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Frank H. Wilhelm

Frank H. Wilhelm

University of Salzburg
Austria

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Psychology
Austria
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
73
Citations
22248
World Ranking
1945
National Ranking
4

Frank H. Wilhelm 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 Frank H. Wilhelm sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 259 publications — 82nd percentile

82% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Frank H. Wilhelm 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 Frank H. Wilhelm sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 73 D-Index — 83rd percentile

83% 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 Austria Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Psychology in Austria Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Psychology in Austria Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Psychology in Austria Leader Award

Overview

Frank H. Wilhelm is affiliated with the University of Salzburg in Austria. Their research spans the fields of psychology, medicine, and neuroscience, with a total of 58 publications in psychology, 24 in medicine, and 20 in neuroscience. Subfields of focus include clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry and mental health, and social psychology.

The primary topics covered in Wilhelm's work include:

  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions

Recent papers by Wilhelm encompass various aspects of emotional processing, trauma, and memory. These include:

  • "Intrusive memories as conditioned responses to trauma cues: An empirically supported concept?" published in 2021 in Behaviour Research and Therapy
  • "Fight, Flight, - Or Grab a Bite! Trait Emotional and Restrained Eating Style Predicts Food Cue Responding Under Negative Emotions" published in 2020 in Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
  • "Sex differences in emotional concordance" published in 2020 in Biological Psychology
  • "Differential Effects of REM Sleep on Emotional Processing: Initial Evidence for Increased Short-term Emotional Responses and Reduced Long-term Intrusive Memories" published in 2020 in Behavioral Sleep Medicine
  • "Neural Processing During Fear Extinction Predicts Intrusive Memories" published in 2020 in Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging

Frequent coauthors in Wilhelm's research projects include:

  • Stephan F. Miedl
  • Michael Liedlgruber
  • Sarah K. Danböck
  • Laila K. Franke
  • Julina A. Rattel

Wilhelm's publications appear regularly in several research journals, with notable frequency in:

  • Cognitive Therapy and Research
  • European Journal of Psychotraumatology
  • Behaviour Research and Therapy
  • Pain
  • International Journal of Psychophysiology

Best Publications

  • The social consequences of expressive suppression.

    Emily A. Butler;Boris Egloff;Frank H. Wilhelm;Nancy C. Smith

  • The tie that binds? Coherence among emotion experience, behavior, and physiology.

    Iris B. Mauss;Robert W. Levenson;Loren McCarter;Frank H. Wilhelm

  • Respiratory sinus arrhythmia, emotion, and emotion regulation during social interaction.

    Emily A. Butler;Frank H. Wilhelm;James J. Gross

  • Cardiovascular, electrodermal, and respiratory response patterns to fear- and sadness-inducing films.

    Sylvia D. Kreibig;Frank H. Wilhelm;Walton T. Roth;Walton T. Roth;James J. Gross

  • Seeing the silver lining: cognitive reappraisal ability moderates the relationship between stress and depressive symptoms.

    Allison S. Troy;Frank H. Wilhelm;Amanda J. Shallcross;Iris B. Mauss

  • Cell Aging in Relation to Stress Arousal and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors

    Elissa S. Epel;Jue Lin;Frank H. Wilhelm;Owen M. Wolkowitz

  • Fear conditioning in posttraumatic stress disorder: evidence for delayed extinction of autonomic, experiential, and behavioural responses.

    Jens Blechert;Tanja Michael;Noortje Vriends;Jü rgen Margraf

  • All in the Mind's Eye? Anger Rumination and Reappraisal

    Rebecca D. Ray;Frank H. Wilhelm;James J. Gross

  • Visual complexity of websites: Effects on users' experience, physiology, performance, and memory

    Alexandre N. Tuch;Javier A. Bargas-Avila;Klaus Opwis;Frank H. Wilhelm

  • Emotions beyond the laboratory: Theoretical fundaments, study design, and analytic strategies for advanced ambulatory assessment

    Frank H. Wilhelm;Paul Grossman

  • Glucocorticoids enhance extinction-based psychotherapy.

    Dominique J.-F. de Quervain;Dorothée Bentz;Tanja Michael;Olivia C. Bolt

  • Autonomic and Respiratory Characteristics of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Panic Disorder

    Jens Blechert;Tanja Michael;Paul Grossman;Marta Lajtman

  • Is there less to social anxiety than meets the eye? Emotion experience, expression, and bodily responding

    Iris B. Mauss;Frank H. Wilhelm;James J. Gross

  • Systems and methods for respiratory event detection

    Michael Coyle;Desmond B. Keenan;P. Alexander Derchak;Marvin A. Sackner

  • How to Bite Your Tongue Without Blowing Your Top: Implicit Evaluation of Emotion Regulation Predicts Affective Responding to Anger Provocation

    Iris B. Mauss;Catharine Evers;Frank H. Wilhelm;James J. Gross

  • Don't Hide Your Happiness! Positive Emotion Dissociation, Social Connectedness, and Psychological Functioning

    Iris B. Mauss;Amanda J. Shallcross;Allison S. Troy;Oliver P. John

  • Fear conditioning in panic disorder: Enhanced resistance to extinction.

    Tanja Michael;Jens Blechert;Noortje Vriends;Jürgen Margraf

  • Respiratory sinus arrhythmia, cardiac vagal control, and daily activity

    P. Grossman;F. H. Wilhelm;M. Spoerle

  • Social anxiety and response to touch: incongruence between self-evaluative and physiological reactions.

    Frank H Wilhelm;Ajay S Kochar;Walton T Roth;Walton T Roth;James J Gross

  • Physiologic instability in panic disorder and generalized anxiety disorder

    Frank H Wilhelm;Werner Trabert;Werner Trabert;Walton T Roth;Walton T Roth

Frequent Co-Authors

Walton T. Roth
Walton T. Roth Stanford University
Jens Blechert
Jens Blechert University of Salzburg
Tanja Michael
Tanja Michael Saarland University
James J. Gross
James J. Gross Stanford University
Paul Grossman
Paul Grossman University Hospital of Basel
Jürgen Margraf
Jürgen Margraf Ruhr University Bochum
Alicia E. Meuret
Alicia E. Meuret Southern Methodist University
Iris B. Mauss
Iris B. Mauss University of California, Berkeley
Ulrich Voderholzer
Ulrich Voderholzer Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Winfried Rief
Winfried Rief Philipp University of Marburg

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