Christina Schmidt

3.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
69 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Christina Schmidt is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Endocrine and Autonomic Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, Christina Schmidt has authored 69 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 47 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 37 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 18 papers in Endocrine and Autonomic Systems. Recurrent topics in Christina Schmidt's work include Sleep and Wakefulness Research (39 papers), Sleep and related disorders (33 papers) and Circadian rhythm and melatonin (18 papers). Christina Schmidt is often cited by papers focused on Sleep and Wakefulness Research (39 papers), Sleep and related disorders (33 papers) and Circadian rhythm and melatonin (18 papers). Christina Schmidt collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, Switzerland and Netherlands. Christina Schmidt's co-authors include Christian Cajochen, Philippe Peigneux, Fabienne Collette, Pierre Maquet, André Luxen, Evelyne Balteau, Christophe Phillips, Christian Degueldre, Gilles Vandewalle and Vincenzo Muto and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Christina Schmidt

68 papers receiving 2.4k 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.

A time to think: Circadian rhythms in human cognition

2007 526 citations Christina Schmidt, Fabienne Collette et al. Cognitive Neuropsychology profile →
The sleep–circadian interface: A window into mental disorders

2024 51 citations Nicholas Meyer, Renske Lok et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christina Schmidt Belgium	27	1.6k	1.2k	582	224	189	69	2.5k
John Fontenele Araújo Brazil	24	747 0.5×	1.1k 0.9×	672 1.2×	142 0.6×	318 1.7×	84	2.0k
Stephanie M. Greer United States	15	1.5k 0.9×	1.1k 0.9×	291 0.5×	206 0.9×	176 0.9×	18	2.5k
Jennifer R. Ramautar Netherlands	24	1.9k 1.2×	870 0.7×	294 0.5×	114 0.5×	112 0.6×	44	2.2k
Kimberly A. Côté Canada	23	1.5k 1.0×	1.2k 1.0×	309 0.5×	108 0.5×	122 0.6×	43	2.1k
Géraldine Rauchs France	28	2.9k 1.8×	1.4k 1.2×	491 0.8×	610 2.7×	224 1.2×	78	3.5k
Jared Saletin United States	21	2.4k 1.5×	2.0k 1.7×	694 1.2×	364 1.6×	348 1.8×	46	3.5k
Lisa Genzel Netherlands	25	1.9k 1.2×	916 0.8×	306 0.5×	620 2.8×	134 0.7×	67	2.5k
Christian A. Kell Germany	22	1.6k 1.0×	696 0.6×	242 0.4×	170 0.8×	172 0.9×	52	2.1k
Joseph De Koninck Canada	22	1.0k 0.7×	995 0.9×	280 0.5×	71 0.3×	155 0.8×	87	1.7k
Fabio Moroni Italy	26	1.6k 1.0×	1.1k 1.0×	305 0.5×	213 1.0×	140 0.7×	41	2.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Christina Schmidt

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Fields of papers citing papers by Christina Schmidt

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christina Schmidt

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20 of 20 papers shown

Baillet, Marion, Christian Berthomier, G. H. Hammad, et al.. (2025). Impact of Varying Sleep Pressure on Daytime Sleep Propensity in Healthy Young and Older Adults. Clocks & Sleep. 7(1). 2–2.

Vandewalle, Gilles, Christophe Phillips, Christian Berthomier, et al.. (2024). Circadian rapid eye movement sleep expression is associated with brain microstructural integrity in older adults. Communications Biology. 7(1). 758–758. 1 indexed citations

Meyer, Nicholas, Renske Lok, Christina Schmidt, et al.. (2024). The sleep–circadian interface: A window into mental disorders. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(9). e2214756121–e2214756121. 51 indexed citations breakdown →

Baillet, Marion, Gilles Vandewalle, Pierre Maquet, et al.. (2023). Napping and circadian sleep–wake regulation during healthy aging. SLEEP. 47(5). 9 indexed citations

