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Louis A. Schmidt

Louis A. Schmidt

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
71
Citations
16869
World Ranking
2187
National Ranking
127

Louis A. Schmidt 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 Louis A. Schmidt sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 386 publications — 93rd percentile

93% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Louis A. Schmidt 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 Louis A. Schmidt 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

Louis A. Schmidt is affiliated with McMaster University in Canada. Their research spans the fields of psychology and medicine, with a notable focus on clinical psychology and pediatrics, perinatology, and child health. The subfields also include experimental and cognitive psychology, social psychology, and public health, environmental and occupational health.

The scientist's work primarily covers key topics such as child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, infant development and preterm care, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, cognitive processes, maternal mental health during pregnancy and postpartum, birth, development and health, neonatal respiratory health research, and pediatric pain management techniques.

Among their recent papers are:

  • Extremely Low Birth Weight and Accelerated Biological Aging, 2021, PEDIATRICS
  • "Health, wealth and achievements of former very premature infants in adult life", 2020, Seminars in Fetal and Neonatal Medicine
  • The role of anxiety and related states in pediatric postsurgical pain, 2020, Canadian Journal of Pain
  • Associations Between Colonic Motor Patterns and Autonomic Nervous System Activity Assessed by High-Resolution Manometry and Concurrent Heart Rate Variability, 2020, Frontiers in Neuroscience
  • Changes in infant emotion regulation following maternal cognitive behavioral therapy for postpartum depression, 2021, Depression and Anxiety

Louis A. Schmidt frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • Developmental Psychobiology
  • Development and Psychopathology
  • Child Development
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Personality and Individual Differences

The scientist often collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Ryan J. Van Lieshout
  • Raha Hassan
  • Kristie L. Poole
  • Saroj Saigal
  • Taigan L. MacGowan

Best Publications

  • Continuity and Discontinuity of Behavioral Inhibition and Exuberance: Psychophysiological and Behavioral Influences across the First Four Years of Life.

    Nathan A. Fox;Heather A. Henderson;Kenneth H. Rubin;Susan D. Calkins

  • Frontal brain electrical activity (EEG) distinguishes valence and intensity of musical emotions

    Louis A. Schmidt;Laurel J. Trainor

  • Behavioral and neuroendocrine responses in shy children

    Louis A. Schmidt;Nathan A. Fox;Kenneth H. Rubin;Esther M. Sternberg

  • Evidence for a Gene-Environment Interaction in Predicting Behavioral Inhibition in Middle Childhood

    Nathan A. Fox;Kate E. Nichols;Heather A. Henderson;Kenneth Rubin

  • Cortisol response to stress in female youths exposed to childhood maltreatment: results of the youth mood project.

    Harriet L. MacMillan;Katholiki Georgiades;Eric K. Duku;Alison Shea

  • Mental health of extremely low birth weight survivors: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Karen J. Mathewson;Cheryl H. T. Chow;Kathleen G. Dobson;Eliza I. Pope

  • Behavioral and psychophysiological correlates of self-presentation in temperamentally shy children.

    Louis A. Schmidt;Nathan A. Fox;Jay Schulkin;Philip W. Gold

  • Frontal Brain Electrical Activity in Shyness and Sociability

    Louis A. Schmidt

  • The role of frontal activation in the regulation and dysregulation of social behavior during the preschool years

    Nathan A. Fox;Louis A. Schmidt;Susan D. Calkins;Kenneth H. Rubin

  • Systematic Review: Audiovisual Interventions for Reducing Preoperative Anxiety in Children Undergoing Elective Surgery

    Cheryl H. T. Chow;Ryan J. Van Lieshout;Louis A. Schmidt;Kathleen G. Dobson

  • Molecular genetics of shyness and aggression in preschoolers

    Louis A Schmidt;Nathan A Fox;Kenneth H Rubin;Stella Hu

  • Frontal electrocortical and cardiovascular reactivity during happiness and anger

    Shari R. Waldstein;Willem J. Kop;Louis A. Schmidt;Amy J. Haufler

  • Autonomic nervous system reactivity to positive and negative mood induction: The role of acute psychological responses and frontal electrocortical activity

    Willem J. Kop;Willem J. Kop;Stephen J. Synowski;Miranda E. Newell;Louis A. Schmidt

  • Variation in hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis activity among bullied and non‐bullied children

    Tracy Vaillancourt;Eric Duku;Denys Decatanzaro;Harriet L. MacMillan

  • Psychological distress in children with developmental coordination disorder and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder.

    Cheryl Missiuna;John Cairney;Nancy Pollock;Wenonah Campbell

  • Extreme fear, shyness, and social phobia : origins, biological mechanisms, and clinical outcomes

    Louis A. Schmidt;Jay Schulkin

  • Patterns of cortical electrophysiology and autonomic activity in adults' shyness and sociability

    Louis A. Schmidt;Nathan A. Fox

  • Regional EEG alpha power, coherence, and behavioral symptomatology in autism spectrum disorder.

    Karen J. Mathewson;Michelle K. Jetha;Irene E. Drmic;Susan E. Bryson

  • Error-related electrocortical responses are enhanced in children with obsessive-compulsive behaviors.

    Diane L. Santesso;Sidney J. Segalowitz;Louis A. Schmidt

  • Self-Reported Mental Health Problems Among Adults Born Preterm: A Meta-analysis

    Riikka Pyhälä;Elina Wolford;Hannu Kautiainen;Hannu Kautiainen;Sture Andersson

  • Temperament and Personality

    Xinyin Chen;Louis A. Schmidt

Frequent Co-Authors

Saroj Saigal
Saroj Saigal McMaster University
Michael H. Boyle
Michael H. Boyle McMaster University
Diane L. Santesso
Diane L. Santesso University of Winnipeg
Vladimir Miskovic
Vladimir Miskovic Binghamton University
Nathan A. Fox
Nathan A. Fox University of Maryland, College Park
Sidney J. Segalowitz
Sidney J. Segalowitz Brock University
Martin M. Antony
Martin M. Antony Toronto Metropolitan University
Randi E. McCabe
Randi E. McCabe McMaster University
Geoffrey B. Hall
Geoffrey B. Hall McMaster University
Tracy Vaillancourt
Tracy Vaillancourt University of Ottawa

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