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Heide Glaesmer

Heide Glaesmer

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
71
Citations
20416
World Ranking
2156
National Ranking
87

Heide Glaesmer 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 Heide Glaesmer sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 344 publications — 91st percentile

91% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Heide Glaesmer 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 Heide Glaesmer sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 71 D-Index — 82nd percentile

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

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

Overview

Heide Glaesmer is affiliated with Leipzig University in Germany and has an extensive body of research primarily in the field of psychology. Their work spans clinical psychology, social psychology, general health professions, sociology and political science, as well as psychiatry and mental health. The scientist's research topics often intersect with areas including suicide and self-harm studies, migration, health and trauma, mental health treatment and access, psychosomatic disorders and their treatments, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, cognitive processes, and child abuse and trauma.

Among notable recent publications are:

  • Cohort Profile: The LIFE-Adult-Study, 2022, International Journal of Epidemiology
  • Social determinants and lifestyle factors for brain health: implications for risk reduction of cognitive decline and dementia, 2022, Scientific Reports
  • Factors predicting symptoms of somatization, depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, self-rated mental and physical health among recently arrived refugees in Germany, 2020, Conflict and Health
  • Validierung der Messung gesundheitsbezogener Lebensqualität mittels des Short-Form-Health-Survey-12 (SF-12 Version 2.0) in einer deutschen Normstichprobe, 2020, Zeitschrift für psychosomatische Medizin und Psychotherapie
  • Reporting Cultural Adaptation in Psychological Trials - The RECAPT criteria, 2021, Clinical Psychology in Europe

Frequent co-authors in their scholarly work include Thomas Forkmann, Tobias Teismann, Antje Schönfelder, Yuriy Nesterko, and Lena Spangenberg. These collaborations have resulted in numerous publications advancing the understanding of various psychological and health-related subjects.

The scientist has published numerous articles in several venues, with a particularly high number of publications in Trauma und Gewalt, followed by PPmP - Psychotherapie · Psychosomatik · Medizinische Psychologie, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Frontiers in Psychiatry, and PLoS ONE.

Heide Glaesmer has also contributed to the field through book publications. One notable title is "Children Born of War: Challenges and Opportunities at the Intersection of War Tension and Post-War Justice and Reconstruction," published by Frontiers Media in 2023.

Best Publications

  • A 4-item measure of depression and anxiety: Validation and standardization of the Patient Health Questionnaire-4 (PHQ-4) in the general population.

    Bernd Löwe;Inka Wahl;Matthias Rose;Carsten Spitzer

  • Prevalence of complicated grief in a representative population-based sample

    Anette Kersting;Elmar Brähler;Heide Glaesmer;Birgit Wagner

  • The German version of the Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS): Psychometric properties, validity, and population-based norms.

    Heide Glaesmer;Gesine Grande;Elmar Braehler;Marcus Roth

  • Updates on the prevalence of body dysmorphic disorder: A population-based survey

    Ulrike Buhlmann;Heide Glaesmer;Ricarda Mewes;Jeanne M. Fama

  • Sleep quality in the general population: psychometric properties of the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, derived from a German community sample of 9284 people

    Andreas Hinz;Heide Glaesmer;Elmar Brähler;Elmar Brähler;Markus Löffler

  • Psychometric evaluation of the Generalized Anxiety Disorder Screener GAD-7, based on a large German general population sample.

    Andreas Hinz;Annette M. Klein;Elmar Brähler;Heide Glaesmer

  • Psychometric properties and population-based norms of the Life Orientation Test Revised (LOT-R)

    Heide Glaesmer;Winfried Rief;Alexandra Martin;Ricarda Mewes

  • [The German Version of the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ): psychometric characteristics in a representative sample of the general population].

    Grit Klinitzke;Matthias Romppel;Winfried Häuser;Elmar Brähler

  • The LIFE-Adult-Study: objectives and design of a population-based cohort study with 10,000 deeply phenotyped adults in Germany

    Markus Loeffler;Christoph Engel;Peter Ahnert;Dorothee Alfermann

  • Maltreatment in childhood and adolescence: results from a survey of a representative sample of the German population.

    Winfried Häuser;Gabriele Schmutzer;Elmar Brähler;Heide Glaesmer

  • Minimization of childhood maltreatment is common and consequential: results from a large, multinational sample using the childhood trauma questionnaire

    Kai MacDonald;Michael L. Thomas;Andres F. Sciolla;Beacher Schneider

  • Posttraumatische Belastungsstörungen in Deutschland

    A. Maercker;S. Forstmeier;B. Wagner;H. Glaesmer

  • Psychometric analysis of the brief symptom inventory 18 (BSI-18) in a representative German sample

    Gabriele Helga Franke;Susanne Jaeger;Heide Glaesmer;Claus Barkmann

  • The stigma of obesity in the general public and its implications for public health - a systematic review.

    Claudia Sikorski;Melanie Luppa;Marie Kaiser;Heide Glaesmer

  • The estimated prevalence and correlates of adult ADHD in a German community sample.

    Martina de Zwaan;Barbara Gruß;Astrid Müller;Holmer Graap

  • Estimated prevalence of compulsive buying in Germany and its association with sociodemographic characteristics and depressive symptoms.

    Astrid Mueller;James E. Mitchell;Ross D. Crosby;Olaf Gefeller

  • Life satisfaction, anxiety, depression and resilience across the life span of men

    Manfred E Beutel;Heide Glaesmer;Jörg Wiltink;Hanna Marian

  • The epidemiology of the proposed DSM-5 hoarding disorder: exploration of the acquisition specifier, associated features, and distress.

    Kiara R. Timpano;Cornelia Exner;Heide Glaesmer;Winfried Rief

  • The prevalence of compulsive hoarding and its association with compulsive buying in a German population-based sample.

    Astrid Mueller;James E. Mitchell;Ross D. Crosby;Heide Glaesmer

  • Posttraumatic stress disorder in fibromyalgia syndrome: prevalence, temporal relationship between posttraumatic stress and fibromyalgia symptoms, and impact on clinical outcome.

    Winfried Häuser;Alexandra Galek;Brigitte Erbslöh-Möller;Volker Köllner

Frequent Co-Authors

Elmar Brähler
Elmar Brähler Leipzig University
Thomas Forkmann
Thomas Forkmann University of Duisburg-Essen
Winfried Rief
Winfried Rief Philipp University of Marburg
Andreas Hinz
Andreas Hinz Leipzig University
Georg Juckel
Georg Juckel Ruhr University Bochum
Steffi G. Riedel-Heller
Steffi G. Riedel-Heller Leipzig University
Sabine Wilhelm
Sabine Wilhelm Harvard University
Winfried Häuser
Winfried Häuser Technical University of Munich
Martina de Zwaan
Martina de Zwaan Hannover Medical School
Anette Kersting
Anette Kersting Leipzig University

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