| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
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| 1 | “Mini-mental state” | Journal of Psychiatric Research | 1975 | 78,915 |
| 2 | An Inventory for Measuring Depression | Archives of General Psychiatry | 1961 | 31,460 |
| 3 | A RATING SCALE FOR DEPRESSION | Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry | 1960 | 27,894 |
| 4 | Lifetime Prevalence and Age-of-Onset Distributions of DSM-IV Disorders in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication | Archives of General Psychiatry | 2005 | 15,551 |
| 5 | A New Depression Scale Designed to be Sensitive to Change | British Journal of Psychiatry | 1979 | 11,935 |
| 6 | Development and validation of a geriatric depression screening scale: A preliminary report | Journal of Psychiatric Research | 1982 | 11,816 |
| 7 | Lifetime and 12-Month Prevalence of DSM-III-R Psychiatric Disorders in the United States | Archives of General Psychiatry | 1994 | 11,202 |
| 8 | Detection of Postnatal Depression | British Journal of Psychiatry | 1987 | 10,912 |
| 9 | The Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale | Psychological Reports | 1962 | 9,748 |
| 10 | Prevalence, Severity, and Comorbidity of 12-Month DSM-IV Disorders in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication | Archives of General Psychiatry | 2005 | 9,637 |
| 11 | The structure of negative emotional states: Comparison of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales (DASS) with the Beck Depression and Anxiety Inventories | Behaviour Research and Therapy | 1995 | 9,387 |
| 12 | Accuracy of clinical diagnosis of idiopathic Parkinson's disease: a clinico-pathological study of 100 cases. | Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry | 1992 | 9,191 |
| 13 | Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in the National Comorbidity Survey | Archives of General Psychiatry | 1995 | 8,731 |
| 14 | A Self-Rating Depression Scale | Archives of General Psychiatry | 1965 | 8,042 |
| 15 | Short screening scales to monitor population prevalences and trends in non-specific psychological distress | Psychological Medicine | 2002 | 7,721 |
| 16 | A Rating Scale for Mania: Reliability, Validity and Sensitivity | British Journal of Psychiatry | 1978 | 7,361 |
| 17 | Measuring emotion: The self-assessment manikin and the semantic differential | Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry | 1994 | 7,008 |
| 18 | The Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale | Archives of General Psychiatry | 1989 | 6,700 |
| 19 | Factor structure of the barratt impulsiveness scale | Journal of Clinical Psychology | 1995 | 6,303 |
| 20 | A New Clinical Scale for the Staging of Dementia | British Journal of Psychiatry | 1982 | 6,299 |
| 21 | Research Diagnostic Criteria | Archives of General Psychiatry | 1978 | 6,251 |
| 22 | LOSS OF RECENT MEMORY AFTER BILATERAL HIPPOCAMPAL LESIONS | Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry | 1957 | 5,915 |
| 23 | Development of the World Health Organization WHOQOL-BREF Quality of Life Assessment | Psychological Medicine | 1998 | 5,703 |
| 24 | The Brief Symptom Inventory: an introductory report | Psychological Medicine | 1983 | 5,629 |
| 25 | Research Domain Criteria (RDoC): Toward a New Classification Framework for Research on Mental Disorders | American Journal of Psychiatry | 2010 | 5,572 |
| 26 | A Diagnostic Interview | Archives of General Psychiatry | 1978 | 5,447 |
| 27 | Diagnostic Criteria for Use in Psychiatric Research | Archives of General Psychiatry | 1972 | 5,279 |
| 28 | The Endophenotype Concept in Psychiatry: Etymology and Strategic Intentions | American Journal of Psychiatry | 2003 | 5,102 |
| 29 | National Institute of Mental Health Diagnostic Interview Schedule | Archives of General Psychiatry | 1981 | 4,947 |
| 30 | A cognitive model of posttraumatic stress disorder | Behaviour Research and Therapy | 2000 | 4,697 |
| 31 | The Global Assessment Scale | Archives of General Psychiatry | 1976 | 4,585 |
| 32 | A Psychobiological Model of Temperament and Character | Archives of General Psychiatry | 1993 | 4,533 |
| 33 | A scaled version of the General Health Questionnaire | Psychological Medicine | 1979 | 4,458 |
| 34 | Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: Model, processes and outcomes | Behaviour Research and Therapy | 2006 | 4,428 |
| 35 | Acute and Longer-Term Outcomes in Depressed Outpatients Requiring One or Several Treatment Steps: A STAR*D Report | American Journal of Psychiatry | 2006 | 4,407 |
