Most cited papers in Mental Health Treatment and Access
What are the most cited papers in Mental Health Treatment and Access?
The most cited paper in Mental Health Treatment and Access is "The PHQ-9" (Kurt Kroenke, Robert L. Spitzer, Janet B. W. Williams, 2001), with 45,744 citations. Next come "An Inventory for Measuring Depression" (38,441) and "Prejudice, social stress, and mental health in lesbian, gay, and bisexual populations: Conceptual issues and research evidence." (14,720).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 1,951 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The PHQ-9 Kurt Kroenke, Robert L. Spitzer, Janet B. W. Williams · Journal of General Internal Medicine | Sep 2001 | 45,744 |
| 2 | An Inventory for Measuring Depression Aaron T. Beck · Archives of General Psychiatry | Jun 1961 | 38,441 |
| 3 | Prejudice, social stress, and mental health in lesbian, gay, and bisexual populations: Conceptual issues and research evidence. Ilan H. Meyer · Psychological Bulletin | Sep 2003 | 14,720 |
| 4 | Depression and Quality of Life in Older Persons: A Review Heidi Sivertsen, Guro Hanevold Bjørkløf, Knut Engedal et al. · Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders | 2015 | 14,132 |
| 5 | Lifetime and 12-Month Prevalence of DSM-III-R Psychiatric Disorders in the United States Ronald C. Kessler · Archives of General Psychiatry | 1994 | 12,546 |
| 6 | Prevalence, Severity, and Comorbidity of 12-Month DSM-IV Disorders in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication Ronald C. Kessler, Wai Tat Chiu, Olga Demler et al. · Archives of General Psychiatry | Jun 2005 | 12,219 |
| 7 | Short screening scales to monitor population prevalences and trends in non-specific psychological distress Ronald C. Kessler, Gavin Andrews, Lisa J. Colpe et al. · Psychological Medicine | Aug 2002 | 10,488 |
| 8 | Validation and Utility of a Self-report Version of PRIME-MD The PHQ Primary Care Study Robert L. Spitzer · JAMA | 10 Nov 1999 | 9,950 |
| 9 | Conceptualizing Stigma Bruce G. Link, Jo C. Phelan · Annual Review of Sociology | Aug 2001 | 8,754 |
| 10 | The Epidemiology of Major Depressive Disorder Ronald C. Kessler, Patricia A. Berglund, Olga Demler et al. · JAMA | 18 Jun 2003 | 8,045 |
| 11 | The Patient Health Questionnaire-2 Kurt Kroenke, Robert L. Spitzer, Janet B. W. Williams · Medical Care | 21 Oct 2003 | 6,486 |
| 12 | Lifetime Prevalence of Mental Disorders in U.S. Adolescents: Results from the National Comorbidity Survey Replication–Adolescent Supplement (NCS-A) Kathleen Ries Merikangas, Jianping He, Marcy Burstein et al. · Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry | Oct 2010 | 6,392 |
| 13 | Global burden of disease attributable to mental and substance use disorders: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 Harvey Whiteford, Louisa J Degenhardt, Jürgen Rehm et al. · The Lancet | 28 Aug 2013 | 6,141 |
| 14 | The PHQ-9: A New Depression Diagnostic and Severity Measure Kurt Kroenke, Robert L. Spitzer · Psychiatric Annals | Sep 2002 | 6,128 |
| 15 | Multidisciplinary research priorities for the COVID-19 pandemic: a call for action for mental health science Emily Alexandra Holmes et al. · The Lancet Psychiatry | 15 Apr 2020 | 6,092 |
| 16 | The short‐form version of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales (DASS‐21): Construct validity and normative data in a large non‐clinical sample Julie D. Henry, John R. Crawford · British Journal of Clinical Psychology | Jun 2005 | 5,913 |
| 17 | Screening for Serious Mental Illness in the General Population Ronald C. Kessler, Peggy R. Barker, Lisa J. Colpe et al. · Archives of General Psychiatry | Feb 2003 | 5,814 |
| 18 | The PHQ-8 as a measure of current depression in the general population Kurt Kroenke, Tara W. Strine, Robert L. Spitzer et al. · Journal of Affective Disorders | 28 Aug 2008 | 5,358 |
| 19 | The Columbia–Suicide Severity Rating Scale: Initial Validity and Internal Consistency Findings From Three Multisite Studies With Adolescents and Adults Kelly Posner, Gregory K. Brown, Bárbara Stanley et al. · American Journal of Psychiatry | Dec 2011 | 5,223 |
| 20 | Anxiety Disorders in Primary Care: Prevalence, Impairment, Comorbidity, and Detection Kurt Kroenke, Robert L. Spitzer, Janet B. W. Williams et al. · Annals of Internal Medicine | 6 Mar 2007 | 4,883 |
| 21 | The World Mental Health (WMH) Survey Initiative version of the World Health Organization (WHO) Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI) Ronald C. Kessler, T. Bedirhan Üstün · International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research | Jun 2004 | 4,854 |
| 22 | Combat Duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, Mental Health Problems, and Barriers to Care Charles W. Hoge, Carl Andrew Castro, Stephen Craig Messer et al. · New England Journal of Medicine | 30 Jun 2004 | 4,785 |
| 23 | Validation and Standardization of the Generalized Anxiety Disorder Screener (GAD-7) in the General Population Bernd Löwe, Oliver Decker, Stefanie Müller et al. · Medical Care | Mar 2008 | 4,715 |
