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Tom Smeets 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 Tom Smeets sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 706+

This scientist: 151 publications — 50th percentile

50% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 706 publications or more.

Tom Smeets 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 Tom Smeets sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 42 D-Index — 36th percentile

36% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Tom Smeets is affiliated with Tilburg University in the Netherlands and has an extensive publication record primarily in the fields of Psychology, Medicine, and Neuroscience.

Their research covers several main and subfields, including:

  • Psychology
  • Medicine
  • Neuroscience
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Behavioral Neuroscience
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Smeets has contributed significantly to topics such as:

  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Nutritional Studies and Diet
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Diet and metabolism studies

The recent papers authored or co-authored by Smeets include:

  • "Optimism, mindfulness, and resilience as potential protective factors for the mental health consequences of fear of the coronavirus," 2021, Psychiatry Research
  • "The latent and item structure of COVID-19 fear: A comparison of four COVID-19 fear questionnaires using SEM and network analyses," 2021, Journal of Anxiety Disorders
  • "Fear of COVID-19 predicts vaccination willingness 14 months later," 2022, Journal of Anxiety Disorders
  • "Pandemic panic? Results of a 14-month longitudinal study on fear of COVID-19," 2022, Journal of Affective Disorders
  • "Online Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) interventions for chronic pain: A systematic literature review," 2021, Internet Interventions

Smeets often collaborates with the following researchers:

  • Conny W.E.M. Quaedflieg
  • Gaëtan Mertens
  • Paul Lodder
  • Daniëlle L. van de Graaf
  • Hester R. Trompetter

Their frequent publishing venues reflect the concentration of their research and include:

  • Journal of Anxiety Disorders
  • Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry
  • Psychoneuroendocrinology
  • Neurobiology of Stress
  • Journal of Cancer Survivorship

Best Publications

  • True or false? Memory is differentially affected by stress-induced cortisol elevations and sympathetic activity at consolidation and retrieval.

    Tom Smeets;Henry Otgaar;Ingrid Candel;Oliver T. Wolf

  • Introducing the Maastricht Acute Stress Test (MAST): a quick and non-invasive approach to elicit robust autonomic and glucocorticoid stress responses.

    Tom Smeets;Sandra Cornelisse;Conny W.E.M. Quaedflieg;Thomas Meyer

  • Cold pressor stress impairs performance on working memory tasks requiring executive functions in healthy young men

    Daniela Schoofs;Oliver T. Wolf;Tom Smeets

  • The effectiveness of tailored feedback and action plans in an intervention addressing multiple health behaviors.

    H. de Vries;S. P. J. Kremers;T. Smeets;J. Brug

  • Self-reported trauma, cortisol levels, and aggression in psychopathic and non-psychopathic prison inmates.

    Maaike Cima;Tom Smeets;Marko Jelicic

  • Adaptive memory: Survival processing increases both true and false memory in adults and children.

    Henry Otgaar;Tom Smeets

  • Social cognition under stress: differential effects of stress-induced cortisol elevations in healthy young men and women.

    Tom Smeets;Isabel Dziobek;Oliver T. Wolf

  • Picturing survival memories: enhanced memory after fitness-relevant processing occurs for verbal and visual stimuli.

    Henry Otgaar;Tom Smeets;Saskia van Bergen

  • Context-dependent enhancement of declarative memory performance following acute psychosocial stress

    T. Smeets;T.M. Giesbrecht;M. Jelicic;H.L.G.J. Merckelbach

  • Experimentally evoking nonbelieved memories for childhood events

    Henry Otgaar;Alan Scoboria;Tom Smeets

  • Optimism, mindfulness, and resilience as potential protective factors for the mental health consequences of fear of the coronavirus.

    Lisa M.W. Vos;Mirela Habibović;Ivan Nyklíček;Tom Smeets

  • Stress selectively and lastingly promotes learning of context-related high arousing information

    Tom Smeets;Oliver T. Wolf;Timo Giesbrecht;Kevin Sijstermans

  • A randomized trial on mineralocorticoid receptor blockade in men: effects on stress responses, selective attention, and memory

    Sandra Cornelisse;Marian Joëls;Marian Joëls;Tom Smeets

  • The effect of acute stress on memory depends on word valence

    Tom Smeets;Marko Jelicic;Harald Merckelbach

  • High-intensity stress elicits robust cortisol increases, and impairs working memory and visuo-spatial declarative memory in Special Forces candidates: A field experiment

    John Taverniers;Joris Van Ruysseveldt;Tom Smeets;Jasper von Grumbkow

  • Acute dissociation after 1 night of sleep loss.

    Timo Giesbrecht;Tom Smeets;Jimmie Leppink;Marko Jelicic

  • Increasing optimism abolishes pain-induced impairments in executive task performance.

    Jantine J.L.M. Boselie;Linda M.G. Vancleef;Tom Smeets;Madelon L. Peters

  • Autonomic and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal stress resilience: Impact of cardiac vagal tone.

    Tom Smeets

  • Acute stress impairs memory retrieval independent of time of day.

    Tom Smeets

  • False confessions in the lab: Do plausibility and consequences matter?

    Robert Horselenberg;Harald Merckelbach;Tom Smeets;Dirk Franssens

  • I see what you see: the lack of a self-serving body-image bias in eating disorders.

    Anita Jansen;Tom Smeets;Carolien Martijn;Chantal Nederkoorn

Frequent Co-Authors

Harald Merckelbach
Harald Merckelbach Maastricht University
Marko Jelicic
Marko Jelicic Maastricht University
Mark L. Howe
Mark L. Howe City, University of London
Oliver T. Wolf
Oliver T. Wolf Ruhr University Bochum
Chantal Nederkoorn
Chantal Nederkoorn Maastricht University
Marian Joëls
Marian Joëls University of Groningen
Anita Jansen
Anita Jansen Maastricht University
Bruno Verschuere
Bruno Verschuere University of Amsterdam
Amina Memon
Amina Memon Royal Holloway University of London
Ivan Nyklíček
Ivan Nyklíček Tilburg University

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