OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of World Psychiatry is 47. 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
WPA scientific publications in the triennium 2020‐2023	644
Detecting and managing non‐suicidal self‐damaging behaviors	374
R. Spitzer and the depathologization of homosexuality: some considerations on the 50th anniversary	325
Trauma, coloniality and survivance among Indigenous peoples in the US	314
What is good acute psychiatric care (and how would you know)?	307
Evidence‐informed is not enough: digital therapeutics also need to be evidence‐based	270
From inter‐brain connectivity to inter‐personal psychiatry	203
A question of continuity: a self‐determination theory perspective on “third‐wave” behavioral theories and practices	164
Patterns and correlates of patient‐reported helpfulness of treatment for common mental and substance use disorders in the WHO World Mental Health Surveys	162
Increased risk for COVID‐19 breakthrough infection in fully vaccinated patients with substance use disorders in the United States between December 2020 and August 2021	161
Therapist‐supported Internet‐based cognitive behaviour therapy yields similar effects as face‐to‐face therapy for psychiatric and somatic disorders: an updated systematic review and meta‐analysis	152
Reappraising the variability of effects of antipsychotic medication in schizophrenia: a meta‐analysis	150
Estimating the reproducibility of psychotherapy effects in mood and anxiety disorders: the possible utility of multicenter trials	144
Cognitive behavioral therapy, process‐based approaches, and evolution in the context of physical health	144
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The “Meet the WPA Council” Panel at the 21st World Congress of Psychiatry	138
Implementation of the WPA Action Plan 2020‐2023	137
Prenatal exposure to antidepressants or antipsychotics and the risk of seizure in children	137
Mental health literacy for supporting children: the need for a new field of research and intervention	131
Functional neurological disorder: defying dualism	122
The aggregation of marginal gains: a pragmatic philosophy of clinical care in psychiatry	116
Burnout: a case for its formal inclusion in classification systems	116
How common is secondary psychosis? Estimates from a systematic review and meta‐analysis	116
Sex differences need to be considered when treating women with psychotropic drugs	109
Achieving equality, inclusiveness, and cultural sensitivity in mental health (EDIT)	95

Breaking down barriers to conversations about sexual and reproductive health	94
Potential for prediction of psychosis and bipolar disorder in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: a longitudinal register study of all people born in Finland in 1987	89
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Scientific validation of the ICD‐11 CDDR	88
Prevention, treatment and care of substance use disorders in times of COVID‐19	81
A lived experience perspective on the new World Mental Health Report	79
Designing and scaling up integrated youth mental health care	79
Alternatives to coercion in mental health care: WPA Position Statement and Call to Action	79
Augmenting trauma‐focused cognitive behavior therapy for post‐traumatic stress disorder with memory specificity training: a randomized controlled trial	76
One world, one profession: psychiatry	72
Malpractice claims in psychiatry: approaches to reducing risk	71
Key considerations for clinical trials in psychopharmacology	64
The hypothesis of biologically based subtypes of schizophrenia: a 10‐year update	61
Education, policy and clinical care in mental health: an update on the activities of WPA Collaborating Centres	58
Metacognition in psychosis: a renewed path to understanding of core disturbances and recovery‐oriented treatment	56
After the acute crisis – engaging people with psychosis in rehabilitation‐oriented care	55
How the ICD‐11 and the CDDR address the public health dimensions of substance use	53
What makes Internet‐based interventions work?	53
The Hikikomori Diagnostic Evaluation (HiDE): a proposal for a structured assessment of pathological social withdrawal	52
“Third‐wave” cognitive and behavioral therapies and the emergence of a process‐based approach to intervention in psychiatry	51
Outcomes in people with eating disorders: a transdiagnostic and disorder‐specific systematic review, meta‐analysis and multivariable meta‐regression analysis	49
The growing field of digital psychiatry: current evidence and the future of apps, social media, chatbots, and virtual reality	47