Michael Pluess

12.2k total citations · 5 hit papers
115 papers, 8.0k citations indexed

About

Michael Pluess is a scholar working on Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Education. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Pluess has authored 115 papers receiving a total of 8.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 81 papers in Clinical Psychology, 37 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 28 papers in Education. Recurrent topics in Michael Pluess's work include Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (48 papers), Early Childhood Education and Development (26 papers) and Resilience and Mental Health (21 papers). Michael Pluess is often cited by papers focused on Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (48 papers), Early Childhood Education and Development (26 papers) and Resilience and Mental Health (21 papers). Michael Pluess collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Italy. Michael Pluess's co-authors include Jay Belsky, Francesca Lionetti, Elaine N. Aron, Beverly H. Brummett, Redford B. Williams, Michael Stanton, Charles R. Jonassaint, Arthur Aron, Elham Assary and Ilona Boniwell and has published in prestigious journals such as Psychological Bulletin, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Michael Pluess

102 papers receiving 7.7k 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.

Beyond diathesis stress: Differential susceptibility to environmental influences.

2009 2.0k citations Jay Belsky, Michael Pluess profile →
Vulnerability genes or plasticity genes?

2009 720 citations Jay Belsky, Michael Pluess et al. Molecular Psychiatry profile →
Vantage sensitivity: Individual differences in response to positive experiences.

2012 382 citations Michael Pluess, Jay Belsky profile →
Individual Differences in Environmental Sensitivity

2015 347 citations Michael Pluess Child Development Perspectives profile →
Sensory Processing Sensitivity in the context of Environmental Sensitivity: A critical review and development of research agenda

2019 297 citations Francesca Lionetti, Elaine N. Aron et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michael Pluess United Kingdom	39	4.9k	2.1k	2.1k	1.5k	1.1k	115	8.0k
Carl F. Weems United States	56	7.6k 1.6×	2.7k 1.3×	1.6k 0.7×	1.8k 1.2×	806 0.7×	201	9.6k
Albertine J. Oldehinkel Netherlands	57	6.2k 1.3×	2.6k 1.3×	3.0k 1.4×	1.6k 1.1×	1.4k 1.3×	266	11.1k
Jean R. Séguin Canada	50	4.1k 0.8×	1.2k 0.6×	1.6k 0.8×	1.5k 1.0×	1.0k 1.0×	187	8.1k
Meike Bartels Netherlands	53	4.2k 0.9×	2.8k 1.3×	1.8k 0.8×	1.2k 0.8×	1.1k 1.0×	296	11.2k
Marilyn J. Essex United States	59	6.0k 1.2×	1.6k 0.8×	3.0k 1.5×	2.3k 1.6×	1.5k 1.4×	113	10.9k
Thomas M. Olino United States	49	5.2k 1.1×	2.5k 1.2×	1.4k 0.7×	996 0.7×	1.0k 0.9×	257	7.6k
Eva H. Telzer United States	49	4.1k 0.8×	2.6k 1.3×	2.5k 1.2×	1.2k 0.8×	654 0.6×	227	9.1k
Jenae M. Neiderhiser United States	50	5.4k 1.1×	2.7k 1.3×	2.1k 1.0×	1.5k 1.1×	1.5k 1.4×	259	8.3k
Karen D. Rudolph United States	52	8.2k 1.7×	2.2k 1.1×	5.0k 2.4×	3.0k 2.0×	1.1k 1.0×	144	11.3k
Gordon T. Harold United Kingdom	53	5.5k 1.1×	1.2k 0.6×	2.7k 1.3×	1.1k 0.8×	1.9k 1.7×	147	8.8k

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Nearchou, Finiki, et al.. (2025). Interactions between infant characteristics and parenting factors rarely replicate across cohorts and developmental domains. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 66(8). 1234–1248. 2 indexed citations

Lionetti, Francesca, Daniel N. Klein, Elaine N. Aron, et al.. (2025). Observer-rated environmental sensitivity and its characterization at behavioral, genetic, and physiological levels. Development and Psychopathology. 37(5). 2302–2316.

Lionetti, Francesca, Maria Spinelli, Guy Bosmans, et al.. (2025). Is environmental sensitivity relevant to understand parenting? Observational studies with mothers of young children.. Journal of Family Psychology. 40(1). 12–24.

