Heide Glaesmer

20.2k total citations · 4 hit papers
364 papers, 13.7k citations indexed

About

Heide Glaesmer is a scholar working on Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental health and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, Heide Glaesmer has authored 364 papers receiving a total of 13.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 240 papers in Clinical Psychology, 91 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health and 88 papers in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in Heide Glaesmer's work include Suicide and Self-Harm Studies (92 papers), Migration, Health and Trauma (74 papers) and Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments (70 papers). Heide Glaesmer is often cited by papers focused on Suicide and Self-Harm Studies (92 papers), Migration, Health and Trauma (74 papers) and Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments (70 papers). Heide Glaesmer collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Switzerland. Heide Glaesmer's co-authors include Elmar Brähler, Elmar Bräehler, Thomas Forkmann, Winfried Rief, Andreas Hinz, Bernd Löwe, Inka Wahl, Katja Wingenfeld, Carsten Spitzer and Matthias Rose and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.

In The Last Decade

Heide Glaesmer

340 papers receiving 13.1k citations

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A 4-item measure of depression and anxiety: Validation and standardization of the Patient Health Questionnaire-4 (PHQ-4) in the general population

2009 1.7k citations Heide Glaesmer, Elmar Brähler et al. Journal of Affective Disorders profile →
Prevalence of complicated grief in a representative population-based sample

2011 466 citations Anette Kersting, Elmar Brähler et al. Journal of Affective Disorders 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 →
Psychometric evaluation of the Generalized Anxiety Disorder Screener GAD-7, based on a large German general population sample

2016 295 citations Andreas Hinz, Elmar Brähler et al. Journal of Affective Disorders profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Heide Glaesmer Germany	57	7.4k	2.6k	2.5k	2.3k	2.2k	364	13.7k
Renée D. Goodwin United States	65	7.1k 1.0×	2.3k 0.9×	2.4k 1.0×	2.4k 1.0×	3.0k 1.4×	268	15.8k
Ronny Bruffaerts Belgium	52	7.2k 1.0×	3.6k 1.4×	1.7k 0.7×	2.3k 1.0×	1.9k 0.9×	217	11.8k
Wolfgang Herzog Germany	57	8.1k 1.1×	2.1k 0.8×	3.2k 1.3×	2.3k 1.0×	2.2k 1.0×	330	16.6k
Ron de Graaf Netherlands	67	6.4k 0.9×	3.8k 1.5×	3.5k 1.4×	2.5k 1.1×	4.0k 1.8×	257	14.8k
Angelina R. Sutin United States	57	6.4k 0.9×	2.8k 1.0×	1.4k 0.6×	1.5k 0.6×	2.2k 1.0×	341	12.8k
Anthony Spirito United States	64	10.6k 1.4×	2.3k 0.9×	3.1k 1.3×	2.3k 1.0×	3.1k 1.4×	346	17.5k
William Copeland United States	55	8.8k 1.2×	3.0k 1.2×	2.2k 0.9×	1.5k 0.6×	1.7k 0.8×	193	13.5k
Andreas Maercker Switzerland	64	13.9k 1.9×	3.5k 1.3×	2.0k 0.8×	3.1k 1.3×	2.5k 1.2×	459	19.8k
Rory C. O’Connor United Kingdom	62	11.2k 1.5×	4.1k 1.6×	2.2k 0.9×	1.4k 0.6×	3.1k 1.4×	228	15.3k
Gemma Vilagut Spain	54	5.8k 0.8×	3.4k 1.3×	1.5k 0.6×	2.7k 1.2×	1.5k 0.7×	163	12.7k

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Jung, Franziska, Alexander Pabst, Melanie Luppa, et al.. (2025). Depressive symptoms in individuals with overweight and obesity. Results from the LIFE-adult-study. Journal of Affective Disorders. 390. 119792–119792. 1 indexed citations

Bahramsoltani, Mahtab, et al.. (2025). Study-Related Predictors for Depression, Suicidal Ideation and Suicide Risk in German Veterinary Medical Students. Healthcare. 13(8). 938–938.

Stengler, Katarina, et al.. (2025). Exploring health seeking behavior among men who have attempted suicide - a qualitative study from Germany. BMC Psychiatry. 25(1). 859–859.

