OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Comprehensive Psychiatry is 9. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The clinical phenomenology of skin-picking disorder – Are there any obsessive-compulsive components?	136
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder increases cognitive inflexibility in people with coronary artery disease	94
Psychotherapies and digital interventions for OCD in adults: What do we know, what do we need still to explore?	87
Adaption and validation of the Rwandese version of the Mood Disorder Questionnaire for the screening of bipolar disorder	78
An investigation into symptoms of depression and anxiety and emotion regulation among older adolescents from low-income settings in South Africa	64
Premorbid characteristics of patients with DSM-IV psychotic disorders	49
On the use of positive test strategies when diagnosing mental disorders	37
Neurobiology of psychosis and schizophrenia 2022: Nottingham meeting	33
Do attention-deficit/hyperactivity symptoms influence treatment outcome in gambling disorder?	33
Gender bias in antidepressant direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising	30
Screening and prevalence of cardiometabolic risk factors in patients with severe mental illness: A multicenter cross-sectional cohort study in the Netherlands	29
Meta-analysis of cognitive behaviour therapy and selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors for the treatment of hypochondriasis: Implications for trial design	27
Gender and trait rumination moderates the link between trait impulsivity and gambling problems severity in young adults	26
Psychometric evaluation of the Chinese version of social anxiety scale for social media users and cross-sectional investigation into this disorder among college students	25
Assessing the effectiveness of high-definition transcranial direct current stimulation for treating obsessive-compulsive disorder: Results from a randomized, double-blind, controlled trial	25
Mental health of young talented football players in an African context: A cross-sectional observational study	25
Childhood trauma increases vulnerability to attempt suicide in adulthood through avoidant attachment	24
Internet severity and activities addiction questionnaire (ISAAQ): Psychometrics of item response theory and clustering of online activities	24
The neural correlates of guilt highlight preclinical manifestations between bipolar and major depressive disorders	24
Towards understanding and addressing mental health challenges in Africa: An integrated perspective	24
Bimodal effects of sunlight on major depressive disorder	23
Therapeutic drug monitoring of sertraline in children and adolescents: A naturalistic study with insights into the clinical response and treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder	23
Childhood adversity patterns differentially cluster with mental disorders and socioeconomic indicators in a large Swiss community sample	23
Identifying populations at ultra-high risk of suicide using a novel machine learning method	22
The domain-variant indirect association between electrophysiological response to reward and ADHD presentations is moderated by dopaminergic polymorphisms	22

Associations of neurodevelopmental risk factors with psychosis proneness: Findings from a non-clinical sample of young adults	21
Evaluation of the Early Adolescent Skills for Emotions (EASE) intervention in Lebanon: A randomized controlled trial	21
The relationship between anxious-depressive symptoms and harmful cannabis use: Multiple mediation models via rumination, negative urgency, protective behavioral strategies and refusal self-efficacy	21
Evaluation of the psychometric properties of the UBACC questionnaire in a multi-country psychiatric study in Africa	20
Time is the enemy: Negative symptoms are related to even slight differences in the duration of untreated psychosis	20
Pallidum volume as a predictor for the effectiveness of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy and psycho-education in unmedicated patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder	20
Prenatal anticipatory stress: Baby preparation and worry scale-revised in the Dutch context	20
Diligent for better or worse: Conscientiousness is associated with higher likelihood of suicidal behavior and more severe suicidal intent in later life	19
Premorbid temperament as predictor of onset of depression: 23-year follow-up	19
Pixels and perception: Mapping the association between digital media and psychotic-like experiences in adolescents	19
Reliability, validity and psychometric properties of the Greek version of the Altman self rating mania scale	18
Media use before, during and after COVID-19 lockdown according to parents in a clinically referred sample in child and adolescent psychiatry: Results of an online survey in Switzerland	18
Differences in interactional behaviour in postpartum depression with and without pre-existing mental disorder	17
Corrigendum to “Less inhibited and more depressed? The puzzling association between mood, inhibitory control and depressive symptoms” [Comprehensive Psychiatry Volume 124 (2023), 152386]	17
Connected minds in disconnected bodies: Exploring the role of interoceptive sensibility and alexithymia in problematic use of the internet	17
Public awareness and anxiety during COVID-19 epidemic in China: A cross-sectional study	17
Examining the interplay between internet use disorder tendencies and well-being in relation to sofalizing during the COVID-19 pandemic	17
The clinical utility and relevance in clinical practice of DSM-5 specifiers for major depressive disorder: A Delphi expert consensus study	17
