OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Affective Disorders is 68. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Association between antenatal common mental disorders symptoms, and adverse obstetric and perinatal outcomes: A community-based prospective cohort study in Eastern Ethiopia	811
Detection of bipolar disorder in the prodromal phase: A systematic review of assessment instruments	449
The temporal dynamics of mood and their association with depressive symptoms in Huntington's disease	373
Editorial Board	269
Effectiveness of light therapy as adjunctive treatment in bipolar depression: A pilot study	223
Association between weight loss since the age of 20 years and the risk of suicide death: A population-based cohort study	204
Clinical indicators of the suicide crisis and response to ketamine	191
The emergence of eating disorders is considerably more complex than commonly perceived	149
Altered dynamic functional connectivity of insular subregions could predict symptom severity of male patients with autism spectrum disorder	142
Digital literacy—A new perspective on studying digital interventions for mental health issues	141
Repeated subcutaneous esketamine on treatment-resistant depression: An open-label dose titration study	140
Corrigendum to “Characterising depression trajectories in young people at high familial risk of depression” [J. Affect. Disord. 337 (2023) 66–74 (15 September)]	139
The role of lithium treatment on comorbid anxiety symptoms in patients with bipolar depression	138
Evaluating the effect of exercise-based interventions on functioning in people with transdiagnostic depressive symptoms: A systematic review of randomised controlled trials	133
Age-friendliness of community and sleep quality: The role of mental health	127
Prevalence and correlates of suicidal ideation in World Trade Center responders: Results from a population-based health monitoring cohort	115
Are we still uncertain about the latent structure of intolerance of uncertainty: Results from factor mixture modeling in a Serbian sample	114
Association of severe maternal morbidity with bonding impairment and self-harm ideation: A multicenter prospective cohort study	113
Predictors of mother-infant interaction quality in women at risk of postpartum psychosis: The role of emotion recognition	112
Borderline personality features influence treatment response to suicide prevention	111
Cognition-related connectome gradient dysfunctions of thalamus and basal ganglia in drug-naïve first-episode major depressive disorder	111
Individual response to electroconvulsive therapy is not correlated between multiple treatment courses	110
Effects of cigarette abstinence on negative and positive affect by depression symptom levels: A lab study	106
Mothers' and their children's emotional and behavioral symptom trajectories and subsequent maternal adjustment: Twenty-seven years of motherhood	101
Spillover effect of psychological distress from distressed to non-distressed spouse: A cohort study for midlife married couples in Japan	100

Electroencephalography (EEG) spectral signatures of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), selective norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs) and vortioxetine in major depressive disorder:	99
Effects of escitalopram therapy on effective connectivity among core brain networks in major depressive disorder	98
Prenatal determinants of anxiety symptoms in middle childhood. Evidence from Growing Up in New Zealand	96
Depression, anxiety, and stress in young adult gamers and their relationship with addictive behaviors: A latent profile analysis	95
EEG microstate analysis reveals large-scale brain network alterations in depressed adolescents with suicidal ideation	93
Does awareness of diabetic status increase risk of depressive or anxious symptoms? Findings from the China Multi-Ethnic cohort (CMEC) study	92
Splitting the reward: Differences in inflammatory marker associations with neural connectivity between reward anticipation and reward outcome in adolescents at high risk for depression	91
Maternal thoughts of self-harm and their association with future offspring mental health problems	91
Divergent spatiotemporal signatures characterize impaired facial emotional recognition in major depressive disorder: An event-related microstate study	90
The abnormal choline to creatine ratio of the right anterior cingulate gyrus is linked to cognitive impairment in youth with major depressive disorder	90
Does BMI matter when treating depression with esketamine? A retrospective analysis of real-world data	90
Bidirectional associations between paternal postpartum depression symptoms and coparenting: A cross-lagged panel model of fathers of infants and toddlers	88
Efficacy of orexin antagonists for the management of major depressive disorder: A systematic review of randomized clinical trials	88
Employing biochemical biomarkers for building decision tree models to predict bipolar disorder from major depressive disorder	86
Editorial Board	86
Causal effects of childhood obesity on neuroticism and subjective well-being: A two-sample Mendelian randomization study	85
Cognitive hierarchy in mood disorders and relations to daily functioning	85
Efficacy and safety of esketamine for smoking cessation among patients diagnosed with lung cancer and major depression disorder: A randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial	83
Negative life events increase the risk of suicidal ideation in 6653 Chinese freshmen: From a 1-year longitudinal study	82
Association between grip strength and cognitive function in older adults: results from a cross-sectional study and Mendelian randomization analyses	82
Family function and emotional behavior problems in Chinese children and adolescents: A moderated mediation model	80
Decreased intrinsic neural timescales in obsessive compulsive disorder and two distinct subtypes revealed by heterogeneity through discriminative analysis	80
Traumatic experiences assessed with the life events checklist for Kenyan adults	80
How do men and women differ in their depressive symptomatology? A gendered network analysis of depressive symptoms in a French population-based cohort	79
Polysocial risk score and depressive symptoms of college students in a northwest Chinese city: The mediating role of resilience	79
Is psychiatric diagnostic remission associated with reduced prevalence of moderate to severe pain interference and improved functioning among adults with lifetime psychiatric disorders?	78
Why is rumination unhelpful in adolescents? Two studies examining the causal role of abstract processing	78
I'll catch you when you fall: Social safety nets and housing instability in IPV-exposed pregnant women	78
Associations between hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis hormone levels, major depression features and antidepressant effects of ketamine	78
Factors affecting the implementation of task-sharing interventions for perinatal depression in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review and qualitative metasynthesis	77
The relationship between adverse childhood experiences and common mental disorders among pregnant women living with HIV in Malawi	76
Posttraumatic stress symptoms, posttraumatic growth, and personality factors: A network analysis	76
Poor mental health is associated with loneliness and boredom during Covid-19-related restriction periods in patients with pre-existing depression	75
Distinct homotopic functional connectivity patterns of the amygdalar sub-regions as biomarkers in major depressive disorder	72
The impact of depression-mediated gut microbiota composition on Irritable Bowel Syndrome: A Mendelian study	72
Cerebral cortex changes in FD, IBS, and GERD: A Mendelian randomization study	72
Age-related heterogeneity revealed by disruption of white matter structural networks in patients with first-episode untreated major depressive disorder	72
The cost-effectiveness of depression screening for the general adult population	71
Depressive symptoms changes in the new-onset stroke patients: A cross-lagged panel network analysis	71
The effect of pomegranate supplementation on symptom severity and quality of life in women with premenstrual syndrome: A randomised controlled trial	71
Measuring distress in older population: Rasch analysis of the Kessler Psychological Distress Scale	71
Change in cardiovascular health among adults with current or past major depressive disorder enrolled in intensive smoking cessation treatment	69
Associations of resilience and respiratory sinus arrhythmia with alienation among college students	69
Validation of the Oxford Depression Questionnaire: Sensitivity to change, minimal clinically important difference, and response threshold for the assessment of emotional blunting	68
Global prevalence of depression in menopausal women: A systematic review and meta-analysis	68
Mechanisms underlying the relationship between the intersectionality of multiple social identities with depression among US adults: A population-based study on the mediating roles of lifestyle behavio	68