Most cited papers in Schizophrenia research and treatment
What are the most cited papers in Schizophrenia research and treatment?
The most cited paper in Schizophrenia research and treatment is "The Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) for Schizophrenia" (Stanley R. Kay, Abraham Fiszbein, Lewis A. Opler, 1987), with 21,651 citations. Next come "Lifetime Prevalence and Age-of-Onset Distributions of DSM-IV Disorders in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication" (20,746) and "An inventory for measuring clinical anxiety: Psychometric properties." (10,944).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 1,701 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) for Schizophrenia Stanley R. Kay, Abraham Fiszbein, Lewis A. Opler · Schizophrenia Bulletin | 1987 | 21,651 |
| 2 | Lifetime Prevalence and Age-of-Onset Distributions of DSM-IV Disorders in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication Ronald C. Kessler, Patricia A. Berglund, Olga Demler et al. · Archives of General Psychiatry | Jun 2005 | 20,746 |
| 3 | An inventory for measuring clinical anxiety: Psychometric properties. Aaron T. Beck, Norman B. Epstein, Gary P. Brown et al. · Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology | 1988 | 10,944 |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | The Mini-International Neuropsychiatric Interview (M.I.N.I.): the development and validation of a structured diagnostic psychiatric interview for DSM-IV and ICD-10. David V. Sheehan, Yves Lecrubier, Sheehan Kh et al. · PubMed | 1998 | 10,266 |
| 6 | A Self-Rating Depression Scale William W.K. Zung · Archives of General Psychiatry | 1965 | 9,843 |
| 7 | A Rating Scale for Mania: Reliability, Validity and Sensitivity Robert C. Young, John T. Biggs, Vincent E. Ziegler et al. · The British Journal of Psychiatry | Nov 1978 | 8,850 |
| 8 | Factor structure of the barratt impulsiveness scale Jim H. Patton, Matthew S. Stanford, Ernest S. Barratt · Journal of Clinical Psychology | Nov 1995 | 7,887 |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | Effectiveness of Antipsychotic Drugs in Patients with Chronic Schizophrenia Jeffrey Alan Lieberman, T. Scott Stroup, Joseph P. McEvoy et al. · New England Journal of Medicine | 19 Sep 2005 | 5,930 |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | A Diagnostic Interview Jean Endicott · Archives of General Psychiatry | Jul 1978 | 5,726 |
| 13 | National Institute of Mental Health Diagnostic Interview Schedule Lee N. Robins · Archives of General Psychiatry | Apr 1981 | 5,296 |
| 14 | The Mini‐Mental State Examination: A Comprehensive Review Tom N. Tombaugh, Nancy J. McIntyre · Journal of the American Geriatrics Society | Sep 1992 | 5,201 |
| 15 | Motivational Interviewing: Helping People Change Gillian Tober · Alcohol and Alcoholism | 18 Feb 2013 | 4,320 |
| 16 | Clozapine for the Treatment-Resistant Schizophrenic John Michael Kane · Archives of General Psychiatry | Sep 1988 | 4,159 |
| 17 | Implications of Normal Brain Development for the Pathogenesis of Schizophrenia Daniel R. Weinberger · Archives of General Psychiatry | Jul 1987 | 3,761 |
| 18 | A Children's Global Assessment Scale (CGAS) David Shaffer · Archives of General Psychiatry | Nov 1983 | 3,758 |
| 19 | 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 |
| 20 | What are the functional consequences of neurocognitive deficits in schizophrenia? M F Green · American Journal of Psychiatry | Mar 1996 | 3,538 |
| 21 | The Self-Medication Hypothesis of Substance Use Disorders: A Reconsideration and Recent Applications Edward J. Khantzian · Harvard Review of Psychiatry | 1997 | 3,223 |
| 22 | Toward the future of psychiatric diagnosis: the seven pillars of RDoC Bruce N. Cuthbert, Thomas R. Insel · BMC Medicine | 14 May 2013 | 3,126 |
| 23 | Mortality in Mental Disorders and Global Disease Burden Implications Elizabeth Reisinger Walker, Robin E. McGee, Benjamin G. Druss · JAMA Psychiatry | 11 Feb 2015 | 3,051 |
| 24 | Neurocognitive Deficits and Functional Outcome in Schizophrenia: Are We Measuring the "Right Stuff"? M. F. Green, Robert S Kern, D.L. Braff et al. · Schizophrenia Bulletin | 2000 | 3,026 |
| 25 | The Composite International Diagnostic Interview Lee N. Robins · Archives of General Psychiatry | Dec 1988 | 2,924 |
| 26 | Population-Based Norms for the Mini-Mental State Examination by Age and Educational Level Rosa M. Crum · JAMA | 12 May 1993 | 2,875 |
