OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Affective Disorders is 70. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
The emergence of eating disorders is considerably more complex than commonly perceived	866
Editorial Board	569
Digital literacy—A new perspective on studying digital interventions for mental health issues	294
Corrigendum to “Characterising depression trajectories in young people at high familial risk of depression” [J. Affect. Disord. 337 (2023) 66–74 (15 September)]	271
Mothers' and their children's emotional and behavioral symptom trajectories and subsequent maternal adjustment: Twenty-seven years of motherhood	236
Age-friendliness of community and sleep quality: The role of mental health	196
What do the PHQ-9, the GAD-7 and their variants miss in assessing young people presenting to youth mental health services?	168
Effects of cigarette abstinence on negative and positive affect by depression symptom levels: A lab study	163
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	160
Changes over time in anxiety, depression, and stress symptoms among healthcare workers in French emergency departments during the first COVID-19 outbreak	158
Association of severe maternal morbidity with bonding impairment and self-harm ideation: A multicenter prospective cohort study	148
Factors affecting the implementation of task-sharing interventions for perinatal depression in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review and qualitative metasynthesis	124
Does awareness of diabetic status increase risk of depressive or anxious symptoms? Findings from the China Multi-Ethnic cohort (CMEC) study	123
Individualized prediction of cognitive test scores from functional brain connectome in patients with first-episode late-life depression	120
Change in cardiovascular health among adults with current or past major depressive disorder enrolled in intensive smoking cessation treatment	114
Assessing the differential item functioning of PHQ-9 items for diverse racial and ethnic adults with mental health and/or substance use disorder diagnoses: A retrospective cohort study	114
Prenatal determinants of anxiety symptoms in middle childhood. Evidence from Growing Up in New Zealand	113
Effectiveness of probiotic/prebiotic/synbiotic treatments on anxiety: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials	112
Prevalence and incidence of depressive symptoms and diagnosis of depression as associated with elevated amyloid among Medicare beneficiaries with cognitive impairment	109
The vascular – Bipolar link	107
Is psychiatric diagnostic remission associated with reduced prevalence of moderate to severe pain interference and improved functioning among adults with lifetime psychiatric disorders?	106
Age-related heterogeneity revealed by disruption of white matter structural networks in patients with first-episode untreated major depressive disorder	104
The temporal dynamics of mood and their association with depressive symptoms in Huntington's disease	104
Editorial Board	103
Poor mental health is associated with loneliness and boredom during Covid-19-related restriction periods in patients with pre-existing depression	102

Spillover effect of psychological distress from distressed to non-distressed spouse: A cohort study for midlife married couples in Japan	99
Associations of resilience and respiratory sinus arrhythmia with alienation among college students	98
The role of lithium treatment on comorbid anxiety symptoms in patients with bipolar depression	98
A combination of P300 and eye movement data improves the accuracy of auxiliary diagnoses of depression	97
Trends in parent-rated emotional symptoms, conduct problems, and hyperactivity/inattention among U.S. children and adolescents, 2004–2019	96
Causal effects of childhood obesity on neuroticism and subjective well-being: A two-sample Mendelian randomization study	95
Association of family dysfunction childhood adversities and lifetime attempts in men and women	94
Deep learning-based detection of depression by fusing auditory, visual and textual clues	93
Joint and nonlinear associations of serum folate and physical activity with depressive symptoms	93
Event-related potential alterations in bipolar disorder subtypes and mood states: Insights from an emotional visual task	92
Temporal characteristics of moral disgust in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) from a lexical perspective: An ERPs and sLORETA study	91
Depressive symptoms are linked to age-specific neuroanatomical and cognitive variations	91
Clinical indicators of the suicide crisis and response to ketamine	89
Impact of psychiatric disorders on the risk of glioma: Mendelian randomization and biological annotation	87
Clinical characteristics and functioning of adults with bipolar I disorder: Evidence from the mental and substance use disorders prevalence study	86
The effect of pomegranate supplementation on symptom severity and quality of life in women with premenstrual syndrome: A randomised controlled trial	84
Association between antenatal common mental disorders symptoms, and adverse obstetric and perinatal outcomes: A community-based prospective cohort study in Eastern Ethiopia	82
Depression vulnerability and gray matter integrity of interoceptive networks in remitted depressed outpatients	81
Mindfulness-Based Integrative Programme: The effectiveness, acceptability, and predictors of responses to a novel low-dose mindfulness-based intervention	81
Depressive symptoms changes in the new-onset stroke patients: A cross-lagged panel network analysis	79
Polysocial risk score and depressive symptoms of college students in a northwest Chinese city: The mediating role of resilience	78
The abnormal choline to creatine ratio of the right anterior cingulate gyrus is linked to cognitive impairment in youth with major depressive disorder	78
Suicidal ideation among young US essential workers during the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal study	77
Are NLR, PLR and MLR good predictors of suicidality when their values are still placed within the normal range?	77
Association of trajectories and cumulative exposure of antenatal depression with high birth weight	76
Targeting the gut microbiota-inflammation-brain axis as a potential therapeutic strategy for psychiatric disorders: A Mendelian randomization analysis	76
Stop Asian hate: The mental health impact of racial discrimination among Asian Pacific Islander young and emerging adults during COVID-19	76
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	76
Efficacy and safety of a vitamin-mineral intervention for symptoms of anxiety and depression in adults: A randomised placebo-controlled trial “NoMAD”	75
Borderline personality features influence treatment response to suicide prevention	75
Adolescent suicidal thoughts and behaviors: The independent effects of interpersonal violence	75
Deficits in sustained attention in adolescents with bipolar disorder during their first manic episode	75
Efficacy and safety of esketamine for smoking cessation among patients diagnosed with lung cancer and major depression disorder: A randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial	74
Cerebral cortex changes in FD, IBS, and GERD: A Mendelian randomization study	74
Mapping intrinsic functional network topological architecture in major depression disorder after electroconvulsive therapy	74
Day-to-day variability in sleep and activity predict the onset of a hypomanic episode in patients with bipolar disorder	74
Cognition-related connectome gradient dysfunctions of thalamus and basal ganglia in drug-naïve first-episode major depressive disorder	73
Predictors of mother-infant interaction quality in women at risk of postpartum psychosis: The role of emotion recognition	73
Corrigendum to “Kynurenine pathway modulates dynamic network instability and depression severity in major depressive disorder” [J. Affect. Disord. 392 (2026) 120154]	73
U-shaped association between daily eating frequency and nighttime fasting duration and depression in NHANES 2005–2018	72
Letter to the editor: Urgent call for contextualized interventions on rising eating disorders burden in women of childbearing age	72
A Mendelian randomization-based study of the causal relationship between leisure sedentary behavior and delirium	72
Adverse childhood experiences exacerbate the association between day-to-day discrimination and mental health symptomatology in undergraduate students	72
Latent profile analysis of adolescent antisocial behavior: The role of situational factors with physical activity as a moderator	70
Why is rumination unhelpful in adolescents? Two studies examining the causal role of abstract processing	70