| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Age of onset of mental disorders: a review of recent literature | Current Opinion in Psychiatry | 2007 | 2,304 |
| 2 | Suicide and Suicidal Behavior | Epidemiologic Reviews | 2008 | 1,947 |
| 3 | Screening for serious mental illness in the general population with the K6 screening scale: results from the WHO World Mental Health (WMH) survey initiative | International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research | 2010 | 953 |
| 4 | Sex Differences in Insomnia: A Meta-Analysis | Sleep | 2006 | 944 |
| 5 | Culture and stigma: Adding moral experience to stigma theory | Social Science and Medicine | 2007 | 921 |
| 6 | Common Chronic Pain Conditions in Developed and Developing Countries: Gender and Age Differences and Comorbidity With Depression-Anxiety Disorders | Journal of Pain | 2008 | 918 |
| 7 | Mental disorders among college students in the World Health Organization World Mental Health Surveys | Psychological Medicine | 2016 | 866 |
| 8 | Trauma and PTSD in the WHO World Mental Health Surveys | Högre Utbildning | 2017 | 801 |
| 9 | Posttraumatic stress disorder in the World Mental Health Surveys | Psychological Medicine | 2017 | 675 |
| 10 | Mental Morbidities and Chronic Fatigue in Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Survivors | Archives of Internal Medicine | 2009 | 590 |
| 11 | Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in Hong Kong in 2003: stress and psychological impact among frontline healthcare workers | Psychological Medicine | 2004 | 589 |
| 12 | Survey of Insomnia and Related Social Psychological Factors Among Medical Staff Involved in the 2019 Novel Coronavirus Disease Outbreak | Frontiers in Psychiatry | 2020 | 519 |
| 13 | The descriptive epidemiology of DSM-IV Adult ADHD in the World Health Organization World Mental Health Surveys | ADHD Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorders | 2017 | 507 |
| 14 | Dementia diagnosis in developing countries: a cross-cultural validation study | Lancet, The | 2003 | 489 |
| 15 | Detecting postnatal depression in Chinese women | British Journal of Psychiatry | 1998 | 414 |
| 16 | Anxious and non-anxious major depressive disorder in the World Health Organization World Mental Health Surveys | Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences | 2015 | 355 |
| 17 | Validation of the Chinese‐Cantonese version of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale and comparison with the Hamilton Rating Scale of Depression | Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica | 1999 | 339 |
| 18 | Treatment gap for anxiety disorders is global: Results of the World Mental Health Surveys in 21 countries | Depression and Anxiety | 2018 | 318 |
| 19 | The WPA- Lancet Psychiatry Commission on the Future of Psychiatry | Lancet Psychiatry,the | 2017 | 305 |
| 20 | The experience of SARS-related stigma at Amoy Gardens | Social Science and Medicine | 2005 | 284 |
| 21 | The Shatin Community Mental Health Survey in Hong Kong | Archives of General Psychiatry | 1993 | 278 |
| 22 | Cross-sectional Comparison of the Epidemiology of DSM-5 Generalized Anxiety Disorder Across the Globe | JAMA Psychiatry | 2017 | 274 |
| 23 | Socio-economic variations in the mental health treatment gap for people with anxiety, mood, and substance use disorders: results from the WHO World Mental Health (WMH) surveys | Psychological Medicine | 2018 | 274 |
| 24 | Twelve-month prevalence, severity, and unmet need for treatment of mental disorders in metropolitan China | Psychological Medicine | 2006 | 268 |
| 25 | DSM–IV personality disorders in the WHO World Mental Health Surveys | British Journal of Psychiatry | 2009 | 260 |
| 26 | The cross-national epidemiology of social anxiety disorder: Data from the World Mental Health Survey Initiative | BMC Medicine | 2017 | 258 |
| 27 | Dissociation in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Evidence from the World Mental Health Surveys | Biological Psychiatry | 2013 | 251 |
| 28 | The prevalence of insomnia in the general population in China: A meta-analysis | PLoS ONE | 2017 | 247 |
| 29 | Disordered eating in three communities of China: A comparative study of female high school students in Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and rural Hunan | PLoS ONE | 2000 | 234 |
| 30 | Mental health system in China: history, recent service reform and future challenges | World Psychiatry | 2011 | 232 |
| 31 | Experience of social stigma by people with schizophrenia in Hong Kong | British Journal of Psychiatry | 2005 | 230 |
| 32 | Positive mental health-related impacts of the SARS epidemic on the general public in Hong Kong and their associations with other negative impacts | Journal of Infection | 2006 | 227 |
| 33 | The Prevalence of Mild Cognitive Impairment in Diverse Geographical and Ethnocultural Regions: The COSMIC Collaboration | PLoS ONE | 2015 | 225 |
| 34 | Measurement-Based Care Versus Standard Care for Major Depression: A Randomized Controlled Trial With Blind Raters | American Journal of Psychiatry | 2015 | 222 |
| 35 | Fat phobic and non-fat phobic anorexia nervosa: a comparative study of 70 Chinese patients in Hong Kong | Psychological Medicine | 1993 | 221 |
| 36 | The prevalence of depressive symptoms and predisposing factors in an elderly Chinese population | Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica | 1994 | 216 |
| 37 | Gender differences in insomnia—a study in the Hong Kong Chinese population | Journal of Psychosomatic Research | 2002 | 216 |
| 38 | Validation of a new REM sleep behavior disorder questionnaire (RBDQ-HK) | Sleep Medicine | 2010 | 214 |
| 39 | Elderly suicide and the 2003 SARS epidemic in Hong Kong | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry | 2006 | 199 |
| 40 | Epidemiology of obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome in Chinese children: a two-phase community study | Thorax | 2010 | 199 |
| 41 | Sleep Patterns and Mental Health Correlates in US Adolescents | Journal of Pediatrics | 2017 | 198 |
| 42 | Beyond body image: The integration of feminist and transcultural theories in the understanding of self starvation | Journal of Pediatrics | 1997 | 195 |
| 43 | Prevalence of dementia in Chinese elderly in Hong Kong | Neurology | 1998 | 195 |
| 44 | The mental health of frontline and non-frontline medical workers during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak in China: A case-control study | Journal of Affective Disorders | 2020 | 192 |
| 45 | Sex Differences in Insomnia: from Epidemiology and Etiology to Intervention | Current Psychiatry Reports | 2018 | 184 |
| 46 | Association of perceived stigma and mood and anxiety disorders: results from the World Mental Health Surveys | Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica | 2008 | 182 |
| 47 | Association of DSM-IV Posttraumatic Stress Disorder With Traumatic Experience Type and History in the World Health Organization World Mental Health Surveys | JAMA Psychiatry | 2017 | 179 |
| 48 | A 1-Year Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing Mind Body Exercise (Tai Chi) With Stretching and Toning Exercise on Cognitive Function in Older Chinese Adults at Risk of Cognitive Decline | Journal of the American Medical Directors Association | 2012 | 178 |
| 49 | The Chinese version of the General Health Questionnaire: does language make a difference? | Psychological Medicine | 1985 | 177 |
| 50 | Insomnia, anxiety, and depression during the COVID-19 pandemic: an international collaborative study | Sleep Medicine | 2021 | 177 |
