OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences is 3. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Global, regional and national burden of anxiety disorders from 1990 to 2019: results from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019	143
Psychological impact of COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare workers in a highly burdened area of north-east Italy	132
Prevalence of depressive symptoms among Chinese university students amid the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review and meta-analysis	82
Mental health problems in the general population during and after the first lockdown phase due to the SARS-Cov-2 pandemic: rapid review of multi-wave studies	68
Trends in suicide rates during the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions in a major German city	66
The lack of statistical power of subgroup analyses in meta-analyses: a cautionary note	60
Psychometric properties of burnout measures: a systematic review	60
Psychological impact of the quarantine during the COVID-19 pandemic on the general European adult population: a systematic review of the evidence	56
Changes in depression and suicidal ideation under severe lockdown restrictions during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain: a longitudinal study in the general population	45
Role of age, gender and marital status in prognosis for adults with depression: An individual patient data meta-analysis	43
Mental disorder symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic in Latin America – a systematic review and meta-analysis	40
Reducing stigma and discrimination associated with COVID-19: early stage pandemic rapid review and practical recommendations	38
The impact of COVID-19 on subthreshold depressive symptoms: a longitudinal study	33
Alcohol, coffee and tea intake and the risk of cognitive deficits: a dose–response meta-analysis	32
Thirty-day suicidal thoughts and behaviours in the Spanish adult general population during the first wave of the Spain COVID-19 pandemic	31
Causal effect of tooth loss on depression: evidence from a population-wide natural experiment in the USA	31
Uncovering survivorship bias in longitudinal mental health surveys during the COVID-19 pandemic	29
Depression and increased risk of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in individuals with obesity	29
Excess mortality and life-years lost in people with bipolar disorder: an 11-year population-based cohort study	29
Suicide, self-harm and thoughts of suicide or self-harm in infectious disease epidemics: a systematic review and meta-analysis	28
Sleep disturbance and psychiatric disorders: a bidirectional Mendelian randomisation study	26
Clinical outcomes in individuals at clinical high risk of psychosis who do not transition to psychosis: a meta-analysis	25
Mental health and caregiving experiences of family carers supporting people with psychosis	23
A call for greater conceptual clarity in the field of mental health and psychosocial support in humanitarian settings	22
Homophobia and mental health: a scourge of modern era	22

Clozapine haematological monitoring for neutropenia: a global perspective	21
Use of antipsychotics in Denmark 1997–2018: a nation-wide drug utilisation study with focus on off-label use and associated diagnoses	21
Does retirement trigger depressive symptoms? A systematic review and meta-analysis	20
The treatment gap for mental disorders in adults enrolled in HIV treatment programmes in South Africa: a cohort study using linked electronic health records	20
The association between sleep and depressive symptoms in US adults: data from the NHANES (2007–2014)	19
Risk of COVID-19 diagnosis and death in patients with mental illness: a cohort study	18
Excess mortality in patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders in Malaga (Spain): A cohort study	18
Stress reactivity as a putative mechanism linking childhood trauma with clinical outcomes in individuals at ultra-high-risk for psychosis: Findings from the EU-GEI High Risk Study	17
The role of cognitive and social leisure activities in dementia risk: assessing longitudinal associations of modifiable and non-modifiable risk factors	17
Neuroimaging studies exploring the neural basis of social isolation	17
Adverse childhood experiences and global mental health: avenues to reduce the burden of child and adolescent mental disorders	16
Mental impact of Covid-19 among Spanish healthcare workers. A large longitudinal survey	16
Effects of lithium on suicide and suicidal behaviour: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised trials	16
Who benefits from individual placement and support? A meta-analysis	16
Global, regional and national burden of autism spectrum disorder from 1990 to 2019: results from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019	16
Prevalence of anxiety and depression in people with different types of cancer or haematologic malignancies: a cross-sectional study	15
Specific and cumulative lifetime stressors in the aetiology of major depression: A longitudinal community-based population study	15
Association between physical-activity trajectories and cognitive decline in adults 50 years of age or older	14
Blind spots in stigma research? Broadening our perspective on mental illness stigma by exploring ‘what matters most’ in modern Western societies	14
Mental health and the global climate crisis	13
Connectivity changes in major depressive disorder after rTMS: a review of functional and structural connectivity data	13
Stigma against mental health disorders in Nepal conceptualised with a ‘what matters most’ framework: a scoping review	12
Profiles of exposure to potentially traumatic events in refugees living in Australia	11
Ethnicity and power in the mental health system: experiences of white British and black Caribbean people with psychosis	11
The quality of mental health care delivered to patients with schizophrenia and related disorders in the Italian mental health system. The QUADIM project: a multi-regional Italian investigation based o	11
