World Psychiatry

Papers
(The median citation count of World 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Mental health services on the roof of the world595
Rediscovering the mental health of populations341
Systems‐based approaches to mental disorders are the only game in town292
Sustainable Technology for Adolescents and youth to Reduce Stress (STARS): a WHO transdiagnostic chatbot for distressed youth286
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WPA Secretariat's work during the COVID‐19 pandemic258
Victimization in people with severe mental health problems: the need to improve research quality, risk stratification and preventive measures250
What is good acute psychiatric care (and how would you know)?222
A Minimum Service Package (MSP) to improve response to mental health and psychosocial needs in emergency situations214
Social determinants of health and selection bias in genome‐wide association studies193
Searching for biomarkers in the fluidity of mental ill‐health156
Increased risk for COVID‐19 breakthrough infection in fully vaccinated patients with substance use disorders in the United States between December 2020 and August 2021147
Trends, advances and directions in cognitive‐behavioral therapy for adolescent anxiety142
Complexities of treatment‐resistant depression: cautionary notes and promising avenues139
WPA communications under reorganization138
WPA scientific publications in the triennium 2020‐2023135
Anomalies of language in schizophrenia: a trajectory of mathematical and computational analyses131
Philosophy of psychiatry as study of paradigm changes128
Launching the social philosophy of psychiatry125
The promise of social recovery therapy in non‐affective psychoses119
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Violence and schizophrenia: the role of social determinants of health and the need for early intervention114
WPA Volunteering Programme: a pilot project in Mexico114
WPA educational initiatives: reaching different stakeholders in the mental health field112
How computational psychiatry can advance the understanding and treatment of obsessive‐compulsive disorder108
The WPA Section on Preventive Psychiatry: report on 2014‐2024 activities101
The WPA Global Study on Psychiatric Training97
The promise of ICD‐11‐defined PTSD and complex PTSD to improve care for trauma‐exposed populations97
Trauma, coloniality and survivance among Indigenous peoples in the US88
Vulnerability to addictive behaviors: the Associational Memory‐Appetitive Systems Relations Model87
The 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline in the US: status of evidence on implementation86
The WHO EQUIP Foundational Helping Skills Trainer's Curriculum82
From inter‐brain connectivity to inter‐personal psychiatry81
The need to focus on perfectionism in suicide assessment, treatment and prevention80
Rationale for and usefulness of the inclusion of gaming disorder in the ICD‐1176
Reappraising the variability of effects of antipsychotic medication in schizophrenia: a meta‐analysis76
World Health Organization's low‐intensity psychosocial interventions: a systematic review and meta‐analysis of the effects of Problem Management Plus andStep‐by‐Step75
Subjectivity, psychosis and the science of psychiatry73
Psychiatric care in oncology and palliative medicine: new challenges and future perspectives69
Detecting and managing non‐suicidal self‐damaging behaviors69
The need for a consensual definition of mental health68
Biomarkers for clinical use in psychiatry: where are we and will we ever get there?66
Addressing social determinants of mental health: a new era for prevention interventions61
The promise of evolutionary psychiatry51
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Evidence‐informed is not enough: digital therapeutics also need to be evidence‐based50
The efficacy of complicated grief therapy for DSM‐5‐TR prolonged grief disorder48
Childhood gender non‐conformity, sexual orientation and mental health problems among 18 to 89 year‐old Danes47
First evidence of a general disease (“d”) factor, a common factor underlying physical and mental illness46
R. Spitzer and the depathologization of homosexuality: some considerations on the 50th anniversary46
The challenges of defining and managing treatment‐resistant depression in research and practice43
Designing and delivering mental health literacy strategies in elite sport42
The WPA Code of Ethics for Psychiatry41
Aligning the “single law” proposal to the CRPD standard of “will and preferences”41
The critical distinction between suicidal ideation and suicide attempts40
Validity and utility of Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP): III. Emotional dysfunction superspectrum39
The WHO Flexible Interview for ICD‐11 (FLII‐11)39
A question of continuity: a self‐determination theory perspective on “third‐wave” behavioral theories and practices39
Prevention in psychiatry: a role for epigenetics?39
Cumulative remission rate after sequential treatments in depression: reappraisal of the STAR*D trial data37
Cyberbullying: next‐generation research36
Patterns and correlates of patient‐reported helpfulness of treatment for common mental and substance use disorders in the WHO World Mental Health Surveys36
