OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Comprehensive Psychiatry 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Evaluation of the psychometric properties of the UBACC questionnaire in a multi-country psychiatric study in Africa	136
Towards understanding and addressing mental health challenges in Africa: An integrated perspective	112
Therapeutic drug monitoring of sertraline in children and adolescents: A naturalistic study with insights into the clinical response and treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder	85
Diligent for better or worse: Conscientiousness is associated with higher likelihood of suicidal behavior and more severe suicidal intent in later life	80
Schizophrenia genetic risk and labour market outcomes in the Finnish general population: Are schizophrenia-related traits penalised or rewarded?	80
Adaption and validation of the Rwandese version of the Mood Disorder Questionnaire for the screening of bipolar disorder	58
Assessing the effectiveness of high-definition transcranial direct current stimulation for treating obsessive-compulsive disorder: Results from a randomized, double-blind, controlled trial	57
The relationship between anxious-depressive symptoms and harmful cannabis use: Multiple mediation models via rumination, negative urgency, protective behavioral strategies and refusal self-efficacy	41
The longitudinal structure of negative symptoms in treatment resistant schizophrenia	39
On the use of positive test strategies when diagnosing mental disorders	38
Prenatal anticipatory stress: Baby preparation and worry scale-revised in the Dutch context	34
Advances in problematic usage of the internet research – A narrative review by experts from the European network for problematic usage of the internet	32
Pallidum volume as a predictor for the effectiveness of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy and psycho-education in unmedicated patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder	32
Pathways to suicidal ideation for young people engaged in mental health care	30
Virtual reality-based theory of mind intervention in schizophrenia: Preliminary efficacy results	29
Item-level analysis of mental health symptom trajectories during the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK: Associations with age, sex and pre-existing psychiatric conditions	29
Suicidal thoughts and behaviors in adults with hoarding disorder	29
Nonsuicidal self-injury behaviour in a city of China and its association with family environment, media use and psychopathology	28
Depressive symptoms, social support, and health-related quality of life: A community-based study in Shanghai, China	28
Exercise moderates longitudinal group psychopathology networks in individuals with eating disorders	28
Does social defeat cause negative symptoms? A prospective study in a multi-national community sample	27
Associations between metabolic disorders and sleep disturbance in patients with schizophrenia	26
A prospective investigation of impacts of comorbid attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) on clinical features and long-term treatment response in adult patients with obsessive-compulsive dis	26
Characteristics and stability of hallucinations and delusions in patients with borderline personality disorder	26
Commentary on the article: “Maintenance of wellness in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder who discontinue medication after exposure/response prevention augmentation A randomized clinical tria	25

The relationship between cognitive phenotypes of compulsivity and impulsivity and clinical variables in obsessive-compulsive disorder: A systematic review and Meta-analysis	22
Validation of the aberrant salience inventory in a general and clinical Spanish population	22
Personalized virtual reality exposure for panic disorder and agoraphobia: A preliminary neurophysiological study	21
Problematic use of the internet in individuals with psychiatric disorders – A scoping review and meta-analysis	21
The impact of events scale-revised (IES-R): Validation of the Ukrainian version	21
Are circadian rhythms more favorable with lithium than with other mood stabilizers? An exploratory actigraphy study in euthymic bipolar disorder type 1	21
Permissive beliefs in the context of gaming, online shopping and alcohol drinking – Systematic development of a self-report measure	21
Evaluation of whether commonly used risk assessment tools are applicable to women in forensic psychiatric institutions	20
Cardiometabolic screening and monitoring in patients prescribed antipsychotic drugs in primary care: A population-based cohort study	20
Risk of suicidality in mental and neurological disorders in low and middle-income countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis	20
Less inhibited and more depressed? The puzzling association between mood, inhibitory control and depressive symptoms	19
Working memory performance in disordered gambling and gaming: A systematic review	19
Prevalence and factors associated with depression and anxiety among young school-going adolescents in the Western Cape Province of South Africa	19
Assessment of subjective sleep quality and issues in aggression: Intermittent Explosive Disorder compared with psychiatric and healthy controls	19
Validation of the Italian version of the Camouflaging Autistic Traits Questionnaire (CAT-Q) in a University population	18
The LEADING guideline: Reporting standards for expert panel, best-estimate diagnosis, and longitudinal expert all data (LEAD) methods	18
Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (r-TMS) and selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor-resistance in obsessive-compulsive disorder: A meta-analysis and clinical implications	18
Psychometric properties of the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) across cross-cultural subgroups, genders, and sexual orientations: Findings from the International Sex Survey (ISS)	18
The course of borderline personality disorder from adolescence to early adulthood: A 5-year follow-up study	18
