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Hartmut Schächinger

Hartmut Schächinger

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
48
Citations
9111
World Ranking
5941
National Ranking
281

Hartmut Schächinger 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 Hartmut Schächinger sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 233 publications — 77th percentile

77% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Hartmut Schächinger 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 Hartmut Schächinger sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 48 D-Index — 49th percentile

49% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Hartmut Schächinger is affiliated with the University of Trier in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on interdisciplinary areas bridging medicine, neuroscience, and psychology, with a strong emphasis on behavioral and cognitive neuroscience, cardiology, and experimental psychology.

The scientist's work covers diverse topics including stress responses and cortisol, heart rate variability and autonomic control, psychosomatic disorders and their treatments, hormonal regulation and hypertension, neural and behavioral psychology studies, anxiety, depression and related psychometrics, as well as EEG and brain-computer interfaces.

Recent publications by Hartmut Schächinger include the following:

  • "Cardiac cycle phases affect auditory-evoked potentials, startle eye blink and pre-motor reaction times in response to acoustic startle stimuli," 2020, International Journal of Psychophysiology
  • "Disentangling sensorimotor and cognitive cardioafferent effects: A cardiac-cycle-time study on spatial stimulus-response compatibility," 2020, Scientific Reports
  • "Effects of rejection intensity and rejection sensitivity on social approach behavior in women," 2020, PLoS ONE
  • "Combining mental and physical stress: Synergy or interference?," 2021, Physiology & Behavior
  • "Modulation of startle and heart rate responses by fear of physical activity in patients with heart failure and in healthy adults," 2020, Physiology & Behavior

The scientist has frequently published in several academic venues. The most notable among these include:

  • Psychoneuroendocrinology
  • International Journal of Psychophysiology
  • Physiology & Behavior
  • Scientific Reports
  • PLoS ONE

Hartmut Schächinger collaborates regularly with several co-authors in their research. The most frequent collaborators include:

  • Johannes B. Finke
  • André Schulz
  • Claus Vögele
  • Mauro F. Larra
  • Jeremia Mark Hoffmann

In terms of research fields, the scientist is active in:

  • Medicine
  • Neuroscience
  • Psychology

The subfields within these areas that form the focus of their research include:

  • Behavioral Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
  • Psychiatry and Mental health
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

Best Publications

  • HPA axis activation by a socially evaluated cold-pressor test.

    Lars Schwabe;Leila Haddad;Hartmut Schachinger

  • Post-learning intranasal oxytocin modulates human memory for facial identity.

    Egemen Savaskan;Rike Ehrhardt;André Schulz;Marc Walter

  • Stress modulates the use of spatial versus stimulus-response learning strategies in humans.

    Lars Schwabe;Melly S. Oitzl;Christine Philippsen;Steffen Richter

  • The relation of flow-experience and physiological arousal under stress - can u shape it?

    Corinna Peifer;André Schulz;André Schulz;Hartmut Schächinger;Nicola Baumann

  • Effect of water deprivation on cognitive-motor performance in healthy men and women

    Gabor Szinnai;Hartmut Schachinger;Maurice J Arnaud;Lilly Linder

  • Reduced parasympathetic cardiac control in patients with hypertension at rest and under mental stress.

    Wolf Langewitz;Heinz Rüddel;Hartmut Schächinger

  • Effects of pre-learning stress on memory for neutral, positive and negative words: Different roles of cortisol and autonomic arousal.

    Lars Schwabe;Andreas Bohringer;Monischa Chatterjee;Hartmut Schachinger

  • Corticosteroids operate as a switch between memory systems

    Lars Schwabe;Hartmut Schächinger;E. Ron de Kloet;Melly S. Oitzl

  • Relevance of stress and female sex hormones for emotion and cognition.

    J. P. ter Horst;E. R. de Kloet;H. Schächinger;M. S. Oitzl

  • Chronic stress modulates the use of spatial and stimulus-response learning strategies in mice and man.

    Lars Schwabe;Sergiu Dalm;Hartmut Schächinger;Melly S. Oitzl

  • Rising Sound Intensity: An Intrinsic Warning Cue Activating the Amygdala

    Dominik R. Bach;Hartmut Schächinger;John G. Neuhoff;Fabrizio Esposito

  • Stability of heart rate variability indices reflecting parasympathetic activity.

    Katja Bertsch;Katja Bertsch;Dirk Hagemann;Ewald Naumann;Hartmut Schächinger

  • Neural Processing of Auditory Looming in the Human Brain

    Erich Seifritz;John G. Neuhoff;Deniz Bilecen;Klaus Scheffler

  • Cardiovascular indices of peripheral and central sympathetic activation.

    Hartmut Schächinger;Markus Weinbacher;Alexander Kiss;Rudolf Ritz

  • Disordered calcium homeostasis of sepsis: association with calcitonin precursors

    B Müller;K L Becker;M Kränzlin;H Schächinger

  • Making sense of what you sense: Disentangling interoceptive awareness, sensibility and accuracy

    Thomas Forkmann;Anne Scherer;Judith Meessen;Matthias Michal

  • For whom the bell (curve) tolls: Cortisol rapidly affects memory retrieval by an inverted U-shaped dose–response relationship

    Thomas M. Schilling;Monika Kölsch;Mauro F. Larra;Carina M. Zech

  • Ten years of research with the Socially Evaluated Cold Pressor Test: Data from the past and guidelines for the future.

    Lars Schwabe;Hartmut Schächinger

  • Cold pressor stress induces opposite effects on cardioceptive accuracy dependent on assessment paradigm.

    André Schulz;Johanna Lass-Hennemann;Johanna Lass-Hennemann;Stefan Sütterlin;Hartmut Schächinger

  • Testing the cumulative stress and mismatch hypotheses of psychopathology in a rat model of early-life adversity.

    Nikolaos P. Daskalakis;Melly S. Oitzl;Hartmut Schächinger;Danielle L. Champagne

Frequent Co-Authors

Terry D. Blumenthal
Terry D. Blumenthal Wake Forest University
Claus Vögele
Claus Vögele University of Luxembourg
Melly S. Oitzl
Melly S. Oitzl University of Amsterdam
Lars Schwabe
Lars Schwabe Universität Hamburg
Roland E. Schmieder
Roland E. Schmieder University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Christian Frings
Christian Frings University of Trier
Daniel J. Cox
Daniel J. Cox University of Virginia
Manfred E. Beutel
Manfred E. Beutel Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Claude P. Muller
Claude P. Muller University of Trier
Erich Seifritz
Erich Seifritz University of Zurich

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