| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | “Mini-mental state” | Journal of Psychiatric Research | 1975 | 77,621 |
| 2 | The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale | Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica | 1983 | 36,914 |
| 3 | The assessment and analysis of handedness: The Edinburgh inventory | Neuropsychologia | 1971 | 32,207 |
| 4 | An Inventory for Measuring Depression | Archives of General Psychiatry | 1961 | 30,857 |
| 5 | A RATING SCALE FOR DEPRESSION | Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry | 1960 | 27,271 |
| 6 | The Pittsburgh sleep quality index: A new instrument for psychiatric practice and research | Psychiatry Research | 1989 | 23,254 |
| 7 | The Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) for Schizophrenia | Schizophrenia Bulletin | 1987 | 17,788 |
| 8 | Lifetime Prevalence and Age-of-Onset Distributions of DSM-IV Disorders in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication | Archives of General Psychiatry | 2005 | 15,111 |
| 9 | A New Depression Scale Designed to be Sensitive to Change | British Journal of Psychiatry | 1979 | 11,658 |
| 10 | Development and validation of a geriatric depression screening scale: A preliminary report | Journal of Psychiatric Research | 1982 | 11,521 |
| 11 | Lifetime and 12-Month Prevalence of DSM-III-R Psychiatric Disorders in the United States | Archives of General Psychiatry | 1994 | 11,096 |
| 12 | Detection of Postnatal Depression | British Journal of Psychiatry | 1987 | 10,506 |
| 13 | Development of the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT): WHO Collaborative Project on Early Detection of Persons with Harmful Alcohol Consumption-II | Addiction | 1993 | 10,134 |
| 14 | Psychometric properties of the Beck Depression Inventory: Twenty-five years of evaluation | Clinical Psychology Review | 1988 | 9,882 |
| 15 | An inventory for measuring clinical anxiety: Psychometric properties. | Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology | 1988 | 9,636 |
| 16 | Prevalence, Severity, and Comorbidity of 12-Month DSM-IV Disorders in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication | Archives of General Psychiatry | 2005 | 9,446 |
| 17 | The social readjustment rating scale | Journal of Psychosomatic Research | 1967 | 9,287 |
| 18 | Accuracy of clinical diagnosis of idiopathic Parkinson's disease: a clinico-pathological study of 100 cases. | Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry | 1992 | 9,027 |
| 19 | The Fagerstrom Test for Nicotine Dependence: a revision of the Fagerstrom Tolerance Questionnaire | Addiction | 1991 | 9,001 |
| 20 | Depression and Quality of Life in Older Persons: A Review | Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders | 2015 | 9,000 |
| 21 | 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 | 8,785 |
| 22 | Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in the National Comorbidity Survey | Archives of General Psychiatry | 1995 | 8,598 |
| 23 | Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia for School-Age Children-Present and Lifetime Version (K-SADS-PL): Initial Reliability and Validity Data | Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry | 1997 | 8,209 |
| 24 | THE ASSESSMENT OF ANXIETY STATES BY RATING | The British Journal of Medical Psychology | 1959 | 8,149 |
| 25 | A Self-Rating Depression Scale | Archives of General Psychiatry | 1965 | 7,840 |
| 26 | The validity of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale | Journal of Psychosomatic Research | 2002 | 7,759 |
| 27 | Clinical significance: A statistical approach to defining meaningful change in psychotherapy research. | Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology | 1991 | 7,489 |
| 28 | Short screening scales to monitor population prevalences and trends in non-specific psychological distress | Psychological Medicine | 2002 | 7,351 |
| 29 | A Rating Scale for Mania: Reliability, Validity and Sensitivity | British Journal of Psychiatry | 1978 | 7,207 |
| 30 | 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 | Journal of Clinical Psychiatry | 1998 | 7,000 |
| 31 | Stages and processes of self-change of smoking: Toward an integrative model of change. | Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology | 1983 | 6,834 |
| 32 | The measurement of psychological androgyny. | Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology | 1974 | 6,803 |