The epidemic of fentanyl misuse and overdoses: challenges and strategies34
Treatment‐resistant depression invites persistent reflection34
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‐analysis34
Development and temporal validation of a clinical prediction model of transition to psychosis in individuals at ultra‐high risk in the UHR 1000+ cohort33
New insights from the last decade of research in psychiatric genetics: discoveries, challenges and clinical implications32
Prevention, treatment and care of substance use disorders in times of COVID‐1931
The clinical characterization of the adult patient with bipolar disorder aimed at personalization of management31
The curse and opportunity of heterogeneity in the pursuit of psychiatric biomarkers31
Action Plan of the WPA Secretary for Scientific Meetings (2023‐2026)30
How should psychotherapy proceed when adjoined with psychedelics?30
WPA Working Group on Medical Students: current initiatives and future priorities30
Functional neurological disorder: defying dualism29
From diversity to individualized care: Africa’s contribution to psychiatry27
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Promoting schizophrenia research in Europe: the contribution of the European Group for Research in Schizophrenia24
The importance of listening to patient preferences when making mental health care decisions24
Cognitive behavioral therapy, process‐based approaches, and evolution in the context of physical health23
Real changes can enhance information yield on novel psychopharmacologic agents22
Implementation of the WPA Action Plan 2020‐202322
The 2021‐2024 Work Plan of WPA Collaborating Centres22
Do we really need a process‐based approach to psychotherapy?22
Estimating the reproducibility of psychotherapy effects in mood and anxiety disorders: the possible utility of multicenter trials21
WPA Working Group on Defining and Managing Autism Spectrum Disorder: spreading knowledge for the next generations of psychiatrists21
Implementing 21st century “end‐to‐end” and technology‐enhanced care for young people20
Nurturing the next generation of clinician‐scientists in child and adolescent psychiatry: recommendations from a WPA Presidential Task Force20
The “Meet the WPA Council” Panel at the 21st World Congress of Psychiatry19
Five conceptual competences in psychiatry19
What exactly is post‐traumatic stress disorder?19
Klerman's “credo” reconsidered:neo‐Kraepelinianism, Spitzer's views, and what we can learn from the past19
Association between stressful life events and psychosis relapse: a 2‐year prospective study in first‐episode psychosis19
Impact of displacement on mental health in war‐exposed Ukrainian adolescents: a longitudinal study19
The paradox of the biopsychological and sociocultural levels in post‐traumatic stress disorder18
The lived experience of postpartum depression and psychosis in women: a bottom‐up review co‐written by experts by experience and academics18
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Past, present and future of research on brain energy metabolism in bipolar disorder17
Minimal clinically important difference in obsessive‐compulsive disorder17
The role of the WPA Collaborating Centres in promoting mental health education and policy worldwide17
How common is secondary psychosis? Estimates from a systematic review and meta‐analysis17
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The role of gamification in digital mental health16
The challenges of youth mental health: showing the hero out of the panopticon16
Report by the WPA Working Group on Developing Partnerships with Service Users and Family Carers (2020‐2023)15
Prenatal exposure to antidepressants or antipsychotics and the risk of seizure in children15
Incremental integration of nosological innovations is improving psychiatric diagnosis and treatment15
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The aggregation of marginal gains: a pragmatic philosophy of clinical care in psychiatry15
The changing nature of work in the 21st century as a social determinant of mental health15
Achieving equality, inclusiveness, and cultural sensitivity in mental health (EDIT)15
The evolving nosology of personality disorder and its clinical utility15
Process‐based and principle‐guided approaches in youth psychotherapy15
Update on WPA Scientific Meetings14
The WPA Action Plan 2023‐202614
Clinical response to SSRIs relative to cognitive behavioral therapy in depression: a symptom‐specific approach14
Update on WPA Scientific Meetings14
Learning from the global response to COVID‐19 to accelerate innovation in mental health trials14
WPA Scientific Sections 2020‐2023: from strengthened backbone to motor of innovation14
Some priorities in targeting social determinants to achieve prevention of mental disorders14
The evolving epidemiology and differential etiopathogenesis of eating disorders: implications for prevention and treatment14
Improving education in psychiatry in an evolving scenario: the activities of the WPA Section on Education in Psychiatry13
Suicide crisis syndrome: a specific diagnosis to aid suicide prevention13
Shifting the pendulum – but with checks and balances13
