Georg Schomerus

11.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
282 papers, 7.4k citations indexed

About

Georg Schomerus is a scholar working on Social Psychology, Clinical Psychology and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, Georg Schomerus has authored 282 papers receiving a total of 7.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 194 papers in Social Psychology, 167 papers in Clinical Psychology and 88 papers in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in Georg Schomerus's work include Mental Health Treatment and Access (186 papers), Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (80 papers) and Psychiatric care and mental health services (43 papers). Georg Schomerus is often cited by papers focused on Mental Health Treatment and Access (186 papers), Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (80 papers) and Psychiatric care and mental health services (43 papers). Georg Schomerus collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Italy and United States. Georg Schomerus's co-authors include Matthias C. Angermeyer, Herbert Matschinger, Mauro Giovanni Carta, Anita Holzinger, M C Angermeyer, Patrick W. Corrigan, Sven Speerforck, Michael Lucht, Sara Evans‐Lacko and Silke Schmidt and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Georg Schomerus

261 papers receiving 7.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Evolution of public attitudes about mental illness: a systematic review and meta‐analysis

2012 638 citations Georg Schomerus, M C Angermeyer et al. profile →
The Stigma of Alcohol Dependence Compared with Other Mental Disorders: A Review of Population Studies

2010 498 citations Georg Schomerus, Herbert Matschinger et al. profile →

Peers

Georg Schomerus

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Winnie W. S. Mak Hong Kong

Nicola Reavley Australia

Lawrence H. Yang United States

Ella Arensman Ireland

Herbert Matschinger Germany

Stephani L. Hatch United Kingdom

Edimansyah Abdin Singapore

Claire Henderson United Kingdom

Corina Benjet Mexico

Greer Sullivan United States

Winnie W. S. Mak Hong Kong

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EPIDE

Citations per year, relative to Georg Schomerus Georg Schomerus (= 1×) peers Winnie W. S. Mak

Countries citing papers authored by Georg Schomerus

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Fields of papers citing papers by Georg Schomerus

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Georg Schomerus

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Georg Schomerus. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Georg Schomerus 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 Georg Schomerus. Georg Schomerus is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Welzel, Franziska, Georg Schomerus, Peter Schönknecht, et al.. (2025). Current trends in e-mental health interventions: Health care providers' attitudes and usage patterns. Internet Interventions. 39. 100808–100808.

Zanon, Cristian, Nan Zhao, Nursel Topkaya, et al.. (2025). Psychometric properties of the Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scale–21 (DASS-21) across nine countries/regions. International Journal of Testing. 25(2). 178–193.

Subramaniam, Mythily, Shazana Shahwan, Edimansyah Abdin, et al.. (2024). Stigma towards mental health disorders - Has anything changed?. European Psychiatry. 67(S1). S110–S111.

Steyrl, David, et al.. (2024). The help-seeking process and predictors of mental health care use among individuals with depressive symptoms: a machine learning approach. Frontiers in Public Health. 12. 1504720–1504720. 1 indexed citations

Schomerus, Georg, et al.. (2024). Stigmaresistenz nach politischer Haft in der DDR. 47(2). 36–48. 2 indexed citations

Link, Bruce G., et al.. (2024). Otherness and stigma: The public understanding of what mental illness is moderates the association of continuum beliefs and social acceptance. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 6. 100332–100332. 2 indexed citations

Tomczyk, Samuel, et al.. (2023). The effects of causal and self-efficacy beliefs on help-seeking for people with depressive complaints: a quasi-experimental online study. Frontiers in Psychiatry. 14. 1 indexed citations

Tomczyk, Samuel, et al.. (2023). Yes, I can! Development and validation of the self-efficacy for self-help scale. Journal of Affective Disorders. 331. 279–286. 3 indexed citations

Angermeyer, M C, Stephanie Schindler, Herbert Matschinger, Eva Baumann, & Georg Schomerus. (2023). The rise in acceptance of mental health professionals: help-seeking recommendations of the German public 1990–2020. Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences. 32. e11–e11. 6 indexed citations

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Manthey, Jakob, Daša Kokole, Steffi G. Riedel‐Heller, et al.. (2023). Improving alcohol health literacy and reducing alcohol consumption: recommendations for Germany. Addiction Science & Clinical Practice. 18(1). 28–28. 9 indexed citations

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Tomczyk, Samuel, et al.. (2023). The Seeking Mental Health Care model: prediction of help-seeking for depressive symptoms by stigma and mental illness representations. BMC Public Health. 23(1). 69–69. 33 indexed citations

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Tomczyk, Samuel, et al.. (2022). Continuum beliefs of mental illness: a systematic review of measures. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology. 58(1). 1–16. 10 indexed citations

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Manthey, Jakob, et al.. (2022). Understanding the Association between Alcohol Stigma and Alcohol Consumption within Europe: A Cross-Sectional Exploratory Study. European Addiction Research. 28(6). 446–454. 18 indexed citations

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Schomerus, Georg, Stephanie Schindler, Christian Sander, Eva Baumann, & Matthias C. Angermeyer. (2022). Changes in mental illness stigma over 30 years – Improvement, persistence, or deterioration?. European Psychiatry. 65(1). e78–e78. 40 indexed citations

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Bollmann, Andreas, Sven Hohenstein, Gerhard Hindricks, et al.. (2021). Emergency hospital admissions for psychiatric disorders in a German-wide hospital network during the COVID-19 outbreak. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology. 56(8). 1469–1475. 41 indexed citations

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Ulke, Christine, Holger Mühlan, Manfred E. Beutel, et al.. (2020). Later-life depressive symptoms and anxiety attacks in displaced and nondisplaced populations. Journal of Affective Disorders Reports. 3. 100061–100061. 1 indexed citations

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Porter, Patricia A., et al.. (2020). Continuum beliefs and the stigma of depression: An online investigation.. Stigma and Health. 6(1). 113–122. 11 indexed citations

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Luck‐Sikorski, Claudia, et al.. (2018). Layered stigma? Co-occurring depression and obesity in the public eye. Journal of Psychosomatic Research. 106. 29–33. 23 indexed citations

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Lersner, Ulrike von, Kristina Adorjan, Georg Schomerus, et al.. (2018). The relationship between causal beliefs and desire for social distance towards people with schizophrenia and depression: Results from a survey of young Ghanaian adults. Psychiatry Research. 271. 220–225. 3 indexed citations

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Mungee, Aditya, Georg Schomerus, Thi Minh Tam Ta, et al.. (2016). Attitude towards psychiatrists: A comparison between two metropolitan cities in India. Asian Journal of Psychiatry. 22. 140–144. 10 indexed citations

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