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Wolfgang Viechtbauer

Wolfgang Viechtbauer

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
66
Citations
31085
World Ranking
936
National Ranking
40

Overview

Wolfgang Viechtbauer is affiliated with Maastricht University in the Netherlands. Their research primarily focuses on psychology and medicine, with significant work in experimental and cognitive psychology, applied psychology, physiology, clinical psychology, and psychiatry and mental health.

The scientist's contributions address several main topics, including:

  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Smoking Behavior and Cessation
  • Meta-analysis and Systematic Reviews
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Schizophrenia Research and Treatment
  • Digital Mental Health Interventions

Wolfgang Viechtbauer has published extensively in various academic venues. Some of the frequent publication outlets include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Addiction
  • Psychological Medicine
  • Research Synthesis Methods
  • ERJ Open Research

Among their recent papers are the following works:

  • The Effects of Sampling Frequency and Questionnaire Length on Perceived Burden, Compliance, and Careless Responding in Experience Sampling Data in a Student Population (2020), published in Assessment
  • Dimensions over categories: a meta-analysis of taxometric research (2020), published in Psychological Medicine
  • A meta-analysis of epigenome-wide association studies in Alzheimer's disease highlights novel differentially methylated loci across cortex (2021), published in Nature Communications
  • Selection of the Number of Participants in Intensive Longitudinal Studies: A User-Friendly Shiny App and Tutorial for Performing Power Analysis in Multilevel Regression Models That Account for Temporal Dependencies (2021), published in Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science
  • Behaviour change techniques associated with smoking cessation in intervention and comparator groups of randomized controlled trials: a systematic review and meta-regression (2020), published in Addiction

The scientist often collaborates with multiple co-authors in their field. Frequent co-authors include Inez Myin-Germeys, Thérèse van Amelsvoort, Ginette Lafit, Daniel Kotz, and Thomas Vaessen.

Best Publications

  • Patterns of mean-level change in personality traits across the life course: a meta-analysis of longitudinal studies.

    Brent W. Roberts;Kate E. Walton;Wolfgang Viechtbauer

  • Childhood Adversities Increase the Risk of Psychosis: A Meta-analysis of Patient-Control, Prospective- and Cross-sectional Cohort Studies

    Filippo Varese;Filippo Varese;Feikje Smeets;Marjan Drukker;Ritsaert Lieverse

  • Outlier and influence diagnostics for meta‐analysis

    Wolfgang Viechtbauer;Mike W.-L. Cheung

  • The relationship between neurocognition and social cognition with functional outcomes in schizophrenia: a meta-analysis.

    Anne Kathrin J. Fett;Wolfgang Viechtbauer;Maria de Gracia Dominguez;David L. Penn

  • Bias and Efficiency of Meta-Analytic Variance Estimators in the Random-Effects Model:

    Wolfgang Viechtbauer

  • A comparison of heterogeneity variance estimators in simulated random-effects meta-analyses

    Dean Langan;Dean Langan;Julian P T Higgins;Dan Jackson;Jack Bowden

  • Critical slowing down as early warning for the onset and termination of depression.

    Ingrid A. van de Leemput;Marieke Wichers;Angélique O. J. Cramer;Denny Borsboom

  • Experience sampling methodology in mental health research: new insights and technical developments.

    Inez Myin-Germeys;Zuzana Kasanova;Thomas Vaessen;Hugo Vachon

  • A simple formula for the calculation of sample size in pilot studies

    Wolfgang Viechtbauer;Luc Smits;Daniel Kotz;Luc Budé

  • Nitrogen and phosphorus constrain the CO2 fertilization of global plant biomass

    César Terrer;César Terrer;César Terrer;Robert B. Jackson;I. Colin Prentice;I. Colin Prentice;I. Colin Prentice;Trevor F. Keenan;Trevor F. Keenan

  • The effects of green tea on weight loss and weight maintenance: a meta-analysis

    R Hursel;W Viechtbauer;M S Westerterp-Plantenga

  • Publication bias in meta-analysis: Prevention, assessment and adjustments

    Wolfgang Viechtbauer

  • The Effects of Sampling Frequency and Questionnaire Length on Perceived Burden, Compliance, and Careless Responding in Experience Sampling Data in a Student Population.

    Gudrun Eisele;Hugo Vachon;Ginette Lafit;Peter Kuppens

  • Are psychotic psychopathology and neurocognition orthogonal? A systematic review of their associations.

    Maria de Gracia Dominguez;Wolfgang Viechtbauer;Claudia J. P. Simons;Jim van Os

  • A therapeutic application of the experience sampling method in the treatment of depression: a randomized controlled trial

    Ingrid Kramer;Claudia J. P. Simons;Jessica A. Hartmann;Claudia Menne-Lothmann

  • Stress Sensitivity, Aberrant Salience, and Threat Anticipation in Early Psychosis: An Experience Sampling Study

    Ulrich Reininghaus;Ulrich Reininghaus;Matthew J. Kempton;Lucia Valmaggia;Tom K. J. Craig

  • Identifying Gene-Environment Interactions in Schizophrenia: Contemporary Challenges for Integrated, Large-scale Investigations

    Jim van Os;Jim van Os;Bart P. Rutten;Inez Myin-Germeys;Philippe Delespaul

  • Longitudinal associations between depression and diabetes complications: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

    A. Nouwen;M.C. Adriaanse;K. van Dam;M.M. Iversen

  • Strength training alone, exercise therapy alone, and exercise therapy with passive manual mobilisation each reduce pain and disability in people with knee osteoarthritis: a systematic review.

    Mariette J. Jansen;Wolfgang Viechtbauer;Antoine F. Lenssen;Erik J.M. Hendriks

  • The link between school climate and violence in school: A meta-analytic review

    Georges Steffgen;Sophie Recchia;Wolfgang Viechtbauer

  • How to Boost Positive Interpretations? A Meta-Analysis of the Effectiveness of Cognitive Bias Modification for Interpretation

    Claudia Menne-Lothmann;Wolfgang Viechtbauer;Petra Höhn;Zuzana Kasanova

Frequent Co-Authors

Marieke Wichers
Marieke Wichers Maastricht University
Koen Schruers
Koen Schruers Maastricht University
Ulrich Reininghaus
Ulrich Reininghaus Heidelberg University
Rik Crutzen
Rik Crutzen Maastricht University
Marjan Drukker
Marjan Drukker Maastricht University
Frenk Peeters
Frenk Peeters Maastricht University
Daniel L.A. van den Hove
Daniel L.A. van den Hove Maastricht University
Peter Kuppens
Peter Kuppens KU Leuven
Evert Thiery
Evert Thiery Ghent University Hospital

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