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Jos F. Brosschot

Jos F. Brosschot

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
62
Citations
17531
World Ranking
3203
National Ranking
162

Jos F. Brosschot 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 Jos F. Brosschot sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 161 publications — 55th percentile

55% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Jos F. Brosschot 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 Jos F. Brosschot sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 62 D-Index — 72nd percentile

72% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Jos F. Brosschot is affiliated with Leiden University in the Netherlands and has contributed extensively to research in psychology and medicine. Their work spans multiple subfields, including experimental and cognitive psychology, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, psychiatry and mental health, clinical psychology, and complementary and alternative medicine.

The main research topics addressed by Brosschot involve mental health research, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, cognitive processes, psychosomatic disorders and their treatments, heart rate variability and autonomic control, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, vagus nerve stimulation research, and olfactory and sensory function studies.

Brosschot's recent papers include:

  • Better Safe Than Sorry: A Common Signature of General Vulnerability for Psychopathology (2020), Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • From ear to eye? No effect of transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation on human pupil dilation: A report of three studies (2020), Biological Psychology
  • Reduced Heart Rate Variability in Patients With Medically Unexplained Physical Symptoms: A Meta-Analysis of HF-HRV and RMSSD (2020), Psychosomatic Medicine
  • Assessing New Methods to Optimally Detect Episodes of Non-metabolic Heart Rate Variability Reduction as an Indicator of Psychological Stress in Everyday Life: A Thorough Evaluation of Six Methods (2020), Frontiers in Neuroscience
  • A brief scale of pathological worry that everyone already has (2021), Current Psychology

Frequent coauthors in Brosschot's publications include Bart Verkuil, Julian F. Thayer, Anke Versluis, Omer Van den Bergh, and Hugo Critchley.

Publication venues where Brosschot's work commonly appears are:

  • Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • Biological Psychology
  • Psychosomatic Medicine
  • Frontiers in Neuroscience
  • Stress and Health

The research covers an interdisciplinary approach combining psychological processes with physiological measurements, especially focusing on heart rate variability and autonomic nervous system regulation as markers in mental health and psychosomatic disorders.

Best Publications

  • The relationship of autonomic imbalance, heart rate variability and cardiovascular disease risk factors

    Julian F. Thayer;Shelby S. Yamamoto;Jos F. Brosschot

  • The perseverative cognition hypothesis: a review of worry, prolonged stress-related physiological activation, and health.

    Jos F. Brosschot;William Gerin;Julian F. Thayer

  • Psychosomatics and psychopathology: looking up and down from the brain

    Julian F. Thayer;Jos F. Brosschot

  • Expanding stress theory: prolonged activation and perseverative cognition.

    Jos F. Brosschot;Suzanne Pieper;Julian F. Thayer

  • Daily worry is related to low heart rate variability during waking and the subsequent nocturnal sleep period.

    Jos F. Brosschot;Eduard Van Dijk;Julian F. Thayer

  • Toward a causal model of cardiovascular responses to stress and the development of cardiovascular disease.

    Amy R. Schwartz;William Gerin;Karina W. Davidson;Thomas G. Pickering

  • Physiological concomitants of perseverative cognition: A systematic review and meta-analysis

    Cristina Ottaviani;Julian F. Thayer;Bart Verkuil;Antonia Lonigro

  • Anger inhibition, cardiovascular recovery, and vagal function: A model of the link between hostility and cardiovascular disease

    Jos F. Brosschot;Julian F. Thayer

  • The emotional Stroop interference effect in anxiety: Attentional bias or cognitive avoidance?

    C. de Ruiter;J.F. Brosschot

  • Heart rate response is longer after negative emotions than after positive emotions.

    Jos F. Brosschot;Julian F. Thayer

  • The default response to uncertainty and the importance of perceived safety in anxiety and stress: An evolution-theoretical perspective

    Jos F. Brosschot;Bart Verkuil;Julian F. Thayer

  • Cognitive-emotional sensitization and somatic health complaints.

    Jos F. Brosschot

  • Generalized Unsafety Theory of Stress: Unsafe Environments and Conditions, and the Default Stress Response.

    Jos F Brosschot;Bart Verkuil;Julian F Thayer

  • Markers of chronic stress: prolonged physiological activation and (un)conscious perseverative cognition.

    Jos F. Brosschot

  • Effects of experimental psychological stress on distribution and function of peripheral blood cells.

    J. F. Brosschot;R. J. Benschop;G. L.R. Godaert;M. B.M. De Smet

  • Conscious and unconscious perseverative cognition: is a large part of prolonged physiological activity due to unconscious stress?

    Jos F. Brosschot;Bart Verkuil;Julian F. Thayer

  • Cardiac Effects of Momentary Assessed Worry Episodes and Stressful Events

    Suzanne Pieper;Jos F. Brosschot;Rien van der Leeden;Julian F. Thayer

  • When Worries Make you Sick: A Review of Perseverative Cognition, the Default Stress Response and Somatic Health:

    Bart Verkuil;Jos F. Brosschot;Winifred A. Gebhardt;Julian F. Thayer

  • Exposed to events that never happen: Generalized unsafety, the default stress response, and prolonged autonomic activity.

    Jos F. Brosschot;Bart Verkuil;Julian F. Thayer

  • Changing Mental Health and Positive Psychological Well-Being Using Ecological Momentary Interventions: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

    A. Versluis;B. Verkuil;P. Spinhoven;M.M. van der Ploeg

  • Prolonged Cardiac Effects of Momentary Assessed Stressful Events and Worry Episodes

    Suzanne Pieper;Jos F. Brosschot;Rien van der Leeden;Julian F. Thayer

Frequent Co-Authors

Julian F. Thayer
Julian F. Thayer University of California, Irvine
Miranda Olff
Miranda Olff University of Amsterdam
Merel Kindt
Merel Kindt University of Amsterdam
Cristina Ottaviani
Cristina Ottaviani Sapienza University of Rome
Michiel A. J. Kompier
Michiel A. J. Kompier Radboud University
Hugo D. Critchley
Hugo D. Critchley Brighton and Sussex Medical School
Cobi Jacoba Johanna Heijnen
Cobi Jacoba Johanna Heijnen The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Sabine A. E. Geurts
Sabine A. E. Geurts Radboud University
Philip Spinhoven
Philip Spinhoven Leiden University
William Gerin
William Gerin Pennsylvania State University

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