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Denis Gerstorf 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 Denis Gerstorf sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 331 publications — 90th percentile

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

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

Denis Gerstorf 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 Denis Gerstorf sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 65 D-Index — 76th percentile

76% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Denis Gerstorf is affiliated with Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of psychology and social sciences, with a notable focus on subfields such as social psychology, health, neuropsychology and physiological psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, and clinical psychology.

The main topics of Gerstorf's work include health disparities and outcomes, aging and gerontology research, psychological well-being and life satisfaction, mental health research topics, psychological and temporal perspectives research, intergenerational family dynamics and caregiving, and personality traits and psychology.

Gerstorf has contributed extensively to scholarly literature, with frequent publications appearing in several journals. Notable venues for their work include Innovation in Aging, Psychology and Aging, The Journals of Gerontology Series B, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and Gerontology.

Among recent scholarly articles, some of the notable publications are:

  • Midlife in the 2020s: Opportunities and challenges, 2020, American Psychologist
  • The development of loneliness through adolescence and young adulthood: Its nature, correlates, and midlife outcomes, 2020, Developmental Psychology
  • Trajectories of Big Five Personality Traits: A Coordinated Analysis of 16 Longitudinal Samples, 2020, European Journal of Personality
  • Charting adult development through (historically changing) daily stress processes, 2020, American Psychologist
  • Is Healthy Neuroticism Associated with Health Behaviors? A Coordinated Integrative Data Analysis, 2020, Collabra Psychology

Their collaborative network includes frequent coauthors such as Christiane A. Hoppmann, Johanna Drewelies, Theresa Pauly, Ilja Demuth, and Nilàm Ram. These partnerships have resulted in dozens of joint publications, reflecting sustained research cooperation.

Best Publications

  • Regional Brain Changes in Aging Healthy Adults: General Trends, Individual Differences and Modifiers

    Naftali Raz;Ulman Lindenberger;Karen M. Rodrigue;Kristen M. Kennedy

  • Time-Structured and Net Intraindividual Variability: Tools for Examining the Development of Dynamic Characteristics and Processes

    Nilam Ram;Denis Gerstorf

  • Self-perceptions of aging predict mortality and change with approaching death: 16-year longitudinal results from the Berlin Aging Study.

    Dana Kotter-Grühn;Anna Kleinspehn-Ammerlahn;Denis Gerstorf;Jacqui Smith

  • Late-life decline in well-being across adulthood in Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States: Something is seriously wrong at the end of life.

    Denis Gerstorf;Nilam Ram;Guy Mayraz;Mira Hidajat

  • Midlife in the 2020s: Opportunities and challenges.

    Frank J. Infurna;Denis Gerstorf;Margie E. Lachman

  • Decline in Life Satisfaction in Old Age: Longitudinal Evidence for Links to Distance-to-Death

    Denis Gerstorf;Nilam Ram;Christina Röcke;Ulman Lindenberger

  • Life Satisfaction Shows Terminal Decline in Old Age: Longitudinal Evidence from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP).

    Denis Gerstorf;Nilam Ram;Ryne Estabrook;Jürgen Schupp;Jürgen Schupp

  • Personality predicts mortality risk: An integrative data analysis of 15 international longitudinal studies

    Eileen Kranz Graham;Joshua P. Rutsohn;Nicholas A. Turiano;Rebecca Bendayan

  • Long-Term Antecedents and Outcomes of Perceived Control

    Frank J. Infurna;Denis Gerstorf;Nilam Ram;Jürgen Schupp

  • Cohort Differences in Cognitive Aging and Terminal Decline in the Seattle Longitudinal Study

    Denis Gerstorf;Nilam Ram;Christiane Hoppmann;Sherry L. Willis

  • The Development of loneliness through adolescence and young adulthood: Its nature, correlates, and midlife outcomes

    Tilmann von Soest;Maike Luhmann;Denis Gerstorf

  • Ideographic filters for psychological constructs

    John R. Nesselroade;Denis Gerstorf;Sam A. Hardy;NIlam Ram

  • Development of loneliness in midlife and old age: Its nature and correlates.

    Tilmann von Soest;Maike Luhmann;Thomas Hansen;Denis Gerstorf

  • Spousal interrelations in old age--a mini-review.

    Christiane Hoppmann;Denis Gerstorf

  • Individual Characteristics and Physical Activity in Older Adults: A Systematic Review.

    Nanna Notthoff;Peter Reisch;Denis Gerstorf

  • Personality trait development at the end of life: Antecedents and correlates of mean-level trajectories.

    Jenny Wagner;Nilam Ram;Jacqui Smith;Denis Gerstorf

  • Stability of Sex Differences in Cognition in Advanced Old Age: The Role of Education and Attrition

    Denis Gerstorf;Agneta Herlitz;Jacqui Smith

  • Forecasting life satisfaction across adulthood: Benefits of seeing a dark future?

    Frieder R. Lang;David Weiss;Denis Gerstorf;Gert G. Wagner

  • Well-being affects changes in perceptual speed in advanced old age: Longitudinal evidence for a dynamic link.

    Denis Gerstorf;Martin Lövdén;Christina Röcke;Christina Röcke;Jacqui Smith

  • Trajectories of Big Five Personality Traits: A Coordinated Analysis of 16 Longitudinal Samples

    Eileen K. Graham;Sara J. Weston;Denis Gerstorf;Denis Gerstorf;Tomiko B. Yoneda

  • The nature and cross-domain correlates of subjective age in the oldest old: Evidence from the OCTO Study.

    Frank J. Infurna;Denis Gerstorf;Suzanne Robertson;Stig Berg

  • Antecedent–Consequent Relations of Perceived Control to Health and Social Support: Longitudinal Evidence for Between-Domain Associations Across Adulthood

    Denis Gerstorf;Christina Röcke;Margie E. Lachman

Frequent Co-Authors

Nilam Ram
Nilam Ram Stanford University
Gert G. Wagner
Gert G. Wagner German Institute for Economic Research
Christiane A. Hoppmann
Christiane A. Hoppmann University of British Columbia
Ulman Lindenberger
Ulman Lindenberger Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Frank J. Infurna
Frank J. Infurna Arizona State University
Jürgen Schupp
Jürgen Schupp German Institute for Economic Research
Jacqui Smith
Jacqui Smith University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Mary A. Luszcz
Mary A. Luszcz Flinders University
Jutta Heckhausen
Jutta Heckhausen University of California, Irvine
K. Warner Schaie
K. Warner Schaie University of Washington

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