OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Affective Disorders is 67. 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
The emergence of eating disorders is considerably more complex than commonly perceived	658
Editorial Board	323
Digital literacy—A new perspective on studying digital interventions for mental health issues	261
Mothers' and their children's emotional and behavioral symptom trajectories and subsequent maternal adjustment: Twenty-seven years of motherhood	190
Association between antenatal common mental disorders symptoms, and adverse obstetric and perinatal outcomes: A community-based prospective cohort study in Eastern Ethiopia	179
Depression vulnerability and gray matter integrity of interoceptive networks in remitted depressed outpatients	172
The abnormal choline to creatine ratio of the right anterior cingulate gyrus is linked to cognitive impairment in youth with major depressive disorder	169
Polysocial risk score and depressive symptoms of college students in a northwest Chinese city: The mediating role of resilience	156
Efficacy and safety of esketamine for smoking cessation among patients diagnosed with lung cancer and major depression disorder: A randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial	140
Letter to the editor: Urgent call for contextualized interventions on rising eating disorders burden in women of childbearing age	138
A Mendelian randomization-based study of the causal relationship between leisure sedentary behavior and delirium	133
A preliminary examination of the Anxiety Sensitivity Index-3 factor structure in older adults	125
Association between grip strength and cognitive function in older adults: results from a cross-sectional study and Mendelian randomization analyses	123
Distinct homotopic functional connectivity patterns of the amygdalar sub-regions as biomarkers in major depressive disorder	121
Gender identity invalidation and suicide risk among trans and nonbinary individuals	120
How do men and women differ in their depressive symptomatology? A gendered network analysis of depressive symptoms in a French population-based cohort	116
Impact of psychiatric disorders on the risk of glioma: Mendelian randomization and biological annotation	115
The effect of pomegranate supplementation on symptom severity and quality of life in women with premenstrual syndrome: A randomised controlled trial	115
Age-friendliness of community and sleep quality: The role of mental health	114
Cardiovascular disease burden is associated with worsened depression symptoms in the U.S. general population	114
Changes over time in anxiety, depression, and stress symptoms among healthcare workers in French emergency departments during the first COVID-19 outbreak	113
Individualized prediction of cognitive test scores from functional brain connectome in patients with first-episode late-life depression	111
Association of severe maternal morbidity with bonding impairment and self-harm ideation: A multicenter prospective cohort study	111
Change in cardiovascular health among adults with current or past major depressive disorder enrolled in intensive smoking cessation treatment	109
Effectiveness of probiotic/prebiotic/synbiotic treatments on anxiety: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials	108

Prevalence and incidence of depressive symptoms and diagnosis of depression as associated with elevated amyloid among Medicare beneficiaries with cognitive impairment	105
The vascular – Bipolar link	104
The temporal dynamics of mood and their association with depressive symptoms in Huntington's disease	103
Editorial Board	103
Spillover effect of psychological distress from distressed to non-distressed spouse: A cohort study for midlife married couples in Japan	101
Associations of resilience and respiratory sinus arrhythmia with alienation among college students	100
Causal effects of childhood obesity on neuroticism and subjective well-being: A two-sample Mendelian randomization study	98
Telomerase enzyme activity in patients with major depressive disorder: A pre and post-treatment study	98
Higher morning NR1D1 (REV-ERBΑα) expression, robust circadian activity, and less light at night predict lower depression scores in arctic residents	93
Electroencephalography (EEG) spectral signatures of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), selective norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs) and vortioxetine in major depressive disorder:	93
Editorial Board	92
Predictors of mother-infant interaction quality in women at risk of postpartum psychosis: The role of emotion recognition	90
Detection of bipolar disorder in the prodromal phase: A systematic review of assessment instruments	89
Depressive symptoms changes in the new-onset stroke patients: A cross-lagged panel network analysis	89
A review of resting-state fMRI correlations with executive functions and social cognition in bipolar disorder	88
Epilepsy and psychiatric comorbidities: A bidirectional mendelian randomization study	86
Mapping intrinsic functional network topological architecture in major depression disorder after electroconvulsive therapy	84
The effect of adjunctive cariprazine on symptoms of anhedonia in patients with major depressive disorder	81
The prevalence of psychological distress and its associated sociodemographic factors in the Australian adults aged 18–64 years during COVID-19: Data from the Australian National Health Survey	80
The association between adolescent depression and dyslipidemia	79
Poor mental health is associated with loneliness and boredom during Covid-19-related restriction periods in patients with pre-existing depression	79
Are NLR, PLR and MLR good predictors of suicidality when their values are still placed within the normal range?	79
The glutamatergic projections from the PVT to mPFC govern methamphetamine-induced conditional place preference behaviors in mice	79
DNA methylation patterns and epigenetic aging associated with suicide attempts in bipolar disorder	78
Letter to the editor: Examining depression, antidepressants use, and class and their potential associations with osteoporosis and fractures in adult women: Results from ten NHANES cohorts	78
Subjective and objective sleep and circadian parameters as predictors of depression-related outcomes: A machine learning approach in UK Biobank	77
Association between healthy eating Index-2020 and anxiety: Insights from NHANES highlighting fruit and vegetable intake	77
Measuring distress in older population: Rasch analysis of the Kessler Psychological Distress Scale	77
Suicidal ideation among young US essential workers during the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal study	76
Effects of cigarette abstinence on negative and positive affect by depression symptom levels: A lab study	76
Prevalence and clinical characteristics of cognitive impairment in male patients of methamphetamine dependence: The moderating role of childhood trauma	76
Sociodemographic and clinical predictors of digital mental health intervention engagement among treatment-seeking psychiatric outpatients	76
Longitudinal association of family conflict and suicidal behaviors among Chinese adolescents: The mediation effect of internalizing and externalizing problems	75
The effects of computerized executive function training on the youth with ADHD: A systematic review and meta-analysis	72
Does BMI matter when treating depression with esketamine? A retrospective analysis of real-world data	71
Meta-analytic review of longitudinal depression severity in stroke survivors	71
Examination of the moderating role of internalizing symptoms in the direct and indirect relationships between alcohol use severity, rumination, and suicidal ideation	71
Evaluating the effect of exercise-based interventions on functioning in people with transdiagnostic depressive symptoms: A systematic review of randomised controlled trials	70
Corrigendum to “Kynurenine pathway modulates dynamic network instability and depression severity in major depressive disorder” [J. Affect. Disord. 392 (2026) 120154]	68
Bidirectional associations between paternal postpartum depression symptoms and coparenting: A cross-lagged panel model of fathers of infants and toddlers	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
Employing biochemical biomarkers for building decision tree models to predict bipolar disorder from major depressive disorder	67
Depressive symptoms are linked to age-specific neuroanatomical and cognitive variations	67