OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Review of Psychiatry is 5. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Impact of intergenerational conflict on young people and interventions to mitigate its effects: a scoping review	200
Humanitarian interventions and psychosocial training programs	92
Considering distinct positive emotions in psychedelic science	92
Developing non-opioid therapeutics to alleviate pain among persons with opioid use disorder: a review of the human evidence	61
Mental health services in Egypt, the Middle East, and North Africa	50
Mental health services in Pakistan	45
Unravelling the landscape of Cannabis craving pharmacological treatments: a PRISMA-guided review of evidence	40
New determinants of mental health: the role of noise pollution. A narrative review	32
Polygenic risk scores for predicting outcomes and treatment response in psychiatry: hope or hype?	26
The Impact of Climate Change on Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing: A Narrative Review of Current Evidence, and its Implications	26
What influences judgments of physical attractiveness? A comprehensive perspective with implications for mental health	24
The psychiatrist as a ragpicker. Introduction to Walter Benjamin for psychiatrists (II): the dialectics between the fragment and the whole	23
Hidden histories of science and medicine: spirit mediumship and the ‘psychology without a soul’	22
Diversity and similarity of near-death experiences across cultures and history: implications for the survival hypothesis	22
Age and sex differences in the annual and seasonal variation of Australia’s suicide rate, 2000–2020	21
Suicide mortality in Paraíba (Brazil) between 2010 and 2021 and the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic: an ecological study	21
Innovations and criticisms of the organization of mental health care in Italy	20
COVID-19 anti-Asian racism, perceived burdensomeness, thwarted belongingness, and suicidal ideation among Asian American Emerging Adults	19
Artificial intelligence in the era of planetary health: insights on its application for the climate change-mental health nexus in the Philippines	17
Is there still a place for psychological autopsy in suicide research? A literature review of methodological limitations and recommendations for future development	17
Promoting psychobiography: models and perspectives from multiple countries	17
The role of global vulnerability for mental and substance use disorders	16
Art in medicine: in the classroom, exam room, and Reading room	15
Artificial intelligence and forensic mental health in Africa: a narrative review	14
Identity, culture, and feminism: Golda Meir – Israel’s prime minister (1969–1974)	13

Efficacy of treatment approaches for stalking offenders: a systematic review	13
Mental health of transgender people in prison: a systematic review and meta-analysis	12
Personal psychedelic experience of psychedelic therapists during training: should it be required, optional, or prohibited?	12
Impact of motor dysfunction on neuropsychiatric symptom profile in patients with autopsy-confirmed Alzheimer’s disease	12
Love across the life span in cultural and transcultural perspectives	11
Impact of new country, discrimination, and acculturation-related factors on depression and anxiety among ex-Soviet Jewish migrants: data from a population-based cross-national comparison study	11
Tobacco growing and tobacco use	11
Profiles of online racism exposure and mental health among Asian, Black, and Latinx emerging adults in the United States	11
Is the pair bond a human universal? An analytical essay	10
Health care and social justice implications of incarceration for pregnant people who use drugs	10
Beyond psychedelics: set and setting in general psychiatric practice	10
What do the cases of the reincarnation type tell us about the mind beyond the brain?	9
PTSD trajectories across different mental disorders in the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy: a naturalistic, longitudinal, multicenter study	9
Non-coercive techniques for the management of crises in mental health settings in Germany—a narrative review	9
‘Self-harm is wrong’: the experience of self-harming behaviours that inflict external injuries to the body in UK-based Bangladeshi, Indian and Pakistani women: an Interpretative Phenomenological Analy	9
Real concerns, artificial intelligence: Reality testing for psychiatrists	9
Bariatric surgery and its influence on alcohol consumption: Differences before and after surgery - A systematic review and meta-analysis	9
‘… the most complex and lyrical song of experience’: Walter Benjamin and a dialectical image of madness. Introduction to Walter Benjamin for psychiatry (III)	9
Association between continued cannabis use during pregnancy and symptoms of anxiety and depression	9
Childhood gender-typed behaviour, sexual orientation, childhood abuse and post-traumatic stress disorder: a prospective birth-cohort study	9
Psychedelic group-based integration: ethical assessment and initial recommendations	9
Climate change in Bangladesh: meeting the mental health needs in times of crisis	9
Capacity to consent to treatment in severe eating disorders	9
Geopsychiatry-“putting mental health into foreign policy”	8
What differentiates suicidal ideation from depressive symptoms amongst Korean young adults aged 20–39 years?	8
LGBT + medical students and disclosure of their sexual orientation: more than in and out of the closet	8
Barriers to help-seeking among intimate partner violence survivors with opioid use disorder	8
International perspective on integrated care models in child and adult mental health	8
Respect for human rights as a component of organisational well-being: factor structure analysis in three countries of Latin America	7
Psychiatrists on forensic psychiatry after the law 81/2014 in Italy: findings from a national pilot survey	7
Psychedelic medicine in psychiatry residency training: a survey of psychiatric residency program directors	7
The sociocultural influences in Lawrence Kohlberg’s life: a psychobiography	7
Comparing the Addiction Severity Index (ASI) and Measurements in the Addictions for Triage and Evaluation (MATE)	6
Trauma and resettlement: lessons learned from a mental health screening and treatment programme for Syrian refugees in the UK	6
Evaluating an intergenerational art and storytelling program with older adults and medical students	6
Understanding food addiction in Post-Bariatric patients	6
Victim involvement in forensic psychiatric treatment: opportunities and challenges from a restorative justice perspective	6
Cross-cultural experiences and self-development: a psychobiographical study of Bruce Lee	6
Spiritual confusion in the era of artificial intelligence: a psychology of religion perspective	6
New approaches for mental health of social minorities	5
Continuum of care for disasters and catastrophes	5
Use of mental health services and psychotropic drugs and suicide rates in Sweden before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Perceived helpfulness of medication and psychotherapy among adults with suicidal ideation	5
Exploring correlates of involuntary treatment in substance use disorders: a global systematic review and meta-analysis	5
Personal and work-related burnout is associated with increased episodes of suicidal ideation or behavior among working adults in Chile	5
The relationship between spirituality and suicide in young adults: the mediating role of early maladaptive schemas in Turkey	5
Love’s place in the spectrum of affect, one of 24 secondary emotions: implications for psychiatry	5
A cohort study of initial self-harm events: method-specific case fatality of index events, predictors of fatal and nonfatal repetition, and frequency of method-switching	5
Posttraumatic stress phenomena in critical illness and intensive care survivors	5
The role of the photographic arts in psychiatry	5

Climate change and psychosocial resilience in drylands: the need for more evidence	5
The Greek photographer Nelly’s : the interplay of personal and socio-cultural theme of ‘rebirth’	5
Mental health of ethnic minorities: the role of racism	5
Experiential learning spaces and student wellbeing: a mixed-methods study of students at three research intensive UK universities	5
Eating across borders: a scoping review of eating disorders and body image dissatisfaction in migrant populations	5