Karam, Elie G., et al.. (2024). The role of environmental sensitivity in post-traumatic stress symptoms in Lebanese children and adolescents. Development and Psychopathology. 37(1). 251–258. 2 indexed citations

Sperati, Alessandra, Maria Spinelli, Mirco Fasolo, et al.. (2024). Beyond for-better-and-for-worse: expanding environmental sensitivity into a post-traumatic growth perspective. Current Psychology. 43(31). 25796–25808. 2 indexed citations

Pluess, Michael, Fiona McEwen, Claudinei Eduardo Biazoli, et al.. (2024). Delivering therapy over telephone in a humanitarian setting: a pilot randomized controlled trial of common elements treatment approach (CETA) with Syrian refugee children in Lebanon. Conflict and Health. 18(1). 58–58. 3 indexed citations

Lionetti, Francesca, et al.. (2024). Moderate cardiac vagal tone predicts more cooperation in highly sensitive individuals. Psychophysiology. 61(10). e14638–e14638.

Lionetti, Francesca, et al.. (2024). Individual traits are associated with pro‐environmental behaviour: Environmental sensitivity, nature connectedness and consideration for future consequences. People and Nature. 6(2). 586–597. 9 indexed citations

Smeeth, Demelza, Fiona McEwen, Elie G. Karam, et al.. (2024). The role of environmental sensitivity in the mental health of Syrian refugee children: a multi-level analysis. Molecular Psychiatry. 29(10). 3170–3179. 5 indexed citations

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Sperati, Alessandra, Rocco Palumbo, Mirco Fasolo, et al.. (2024). The role of individual differences in environmental sensitivity in teachers' stress and burnout at work. Stress and Health. 40(6). e3491–e3491. 4 indexed citations

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Smeeth, Demelza, Simone Ecker, Olga Chervova, et al.. (2024). War Exposure and DNA Methylation in Syrian Refugee Children and Adolescents. JAMA Psychiatry. 82(2). 191–191. 2 indexed citations

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McEwen, Fiona, et al.. (2023). Effects of war exposure on pubertal development in refugee children.. Developmental Psychology. 59(9). 1559–1572. 2 indexed citations

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Smeeth, Demelza, Elie G. Karam, Michael Rieder, et al.. (2023). Risk and resilience in Syrian refugee children: A multisystem analysis. Development and Psychopathology. 35(5). 2275–2287. 8 indexed citations

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McEwen, Fiona, Claudinei Eduardo Biazoli, Dahlia Saab, et al.. (2023). Prevalence and predictors of mental health problems in refugee children living in informal settlements in Lebanon. Nature Mental Health. 1(2). 135–144. 15 indexed citations

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Bosqui, Tania, Elie G. Karam, Georges Karam, et al.. (2022). The culturally and contextually sensitive assessment of mental health using a structured diagnostic interview (MINI Kid) for Syrian refugee children and adolescents in Lebanon: Challenges and solutions. Transcultural Psychiatry. 60(1). 125–141. 9 indexed citations

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Machlitt‐Northen, Sandra, Robert Keers, Patricia B. Munroe, et al.. (2022). Polygenic scores for schizophrenia and major depression are associated with psychosocial risk factors in children: evidence of gene–environment correlation. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 63(10). 1140–1152. 7 indexed citations

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Leeuwen, Karla Van, Michael Pluess, Francesca Lionetti, et al.. (2021). Improving the Measurement of Environmental Sensitivity in Children and Adolescents: The Highly Sensitive Child Scale–21 Item Version. Assessment. 29(4). 607–629. 24 indexed citations

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Pluess, Michael. (2015). Individual Differences in Environmental Sensitivity. Child Development Perspectives. 9(3). 138–143. 347 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lionetti, Francesca, Michael Pluess, & Lavinia Barone. (2014). Vulnerability, resilience or differential susceptibility? Comparing models on individualenvironment interaction. Psicologia clinica dello sviluppo. 163–182.

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Pluess, Michael, et al.. (2009). Prenatal smoking and ADHD: DRD4-7R as a plasticity gene. Biological Psychiatry. 66. 2 indexed citations

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