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Tobias Stalder

Tobias Stalder

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
45
Citations
11154
World Ranking
6592
National Ranking
312

Tobias Stalder 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 Tobias Stalder sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 134 publications — 40th percentile

40% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Tobias Stalder 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 Tobias Stalder sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 45 D-Index — 43rd percentile

43% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Tobias Stalder is affiliated with the University of Siegen in Germany and has conducted research primarily in Medicine, Neuroscience, and Materials Science. Their work extends into subfields such as Materials Chemistry, Behavioral Neuroscience, Clinical Psychology, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, and Dermatology.

The scientist's research explores topics including Stress Responses and Cortisol, Crystallization and Solubility Studies, X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography, Dermatology and Skin Diseases, Mental Health Research Topics, Adrenal Hormones and Disorders, as well as Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions.

Tobias Stalder has published numerous papers, with recent notable works including:

  • "Evaluation and update of the expert consensus guidelines for the assessment of the cortisol awakening response (CAR)," 2022, Psychoneuroendocrinology
  • "The Cortisol Awakening Response: Regulation and Functional Significance," 2024, Endocrine Reviews

While not as a lead author, significant related publications in the coauthor network include research on hair cortisol levels in posttraumatic stress disorder and metabolic syndrome published in 2020 in Stress, and studies on pupil dilation as an index of Pavlovian conditioning published in 2021 in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Tobias Stalder include Felix Krischer, Henning Steinert, Philipp Neigenfind, Viktoria H. Gessner, and Clemens Kirschbaum, with collaboration counts ranging from 13 to 14 joint works.

Common venues for publishing their work include The Cambridge Structural Database, Psychoneuroendocrinology, Endocrine Reviews, Stress, and Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews.

Best Publications

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

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

  • Analysis of cortisol in hair--state of the art and future directions.

    Tobias Stalder;Clemens Kirschbaum

  • Stress-related and basic determinants of hair cortisol in humans: A meta-analysis.

    Tobias Stalder;Tobias Stalder;Susann Steudte-Schmiedgen;Nina Alexander;Tim Klucken

  • The cortisol awakening response: more than a measure of HPA axis function.

    Angela Clow;Frank Hucklebridge;Tobias Stalder;Tobias Stalder;Philip D. Evans

  • Classification criteria for distinguishing cortisol responders from nonresponders to psychosocial stress: evaluation of salivary cortisol pulse detection in panel designs.

    Robert Miller;Franziska Plessow;Clemens Kirschbaum;Tobias Stalder

  • Intraindividual stability of hair cortisol concentrations

    Tobias Stalder;Susann Steudte;Robert Miller;Nadine Skoluda;Nadine Skoluda

  • The assessment of cortisol in human hair: Associations with sociodemographic variables and potential confounders

    L. Dettenborn;A. Tietze;C. Kirschbaum;T. Stalder

  • Correspondence between hair cortisol concentrations and 30-day integrated daily salivary and weekly urinary cortisol measures

    Sarah J. Short;Tobias Stalder;Kristine Marceau;Sonja Entringer

  • Impact of Antenatal Synthetic Glucocorticoid Exposure on Endocrine Stress Reactivity in Term-Born Children

    Nina Alexander;Franziska Rosenlöcher;Tobias Stalder;Julia Linke

  • Decreased hair cortisol concentrations in generalised anxiety disorder

    Susann Steudte;Tobias Stalder;Lucia Dettenborn;Elisabeth Klumbies

  • Elevated hair cortisol concentrations in endurance athletes.

    Nadine Skoluda;Lucia Dettenborn;Tobias Stalder;Clemens Kirschbaum

  • The CIRCORT database: Reference ranges and seasonal changes in diurnal salivary cortisol derived from a meta-dataset comprised of 15 field studies.

    Robert Miller;Tobias Stalder;Marc Jarczok;David M. Almeida

  • Cortisol in hair, body mass index and stress-related measures.

    Tobias Stalder;Susann Steudte;Nina Alexander;Robert Miller

  • Hair cortisol as a biomarker of traumatization in healthy individuals and posttraumatic stress disorder patients.

    Susann Steudte;Clemens Kirschbaum;Wei Gao;Wei Gao;Nina Alexander

  • Increased cortisol concentrations in hair of severely traumatized Ugandan individuals with PTSD

    Susann Steudte;Iris-Tatjana Kolassa;Iris-Tatjana Kolassa;Tobias Stalder;Anett Pfeiffer

  • Introducing a novel method to assess cumulative steroid concentrations: Increased hair cortisol concentrations over 6 months in medicated patients with depression

    Lucia Dettenborn;Christoph Muhtz;Nadine Skoluda;Tobias Stalder

  • The serotonin transporter gene-linked polymorphic region (5-HTTLPR) and cortisol stress reactivity: a meta-analysis

    R Miller;M Wankerl;T Stalder;C Kirschbaum

  • An integrative model linking traumatization, cortisol dysregulation and posttraumatic stress disorder: Insight from recent hair cortisol findings

    Susann Steudte-Schmiedgen;Clemens Kirschbaum;Nina Alexander;Tobias Stalder

  • Assessing cortisol from hair samples in a large observational cohort: The Whitehall II study.

    Jessica G. Abell;Tobias Stalder;Jane E. Ferrie;Jane E. Ferrie;Martin J. Shipley

  • Hair cortisol concentrations and cortisol stress reactivity predict PTSD symptom increase after trauma exposure during military deployment.

    Susann Steudte-Schmiedgen;Tobias Stalder;Sabine Schönfeld;Hans-Ulrich Wittchen

Frequent Co-Authors

Angela Clow
Angela Clow University of Westminster
Tim Klucken
Tim Klucken University of Siegen
Bertram Müller-Myhsok
Bertram Müller-Myhsok Max Planck Society
Frank Hucklebridge
Frank Hucklebridge University of Westminster
Jon Genuneit
Jon Genuneit Leipzig University
Dietrich Rothenbacher
Dietrich Rothenbacher University of Ulm
Jos A. Bosch
Jos A. Bosch University of Amsterdam
Jürgen Hoyer
Jürgen Hoyer TU Dresden

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