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Christina E. Wierenga

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
46
Citations
8907
World Ranking
6409
National Ranking
3475

Neuroscience

D-Index
46
Citations
8960
World Ranking
6660
National Ranking
2892

Christina E. Wierenga publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 141 publications — 44th percentile

44% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Christina E. Wierenga 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 Christina E. Wierenga sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 46 D-Index — 45th percentile

45% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Christina E. Wierenga is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of psychology and medicine, with substantial contributions in clinical psychology and psychiatry and mental health.

Their work addresses topics such as eating disorders and behaviors, obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders, and child nutrition and feeding issues. Additional research interests include psychosomatic disorders and their treatments, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, cognitive processes, the impact of technology on adolescents, and behavioral health interventions.

Frequent publication venues for their research include:

  • International Journal of Eating Disorders
  • Biological Psychiatry
  • European Eating Disorders Review
  • Journal of Eating Disorders
  • Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society

Among recent papers authored or coauthored by Christina E. Wierenga are:

  • Body mistrust bridges interoceptive awareness and eating disorder symptoms, 2020, Journal of Abnormal Psychology
  • Brain Structure in Acutely Underweight and Partially Weight-Restored Individuals With Anorexia Nervosa: A Coordinated Analysis by the ENIGMA Eating Disorders Working Group, 2022, Biological Psychiatry
  • Neural Insensitivity to the Effects of Hunger in Women Remitted From Anorexia Nervosa, 2020, American Journal of Psychiatry
  • Regional hyperperfusion in older adults with objectively-defined subtle cognitive decline, 2020, Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism
  • Temperament-based treatment for young adults with eating disorders: acceptability and initial efficacy of an intensive, multi-family, parent-involved treatment, 2021, Journal of Eating Disorders

Christina E. Wierenga frequently collaborates with other researchers. Prominent coauthors include Walter H. Kaye, Stéphanie Knatz Peck, Laura L. Hill, Tiffany A. Brown, and Amanda Bischoff-Grethe.

Best Publications

  • Quantification of five neuropsychological approaches to defining mild cognitive impairment.

    Amy J. Jak;Amy J. Jak;Mark W. Bondi;Mark W. Bondi;Lisa Delano-Wood;Christina Wierenga;Christina Wierenga

  • Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels: the neurobiology of anorexia nervosa

    Walter H. Kaye;Christina E. Wierenga;Ursula F. Bailer;Ursula F. Bailer;Alan N. Simmons;Alan N. Simmons

  • Decreased white matter integrity in late-myelinating fiber pathways in Alzheimer's disease supports retrogenesis.

    Nikki H. Stricker;B. C. Schweinsburg;Lisa Delano-Wood;Lisa Delano-Wood;Christina E. Wierenga;Christina E. Wierenga

  • Functional MRI of language in aphasia: a review of the literature and the methodological challenges.

    Bruce Crosson;Keith McGregor;Kaundinya S. Gopinath;Tim W. Conway;Tim W. Conway

  • Cerebral blood flow measured by arterial spin labeling MRI as a preclinical marker of Alzheimer's disease.

    Christina E. Wierenga;Chelsea C. Hays;Zvinka Z. Zlatar

  • Left and right basal ganglia and frontal activity during language generation: Contributions to lexical, semantic, and phonological processes

    Bruce Crosson;Hope Benefield;M. Allison Cato;Joseph R. Sadek

  • The Utility of Cerebral Blood Flow as a Biomarker of Preclinical Alzheimer’s Disease

    Chelsea C Hays;Zvinka Z Zlatar;Zvinka Z Zlatar;Christina E Wierenga;Christina E Wierenga

  • Age-related changes in word retrieval: role of bilateral frontal and subcortical networks.

    Christina E. Wierenga;Christina E. Wierenga;Christina E. Wierenga;Michelle Benjamin;Michelle Benjamin;Kaundinya Gopinath;Kaundinya Gopinath;William M. Perlstein;William M. Perlstein

  • Role of the Right and Left Hemispheres in Recovery of Function during Treatment of Intention in Aphasia

    Bruce Crosson;Anna Bacon Moore;Kaundinya Gopinath;Keith D. White

  • Are Extremes of Consumption in Eating Disorders Related to an Altered Balance between Reward and Inhibition

    Christina E. Wierenga;Christina E. Wierenga;Alice Ely;Amanda Bischoff-Grethe;Ursula F. Bailer;Ursula F. Bailer

  • Does a shared neurobiology for foods and drugs of abuse contribute to extremes of food ingestion in anorexia and bulimia nervosa

    Walter H. Kaye;Christina E. Wierenga;Ursula F. Bailer;Ursula F. Bailer;Alan N. Simmons;Alan N. Simmons

  • Hunger does not motivate reward in women remitted from anorexia nervosa.

    Christina E. Wierenga;Amanda Bischoff-Grethe;A. James Melrose;Zoe Irvine

  • What's easier: doing what you want, or being told what to do? Cued versus voluntary language and task switching.

    Tamar H. Gollan;Daniel Kleinman;Christina E. Wierenga

  • Processing Words with Emotional Connotation: An fMRI Study of Time Course and Laterality in Rostral Frontal and Retrosplenial Cortices

    M. Allison Cato;Bruce Crosson;Didem Gökçay;David Soltysik

  • Psychometric Evaluation and Norms for the Multidimensional Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness (MAIA) in a Clinical Eating Disorders Sample

    Tiffany A. Brown;Laura A. Berner;Michelle D. Jones;Erin E. Reilly

  • Regional White Matter Pathology in Mild Cognitive Impairment Differential Influence of Lesion Type on Neuropsychological Functioning

    Lisa Delano-Wood;Norm Abeles;Joshua M. Sacco;Christina E. Wierenga

  • Partially overlapping mechanisms of language and task control in young and older bilinguals.

    Gali H. Weissberger;Christina E. Wierenga;Mark W. Bondi;Tamar H. Gollan

  • Differential age effects on cerebral blood flow and BOLD response to encoding: associations with cognition and stroke risk.

    Katherine J. Bangen;Khaled Restom;Thomas T. Liu;Amy J. Jak

  • Use of functional magnetic resonance imaging in the early identification of Alzheimer's disease.

    Christina E. Wierenga;Mark W. Bondi;Mark W. Bondi

  • Language and task switching in the bilingual brain: Bilinguals are staying, not switching, experts

    Gali H. Weissberger;Tamar H. Gollan;Mark W. Bondi;Lindsay R. Clark

  • Interaction of age and APOE genotype on cerebral blood flow at rest.

    Christina E. Wierenga;Lindsay R. Clark;Sheena I. Dev;David D. Shin

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark W. Bondi
Mark W. Bondi University of California, San Diego
Walter H. Kaye
Walter H. Kaye University of California, San Diego
Amy J. Jak
Amy J. Jak University of California, San Diego
Alan N. Simmons
Alan N. Simmons University of California, San Diego
Lisa Delano-Wood
Lisa Delano-Wood University of California, San Diego
Katherine J. Bangen
Katherine J. Bangen University of California, San Diego
Thomas T. Liu
Thomas T. Liu University of California, San Diego
Bruce Crosson
Bruce Crosson Emory University
Tiffany A. Brown
Tiffany A. Brown Auburn University
Martin P. Paulus
Martin P. Paulus Laureate Institute for Brain Research

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