OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Mental Health 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
What is evidence? bridging the gap between trials and treatment implementation	54
Complex trauma: the Tavistock model. A review	42
Parsing social motivation: development and validation of a self-report measure of social effort	41
Psychiatry Algorithms for Primary Care	39
Outcome analysis on individual health budgets in mental Health: finding from the Friuli Venezia Giulia Region, Italy	34
The emoji current mood and experience scale: the development and initial validation of an ultra-brief, literacy independent measure of psychological health	31
Statement of Retraction: Evaluation of the impact of a self-stigma reduction programme on psychosocial outcomes among people with schizophrenia spectrum disorder	29
Healthcare professionals’ and patients’ attitudes toward the causes and management of aggression in Estonian psychiatric clinics: a quantitative cross-sectional comparative study	23
Nutrition and Psychiatric Disorders	23
COVID-19, unforeseen crises and the launch of national tele-mental health program in India	23
Brief Behavioural Activation for Adolescent Depression: A Clinician’s Manual and Session-by-Session Guide	21
Workplace trauma and chronic stressor exposure among direct service providers working with people experiencing homelessness	21
Engagement strategies in an assertive outreach context: a mixed-methods systematic review	21
Digital phenotyping: how it could change mental health care and why we should all keep up	18
Symptoms of the suicide crisis syndrome and therapist emotional responses: associations to self-harm and death by suicide within 18-months post-discharge among patients at an acute psychiatric departm	18
Major depressive disorder as a moderator of the relationship between heavy-episodic drinking and anxiety symptoms	17
Examining Attitudes Towards Mental Health Diagnoses: A Q-Methodology Study	16
Predictors of somatic symptom burden in healthcare professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic: an 8-week follow-up study	16
Medical Research Council supports ambitions targets for mental health research	16
Healing Houses systematic review: design, sustainability, opportunities and barriers facing Soteria and peer respite development	15
Unmasking race in mental health	14
Change in mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic: a longitudinal study of residents of Indian metropolitan cities	14
Turning goals into reality to transform lives	14
Parents’ right strategy on preventing youngsters’ recent suicidal ideation: a 13-year prospective cohort study	14
Mental Health Research, shared goals	14

The importance of shared research goals for a world in which no one is held back by mental health problems	13
Designing mental health promotion campaigns: segmenting U.S. Veteran audiences to address public stigma	12
Medication non-adherence and its influencing factors in persons with schizophrenia in rural China	12
Intimate and sexual feelings in psychotherapy: educational topic or still taboo?	12
Effects of positive psychological interventions on positive and negative emotions in depressed individuals: a systematic review and meta-analysis	11
Stigmatizing intimate relationships in schizophrenia: a study comparing mental health professionals, health students and the general population	11
Common mental health problems in medical students and junior doctors – an overview of systematic reviews	11
The absurdity of the latent disease model in mental health: 10,130,814 ways to have a DSM-5-TR psychological disorder	11
A mixed methods exploration of “Creativity in Mind”, an online creativity-based intervention for low mood and anxiety	11
The reciprocal relations among self-compassion, posttraumatic stress disorder, and posttraumatic growth among adolescents after the Jiuzhaigou earthquake: a three-wave cross-lagged study	10
Clinical and personal recovery for people with schizophrenia in China: prevalence and predictors	10
Pilot evaluation of a brief training video aimed at reducing mental health stigma amongst emergency first responders (the ENHANcE II study)	10
Suicide from intimate partner and other relationship conflicts: demographic and clinical correlates’	10
Associations between attachment, therapeutic alliance, and engagement in black people with psychosis living in the UK	10
Can social connections become stressful? Exploring the link between social media use and perceived stress in cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses of 25,053 adults	10
Patients’ experiences of Daily Talks: a patient-driven intervention in inpatient mental healthcare	10
Social networks of people with serious mental illness who smoke: potential role in a smoking cessation intervention	9
