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Barbara De Clercq

Barbara De Clercq

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
47
Citations
8020
World Ranking
6213
National Ranking
82

Barbara De Clercq 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 Barbara De Clercq sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 163 publications — 56th percentile

56% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Barbara De Clercq 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 Barbara De Clercq sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 47 D-Index — 47th percentile

47% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Barbara De Clercq is affiliated with Ghent University in Belgium and specializes in Psychology, with a focus on Clinical Psychology as the primary subfield. Their research extends into Social Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Philosophy, and Cognitive Neuroscience.

The scientist's work covers key topics such as:

  • Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
  • Mental Health and Psychiatry
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
  • Personality Traits and Psychology

Barbara De Clercq has contributed to multiple recent papers, including:

  • Emotion Regulation as a Transdiagnostic Risk Factor for (Non)Clinical Adolescents' Internalizing and Externalizing Psychopathology: Investigating the Intervening Role of Psychological Need Experiences, 2021, Child Psychiatry & Human Development
  • Towards a better understanding of adolescent obsessive-compulsive personality traits and obsessive-compulsive symptoms from growth trajectories of perfectionism, 2021, Development and Psychopathology
  • The Development of Criterion A Personality Pathology: The Relevance of Childhood Social Functioning for Young Adult Daily Self-Functioning, 2021, Child Psychiatry & Human Development
  • Unraveling Prospective Reciprocal Effects between Parental Invalidation and Pre-Adolescents' Borderline Traits: Between- and Within-Family Associations and Differences with Common Psychopathology-Parenting Transactions, 2021, Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology
  • Towards a fine-grained analysis of the link between borderline personality pathology and job burnout: Investigating the association with work-family conflict, 2020, Personality and Individual Differences

Frequent co-authors in their research include:

  • Raissa Franssens
  • Jasmine Vergauwe
  • Salome Vanwoerden
  • Marie-Céline Gouwy
  • Katrijn Brenning

Barbara De Clercq has published extensively in several venues, with multiple publications in:

  • Child Psychiatry & Human Development
  • Development and Psychopathology
  • Personality Disorders Theory Research and Treatment
  • PsycTESTS Dataset
  • Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology

The scientist has also contributed to book publications, including a work published by Cambridge University Press titled The Cambridge Handbook of Personality Disorders (2020).

Best Publications

  • Socioeconomic inequalities in adolescent health 2002-2010 : a time-series analysis of 34 countries participating in the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children study

    Frank J. Elgar;Timo Kolja Pförtner;Irene Moor;Bart De Clercq

  • Five types of personality continuity in childhood and adolescence.

    Filip De Fruyt;Meike Bartels;Karla G. Van Leeuwen;Barbara De Clercq

  • The time has come for dimensional personality disorder diagnosis

    Christopher J. Hopwood;Roman Kotov;Robert F. Krueger;David Watson

  • Temperament, personality, and developmental psychopathology as childhood antecedents of personality disorders.

    Ivan Mervielde;Barbara De Clercq;Filip De Fruyt;Karla Van Leeuwen

  • General and maladaptive traits in a five-factor framework for DSM-5 in a university student sample.

    Filip De Fruyt;Barbara De Clercq;Marleen De Bolle;Bart Wille

  • Integrating the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP) into clinical practice

    Camilo J. Ruggero;Roman Kotov;Christopher J. Hopwood;Michael First

  • The structure of maladaptive personality traits in childhood : A step toward an integrative developmental perspective for DSM-V

    Barbara De Clercq;Filip De Fruyt;Karla Van Leeuwen;Ivan Mervielde

  • A meta-analysis of psychopathy-, antisocial PD- and FFM associations

    Mieke Decuyper;Sarah De Pauw;Filip De Fruyt;Marleen De Bolle

  • Does Neighbourhood Social Capital Aid in Levelling the Social Gradient in the Health and Well-Being of Children and Adolescents? A Literature Review

    Veerle Vyncke;Veerle Vyncke;Bart De Clercq;Veerle Stevens;Caroline Costongs

  • The hierarchical structure and construct validity of the PID-5 trait measure in adolescence

    Barbara De Clercq;Filip De Fruyt;Marleen De Bolle;Alain Van Hiel

  • Criterion A of the AMPD in HiTOP

    Thomas A. Widiger;Bo Bach;Michael Chmielewski;Lee Anna Clark

  • The relationship between immigrant school composition, classmate support and involvement in physical fighting and bullying among adolescent immigrants and non-immigrants in 11 countries

    Sophie D Walsh;Bart De Clercq;Michal Molcho;Yossi Harel-Fisch

  • Expanding and Reconceptualizing Aberrant Personality at Work: Validity of Five-Factor Model Aberrant Personality Tendencies to Predict Career Outcomes

    Bart Wille;Filip De Fruyt;Barbara De Clercq

  • General Personality and Psychopathology in Referred and Nonreferred Children and Adolescents: An Investigation of Continuity, Pathoplasty, and Complication Models

    Marleen De Bolle;Wim Beyers;Barbara De Clercq;Filip De Fruyt

  • Quality of Life in Children Surviving Cancer: A Personality and Multi-Informant Perspective

    Barbara De Clercq;Filip De Fruyt;Hans M Koot;Yves Benoit

  • Antecedents of Personality Disorder in Childhood and Adolescence: Toward an Integrative Developmental Model

    Filip De Fruyt;Barbara De Clercq

  • Personality disorder symptoms in adolescence: a five-factor model perspective.

    Barbara De Clercq;Filip De Fruyt

  • Childhood antecedents of personality disorder: an alternative perspective.

    Thomas A. Widiger;Barbara De Clercq;Filip De Fruyt

  • The Construct Validity of the Dutch Personality Inventory for DSM-5 Personality Disorders (PID-5) in a Clinical Sample:

    Tim Bastiaens;Laurence Claes;Dirk Smits;Dirk Smits;Barbara De Clercq

  • How Temperament and Personality Contribute to the Maladjustment of Children With Autism

    Sarah S. W. De Pauw;Ivan Mervielde;Karla G. Van Leeuwen;Barbara J. De Clercq

  • Authoritarianism is good for you: Right‐wing authoritarianism as a buffering factor for mental distress:

    Alain Van Hiel;Barbara De Clercq

Frequent Co-Authors

Filip De Fruyt
Filip De Fruyt Ghent University
Ivan Mervielde
Ivan Mervielde Ghent University
Joeri Hofmans
Joeri Hofmans Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Alain Van Hiel
Alain Van Hiel Ghent University
Jennifer L. Tackett
Jennifer L. Tackett Northwestern University
Marcel A. G. van Aken
Marcel A. G. van Aken Utrecht University
Carla Sharp
Carla Sharp University of Houston
Thomas A. Widiger
Thomas A. Widiger University of Kentucky
Robert F. Krueger
Robert F. Krueger University of Minnesota

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