Willems, Sylvie, Marie Geurten, Vincenzo Muto, et al.. (2023). Well‐being during COVID‐19‐related first lockdown: Relationship with autobiographical memory and experiential diversity. Applied Cognitive Psychology. 37(5). 1059–1070. 3 indexed citations

Villemonteix, Thomas, Michele Guerreri, Evelyne Balteau, et al.. (2023). Sleep‐dependent structural neuroplasticity after a spatial navigation task: A diffusion imaging study. Journal of Neuroscience Research. 101(7). 1031–1043. 5 indexed citations

Hammad, G. H., et al.. (2021). pyActigraphy: Open-source python package for actigraphy data visualization and analysis. PLoS Computational Biology. 17(10). e1009514–e1009514. 37 indexed citations

Cellini, Nicola, Francesca Conte, Fiorenza Giganti, et al.. (2020). Changes in sleep timing and subjective sleep quality during the COVID-19 lockdown in Italy and Belgium: age, gender and working status as modulating factors. Sleep Medicine. 77. 112–119. 87 indexed citations

Maire, Micheline, Carolin Reichert, Virginie Gabel, et al.. (2018). Human brain patterns underlying vigilant attention: impact of sleep debt, circadian phase and attentional engagement. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 970–970. 25 indexed citations

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Reichert, Carolin, Micheline Maire, Virginie Gabel, et al.. (2017). Cognitive brain responses during circadian wake-promotion: evidence for sleep-pressure-dependent hypothalamic activations. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 5620–5620. 17 indexed citations

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Viola, Antoine, Virginie Gabel, Sarah L. Chellappa, et al.. (2015). Dawn simulation light: a potential cardiac events protector. Sleep Medicine. 16(4). 457–461. 13 indexed citations

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Lely, Stéphanie van der, Anna Wirz‐Justice, Corrado Garbazza, et al.. (2014). Blue blocker glasses as a countermeasure for alerting effects of evening LED - screen exposure in teenagers. Journal of Sleep Research. 23. 2 indexed citations

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Schmidt, Christina, Philippe Peigneux, & Christian Cajochen. (2012). Age-Related Changes in Sleep and Circadian Rhythms: Impact on Cognitive Performance and Underlying Neuroanatomical Networks. Frontiers in Neurology. 3. 118–118. 101 indexed citations

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Schmidt, Christina, Philippe Peigneux, Christian Cajochen, & Fabienne Collette. (2012). Adapting Test Timing to the Sleep-Wake Schedule: Effects on Diurnal Neurobehavioral Performance Changes in Young Evening and Older Morning Chronotypes. Chronobiology International. 29(4). 482–490. 18 indexed citations

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Desseilles, Martin, Evelyne Balteau, Virginie Sterpenich, et al.. (2009). Abnormal Neural Filtering of Irrelevant Visual Information in Depression. Journal of Neuroscience. 29(5). 1395–1403. 105 indexed citations

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Schmidt, Christina. (2008). Encoding difficulty promotes post-learning changes in spindle activity during learning. Open Repository and Bibliography (University of Liège). 6 indexed citations

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Schmidt, Christina, Fabienne Collette, Christian Cajochen, & Philippe Peigneux. (2007). A time to think: Circadian rhythms in human cognition. Cognitive Neuropsychology. 24(7). 755–789. 526 indexed citations breakdown →

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Schmidt, Christina, Philippe Peigneux, Vincenzo Muto, et al.. (2006). Encoding Difficulty Promotes Postlearning Changes in Sleep Spindle Activity during Napping. Journal of Neuroscience. 26(35). 8976–8982. 176 indexed citations

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Schmidt, Christina, Thien Thanh Dang‐Vu, Pierre Orban, et al.. (2005). Time-of-day modulations of regional cerebral blood flow response in functional brain imaging studies : a meta-analysis. NeuroImage. 26. 1 indexed citations

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Härtig, Wolfgang, Gert Brückner, Christina Schmidt, et al.. (1997). Co-localization of β-amyloid peptides, apolipoprotein E and glial markers in senile plaques in the prefrontal cortex of old rhesus monkeys. Brain Research. 751(2). 315–322. 26 indexed citations

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