| 24 | Mental Health and the Covid-19 Pandemic Betty J. Pfefferbaum, Carol S. North · New England Journal of Medicine | 13 Apr 2020 | 4,560 |
| 25 | A nationwide survey of psychological distress among Chinese people in the COVID‐19 epidemic: implications and policy recommendations Jianyin Qiu, Bin Shen, Min Zhao et al. · General Psychiatry | 6 Mar 2020 | 4,481 |
| 26 | The Patient Health Questionnaire Somatic, Anxiety, and Depressive Symptom Scales: a systematic review Kurt Kroenke, Robert L. Spitzer, Janet B. W. Williams et al. · General Hospital Psychiatry | 8 May 2010 | 4,190 |
| 27 | Depression Gin S. Malhi, J. John Mann · The Lancet | Nov 2018 | 4,142 |
| 28 | Mechanisms Linking Social Ties and Support to Physical and Mental Health Peggy A. Thoits · Journal of Health and Social Behavior | Jun 2011 | 4,128 |
| 29 | Depression, chronic diseases, and decrements in health: results from the World Health Surveys Saba Moussavi, Somnath Chatterji, Emese Verdes et al. · The Lancet | Sep 2007 | 4,117 |
| 30 | The 16-Item quick inventory of depressive symptomatology (QIDS), clinician rating (QIDS-C), and self-report (QIDS-SR): a psychometric evaluation in patients with chronic major depression Augustus John Rush, Madhukar H. Trivedi, Hicham M. Ibrahim et al. · Biological Psychiatry | 23 Apr 2003 | 3,950 |
| 31 | Evaluation of Outcomes With Citalopram for Depression Using Measurement-Based Care in STAR*D: Implications for Clinical Practice Madhukar H. Trivedi, Augustus John Rush, Stephen R. Wisniewski et al. · American Journal of Psychiatry | 2006 | 3,927 |
| 32 | The size and burden of mental disorders and other disorders of the brain in Europe 2010 Hans‐Ulrich Wïttchen, Frank Jacobi, Jürgen T. Rehm et al. · European Neuropsychopharmacology | Sep 2011 | 3,849 |
| 33 | No health without mental health Martin James Prince, Vikram Patel, Shekhar Saxena et al. · The Lancet | Sep 2007 | 3,819 |
| 34 | The validity of two versions of the GHQ in the WHO study of mental illness in general health care David P Goldberg, Richard A. Gater, Norman Sartorius et al. · Psychological Medicine | 1997 | 3,751 |
| 35 | The Lancet Commission on global mental health and sustainable development Vikram Patel et al. · The Lancet | Oct 2018 | 3,714 |
| 36 | How stigma interferes with mental health care. Patrick William Corrigan · American Psychologist | Oct 2004 | 3,672 |
| 37 | An Ultra-Brief Screening Scale for Anxiety and Depression: The PHQ-4 Kurt Kroenke, Robert L. Spitzer, Janet B. W. Williams et al. · Psychosomatics | Nov 2009 | 3,530 |
| 38 | Prevalence, Severity, and Unmet Need for Treatment of Mental Disorders in the World Health Organization World Mental Health Surveys The WHO World Mental Health Survey Consortium · JAMA | Jun 2004 | 3,526 |
| 39 | Perceived barriers and facilitators to mental health help-seeking in young people: a systematic review Amelia Gulliver, Kathleen M Griffiths, Helen M Christensen · BMC Psychiatry | Dec 2010 | 3,447 |
| 40 | Resilience in the Face of Adversity Michael L. Rutter · The British Journal of Psychiatry | Dec 1985 | 3,421 |
| 41 | Perinatal Depression Norma I. Gavin, Bradley Neil Gaynes, Kathleen N Lohr et al. · Obstetrics and Gynecology | Nov 2005 | 3,329 |
| 42 | The development of a six‐item short‐form of the state scale of the Spielberger State—Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) Theresa M. Marteau, Hilary Bekker · British Journal of Clinical Psychology | Sep 1992 | 3,319 |
| 43 | What is the impact of mental health-related stigma on help-seeking? A systematic review of quantitative and qualitative studies S. Clement, Oliver Schauman, Tanya Graham et al. · Psychological Medicine | 21 Feb 2014 | 3,218 |
| 44 | Mental health of young people: a global public-health challenge Vikram Patel, Alan J. Flisher, Sarah Elisabeth Hetrick et al. · The Lancet | 28 Mar 2007 | 3,204 |
| 45 | Burden of Depressive Disorders by Country, Sex, Age, and Year: Findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 Alize J Ferrari, Fiona Charlson, Rosana E. Norman et al. · PLoS Medicine | 5 Nov 2013 | 3,191 |
| 46 | Conceptual framework for personal recovery in mental health: systematic review and narrative synthesis Mary C Leamy, Victoria Jane Bird, Clair Le Boutillier et al. · The British Journal of Psychiatry | Dec 2011 | 3,043 |
| 47 | The global prevalence of common mental disorders: a systematic review and meta-analysis 1980–2013 Zachary Steel, Claire Marnane, Changiz Iranpour et al. · International Journal of Epidemiology | 19 Mar 2014 | 2,972 |
| 48 | The Composite International Diagnostic Interview Lee N. Robins · Archives of General Psychiatry | Dec 1988 | 2,924 |
| 49 | Suicide and Suicidal Behavior Matthew K. Nock, Guilherme Luiz Guimaraes Borges, E. J. Bromet et al. · Epidemiologic Reviews | 14 May 2008 | 2,913 |
| 50 | Suicide Prevention Strategies J. John Mann et al. · JAMA | 26 Oct 2005 | 2,881 |
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