OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Child and Adolescent 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
Clinical research updates	629
Letter to the editor: ‘To seclude or not to seclude, is that the question?’ A commentary on Yurtbasi et al. (2024)	65
Letter to the Editor: Mindfulness will only be in decline if we stop being mindful	65
Clinical Research Updates	56
Debate: Health professionals have a chance every day to lead on mitigating the ecological and climate crisis	54
Feasibility study of a new behavioural activation programme for young people with depressed mood	50
Narrative Matters: No teen is an island – the cost of finding a tribe through memes and TikToks	41
Development, preliminary validation and reliability of the colourful ‘My Feelings Form’ self‐report for young children	34
Response: Sometimes we wish Chris and Sam had died of cancer! – a response to Commentaries on the May 2022 Debate	34
Response: “The Signal and the Noise”—a response to Clayton et al. (2021)	34
Debate: How far can we modify the expression of autism by modifying the environment?	30
Narrative Matters: Write the pain away – creative writing therapy for young people	26
Clinical Research Updates	25
Narrative Matters: Encanto and intergenerational trauma	24
Editorial Perspective: How can we help the children of Ukraine and others affected by military conflict?	23
Debate: If not us, then who?	20
Commentary: Climate change worry among adolescents—on the importance of going beyond the constructive–unconstructive dichotomy to explore coping efforts—a commentary on Sciberras and Fernando (2021)	18
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Commentary: The diagnostic label of Asperger's in historical perspective – a commentary on Kehinde et al. (2021)	17
Technology Matters: Collaboratively augmenting longitudinal monitoring (C.A.L.M) in bipolar disorder – co‐design, co‐production and evaluation of the alpha prototype app	16
Debate: Stigma implications for diagnosing personality disorders in adolescents	15
Self‐harm, suicidal ideation, depression and peer relationships in transgender and gender diverse adolescents accessing specialist mental health services	15
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Narrative Matters: When does the history of ADHD not begin?	14

Issue Information	12
Debate: How much should nonspecialists be involved in mental health care when resources are limited? A perspective from low‐ and middle‐income countries	12
Clinical research updates	12
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The role of adolescent social inclusion in educational attainment among vulnerable youth	12
Editorial Perspective: Mental health needs of children and young people of Black ethnicity.¹ Is it time to reconceptualise racism as a traumatic experience?	12
Editorial Perspective: What do we need to know about the manosphere and young people's mental health?	11
Debate: Responses to commentaries – neurodiversity, autism and healthcare	11
Clinical research updates	10
Long‐term outcome of intensive home treatment for children and adolescents with mental health problems – 4 years after a randomized controlled clinical trial	10
Technology Matters: Online, self‐help single session interventions could expand current provision, improving early access to help for young people with depression symptoms, including minority groups	10
Debate: Social media content moderation may do more harm than good for youth mental health	10
Breaking the Silence: An Epidemiological Report on Asian American and Pacific Islander Youth Mental Health and Suicide (1999–2021)	10
Debate: Putting psychiatric hospitalization for children and adolescents in its place: it is time to create a system of care that works	10
Debate: The prevention of psychosis in child and adolescent mental health services	10
Letter to the Editor: Mental health efforts should pay attention to children and young people in climate‐vulnerable countries	10
Parental death by external causes during childhood and risk of psychiatric disorders in bereaved offspring	10
The rapid stabilization pathway: impact of a brief inpatient intervention on the length of stay and readmissions among psychiatrically hospitalized adolescents	10
Narrative Matters: Ursula Le Guin's writings and adolescence	9
Correction to ‘Review: Economic evidence of preventive interventions for anxiety disorders in children and adolescents – a systematic review’	9
Debate: Where to next for universal school‐based mental health interventions? Time to move towards more effective alternatives	9
Building Resilience and Attachment in Vulnerable Adolescents (BRAVA): a brief group intervention for adolescents with mild‐to‐moderate suicidal ideation and their caregivers	9