Beyer, Frauke, Steffi G. Riedel‐Heller, Julia Sacher, et al.. (2025). Generalized additive mixed models to discern data-driven theoretically informed strategies for public brain, cognitive and mental health. European Journal of Epidemiology. 40(11). 1323–1343.

Paashaus, Laura, Antje Schönfelder, Georg Juckel, et al.. (2024). Validating the German version of the entrapment scale among suicidal psychiatric inpatients. Journal of Affective Disorders Reports. 19. 100862–100862. 1 indexed citations

Forkmann, Thomas, Heide Glaesmer, Tobias Teismann, et al.. (2024). Torn between living or dying—analyses of influencing factors on suicide ambivalence and its longitudinally impact on suicidal ideation and behavior in a high‐risk sample. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior. 54(5). 869–877.

Jung, Franziska, Margrit Löbner, Christoph Engel, et al.. (2024). Associations between person-environment fit and mental health - results from the population-based LIFE-Adult-Study. BMC Public Health. 24(1). 2083–2083. 1 indexed citations

Friedrich, Michael, et al.. (2024). The German PCL-5: evaluating structural validity in a large-scale sample of the general German population. European journal of psychotraumatology. 15(1). 2317055–2317055. 2 indexed citations

Schoenberger, Samantha F., Daniela C. Fuhr, Yuriy Nesterko, et al.. (2024). Mental healthcare access among resettled Syrian refugees in Leipzig, Germany. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 11. e25–e25. 1 indexed citations

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Hallensleben, Nina, Jannis T. Kraiss, Heide Glaesmer, Thomas Forkmann, & Lena Spangenberg. (2024). Examining heterogeneity in the affect‐regulating function of suicidal ideation: Person‐specific analyses in male inpatients with depression. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior. 54(6). 1123–1132.

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Glaesmer, Heide, et al.. (2024). Suizidalität und selbstverletzendes Verhalten von Menschen mit DDR-Heimerfahrungen. 47(2). 63–75. 1 indexed citations

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Glaesmer, Heide, et al.. (2024). Psychosocial consequences of growing up as Austrian occupation children in post-World-War II Austria. European journal of psychotraumatology. 15(1). 2389019–2389019.

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Schneider, Silvia, et al.. (2023). Validierung der Skala Suizidales Erleben und Verhalten (SSEV-KJ) für den Einsatz bei Kindern und Jugendlichen. Kindheit und Entwicklung. 33(1). 36–45. 1 indexed citations

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Pat‐Horenczyk, Ruth, Miriam Schiff, Aliriza Arënliu, et al.. (2022). Challenges faced by university students during the COVID‐19: An international study in five countries during the early phase of the pandemic. International Journal of Psychology. 57(5). 547–558. 14 indexed citations

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Hussenoeder, Felix S., Ines Conrad, Alexander Pabst, et al.. (2022). Physical activity and mental health: the connection between step count and depression, anxiety and quality of sleep. Psychology Health & Medicine. 28(9). 2419–2429. 6 indexed citations

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Löbner, Margrit, Heide Glaesmer, Andreas Hinz, et al.. (2022). The Association of Resilience with Mental Health in a Large Population-Based Sample (LIFE-Adult-Study). International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 19(23). 15944–15944. 7 indexed citations

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Ulke, Christine, Holger Muehlan, Heide Glaesmer, et al.. (2021). Socio-political context as determinant of childhood maltreatment: a population-based study among women and men in East and West Germany. Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences. 30. 13 indexed citations

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Spangenberg, Lena, Dajana Rath, Thomas Kallert, et al.. (2017). Temporal Dynamics of Suicide Thoughts. First Results of an Ecological Momentary Assessment Study in Inpatients with depressive Disorders. Zeitschrift für psychosomatische Medizin und Psychotherapie. 63(1). 60–61. 1 indexed citations

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Glaesmer, Heide, Matthias Michal, Manfred E. Beutel, & Elmar Brähler. (2013). Kriegsbezogene traumatische Erfahrungen, Depersonalisation, Angst- und Depressionssymptomatik in der Weltkrieg-II-Generation in Deutschland. Trauma und Gewalt. 7(3). 230–238. 3 indexed citations

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Glaesmer, Heide, Marie Kaiser, Harald J. Freyberger, Elmar Brähler, & Philipp Kuwert. (2012). Die Kinder des Zweiten Weltkrieges in Deutschland. Trauma und Gewalt. 6(4). 318–328. 5 indexed citations

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