high risk of psychosis: A longitudinal naturalistic cohort study5
Why talking about loneliness matters to the mental health of consumers and to the work of the psychiatrist5
Reported exposure to news portrayals about mental health problems and their impact: Findings from the 2025 National Survey of Stigma and Discrimination5
Where next for cognitive remediation in Australasian mental health care?5
Author reply to the Letter to the Editor regarding ‘Precision medicine approaches to mental health’5
A challenge to the dopamine orthodoxy in schizophrenia?5
Risk prevalence, readiness and confidence to change lifestyle risk factors among clients of community mental health services4
Letter to the editor regarding “Understanding subjective experience in psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy: The need for phenomenology”4
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
Psychotropic pharmacogenetics in adult populations: From basic science to clinical trials and health economics – An evidence-based overview for decision makers4
CORRIGENDUM to “Assessing the prevalence of cognitive impairment among Australians with schizophrenia: A systematic review”4
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
Health services and digital technologies used for mental health among a national cross-sectional sample of young people in Australia 2020–2022: Patterns and correlates within geographic regions4
Diagnostic complexities of autism and psychosis: A commentary on the ANZJP GRADE guidelines for the management of schizophrenia4
The epidemiology of mental and substance use disorders in Australia 2020–22: Prevalence, socio-demographic correlates, severity, impairment and changes over time4
Associations of suicide-related media reporting characteristics with help-seeking and suicide in Oregon and Washington4
The Kessler Psychological Distress Scale in Australian adolescents: Analysis of the second Australian Child and Adolescent Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing4
Co-occurring psychological distress and alcohol or other drug use among Indigenous Australians: Data from the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Survey4
Assessing the prevalence of cognitive impairment among Australians with schizophrenia: A systematic review4
Management of cardiovascular disease risk in people with comorbid mental illness: A cross sectional study in Australian general practice4
The association between gaming disorder and impulsivity: A systematic review and meta-analysis4
“Finding hope in the lived experience of psychosis: Reflections on trauma, use of power and re-visioning psychiatry”: Book review4
Factors associated with electroconvulsive therapy treatment for adults with serious psychiatric conditions in Australia4
Health-related quality of life in children, adolescents and young adults with self-harm or suicidality: A systematic review4
Not heading in the right direction: Five hundred psychiatrists’ views on resourcing, demand, and workforce across New Zealand mental health services4
Whakairo: A values-led approach to psychiatric epidemiology4
Return on investment from interventions to prevent common mental disorders among adolescents in Australia: A modelling study4
Serving our community, reaching out to our region4
Mental health and substance use conditions among emerging adults in Australia 2020–2022: Prevalence, severity and psychosocial correlates within geographic regions4
Understanding and detecting behaviours prior to a suicide attempt: A mixed-methods study4
Navigating ethnic diversity: Rethinking dementia prevention in Aotearoa New Zealand3
Glutamatergic neurotransmission in schizophrenia: A systematic review and quantitative synthesis of proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy studies across schizophrenia spectrum disorders3
Healthcare utilization for eating disorders in Australia: 10 years of health data linkage3
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
Letter to the Editor regarding ‘Have you been paying attention? Adult-onset attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder’3
Physical multimorbidity and mental illness: A global challenge3
The effectiveness and tolerability of pharmacotherapy for psychosis in 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome: A systematic review3
Supportive actions towards people with mental health problems in the community: A national survey of Australian adults3
Health characteristics and court diversion among adults with psychosis in the New South Wales Local Court: A data-linkage study3
Ketamine in psychiatry: Ethical imperatives in harnessing a controversial yet promising therapy3
OPCAT: How an international treaty regarding torture is relevant to the Australian mental health system3
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. Australi3
Letter to the Editor regarding ‘Homicide associated with psychotic illness: What global temporal trends tell us about the association between mental illness and violence’3
‘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
First Nations Peoples in the forensic mental health system in New South Wales: Characteristics and rates of criminal charges post-release3
Interpersonal stress mediates the relationship between childhood trauma and depressive symptoms: Findings from two culturally different samples3
Mental healthcare use of women who perpetrate intimate partner abuse: A case-linkage study3
Regional evolution of psychosocial services in Australia before and after the implementation of the National Disability Insurance Scheme3
Development of a framework of the skills and attributes needed by mental health professionals to provide optimal clinical care to people experiencing complex psychosis: A Delphi consensus study3
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
Letter to the Editor regarding ‘What happened to the predicted COVID-19-induced suicide epidemic, and why?’3
Longitudinal effects of bushfire harm on adolescent mental health3
Letter to the Editor regarding ‘Oral health care for Australians living with mental ill-health: Unaffordable, inaccessible and invisible’3
Cumulative incidence of adolescent mental disorders following childhood maltreatment: An Australian longitudinal population cohort study3
Tau in dementia with Lewy bodies3
Body dysmorphic symptoms in autism and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder: A comorbidity study3
Letter to the Editor regarding ‘Falling through the cracks in science and clinical service – A call to action for people with OCD’3
Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists professional practice guidelines for the administration of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation3
Lived experience and the work we do3
John Cade’s lithium: A granular look at his achievement3
Ketamine/esketamine in the treatment of depression with comorbid borderline personality disorder or traits: A systematic review of effectiveness3
Psychotogenic potential of prescribed drugs3
Incidence and risk profiles for pneumonia in patients with schizophrenia receiving home-care case management intervention in Taiwan3
Evidence absent, risks high: The critical gap for perinatal eating disorders3
Truth-telling about suicide: Empowering Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to engage with the media3
Age at diagnosis and diagnostic delay across attention-deficit hyperactivity and autism spectrums3
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
Consumers’ experiences with and outcomes from Better Access: Results from a national survey3
Trauma exposure, post-traumatic stress disorder and alcohol and other drug use among Australian public safety personnel3
Letter to the Editor: Author reply to Letter to the Editor regarding ‘What happened to the predicted COVID-19-induced suicide epidemic, and why?’2
Research Letter: E-cigarette use and mental health during early adolescence: An Australian survey among over 5000 young people2
From suicide surveillance to restricting access to means: A time series study of suicide prevention at the Story Bridge2
Towards integrated Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry for older adults in New Zealand2
The feasibility of resistance training versus aerobic exercise in a rehabilitation setting for people living with psychotic disorders: A randomised controlled trial2
Examining Better Access use by Australian adults using data from two longitudinal studies (Ten to Men and the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women’s Health)2
Letter to the Editor: Letter to the Editor regarding ‘A revisionist model for treatment-resistant and difficult-to-treat depression’2
The mental health effects of changing from insecure to secure visas for refugees2
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