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Stefan Wüst 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 Stefan Wüst sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 112 publications — 28th percentile

28% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Stefan Wüst 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 Stefan Wüst sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 55 D-Index — 63rd percentile

63% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Stefan Wüst is affiliated with the University of Regensburg in Germany and has a significant body of research spanning neuroscience, psychology, and medicine. Their work focuses primarily on stress responses and cortisol, as well as topics related to brain function and mental health.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

  • Neuroscience
  • Psychology
  • Medicine

Within these domains, they have contributed to several subfields, such as:

  • Behavioral Neuroscience
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Cognitive Neuroscience

The primary topics addressed in their research highlight key areas of interest:

  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Tryptophan and brain disorders
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Optimism, Hope, and Well-being
  • Hormonal Regulation and Hypertension

Stefan Wüst has co-authored frequently with:

  • Brigitte M. Kudielka
  • Gina-Isabelle Henze
  • Ludwig Kreuzpointner
  • Hannah L. Peter
  • Marina Giglberger

Their research has been published predominantly in the following venues:

  • Psychoneuroendocrinology
  • Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging
  • Scientific Reports
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Talanta

Among their recent notable papers are:

  • Evaluation and update of the expert consensus guidelines for the assessment of the cortisol awakening response (CAR), 2022, Psychoneuroendocrinology
  • Simultaneous quantification of steroid hormones and endocannabinoids (ECs) in human hair using an automated supported liquid extraction (SLE) and LC-MS/MS - Insights into EC baseline values and correlation to steroid concentrations, 2020, Talanta
  • Effect of sugar administration on cortisol responses to acute psychosocial stress, 2020, Psychoneuroendocrinology
  • Investigating individual stress reactivity: High hair cortisol predicts lower acute stress responses, 2020, Psychoneuroendocrinology
  • Increasing Deactivation of Limbic Structures Over Psychosocial Stress Exposure Time, 2020, Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging

Best Publications

  • Salivary cortisol as a biomarker in stress research.

    Dirk H. Hellhammer;Stefan Wüst;Brigitte M. Kudielka;Brigitte M. Kudielka

  • City living and urban upbringing affect neural social stress processing in humans.

    Florian Lederbogen;Peter Kirsch;Leila Haddad;Fabian Streit

  • Why do we respond so differently? Reviewing determinants of human salivary cortisol responses to challenge.

    Brigitte M. Kudielka;D.H. Hellhammer;Stefan Wüst

  • Assessment of the cortisol awakening response: Expert consensus guidelines.

    Tobias Stalder;Clemens Kirschbaum;Brigitte M. Kudielka;Emma K. Adam

  • Consistent sex differences in cortisol responses to psychological stress.

    Clemens Kirschbaum;Stefan Wust;Dirk Hellhammer

  • The cortisol awakening response - normal values and confounds.

    Stefan Wüst;Jutta Wolf;Dirk H. Hellhammer;Ilona Federenko

  • Genetic factors, perceived chronic stress, and the free cortisol response to awakening.

    Stefan Wüst;Ilona Federenko;Dirk H Hellhammer;C Kirschbaum

  • Human models in acute and chronic stress: Assessing determinants of individual hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis activity and reactivity

    Brigitte M. Kudielka;Stefan Wüst

  • Stress exposure in intrauterine life is associated with shorter telomere length in young adulthood

    Sonja Entringer;Elissa S. Epel;Robert Kumsta;Jue Lin

  • Common polymorphisms in the glucocorticoid receptor gene are associated with adrenocortical responses to psychosocial stress.

    Stephan Wüst;Elisabeth F.C. van Rossum;Ilona S. Federenko;Jan W. Koper

  • Trier Social Stress Test

    B.M. Kudielka;S. Wüst;C. Kirschbaum;D.H. Hellhammer

  • Prenatal exposure to maternal psychosocial stress and HPA axis regulation in young adults

    Sonja Entringer;Robert Kumsta;Robert Kumsta;Robert Kumsta;Dirk H. Hellhammer;Dirk H. Hellhammer;Pathik D. Wadhwa;Pathik D. Wadhwa

  • Covariance between psychological and endocrine responses to pharmacological challenge and psychosocial stress: a question of timing.

    Wolff Schlotz;Robert Kumsta;Irmgard Layes;Sonja Entringer

  • Salivary cortisol in ambulatory assessment--some dos, some don'ts, and some open questions.

    Brigitte M. Kudielka;Andrea Gierens;Dirk H. Hellhammer;Stefan Wüst

  • Heritability of cortisol responses to human corticotropin-releasing hormone, ergometry, and psychological stress in humans.

    C Kirschbaum;S Wüst;H G Faig;D H Hellhammer

  • Free cortisol awakening responses are influenced by awakening time

    Ilona Federenko;Stefan Wüst;Dirk H. Hellhammer;Ralph Dechoux

  • Morningness and eveningness: the free cortisol rise after awakening in "early birds" and "night owls".

    Brigitte M. Kudielka;Ilona S. Federenko;Dirk H. Hellhammer;Stefan Wüst

  • Sex specific associations between common glucocorticoid receptor gene variants and hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis responses to psychosocial stress

    Robert Kumsta;Sonja Entringer;Jan W. Koper;Elisabeth F.C. van Rossum

  • A Common Polymorphism in the Mineralocorticoid Receptor Modulates Stress Responsiveness

    Roel H. DeRijk;Stefan Wüst;Onno C. Meijer;Maria-Christina Zennaro

  • The heritability of hypothalamus pituitary adrenal axis responses to psychosocial stress is context dependent.

    Ilona S. Federenko;Mitsue Nagamine;Dirk H. Hellhammer;Pathik D. Wadhwa

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert Kumsta
Robert Kumsta Ruhr University Bochum
Brigitte M. Kudielka
Brigitte M. Kudielka University of Regensburg
Dirk H. Hellhammer
Dirk H. Hellhammer University of Trier
Fabian Streit
Fabian Streit Heidelberg University
Marcella Rietschel
Marcella Rietschel Heidelberg University
Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg
Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg Heidelberg University
Peter Kirsch
Peter Kirsch Heidelberg University
Wolff Schlotz
Wolff Schlotz Max Planck Society
Thomas G. Schulze
Thomas G. Schulze Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

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