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Geert Crombez

Geert Crombez

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Psychology
Belgium
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
113
Citations
52198
World Ranking
356
National Ranking
3

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Psychology in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Psychology in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Psychology in Belgium Leader Award

Overview

Geert Crombez is affiliated with Ghent University in Belgium, contributing extensively to research in medicine and psychology. Their work spans multiple subfields including pharmacology, applied psychology, physiology, cognitive neuroscience, and general health professions. This interdisciplinary approach supports a broad investigation into health-related topics.

The main topics covered in Crombez's research include:

  • Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
  • Pain Management and Placebo Effect
  • Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Physical Activity and Health
  • Pain Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Digital Mental Health Interventions

Among the frequent coauthors collaborating with Crombez are Annick De Paepe, Dimitri Van Ryckeghem, Delfien Van Dyck, Johan W.S. Vlaeyen, and Maya Braun.

Publication venues where Crombez's work appears frequently include:

  • Pain
  • Journal of Pain
  • PeerJ
  • Research Square (Research Square)
  • International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity

Selected recent papers by Crombez highlight a range of research topics and methodologies:

  • Delivering transformative action in paediatric pain: a Lancet Child & Adolescent Health Commission, 2020, The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health
  • The Effects of Gamification on Computerized Cognitive Training: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis, 2020, JMIR Serious Games
  • Which behaviour change techniques are effective to promote physical activity and reduce sedentary behaviour in adults: a factorial randomized trial of an e- and m-health intervention, 2020, International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity
  • Content validity and methodological considerations in ecological momentary assessment studies on physical activity and sedentary behaviour: a systematic review, 2020, International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity
  • Let's talk about pain catastrophizing measures: an item content analysis, 2020, PeerJ

Best Publications

  • The fear-avoidance model of musculoskeletal pain: current state of scientific evidence.

    Maaike Leeuw;Mariëlle E. J. B. Goossens;Steven J. Linton;Geert Crombez

  • Pain demands attention: a cognitive-affective model of the interruptive function of pain.

    Christopher Eccleston;G Crombez

  • Pain-related fear is more disabling than pain itself: evidence on the role of pain-related fear in chronic back pain disability.

    Geert Crombez;Johan W.S Vlaeyen;Peter H.T.G Heuts;Roland Lysens

  • Fear-avoidance model of chronic pain: the next generation.

    Geert Crombez;Christopher Eccleston;Stefaan Van Damme;Johan W S Vlaeyen;Johan W S Vlaeyen

  • Evaluative conditioning in humans: A meta-analysis.

    Wilhelm Hofmann;Jan De Houwer;Marco Perugini;Frank Baeyens

  • Selective attention to threat in the dot probe paradigm: differentiating vigilance and difficulty to disengage

    Ernst H.W. Koster;Geert Crombez;Bruno Verschuere;Jan De Houwer

  • Fear-related avoidance of activities, falls and physical frailty. A prospective community-based cohort study

    Kim Delbaere;Geert Crombez;Guy Vanderstraeten;Tine Willems

  • Facing others in pain: the effects of empathy.

    Liesbet Goubert;K. D. Craig;Tine Vervoort;S. Morley

  • The child version of the pain catastrophizing scale (PCS-C): a preliminary validation

    Geert Crombez;Patricia Bijttebier;Chris Eccleston;Tamara Mascagni

  • A confirmatory factor analysis of the Pain Catastrophizing Scale: invariant factor structure across clinical and non-clinical populations.

    Stefaan Van Damme;Geert Crombez;Patricia Bijttebier;Liesbet Goubert

  • The fear-avoidance model of pain.

    Johan W S Vlaeyen;Geert Crombez;Steven J Linton

  • A review of current evidence for the causal impact of attentional bias on fear and anxiety

    Bram Van Bockstaele;Bruno Verschuere;Helen Tibboel;Jan De Houwer

  • Components of attentional bias to threat in high trait anxiety: Facilitated engagement, impaired disengagement, and attentional avoidance.

    Ernst H.W. Koster;Geert Crombez;Bruno Verschuere;Stefaan Van Damme

  • Mood-congruent attentional bias in dysphoria: maintained attention to and impaired disengagement from negative information.

    Ernst H. W. Koster;Rudi De Raedt;Ellen Goeleven;Erik Franck

  • A neurocognitive model of attention to pain: Behavioral and neuroimaging evidence

    Valéry Legrain;Stefaan Van Damme;Christopher Eccleston;Karen D. Davis

  • The role of neuroticism, pain catastrophizing and pain-related fear in vigilance to pain: a structural equations approach

    Liesbet Goubert;Liesbet Goubert;Geert Crombez;Geert Crombez;Stefaan Van Damme;Stefaan Van Damme

  • Adolescent chronic pain: patterns and predictors of emotional distress in adolescents with chronic pain and their parents

    Christopher Eccleston;Geert Crombez;Anna Scotford;Anna Scotford;Jacqui Clinch;Jacqui Clinch

  • When somatic information threatens, catastrophic thinking enhances attentional interference

    Geert Crombez;Chris Eccleston;Frank Baeyens;Paul Eelen

  • The Tampa Scale for Kinesiophobia: further examination of psychometric properties in patients with chronic low back pain and fibromyalgia

    Jeffrey Roelofs;Liesbet Goubert;Madelon L. Peters;Johan W.S. Vlaeyen

  • Hypervigilance to pain: An experimental and clinical analysis

    Geert Crombez;Stefaan Van Damme;Christopher Eccleston

Frequent Co-Authors

Liesbet Goubert
Liesbet Goubert Ghent University
Stefaan Van Damme
Stefaan Van Damme Ghent University
Bruno Verschuere
Bruno Verschuere University of Amsterdam
Frank Baeyens
Frank Baeyens KU Leuven
Jan De Houwer
Jan De Houwer Ghent University
Paul Eelen
Paul Eelen KU Leuven
Tine Vervoort
Tine Vervoort Ghent University
Ernst H. W. Koster
Ernst H. W. Koster Ghent University
Ilse De Bourdeaudhuij
Ilse De Bourdeaudhuij Ghent University

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