| 36 | Multidisciplinary research priorities for the COVID-19 pandemic: a call for action for mental health science | Lancet Psychiatry,the | 2020 | 4,332 |
| 37 | The PHQ-9: A New Depression Diagnostic and Severity Measure | Psychiatric Annals | 2002 | 4,304 |
| 38 | The Global Deterioration Scale for assessment of primary degenerative dementia | American Journal of Psychiatry | 1982 | 4,283 |
| 39 | Screening for Serious Mental Illness in the General Population | Archives of General Psychiatry | 2003 | 4,225 |
| 40 | The Worldwide Prevalence of ADHD: A Systematic Review and Metaregression Analysis | American Journal of Psychiatry | 2007 | 4,191 |
| 41 | Development and validation of the penn state worry questionnaire | Behaviour Research and Therapy | 1990 | 4,126 |
| 42 | Parkinson's disease: clinical features and diagnosis | Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry | 2008 | 4,079 |
| 43 | The Association Between Quantitative Measures of Dementia and of Senile Change in the Cerebral Grey Matter of Elderly Subjects | British Journal of Psychiatry | 1968 | 4,047 |
| 44 | The Prevalence and Correlates of Eating Disorders in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication | Biological Psychiatry | 2007 | 3,985 |
| 45 | Clozapine for the Treatment-Resistant Schizophrenic | Archives of General Psychiatry | 1988 | 3,927 |
| 46 | A Meta-Analysis of Cytokines in Major Depression | Biological Psychiatry | 2010 | 3,890 |
| 47 | The Eating Attitudes Test: psychometric features and clinical correlates | Psychological Medicine | 1982 | 3,736 |
| 48 | The Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-III-R (SCID) | Archives of General Psychiatry | 1992 | 3,725 |
| 49 | A new rating scale for Alzheimer's disease | American Journal of Psychiatry | 1984 | 3,639 |
| 50 | The World Mental Health (WMH) Survey Initiative version of the World Health Organization (WHO) Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI) | International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research | 2004 | 3,589 |
| 51 | Implications of Normal Brain Development for the Pathogenesis of Schizophrenia | Archives of General Psychiatry | 1987 | 3,495 |
| 52 | Psychometric properties of the PTSD checklist (PCL) | Behaviour Research and Therapy | 1996 | 3,465 |
| 53 | The Columbia–Suicide Severity Rating Scale: Initial Validity and Internal Consistency Findings From Three Multisite Studies With Adolescents and Adults | American Journal of Psychiatry | 2011 | 3,464 |
| 54 | Evaluation of Outcomes With Citalopram for Depression Using Measurement-Based Care in STAR*D: Implications for Clinical Practice | American Journal of Psychiatry | 2006 | 3,305 |
| 55 | Overweight, Obesity, and Depression | Archives of General Psychiatry | 2010 | 3,269 |
| 56 | A Systematic Method for Clinical Description and Classification of Personality Variants | Archives of General Psychiatry | 1987 | 3,268 |
| 57 | The enduring effects of abuse and related adverse experiences in childhood | European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience | 2006 | 3,247 |
| 58 | Antidepressant effects of ketamine in depressed patients | Biological Psychiatry | 2000 | 3,227 |
| 59 | The Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test: The Quest for a New Diagnostic Instrument | American Journal of Psychiatry | 1971 | 3,217 |
| 60 | Prevalence and Development of Psychiatric Disorders in Childhood and Adolescence | Archives of General Psychiatry | 2003 | 3,201 |
| 61 | A Randomized Trial of an N-methyl-D-aspartate Antagonist in Treatment-Resistant Major Depression | Archives of General Psychiatry | 2006 | 3,196 |
| 62 | What are the functional consequences of neurocognitive deficits in schizophrenia? | American Journal of Psychiatry | 1996 | 3,183 |
| 63 | A Children's Global Assessment Scale (CGAS) | Archives of General Psychiatry | 1983 | 3,180 |
| 64 | Inflammation and Its Discontents: The Role of Cytokines in the Pathophysiology of Major Depression | Biological Psychiatry | 2009 | 3,147 |
| 65 | 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 | Biological Psychiatry | 2003 | 3,110 |
| 66 | THE CATECHOLAMINE HYPOTHESIS OF AFFECTIVE DISORDERS: A REVIEW OF SUPPORTING EVIDENCE | American Journal of Psychiatry | 1965 | 3,088 |
| 67 | A 14-Month Randomized Clinical Trial of Treatment Strategies for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder | Archives of General Psychiatry | 1999 | 3,061 |
