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7974
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Michael Rufer 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 Michael Rufer sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 159 publications — 54th percentile

54% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Michael Rufer 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 Michael Rufer sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 41 D-Index — 33rd percentile

33% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Michael Rufer is affiliated with the University of Zurich in Switzerland and has contributed extensively to research in Medicine, Psychology, and Social Sciences. Their work encompasses a variety of subfields including Clinical Psychology, Health, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Social Psychology.

Their research covers a broad range of topics, with particular focus on Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology, Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments, Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues, Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders, Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies, Complementary and Alternative Medicine Studies, and Musculoskeletal Pain and Rehabilitation.

Recent notable publications by Michael Rufer include:

  • A multicomponent family support intervention in intensive care units: study protocol for a multicenter cluster-randomized trial (FICUS Trial), 2022, Trials
  • Rumination about obsessive symptoms and mood maintains obsessive-compulsive symptoms and depressed mood: An experimental study., 2021, Journal of Abnormal Psychology
  • Alexithymia and automatic processing of facial emotions: behavioral and neural findings, 2020, BMC Neuroscience
  • Do Chronic Pain Patients Wish Spiritual Aspects to Be Integrated in Their Medical Treatment? A Cross-Sectional Study of Multiple Facilities, 2021, Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Including the Spiritual Dimension in Multimodal Pain Therapy. Development and Validation of the Spiritual Distress and Resources Questionnaire (SDRQ), 2021, Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

Michael Rufer frequently collaborates with a core group of coauthors, including Simon Peng-Keller, Rahel Naef, Karin Hasenfratz, Horst Rettke, and Hanspeter Moergeli.

Their work has been published in a variety of venues with multiple publications in Frontiers in Psychiatry, Journal of Affective Disorders, Primary and Hospital Care Allgemeine Innere Medizin, Praxis, and Swiss Archives of Neurology Psychiatry and Psychotherapy.

In addition to journal publications, Michael Rufer has authored books published by Hogrefe AG eBooks, including "Der Zwang in meiner Nähe" and "Stärker als die Angst," both released in 2023.

Best Publications

  • Mindfulness and emotion regulation—an fMRI study

    Jacqueline Lutz;Uwe Herwig;Sarah Opialla;Anna Hittmeyer

  • Mobile Sensing and Support for People With Depression: A Pilot Trial in the Wild

    Fabian Wahle;Tobias Kowatsch;Elgar Fleisch;Michael Rufer

  • Symptom dimensions in obsessive-compulsive disorder: prediction of cognitive-behavior therapy outcome.

    M. Rufer;S. Fricke;S. Moritz;M. Kloss

  • Modulation of anticipatory emotion and perception processing by cognitive control.

    Uwe Herwig;Thomas Baumgartner;Tina Kaffenberger;Tina Kaffenberger;Annette B. Brühl

  • Quality of life in obsessive-compulsive disorder before and after treatment.

    Steffen Moritz;Michael Rufer;Susanne Fricke;Anne Karow

  • Dissociation as a Predictor of Cognitive Behavior Therapy Outcome in Patients with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

    Michael Rufer;Dada Held;Julia Cremer;Susanne Fricke

  • Neural circuits of emotion regulation: a comparison of mindfulness-based and cognitive reappraisal strategies.

    Sarah Opialla;Jacqueline Lutz;Sigrid Scherpiet;Anna Hittmeyer

  • Locus Coeruleus Activity Mediates Hyperresponsiveness in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.

    Christoph Naegeli;Thomas Zeffiro;Marco Piccirelli;Assia Jaillard

  • Factors associated with non-treatment or delayed treatment seeking in OCD sufferers: a review of the literature.

    Gemma García-Soriano;Michael Rufer;Aba Delsignore;Steffi Weidt

  • Temporal stability of symptom dimensions in adult patients with obsessive–compulsive disorder

    Michael Rufer;Andreas Grothusen;Reinhard Maß;Helmut Peter

  • Neural correlates of altered general emotion processing in social anxiety disorder

    Annette Beatrix Brühl;Michael Rufer;Aba Delsignore;Tina Kaffenberger

  • Successful opacification of the left heart chambers on echocardiographic examination after intravenous injection of a new saccharide based contrast agent.

    Reinhard Schlief;Thomas Staks;Marianne Mahler;Michael Rufer

  • Long-term course and outcome of obsessive-compulsive patients after cognitive-behavioral therapy in combination with either fluvoxamine or placebo: a 7-year follow-up of a randomized double-blind trial.

    Michael Rufer;Iver Hand;Heike Alsleben;Anne Braatz

  • Training emotion regulation through real-time fMRI neurofeedback of amygdala activity.

    U Herwig;U Herwig;J Lutz;S Scherpiet;H Scheerer

  • A prospective study of alexithymia in obsessive-compulsive patients treated with multimodal cognitive-behavioral therapy.

    Michael Rufer;Iver Hand;Anne Braatz;Heike Alsleben

  • Positive schizotypal symptoms predict treatment outcome in obsessive–compulsive disorder

    Steffen Moritz;Susanne Fricke;Dirk Jacobsen;Martin Kloss

  • Evidence of frontotemporal structural hypoconnectivity in social anxiety disorder: A quantitative fiber tractography study

    Volker Baur;Annette Beatrix Brühl;Uwe Herwig;Tanja Eberle

  • White matter alterations in social anxiety disorder

    Volker Baur;Jürgen Hänggi;Michael Rufer;Aba Delsignore

  • Increased cortical thickness in a frontoparietal network in social anxiety disorder

    Annette Beatrix Brühl;Juergen Hänggi;Volker Baur;Michael Rufer

  • Health-related quality of life and emotional distress in patients with dizziness: a cross-sectional approach to disentangle their relationship

    Steffi Weidt;Annette B Bruehl;Dominik Straumann;Stefan C A Hegemann

  • Impact of alexithymia on treatment outcome: a naturalistic study of short-term cognitive-behavioral group therapy for panic disorder.

    Michael Rufer;Renate Albrecht;Johanna Zaum;Ulrich Schnyder

  • Dissociation and symptom dimensions of obsessive-compulsive disorder. A replication study.

    Michael Rufer;Susanne Fricke;Dada Held;Julia Cremer

Frequent Co-Authors

Uwe Herwig
Uwe Herwig University of Zurich
Steffen Moritz
Steffen Moritz University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf
Ulrich Schnyder
Ulrich Schnyder University of Zurich
Thomas Suslow
Thomas Suslow Leipzig University
Lutz Jäncke
Lutz Jäncke University of Zurich
Erich Seifritz
Erich Seifritz University of Zurich
Edith Holsboer-Trachsler
Edith Holsboer-Trachsler University of Basel
Arno Villringer
Arno Villringer Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Susanne Walitza
Susanne Walitza University of Zurich
Anette Kersting
Anette Kersting Leipzig University

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