World Psychiatry journal aims to disseminate information on truly significant clinical, service, and research developments in the mental health field using a language that can be assimilated by the vast majority of mental health professionals worldwide. World Psychiatry is freely accessible on Wiley Online Library and PubMed Central.

World Psychiatry is now for the ninth consecutive year the psychiatric journal with the highest Impact Factor.

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Social connection as a critical factor for mental and physical health: evidence, trends, challenges, and future implications

Julianne Holt-Lunstad, 
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Where do neurodevelopmental conditions fit in transdiagnostic psychiatric frameworks? Incorporating a new neurodevelopmental spectrum

Giorgia Michelini, Christina O. Carlisi, Nicholas R. Eaton, Jed T. Elison, John D. Haltigan, Roman Kotov, Robert F. Krueger, Robert D. Latzman, James J. Li, Holly F. Levin-Aspenson, Giovanni A. Salum, Susan C. South, Kasey Stanton, Irwin D. Waldman, Sylia Wilson, 
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Ethical challenges in contemporary psychiatry: an overview and an appraisal of possible strategies and research needs

Silvana Galderisi, Paul S. Appelbaum, Neeraj Gill, Piers Gooding, Helen Herrman, Antonio Melillo, Keris Myrick, Soumitra Pathare, Martha Savage, George Szmukler, John Torous, 
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Development and temporal validation of a clinical prediction model of transition to psychosis in individuals at ultra-high risk in the UHR 1000+ cohort

Simon Hartmann, Dominic Dwyer, Blake Cavve, Enda M. Byrne, Isabelle Scott, Caroline Gao, Cassandra Wannan, Hok Pan Yuen, Jessica Hartmann, Ashleigh Lin, Stephen J. Wood, Johanna T.W. Wigman, Christel M. Middeldorp, Andrew Thompson, Paul Amminger, Monika Schlögelhofer, Anita Riecher-Rössler, Eric Y.H. Chen, Ian B. Hickie, Lisa J. Phillips, Miriam R. Schäfer, Nilufar Mossaheb, Stefan Smesny, Gregor Berger, Lieuwe de Haan, Merete Nordentoft, Swapna Verma, Dorien H. Nieman, Patrick D. McGorry, Alison R. Yung, Scott R. Clark, Barnaby Nelson, 
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Predicting the outcome of psychotherapy for chronic depression by person‐specific symptom networks

Lea Schumacher, Jan Philipp Klein, Martin Hautzinger, Martin Härter, Elisabeth Schramm, Levente Kriston, 
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Associations between physical diseases and subsequent mental disorders: a longitudinal study in a population‐based cohort

Natalie C. Momen, Søren Dinesen Østergaard, Uffe Heide-Jorgensen, Henrik Toft Sørensen, John J. McGrath, Oleguer Plana-Ripoll, 
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Understanding the burnout experience: recent research and its implications for psychiatry

Christina Maslach, Michael P. Leiter, 
  •  103-111
  •  5 June 2016
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A network theory of mental disorders

Denny Borsboom, 
  •  5-13
  •  26 January 2017
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Risks of all‐cause and suicide mortality in mental disorders: a meta‐review

Edward Chesney, Guy M. Goodwin, Seena Fazel, 
  •  153-160
  •  2 June 2014
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Prevalence, incidence and mortality from cardiovascular disease in patients with pooled and specific severe mental illness: a large‐scale meta‐analysis of 3,211,768 patients and 113,383,368 controls

Christoph U. Correll, Marco Solmi, Nicola Veronese, Beatrice Bortolato, Stella Rosson, Paolo Santonastaso, Nita Thapa-Chhetri, Michele Fornaro, Davide Gallicchio, Enrico Collantoni, Giorgio Pigato, Angela Favaro, Francesco Monaco, Cristiano Kohler, Davy Vancampfort, Philip B. Ward, Fiona Gaughran, André F. Carvalho, Brendon Stubbs, 
  •  163-180
  •  12 May 2017
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How important are the common factors in psychotherapy? An update

Bruce E. Wampold, 
  •  270-277
  •  25 September 2015
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