OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Psychological Medicine is 38. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
PSM volume 52 issue 15 Cover and Front matter	134
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	132
PSM volume 52 issue 7 Cover and Front matter	124
Fluoxetine for anorexia nervosa after weight restoration: moderation of effect by depression	110
Psychotherapy for adult depression in low- and middle-income countries: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis	106
Post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection: relationship of central nervous system manifestations with physical disability and systemic inflammation	96
Cumulative exposure to childhood adversity and risk of adult psychosis: a dose–response meta-analysis	95
The positivity offset theory of anhedonia in schizophrenia: evidence for a deficit in daily life using digital phenotyping	74
Predictive models of post-traumatic stress disorder, complex post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, and anxiety in children and adolescents following a single-event trauma	66
Ethical decision-making for AI in mental health: the Integrated Ethical Approach for Computational Psychiatry (IEACP) framework	63
Reduced cerebral cortex thickness is related to overexpression of exosomal miR-146a-5p in medication-free patients with major depressive disorder	60
Associations between aberrant working memory-related neural activity and cognitive impairments in somatically healthy, remitted patients with mood disorders	59
A single dose of lamotrigine induces a positive memory bias in healthy volunteers	59
Mental health and service use of parents with and without borderline intellectual functioning	56
The silent epidemic of loneliness: identifying the antecedents of loneliness using a lagged exposure-wide approach	53
Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy v. treatment as usual in people with bipolar disorder: A multicentre, randomised controlled trial	52
Difficulties during delivery, brain ventricle enlargement and cognitive impairment in first episode psychosis	52
Continuation electroconvulsive therapy combined with pharmacotherapy for depression relapse prevention: A systematic review and meta-analysis	51
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	50
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	50
Beyond problematic binaries in mental healthcare: a commentary on Read & Moncrieff – depression: why drugs and electricity are not the answer	49
Letter to the editor: Gut feelings: associations of emotions and emotion regulation with the gut microbiome in women	46
In Memoriam: Martin Harrow, Ph.D. (1933–2023)	46
Virtual-reality cognitive behavior therapy versus cognitive behavior therapy for paranoid ideation: A pragmatic, single-blind, multicenter randomized clinical superiority trial	45
Childhood adversity and recurrence of psychotic experiences during adolescence: the role of mediation in an analysis of a population-based longitudinal cohort study	45

Anhedonia as a transdiagnostic symptom across psychological disorders: a network approach	44
Efficacy of cognitive behavioral therapy in treating repetitive negative thinking, rumination, and worry – a transdiagnostic meta-analysis	44
Definition of early age at onset in bipolar disorder according to distinctive neurodevelopmental pathways: insights from the FACE-BD study	44
Child maltreatment and resilience in adulthood: a systematic review and meta-analysis	43
Impulsive adolescents exhibit inefficient processing and a low decision threshold when decoding facial expressions of emotions	43
Neural correlates of referential/persecutory delusions in schizophrenia: examination using fMRI and a virtual reality underground travel paradigm	42
Prediction of depression treatment outcome from multimodal data: a CAN-BIND-1 report	41
PSM volume 53 issue 9 Cover and Back matter	40
Guided antipsychotic reduction to reach minimum effective dose (GARMED) in patients with remitted psychosis: a 2-year randomized controlled trial with a naturalistic cohort	40
Neurophysiological changes associated with vibroacoustically-augmented breath-focused mindfulness for dissociation: targeting interoception and attention	40
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	39
Progression of clinical diagnostic features and cognitive decline in mild cognitive impairment with Lewy bodies	39
Maladaptive mother–child interactions in mothers with remitted major depression are associated with blunted amygdala responses to child affective facial expressions	39
Body mass index in the middle-aged offspring of parents with severe mental illness	38