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Christian Schmahl

Christian Schmahl

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
86
Citations
25786
World Ranking
1144
National Ranking
43

Christian Schmahl 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 Christian Schmahl sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 357 publications — 92nd percentile

92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Christian Schmahl 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 Christian Schmahl sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 86 D-Index — 90th percentile

90% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Christian Schmahl is affiliated with Heidelberg University in Germany and has a research focus spanning psychology and medicine, with a particular emphasis on clinical psychology. Their work covers multiple subfields including clinical psychology, cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry and mental health, experimental and cognitive psychology, and epidemiology.

Their published work addresses key topics such as personality disorders and psychopathology, suicide and self-harm studies, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, child abuse and trauma, functional brain connectivity studies, posttraumatic stress disorder research, and psychosomatic disorders and their treatments.

Notable recent papers by Christian Schmahl include:

  • Dissecting the Shared Genetic Architecture of Suicide Attempt, Psychiatric Disorders, and Known Risk Factors (2021, Biological Psychiatry)
  • Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (DBT-PTSD) Compared With Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) in Complex Presentations of PTSD in Women Survivors of Childhood Abuse (2020, JAMA Psychiatry)
  • Efficacy of dialectical behavior therapy for adolescent self-harm and suicidal ideation: a systematic review and meta-analysis (2021, Psychological Medicine)
  • A systematic review of daily life studies on non-suicidal self-injury based on the four-function model (2020, Clinical Psychology Review)
  • Advancing a temporal framework for understanding the biology of nonsuicidal self-injury: An expert review (2021, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews)

Frequent collaborators in Schmahl's research include Martin Bohus, Nikolaus Kleindienst, Julia Herzog, Johanna Hepp, and Kathlen Priebe. This collaborative network reflects a consistent engagement with experts in related domains of psychology and psychiatry.

Christian Schmahl's research has been published extensively in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature, Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation, European Journal of Psychotraumatology, and Der Nervenarzt.

In addition to journal publications, Schmahl has contributed to academic literature through book publications, including a recent title released by Hogrefe Verlag titled Ratgeber Selbstverletzendes Verhalten (2023).

Best Publications

  • SeminarBorderline personality disorder

    Klaus Lieb;Mary C Zanarini;Christian Schmahl;Marsha M Linehan

  • Emotion Modulation in PTSD: Clinical and Neurobiological Evidence for a Dissociative Subtype

    Ruth A. Lanius;Eric Vermetten;Richard J. Loewenstein;Bethany Brand

  • Effectiveness of inpatient dialectical behavioral therapy for borderline personality disorder: a controlled trial.

    Martin Bohus;Brigitte Haaf;Timothy Simms;Matthias F. Limberger

  • Adverse Childhood Experiences and the Consequences on Neurobiological, Psychosocial, and Somatic Conditions Across the Lifespan

    Julia I. Herzog;Christian Schmahl;Christian Schmahl

  • Structural and functional plasticity of the human brain in posttraumatic stress disorder

    J. Douglas Bremner;Bernet Elzinga;Christian G. Schmahl;Eric Vermetten

  • Dissociation in Psychiatric Disorders: A Meta-Analysis of Studies Using the Dissociative Experiences Scale

    Lisa Lyssenko;Christian Schmahl;Laura Bockhacker;Ruben Vonderlin

  • Positron emission tomographic imaging of neural correlates of a fear acquisition and extinction paradigm in women with childhood sexual-abuse-related post-traumatic stress disorder.

    J. Douglas Bremner;Eric Vermetten;Christian G. Schmahl;Viola Vaccarino

  • Magnetic resonance imaging of hippocampal and amygdala volume in women with childhood abuse and borderline personality disorder.

    Christian G. Schmahl;Eric Vermetten;Bernet M. Elzinga;J. Douglas Bremner

  • Higher cortisol levels following exposure to traumatic reminders in abuse-related PTSD.

    Bernet M Elzinga;Christian G Schmahl;Eric Vermetten;Richard van Dyck

  • Hippocampal and amygdalar volumes in dissociative identity disorder.

    Eric Vermetten;Christian Schmahl;Sanneke Lindner;Richard J. Loewenstein

  • Neural correlates of antinociception in borderline personality disorder.

    Christian Schmahl;Martin Bohus;Fabrizio Esposito;Rolf-Detlef Treede

  • Neural Correlates of Disturbed Emotion Processing in Borderline Personality Disorder: A Multimodal Meta-Analysis

    Lars Schulze;Christian Schmahl;Inga Niedtfeld

  • Neural correlates of the classic color and emotional stroop in women with abuse-related posttraumatic stress disorder.

    J.Douglas Bremner;J.Douglas Bremner;Eric Vermetten;Eric Vermetten;Meena Vythilingam;Nadeem Afzal;Nadeem Afzal

  • Motives for nonsuicidal self-injury among women with borderline personality disorder.

    Nikolaus Kleindienst;Martin Bohus;Petra Ludäscher;Matthias F. Limberger

  • Dialectical behaviour therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder after childhood sexual abuse in patients with and without borderline personality disorder: a randomised controlled trial.

    Martin Bohus;Anne S Dyer;Kathlen Priebe;Antje Krüger

  • Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder as a potentially aggravating factor in borderline personality disorder

    Alexandra Philipsen;Matthias F. Limberger;Klaus Lieb;Bernd Feige

  • Neuronal Correlates of Cognitive Reappraisal in Borderline Patients with Affective Instability

    Lars Schulze;Gregor Domes;Alexander Krüger;Christoph Berger

  • The neurobiology of emotion regulation in posttraumatic stress disorder: Amygdala downregulation via real-time fMRI neurofeedback.

    Andrew A. Nicholson;Daniela Rabellino;Maria Densmore;Paul A. Frewen

  • Affect Regulation and Pain in Borderline Personality Disorder: A Possible Link to the Understanding of Self-Injury

    Inga Niedtfeld;Lars Schulze;Peter Kirsch;Sabine C. Herpertz

  • The Latest Neuroimaging Findings in Borderline Personality Disorder

    Jana Mauchnik;Christian Schmahl

  • Altered Pain Processing in Veterans With Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

    Elbert Geuze;Herman G. M. Westenberg;Anja Jochims;Carien S. de Kloet

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Bohus
Martin Bohus Central Institute of Mental Health
Nikolaus Kleindienst
Nikolaus Kleindienst Heidelberg University
Stefanie Lis
Stefanie Lis Heidelberg University
Gabriele Ende
Gabriele Ende Heidelberg University
Sabine C. Herpertz
Sabine C. Herpertz Heidelberg University
Bernet M. Elzinga
Bernet M. Elzinga Leiden University
Eric Vermetten
Eric Vermetten Leiden University Medical Center
Klaus Lieb
Klaus Lieb Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
J. Douglas Bremner
J. Douglas Bremner Emory University
Rolf-Detlef Treede
Rolf-Detlef Treede Heidelberg University

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