Risk factors of post-traumatic stress disorder 10 years after Wenchuan earthquake: a population-based case–control study	11
Enhancing the capabilities of forcibly displaced people: a human development approach to conflict- and displacement-related stressors	11
A three-arm randomised controlled trial to evaluate the efficacy of a positive psychology and social networking intervention in promoting mental health among HIV-infected men who have sex with men in	10
Measuring subjective stress among young people in Hong Kong: validation and predictive utility of the single-item subjective level of stress (SLS-1) in epidemiological and longitudinal community sampl	10
What makes the psychosis ‘clinical high risk’ state risky: psychosis itself or the co-presence of a non-psychotic disorder?	10
EMA and FDA psychiatric drug trial guidelines: assessment of guideline development and trial design recommendations	10
Prevalence of psychiatric disorders for Indigenous Australians: a population-based birth cohort study	10
The prevalence of hazardous and harmful drinking in the UK Police Service, and their co-occurrence with job strain and mental health problems	10
Income disparity in school readiness and the mediating role of perinatal maternal mental health: a longitudinal birth cohort study	10
Association between benzodiazepine receptor agonist use and mortality in patients hospitalised for COVID-19: a multicentre observational study	9
The role of social deprivation and depression in dementia risk: findings from the longitudinal survey of health, ageing and retirement in Europe	9
The effect of the COVID-19 lockdown on mental health care use in South Africa: an interrupted time-series analysis	9
Moving beyond a ‘one-size-fits-all’ rationale in global mental health: prospects of a precision psychology paradigm	9
Parental education and youth suicidal behaviours: a systematic review and meta-analysis	9
How to deprescribe esketamine in resistant depression? A point of view after first clinical uses	9
Covid-19-related stressors, mental disorders, depressive and anxiety symptoms: a cross-sectional, nationally-representative, face-to-face survey in Serbia	9
Twelve-month follow-up of a randomised clinical trial of a brief group psychological intervention for common mental disorders in Syrian refugees in Jordan	9
Has the COVID-19 pandemic influenced suicide rates differentially according to socioeconomic indices and ethnicity? More evidence is needed globally	8
Suicide, self-harm and thoughts of suicide or self-harm in infectious disease epidemics: a systematic review and meta-analysis – CORRIGENDUM	8
Housing First for homeless people with severe mental illness: extended 4-year follow-up and analysis of recovery and housing stability from the randomized Un Chez Soi d'Abord trial	8
Inequalities in the prevalence of major depressive disorder in Brazilian slum populations: a cross-sectional analysis	8
Prediction of parental alienation on depression in left-behind children: A 12-month follow-up investigation	8
Health and social care service utilisation and associated expenditure among community-dwelling older adults with depressive symptoms	8
Childhood adversities and bipolar disorder: a neuroimaging focus	8
Mediation of Internet addiction on association between childhood maltreatment and suicidal behaviours among Chinese adolescents	8

Socio-political context as determinant of childhood maltreatment: a population-based study among women and men in East and West Germany	8
Disability and post-traumatic stress symptoms in the Ukrainian General Population during the 2022 Russian Invasion	8
Prevalence of pica and rumination behaviours in adults and associations with eating disorder and general psychopathology: findings form a population-based study	8
Potentially preventable hospitalisations for physical health conditions in community mental health service users: a population-wide linkage study	8
Phenomenology as a resource for translational research in mental health: methodological trends, challenges and new directions	8
Evaluation of competency-driven training for facilitators delivering a psychological intervention for children in Lebanon: a proof-of-concept study	7
Magnitude of terminological bias in international health services research: a disambiguation analysis in mental health	7
#patientstoo – Professional sexual misconduct by healthcare professionals towards patients: a representative study	7
A Bayesian approach to estimating the population prevalence of mood and anxiety disorders using multiple measures	7
Trauma exposure and factors associated with ICD-11 PTSD and complex PTSD in adolescence: a cross-cultural study in Japan and Lithuania	7
Indirect social contact interventions to reduce mental health-related stigma in low- and middle-income countries: systematic review	7
Global trends and regional differences in the burden of anxiety disorders and major depressive disorder attributed to bullying victimisation in 204 countries and territories, 1999–2019: an analysis of	7
Population-based cohort study of oral contraceptive use and risk of depression	7
Mapping the selection, availability, price and affordability of essential medicines for mental health conditions at a global level	7
Association of long-term exposure to air pollution with chronic sleep deprivation in adults from 141 urban communities in South Korea: a community-level longitudinal study, 2008‒2016	6
An outstanding message of hope: the WHO World Mental Health Report 2022	6
The effectiveness of volunteer befriending for improving the quality of life of patients with schizophrenia in Bosnia and Herzegovina – an exploratory randomised controlled trial	6
Genetic and psychosocial stressors have independent effects on the level of subclinical psychosis: findings from the multinational EU-GEI study	6
Long-term psychological profile of general population following COVID-19 outbreak: symptom trajectories and evolution of psychopathological network	6
A response to yet another defence of ECT in the absence of robust efficacy and safety evidence	6
