Christian Postert

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
16 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Christian Postert is a scholar working on Clinical Psychology, Pharmacy and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Christian Postert has authored 16 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Clinical Psychology, 6 papers in Pharmacy and 5 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Christian Postert's work include Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (10 papers), Infant Health and Development (6 papers) and Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum (3 papers). Christian Postert is often cited by papers focused on Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (10 papers), Infant Health and Development (6 papers) and Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum (3 papers). Christian Postert collaborates with scholars based in Germany. Christian Postert's co-authors include Tilman Fürniss, Jörg Michael Müller, Udo Dannlowski, Carsten Konrad, Patricia Ohrmann, Thomas Suslow, Harald Kugel, Walter Heindel, Volker Arolt and Thomas Beyer and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, NeuroImage and Biological Psychiatry.

In The Last Decade

Christian Postert

16 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Hit Papers

Limbic Scars: Long-Term Consequences of Childhood Maltrea... 2011 2026 2016 2021 2011 200 400 600
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. Limbic Scars: Long-Term Consequences of Childhood Maltreatment Revealed by Functional and Structural Magnetic Resonance Imaging
    2011 702 citations Udo Dannlowski, Anja Stuhrmann et al. Biological Psychiatry profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Christian Postert Germany 11 735 268 227 184 184 16 1.2k
Michelle M. Loman United States 12 683 0.9× 194 0.7× 213 0.9× 182 1.0× 146 0.8× 19 1.2k
Priscille Gérardin France 21 707 1.0× 201 0.8× 103 0.5× 217 1.2× 322 1.8× 77 1.3k
Hilary Mead United States 9 749 1.0× 154 0.6× 112 0.5× 210 1.1× 205 1.1× 13 1.1k
Mimi Israël Canada 28 1.7k 2.3× 178 0.7× 129 0.6× 195 1.1× 380 2.1× 79 2.2k
Margaret W. Dyson United States 23 1.1k 1.5× 284 1.1× 148 0.7× 295 1.6× 250 1.4× 45 1.4k
Eve G. Spratt United States 20 956 1.3× 441 1.6× 278 1.2× 317 1.7× 272 1.5× 33 1.7k
Amy Heffelfinger United States 18 899 1.2× 212 0.8× 178 0.8× 218 1.2× 398 2.2× 36 1.5k
Christie L. Burton Canada 21 647 0.9× 370 1.4× 200 0.9× 271 1.5× 237 1.3× 51 1.4k
S. Shaun Ho United States 18 649 0.9× 421 1.6× 244 1.1× 622 3.4× 97 0.5× 37 1.6k
Matthew Peverill United States 19 1.2k 1.7× 303 1.1× 304 1.3× 212 1.2× 123 0.7× 23 1.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Christian Postert

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Fields of papers citing papers by Christian Postert

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christian Postert

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Christian Postert. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Christian Postert based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Christian Postert. Christian Postert is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Müller, Jörg Michael, et al.. (2015). Psychiatric Treatment Outcomes of Preschool Children in a Family Day Hospital. Child Psychiatry & Human Development. 46(2). 257–269. 15 indexed citations
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Achtergarde, Sandra, Christian Postert, Ida Wessing, Georg Romer, & Jörg Michael Müller. (2014). Parenting and Child Mental Health. The Family Journal. 23(2). 167–179. 42 indexed citations
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Stratmann, Mirjam, Carsten Konrad, Harald Kugel, et al.. (2014). Insular and Hippocampal Gray Matter Volume Reductions in Patients with Major Depressive Disorder. PLoS ONE. 9(7). e102692–e102692. 123 indexed citations
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Postert, Christian, Sandra Achtergarde, Ida Wessing, et al.. (2014). Multiprofessionelle Intervallbehandlung psychisch kranker Kinder im Vorschulalter und ihrer Eltern in einer Familientagesklinik. Praxis der Kinderpsychologie und Kinderpsychiatrie. 63(10). 812–830. 8 indexed citations
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Wessing, Ida, Maimu Alissa Rehbein, Christian Postert, Tilman Fürniss, & Markus Junghöfer. (2013). The neural basis of cognitive change: Reappraisal of emotional faces modulates neural source activity in a frontoparietal attention network. NeuroImage. 81. 15–25. 44 indexed citations
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Fürniss, Tilman, et al.. (2013). Implementing psychiatric day treatment for infants, toddlers, preschoolers and their families: a study from a clinical and organizational perspective. International Journal of Mental Health Systems. 7(1). 12–12. 9 indexed citations
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Müller, Jörg Michael, et al.. (2013). Inter-rater reliability and aspects of validity of the parent-infant relationship global assessment scale (PIR-GAS). Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health. 7(1). 17–17. 17 indexed citations
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Postert, Christian, Udo Dannlowski, Jörg Michael Müller, & Carsten Konrad. (2012). Beyond the Blues: Towards a Cross-Cultural Phenomenology of Depressed Mood. Psychopathology. 45(3). 185–192. 3 indexed citations
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Postert, Christian, et al.. (2012). Regulatory disorders in early childhood: Correlates in child behavior, parent–child relationship, and parental mental health. Infant Mental Health Journal. 33(2). 173–186. 34 indexed citations
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Beyer, Thomas, Christian Postert, Jörg Michael Müller, & Tilman Fürniss. (2012). Prognosis and Continuity of Child Mental Health Problems from Preschool to Primary School: Results of a Four-Year Longitudinal Study. Child Psychiatry & Human Development. 43(4). 533–543. 61 indexed citations
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Postert, Christian. (2012). Emotion in Exchange: Situating Hmong Depressed Mood in Social Context. Ethos. 40(4). 453–475. 10 indexed citations
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Dannlowski, Udo, Anja Stuhrmann, Peter Zwanzger, et al.. (2011). Limbic Scars: Long-Term Consequences of Childhood Maltreatment Revealed by Functional and Structural Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Biological Psychiatry. 71(4). 286–293. 702 indexed citations breakdown →
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Postert, Christian. (2009). Moral Agency, Identity Crisis and Mental Health: An Anthropologist’s Plight and His Hmong Ritual Healing. Culture Medicine and Psychiatry. 34(1). 169–185. 8 indexed citations
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Müller, Jörg Michael, Christian Postert, Thomas Beyer, Tilman Fürniss, & Sandra Achtergarde. (2009). Comparison of Eleven Short Versions of the Symptom Checklist 90-Revised (SCL-90-R) for Use in the Assessment of General Psychopathology. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment. 32(2). 246–254. 94 indexed citations
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