Commentary: A spectrum for all? A response to Green et al. (2023), neurodiversity, autism and health care	9
Bullying victimization among adolescents during the early phase of war in Ukraine – A comparative cross‐sectional study in 2016–2017	9
Response – Building on existing knowledge and redefining rather than abandoning the well‐established ‘clinical high risk for psychosis’ prevention paradigm	9
Editorial Perspective: The digital divide – inequalities in remote therapy for children and adolescents	9
Life problems in children and adolescents who self‐harm: findings from the multicentre study of self‐harm in England	9
How are parenting practices associated with bullying in adolescents? A cross‐sectional study	9
Longitudinal effects of green, blue, and gray spaces on early adolescent mental health in the United States	9
Issue Information	8
Debate: More, not less social media content moderation? How to better protect youth mental health online	8
The protective role of community cohesion across rural and urban contexts: implications for youth mental health	8
Debate: Coping and resilience in the time of COVID‐19 and structural inequities	7
Issue Information	7
Commentary: What price eyeballs? – a commentary/reflection on Benoit, Thomas and Martin (2021)	7
Short Research Article: Do demographic, socioeconomic and clinical characteristics influence the number of psychological intervention sessions attended by young people in need of mental health care?	7
Longitudinal association of conduct and emotional problems with school exclusion and truancy: A fixed effect analysis of the UK Millennium Cohort Study	7
Commentary: Proactive practices to support youth coping with climate change – a commentary on Martin et al. (2021)	7
Debate: Conduct disorder and the segregation of child mental health	7
Debate: How the business model of social media fuels the need for greater moderation	7
Debate: ‘Neurodiversity’ – has it outrun its usefulness?	6
Editorial: Short interventions and self‐help interventions in child and adolescent mental health	6
Narrative Matters: Wasting away and fed up – dietary battles in history	6
Debate: One young person’s story of CAMHS and BPD	6
Clinical Research Updates	6
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Four Steps To My Future (4STMF): acceptability, feasibility and exploratory outcomes of a universal school‐based mental health and well‐being programme, delivered to young adolescents in South Africa	6
Review: Interventions to prevent or manage self‐harm among students in educational settings – a systematic review	6
Identifying and changing cognitive vulnerability in the classroom: preliminary evaluation of CUES‐Ed, a school‐based universal cognitive behavioural early intervention service for 7–10 year olds	6
Letter to the Editor: Detecting and treating young people at risk for psychosis is essential, but early intervention for those with a psychotic disorder should be a priority for CAMHS	6

Narrative Matters: Hidden LIVE – Adam's story – a mental health theatre production as an example of participatory principles and practices	5
Commentary: Against the widespread use of other types of PD diagnosis – a commentary on the May 2022 debate (should CAMH professionals be diagnosing personality disorder in adole	5
Debate: Urban versus rural environments – which is better for mental health? The one good thing about a small town…	5
Technology Matters: Using apps to address loneliness in adolescents and young adults – leveraging tech engagement among digital natives	5
Factors that impact mental health help‐seeking in Australian adolescents: a life‐course and socioecological perspective	5
Editorial: Primum non nocere – are adverse events accurately reported in studies on psychological interventions for children?	5
Editorial: New insights into self‐harm among children and young people – renewed links with inequality, new opportunities for recognition and new treatment option	5
Debate: Bridging the gap – role of nonspecialists in child and adolescent mental health care	5
Digital self‐harm and suicidality among adolescents	5
Debate: The future of inpatient units – do we need them?	5
Debate: Prevention of psychosis in adolescents – does CAMHS have a role?	5
Issue Information	5
Issue Information	5
Commentary: Technology, power and inequalities – achieving a humane approach to the digital divide – a commentary on Aboujaoude and Gega (2021)	5
Editorial: Evidence in the real world – the need for context and the gender gap	5
Debate: Conduct disorder, like all psychiatric diagnoses, is not a diagnosis	5
Debate: Involuntary treatment and detention are a necessary part of mental health care – a perspective from low and middle‐income countries	5