Twelve rather than three waves of cognitive behavior therapy allow a personalized treatment13
A report from the WPA Working Group on Providing Mental Health Care for Migrants and Refugees13
Scientific validation of the ICD‐11 CDDR13
The need for a new generation of digital mental health tools to support more accessible, effective and equitable care12
Internet‐based field trials of the ICD‐11 chapter on mental disorders12
The ICD‐11 CDDR: benefits to health systems and clinical care12
The clinical characterization of the adult patient with an anxiety or related disorder aimed at personalization of management12
Pushing forward public mental health agenda and promotion of mental health12
The WPA Action Plan 2020‐2023: an updated report12
Person‐centred care planning as foundational to clinical practice11
Most at‐risk individuals will not develop a mental disorder: the limited predictive strength of risk factors11
Comorbidity between major depressive disorder and physical diseases: a comprehensive review of epidemiology, mechanisms and management11
Meaning in life is a fundamental protective factor in the context of psychopathology11
The promise of machine learning in predicting treatment outcomes in psychiatry11
The drug treatment deadlock in psychiatry and the route forward11
Patients with schizophrenia are under‐vaccinated for COVID‐19: a report from Israel11
Psychotherapies for depression: a network meta‐analysis covering efficacy, acceptability and long‐term outcomes of all main treatment types11
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 198711
Acute psychiatric care: approaches to increasing the range of services and improving access and quality of care11
DSM‐5‐TR: overview of what’s new and what’s changed11
Psychiatric diagnosis and treatment in the 21st century: paradigm shifts versus incremental integration11
We share more attributes than we think: the crucial input of epidemiology11
Borderline personality disorder: a comprehensive review of diagnosis and clinical presentation, etiology, treatment, and current controversies10
Alternatives to coercion in mental health care: WPA Position Statement and Call to Action10
Thinking too much: rumination and psychopathology10
Tolerability and efficacy of paroxetine and naltrexone for treatment of compulsive sexual behaviour disorder10
Understanding depression beyond the “mind‐body” dichotomy10
Candidate diagnostic biomarkers for neurodevelopmental disorders in children and adolescents: a systematic review10
Validity and utility of Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP): II. Externalizing superspectrum10
Phenomenology, delusions and justice9
Challenges of research on treatment‐resistant depression: a clinician's perspective9
Substance use disorders: a comprehensive update of classification, epidemiology, neurobiology, clinical aspects, treatment and prevention9
Sex differences need to be considered when treating women with psychotropic drugs9
Key considerations for clinical trials in psychopharmacology9
Prevention in the mental health field should be implemented synergically at different levels9
Risk of new‐onset psychiatric sequelae of COVID‐19 in the early and late post‐acute phase9
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Update on the activities of the WPA Secretary for Publications9
Risk and protective factors for mental disorders beyond genetics: an evidence‐based atlas9
Anorexia nervosa and the long‐term risk of mortality in women9
Burnout: a case for its formal inclusion in classification systems9
Mental health literacy for supporting children: the need for a new field of research and intervention9
Malpractice claims in psychiatry: approaches to reducing risk9
Report from the WPA Secretary for Scientific Sections9
Chronotype and mental health: timing seems to matter, but how, why, and for whom?9
Designing and scaling up integrated youth mental health care9
Prolonged grief disorder: detection, diagnosis, and approaches to intervention9
Mental health care for older adults: recent advances and new directions in clinical practice and research9
WPA Section on Perinatal Psychiatry and Infant Mental Health: a report on recent activities9
The World Psychiatry Exchange Program: expanding the world of early career psychiatrists9
Violence in schizophrenia: triangulating the evidence on perpetration risk8
WPA Volunteering Programme: lessons learnt so far8
A lived experience perspective on the new World Mental Health Report8
Update on implementation of WPA Action Plan 2020‐20238
Loneliness and abuse as risk factors for suicide in older adults: new developments and the contribution of the WPA Section on Old Age Psychiatry8
One world, one profession: psychiatry8
Prevention, treatment and care of substance use disorders among adolescents. Statement by the UNODCWHO Informal Scientific Network, 20248
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Psychiatric symptoms and cognitive impairment in “Long COVID”: the relevance of immunopsychiatry8
The Lifestyle Psychiatry project of the WPA Section on Medicine, Psychiatry and Primary Care8
Euthanasia for unbearable suffering caused by a psychiatric disorder: improving the regulatory framework8
