Birgit Wagner

5.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
108 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

Birgit Wagner is a scholar working on Clinical Psychology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Birgit Wagner has authored 108 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 93 papers in Clinical Psychology, 26 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 24 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Birgit Wagner's work include Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (44 papers), Migration, Health and Trauma (39 papers) and Digital Mental Health Interventions (18 papers). Birgit Wagner is often cited by papers focused on Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (44 papers), Migration, Health and Trauma (39 papers) and Digital Mental Health Interventions (18 papers). Birgit Wagner collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Switzerland and United States. Birgit Wagner's co-authors include Anette Kersting, Andreas Maercker, Christine Knaevelsrud, Elmar Brähler, Heide Glaesmer, Andrea B. Horn, Grit Klinitzke, Ruth Dölemeyer, Jana Steinig and Simon Forstmeier and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Journal of Affective Disorders.

In The Last Decade

Birgit Wagner

94 papers receiving 3.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Prevalence of complicated grief in a representative population-based sample

2011 466 citations Anette Kersting, Heide Glaesmer et al. Journal of Affective Disorders profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Birgit Wagner Germany	29	2.8k	1.0k	700	673	581	108	3.6k
Robert A. Carels United States	33	1.8k 0.7×	1.1k 1.1×	528 0.8×	512 0.8×	236 0.4×	113	3.3k
Jafar Bakhshaie United States	26	1.1k 0.4×	392 0.4×	272 0.4×	270 0.4×	252 0.4×	184	2.3k
Anouk L. Grubaugh United States	35	3.0k 1.1×	500 0.5×	351 0.5×	582 0.9×	294 0.5×	101	4.3k
Tracy R. G. Gladstone United States	24	2.4k 0.9×	1.1k 1.0×	408 0.6×	621 0.9×	750 1.3×	66	2.9k
Viola Spek Netherlands	17	884 0.3×	308 0.3×	1.5k 2.1×	550 0.8×	546 0.9×	31	2.6k
Myron L. Belfer United States	23	2.3k 0.8×	587 0.6×	157 0.2×	728 1.1×	309 0.5×	63	3.5k
Erika Westling United States	17	966 0.4×	696 0.7×	315 0.5×	245 0.4×	184 0.3×	41	2.0k
Ewa K. Czyz United States	29	2.1k 0.8×	274 0.3×	291 0.4×	832 1.2×	201 0.3×	63	2.7k
Quyên Q. Tiêt United States	27	2.0k 0.7×	380 0.4×	182 0.3×	598 0.9×	338 0.6×	62	2.9k
Andrew M. Busch United States	28	1.4k 0.5×	303 0.3×	642 0.9×	517 0.8×	179 0.3×	99	2.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Birgit Wagner

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20 of 20 papers shown

Wagner, Birgit, et al.. (2025). The role of informal caregivers in suicide prevention for men– findings from a psychological autopsy study. BMC Public Health. 25(1). 370–370. 1 indexed citations

Knaevelsrud, Christine, et al.. (2024). Conflict-related and sexual trauma in treatment-seeking Arabic-speaking men: a cross-sectional study. EClinicalMedicine. 79. 102973–102973.

Wagner, Birgit, et al.. (2024). Internet-Based Prevention of Re-Victimization for Youth with Care Experience (EMPOWER-YOUTH): Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 21(9). 1159–1159. 1 indexed citations

Wagner, Birgit, et al.. (2024). Efficacy of an online gatekeeper program for relatives of men at risk of suicide – a randomized controlled trial. BMC Public Health. 24(1). 2693–2693. 5 indexed citations

Wagner, Birgit, et al.. (2023). Efficacy of an internet-based written imagery rescripting intervention for survivors of institutional childhood abuse – A randomized controlled trial. Child Abuse & Neglect. 147. 106557–106557. 1 indexed citations

Wagner, Birgit, et al.. (2023). Men’s Behavior and Communication in the Days Prior to a Suicide—A Psychological Autopsy Study. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 20(17). 6668–6668. 6 indexed citations

Glaesmer, Heide, et al.. (2022). Loss-Related Characteristics and Symptoms of Depression, Prolonged Grief, and Posttraumatic Stress Following Suicide Bereavement. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 19(16). 10277–10277. 9 indexed citations

Wagner, Birgit, et al.. (2022). Efficacy of an online-group intervention after suicide bereavement: A randomized controlled trial. Internet Interventions. 28. 100542–100542. 11 indexed citations

Berger, Thomas, et al.. (2021). Psychotherapists’ rated working alliance in an internet-based intervention for bereaved siblings. Death Studies. 46(10). 2507–2516. 2 indexed citations

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Nagl, Michaela, et al.. (2019). Childhood maltreatment in bariatric patients and its association with postoperative weight, depressive, and eating disorder symptoms. Eating and Weight Disorders - Studies on Anorexia Bulimia and Obesity. 25(4). 999–1010. 8 indexed citations

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Killikelly, Clare, Birgit Wagner, Paul A. Boelen, & Geert E. Smid. (2019). Launch of the BRACE Network: A Network forBereavement Research and Care in Europe andthe Opportunity for PGD Research Collaboration. Utrecht University Repository (Utrecht University). 11 indexed citations

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Linde, Katja, et al.. (2017). Subtypes of Personality and ‘Locus of Control’ in Bariatric Patients and their Effect on Weight Loss, Eating Disorder and Depressive Symptoms, and Quality of Life. European Eating Disorders Review. 25(5). 397–405. 17 indexed citations

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Nagl, Michaela, et al.. (2017). Predictors of Changes in Health-Related Quality of Life 6 and 12 months After a Bariatric Procedure. Obesity Surgery. 27(8). 2120–2128. 15 indexed citations

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Wagner, Birgit, et al.. (2014). Obesity and co-morbid psychiatric disorders as contraindications for bariatric surgery?—A case study. International Journal of Surgery Case Reports. 5(12). 1268–1270. 10 indexed citations

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Wagner, Birgit, Andrea B. Horn, & And re as Maercker. (2013). Internet-based versus face-to-face cognitive-behavioral intervention for depression: A randomized controlled non-inferiority trial. Journal of Affective Disorders. 152-154. 113–121. 220 indexed citations

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Steinig, Jana, Birgit Wagner, E. Shang, Ruth Dölemeyer, & Anette Kersting. (2012). Sexual abuse in bariatric surgery candidates – impact on weight loss after surgery: a systematic review. Obesity Reviews. 13(10). 892–901. 22 indexed citations

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Wagner, Birgit, Julia Müller, & And re as Maercker. (2011). Death by request in Switzerland: Posttraumatic stress disorder and complicated grief after witnessing assisted suicide. European Psychiatry. 27(7). 542–546. 45 indexed citations

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Wagner, Birgit, et al.. (2007). Allgemeine arbeitsweltbezogene Weiterbildung: Ergebnisse eines Innovationsprojekts. Social Science Open Access Repository (GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences). 140. 1 indexed citations

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Wagner, Birgit, Christine Knaevelsrud, & And re as Maercker. (2006). Internet-Based Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Complicated Grief: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Death Studies. 30(5). 429–453. 271 indexed citations

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Wagner, Birgit. (1988). Mallorca und die Universalität der Lumières: Bearn o la sala de les nines von Llorenç Villalonga. 52–61.

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