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Ulman Lindenberger 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 Ulman Lindenberger sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 642 publications — 99th percentile

99% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Ulman Lindenberger 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 Ulman Lindenberger sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 131 D-Index — 99th percentile

99% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in Germany Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Psychology in Germany Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Psychology in Germany Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Psychology in Germany Leader Award
  • 2014 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 2006 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Psychology and Cognitive Sciences

Overview

Ulman Lindenberger is affiliated with the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Neuroscience and Medicine, with a particular focus on subfields such as Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics including Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, Neural Dynamics and Brain Function, Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research, Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies, Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications, Memory and Neural Mechanisms, as well as Health Disparities and Outcomes.

Recent papers by Ulman Lindenberger include:

  • Education and Cognitive Functioning Across the Life Span, 2020, Gothic.net
  • Individual variations in 'brain age' relate to early-life factors more than to longitudinal brain change, 2021, eLife
  • Trajectories of Big Five Personality Traits: A Coordinated Analysis of 16 Longitudinal Samples, 2020, European Journal of Personality
  • Asymmetric thinning of the cerebral cortex across the adult lifespan is accelerated in Alzheimer's disease, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Thalamocortical excitability modulation guides human perception under uncertainty, 2021, Nature Communications

Frequent co-authors working alongside Lindenberger are:

  • Simone Kühn
  • Sandra Düzel
  • Lars Nyberg
  • Andreas M. Brandmaier
  • Kristine B. Walhovd

Most publications by Lindenberger have appeared in the following venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Cerebral Cortex
  • Psychology and Aging
  • Nature Communications
  • eLife

Ulman Lindenberger has been recognized with membership in notable academies, including the Academia Europaea since 2014 and the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2006, specifically within the field of Psychology and Cognitive Sciences.

Best Publications

  • Regional Brain Changes in Aging Healthy Adults: General Trends, Individual Differences and Modifiers

    Naftali Raz;Ulman Lindenberger;Karen M. Rodrigue;Kristen M. Kennedy

  • Life Span Theory in Developmental Psychology

    Paul B. Baltes;Ulman Lindenberger;Ursula M. Staudinger

  • LIFESPAN PSYCHOLOGY: Theory and Application to Intellectual Functioning

    Paul B. Baltes;Ursula M. Staudinger;Ulman Lindenberger

  • Emergence of a Powerful Connection Between Sensory and Cognitive Functions Across the Adult Life Span: A New Window to the Study of Cognitive Aging?

    Paul B. Baltes;Ulman Lindenberger

  • Enrichment Effects on Adult Cognitive Development: Can the Functional Capacity of Older Adults Be Preserved and Enhanced?

    Christopher Hertzog;Arthur F. Kramer;Robert S. Wilson;Ulman Lindenberger

  • Sensory functioning and intelligence in old age: A strong connection

    Ulman Lindenberger;Paul B. Baltes

  • FACES—A database of facial expressions in young, middle-aged, and older women and men: Development and validation

    Natalie C. Ebner;Michaela Riediger;Ulman Lindenberger

  • Memory aging and brain maintenance

    Lars Nyberg;Martin Lövdén;Martin Lövdén;Martin Lövdén;Katrine Riklund;Ulman Lindenberger

  • Speed and intelligence in old age.

    Ulman Lindenberger;Ulrich Mayr;Reinhold Kliegl

  • Aging cognition: from neuromodulation to representation

    Shu Chen Li;Ulman Lindenberger;Sverker Sikström

  • Maintenance, reserve and compensation: the cognitive neuroscience of healthy ageing

    Roberto Cabeza;Marilyn Albert;Sylvie Belleville;Fergus I. M. Craik

  • Education and Cognitive Functioning Across the Life Span.

    Martin Lövdén;Martin Lövdén;Laura Fratiglioni;M Maria Glymour;Ulman Lindenberger

  • The correlative triad among aging, dopamine, and cognition: current status and future prospects.

    Lars Bäckman;Lars Nyberg;Ulman Lindenberger;Shu-Chen Li

  • A theoretical framework for the study of adult cognitive plasticity.

    Martin Lövdén;Lars Bäckman;Ulman Lindenberger;Sabine Schaefer

  • On selecting indicators for multivariate measurement and modeling with latent variables: When "good" indicators are bad and "bad" indicators are good.

    Todd D. Little;Ulman Lindenberger;John R. Nesselroade

  • Adult age differences in task switching

    Jutta Kray;Ulman Lindenberger

  • Transformations in the Couplings Among Intellectual Abilities and Constituent Cognitive Processes Across the Life Span

    Shu-Chen Li;Ulman Lindenberger;Bernhard Hommel;Gisa Aschersleben

  • Sensory functioning and intelligence in old age: A strong connection.

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  • Memorizing while walking: increase in dual-task costs from young adulthood to old age.

    Ulman Lindenberger;Michael Marsiske;Paul B. Baltes

  • Dual-tasking postural control: Aging and the effects of cognitive demand in conjunction with focus of attention

    Oliver Huxhold;Shu-Chen Li;Florian Schmiedek;Ulman Lindenberger

  • Intellectual functioning in old and very old age: cross-sectional results from the Berlin Aging Study.

    Ulman Lindenberger;Paul B. Baltes

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Lövdén
Martin Lövdén University of Gothenburg
Shu-Chen Li
Shu-Chen Li TU Dresden
Simone Kühn
Simone Kühn Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Florian Schmiedek
Florian Schmiedek Max Planck Society
Lars Bäckman
Lars Bäckman Karolinska Institute
Markus Werkle-Bergner
Markus Werkle-Bergner Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Lars Bertram
Lars Bertram University of Lübeck
Lars Nyberg
Lars Nyberg Umeå University
Denis Gerstorf
Denis Gerstorf Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Gert G. Wagner
Gert G. Wagner German Institute for Economic Research

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