Alexandre Heeren

9.3k total citations · 4 hit papers
126 papers, 5.8k citations indexed

About

Alexandre Heeren is a scholar working on Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Clinical Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Alexandre Heeren has authored 126 papers receiving a total of 5.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 85 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, 51 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 42 papers in Clinical Psychology. Recurrent topics in Alexandre Heeren's work include Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes (58 papers), Mental Health Research Topics (49 papers) and Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (22 papers). Alexandre Heeren is often cited by papers focused on Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes (58 papers), Mental Health Research Topics (49 papers) and Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (22 papers). Alexandre Heeren collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, United States and France. Alexandre Heeren's co-authors include Richard J. McNally, Pierre Philippot, Pierre Maurage, Joël Billieux, Adriano Schimmenti, Yasser Khazaal, Cristina Mogoaşe, Emily E. Bernstein, Camille Mouguiama-Daouda and Nady Van Broeck and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Alexandre Heeren

120 papers receiving 5.7k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Are we overpathologizing everyday life? A tenable blueprint for behavioral addiction research

2015 583 citations Joël Billieux, Adriano Schimmenti et al. profile →
How can we conceptualize behavioural addiction without pathologizing common behaviours?

2017 494 citations Daniel Kardefelt‐Winther, Alexandre Heeren et al. Addiction profile →
Validity and repeatability of the IUATLD (1984) Bronchial Symptoms Questionnaire: an international comparison

1989 419 citations Alexandre Heeren et al. profile →
Improving Emotional Intelligence: A Systematic Review of Existing Work and Future Challenges

2018 202 citations Moïra Mikolajczak, Alexandre Heeren et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alexandre Heeren Belgium	39	2.6k	2.1k	1.6k	1.3k	761	126	5.8k
Shuqiao Yao China	43	2.2k 0.9×	3.2k 1.5×	2.7k 1.7×	720 0.5×	1.2k 1.5×	247	7.6k
Viktor Kaldo Sweden	40	2.8k 1.1×	1.8k 0.9×	1.7k 1.1×	1.1k 0.8×	840 1.1×	157	5.9k
Timothy J. Strauman United States	44	2.4k 0.9×	2.8k 1.3×	1.3k 0.8×	882 0.7×	1.8k 2.3×	140	7.8k
Elliot T. Berkman United States	39	1.6k 0.6×	1.2k 0.6×	1.9k 1.2×	739 0.5×	1.3k 1.7×	91	5.4k
Michael W. Vasey United States	41	3.0k 1.1×	3.0k 1.4×	1.7k 1.1×	366 0.3×	1.1k 1.4×	110	6.6k
Adriana Galván United States	43	2.5k 0.9×	3.1k 1.5×	4.0k 2.6×	648 0.5×	1.6k 2.1×	115	9.2k
Thomas L. Rodebaugh United States	41	3.9k 1.5×	3.7k 1.8×	1.4k 0.9×	836 0.6×	1.4k 1.8×	166	6.8k
Matthew S. Stanford United States	25	1.9k 0.7×	5.0k 2.4×	2.1k 1.3×	1.5k 1.1×	1.2k 1.6×	61	9.4k
Sally S. Dickerson United States	25	1.9k 0.7×	2.3k 1.1×	854 0.5×	780 0.6×	2.6k 3.5×	37	7.4k
Kateri McRae United States	28	3.4k 1.3×	3.3k 1.5×	2.8k 1.8×	445 0.3×	2.0k 2.6×	70	7.7k

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Sadler, Anne G., Michelle A. Mengeling, Brian L. Cook, et al.. (2025). Development of a Patient Decision Aid to Prevent Firearm Suicide Among US Women Reserve and National Guard Veterans. Journal of General Internal Medicine.

