Ruth A. Lanius

21.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
253 papers, 14.0k citations indexed

About

Ruth A. Lanius is a scholar working on Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental health and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ruth A. Lanius has authored 253 papers receiving a total of 14.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 132 papers in Clinical Psychology, 83 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health and 80 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Ruth A. Lanius's work include Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research (97 papers), Traumatic Brain Injury Research (80 papers) and Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments (79 papers). Ruth A. Lanius is often cited by papers focused on Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research (97 papers), Traumatic Brain Injury Research (80 papers) and Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments (79 papers). Ruth A. Lanius collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Germany. Ruth A. Lanius's co-authors include Paul Frewen, Maria Densmore, Richard W. J. Neufeld, Margaret C. McKinnon, Jean Théberge, Robyn Bluhm, Peter Williamson, Eric Vermetten, Kristine Boksman and Bethany L. Brand and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and NeuroImage.

In The Last Decade

Ruth A. Lanius

241 papers receiving 13.4k 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.

Emotion Modulation in PTSD: Clinical and Neurobiological Evidence for a Dissociative Subtype

2010 745 citations Ruth A. Lanius, Eric Vermetten et al. profile →
Post-traumatic stress disorder

2015 567 citations Eric Vermetten, Ruth A. Lanius et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ruth A. Lanius Canada	62	7.0k	5.1k	3.9k	2.9k	2.7k	253	14.0k
Eric Vermetten Netherlands	69	8.1k 1.2×	3.5k 0.7×	3.0k 0.8×	1.8k 0.6×	1.8k 0.7×	290	16.4k
Christian Schmahl Germany	67	9.9k 1.4×	2.9k 0.6×	5.6k 1.4×	989 0.3×	2.2k 0.8×	278	14.4k
Dick J. Veltman Netherlands	79	6.9k 1.0×	9.3k 1.8×	3.7k 0.9×	1.4k 0.5×	4.9k 1.8×	389	21.0k
Valerie Voon United Kingdom	70	6.0k 0.9×	6.0k 1.2×	3.9k 1.0×	1.0k 0.4×	2.0k 0.7×	237	19.4k
Alan N. Simmons United States	61	3.6k 0.5×	5.6k 1.1×	2.1k 0.5×	992 0.3×	3.6k 1.3×	208	11.4k
Miriam Gibbon United States	14	7.7k 1.1×	2.7k 0.5×	4.3k 1.1×	901 0.3×	3.3k 1.2×	15	13.6k
Lisa M. Shin United States	59	6.6k 0.9×	9.8k 1.9×	1.9k 0.5×	2.5k 0.8×	4.3k 1.6×	121	19.1k
Paul Frewen Canada	51	4.3k 0.6×	2.7k 0.5×	2.3k 0.6×	1.6k 0.5×	2.3k 0.8×	158	8.0k
Richard W. J. Neufeld Canada	47	2.9k 0.4×	3.4k 0.7×	2.0k 0.5×	985 0.3×	1.8k 0.7×	201	8.2k
Deborah Yurgelun‐Todd United States	83	4.3k 0.6×	8.6k 1.7×	6.0k 1.5×	1.1k 0.4×	2.3k 0.9×	332	19.9k

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Heber, Alexandra, et al.. (2025). The Impact of Military Sexual Misconduct on the Deployment Experiences of Woman-Identifying Canadian Veterans. Armed Forces & Society. 52(2). 714–742.

Spanevello, Mark, et al.. (2025). Heart under pressure: The hidden battle of posttraumatic stress disorder in aortic dissection survivors. JTCVS Open. 28. 117–120.

