Nikolas Heim

644 total citations · 2 hit papers
16 papers, 238 citations indexed

About

Nikolas Heim is a scholar working on Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Psychiatry and Mental health. According to data from OpenAlex, Nikolas Heim has authored 16 papers receiving a total of 238 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Clinical Psychology, 6 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 5 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health. Recurrent topics in Nikolas Heim's work include Personality Disorders and Psychopathology (5 papers), Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (4 papers) and Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes (3 papers). Nikolas Heim is often cited by papers focused on Personality Disorders and Psychopathology (5 papers), Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (4 papers) and Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes (3 papers). Nikolas Heim collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Germany and United States. Nikolas Heim's co-authors include Christiane Steinert, Falk Leichsenring, Carsten Spitzer, Frank Leweke, Otto F. Kernberg, Patrick Luyten, Simone Salzer, Peter Fonagy, Allan Abbass and Sven Rabung and has published in prestigious journals such as JAMA, Journal of Anxiety Disorders and Bipolar Disorders.

In The Last Decade

Nikolas Heim

13 papers receiving 235 citations

Hit Papers

Borderline Personality Disorder 2023 2026 2024 2025 2023 2024 25 50 75
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.

  1. Borderline Personality Disorder
    2023 80 citations Falk Leichsenring, Nikolas Heim et al. JAMA profile →
  2. Borderline personality disorder: a comprehensive review of diagnosis and clinical presentation, etiology, treatment, and current controversies
    2024 69 citations Falk Leichsenring, Peter Fonagy et al. World Psychiatry profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Nikolas Heim United Kingdom 7 168 71 47 43 28 16 238
Dean Carcone Canada 8 175 1.0× 95 1.3× 63 1.3× 45 1.0× 23 0.8× 13 269
Seon-Kyeong Jang South Korea 8 117 0.7× 95 1.3× 61 1.3× 25 0.6× 33 1.2× 16 255
Agnieszka Popiel Poland 10 192 1.1× 101 1.4× 46 1.0× 41 1.0× 52 1.9× 27 315
Brad Bowins Canada 8 126 0.8× 111 1.6× 78 1.7× 44 1.0× 60 2.1× 18 247
Andrés Estradé United Kingdom 7 89 0.5× 154 2.2× 33 0.7× 45 1.0× 39 1.4× 19 232
Oya Bozkurt Türkiye 6 198 1.2× 184 2.6× 43 0.9× 68 1.6× 17 0.6× 10 306
Linda van Zutphen Netherlands 10 243 1.4× 131 1.8× 83 1.8× 33 0.8× 37 1.3× 15 323
Nursen Yalcin-Siedentopf Austria 9 134 0.8× 187 2.6× 60 1.3× 24 0.6× 44 1.6× 19 288
Ch. Mündt Germany 7 83 0.5× 86 1.2× 33 0.7× 41 1.0× 21 0.8× 14 188
Caroline Balling United States 11 158 0.9× 97 1.4× 97 2.1× 39 0.9× 33 1.2× 25 295

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Fields of papers citing papers by Nikolas Heim

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nikolas Heim

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

All Works

16 of 16 papers shown
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Leichsenring, Falk, Nikolas Heim, & Christiane Steinert. (2025). Is metacognitive therapy really non-inferior to exposure with response prevention in obsessive-compulsive disorder? – Methodological issues of non-inferiority testing. Journal of Anxiety Disorders. 110. 102980–102980. 1 indexed citations
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Leichsenring, Falk, Peter Fonagy, Nikolas Heim, et al.. (2024). Borderline personality disorder: a comprehensive review of diagnosis and clinical presentation, etiology, treatment, and current controversies. World Psychiatry. 23(1). 4–25. 69 indexed citations breakdown →
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Heim, Nikolas, et al.. (2024). Mentalizing as a Predictor of Well-Being and Emotion Regulation: Longitudinal Evidence from a Community Sample of Young Adults. Psychological Reports. 3966410574–3966410574. 2 indexed citations
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Leichsenring, Falk, Christiane Steinert, Felicitas Rost, et al.. (2023). A critical assessment of NICE guidelines for treatment of depression. World Psychiatry. 22(1). 43–45. 7 indexed citations
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Heim, Nikolas, Allan Abbass, Patrick Luyten, et al.. (2023). Contradictions, methodological flaws, and potential for misinterpretations in ranking treatments of depression. Bipolar Disorders. 25(4). 335–336.
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Leichsenring, Falk, Allan Abbass, Nikolas Heim, et al.. (2023). The status of psychodynamic psychotherapy as an empirically supported treatment for common mental disorders – an umbrella review based on updated criteria. World Psychiatry. 22(2). 286–304. 31 indexed citations
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Heim, Nikolas, et al.. (2023). Psychological interventions for interoception in mental health disorders: A systematic review of randomized‐controlled trials. Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences. 77(10). 530–540. 19 indexed citations
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Leichsenring, Falk, Nikolas Heim, & Christiane Steinert. (2023). A Review of Anxiety Disorders. JAMA. 329(15). 1315–1315. 10 indexed citations
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Leichsenring, Falk, Nikolas Heim, Frank Leweke, et al.. (2023). Borderline Personality Disorder. JAMA. 329(8). 670–670. 80 indexed citations breakdown →
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Steinert, Christiane, et al.. (2023). »Es ist verblüffend, wie viel man in 24 Sitzungen erreichen kann«. 22(3). 217–229.
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Leichsenring, Falk, Allan Abbass, Nikolas Heim, et al.. (2022). Empirically supported psychodynamic psychotherapy for common mental disorders–An update applying revised criteria: Systematic review protocol. Frontiers in Psychiatry. 13. 976885–976885. 2 indexed citations
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Heim, Nikolas, et al.. (2022). Psychological interventions for interoception in mental health disorders: A systematic review of randomised-controlled trials. OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints). 1 indexed citations
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Steinert, Christiane, Nikolas Heim, & Falk Leichsenring. (2021). Procrastination, Perfectionism, and Other Work-Related Mental Problems: Prevalence, Types, Assessment, and Treatment—A Scoping Review. Frontiers in Psychiatry. 12. 736776–736776. 12 indexed citations
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Nakamura, Kaori, Shigeru Iwakabe, & Nikolas Heim. (2021). Connecting in-session corrective emotional experiences with postsession therapeutic changes: A systematic case study.. Psychotherapy. 59(1). 63–73. 1 indexed citations
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Iwakabe, Shigeru, et al.. (2021). Therapeutic courage in novice therapists in Japan: A qualitative study.. Journal of Psychotherapy Integration. 32(3). 243–256. 3 indexed citations
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Heim, Nikolas. (2020). Psychoanalytic thinking on the unhoused mind. British Journal of Guidance and Counselling. 48(6). 865–866.

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