OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of British Journal of Clinical Psychology is 6. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Global prevalence of depression and elevated depressive symptoms among adolescents: A systematic review and meta‐analysis	272
Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) in the United Kingdom: A systematic review and meta‐analysis of 10‐years of practice‐based evidence	97
Loneliness and mental health in children and adolescents with pre‐existing mental health problems: A rapid systematic review	50
Perceived social support, loneliness, and hope during the COVID‐19 Pandemic: Testing a mediating model in the UK, USA, and Israel	46
Investigating the prevalence of anxiety and depression during the first COVID‐19 lockdown in the United Kingdom: Systematic review and meta‐analyses	41
A longitudinal investigation of COVID‐19 pandemic experiences and mental health among university students	34
The effectiveness of schema therapy for patients with anxiety disorders, OCD, or PTSD: A systematic review and research agenda	33
Scared of compassion: Fear of compassion in anxiety, mood, and non‐clinical groups	28
A meta‐analysis of the effects of social‐cognitive training in schizophrenia: The role of treatment characteristics and study quality	28
Child abuse and suicidality in the context of the Interpersonal Psychological Theory of Suicide: A network analysis	21
Prevention programmes for children of parents with a mood/anxiety disorder: Systematic review of existing programmes and meta‐analysis of their efficacy	21
Shame, guilt, and suicidal thoughts: The interaction matters	20
Regulating digital therapeutics for mental health: Opportunities, challenges, and the essential role of psychologists	20
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for perinatal mood and anxiety disorders: A feasibility and proof of concept study	19
The revised Psychosis Attachment Measure: Measuring disorganized attachment	19
Effectiveness of stress control large group psychoeducation for anxiety and depression: Systematic review and meta‐analysis	17
Post‐traumatic stress disorder and major depression among frontline healthcare staff working during the COVID‐19 pandemic	16
Addressing anhedonia to increase depression treatment engagement	16
Evaluating the feasibility and acceptability of a mobile‐based health technology for smoking cessation: Mobile Anxiety Sensitivity Program	14
How does insecure attachment lead to paranoia? A systematic critical review of cognitive, affective, and behavioural mechanisms	13
Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) has potential but is not sufficient: How can it better meet the range of primary care mental health needs?	12
Emotion network density is a potential clinical marker for anxiety and depression: Comparison of ecological momentary assessment and daily diary	12
Group acceptance and commitment therapy for patients and caregivers in psychosis services: Feasibility of training and a preliminary randomized controlled evaluation	12
The relationship between rumination and NSSI: A systematic review and meta‐analysis	12
Reducing dropout in acceptance and commitment therapy, mindfulness‐based cognitive therapy, and problem‐solving therapy for chronic pain and cancer patients using motivational interviewing	12

Randomized controlled trial of social cognition and interaction training compared to befriending group	11
Reappraisal, social support, and parental burnout	11
Personality factors and vulnerability to post‐traumatic stress responses after childbirth	10
Why would I want to be more self‐compassionate? A qualitative study of the pros and cons to cultivating self‐compassion in individuals with anorexia nervosa	10
Deconstructing the relationships between self‐esteem and paranoia in early psychosis: an experience sampling study	10
ICD‐11 ‘mixed depressive and anxiety disorder’ is clinical rather than sub‐clinical and more common than anxiety and depression in the general population	10
Italian adolescents’ adjustment before and during the coronavirus disease 2019: A comparison between mothers’ and adolescents’ perception	9
The relationship between health worry, work distress, and affective symptoms during the COVID‐19 pandemic: The mediating role of hopelessness and helplessness	9
Exploring links between social identity, emotion regulation, and loneliness in those with and without a history of mental illness	9
The relationship between repetitive negative thinking, sleep disturbance, and subjective fatigue in women with Generalized Anxiety Disorder	9
The effectiveness of brief cognitive analytic therapy for anxiety and depression: A quasi‐experimental case—control study	9
Childhood trauma in children at familial high risk of schizophrenia or bipolar disorder: A longitudinal study. The Danish High Risk and Resilience Study – VIA 7 and VIA 11	9
Schema therapy with exposure and response prevention for the treatment of chronic anxiety with comorbid personality disorder	9
Building an emotion regulation recommender algorithm for socially anxious individuals using contextual bandits	9
Bouldering psychotherapy is not inferior to cognitive behavioural therapy in the group treatment of depression: A randomized controlled trial	9
Adult mental health service engagement with patients who are parents: Evidence from 15 English mental health trusts	8
Aversive well‐being comparisons in dysphoria and the role of brooding rumination	8
Differences in the diagnosis and treatment decisions for children in care compared to their peers: An experimental study on post‐traumatic stress disorder	8
Managing emotions in psychosis: Evaluation of a brief DBT‐informed skills group for individuals with psychosis in routine community services	7
Affective and cognitive theory of mind in posttraumatic stress, major depressive, and somatic symptom disorders: Association with childhood trauma	7
Understanding the experience of rumination and worry: A descriptive qualitative survey study	7
Gender differences in avoidance and repetitive negative thinking following symptom provocation in men and women with spider phobia	7
Epistemic injustice amongst clinical and non‐clinical voice‐hearers: A qualitative thematic analysis study	7
Evaluation of a parent‐led cognitive behaviour therapy programme in routine clinical practice: A controlled trial	7
Fear of illness recurrence and mental health anxiety in people recovering from psychosis and common mental health problems	7
The efficacy of a transdiagnostic emotion regulation skills training in the treatment of binge‐eating disorder—Results from a randomized controlled trial	7
Attachment styles moderate Theory of Mind differences between persons with schizophrenia, first‐degree relatives and controls	6
Professional perspectives on applying the NICE and British Psychological Society Guidelines for the management of Behaviours that Challenge in dementia care: an e‐survey	6
Sleep problems and worrying precede psychotic symptoms during an online intervention for psychosis	6
The development and validation of the Death Anxiety Beliefs and Behaviours Scale	6
‘Faking it’: Exploring adolescent perceptions of depression (in)authenticity and ‘attention seeking’	6
Organizational perspectives on outdoor talking therapy: Towards a position of ‘environmental safe uncertainty’	6
Development of a cognitive bias modification intervention for anxiety disorders in primary care	6
Investigating associations between hoarding symptoms and affective and cognitive empathy	6