Irene Messina

1.5k total citations
58 papers, 933 citations indexed

About

Irene Messina is a scholar working on Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Irene Messina has authored 58 papers receiving a total of 933 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Clinical Psychology, 23 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 18 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Irene Messina's work include Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (15 papers), Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (15 papers) and Mental Health Research Topics (12 papers). Irene Messina is often cited by papers focused on Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (15 papers), Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (15 papers) and Mental Health Research Topics (12 papers). Irene Messina collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Austria and Germany. Irene Messina's co-authors include Roberto Viviani, Marco Sambin, Alessandro Grecucci, Arianna Palmieri, Vincenzo Calvo, Jon Frederickson, Simone Bianco, Martin Walter, Johann Roland Kleinbub and Harold Dadomo and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Irene Messina

51 papers receiving 909 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Irene Messina Italy 19 427 421 350 250 144 58 933
Zainab Fatima Canada 10 615 1.4× 589 1.4× 434 1.2× 206 0.8× 229 1.6× 23 1.1k
Joana Coutinho Portugal 16 417 1.0× 367 0.9× 293 0.8× 259 1.0× 149 1.0× 44 923
Francis L. Stevens United States 9 211 0.5× 329 0.8× 158 0.5× 198 0.8× 142 1.0× 18 817
Adrienne L. Romer United States 14 347 0.8× 329 0.8× 285 0.8× 65 0.3× 178 1.2× 22 750
Soonjo Hwang United States 17 376 0.9× 481 1.1× 153 0.4× 138 0.6× 252 1.8× 43 910
Simone P. Haller United States 17 520 1.2× 367 0.9× 480 1.4× 100 0.4× 167 1.2× 57 953
Namik Kirlić United States 17 413 1.0× 316 0.8× 284 0.8× 134 0.5× 72 0.5× 48 881
Genna Bebko United States 16 191 0.4× 394 0.9× 253 0.7× 100 0.4× 271 1.9× 40 767
Qingsen Ming China 16 312 0.7× 261 0.6× 180 0.5× 166 0.7× 99 0.7× 31 850
Vaughn R. Steele United States 22 483 1.1× 628 1.5× 204 0.6× 182 0.7× 205 1.4× 44 1.1k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Irene Messina

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All Works

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Rossi, Chiara, et al.. (2025). Dropout in Psychotherapy for Personality Disorders: A Systematic Review of Predictors. Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy. 32(3). e70080–e70080. 1 indexed citations
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Messina, Irene, et al.. (2025). Risk and protective factors in academic burnout: exploring the mediating role of interpersonal emotion regulation in the link with social support. Frontiers in Psychology. 16. 1536951–1536951. 1 indexed citations
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Grecucci, Alessandro, et al.. (2025). The Neural Signature of Inner Peace: Morphometric Differences Between High and Low Accepters. Mindfulness. 16(1). 42–59. 2 indexed citations
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Spataro, Pietro, Irene Messina, Daniele Saraulli, & Emiddia Longobardi. (2025). Mindful attention awareness reduces binge watching engagement: The mediating role of emotion regulation difficulties. Acta Psychologica. 254. 104805–104805.
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Messina, Irene, et al.. (2024). Shaping psychotherapy trainees’ potential: insights from training program directors. Research in Psychotherapy Psychopathology Process and Outcome. 27(2).
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Rossi, Chiara, Irene Messina, Alessandro Grecucci, et al.. (2024). Predicting dropout and non-response to psychotherapy for personality disorders: A study protocol focusing on therapist, patient, and the therapeutic relationship. BMC Psychology. 12(1). 625–625. 2 indexed citations
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Orlinsky, David E., Michael Helge Rønnestad, Erkki Heinonen, et al.. (2024). Healing involvement and stressful involvement experienced by psychotherapy trainees: Patterns, correlates and perceived development. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research. 24(4). 1442–1453.
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Orlinsky, David E., Irene Messina, Armin Hartmann, et al.. (2023). Ninety psychotherapy training programmes across the globe: Variations and commonalities in an international context. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research. 24(2). 558–571. 8 indexed citations
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Messina, Irene, et al.. (2023). “Holding in Anger” as a Mediator in the Relationship between Attachment Orientations and Borderline Personality Features. Brain Sciences. 13(6). 878–878. 2 indexed citations
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Grecucci, Alessandro, et al.. (2023). Anxious Brains: A Combined Data Fusion Machine Learning Approach to Predict Trait Anxiety from Morphometric Features. Sensors. 23(2). 610–610. 19 indexed citations
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Messina, Irene, et al.. (2022). The gradient model of brain organization in decisions involving “empathy for pain”. Cerebral Cortex. 33(10). 5839–5850. 5 indexed citations
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Grecucci, Alessandro, et al.. (2022). Structural Features Related to Affective Instability Correctly Classify Patients With Borderline Personality Disorder. A Supervised Machine Learning Approach. Frontiers in Psychiatry. 13. 804440–804440. 19 indexed citations
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Heinonen, Erkki, David E. Orlinsky, Ulrike Willutzki, et al.. (2022). Psychotherapist Trainees’ Quality of Life: Patterns and Correlates. Frontiers in Psychology. 13. 864691–864691. 9 indexed citations
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Messina, Irene, et al.. (2019). Intensive Transactional Analysis Psychotherapy (ITAP): A case series study. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research. 20(2). 224–234. 1 indexed citations
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Palmieri, Arianna, Johann Roland Kleinbub, Vincenzo Calvo, et al.. (2018). Attachment-security prime effect on skin-conductance synchronization in psychotherapists: An empirical study.. Journal of Counseling Psychology. 65(4). 490–499. 23 indexed citations
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Grecucci, Alessandro, Irene Messina, & Harold Dadomo. (2018). Decoupling Internalized Dysfunctional Attachments: A Combined ACT and Schema Therapy Approach. Frontiers in Psychology. 9. 2332–2332. 5 indexed citations
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Sambin, Marco & Irene Messina. (2017). Rivoluzione mindfulness: fino a che punto?. Giornale italiano di psicologia. 333–338. 1 indexed citations
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Messina, Irene, et al.. (2017). Trainees' self‐evaluation of their development as psychotherapists: An Italian contribution to an international collaborative study on psychotherapy training. Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy. 25(2). 338–347. 20 indexed citations

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