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Florian Schmiedek

Florian Schmiedek

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
51
Citations
12033
World Ranking
5172
National Ranking
238

Florian Schmiedek 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 Florian Schmiedek sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 170 publications — 58th percentile

58% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Florian Schmiedek 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 Florian Schmiedek sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 51 D-Index — 56th percentile

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

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

Overview

Florian Schmiedek is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany and specializes in the field of Psychology, with a particular focus on experimental and cognitive psychology, clinical psychology, social psychology, education, and sociology and political science. Their publication record comprises 112 works, spanning multiple subfields such as experimental and cognitive psychology (44 publications), clinical psychology (28 publications), and social psychology (21 publications).

Their research covers a range of topics, including mental health research, psychological well-being and life satisfaction, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, behavioral health and interventions, cognitive abilities and testing, family support in illness, and psychological and temporal perspectives research. The volume of publications for each main topic is as follows:

  • Mental Health Research Topics (30)
  • Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction (26)
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (18)
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions (16)
  • Cognitive Abilities and Testing (14)
  • Family Support in Illness (12)
  • Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research (12)

Florian Schmiedek has contributed to notable academic journals, with frequent publications in venues such as The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry (5 publications), Journal of Personality (4 publications), Developmental Psychology (4 publications), Learning and Instruction (4 publications), and PsycTESTS Dataset (3 publications).

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Schmiedek include:

  • Developing Personalized Education: A Dynamic Framework, 2020, Educational Psychology Review
  • A Little Autonomy Support Goes a Long Way: Daily Autonomy-Supportive Parenting, Child Well-Being, Parental Need Fulfillment, and Change in Child, Family, and Parent Adjustment Across the Adaptation to the COVID-19 Pandemic, 2021, Child Development
  • Change in mental health symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic: The role of appraisals and daily life experiences, 2020, Journal of Personality
  • Digital phenotyping: towards replicable findings with comprehensive assessments and integrative models in bipolar disorders, 2020, International Journal of Bipolar Disorders
  • Lifetime and current depression in the German National Cohort (NAKO), 2021, The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry

Among frequent collaborators are Andreas B. Neubauer, Andrea C. Kramer, Annette Brose, Andrea Schmidt, and Andreas Neubauer. Their joint work spans various research areas and contributes to the development of understanding in psychological science.

Best Publications

  • A theoretical framework for the study of adult cognitive plasticity.

    Martin Lövdén;Lars Bäckman;Ulman Lindenberger;Sabine Schaefer

  • Dual-tasking postural control: Aging and the effects of cognitive demand in conjunction with focus of attention

    Oliver Huxhold;Shu-Chen Li;Florian Schmiedek;Ulman Lindenberger

  • Individual differences in components of reaction time distributions and their relations to working memory and intelligence

    Florian Schmiedek;Klaus Oberauer;Oliver Wilhelm;Heinz-Martin Süß

  • Hundred Days of Cognitive Training Enhance Broad Cognitive Abilities in Adulthood: Findings from the COGITO Study.

    Florian Schmiedek;Martin Lövdén;Ulman Lindenberger

  • Working memory plasticity in old age: Practice gain, transfer, and maintenance.

    Shu Chen Li;Florian Schmiedek;Oliver Huxhold;Christina Röcke

  • At the Frontiers of Modeling Intensive Longitudinal Data: Dynamic Structural Equation Models for the Affective Measurements from the COGITO Study.

    Ellen L. Hamaker;Tihomir Asparouhov;Annette Brose;Florian Schmiedek

  • Seeking Pleasure and Seeking Pain: Differences in Prohedonic and Contra-Hedonic Motivation From Adolescence to Old Age

    Michaela Riediger;Florian Schmiedek;Gert G. Wagner;Ulman Lindenberger

  • Complex span versus updating tasks of working memory: the gap is not that deep.

    Florian Schmiedek;Andrea Hildebrandt;Martin Lövdén;Oliver Wilhelm

  • Peak individual alpha frequency qualifies as a stable neurophysiological trait marker in healthy younger and older adults

    Thomas H. Grandy;Markus Werkle-Bergner;Christian Chicherio;Florian Schmiedek

  • Experience-dependent plasticity of white-matter microstructure extends into old age

    Martin Lövdén;Nils Christian Bodammer;Simone Kühn;Jörn Kaufmann

  • Individual alpha peak frequency is related to latent factors of general cognitive abilities

    Thomas H. Grandy;Markus Werkle-Bergner;Christian Chicherio;Martin Lövdén

  • Cognitive plasticity in adulthood and old age: gauging the generality of cognitive intervention effects.

    Hannes Noack;Martin Lövdén;Florian Schmiedek;Ulman Lindenberger

  • Characterizing Lifespan Development of Three Aspects of Coherence in Life Narratives: A Cohort-Sequential Study.

    Christin Köber;Florian Schmiedek;Tilmann Habermas

  • Daily Variability in Working Memory is Coupled With Negative Affect: The Role of Attention and Motivation

    Annette Brose;Florian Schmiedek;Martin Lövdén;Ulman Lindenberger

  • Toward a Unified Framework for the Study of Between-Person and Within-Person Structures: Building a Bridge Between Two Research Paradigms.

    Manuel C. Voelkle;Annette Brose;Florian Schmiedek;Ulman Lindenberger

  • Developing Personalized Education: A Dynamic Framework

    Leonard Tetzlaff;Florian Schmiedek;Florian Schmiedek;Garvin Brod;Garvin Brod

  • A task is a task is a task: putting complex span, n-back, and other working memory indicators in psychometric context.

    Florian Schmiedek;Martin Lövdén;Ulman Lindenberger

  • On the relation of mean reaction time and intraindividual reaction time variability.

    Florian Schmiedek;Martin Lövdén;Ulman Lindenberger

  • Life contexts make a difference: Emotional stability in younger and older adults.

    Annette Brose;Susanne Scheibe;Florian Schmiedek

  • On the validity and generality of transfer effects in cognitive training research

    Hannes Noack;Martin Lövdén;Florian Schmiedek

  • Aging and attenuated processing robustness. Evidence from cognitive and sensorimotor functioning.

    Shu-Chen Li;Oliver Huxhold;Florian Schmiedek

Frequent Co-Authors

Ulman Lindenberger
Ulman Lindenberger Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Martin Lövdén
Martin Lövdén University of Gothenburg
Annette Brose
Annette Brose Freie Universität Berlin
Shu-Chen Li
Shu-Chen Li TU Dresden
Michaela Riediger
Michaela Riediger Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Gert G. Wagner
Gert G. Wagner German Institute for Economic Research
Markus Werkle-Bergner
Markus Werkle-Bergner Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Manuel C. Voelkle
Manuel C. Voelkle Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Oliver Wilhelm
Oliver Wilhelm University of Ulm
Yee Lee Shing
Yee Lee Shing Goethe University Frankfurt

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