OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Transcultural 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 2022-07-01 to 2026-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Theories of mind and trauma after war in Uganda	49
Culture, context, and ethics in the therapeutic use of hallucinogens: Psychedelics as active super-placebos?	37
Survivors, users, or peers? Translating identities and decolonizing mental health in China	32
A systematic review of cross-cultural measures of resilience and its promotive and protective factors	32
Activist burnout in No Borders : The case of a highly diverse movement	22
An evaluation of early marriage and the mental state of Roma women: A cross-sectional study	19
Psychosis and psychedelics: Historical entanglements and contemporary contrasts	17
The fragility of truth: Social epistemology in a time of polarization and pandemic	16
Selective mutism in immigrant families: An ecocultural perspective	16
Pilgrimage for an autism diagnosis: A study of Venezuelan parents’ experiences	15
Tabletop Role-Playing Games as Drama Therapy in the Wild: Developing Personal Bonds with Characters Improves Players’ Self-Concepts	15
Maasai women hearing voices: Implications for global mental health	14
Microdosing with classical psychedelics: Research trajectories and practical considerations	13
Religiosity, perceived anti-Semitism, xenophobia and mental health: Experiences of Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union in Austria and Germany	13
Exploring Diagnostic Classification Prevalence in German and Dutch Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: An International Cross-Sectional Comparative Study	13
The culturally and contextually sensitive assessment of mental health using a structured diagnostic interview (MINI Kid) for Syrian refugee children and adolescents in Lebanon: Challenges and solution	12
Macrodosing to microdosing with psychedelics: Clinical, social, and cultural perspectives	12
Psychedelic medicine at a crossroads: Advancing an integrative approach to research and practice	12
Finding agency in limbo: A qualitative investigation into the impact of occupational engagement on the mental health and wellbeing of asylum seekers in the UK	11
Resistance, Intentionality, and Endurance: Understanding Asylum-Seeking Mothers’ Agency During Resettlement in Montreal, Canada	11
Effectiveness, barriers, and facilitators of interventions delivered by traditional healers for the treatment of common mental disorders: A systematic review	11
Cross-cultural adaptation of four instruments to measure stigma towards people with mental illness and substance use problems among primary care professionals in Chile	11
Modalities of the psychedelic experience: Microclimates of set and setting in hallucinogen research and culture	11
Explanatory models of common mental disorders among South Asians in high-income countries: A systematic review	11
“Mending fractured personalities”: A photography-based cultural study of recovery from mental distress in Romania	11

Epistemic losses, cultural exclusions, and the risk of biopiracy in the globalization of ayahuasca: A reply to Labate et al.	10
Facilitators and barriers in the implementation of a culturally adapted Arabic version of Illness Management and Recovery (IMR) among Palestinian Arabs in Israel	10
Schizophrenia literacy among former Soviet Union immigrants: A cross-generational perspective on knowledge, trust, and stigma	10
Relations between bullying and distress among youth living in First Nations communities: Assessing direct and moderating effects of culture-related variables	10
Linking obsessions to morality: A cross-cultural study among Turkish and Belgian university students	10
Trust, individualism, and the logics of care in middle America during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic	10
Research on severe mental illness in Indonesia: A scoping review	9
Traditional postpartum rituals among immigrant and non-immigrant Chinese women	9
Lessons learned from the translation of the Internalised Stigma of Mental Illness (ISMI) scale into isiXhosa for use with South African Xhosa people with schizophrenia	9
“I Don't Have Answers, What Must I Say?”: Maternal Communication in Forcibly Displaced Families Who Are Seeking International Protection in Ireland	9
Maladi Nanm, Maladi Zonbi, & Maladi Lalin: A qualitative study of cultural concepts of distress in northern Haiti	9
“They should ask about our feelings”: Mongolian women's experiences of postpartum depression	9
Documenting language barriers in a general hospital psychiatry setting	9
Walking out of the shadows: Exploring the complexities of motherhood and intergenerational realities in the families of three Taiwanese comfort women survivors	8
Beyond Critique: Reparative Approaches in Brazilian Mental Health	8
Understanding mechanisms of change in a family-based preventive mental health intervention for refugees by refugees in New England	7
Civilians’ strategies of post-traumatic growth (PTG): The significance of Pashtunwali culture in the Swat conflict in Pakistan	7
Help-seeking strategies and treatment experiences among individuals diagnosed with Bipolar Spectrum Disorder in Iran: A qualitative study	7
Gaps and gains in parents’ mental health literacy: A cross-cultural comparison on attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder	7
Depression and Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) in mothers 6 weeks to 12 months post-delivery in a rural setting in Kenya	7
Is it pathological to believe conspiracy theories?	7
Association between unmet post-arrival expectations and psychological symptoms in recently arrived refugees	6
“I didn’t do it!”: Lived experiences of suicide attempts made without perceived intent or volition	6
A quality appraisal of cultural adaptation of caregiver-implemented interventions for young autistic children	6
Coping among Afghan Former Unaccompanied Refugee Children in the UK: A Qualitative Study Exploring Barriers and Influences Over Time	6
Eating disorders and related psychological features among Arabs and Jews in Israel: Does culture play a moderating role?	6
Discussing the unspoken: A qualitative analysis of online forum discussions on mental health problems in young Moroccan-Dutch migrants	6
“Get Out of Your Mind, Brother!”: Notes Toward an Anthropology of Anti-“Mind”	6
Cross-cultural, transnational or interdisciplinary? Eric Wittkower’s psychosomatic medicine and transcultural psychiatry in historical context	6
The Revival of Psychiatry in Cambodia	6
Perceptions of youth internalizing symptoms: Cross-cultural comparisons between Taiwanese and U.S. mothers	5
From Fearing Harm to Inviting Transformative Learning: Rethinking the Role of Emotion in Participatory Research with Youth Affected by Armed Conflict	5
Lockdown through a Chinese lens: A qualitative study	5
The efficacy of parenting interventions for forced migrant families on child internalizing and externalizing symptoms, parental self-efficacy, and parental competence: A systematic review and meta-ana	5
Reflections on the explanations of higher psychosis rates among migrant and ethnic minority populations: A critical discourse analysis	5
Deconstructing wisdom through a cultural lens: Folk understandings of wisdom and its ontology in the Philippines and Sri Lanka	5