A critique of narrative reviews of the evidence-base for ECT in depression	6
Ethnic inequities in multimorbidity among people with psychosis: a retrospective cohort study	6
Association of antipsychotic use with breast cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies with over 2 million individuals	5
Depressive symptoms and suicidality by menopausal stages among middle-aged Korean women	5
Estimating prevalence of child and youth mental disorder and mental health-related service contacts: a comparison of survey data and linked administrative health data	5
Hospital admission at the time of a postpartum psychiatric emergency department visit: the influence of the social determinants of health	5
Sociodemographic and clinical characteristics in child and youth mental health; comparison of routine outcome measurements of an Australian and Dutch outpatient cohort	5
Preventing the mental health consequences of war in refugee populations	5
The dynamic nature of refugee children's resilience: a cohort study of Syrian refugees in Lebanon	5
Cardiovascular and metabolic risk of antipsychotics in children and young adults: a multinational self-controlled case series study	5
Estimating the impact of child and early adolescent depression on subsequent educational attainment: secondary analysis of an existing data linkage	5
Needs for care of residents with schizophrenia spectrum disorders and association with daily activities and mood monitored with experience sampling method: the DIAPASON study	5
The impact of child psychiatric conditions on future educational outcomes among a community cohort in Brazil	5
Clinical outcomes in brief psychotic episodes: a systematic review and meta-analysis	5
Preclinical and clinical evidence on the approach-avoidance conflict evaluation as an integrative tool for psychopathology	4
Development and psychometric validation of new questionnaires assessing experienced discrimination and internalised stigma among people with Covid-19	4
Boosting the development of individual placement and support in Europe	4
State of Ireland's mental health: findings from a nationally representative survey	4
Population heterogeneity in developmental trajectories of internalising and externalising mental health symptoms in childhood: differential effects of parenting styles	4
Maternal migraine and the risk of psychiatric disorders in offspring: a population-based cohort study	4
Associations of bullying victimisation in different frequencies and types with suicidal behaviours among school-going adolescents in low- and middle-income countries	4
Crimes and sentences in individuals with intellectual disability in a forensic psychiatric context: a register-based study	4
Roles of obesity in mediating the causal effect of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder on diabetes	4
Changing trends in the global burden of mental disorders from 1990 to 2019 and predicted levels in 25 years	4
Still too much delay in recognition of autism spectrum disorder	4
Are all children treated equally? Psychiatric care and treatment receipt among migrant, descendant and majority Swedish children: a register-based study	4
Impact of celebrity disclosure on mental health-related stigma	3
Male intake of omega-3 fatty acids and risk of intimate partner violence perpetration: a nationwide birth cohort – the Japan Environment and Children's Study	3
COVID-19 risk, course and outcome in people with mental disorders: a systematic review and meta-analyses	3
Estimating the difference in prevalence of common mental disorder diagnoses for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples compared to the general Australian population	3
Calling for policy actions to increase access to long-acting antipsychotics in low-income and middle-income countries	3
Post-traumatic stress disorder among LGBTQ people: a systematic review and meta-analysis	3
Schizophrenia as a risk factor for cardiovascular and metabolic health outcomes: a comparative risk assessment	3
Suicide mortality among psychiatric patients in Northeast Italy: a 10-year cohort study	3
Previous disorders and depression outcomes in individuals with 12-month major depressive disorder in the World Mental Health surveys	3
To what extent do social support and mastery mediate the association between childhood maltreatment and depression? A sequential causal mediation analysis	3
COVID-19 after two years: trajectories of different components of mental health in the Spanish population	3
Depressive symptoms, but not anxiety, predict subsequent diagnosis of Coronavirus disease 19: a national cohort study	3
Two sides of the same coin? The association between suicide stigma and suicide normalisation	3
Trajectories of labour market marginalisation among young adults with newly diagnosed attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)	3
Association of psychiatric comorbidities with the risk of transport accidents in ADHD and MPH	3
Frequency and machine learning predictors of severe depressive symptoms and suicidal ideation among university students	3
The Bay Area Muslim mental health community advisory board: evaluation of a community based participatory approach	3
Changes on depression and suicidal ideation under severe lockdown restrictions during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain: a longitudinal study in the general population	3
Care needs and care consumption in psychosis: a 4-year longitudinal analysis of guideline concordant care	3
Assessing the factorial validity and the internal reliability of the International Trauma Questionnaire (ITQ); PTSD and complex PTSD among survivors of sexual violence in Ireland	3
The rise in acceptance of mental health professionals: help-seeking recommendations of the German public 1990–2020	3
Heterogeneity of quality of life in young people attending primary mental health services	3
Emergency department presentations with suicide and self-harm ideation: a missed opportunity for intervention?	3
The mental health of all children in contact with social services: a population-wide record-linkage study in Northern Ireland	3