Heeren, Alexandre. (2025). When Climate Literacy Enters the Therapy Room: A Commentary on Williamson et al. Ecopsychology. 17(4). 293–294. 1 indexed citations

Contreras, Alba, M. Annelise Blanchard, Camille Mouguiama-Daouda, & Alexandre Heeren. (2023). When eco-anger (but not eco-anxiety nor eco-sadness) makes you change! A temporal network approach to the emotional experience of climate change. Journal of Anxiety Disorders. 102. 102822–102822. 26 indexed citations

Blanchard, M. Annelise, et al.. (2023). On the Temporal Nature of Parental Burnout: Development of an Experience Sampling Methodology (ESM) Tool to Assess Parental Burnout and Its Related Ever-Changing Family Context. Collabra Psychology. 9(1). 2 indexed citations

Blanchard, M. Annelise, et al.. (2023). Negativity is Key for Understanding the Interplay Between Rumination’s Features, Attention Control, and Their Dynamic Nature: A Temporal Network Approach. Cognitive Therapy and Research. 48(4). 774–780. 3 indexed citations

Blanchard, M. Annelise, et al.. (2022). Emotional exhaustion and feeling fed up as the driving forces of parental burnout and its consequences on children: insights from a network approach. Current Psychology. 42(26). 22278–22289. 12 indexed citations

Blanchard, M. Annelise, et al.. (2022). Auditing the research practices and statistical analyses of the group-level temporal network approach to psychological constructs: A systematic scoping review. Behavior Research Methods. 55(2). 767–787. 27 indexed citations

Heeren, Alexandre. (2020). On the Distinction between Fear and Anxiety in a (Post)Pandemic World: A Commentary on Schimmenti et al. (2020). Digital Access to Libraries (Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), l'Université de Namur (UNamur) and the Université Saint-Louis (USL-B)). 7 indexed citations

Woud, Marcella L., Alexandre Heeren, Thomas Meyer, et al.. (2019). Investigating the effect of proactive interference control training on intrusive memories. European journal of psychotraumatology. 10(1). 1611092–1611092. 13 indexed citations

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Lecomte, Tania, et al.. (2019). Psychometric properties of the French version of the social anxiety questionnaire for adults. Revista internacional de psicología y terapia psicológica. 19(1). 101–110. 1 indexed citations

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Rochat, Lucien, Pierre Maurage, Alexandre Heeren, & Joël Billieux. (2018). Let’s Open the Decision-Making Umbrella: A Framework for Conceptualizing and Assessing Features of Impaired Decision Making in Addiction. Neuropsychology Review. 29(1). 27–51. 40 indexed citations

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Kardefelt‐Winther, Daniel, Alexandre Heeren, Adriano Schimmenti, et al.. (2017). How can we conceptualize behavioural addiction without pathologizing common behaviours?. Addiction. 112(10). 1709–1715. 494 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kardefelt‐Winther, Daniel, Alexandre Heeren, Adriano Schimmenti, et al.. (2017). How can we conceptualize behavioral addiction without pathologizing common behaviors. Addiction. 1709. 9 indexed citations

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Heeren, Alexandre, Joël Billieux, Pierre Philippot, et al.. (2016). Impact of transcranial direct current stimulation on attentional bias for threat: a proof-of-concept study among individuals with social anxiety disorder. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 12(2). 251–260. 74 indexed citations

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Maurage, Pierre, Adriano Schimmenti, Yasser Khazaal, et al.. (2016). 2016 Behavioral Addiction: open definition development. OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints). 7 indexed citations

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Douilliez, Céline, Alexandre Heeren, Nathalie Lefèvre, et al.. (2014). Validation de la version française d’un questionnaire évaluant les pensées répétitives constructives et non constructives.. Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science/Revue canadienne des sciences du comportement. 46(2). 185–192. 40 indexed citations

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Douilliez, Céline, et al.. (2014). Validation of the French version of a questionnaire that evaluates constructive and non-constructive repetitive thoughts. Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science/Revue canadienne des sciences du comportement. 46. 185–192. 8 indexed citations

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Heeren, Alexandre, et al.. (2014). Probing smoking craving with a multidimensional approach: validation of the 12-item French-language version of the Questionnaire on Smoking Urges. Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment. 10. 1459–1459. 6 indexed citations

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Heeren, Alexandre, Rudi De Raedt, Ernst H. W. Koster, & Pierre Philippot. (2013). The (neuro)cognitive mechanisms behind attention bias modification in anxiety: Proposals based on theoretical accounts of attentional bias. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 85 indexed citations

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Deleuze, Jory, Alexandre Heeren, Joël Billieux, et al.. (2013). Implication des biais d’attention sélective dans l’alcoolo-dépendance : une revue conceptuelle et empirique. Digital Access to Libraries (Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), l'Université de Namur (UNamur) and the Université Saint-Louis (USL-B)). 35(2). 127–135. 3 indexed citations

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