| 68 | Emotion regulation: Affective, cognitive, and social consequences | Psychophysiology | 2002 | 3,032 |
| 69 | Heart rate variability: Origins, methods, and interpretive caveats | Psychophysiology | 1997 | 3,024 |
| 70 | Subanesthetic Effects of the Noncompetitive NMDA Antagonist, Ketamine, in Humans | Archives of General Psychiatry | 1994 | 3,019 |
| 71 | The relevance of the Lewy body to the pathogenesis of idiopathic Parkinson's disease. | Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry | 1988 | 3,001 |
| 72 | The Prevalence and Correlates of Adult ADHD in the United States: Results From the National Comorbidity Survey Replication | American Journal of Psychiatry | 2006 | 2,954 |
| 73 | A Neurotrophic Model for Stress-Related Mood Disorders | Biological Psychiatry | 2006 | 2,914 |
| 74 | The N1 Wave of the Human Electric and Magnetic Response to Sound: A Review and an Analysis of the Component Structure | Psychophysiology | 1987 | 2,908 |
| 75 | The Self-Efficacy Scale: Construction and Validation | Psychological Reports | 1982 | 2,895 |
| 76 | A PROPOSED MECHANISM OF EMOTION | Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry | 1937 | 2,890 |
| 77 | The validity of two versions of the GHQ in the WHO study of mental illness in general health care | Psychological Medicine | 1997 | 2,885 |
| 78 | The Eating Attitudes Test: an index of the symptoms of anorexia nervosa | Psychological Medicine | 1979 | 2,873 |
| 79 | Anxiety sensitivity, anxiety frequency and the prediction of fearfulness | Behaviour Research and Therapy | 1986 | 2,863 |
| 80 | Validity of the Executive Function Theory of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: A Meta-Analytic Review | Biological Psychiatry | 2005 | 2,822 |
| 81 | Genetic Epidemiology of Major Depression: Review and Meta-Analysis | American Journal of Psychiatry | 2000 | 2,766 |
| 82 | Recent advances in the phencyclidine model of schizophrenia | American Journal of Psychiatry | 1991 | 2,723 |
| 83 | Looking at pictures: Affective, facial, visceral, and behavioral reactions | Psychophysiology | 1993 | 2,720 |
| 84 | Initial reliability and validity of a new retrospective measure of child abuse and neglect | American Journal of Psychiatry | 1994 | 2,712 |
| 85 | Family history of subarachnoid haemorrhage: supplemental value of scrutinizing all relatives. | Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry | 1997 | 2,701 |
| 86 | The Neural Basis of Addiction: A Pathology of Motivation and Choice | American Journal of Psychiatry | 2005 | 2,695 |
| 87 | Removing electroencephalographic artifacts by blind source separation | Psychophysiology | 2000 | 2,657 |
| 88 | Resilience in the Face of Adversity | British Journal of Psychiatry | 1985 | 2,648 |
| 89 | Development and validation of measures of social phobia scrutiny fear and social interaction anxiety11Editor’s note: This article was written before the development of some contemporary measures of social phobia, such as the Social Phobia and Anxiety Inventory (Turner et al., 1989). We have invited this article for publication because of the growing interest in the scales described therein. S.T. | Behaviour Research and Therapy | 1998 | 2,643 |
| 90 | Timely mental health care for the 2019 novel coronavirus outbreak is urgently needed | Lancet Psychiatry,the | 2020 | 2,614 |
| 91 | Cognitive behaviour therapy for eating disorders: a “transdiagnostic” theory and treatment | Behaviour Research and Therapy | 2003 | 2,613 |
| 92 | The amygdala: vigilance and emotion | Molecular Psychiatry | 2001 | 2,595 |
| 93 | Mechanisms of mindfulness | Journal of Clinical Psychology | 2006 | 2,595 |
| 94 | COVID-19 and mental health: A review of the existing literature | Asian Journal of Psychiatry | 2020 | 2,589 |
| 95 | Mass Communication and Para-Social Interaction | Psychiatry (New York) | 1956 | 2,572 |
| 96 | Rates and risk of postpartum depression—a meta-analysis | International Review of Psychiatry | 1996 | 2,557 |
| 97 | Prevalence and Co-occurrence of Substance Use Disorders and IndependentMood and Anxiety Disorders | Archives of General Psychiatry | 2004 | 2,539 |
| 98 | SYMPTOMATOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT OF ACUTE GRIEF | American Journal of Psychiatry | 1944 | 2,536 |
| 99 | The Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale | Archives of General Psychiatry | 1989 | 2,514 |
| 100 | The South Oaks Gambling Screen (SOGS): a new instrument for the identification of pathological gamblers | American Journal of Psychiatry | 1987 | 2,476 |
