OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of World Psychiatry is 50. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
WPA scientific publications in the triennium 2020‐2023	718
Detecting and managing non‐suicidal self‐damaging behaviors	421
R. Spitzer and the depathologization of homosexuality: some considerations on the 50th anniversary	403
A question of continuity: a self‐determination theory perspective on “third‐wave” behavioral theories and practices	356
Evidence‐informed is not enough: digital therapeutics also need to be evidence‐based	353
From inter‐brain connectivity to inter‐personal psychiatry	291
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	208
What is good acute psychiatric care (and how would you know)?	184
Patterns and correlates of patient‐reported helpfulness of treatment for common mental and substance use disorders in the WHO World Mental Health Surveys	184
Trauma, coloniality and survivance among Indigenous peoples in the US	179
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	173
Reappraising the variability of effects of antipsychotic medication in schizophrenia: a meta‐analysis	168
Cognitive behavioral therapy, process‐based approaches, and evolution in the context of physical health	161
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The “Meet the WPA Council” Panel at the 21st World Congress of Psychiatry	158
Prenatal exposure to antidepressants or antipsychotics and the risk of seizure in children	150
Implementation of the WPA Action Plan 2020‐2023	149
Burnout: a case for its formal inclusion in classification systems	145
Estimating the reproducibility of psychotherapy effects in mood and anxiety disorders: the possible utility of multicenter trials	143
Sex differences need to be considered when treating women with psychotropic drugs	142
The aggregation of marginal gains: a pragmatic philosophy of clinical care in psychiatry	140
Scientific validation of the ICD‐11 CDDR	121
Breaking down barriers to conversations about sexual and reproductive health	117
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Prevention, treatment and care of substance use disorders in times of COVID‐19	108

Achieving equality, inclusiveness, and cultural sensitivity in mental health (EDIT)	102
Alternatives to coercion in mental health care: WPA Position Statement and Call to Action	101
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	100
Mental health literacy for supporting children: the need for a new field of research and intervention	94
Functional neurological disorder: defying dualism	90
How common is secondary psychosis? Estimates from a systematic review and meta‐analysis	88
Designing and scaling up integrated youth mental health care	85
A lived experience perspective on the new World Mental Health Report	85
One world, one profession: psychiatry	84
Malpractice claims in psychiatry: approaches to reducing risk	81
Education, policy and clinical care in mental health: an update on the activities of WPA Collaborating Centres	79
“Third‐wave” cognitive and behavioral therapies and the emergence of a process‐based approach to intervention in psychiatry	77
Key considerations for clinical trials in psychopharmacology	76
Metacognition in psychosis: a renewed path to understanding of core disturbances and recovery‐oriented treatment	68
How the ICD‐11 and the CDDR address the public health dimensions of substance use	60
After the acute crisis – engaging people with psychosis in rehabilitation‐oriented care	60
What makes Internet‐based interventions work?	60
The Hikikomori Diagnostic Evaluation (HiDE): a proposal for a structured assessment of pathological social withdrawal	59
Augmenting trauma‐focused cognitive behavior therapy for post‐traumatic stress disorder with memory specificity training: a randomized controlled trial	58
The hypothesis of biologically based subtypes of schizophrenia: a 10‐year update	55
The growing field of digital psychiatry: current evidence and the future of apps, social media, chatbots, and virtual reality	54
Outcomes in people with eating disorders: a transdiagnostic and disorder‐specific systematic review, meta‐analysis and multivariable meta‐regression analysis	54
Ongoing phase 2/3 trials of psychotropic drugs: is help finally on the way?	53
Treatment of substance use disorders in prison settings: statement by the UNODC‐WHO Informal Scientific Network, UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs	51
Global launch of the ICD‐11 Clinical Descriptions and Diagnostic Requirements (CDDR)	50