| 33 | Measuring emotion: The self-assessment manikin and the semantic differential | Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry | 1994 | 6,669 |
| 34 | Guidelines, criteria, and rules of thumb for evaluating normed and standardized assessment instruments in psychology. | Psychological Assessment | 1994 | 6,653 |
| 35 | The Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale | Archives of General Psychiatry | 1989 | 6,543 |
| 36 | Impact of Event Scale: A Measure of Subjective Stress | Psychosomatic Medicine | 1979 | 6,491 |
| 37 | Development of a new resilience scale: The Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC) | Depression and Anxiety | 2003 | 6,434 |
| 38 | Self-Efficacy: The Exercise of Control | Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy | 1999 | 6,404 |
| 39 | A New Clinical Scale for the Staging of Dementia | British Journal of Psychiatry | 1982 | 6,182 |
| 40 | Research Diagnostic Criteria | Archives of General Psychiatry | 1978 | 6,146 |
| 41 | LOSS OF RECENT MEMORY AFTER BILATERAL HIPPOCAMPAL LESIONS | Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry | 1957 | 5,800 |
| 42 | The Pain Catastrophizing Scale: Development and validation. | Psychological Assessment | 1995 | 5,687 |
| 43 | The Brief Symptom Inventory: an introductory report | Psychological Medicine | 1983 | 5,501 |
| 44 | Child abuse: Adolescent records vs. adult recall | Child Abuse and Neglect | 1990 | 5,477 |
| 45 | Development of the World Health Organization WHOQOL-BREF Quality of Life Assessment | Psychological Medicine | 1998 | 5,439 |
| 46 | A Diagnostic Interview | Archives of General Psychiatry | 1978 | 5,365 |
| 47 | Research Domain Criteria (RDoC): Toward a New Classification Framework for Research on Mental Disorders | American Journal of Psychiatry | 2010 | 5,287 |
| 48 | Diagnostic Criteria for Use in Psychiatric Research | Archives of General Psychiatry | 1972 | 5,158 |
| 49 | Psychometric Properties of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire | Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry | 2001 | 5,089 |
| 50 | The Endophenotype Concept in Psychiatry: Etymology and Strategic Intentions | American Journal of Psychiatry | 2003 | 5,054 |
| 51 | The Behavior Change Technique Taxonomy (v1) of 93 Hierarchically Clustered Techniques: Building an International Consensus for the Reporting of Behavior Change Interventions | Annals of Behavioral Medicine | 2013 | 4,927 |
| 52 | National Institute of Mental Health Diagnostic Interview Schedule | Archives of General Psychiatry | 1981 | 4,870 |
| 53 | Lifetime Prevalence of Mental Disorders in U.S. Adolescents: Results from the National Comorbidity Survey Replication–Adolescent Supplement (NCS-A) | Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry | 2010 | 4,750 |
| 54 | Social Support as a Moderator of Life Stress | Psychosomatic Medicine | 1976 | 4,715 |
| 55 | Optimism, coping, and health: Assessment and implications of generalized outcome expectancies. | Health Psychology | 1985 | 4,655 |
| 56 | Purposeful Sampling for Qualitative Data Collection and Analysis in Mixed Method Implementation Research | Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research | 2015 | 4,645 |
| 57 | The ‘Trier Social Stress Test’ – A Tool for Investigating Psychobiological Stress Responses in a Laboratory Setting | Neuropsychobiology | 1993 | 4,628 |
| 58 | An inventory for measuring clinical anxiety: psychometric properties | Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology | 1988 | 4,569 |
| 59 | A cognitive model of posttraumatic stress disorder | Behaviour Research and Therapy | 2000 | 4,557 |
| 60 | The Global Assessment Scale | Archives of General Psychiatry | 1976 | 4,495 |
| 61 | A Psychobiological Model of Temperament and Character | Archives of General Psychiatry | 1993 | 4,451 |
| 62 | The measurement of pessimism: The Hopelessness Scale. | Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology | 1974 | 4,401 |
| 63 | Constructing validity: Basic issues in objective scale development. | Psychological Assessment | 1995 | 4,393 |
| 64 | A scaled version of the General Health Questionnaire | Psychological Medicine | 1979 | 4,374 |
| 65 | Emotion-regulation strategies across psychopathology: A meta-analytic review | Clinical Psychology Review | 2010 | 4,297 |
| 66 | Acute and Longer-Term Outcomes in Depressed Outpatients Requiring One or Several Treatment Steps: A STAR*D Report | American Journal of Psychiatry | 2006 | 4,241 |
