OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences is 9. 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
Excess mortality and life-years lost in people with bipolar disorder: an 11-year population-based cohort study	29
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
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
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
Does retirement trigger depressive symptoms? A systematic review and meta-analysis	20
The association between sleep and depressive symptoms in US adults: data from the NHANES (2007–2014)	19
Excess mortality in patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders in Malaga (Spain): A cohort study	18
Risk of COVID-19 diagnosis and death in patients with mental illness: a cohort study	18
Neuroimaging studies exploring the neural basis of social isolation	17
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
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
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
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
Blind spots in stigma research? Broadening our perspective on mental illness stigma by exploring ‘what matters most’ in modern Western societies	14
Association between physical-activity trajectories and cognitive decline in adults 50 years of age or older	14
Connectivity changes in major depressive disorder after rTMS: a review of functional and structural connectivity data	13
Mental health and the global climate crisis	13
Stigma against mental health disorders in Nepal conceptualised with a ‘what matters most’ framework: a scoping review	12
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
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
Income disparity in school readiness and the mediating role of perinatal maternal mental health: a longitudinal birth cohort study	10
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
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
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