What over the counter (OTC) products have been evaluated for anxiety in adults aged 18–60? A scoping review	9
A longitudinal study on depression and anxiety in college students during the first 106-days of the lengthy Argentinean quarantine for the COVID-19 pandemic	9
Googling “mental health” after mental health legislation and during the COVID-19 pandemic: an infodemiological study of public interest in mental health in the Philippines	8
Virtual reality and immersive technologies to promote workplace wellbeing: a systematic review	8
Healthcare professional disclosure of mental illness in the workplace: a rapid scoping review	8
Increasing help-seeking among people with depression by self-distancing using mental time-travel	8
How does diagnostic labelling affect social responses to people with mental illness? A systematic review of experimental studies using vignette-based designs	7
Modern media and mental health: help or hindrance?	7
The impact of social support on university students living with mental illness: a systematic review and narrative synthesis	7
A 10-year examination of people with psychosis in American television programing: are representations improving over time?	7
Mental health issues and psychological risk factors among Paraguayan healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic	7
Staff perception of case discussion groups on a UK inpatient psychiatric ward: a mixed method service evaluation	7
Mental health promotion and protection relating to key life events and transitions in adulthood: a rapid systematic review of systematic reviews	7
Interventions using the Qur’an to promote mental health: a systematic scoping review	6
A case series study of an innovative community-based brief psychological model for men in suicidal crisis	6
The prevalence of mental distress changes before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: a study on physicians in Turkey	6
Posttraumatic stress disorder and death anxiety among Iraqi civilians exposed to a suicide car bombing: the role of religious coping and attachment	6
Food and Mental Health: A Guide for Health Professionals	6
Mental health beliefs and help-seeking in an African descended sample with experiences of psychosis	6
Applying the theory of planned behaviour to understand mental health professionals’ intentions to work using a human rights-based approach in acute inpatient settings	6
Examination of internalized stigma, quality of life, and happiness in patients with schizophrenia	6
Symptoms and functioning: a content analysis of the PANSS under the ICF framework	6
Mental health research goals and the National Institute for Health Research	6
Mental illness self-disclosure among college students: a pre-requisite of social support or a booster of social support benefits?	6
Videocall delivered psychological interventions for treating depressive symptoms in primary care – a systematic review	6
Prenatal stress self-help mindfulness intervention via social media: a randomized controlled trial	5
Post-COVID-19 distress and unhealthy behavior	5
Superlatives in news articles reporting non-FDA approved indications for use of cannabis and cannabis products with a focus on psychiatric disorders: a cross-sectional analysis	5
Social isolation and well-being in veterans with mental illness	5
Anxiety management strategies on TikTok: a discourse analysis of collective coping mechanisms	5
Staff support for workplace trauma: a freedom of information act request survey for NHS trusts providing mental health care in England	5
Student mental health research: moving forwards with clear definitions	5
Antisocial personality disorder as a predictor of polydrug use: a longitudinal study of the dual mediating roles of deviant peer association and self-control among juvenile offenders	5

Mental health literacy in secondary school teachers and interventions to improve it – a systematic review and narrative synthesis	5
A study on the representation of mental disorders in Turkish newspapers	5
Investigating mental health service user views of stigma on Twitter during COVID-19: a mixed-methods study	5
Positive and negative effects of child’s agency on trauma symptoms and psychological difficulties in war-like conditions. The mediating role of hope and life satisfaction	5
Families’ experiences of supporting Australian veterans to seek help for a mental health problem: a linked data analysis of national surveys with families and veterans	5
Efficacy of computerized cognitive training and mindfulness for improving cognition and mood in older adults: better together than separately	5
A systematic review of the benefits of breastfeeding against postpartum depression in low-middle-income countries	5
Understanding the typical presentation of emptiness: a study of lived-experience	5
Barriers and facilitators to mental healthcare for women veterans: a scoping review	5
Thank you to Reviewers	5