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Ulrike Schmidt 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 Ulrike Schmidt sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 504 publications — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Ulrike Schmidt 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 Ulrike Schmidt sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 107 D-Index — 96th percentile

96% 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 United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Ulrike Schmidt is affiliated with King's College London in the United Kingdom and has an extensive research portfolio spanning psychology, medicine, and neuroscience. Their publication record highlights a particular focus on clinical psychology and behavioral neuroscience, as well as experimental and cognitive psychology. Their work contributes to understanding the neurobiological and psychological processes underlying stress and mental health.

The scientist's research topics include stress responses and cortisol regulation, COVID-19 and mental health impacts, neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, and the long-term effects of COVID-19. They also explore nerve injury and regeneration, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment methods, cognitive processes, and broader mental health research topics.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Ulrike Schmidt span a range of high-impact journals and themes:

  • Stress-primed secretory autophagy promotes extracellular BDNF maturation by enhancing MMP9 secretion, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Molecular and neurocircuitry mechanisms of social avoidance, 2020, Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences
  • Evolution of psychosocial burden and psychiatric symptoms in patients with psychiatric disorders during the Covid-19 pandemic, 2021, European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience
  • Predictive performance and clinical application of COV50, a urinary proteomic biomarker in early COVID-19 infection: a prospective multicentre cohort study, 2022, The Lancet Digital Health
  • Digital psychological first aid for Ukraine, 2022, The Lancet Psychiatry

Ulrike Schmidt frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including Alexandra Philipsen, Björn H. Schott, Jens Wiltfang, Ralph Wendt, and Justyna Siwy, each having multiple joint publications.

Key publication venues for their work include

  • European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience
  • Psychoneuroendocrinology
  • Der Nervenarzt
  • Nature Communications
  • Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Best Publications

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

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

  • Anorexia nervosa: Valued and visible. A cognitive-interpersonal maintenance model and its implications for research and practice

    Ulrike Schmidt;Janet Treasure

  • 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

  • Anorexia nervosa: aetiology, assessment, and treatment

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

  • The cognitive-interpersonal maintenance model of anorexia nervosa revisited: a summary of the evidence for cognitive, socio-emotional and interpersonal predisposing and perpetuating factors

    Janet Treasure;Ulrike Schmidt

  • Time trends in eating disorder incidence

    Laura Currin;Ulrike Schmidt;Janet Treasure;Hershel Jick

  • 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

  • Poor cognitive flexibility in eating disorders: examining the evidence using the Wisconsin Card Sorting Task.

    Kate Tchanturia;Helen Davies;Marion Roberts;Amy Harrison

  • A Randomized Controlled Trial of Family Therapy and Cognitive Behavior Therapy Guided Self-Care for Adolescents With Bulimia Nervosa and Related Disorders

    Ulrike Schmidt;Sally Lee;Jennifer Beecham;Sarah Perkins

  • A controlled study of alexithymia in eating disorders

    Ulrike Schmidt;Arif Jiwany;Janet Treasure

  • Engagement and outcome in the treatment of bulimia nervosa: first phase of a sequential design comparing motivation enhancement therapy and cognitive behavioural therapy.

    Janet L Treasure;Melanie Katzman;Ulrike Schmidt;Nicholas Troop

  • Manual-assisted cognitive-behaviour therapy (MACT): a randomized controlled trial of a brief intervention with bibliotherapy in the treatment of recurrent deliberate self-harm.

    K. Evans;Peter Tyrer;J. Catalan;U. Schmidt

  • A genome-wide association study of anorexia nervosa

    Ted Reichborn-Kjennerud;Gun Peggy Knudsen;Ole Andreas Andreassen;Thomas Espeseth

  • The socio-emotional processing stream in Anorexia Nervosa

    Anna Oldershaw;David Hambrook;Daniel Stahl;Kate Tchanturia

  • Online reference database of European Y-chromosomal short tandem repeat (STR) haplotypes

    L. Roewer;M. Krawczak;S. Willuweit;M. Nagy

  • A randomised controlled trial of cognitive behaviour therapy and motivational interviewing for people with Type 1 diabetes mellitus with persistent sub-optimal glycaemic control: a Diabetes and Psychological Therapies (ADaPT) study.

    K Ismail;E Maissi;S Thomas;T Chalder

  • Day-patient treatment after short inpatient care versus continued inpatient treatment in adolescents with anorexia nervosa (ANDI): a multicentre, randomised, open-label, non-inferiority trial

    Beate Herpertz-Dahlmann;Reinhild Schwarte;Melanie Krei;Karin Egberts

  • Eating disorders: the big issue

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

  • Cognitive Flexibility and Clinical Severity in Eating Disorders

    Kate Tchanturia;Amy Harrison;Helen Davies;Marion Roberts

  • Aspects of social cognition in anorexia nervosa: affective and cognitive theory of mind.

    Tamara Anne Russell;Ulrike Schmidt;Liz Doherty;Vicky Young

  • A systematic review of dropout from treatment in outpatients with anorexia nervosa

    Hannah DeJong;Hannah Broadbent;Ulrike Schmidt

  • Why didn’t patients use it? Engagement is the real story in Gilbody et al. (2015), not effectiveness.

    M. Jones;D.D. Ebert;C. Jacobi;I. Beintner

Frequent Co-Authors

Janet Treasure
Janet Treasure King's College London
Iain C. Campbell
Iain C. Campbell King's College London
Kate Tchanturia
Kate Tchanturia King's College London
Nadia Micali
Nadia Micali University College London
Karina L. Allen
Karina L. Allen King's College London
Jennifer Beecham
Jennifer Beecham University of Kent
Sébastien Guillaume
Sébastien Guillaume University of Montpellier
Stephan Zipfel
Stephan Zipfel University of Tübingen
Tracey D. Wade
Tracey D. Wade Flinders University
Helen Startup
Helen Startup Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

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