OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health is 26. 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
Randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of aripiprazole oral solution in children and adolescents with Tourette’s disorder	171
Characterizing mental health related service contacts in children and youth: a linkage study of health survey and administrative data	83
Sex and the streets: the open secret of sexual abuse among Pakistan’s two million street children	77
Psychophysiological mechanisms underlying the failure to speak: a comparison between children with selective mutism and social anxiety disorder on autonomic arousal	57
Transitioning to adult mental health services for young people with ADHD: an Italian-based survey on practices for pediatric and adult services	44
The effects of maternal depression on their perception of emotional and behavioral problems of their internationally adopted children	43
Neurocognition and functioning in adolescents at clinical high risk for psychosis	41
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	41
A comparison of expressed emotion between mothers and their adolescent daughters with and without a history of nonsuicidal self-injury	37
The effects of training female students in emotion regulation techniques on their social problem-solving skills and social anxiety: a randomized controlled trial	36
The association of bullying and self-esteem with psychotic-like experiences and clinical high risk for psychosis symptoms	36
Bidirectional relationships between intolerance of uncertainty and generalized anxiety among adolescents: insights from cross-lagged panel network analysis	35
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	34
Global prevalence of nocturnal enuresis and associated factors among children and adolescents: a systematic review and meta-analysis	34
Perceived school bullying and psychotic-like experiences in sexual minority adolescents: the mediating and moderating roles of resilience	33
Mothers’ daily perceived stress influences their children’s mental health during SARS-CoV-2-pandemic—an online survey	32
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	31
Validity, reliability and clinical utility of ASSIST-Y in assessing risk of substance-related harm and dependence in Spanish male adolescents	31
What aspects of the pandemic had the greatest impact on adolescent mental health: duration of lockdown or subjective experience?	31
Parent-adolescent informant discrepancy on the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire in the UK Millennium Cohort Study	31
Is physical exercise associated with reduced adolescent social anxiety mediated by psychological resilience?: evidence from a longitudinal multi-wave study in China	29
Child and adolescent mental health services in Khartoum State, Sudan: a desktop situational analysis	28
Revisiting best practices: a reflection on the online evaluation and treatment of ADHD and implications for future practice	28
Using formative research to inform a mental health intervention for adolescents living in Indian slums: the ARTEMIS study	27
Extended treatment of multimodal cognitive behavioral therapy in children and adolescents with obsessive–compulsive disorder improves symptom reduction: a within-subject design	26

Emergence of psychiatric adverse events during antipsychotic treatment in AP-naïve children and adolescents	26
Therapeutic horseback riding for at-risk adolescents in residential care	26