OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Psychological Medicine is 40. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
PSM volume 52 issue 15 Cover and Front matter	180
Depressive symptoms in youth before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: longitudinal investigation of patterns dependent on age, sex, and family history of mental illness	133
PSM volume 52 issue 7 Cover and Front matter	119
Fluoxetine for anorexia nervosa after weight restoration: moderation of effect by depression	116
Psychotherapy for adult depression in low- and middle-income countries: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis	111
Guided antipsychotic reduction to reach minimum effective dose (GARMED) in patients with remitted psychosis: a 2-year randomized controlled trial with a naturalistic cohort	108
Domain-specific cognitive function in euthymic bipolar disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis	106
Lifetime suicidal thoughts, attempts, and lethality of attempts as major outcome domains of psychotic disorders: a 21-year prospective cohort study after a first-episode psychosis	77
Post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection: relationship of central nervous system manifestations with physical disability and systemic inflammation	71
Associations between aberrant working memory-related neural activity and cognitive impairments in somatically healthy, remitted patients with mood disorders	68
In Memoriam: Martin Harrow, Ph.D. (1933–2023)	68
Letter to the editor: Gut feelings: associations of emotions and emotion regulation with the gut microbiome in women	66
Neural correlates of referential/persecutory delusions in schizophrenia: examination using fMRI and a virtual reality underground travel paradigm	64
Mental health and service use of parents with and without borderline intellectual functioning	64
Gender and anxiety reveal distinct computational sources of underconfidence	63
Alarm bells or echoes of hope? A new perspective on the global youth mental health crisis – CORRIGENDUM	61
The silent epidemic of loneliness: identifying the antecedents of loneliness using a lagged exposure-wide approach	60
Definition of early age at onset in bipolar disorder according to distinctive neurodevelopmental pathways: insights from the FACE-BD study	59
Impulsive adolescents exhibit inefficient processing and a low decision threshold when decoding facial expressions of emotions	55
Neurophysiological changes associated with vibroacoustically-augmented breath-focused mindfulness for dissociation: targeting interoception and attention	54
A single dose of lamotrigine induces a positive memory bias in healthy volunteers	54
Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy v. treatment as usual in people with bipolar disorder: A multicentre, randomised controlled trial	53
Reduced cerebral cortex thickness is related to overexpression of exosomal miR-146a-5p in medication-free patients with major depressive disorder	50
Difficulties during delivery, brain ventricle enlargement and cognitive impairment in first episode psychosis	50
Predictive models of post-traumatic stress disorder, complex post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, and anxiety in children and adolescents following a single-event trauma	49

Continuation electroconvulsive therapy combined with pharmacotherapy for depression relapse prevention: A systematic review and meta-analysis	49
Prediction of depression treatment outcome from multimodal data: a CAN-BIND-1 report	48
Efficacy of cognitive behavioral therapy in treating repetitive negative thinking, rumination, and worry – a transdiagnostic meta-analysis	47
The positivity offset theory of anhedonia in schizophrenia: evidence for a deficit in daily life using digital phenotyping	47
Ethical decision-making for AI in mental health: the Integrated Ethical Approach for Computational Psychiatry (IEACP) framework	47
Alarm bells or echoes of hope? A new perspective on the global youth mental health crisis	47
Identifying key brain pathology in bipolar and unipolar depression using a region-specific brain aging trajectories approach: Insights from the Taiwan Aging and Mental Illness Cohort	46
Child maltreatment and resilience in adulthood: a systematic review and meta-analysis	45
Cumulative exposure to childhood adversity and risk of adult psychosis: a dose–response meta-analysis	45
Virtual-reality cognitive behavior therapy versus cognitive behavior therapy for paranoid ideation: A pragmatic, single-blind, multicenter randomized clinical superiority trial	45
PSM volume 53 issue 9 Cover and Back matter	44
A feasibility randomized controlled trial of an individually delivered, peer support intervention to reduce the impact of psychosis stigma and discrimination for people with psychosis: the let's talk	43
Reduced dorsal fronto-striatal connectivity at rest in anorexia nervosa	42
Use of antipsychotic medication, benzodiazepines, and psychiatric hospitalization in cannabis-related versus cannabis-unrelated schizophrenia – a nationwide, register-based cohort study	42
Long-term outcomes of once weekly v. twice weekly sessions of cognitive behavioral therapy and interpersonal psychotherapy for depression	41
A temporal network analysis of complex post-traumatic stress disorder and psychosis symptoms	40
Failure to account for psychiatric symptoms: Implications for the replicability and generalizability of psychological science?	40
Dynamic frontoparietal flexibility and cognitive dysfunction in schizophrenia: disentangling the roles of symptom burden and childhood trauma	40
Examining the role of maternal religiosity in offspring mental health using latent class analysis in a UK prospective cohort study	40
Life experiences of humiliation, entrapment, and frontoparietal-cerebellar connectivity predict adolescent anxiety and depression symptoms	40