| 27 | Psychosis as a State of Aberrant Salience: A Framework Linking Biology, Phenomenology, and Pharmacology in Schizophrenia Shitij Kapur · American Journal of Psychiatry | 27 Dec 2002 | 2,858 |
| 28 | Psychiatric Aspects of Impulsivity Frederick Gerard Moeller, Ernest S. Barratt, Donald M. Dougherty et al. · American Journal of Psychiatry | Nov 2001 | 2,772 |
| 29 | Twelve-Month Use of Mental Health Services in the United States Philip S. Wang, Michael C. Lane, Mark Olfson et al. · Archives of General Psychiatry | Jun 2005 | 2,743 |
| 30 | The Dopamine Hypothesis of Schizophrenia: Version III--The Final Common Pathway Oliver Howes, Shitij Kapur · Schizophrenia Bulletin | 26 Mar 2009 | 2,724 |
| 31 | Prevalence and Correlates of Bipolar Spectrum Disorder in the World Mental Health Survey Initiative Kathleen Ries Merikangas, Robert Jin, Jianping He et al. · Archives of General Psychiatry | 7 Mar 2011 | 2,670 |
| 32 | Comparative efficacy and tolerability of 15 antipsychotic drugs in schizophrenia: a multiple-treatments meta-analysis Stefan Leucht, Andrea Cipriani, Loukia Maria Spineli et al. · The Lancet | 26 Jun 2013 | 2,569 |
| 33 | SCAN J. K. Wing · Archives of General Psychiatry | Jun 1990 | 2,550 |
| 34 | The self-medication hypothesis of addictive disorders: focus on heroin and cocaine dependence Edward J. Khantzian · American Journal of Psychiatry | Nov 1985 | 2,542 |
| 35 | Physical illness in patients with severe mental disorders. I. Prevalence, impact of medications and disparities in health care MARC DE HERT, Christoph Ulrich Correll, Julio Bobes et al. · World Psychiatry | Feb 2011 | 2,531 |
| 36 | Smoking and Mental Illness Karen E. Lasser, J. Wesley Boyd, Steffie J. Woolhandler et al. · JAMA | 22 Nov 2000 | 2,530 |
| 37 | Neurocognitive deficit in schizophrenia: A quantitative review of the evidence. R. Walter Heinrichs, Konstantine K. Zakzanis · Neuropsychology | 1998 | 2,461 |
| 38 | Lifetime and 12-Month Prevalence of Bipolar Spectrum Disorder in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication Kathleen Ries Merikangas, Hagop Souren Akiskal, Jules Angst et al. · Archives of General Psychiatry | May 2007 | 2,432 |
| 39 | Prevalence of mental disorders in China: a cross-sectional epidemiological study Yueqin Huang et al. · The Lancet Psychiatry | 18 Feb 2019 | 2,429 |
| 40 | A systematic review and meta-analysis of the psychosis continuum: evidence for a psychosis proneness–persistence–impairment model of psychotic disorder Jim van Os, Richard J. Linscott, Inez Myin‐Germeys et al. · Psychological Medicine | 8 Jul 2008 | 2,405 |
| 41 | Schizophrenia as a Complex Trait Patrick F. Sullivan, Kenneth S. Kendler, Michael C. Neale · Archives of General Psychiatry | Dec 2003 | 2,404 |
| 42 | Antipsychotic-Induced Weight Gain: A Comprehensive Research Synthesis David Blair Allison, Janet L. Mentore, Moonseong Heo et al. · American Journal of Psychiatry | Nov 1999 | 2,400 |
| 43 | Effect of COMT Val 108/158 Met genotype on frontal lobe function and risk for schizophrenia Michael F. Egan, Terry E. Goldberg, Bhaskar S. Kolachana et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 29 May 2001 | 2,400 |
| 44 | Remission in Schizophrenia: Proposed Criteria and Rationale for Consensus Nancy C. Andreasen, William T. Carpenter, John Michael Kane et al. · American Journal of Psychiatry | Mar 2005 | 2,373 |
| 45 | Reliability and validity studies of the WHO-Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI): A critical review Hans‐Ulrich Wïttchen · Journal of Psychiatric Research | 1994 | 2,364 |
| 46 | The MATRICS Consensus Cognitive Battery, Part 1: Test Selection, Reliability, and Validity Keith H. Nuechterlein et al. · American Journal of Psychiatry | 2 Jan 2008 | 2,356 |
| 47 | Schizophrenia: A Concise Overview of Incidence, Prevalence, and Mortality John Joseph McGrath, Sukanta Saha, David Charles Chant et al. · Epidemiologic Reviews | 14 May 2008 | 2,325 |
| 48 | Establishment of Diagnostic Validity in Psychiatric Illness: Its Application to Schizophrenia Eli Robins, Samuel B. Guzé · American Journal of Psychiatry | 1970 | 2,253 |
| 49 | A Systematic Review of the Prevalence of Schizophrenia Sukanta Saha, David Charles Chant, Joy Welham et al. · PLoS Medicine | 25 May 2005 | 2,215 |
| 50 | A Rating Scale for Drug-Induced Akathisia Thomas R. E. Barnes · The British Journal of Psychiatry | May 1989 | 2,191 |
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