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68
Citations
23850
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2443
National Ranking
100

Neuroscience

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Alfons O. Hamm publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alfons O. Hamm sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 270 publications — 84th percentile

84% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Alfons O. Hamm D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alfons O. Hamm sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 68 D-Index — 79th percentile

79% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Overview

Alfons O. Hamm is affiliated with the University of Greifswald in Germany and has a research focus primarily in psychology and neuroscience. Their work spans various subfields including experimental and cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, clinical psychology, behavioral neuroscience, and molecular biology.

Their research addresses topics such as anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment modalities, and cognitive processes. Other notable areas include mental health research, memory and neural mechanisms, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, stress responses and cortisol, functional brain connectivity studies, and psychosomatic disorders and their treatments.

Recent publications by Alfons O. Hamm include:

  • Change of Threat Expectancy as Mechanism of Exposure-Based Psychotherapy for Anxiety Disorders: Evidence From 8,484 Exposure Exercises of 605 Patients, 2022, Clinical Psychological Science
  • Efficacy of temporally intensified exposure for anxiety disorders: A multicenter randomized clinical trial, 2021, Depression and Anxiety
  • Promoting long-term inhibition of human fear responses by non-invasive transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation during extinction training, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Behavioural and functional evidence revealing the role of RBFOX1 variation in multiple psychiatric disorders and traits, 2022, Molecular Psychiatry
  • The Human Affectome, 2023, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

They have contributed to book publications, including a title published by Hogrefe Verlag in 2024 titled Erwartungsveränderung und Neulernen bei Ängsten.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Alfons O. Hamm are:

  • Jan Richter
  • Hans-Ulrich Wïttchen
  • Tilo Kircher
  • Andreas Ströhle
  • Ulrike Lueken

Their work is commonly published in venues such as Translational Psychiatry, Scientific Reports, Molecular Psychiatry, Behaviour Research and Therapy, and Depression and Anxiety.

Best Publications

  • Looking at pictures: affective, facial, visceral, and behavioral reactions

    Peter J. Lang;Mark K. Greenwald;Margaret M. Bradley;Alfons O. Hamm

  • The facilitated processing of threatening faces : an ERP analysis

    Harald Thomas Schupp;Arne Öhman;Markus Junghöfer;Almut I. Weike

  • The selective processing of briefly presented affective pictures: an ERP analysis.

    Harald Thomas Schupp;Markus Junghöfer;Almut I. Weike;Alfons Hamm

  • Emotional Facilitation of Sensory Processing in the Visual Cortex

    Harald Thomas Schupp;Markus Junghöfer;Almut I. Weike;Alfons Hamm

  • Updated Meta-Analysis of Classical Fear Conditioning in the Anxiety Disorders

    Puck Duits;Danielle C. Cath;Shmuel Lissek;Joop J. Hox

  • Selective visual attention to emotion.

    Harald Thomas Schupp;Jessica Stockburger;Maurizio Codispoti;Markus Junghöfer

  • Brain processes in emotional perception: Motivated attention

    Harald Thomas Schupp;Harald Thomas Schupp;Bruce N. Cuthbert;Bruce N. Cuthbert;Margaret M. Bradley;Charles H. Hillman

  • Attention and emotion: an ERP analysis of facilitated emotional stimulus processing.

    Harald Thomas Schupp;Markus Junghöfer;Almut I. Weike;Alfons Hamm

  • Fear and the startle reflex: Blink modulation and autonomic response patterns in animal and mutilation fearful subjects.

    Alfons O. Hamm;Bruce N. Cuthbert;Jutta Globisch;Dieter Vaitl

  • Cognition and the autonomic nervous system: Orienting, anticipation, and conditioning.

    Arne Öhman;Alfons Hamm;Kenneth Hugdahl

  • Affective learning: awareness and aversion.

    Alfons O. Hamm;Dieter Vaitl

  • Fear appears fast: temporal course of startle reflex potentiation in animal fearful subjects.

    Jutta Globisch;Alfons O. Hamm;Francisco Esteves;Arne Öhman

  • The neuropsychology of fear learning and fear regulation.

    Alfons O. Hamm;Almut I. Weike

  • Genetic Gating of Human Fear Learning and Extinction Possible Implications for Gene-Environment Interaction in Anxiety Disorder

    Tina B. Lonsdorf;Tina B. Lonsdorf;Almut I. Weike;Pernilla Nikamo;Martin Schalling

  • Accelerated Glial Reactivity to Stroke in Aged Rats Correlates With Reduced Functional Recovery

    I Badan;B Buchhold;A Hamm;M Gratz

  • Psychological Treatment for Panic Disorder With Agoraphobia: A Randomized Controlled Trial to Examine the Role of Therapist-Guided Exposure In Situ in CBT

    Andrew T. Gloster;Hans-Ulrich Wittchen;Franziska Einsle;Thomas Lang

  • Emotional learning, hedonic change, and the startle probe

    Alfons O. Hamm;Mark K. Greenwald;Margaret M. Bradley;Peter J. Lang

  • Affective blindsight: intact fear conditioning to a visual cue in a cortically blind patient

    Alfons Hamm;Almut I. Weike;Harald Thomas Schupp;Thomas Treig

  • Physiological and Musico-Acoustic Correlates of the Chill Response

    Martin Guhn;Alfons Hamm;Marcel Zentner

  • Effective neuroleptic medication removes prepulse inhibition deficits in schizophrenia patients

    Almut I Weike;Ulrike Bauer;Alfons O Hamm

Frequent Co-Authors

Tilo Kircher
Tilo Kircher Philipp University of Marburg
Georg W. Alpers
Georg W. Alpers University of Mannheim
Alexander L. Gerlach
Alexander L. Gerlach University of Cologne
Jürgen Deckert
Jürgen Deckert University of Würzburg
Volker Arolt
Volker Arolt University of Münster
Andreas Ströhle
Andreas Ströhle Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Thomas Fydrich
Thomas Fydrich Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Harald T. Schupp
Harald T. Schupp University of Konstanz
Andrew T. Gloster
Andrew T. Gloster University of Lucerne

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