Efficacy of a dialogic book-sharing intervention in a South African birth cohort: A randomized controlled trial	17
Lifestyle behaviours and mental health and wellbeing of tertiary students during COVID-19 lockdown in Australia: A cross-sectional study	17
Unveiling the relationship between social anxiety, loneliness, motivations, and problematic smartphone use: A network approach	17
Corrigendum to “The global assessment of OCD” [comprehensive psychiatry, volume 118, October 2022, 152,342 1–17]	17
Identifying factors strongest associated with clinical, societal and personal recovery in people with psychosis with a long duration of illness	17
The relative risks of different forms of sports betting in a U.S. sample: A brief report	16
Views about neuromodulation interventions for depression by stakeholder group, treatment modality, and depression severity	16
Identifying internalizing transdiagnostic profiles through motivational and cognitive control systems: Relations with symptoms, functionality, and quality of life	15
Persistence rate of DSM-5 somatic symptom disorder: 4-year follow-up in patients from a psychosomatic outpatient clinic	15
The double-edged sword of distress tolerance: Exploring the role of distress overtolerance in nonsuicidal self-injury	15
Translation and Validation of the Gaming Disorder Test and Gaming Disorder Scale for Adolescents into Chinese for Taiwanese Young Adults	15
Social media as an incubator of personality and behavioral psychopathology: Symptom and disorder authenticity or psychosomatic social contagion?	15
Mindfulness-based intervention for clinical and subthreshold perinatal depression and anxiety: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trial	14
The clinical utility and relevance in clinical practice of DSM-5 specifiers for major depressive disorder: A Delphi expert consensus study	14
Beyond the surface: Understanding obsessive symptoms and body perceptions, from shape concerns to fear of blushing	14
Gender and trait rumination moderates the link between trait impulsivity and gambling problems severity in young adults	14
Gender differences in prevalence and clinical correlates of anxiety symptoms in first-episode and drug-naïve patients with major depressive disorder	14
Mental health outcomes in frontline healthcare workers in Brazil during the COVID-19 epidemic: Results of an online survey in four regions using respondent-driven sampling (RDS)	14
The influence of psychological traits and prior experience on treatment expectations	13
Premorbid temperament as predictor of onset of depression: 23-year follow-up	13
Internet severity and activities addiction questionnaire (ISAAQ): Psychometrics of item response theory and clustering of online activities	13
Cognitive performance in young adults who endorse a cannabis use disorder	13
An investigation into symptoms of depression and anxiety and emotion regulation among older adolescents from low-income settings in South Africa	13
Gender bias in antidepressant direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising	13
Correlates of risk-taking behaviour and suicidality among humanitarian aid workers	13
Affective dysregulation and sex differences in somatic symptom disorder: A 6-month longitudinal and mediation analysis	13
Identifying populations at ultra-high risk of suicide using a novel machine learning method	13
Childhood trauma increases vulnerability to attempt suicide in adulthood through avoidant attachment	13
Effect of stress on the relationship between relief-seeking and cue-induced alcohol craving and anxiety: A virtual reality cue exposure study	13
The relationship between childhood trauma and insomnia among college students with major depressive disorder: Mediation by the role of negative life events and dysfunctional attitudes	13
Associations between the Personality Inventory for DSM-5 trait facets and aggression among outpatients with personality disorder: A multimethod study	12

Infralow-frequency transcranial magnetic stimulation as a therapy for generalized anxiety disorder: A randomized clinical trial	12
Sex-differential patterns of neuropsychological functioning in adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder	12
Association between schizophrenia and prostate cancer risk: Results from a pool of cohort studies and Mendelian randomization analysis	12
Clinical assessment and treatment of PANS/PANDAS	12
Subtypes of major depressive disorders and objectively measured physical activity and sedentary behaviors in the community	12
Predictors for early and long-term readmission in involuntarily admitted patients	12
The rationale for South Africa to prioritise mental health care as a critical aspect of overall health care	11
A scoping review on serotenergic psychedelics for obsessive compulsive and body image disorders	11
Suicidality in family caregivers of people with long-term illnesses and disabilities: A scoping review	11
Identifying the most important research, policy and practice questions for substance use, problematic alcohol use and behavioural addictions in autism (SABA-A): A priority setting partnership	11
The power of youth: Long-term differential effects of developmental functioning trajectory on social functioning, quality of life and personal recovery across the schizophrenia spectrum	11
A comprehensive measure assessing different types of problematic use of the internet among Chinese adolescents: The Assessment of Criteria for Specific Internet-use Disorders (ACSID-11)	11
Adverse childhood experiences and cognition: A cross-sectional study in Xhosa people living with schizophrenia and matched medical controls	11
Is it acceptable and feasible to measure prolonged grief disorder symptoms in daily life using experience sampling methodology?	11
Subjective and objective assessments of executive functions are independently predictive of aggressive tendencies in patients with substance use disorder	11
Therapists who foster social identification build stronger therapeutic working alliance and have better client outcomes	11