| 67 | The posttraumatic growth inventory: Measuring the positive legacy of trauma | Journal of Traumatic Stress | 1996 | 4,210 |
| 68 | Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: Model, processes and outcomes | Behaviour Research and Therapy | 2006 | 4,203 |
| 69 | The Global Deterioration Scale for assessment of primary degenerative dementia | American Journal of Psychiatry | 1982 | 4,199 |
| 70 | The development of a clinician-administered PTSD scale | Journal of Traumatic Stress | 1995 | 4,157 |
| 71 | Ecological Momentary Assessment | Annual Review of Clinical Psychology | 2008 | 4,127 |
| 72 | Outcomes for Implementation Research: Conceptual Distinctions, Measurement Challenges, and Research Agenda | Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research | 2011 | 4,123 |
| 73 | Development and validation of a brief screening version of the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire | Child Abuse and Neglect | 2003 | 4,091 |
| 74 | Multidisciplinary research priorities for the COVID-19 pandemic: a call for action for mental health science | Lancet Psychiatry,the | 2020 | 4,086 |
| 75 | The PHQ-9: A New Depression Diagnostic and Severity Measure | Psychiatric Annals | 2002 | 4,079 |
| 76 | The Worldwide Prevalence of ADHD: A Systematic Review and Metaregression Analysis | American Journal of Psychiatry | 2007 | 4,077 |
| 77 | The three-factor eating questionnaire to measure dietary restraint, disinhibition and hunger | Journal of Psychosomatic Research | 1985 | 4,038 |
| 78 | The Association Between Quantitative Measures of Dementia and of Senile Change in the Cerebral Grey Matter of Elderly Subjects | British Journal of Psychiatry | 1968 | 4,023 |
| 79 | Screening for Serious Mental Illness in the General Population | Archives of General Psychiatry | 2003 | 4,023 |
| 80 | Development and validation of the penn state worry questionnaire | Behaviour Research and Therapy | 1990 | 3,991 |
| 81 | The development of markers for the Big-Five factor structure. | Psychological Assessment | 1992 | 3,942 |
| 82 | Parkinson's disease: clinical features and diagnosis | Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry | 2008 | 3,887 |
| 83 | The fifth edition of the addiction severity index | Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment | 1992 | 3,878 |
| 84 | The twenty-item Toronto Alexithymia scale—I. Item selection and cross-validation of the factor structure | Journal of Psychosomatic Research | 1994 | 3,870 |
| 85 | The Prevalence and Correlates of Eating Disorders in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication | Biological Psychiatry | 2007 | 3,870 |
| 86 | Clozapine for the Treatment-Resistant Schizophrenic | Archives of General Psychiatry | 1988 | 3,867 |
| 87 | A Meta-Analysis of Cytokines in Major Depression | Biological Psychiatry | 2010 | 3,771 |
| 88 | Meta-analysis of risk factors for posttraumatic stress disorder in trauma-exposed adults. | Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology | 2000 | 3,745 |
| 89 | Psychosocial resilience and protective mechanisms. | American Journal of Orthopsychiatry | 1987 | 3,703 |
| 90 | The Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-III-R (SCID) | Archives of General Psychiatry | 1992 | 3,675 |
| 91 | The Eating Attitudes Test: psychometric features and clinical correlates | Psychological Medicine | 1982 | 3,628 |
| 92 | A new rating scale for Alzheimer's disease | American Journal of Psychiatry | 1984 | 3,574 |
| 93 | The psychological impact of the COVID-19 epidemic on college students in China | Psychiatry Research | 2020 | 3,536 |
| 94 | 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 | 3,488 |
| 95 | Implications of Normal Brain Development for the Pathogenesis of Schizophrenia | Archives of General Psychiatry | 1987 | 3,463 |
| 96 | Psychometric properties of the PTSD checklist (PCL) | Behaviour Research and Therapy | 1996 | 3,411 |
| 97 | Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on mental health in the general population: A systematic review | Journal of Affective Disorders | 2020 | 3,399 |
| 98 | The generalizability of the psychoanalytic concept of the working alliance. | Psychotherapy | 1979 | 3,340 |
| 99 | Mindfulness-based stress reduction and health benefits | Journal of Psychosomatic Research | 2004 | 3,316 |
| 100 | Psychometric properties of the 42-item and 21-item versions of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales in clinical groups and a community sample. | Psychological Assessment | 1998 | 3,311 |
