Robert Kumsta

7.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
104 papers, 4.9k citations indexed

About

Robert Kumsta is a scholar working on Behavioral Neuroscience, Clinical Psychology and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert Kumsta has authored 104 papers receiving a total of 4.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 34 papers in Clinical Psychology and 20 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Robert Kumsta's work include Stress Responses and Cortisol (38 papers), Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (23 papers) and Hormonal Regulation and Hypertension (16 papers). Robert Kumsta is often cited by papers focused on Stress Responses and Cortisol (38 papers), Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (23 papers) and Hormonal Regulation and Hypertension (16 papers). Robert Kumsta collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and Luxembourg. Robert Kumsta's co-authors include Stefan Wüst, Dirk H. Hellhammer, Sonja Entringer, Markus Heinrichs, Edmund Sonuga‐Barke, Michael Rutter, Wolff Schlotz, Pathik D. Wadhwa, Jana Kreppner and Frances S. Chen and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Lancet and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Robert Kumsta

101 papers receiving 4.8k citations

Hit Papers

Child-to-adult neurodevelopmental and mental health traje... 2017 2026 2020 2023 2017 50 100 150 200
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. Child-to-adult neurodevelopmental and mental health trajectories after early life deprivation: the young adult follow-up of the longitudinal English and Romanian Adoptees study
    2017 222 citations Edmund Sonuga‐Barke, Mark Kennedy et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Robert Kumsta Germany 39 1.6k 1.5k 1.3k 846 631 104 4.9k
Margaret Altemus United States 34 1.5k 1.0× 1.7k 1.1× 1.8k 1.4× 405 0.5× 804 1.3× 74 5.6k
Thaddeus W. W. Pace United States 35 2.6k 1.6× 1.9k 1.3× 1.1k 0.8× 696 0.8× 596 0.9× 82 6.3k
Lorah D. Dorn United States 41 1.3k 0.8× 1.9k 1.3× 922 0.7× 683 0.8× 643 1.0× 110 5.1k
Manfred Laucht Germany 46 832 0.5× 2.8k 1.8× 735 0.6× 1.1k 1.3× 638 1.0× 207 6.3k
Rodrigo Grassi‐Oliveira Brazil 40 1.5k 0.9× 1.9k 1.2× 708 0.5× 629 0.7× 299 0.5× 207 5.9k
Benoît Labonté Canada 30 1.6k 1.0× 1.5k 1.0× 1.0k 0.8× 1.1k 1.3× 282 0.4× 53 6.0k
Sergiy Dymov Canada 12 2.2k 1.4× 1.8k 1.2× 2.0k 1.5× 2.5k 3.0× 504 0.8× 12 8.3k
Delia M. Vázquez United States 35 1.9k 1.2× 1.1k 0.7× 1.3k 1.0× 736 0.9× 201 0.3× 67 4.1k
Bonny Donzella United States 26 1.5k 0.9× 1.9k 1.2× 1.1k 0.8× 429 0.5× 388 0.6× 53 3.4k
Charles F. Gillespie United States 33 1.6k 1.0× 1.7k 1.1× 660 0.5× 373 0.4× 344 0.5× 72 4.8k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Robert Kumsta

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Robert Kumsta

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Kumsta, Robert, et al.. (2023). A matter of habit? Stressful life events and cognitive flexibility in 15-month-olds. Infant Behavior and Development. 71. 101810–101810. 1 indexed citations
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Genç, Erhan, Christoph Fraenz, Caroline Schlüter, et al.. (2023). Structural architecture and brain network efficiency link polygenic scores to intelligence. Human Brain Mapping. 44(8). 3359–3376. 3 indexed citations
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Scharpf, Florian, et al.. (2023). No association between war-related trauma or PTSD symptom severity and epigenome-wide DNA methylation in Burundian refugees. European journal of psychotraumatology. 14(2). 2228155–2228155. 7 indexed citations
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Hummel, Elisabeth, et al.. (2022). Mitochondrial DNA as a marker for treatment-response in post-traumatic stress disorder. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 148. 105993–105993. 11 indexed citations
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Hummel, Elisabeth, Magdeldin Elgizouli, Maurizio Sicorello, et al.. (2022). No evidence for intervention-associated DNA methylation changes in monocytes of patients with posttraumatic stress disorder. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 17347–17347. 7 indexed citations
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Wannemüller, André, Robert Kumsta, Thalia C. Eley, et al.. (2021). Genes in treatment: Polygenic risk scores for different psychopathologies, neuroticism, educational attainment and IQ and the outcome of two different exposure-based fear treatments. The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry. 22(9). 699–712. 3 indexed citations
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Vogel, Vanessa, Dirk Moser, Sascha Tierling, et al.. (2021). Prenatal exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals is associated with altered DNA methylation in cord blood. Epigenetics. 17(9). 935–952. 9 indexed citations
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Mackes, Nuria, Dennis Golm, Sagari Sarkar, et al.. (2020). Early childhood deprivation is associated with alterations in adult brain structure despite subsequent environmental enrichment. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(1). 641–649. 129 indexed citations
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Schneider, Silvia, et al.. (2020). Genetik und Epigenetik in der Psychotherapie von Depression und Angststörungen. Verhaltenstherapie. 30(1). 60–71. 1 indexed citations
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Helluy, Xavier, Felix Ströckens, Meng Gao, et al.. (2020). Event-related functional MRI of awake behaving pigeons at 7T. Nature Communications. 11(1). 4715–4715. 26 indexed citations
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Woud, Marcella L., et al.. (2019). Angiotensin involvement in trauma processing—exploring candidate neurocognitive mechanisms of preventing post-traumatic stress symptoms. Neuropsychopharmacology. 45(3). 507–514. 18 indexed citations
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Hadwin, Julie A., Emma Lee, Robert Kumsta, Samuele Cortese, & Hanna Kovshoff. (2019). Cortisol awakening response in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Evidence-Based Mental Health. 22(3). 118–124. 15 indexed citations
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Chen, Frances S., et al.. (2016). Oxytocin receptor gene polymorphism modulates the effects of social support on heart rate variability. Biological Psychology. 117. 43–49. 20 indexed citations
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Entringer, Sonja, Elissa S. Epel, Robert Kumsta, et al.. (2011). Stress exposure in intrauterine life is associated with shorter telomere length in young adulthood. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108(33). E513–8. 289 indexed citations
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Chen, Frances S., Robert Kumsta, Bernadette von Dawans, et al.. (2011). Common oxytocin receptor gene ( OXTR ) polymorphism and social support interact to reduce stress in humans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108(50). 19937–19942. 214 indexed citations
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Cao-Lei, Lei, Robert Kumsta, Stefan Wüst, et al.. (2011). Transcriptional control of the human glucocorticoid receptor: identification and analysis of alternative promoter regions. Human Genetics. 129(5). 533–543. 50 indexed citations
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Rutter, Michael, Celia Beckett, Jennifer Castle, et al.. (2010). Deprivation-specific psychological patterns: Effects of institutional deprivation by the English and Romanian Adoptee Study Team. UCL Discovery (University College London). 5 indexed citations
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Kumsta, Robert, Sonja Entringer, Jan W. Koper, et al.. (2008). Glucocorticoid receptor gene polymorphisms and glucocorticoid sensitivity of subdermal blood vessels and leukocytes. Biological Psychology. 79(2). 179–184. 31 indexed citations
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