Validation of an abbreviated Big Five personality inventory at large population scale: Psychometric structure and associations with common psychiatric and neurological disorders	17
The influence of psychological traits and prior experience on treatment expectations	16
Cognitive behavioural therapy with exposure and response prevention in the treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials	16
What are the mental health impacts of epidemics on relatives of people affected, and relatives of healthcare workers: What interventions are available to support them? A systematic review and narrativ	16
Problematic use of the internet during the COVID-19 pandemic: Good practices and mental health recommendations	15
Advances in problematic usage of the internet research – A narrative review by experts from the European network for problematic usage of the internet	15
The influence of poverty attribution on attitudes toward suicide and suicidal thought: A cross-national comparison between South Korean, Japanese, and American populations	15
The longitudinal structure of negative symptoms in treatment resistant schizophrenia	14
Adequacy of treatment in outpatients with obsessive-compulsive disorder	14
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
Meta-analysis of the comparative efficacy of benzodiazepines and antidepressants for psychic versus somatic symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder	13
Continuum beliefs and the perception of similarities and differences to a person with depression	13
Staging models in eating disorders: A systematic scoping review of the literature	12
The interplay of personality pathology and treatment outcome in psychosomatic psychotherapy: A longitudinal analysis using latent change score modelling	12
Sociocultural and perinatal health factors associated with Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in children	12
A cognitive model of perceptual anomalies: The role of source monitoring, top-down influence and inhibitory processes for hallucinations in schizophrenia spectrum disorders and hallucinatory-like expe	12
Sharing knowledge on implementing mental health and wellbeing projects for veterans and first responders	12
Association between schizophrenia and prostate cancer risk: Results from a pool of cohort studies and Mendelian randomization analysis	12
Trends in the dose-response relationship between adverse childhood experiences and maladaptive metacognitive beliefs: A cross-sectional study	12
Incorporating clinical research into recommendations for addressing global mental health needs: Updating the World Health Organization's Essential Medicines List	11
Insomnia and related factors in patients with pre-existing psychiatric disorders compared to the general population during the COVID-19 lockdown: Findings from the multicentric COMET study	11
Predictors for early and long-term readmission in involuntarily admitted patients	11
Associations between personality traits and suicidal ideation and suicide attempts in patients with personality disorders	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
Nonsuicidal self-injury behaviour in a city of China and its association with family environment, media use and psychopathology	11
Subtypes of major depressive disorders and objectively measured physical activity and sedentary behaviors in the community	11
Corrigendum to “Personalized virtual reality exposure for panic disorder and agoraphobia: A preliminary neurophysiological study” [Comprehensive Psychiatry Volume 129 (2024) 152447]	11
Towards a more comprehensive understanding of PTSD and parenting	11
A critical examination of multidimensionality within the Hypomanic Personality Scale	11
Long-term trajectories of densely reported depressive symptoms during an extended period of the COVID-19 pandemic in Switzerland: Social worries matter	10
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	10
Trait emotional intelligence and quality of life in women with polycystic ovary syndrome: Dysmorphic concerns and general distress as mediators	10

Religious status and addictive behaviors: Exploring patterns of use and psychological proneness	10
Longitudinal joint trajectories of gambling disorder and hypomentalization: A latent class growth analysis among young adults	10
Routine treatment pathways in a cohort of patients with major depression and suicidality in Italy: the ARIANNA observational study	10
Impact on carer burden when stable patients with schizophrenia transitioned from 1-monthly to 3-monthly paliperidone palmitate	10
A meta-analysis of targeted interventions for reducing suicide-related behaviour and ideation in adolescents: Implications for trial design	10
Impulsivity across psychiatric disorders in young adults	9
Adverse childhood experiences and cognition: A cross-sectional study in Xhosa people living with schizophrenia and matched medical controls	9
Problematic internet gaming and non-suicidal self-injury in Chinese adolescents: Moderating and mediating roles of anxiety	9
Sex-differential patterns of neuropsychological functioning in adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder	9
Corrigendum to “Prevention of suicide and reduction of self-harm among people with substance use disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials” [Comprehensive Psychia	9
Multimodal-based machine learning approach to classify features of internet gaming disorder and alcohol use disorder: A sensor-level and source-level resting-state electroencephalography activity and	9
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)	9