Roberto La Marca

3.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
65 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Roberto La Marca is a scholar working on Behavioral Neuroscience, Social Psychology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Roberto La Marca has authored 65 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 18 papers in Social Psychology and 16 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Roberto La Marca's work include Stress Responses and Cortisol (28 papers), Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control (12 papers) and Mental Health Research Topics (7 papers). Roberto La Marca is often cited by papers focused on Stress Responses and Cortisol (28 papers), Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control (12 papers) and Mental Health Research Topics (7 papers). Roberto La Marca collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Germany and United Kingdom. Roberto La Marca's co-authors include Ulrike Ehlert, Bert Arnrich, Gerhard Tröster, Cornelia Setz, Johannes Schumm, Urs M. Nater, Myriam V. Thoma, Andrew Steptoe, Hubert Annen and Jens C. Pruessner and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Roberto La Marca

60 papers receiving 2.3k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Discriminating Stress From Cognitive Load Using a Wearable EDA Device

2009 505 citations Cornelia Setz, Bert Arnrich et al. IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Roberto La Marca	788	683	527	471	466	65	2.4k
Jochen Fahrenberg	430 0.5×	673 1.0×	348 0.7×	317 0.7×	622 1.3×	84	2.9k
Jaime Vila	599 0.8×	1.1k 1.6×	1.1k 2.0×	211 0.4×	1.1k 2.3×	155	3.4k
Anita L. Hansen	413 0.5×	961 1.4×	871 1.7×	333 0.7×	759 1.6×	48	3.3k
Kristen Salomon	515 0.7×	565 0.8×	239 0.5×	419 0.9×	617 1.3×	44	2.2k
Mike Atkinson	503 0.6×	456 0.7×	534 1.0×	138 0.3×	539 1.2×	41	3.0k
Emma Mosley	343 0.4×	601 0.9×	390 0.7×	200 0.4×	394 0.8×	32	2.4k
Bo Melin	711 0.9×	442 0.6×	198 0.4×	129 0.3×	349 0.7×	100	2.5k
Fredrik Åhs	505 0.6×	1.3k 1.9×	1.5k 2.9×	549 1.2×	733 1.6×	66	3.9k
Bon‐Hoon Koo	259 0.3×	447 0.7×	367 0.7×	125 0.3×	328 0.7×	70	1.8k
J.H.M. Tulen	302 0.4×	1.3k 1.9×	940 1.8×	358 0.8×	634 1.4×	124	4.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Roberto La Marca

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Wettstein, Alexander, et al.. (2025). Social overload and fear of negative evaluation mediate the effect of neuroticism on classroom disruptions that predicts occupational problems in teachers over two years. Social Psychology of Education. 28(1). 60–60.

Wettstein, Alexander, et al.. (2024). Teacher stress in social interactions in the light of polyvagal theory. An ambulatory assessment approach to teachers’ heart rate and heart rate variability. Frontiers in Neuroscience. 18. 1499229–1499229.

Brühl, Annette Beatrix, et al.. (2024). Heart rate vARiability and physical activity in inpatient treatMent of burnOut and DepressIon (HARMODI): protocol of a cross-sectional study with up to 8-week follow up. BMJ Open. 14(6). e081299–e081299. 1 indexed citations

Wettstein, Alexander, et al.. (2023). Teachers' perception of aggressive student behavior through the lens of chronic worry and resignation, and its association with psychophysiological stress: An observational study. Social Psychology of Education. 26(4). 1181–1200. 8 indexed citations

Wettstein, Alexander, et al.. (2023). Predictors of Psychological Strain and Allostatic Load in Teachers: Examining the Long-Term Effects of Biopsychosocial Risk and Protective Factors Using a LASSO Regression Approach. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 20(10). 5760–5760. 8 indexed citations

Ferrario, Andrea, Victor R. Schinazi, Roberto La Marca, et al.. (2023). The effectiveness and user experience of a biofeedback intervention program for stress management supported by virtual reality and mobile technology: a randomized controlled study. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1(1). 6 indexed citations

Holtforth, Martin Grosse, et al.. (2023). The diurnal course of salivary cortisol and alpha-amylase on workdays and leisure days in teachers and the role of social isolation and neuroticism. PLoS ONE. 18(5). e0286475–e0286475. 5 indexed citations

Schinazi, Victor R., et al.. (2023). An interpretable machine learning approach to multimodal stress detection in a simulated office environment. Journal of Biomedical Informatics. 139. 104299–104299. 32 indexed citations

Fischer, Susanne, et al.. (2022). Post-awakening salivary alpha-amylase as modulator of treatment response in patients with burnout and major depression. Journal of Psychiatric Research. 154. 175–180. 4 indexed citations

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Skoluda, Nadine, Roberto La Marca, Mario Gollwitzer, et al.. (2017). Long-term stability of diurnal salivary cortisol and alpha-amylase secretion patterns. Physiology & Behavior. 175. 1–8. 20 indexed citations

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Krummenacher, Peter, et al.. (2016). Salivary Alpha-Amylase Correlates with Subjective Heat Pain Perception. Pain Medicine. 17(6). 1131–1136. 15 indexed citations

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Marca, Roberto La, et al.. (2016). Physical fitness level affects perception of chronic stress in military trainees. Stress and Health. 33(5). 490–497. 8 indexed citations

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Wyss, Thomas, et al.. (2016). Aerobic Fitness Level Affects Cardiovascular and Salivary Alpha Amylase Responses to Acute Psychosocial Stress. Sports Medicine - Open. 2(1). 33–33. 30 indexed citations

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Nater, Urs M., et al.. (2015). Alpha-Amylase Activity in Blood Increases after Pharmacological, But Not Psychological, Activation of the Adrenergic System. PLoS ONE. 10(6). e0130449–e0130449. 11 indexed citations

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Ghaemmaghami, Pearl, et al.. (2015). The Acute Autonomic Stress Response and Amniotic Fluid Glucocorticoids in Second-Trimester Pregnant Women. Psychosomatic Medicine. 77(1). 41–49. 15 indexed citations

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Annen, Hubert, Ulrike Ehlert, Lilian Roos, et al.. (2014). Hair cortisol concentration is unaffected by basic military training, but related to sociodemographic and environmental factors. Stress. 18(1). 35–41. 43 indexed citations

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Wilhelm, Frank H., et al.. (2014). Blunted endocrine and cardiovascular reactivity in young healthy women reporting a history of childhood adversity. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 51. 58–67. 117 indexed citations

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Ghaemmaghami, Pearl, et al.. (2013). The association between the acute psychobiological stress response in second trimester pregnant women, amniotic fluid glucocorticoids, and neonatal birth outcome. Developmental Psychobiology. 56(4). 734–747. 40 indexed citations

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Marca, Roberto La, et al.. (2012). Towards continuous monitoring of mental workload. Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich). 4 indexed citations

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Arnrich, Bert, Cornelia Setz, Roberto La Marca, Gerhard Tröster, & Ulrike Ehlert. (2009). What Does Your Chair Know About Your Stress Level?. IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine. 14(2). 207–214. 66 indexed citations

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