Physician‐assisted dying in people with mental health conditions – whose choice?8
Physician‐assisted death for psychiatric disorders: ongoing reasons for concern8
New research on validity and clinical utility of ICD‐11 vs. ICD‐10 and DSM‐5 diagnostic categories8
Implementation of the ICD‐11 CDDR in China8
Tough times never last too long: the future of psychopharmacology7
Metacognition in psychosis: a renewed path to understanding of core disturbances and recovery‐oriented treatment7
Enabling a youth‐ and mental health‐sensitive greener post‐pandemic recovery7
How the ICD‐11 and the CDDR address the public health dimensions of substance use7
Trans‐theoretical clinical models and the implementation of precision mental health care7
Education, policy and clinical care in mental health: an update on the activities of WPA Collaborating Centres7
Computer‐based virtual reality assessment of functional capacity in primary psychosis7
Acute psychiatric care: the need for contextual understanding and tailored solutions7
Repurposing fluvoxamine, and other psychiatric medications, for COVID‐19 and other conditions7
Ethical challenges in contemporary psychiatry: an overview and an appraisal of possible strategies and research needs7
Community care for people with mental illness: challenges emerging in the 2020s and consequent recommendations7
An update from the WPA Working Group on Digitalization in Mental Health and Care7
Protective and compensatory childhood experiences and their impact on adult mental health7
Advance care planning: a multifaceted contributor to human rights‐based care7
Emotion regulation, scaffolding and psychiatry7
Coming out proud to erase the stigma of mental illness6
Public health psychiatry: an idea whose time has come6
Suicide prevention: what works, what might work, and what does not work6
PSYPGx: a new intervention for the implementation of pharmacogenetics in psychiatry6
Are language features associated with psychosis risk universal? A study in Mandarin‐speaking youths at clinical high risk for psychosis6
Augmenting trauma‐focused cognitive behavior therapy for post‐traumatic stress disorder with memory specificity training: a randomized controlled trial6
Changing approaches to interventions for autistic adults6
After the acute crisis – engaging people with psychosis in rehabilitation‐oriented care6
Balancing the beautiful and the good in pursuit of biomarkers for depression6
Learning health systems for community‐based mental health6
The hypothesis of biologically based subtypes of schizophrenia: a 10‐year update6
Adverse childhood experiences: a meta‐analysis of prevalence and moderators among half a million adults in 206 studies5
Internalizing psychopathology and all‐cause mortality: a comparison of transdiagnostic vs. diagnosis‐based risk prediction5
The value and limitations of self‐administered questionnaires in clinical practice and epidemiological studies5
Activities and technologies: developing safer acute inpatient mental health care5
Psychiatry in the 21st century: the glass is half full5
The alliance in mental health care: conceptualization, evidence and clinical applications5
Improving mental health through fostering healthy lifestyles in young people: one of the targets in the WPA Action Plan 2023‐20265
The utility of patient‐reported outcome measures in mental health5
“Third‐wave” cognitive and behavioral therapies and the emergence of a process‐based approach to intervention in psychiatry5
Clinical implications of co‐occurring prolonged grief disorder in patients with treatment‐resistant major depressive disorder5
Deconstructing the social determinants of mental health5
Clearing the air: clarifying the causal role of smoking in mental illness5
Dopamine and glutamate in individuals at high risk for psychosis: a meta‐analysis of in vivo imaging findings and their variability compared to controls5
From “online brains” to “online lives”: understanding the individualized impacts of Internet use across psychological, cognitive and social dimensions5
The Hikikomori Diagnostic Evaluation (HiDE): a proposal for a structured assessment of pathological social withdrawal5
Personality in the spotlight: activities of the WPA Section on Personality Disorders5
Transdiagnostic risk of mental disorders in offspring of affected parents: a meta‐analysis of family high‐risk and registry studies5
All levels of the translational spectrum must be targeted to advance psychopharmacology and improve patient outcomes5
The growing field of digital psychiatry: current evidence and the future of apps, social media, chatbots, and virtual reality5
Treatment of substance use disorders in prison settings: statement by the UNODC‐WHO Informal Scientific Network, UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs5
Outcomes in people with eating disorders: a transdiagnostic and disorder‐specific systematic review, meta‐analysis and multivariable meta‐regression analysis5
Toward a systems‐based approach to understanding the role of the sympathetic nervous system in depression5
Biomarkers in psychiatric disorders: status quo, impediments and facilitators5
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