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Dorthe Berntsen

Dorthe Berntsen

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Psychology
Denmark
2026

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Psychology

D-Index
65
Citations
19145
World Ranking
2809
National Ranking
11

Dorthe Berntsen 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 Dorthe Berntsen sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 264 publications — 83rd percentile

83% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Dorthe Berntsen 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 Dorthe Berntsen 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.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in Denmark Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Psychology in Denmark Leader Award

Overview

Dorthe Berntsen is affiliated with Aarhus University in Denmark and has contributed extensively to the fields of psychology and neuroscience. Their research output includes 127 publications in psychology and 56 in neuroscience, reflecting a broad and interdisciplinary engagement with cognitive and clinical sciences.

Their work spans several specialized subfields: developmental and educational psychology, cognitive neuroscience, clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, and psychiatry and mental health. This diversity illustrates a comprehensive approach to understanding mental processes and disorders.

Major research topics covered by Dorthe Berntsen include:

  • Identity, Memory, and Therapy
  • Memory Processes and Influences
  • Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
  • Aging and Gerontology Research
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Mind wandering and attention
  • Educational and Psychological Assessments

Their publishing record features frequent contributions to several peer-reviewed journals. The most common publication venues are:

  • Memory
  • Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition
  • Applied Cognitive Psychology
  • Psychological Research
  • Memory & Cognition

Dorthe Berntsen has collaborated regularly with several coauthors, showing consistent research partnerships. Frequent collaborators include:

  • David C. Rubin
  • Niels Peter Nielsen
  • Osman S. Kingo
  • Trine Sonne
  • Peter Krøjgaard

Among recent scholarly contributions, several papers stand out by their publication year and venue:

  • Involuntary autobiographical memories and their relation to other forms of spontaneous thoughts, 2020, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • How do we remember public events? Pioneering a new area of everyday memory research, 2021, Cognition
  • Self-isolation, psychotic symptoms and cognitive problems during the COVID-19 worldwide outbreak, 2021, Psychiatry Research
  • "It won't happen to us": Unrealistic optimism affects COVID-19 risk assessments and attitudes regarding protective behaviour, 2021, Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition
  • Sleep well, mind wander less: A systematic review of the relationship between sleep outcomes and spontaneous cognition, 2022, Consciousness and Cognition

Best Publications

  • The centrality of event scale: a measure of integrating a trauma into one's identity and its relation to post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms.

    Dorthe Berntsen;David C. Rubin

  • Cultural life scripts structure recall from autobiographical memory.

    Dorthe Berntsen;David C. Rubin

  • Emotionally Charged Autobiographical Memories Across the Life Span: The Recall of Happy, Sad, Traumatic, and Involuntary Memories

    Dorthe Berntsen;David C. Rubin

  • A memory-based model of posttraumatic stress disorder: evaluating basic assumptions underlying the PTSD diagnosis.

    David C. Rubin;Dorthe Berntsen;Malene Klindt Bohni

  • When a trauma becomes a key to identity: Enhanced integration of trauma memories predicts posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms

    Dorthe Berntsen;David C. Rubin

  • Involuntary Autobiographical Memories

    Dorthe Berntsen

  • Life scripts help to maintain autobiographical memories of highly positive, but not highly negative, events.

    David C. Rubin;Dorthe Berntsen

  • People over forty feel 20% younger than their age: Subjective age across the lifespan

    David C. Rubin;Dorthe Berntsen

  • Involuntary Autobiographical Memories: An Introduction to the Unbidden Past

    Dorthe Berntsen

  • Involuntary (spontaneous) mental time travel into the past and future

    Dorthe Berntsen;Anne Stærk Jacobsen

  • Involuntary Autobiographical Memories

    Unknown

  • Splintered memories or vivid landmarks? Qualities and organization of traumatic memories with and without PTSD

    Dorthe Berntsen;Morten Willert;David C. Rubin

  • Voluntary and involuntary access to autobiographical memory.

    Dorthe Berntsen

  • The episodic nature of involuntary autobiographical memories.

    Dorthe Berntsen;Nicoline Marie Hall

  • Remembering and forecasting: The relation between autobiographical memory and episodic future thinking.

    Dorthe Berntsen;Annette Bohn

  • The Unbidden Past Involuntary Autobiographical Memories as a Basic Mode of Remembering

    Dorthe Berntsen

  • Emotionally charged autobiographical memories across the life span: The recall of happy, sad, traumatic and involuntary memories.

    Unknown

  • Memory in posttraumatic stress disorder: properties of voluntary and involuntary, traumatic and nontraumatic autobiographical memories in people with and without posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms.

    David C. Rubin;Adriel Boals;Dorthe Berntsen

  • The functions of autobiographical memory: an integrative approach.

    Celia B. Harris;Anne S. Rasmussen;Dorthe Berntsen

  • Positive emotions enhance recall of peripheral details

    Jennifer M. Talarico;Dorthe Berntsen;David C. Rubin

  • Involuntary memories of emotional events: do memories of traumas and extremely happy events differ?

    Dorthe Berntsen

  • A Memory-Based Model of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder : Evaluating Basic Assumptions Underlying the PTSD Diagnosis. Commentary. Authors' reply

    David C. Rubin;Dorthe Berntsen;Malene Klindt Bohni;Scott M. Monroe

Frequent Co-Authors

David C. Rubin
David C. Rubin Duke University
Josep Call
Josep Call University of St Andrews
Rick H. Hoyle
Rick H. Hoyle Duke University
Adriel Boals
Adriel Boals University of North Texas
Kim Plunkett
Kim Plunkett University of Oxford
Jean-Marie Danion
Jean-Marie Danion University of Strasbourg
Willem Kuyken
Willem Kuyken University of Oxford
Edward R. Watkins
Edward R. Watkins University of Exeter
Ilene C. Siegler
Ilene C. Siegler Duke University
Maria S. Zaragoza
Maria S. Zaragoza Kent State University

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