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Ricarda Steinmayr

Ricarda Steinmayr

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
47
Citations
8402
World Ranking
6196
National Ranking
293

Ricarda Steinmayr 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 Ricarda Steinmayr sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 127 publications — 37th percentile

37% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Ricarda Steinmayr 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 Ricarda Steinmayr sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 47 D-Index — 47th percentile

47% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Ricarda Steinmayr is affiliated with TU Dortmund University in Germany and focuses primarily on the fields of Psychology and Social Sciences. Their research covers a variety of subfields including Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Education, Social Psychology, Clinical Psychology, and Sociology and Political Science.

The scientist's work addresses multiple topics with an emphasis on Education, Achievement, and Giftedness, Early Childhood Education and Development, Cognitive Abilities and Testing, Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports, School Choice and Performance, Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, and Parental Involvement in Education.

Steinmayr has authored several papers, including:

  • Teaching and learning during the first COVID-19 school lockdown: Realization and associations with parent-perceived students' academic outcomes, 2021, Zeitschrift für Pädagogische Psychologie
  • Elementary School Students' Subjective Well-Being Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Longitudinal Study, 2022, Journal of Happiness Studies

Other significant recent papers related to their field but authored by collaborators or relevant to their research context include:

  • Parental experiences of homeschooling during the COVID-19 pandemic: differences between seven European countries and between children with and without mental health conditions, 2021, European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
  • Only a Burden for Females in Math? Gender and Domain Differences in the Relation Between Adolescents' Fixed Mindsets and Motivation, 2020, Journal of Youth and Adolescence
  • Similarities and Differences Between Intellectually Gifted and Average-Ability Students in School Performance, Motivation, and Subjective Well-Being, 2020, Gifted Child Quarterly

Their frequent coauthors include Linda Wirthwein, Hanna Christiansen, Sebastian Bergold, Anne F. Weidinger, and Christina Schwenck, each contributing to multiple collaborative publications.

Steinmayr regularly publishes in several academic venues. The most frequent outlets include:

  • Journal of Intelligence
  • Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Journal of Educational Psychology
  • Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health
  • Learning and Individual Differences

Best Publications

  • The importance of motivation as a predictor of school achievement

    Ricarda Steinmayr;Birgit Spinath

  • Sex differences in school achievement: what are the roles of personality and achievement motivation?

    Ricarda Steinmayr;Birgit Spinath

  • The Importance of Students' Motivation for Their Academic Achievement - Replicating and Extending Previous Findings.

    Ricarda Steinmayr;Anne Franziska Weidinger;Malte Schwinger;Birgit Spinath

  • Subjective Well-Being, Test Anxiety, Academic Achievement: Testing for Reciprocal Effects.

    Ricarda Steinmayr;Julia Crede;Nele McElvany;Linda Wirthwein

  • How do motivational regulation strategies affect achievement: Mediated by effort management and moderated by intelligence

    Malte Schwinger;Ricarda Steinmayr;Birgit Spinath

  • Effects of using motivational regulation strategies on students' academic procrastination, academic performance, and well-being

    Carola Grunschel;Malte Schwinger;Ricarda Steinmayr;Stefan Fries

  • Parental experiences of homeschooling during the COVID-19 pandemic: differences between seven European countries and between children with and without mental health conditions.

    Lisa B. Thorell;Charlotte Skoglund;Almudena Giménez de la Peña;Dieter Baeyens

  • Academic Self-Handicapping and Achievement: A Meta-Analysis.

    Malte Schwinger;Linda Wirthwein;Gunnar Lemmer;Ricarda Steinmayr

  • Adolescents’ academic achievement and life satisfaction: the role of parents’ education

    Julia Crede;Linda Wirthwein;Nele McElvany;Ricarda Steinmayr

  • Gender Differences in School Success: What Are the Roles of Students' Intelligence, Personality and Motivation?.

    Birgit Spinath;Christine Eckert;Ricarda Steinmayr

  • Do Intelligence and Sustained Attention Interact in Predicting Academic Achievement

    Ricarda Steinmayr;Mattias Ziegler;Birgit Träuble

  • Goal orientations predict academic performance beyond intelligence and personality

    Ricarda Steinmayr;Tanja Bipp;Birgit Spinath

  • Longitudinal analysis of intrinsic motivation and competence beliefs: is there a relation over time?

    Birgit Spinath;Ricarda Steinmayr

  • Personality and achievement motivation: Relationship among Big Five domain and facet scales, achievement goals, and intelligence

    Tanja Bipp;Ricarda Steinmayr;Birgit Spinath

  • Does students' grit predict their school achievement above and beyond their personality, motivation, and engagement?

    Ricarda Steinmayr;Anne F. Weidinger;Allan Wigfield

  • Achievement goals and academic achievement: A closer look at moderating factors

    Linda Wirthwein;Jörn R. Sparfeldt;Martin Pinquart;Joanna Wegerer

  • Not all roads lead to Rome — Comparing different types of motivational regulation profiles

    Malte Schwinger;Ricarda Steinmayr;Birgit Spinath

  • Antecedents and consequences of students' achievement goals: A mediation analysis

    Felix C. Dinger;Oliver Dickhäuser;Birgit Spinath;Ricarda Steinmayr

  • The Roles of Competence Beliefs and Goal Orientations for Change in Intrinsic Motivation.

    Birgit Spinath;Ricarda Steinmayr

  • Is there a validity increment for tests of emotional intelligence in explaining the variance of performance criteria

    Manfred Amelang;Ricarda Steinmayr

Frequent Co-Authors

Birgit Spinath
Birgit Spinath Heidelberg University
Hanna Christiansen
Hanna Christiansen Philipp University of Marburg
Oliver Dickhäuser
Oliver Dickhäuser University of Mannheim
Nele McElvany
Nele McElvany TU Dortmund University
Matthias Ziegler
Matthias Ziegler Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Gerhard Blickle
Gerhard Blickle University of Bonn
Anselm B. M. Fuermaier
Anselm B. M. Fuermaier University of Groningen
Marjolein Luman
Marjolein Luman Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
David Daniel Ebert
David Daniel Ebert Technical University of Munich

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