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Maria Tillfors

Maria Tillfors

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
32
Citations
5952
World Ranking
10789
National Ranking
113

Maria Tillfors 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 Maria Tillfors sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 111 publications — 27th percentile

27% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Maria Tillfors 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 Maria Tillfors sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 32 D-Index — 6th percentile

6% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Maria Tillfors is affiliated with Karlstad University in Sweden. Their research primarily centers on psychology, with a notable focus on experimental and cognitive psychology, clinical psychology, general health professions, cognitive neuroscience, and epidemiology.

The scholar's research covers several main topics, including anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, cognitive processes, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, sleep and related disorders, sleep and wakefulness research, restless legs syndrome research, mental health research topics, and studies relating to perfectionism, procrastination, and anxiety.

Their recent publications highlight a range of subjects within these fields. Key published papers include:

  • Higher- and lower-order personality traits and cluster subtypes in social anxiety disorder (2020) in PLoS ONE
  • Social Anxiety-Impulsivity Subgroups and Links to Later Emotional Adjustment in Adolescence: A Latent Transition Analysis (2020) in The Journal of Early Adolescence
  • Treatment of worry and comorbid symptoms within depression, anxiety, and insomnia with a group-based rumination-focused cognitive-behaviour therapy in a primary health care setting: a randomised controlled trial (2023) in Frontiers in Psychology
  • Latent stability and change in subgroups of social anxiety and depressive symptoms in adolescence: A latent profile and transitional analysis (2022) in Journal of Anxiety Disorders
  • A longitudinal study of prevalence and predictors of incidence and persistence of sub-diagnostic social anxiety among Swedish adolescents (2021) in Nordic Psychology

Frequent co-authors in their body of work include Annika Norell-Clarke, Siri Jakobsson Støre, Nejra Van Zalk, Charlotte Angelhoff, and Erik Wästlund.

In terms of publication venues, Maria Tillfors frequently contributes to:

  • Nordic Psychology
  • PLoS ONE
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • BMC Psychiatry
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)

Best Publications

  • Common Changes in Cerebral Blood Flow in Patients With Social Phobia Treated With Citalopram or Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy

    Tomas Furmark;Maria Tillfors;Ina Marteinsdottir;Håkan Fischer

  • Social phobia in the general population: Prevalence and sociodemographic profile.

    Tomas Furmark;Maria Tillfors;PO Everz;I Marteinsdottir

  • Cerebral blood flow in subjects with social phobia during stressful speaking tasks: a PET study.

    Maria Tillfors;Tomas Furmark;Ina Marteinsdottir;Håkan Fischer

  • Guided and unguided self-help for social anxiety disorder: randomised controlled trial.

    Tomas Furmark;Per Carlbring;Erik Hedman;Annika Sonnenstein

  • Serotonin transporter polymorphism related to amygdala excitability and symptom severity in patients with social phobia

    Tomas Furmark;Maria Tillfors;Maria Tillfors;Håkan Garpenstrand;Ina Marteinsdottir

  • Cerebral blood flow during anticipation of public speaking in social phobia: a PET study.

    Maria Tillfors;Tomas Furmark;Ina Marteinsdottir;Mats Fredrikson

  • Social phobia subtypes in the general population revealed by cluster analysis

    Tomas Furmark;M. Tillfors;Håkan Stattin;L. Ekselius

  • Treating university students with social phobia and public speaking fears: Internet delivered self-help with or without live group exposure sessions.

    Maria Tillfors;Per Carlbring;Tomas Furmark;Susanne Lewenhaupt

  • Personality disorders in the general population: DSM-IV and ICD-10 defined prevalence as related to sociodemographic profile.

    Lisa Ekselius;Maria Tillfors;Tomas Furmark;Mats Fredrikson

  • Prospective links between social anxiety and adolescent peer relations

    Maria Tillfors;Stefan Persson;Maria Willén;William J. Burk

  • Sources of stress and worry in the development of stress-related mental health problems: A longitudinal investigation from early- to mid-adolescence

    Malin Anniko;Katja Boersma;M Tillfors

  • Social phobia in Swedish university students: prevalence, subgroups and avoidant behavior

    Maria Tillfors;Tomas Furmark

  • Regional cerebral blood flow during tinnitus: a PET case study with lidocaine and auditory stimulation

    Gerhard Andersson;Leif Lyttkens;Carina Hirvelä;Tomas Furmark

  • Social phobia in Swedish adolescents : Prevalence and gender differences

    Malin Gren-Landell;Maria Tillfors;Tomas Furmark;Gunilla Bohlin

  • Randomized trial of Internet-based relapse prevention for partially remitted depression.

    Fredrik Holländare;Susanne Johnsson;Mia Randestad;Maria Tillfors

  • A randomized trial of Internet-delivered treatment for social anxiety disorder in high school students

    Maria Tillfors;Gerhard Andersson;Lisa Ekselius;Tomas Furmark

  • Social phobia and avoidant personality disorder as related to parental history of social anxiety: a general population study.

    Maria Tillfors;Tomas Furmark;Lisa Ekselius;Mats Fredrikson

  • Personality dimensions measured by the Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI) in subjects with social phobia.

    Ina Marteinsdottir;Maria Tillfors;Tomas Furmark;Ulla Maria Anderberg

  • Social phobia and avoidant personality disorder: one spectrum disorder?

    Maria Tillfors;Tomas Furmark;Lisa Ekselius;Mats Fredrikson

  • Why do some individuals develop social phobia? A review with emphasis on the neurobiological influences.

    Maria Tillfors

Frequent Co-Authors

Tomas Furmark
Tomas Furmark Uppsala University
Mats Fredrikson
Mats Fredrikson Uppsala University
Gerhard Andersson
Gerhard Andersson Linköping University
Lisa Ekselius
Lisa Ekselius Uppsala University
Markus Jansson-Fröjmark
Markus Jansson-Fröjmark Karolinska Institute
Håkan Fischer
Håkan Fischer Stockholm University
Per Carlbring
Per Carlbring Stockholm University
Steven J. Linton
Steven J. Linton Örebro University
Margaret Kerr
Margaret Kerr Örebro University
Gunilla Bohlin
Gunilla Bohlin Uppsala University

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