Nicholson, Andrew A., Kristen Eckstrand, Daniela Rabellino, et al.. (2024). Exploring the impact of biological sex on intrinsic connectivity networks in PTSD: A data-driven approach. Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry. 136. 111180–111180. 1 indexed citations

Katrinli, Şeyma, Ruth A. Lanius, Nathaniel G. Harnett, et al.. (2024). Racial Discrimination, Neural Connectivity, and Epigenetic Aging Among Black Women. JAMA Network Open. 7(6). e2416588–e2416588. 6 indexed citations

Patel, Herry, Bethany Easterbrook, Charlene O’Connor, et al.. (2024). Exploring the association between moral injury and posttraumatic stress symptoms among Canadian public safety personnel. Journal of Traumatic Stress. 38(2). 272–283. 3 indexed citations

Duan, Yinfei, et al.. (2024). Dissociation in Long-Term Care Home Staff During COVID-19: Challenges and Promising Practices. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. 26(1). 105357–105357. 1 indexed citations

Bond, Rachel M., Nathaniel G. Harnett, Timothy D. Ely, et al.. (2024). Racial Discrimination–Related Interoceptive Network Disruptions: A Pathway to Disconnection. Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging. 11(1). 30–38.

Frewen, Paul, et al.. (2023). As simple as possible, but not simpler: Revisiting the International Trauma Questionnaire (ITQ) complex PTSD items omitted in the shortened version. Child Abuse & Neglect. 141. 106207–106207. 6 indexed citations

Hosseiny, Fardous, Sara Rodrigues, Charlene O’Connor, et al.. (2023). The Hidden Crisis: Understanding Potentially Morally Injurious Events Experienced by Healthcare Providers during COVID-19 in Canada. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 20(6). 4813–4813. 8 indexed citations

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Titley, Heather K., Yinfei Duan, Sube Banerjee, et al.. (2023). Workforce resilience supporting staff in managing stress: A coherent breathing intervention for the long‐term care workforce. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 72(3). 753–766. 2 indexed citations

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Andrews, Krysta, Maria Densmore, Sherain Harricharan, et al.. (2023). ‘I am afraid you will see the stain on my soul’: Direct gaze neural processing in individuals with PTSD after moral injury recall. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 18(1). 3 indexed citations

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Patel, Herry, Charlene O’Connor, Krysta Andrews, et al.. (2022). Dissociative symptomatology mediates the relation between posttraumatic stress disorder severity and alcohol‐related problems. Alcoholism Clinical and Experimental Research. 46(2). 289–299. 13 indexed citations

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Makris, Nikos, et al.. (2021). Altered basal forebrain BOLD signal variability at rest in posttraumatic stress disorder: A potential candidate vulnerability mechanism for neurodegeneration in PTSD. Human Brain Mapping. 42(11). 3561–3575. 10 indexed citations

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Cramer, Angélique O. J., et al.. (2020). A network approach to studying the associations between PTSD symptoms and dissociative experiences. Journal of Traumatic Stress. 4 indexed citations

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Olff, Miranda, Ananda B. Amstadter, Chérie Armour, et al.. (2019). A decennial review of psychotraumatology: what did we learn and where are we going?. European journal of psychotraumatology. 10(1). 1672948–1672948. 49 indexed citations

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Parlar, Melissa, Maria Densmore, Geoffrey B. Hall, et al.. (2017). Relation between patterns of intrinsic network connectivity, cognitive functioning, and symptom presentation in trauma‐exposed patients with major depressive disorder. Brain and Behavior. 7(5). e00664–e00664. 13 indexed citations

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Parlar, Melissa, Maria Densmore, Geoffrey B. Hall, Ruth A. Lanius, & Margaret C. McKinnon. (2017). Neural and behavioural correlates of autobiographical memory retrieval in patients with major depressive disorder and a history of trauma exposure. Neuropsychologia. 110. 148–158. 14 indexed citations

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Brand, Bethany L., Ruth A. Lanius, Eric Vermetten, Richard J. Loewenstein, & David Spiegel. (2012). Where Are We Going? An Update on Assessment, Treatment, and Neurobiological Research in Dissociative Disorders as We Move Toward the DSM-5. Journal of Trauma & Dissociation. 13(1). 9–31. 64 indexed citations

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Hegadoren, Kathleen, et al.. (2009). The role of β-endorphin in the pathophysiology of major depression. Neuropeptides. 43(5). 341–353. 94 indexed citations

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Lanius, Ruth A., Paul Frewen, Murray J. Girotti, et al.. (2007). Neural correlates of trauma script-imagery in posttraumatic stress disorder with and without comorbid major depression: A functional MRI investigation. Psychiatry Research Neuroimaging. 155(1). 45–56. 90 indexed citations

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