OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health is 29. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Psychophysiological mechanisms underlying the failure to speak: a comparison between children with selective mutism and social anxiety disorder on autonomic arousal	217
Global prevalence of nocturnal enuresis and associated factors among children and adolescents: a systematic review and meta-analysis	98
Change in screen time and overuse, and their association with psychological well-being among US-wide school-age children during the COVID-19 pandemic: analysis of the National Survey of Children’s Hea	96
Identifying multilevel and multisectoral strategies to develop a Theory of Change for improving child and adolescent mental health services in a case-study district in South Africa	68
Parent-adolescent informant discrepancy on the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire in the UK Millennium Cohort Study	61
Social support and mental health among adolescents in Kenya, Indonesia, and Vietnam: A latent class analysis using the National Adolescent Mental Health Surveys	56
A school-setting pilot study of the e-learning version of the “Journey of the Brave”: a universal anxiety-prevention program based on cognitive behavioral therapy	52
What aspects of the pandemic had the greatest impact on adolescent mental health: duration of lockdown or subjective experience?	50
Transitioning to adult mental health services for young people with ADHD: an Italian-based survey on practices for pediatric and adult services	48
Characterizing mental health related service contacts in children and youth: a linkage study of health survey and administrative data	44
Perceived school bullying and psychotic-like experiences in sexual minority adolescents: the mediating and moderating roles of resilience	43
A comparison of expressed emotion between mothers and their adolescent daughters with and without a history of nonsuicidal self-injury	40
The association of bullying and self-esteem with psychotic-like experiences and clinical high risk for psychosis symptoms	40
The effects of training female students in emotion regulation techniques on their social problem-solving skills and social anxiety: a randomized controlled trial	40
Neurocognition and functioning in adolescents at clinical high risk for psychosis	37
Bidirectional relationships between intolerance of uncertainty and generalized anxiety among adolescents: insights from cross-lagged panel network analysis	36
Evaluating a prototype digital mental health literacy intervention for children and young people aged 11–15 in Java, Indonesia: a mixed methods, multi-site case study evaluation	36
Validity, reliability and clinical utility of ASSIST-Y in assessing risk of substance-related harm and dependence in Spanish male adolescents	36
Youth depression in Ethiopia: a comprehensive systematic review and meta-analysis	36
Randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of aripiprazole oral solution in children and adolescents with Tourette’s disorder	34
Sex and the streets: the open secret of sexual abuse among Pakistan’s two million street children	34
Emergence of psychiatric adverse events during antipsychotic treatment in AP-naïve children and adolescents	33
Correction: A systematic review of telehealth screening, assessment, and diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder	32
Extended treatment of multimodal cognitive behavioral therapy in children and adolescents with obsessive–compulsive disorder improves symptom reduction: a within-subject design	32
Concordance between two intrapersonal psychological resilience scales: how should we be measuring resilience?	31

Trajectories and correlates of mental health among urban, school-age children during the COVID-19 pandemic: a longitudinal study	31
Child and adolescent mental health services in Khartoum State, Sudan: a desktop situational analysis	30
Psychosocial stress in families of young children after the pandemic: no time to rest	30
Using formative research to inform a mental health intervention for adolescents living in Indian slums: the ARTEMIS study	29
Therapeutic horseback riding for at-risk adolescents in residential care	29