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D-Index
82
Citations
32282
World Ranking
1305
National Ranking
50

Overview

Stephan Zipfel is affiliated with the University of Tübingen in Germany and has an extensive publication record in medicine and psychology. Their research primarily addresses clinical psychology, general health professions, public health, environmental and occupational health, psychiatry and mental health, and social psychology.

The primary focus of their work includes eating disorders and behaviors, obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders, obesity, physical activity and diet, innovations in medical education, COVID-19 and mental health, healthcare professionals' stress and burnout, and child nutrition and feeding issues.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Stephan Zipfel are:

  • Katrin Elisabeth Giel
  • Andreas Stengel
  • Florian Junne
  • Anne Herrmann-Werner
  • Isabelle Mack

The scientist has contributed to various publication venues, most frequently appearing in:

  • Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Adipositas - Ursachen Folgeerkrankungen Therapie
  • Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics
  • PLoS ONE
  • European Eating Disorders Review

Among their recent papers are:

  • Binge eating disorder, 2022, Nature Reviews Disease Primers
  • Treatment of eating disorders: A systematic meta-review of meta-analyses and network meta-analyses, 2022, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Comparative efficacy and acceptability of psychological interventions for the treatment of adult outpatients with anorexia nervosa: a systematic review and network meta-analysis, 2021, The Lancet Psychiatry
  • Post-COVID-19 fatigue: A systematic review, 2022, Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Medical education in times of COVID-19: German students' expectations - A cross-sectional study, 2020, PLoS ONE

Best Publications

  • Genomic Relationships, Novel Loci, and Pleiotropic Mechanisms across Eight Psychiatric Disorders

    Phil H. Lee;Verneri Anttila;Hyejung Won;Yen-Chen A. Feng

  • Comparative validity of three screening questionnaires for DSM-IV depressive disorders and physicians' diagnoses.

    Bernd Löwe;Robert L. Spitzer;Kerstin Gräfe;Kurt Kroenke

  • Genome-wide association study identifies eight risk loci and implicates metabo-psychiatric origins for anorexia nervosa

    Hunna J. Watson;Hunna J. Watson;Hunna J. Watson;Zeynep Yilmaz;Laura M. Thornton;Christopher Hübel;Christopher Hübel

  • Irritable bowel syndrome

    Paul Enck;Qasim Aziz;Giovanni Barbara;Adam D. Farmer

  • Psychosomatic Medicine in Germany: More Timely than Ever

    Stephan Zipfel;Wolfgang Herzog;Johannes Kruse;Peter Henningsen

  • Management of functional somatic syndromes.

    Peter Henningsen;Stephan Zipfel;Wolfgang Herzog

  • Anorexia nervosa: aetiology, assessment, and treatment

    Stephan Zipfel;Katrin E Giel;Katrin E Giel;Cynthia M Bulik;Cynthia M Bulik;Phillipa Hay

  • Screening psychischer Störungen mit dem “Gesundheitsfragebogen für Patienten (PHQ-D)“

    Kerstin Gräfe;Stephan Zipfel;Wolfgang Herzog;Bernd Löwe

  • Long-term prognosis in anorexia nervosa: lessons from a 21-year follow-up study

    Stephan Zipfel;Bernd Löwe;Deborah Lynn Reas;Hans-Christian Deter

  • Emotion regulation model in binge eating disorder and obesity--a systematic review.

    Elisabeth J. Leehr;Kerstin Krohmer;Kathrin Schag;Thomas Dresler

  • Genome-wide association study identifies eight risk loci and implicates metabo-psychiatric origins for anorexia nervosa

    H. J. Watson;Z. Yilmaz;L. M. Thornton;C. Hubel

  • Focal psychodynamic therapy, cognitive behaviour therapy, and optimised treatment as usual in outpatients with anorexia nervosa (ANTOP study): randomised controlled trial

    Stephan Zipfel;Beate Wild;Gaby Groß;Hans-Christoph Friederich

  • Long-term outcome of anorexia nervosa in a prospective 21-year follow-up study.

    B. Löwe;S. Zipfel;C. Buchholz;Y. Dupont

  • Food‐related impulsivity in obesity and Binge Eating Disorder – a systematic review

    K. Schag;J. Schönleber;M. Teufel;S. Zipfel

  • Diagnosing ICD-10 Depressive Episodes: Superior Criterion Validity of the Patient Health Questionnaire

    Bernd Löwe;Kerstin Gräfe;Stephan Zipfel;Steffen Witte

  • Detecting panic disorder in medical and psychosomatic outpatients: comparative validation of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, the Patient Health Questionnaire, a screening question, and physicians' diagnosis.

    Bernd Löwe;Kerstin Gräfe;Stephan Zipfel;Robert L Spitzer

  • Depression increasingly predicts mortality in the course of congestive heart failure.

    Jana Jünger;Dieter Schellberg;Thomas Müller-Tasch;Georg Raupp

  • Binge eating disorder

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  • Management of Functional Somatic Syndromes and Bodily Distress.

    Peter Henningsen;Stephan Zipfel;Heribert Sattel;Francis Creed

  • Treatment of eating disorders: A systematic meta-review of meta-analyses and network meta-analyses

    Unknown

  • Eating disorders: the big issue

    Ulrike Schmidt;Roger Adan;Ilka Böhm;Iain C Campbell

  • Weight gain in anorexia nervosa does not ameliorate the faecal microbiota, branched chain fatty acid profiles, and gastrointestinal complaints.

    Isabelle Mack;Ulrich Cuntz;Claudia Grämer;Sabrina Niedermaier

  • Genome wide meta-analysis identifies genomic relationships, novel loci, and pleiotropic mechanisms across eight psychiatric disorders

    Lee Ph;Anttila;Won H

Frequent Co-Authors

Katrin Elisabeth Giel
Katrin Elisabeth Giel University of Tübingen
Hans-Christoph Friederich
Hans-Christoph Friederich University Hospital Heidelberg
Bernd Löwe
Bernd Löwe Universität Hamburg
Stephan Herpertz
Stephan Herpertz Ruhr University Bochum
Martina de Zwaan
Martina de Zwaan Hannover Medical School
Ulrike Schmidt
Ulrike Schmidt King's College London
Martin Hautzinger
Martin Hautzinger University of Tübingen
Cynthia M. Bulik
Cynthia M. Bulik University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Hunna J. Watson
Hunna J. Watson University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Aarno Palotie
Aarno Palotie University of Helsinki

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