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Stefaan Van Damme

Stefaan Van Damme

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
50
Citations
11181
World Ranking
5408
National Ranking
75

Stefaan Van Damme 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 Stefaan Van Damme sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 137 publications — 42nd percentile

42% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Stefaan Van Damme 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 Stefaan Van Damme sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 50 D-Index — 54th percentile

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

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

Overview

Stefaan Van Damme is affiliated with Ghent University in Belgium and has contributed extensively to the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience. Their research primarily focuses on musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation, pain management and placebo effects, and pain mechanisms and treatments. Additional areas of interest include fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome research, neural and behavioral psychology studies, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, cognitive processes, as well as motor control and adaptation.

Their scholarly output includes numerous papers published in a variety of scientific journals. Notable recent publications comprise:

  • The time course of attentional biases in pain: a meta-analysis of eye-tracking studies, 2020, Pain
  • Understanding Discrepancies in a Person's Fear of Movement and Avoidance Behavior: A Guide for Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation Clinicians Who Support People With Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain, 2023, Journal of Orthopaedic and Sports Physical Therapy
  • The relationships between spinal amplitude of movement, pain and disability in low back pain: A systematic review and meta-analysis, 2023, European Journal of Pain
  • Pain E-motion Faces Database (PEMF): Pain-related micro-clips for emotion research, 2022, Behavior Research Methods
  • Does experimentally induced pain-related fear influence central and peripheral movement preparation in healthy people and patients with low back pain?, 2020, Pain

Stefaan Van Damme has published in frequently appearing venues including:

  • European Journal of Pain
  • Pain
  • Frontiers in Medicine
  • PeerJ
  • PLoS ONE

Frequent collaborators in their research include Dimitri Van Ryckeghem, Jessica Van Oosterwijck, Lieven Danneels, Geert Crombez, and Stijn Schouppe. These co-authors have contributed to multiple joint publications, demonstrating active cooperation in related scientific inquiries.

The primary fields of study connected to Van Damme's work are Medicine, with 41 publications, and Neuroscience, with 24 publications. Their research also spans subfields such as cognitive neuroscience, pharmacology, physiology, psychiatry and mental health, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

Best Publications

  • Fear-avoidance model of chronic pain: the next generation.

    Geert Crombez;Christopher Eccleston;Stefaan Van Damme;Johan W S Vlaeyen;Johan W S Vlaeyen

  • A confirmatory factor analysis of the Pain Catastrophizing Scale: invariant factor structure across clinical and non-clinical populations.

    Stefaan Van Damme;Geert Crombez;Patricia Bijttebier;Liesbet Goubert

  • Components of attentional bias to threat in high trait anxiety: Facilitated engagement, impaired disengagement, and attentional avoidance.

    Ernst H.W. Koster;Geert Crombez;Bruno Verschuere;Stefaan Van Damme

  • A neurocognitive model of attention to pain: Behavioral and neuroimaging evidence

    Valéry Legrain;Stefaan Van Damme;Christopher Eccleston;Karen D. Davis

  • The role of neuroticism, pain catastrophizing and pain-related fear in vigilance to pain: a structural equations approach

    Liesbet Goubert;Liesbet Goubert;Geert Crombez;Geert Crombez;Stefaan Van Damme;Stefaan Van Damme

  • Hypervigilance to pain: An experimental and clinical analysis

    Geert Crombez;Stefaan Van Damme;Christopher Eccleston

  • Keeping pain in mind: a motivational account of attention to pain

    Stefaan Van Damme;Valerie Legrain;Julia Vogt;Geert Crombez

  • Does Imminent Threat Capture and Hold Attention

    Ernst H. W. Koster;Geert Crombez;Stefaan Van Damme;Bruno Verschuere

  • Time-course of attention for threatening pictures in high and low trait anxiety.

    Ernst H.W. Koster;Bruno Verschuere;Geert Crombez;Stefaan Van Damme

  • Attentional bias to pain-related information: A meta-analysis

    Geert Crombez;Dimitri M.L. Van Ryckeghem;Christopher Eccleston;Stefaan Van Damme

  • Confirmatory factor analysis of the Tampa Scale for Kinesiophobia: invariant two-factor model across low back pain patients and fibromyalgia patients.

    Liesbet Goubert;Geert Crombez;Stefaan Van Damme;Johan W S Vlaeyen

  • Disengagement from pain: the role of catastrophic thinking about pain

    Stefaan Van Damme;Geert Crombez;Geert Crombez;Christopher Eccleston

  • Coping with pain: a motivational perspective.

    Stefaan Van Damme;Geert Crombez;Christopher Eccleston

  • Allocation of spatial attention to emotional stimuli depends upon arousal and not valence

    Julia Vogt;Jan De Houwer;Ernst H. W. Koster;Stefaan Van Damme

  • Retarded disengagement from pain cues: the effects of pain catastrophizing and pain expectancy.

    Stefaan Van Damme;Geert Crombez;Chris Eccleston

  • The role of motivation in distracting attention away from pain: an experimental study.

    Katrien Verhoeven;Geert Crombez;Christopher Eccleston;Dimitri M L Van Ryckeghem

  • Is distraction less effective when pain is threatening? An experimental investigation with the cold pressor task.

    Stefaan Van Damme;Geert Crombez;Kathleen Nieuwenborgh Van De Wever;Liesbet Goubert

  • The role of extinction and reinstatement in attentional bias to threat: a conditioning approach.

    Stefaan Van Damme;Geert Crombez;Dirk Hermans;Ernst H.W. Koster

  • Well-being in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome: The role of acceptance

    Stefaan Van Damme;Geert Crombez;Boudewijn Van Houdenhove;An Mariman

  • Signals of threat do not capture, but prioritize, attention: A conditioning approach

    Lies Notebaert;Geert Crombez;Stefaan Van Damme;Jan De Houwer

Frequent Co-Authors

Geert Crombez
Geert Crombez Ghent University
Christopher Eccleston
Christopher Eccleston University of Bath
Liesbet Goubert
Liesbet Goubert Ghent University
Ernst H. W. Koster
Ernst H. W. Koster Ghent University
Jan De Houwer
Jan De Houwer Ghent University
Charles Spence
Charles Spence University of Oxford
Madelon L. Peters
Madelon L. Peters Maastricht University
Valéry Legrain
Valéry Legrain Université Catholique de Louvain
Jan Theeuwes
Jan Theeuwes Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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