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Harald Merckelbach

Harald Merckelbach

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
104
Citations
35204
World Ranking
528
National Ranking
26

Harald Merckelbach 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 Harald Merckelbach sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 706+

This scientist: 754 publications — 99th percentile

99% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 706 publications or more.

Harald Merckelbach 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 Harald Merckelbach sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 104 D-Index — 96th percentile

96% 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

  • 2007 - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Harald Merckelbach is affiliated with Maastricht University in the Netherlands. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Medicine, with notable focus areas including Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Social Psychology, Epidemiology, and Sociology and Political Science.

The main topics addressed in their work encompass Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments, Traumatic Brain Injury Research, Deception Detection and Forensic Psychology, Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry and Sexual Offending, Suicide and Self-Harm Studies, Memory Processes and Influences, and Personality Disorders and Psychopathology.

Frequent publication venues where Harald Merckelbach has contributed include:

  • Psychological Injury and Law
  • Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy
  • DataverseNL
  • Psychology of Consciousness Theory Research and Practice
  • Psychology Crime and Law

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Merckelbach illustrate their research scope and include:

  • Empirical research on fantasy proneness and its correlates 2000-2018: A meta-analysis, 2021, Psychology of Consciousness Theory Research and Practice
  • A Critical Review of Case Studies on Dissociative Amnesia, 2021, Clinical Psychological Science
  • Belief in Unconscious Repressed Memory Persists, 2021, Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • The effects of eye movements and alternative dual tasks on the vividness and emotionality of negative autobiographical memories: A meta-analysis of laboratory studies, 2020, Journal of Experimental Psychopathology
  • Dissociation and Dissociative Disorders Reconsidered: Beyond Sociocognitive and Trauma Models Toward a Transtheoretical Framework, 2022, Annual Review of Clinical Psychology

Harald Merckelbach frequently collaborates with a number of co-authors, including:

  • Henry Otgaar
  • Brechje Dandachi-FitzGerald
  • Irena Bošković
  • Steven Jay Lynn
  • Mark L. Howe

Recognition for Merckelbach's contributions includes the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences award received in 2007.

Best Publications

  • A Multilab Preregistered Replication of the Ego-Depletion Effect

    Martin S. Hagger;Nikos L. D. Chatzisarantis

  • The Malevolent Side of Human Nature: A Meta-Analysis and Critical Review of the Literature on the Dark Triad (Narcissism, Machiavellianism, and Psychopathy)

    Peter Muris;Harald Merckelbach;Henry Otgaar;Ewout Meijer

  • Three traditional and three new childhood anxiety questionnaires: their reliability and validity in a normal adolescent sample

    Peter Muris;Harald Merckelbach;Thomas Ollendick;Neville King

  • Comorbid Anxiety Symptoms in Children with Pervasive Developmental Disorders

    Peter Muris;Pim Steerneman;Harald Merckelbach;Irit Holdrinet

  • The Creative Experiences Questionnaire (CEQ): A brief self-report measure of fantasy proneness

    Harald Merckelbach;Robert Horselenberg;Peter Muris

  • Fears, worries, and scary dreams in 4- to 12-year-old children: their content, developmental pattern, and origins.

    Peter Muris;Harald Merckelbach;Björn Gadet;Vénique Moulaert

  • Individual differences in thought suppression. The white bear suppression inventory: Factor structure, reliability, validity and correlates

    Peter Muris;Harald Merckelbach;Robert Horselenberg

  • Introducing the Maastricht Acute Stress Test (MAST): a quick and non-invasive approach to elicit robust autonomic and glucocorticoid stress responses.

    Tom Smeets;Sandra Cornelisse;Conny W.E.M. Quaedflieg;Thomas Meyer

  • The role of parental fearfulness and modeling in children's fear.

    Peter Muris;Pim Steerneman;Harald Merckelbach;Cor Meesters

  • Cognitive processes in dissociation: An analysis of core theoretical assumptions

    Timo Giesbrecht;Steven Jay Lynn;Scott O. Lilienfeld;Harald Merckelbach

  • Correlations among two self-report questionnaires for measuring DSM-defined anxiety disorder symptoms in children: the Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders and the Spence Children’s Anxiety Scale

    P.E.H.M. Muris;H.G. Schmidt;H.L.G.J. Merckelbach

  • The staff observation aggression scale-revised (SOAS-R).

    Henk L.I. Nijman;Peter Muris;Harald L.G.J. Merckelbach;Tom Palmstierna

  • The revised version of the Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders (SCARED-R): Factor structure in normal children

    Peter Muris;Harald Merckelbach;Henk Schmidt;Birgit Mayer

  • Worry in normal children

    Peter Muris;Cor Meesters;Harald Merckelbach;Ann Sermon

  • Attention, not anxiety, influences pain.

    Arnoud Arntz;Laura Dreessen;Harald Merckelbach

  • A comparison of two spider fear questionnaires

    Peter Muris;Harald Merckelbach

  • Correlates of autobiographical memory specificity: The role of depression, anxiety and childhood trauma.

    Ineke Wessel;Masja Meeren;Frenk Peeters;Arnoud Arntz

  • How serious are common childhood fears

    Peter Muris;Harald Merckelbach;Birgit Mayer;Elske Prins

  • Getting a grip on ourselves: Challenging expectancies about loss of energy after self-control

    Carolien Martijn;Petra Tenbült;Harald Merckelbach;Ellen Dreezens

  • The relationship between anxious rearing behaviours and anxiety disorders symptomatology in normal children.

    Kerstin Grüner;Peter Muris;Harald Merckelbach

  • The Developmental Psychopathology of Anxiety

    Peter Muris;Harald Merckelbach

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Muris
Peter Muris Maastricht University
Marko Jelicic
Marko Jelicic Maastricht University
Tom Smeets
Tom Smeets Tilburg University
Peter J. de Jong
Peter J. de Jong University of Groningen
Eric Rassin
Eric Rassin Erasmus University Rotterdam
Ineke Wessel
Ineke Wessel University of Groningen
Marcel A. van den Hout
Marcel A. van den Hout Utrecht University
Henk Nijman
Henk Nijman Radboud University
Steven Jay Lynn
Steven Jay Lynn Binghamton University
Mark L. Howe
Mark L. Howe City, University of London

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