Christian Sander

28.2k total citations · 5 hit papers
162 papers, 20.9k citations indexed

About

Christian Sander is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Christian Sander has authored 162 papers receiving a total of 20.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 39 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 35 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Christian Sander's work include Sleep and related disorders (22 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (17 papers) and Sleep and Wakefulness Research (16 papers). Christian Sander is often cited by papers focused on Sleep and related disorders (22 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (17 papers) and Sleep and Wakefulness Research (16 papers). Christian Sander collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and United Kingdom. Christian Sander's co-authors include Wolfgang Kabsch, Ulrich Hegerl, Michael Levitt, Peter Stern, Paul O. P. Ts’o, Gert Vriend, Maarten L. Hekkelman, Elmar Krieger, Robbie P. Joosten and Reinhard Schneider and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Christian Sander

159 papers receiving 20.3k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Dictionary of protein secondary structure: Pattern recognition of hydrogen‐bonded and geometrical features

1983 12.7k citations Wolfgang Kabsch, Christian Sander Biopolymers profile →
A series of PDB related databases for everyday needs

2010 1.0k citations Christian Sander et al. profile →
Protein normal-mode dynamics: Trypsin inhibitor, crambin, ribonuclease and lysozyme

1985 595 citations Christian Sander et al. profile →
Inflammatory Cytokines in General and Central Obesity and Modulating Effects of Physical Activity

2015 349 citations Frank Schmidt, Christian Sander et al. PLoS ONE profile →
Sleep quality in the general population: psychometric properties of the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, derived from a German community sample of 9284 people

2016 318 citations Andreas Hinz, Heide Glaesmer et al. profile →

Peers

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christian Sander

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All Works

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Validating genuine changes in heartbeat-evoked potentials using pseudotrials and surrogate procedures 2025 ·Imaging Neuroscience ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Christian Sander, Vadim V. Nikulin, Arno Villringer	1
2	Cognitive performance in adults with post-COVID syndrome: Results from a German case-control study 2024 ·Journal of Psychiatric Research ·(unknown), Melanie Luppa, Kerstin Wirkner, (unknown), Christian Sander, (unknown), Georg Schomerus, Florian Then Bergh, Jörg Lehmann, A. Veronica Witte, Arno Villringer, Samira Zeynalova, Markus Löffler, Christoph Engel, Steffi G. Riedel‐Heller	2
3	Time-Varying Network Models for the Temporal Dynamics of Depressive Symptomatology in Patients With Depressive Disorders: Secondary Analysis of Longitudinal Observational Data 2024 ·JMIR Mental Health ·(unknown), Christian Sander, Martin Schultze, (unknown), (unknown), Ulrich Hegerl, Hanna Reich	6
4	Lifestyle causal beliefs are associated with higher personal and perceived stigma regarding depressive disorders: results from a representative population survey 2023 ·BMC Psychiatry ·(unknown), Hanna Reich, (unknown), Christian Sander, (unknown), Ulrich Hegerl	1
5	Mental health shame and presenteeism: Results from a German online survey 2023 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Christian Sander, Ezgi Dogan-Sander, Joachim E. Fischer, Georg Schomerus	4
6	Do values and political attitudes affect help-seeking? Exploring reported help-seeking for mental health problems in a general population sample using a milieu framework 2023 ·Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences ·Jenny Spahlholz, Eva Baumann, (unknown), (unknown), Christian Sander, Stephanie Schindler, Sven Speerforck, Matthias C. Angermeyer, Georg Schomerus	1
7	Changes in mental illness stigma over 30 years – Improvement, persistence, or deterioration? 2022 ·European Psychiatry ·Georg Schomerus, Stephanie Schindler, Christian Sander, Eva Baumann, Matthias C. Angermeyer	40
8	Physical activity and mental health: the connection between step count and depression, anxiety and quality of sleep 2022 ·Psychology Health & Medicine ·Felix S. Hussenoeder, Ines Conrad, Alexander Pabst, Christoph Engel, Silke Zachariae, Samira Zeynalova, Heide Glaesmer, Andreas Hinz, A. Veronica Witte, Georg Schomerus, Markus Löffler, Arno Villringer, Christian Sander, Steffi G. Riedel‐Heller	6
9	Trauma assessment in outpatient psychotherapy and associations with psychotherapist’s gender, own traumatic events, length of work experience, and theoretical orientation 2022 ·European journal of psychotraumatology ·(unknown), Christian Sander, (unknown), Ingo Schäfer, Sven Speerforck, Georg Schomerus	3
10	Public attitudes towards protecting the human rights of people with mental illness: a scoping review and data from a population trend study in Germany 2022 ·International Review of Psychiatry ·Georg Schomerus, Christian Sander, Stephanie Schindler, Eva Baumann, Matthias C. Angermeyer	5
11	Non-Right Handedness is Associated with More Time Awake After Sleep Onset and Higher Daytime Sleepiness Than Right Handedness: Objective (Actigraphic) and Subjective Data from a Large Community Sample 2022 ·Nature and Science of Sleep ·(unknown), Matthias L. Schroeter, Christian Sander, Michael Kluge	2
12	Intervention Use and Symptom Change With Unguided Internet-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Depression During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Log Data Analysis of a Convenience Sample 2021 ·JMIR Mental Health ·(unknown), (unknown), Hanna Reich, Christian Sander, Ulrich Hegerl	15
13	Relationship between regional white matter hyperintensities and alpha oscillations in older adults 2021 ·Neurobiology of Aging ·Deniz Kumral, Elena Čėsnaitė, Frauke Beyer, S. Hofmann, Tilman Hensch, Christian Sander, Ulrich Hegerl, Stefan Haufe, Arno Villringer, A. Veronica Witte, Vadim V. Nikulin	11
14	Stigma as a barrier to addressing childhood trauma in conversation with trauma survivors: A study in the general population 2021 ·PLoS ONE ·Georg Schomerus, Stephanie Schindler, (unknown), (unknown), Hans J. Grabe, Mario Liebergesell, Christian Sander, Christine Ulke, Sven Speerforck	18
15	Continuum beliefs and mental illness stigma: a systematic review and meta-analysis of correlation and intervention studies 2021 ·Psychological Medicine ·(unknown), Stephanie Schindler, Christian Sander, Silke Schmidt, Holger Muehlan, (unknown), Samuel Tomczyk, Sven Speerforck, Georg Schomerus	82
16	Challenges and Common Solutions in Smart Contract Development 2021 ·IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering ·(unknown), Sebastian Lins, Christian Sander, (unknown), (unknown), Ali Sunyaev	50
17	Fatigue in Cancer and Neuroinflammatory and Autoimmune Disease: CNS Arousal Matters 2020 ·Brain Sciences ·Christine Ulke, (unknown), Christian Sander, Christoph Engel, Kerstin Wirkner, Philippe Jawinski, Tilman Hensch, Ulrich Hegerl	6
18	Association between acute critical life events and the speed of onset of depressive episodes in male and female depressed patients 2018 ·BMC Psychiatry ·Maria Strauß, Roland Mergl, (unknown), (unknown), Christian Sander, Ulrich Hegerl	2
19	Brain arousal regulation as response predictor for antidepressant therapy in major depression 2017 ·Scientific Reports ·Frank Schmidt, Christian Sander, (unknown), (unknown), Thomas Schröder, Roland Mergl, Peter Schönknecht, Hubertus Himmerich, Ulrich Hegerl	46
20	Dictionary of protein secondary structure: Pattern recognition of hydrogen‐bonded and geometrical features breakdown → 1983 ·Biopolymers ·Wolfgang Kabsch, Christian Sander	12690

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