Sandra Van der Auwera

12.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
63 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Sandra Van der Auwera is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Psychiatry and Mental health and Clinical Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sandra Van der Auwera has authored 63 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Molecular Biology, 17 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health and 15 papers in Clinical Psychology. Recurrent topics in Sandra Van der Auwera's work include Stress Responses and Cortisol (9 papers), Child Abuse and Trauma (8 papers) and Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (7 papers). Sandra Van der Auwera is often cited by papers focused on Stress Responses and Cortisol (9 papers), Child Abuse and Trauma (8 papers) and Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (7 papers). Sandra Van der Auwera collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Finland. Sandra Van der Auwera's co-authors include Hans J. Grabe, Henry Völzke, Georg Schomerus, Deborah Janowitz, Matthias C. Angermeyer, Mauro Giovanni Carta, Georg Homuth, Matthias Nauck, Katharina Wittfeld and Mohamad Habes and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, PLoS ONE and Brain.

In The Last Decade

Sandra Van der Auwera

59 papers receiving 1.5k citations

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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.

White matter hyperintensities and imaging patterns of brain ageing in the general population

2016 284 citations Mohamad Habes, Güray Erus et al. Brain profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sandra Van der Auwera Germany	17	400	354	220	210	201	63	1.5k
Deborah Janowitz Germany	20	322 0.8×	453 1.3×	171 0.8×	246 1.2×	255 1.3×	49	1.7k
Jonathan D. Schaefer United States	13	538 1.3×	418 1.2×	159 0.7×	328 1.6×	293 1.5×	32	2.2k
Chinedu Udeh‐Momoh United Kingdom	16	266 0.7×	666 1.9×	125 0.6×	322 1.5×	120 0.6×	53	1.8k
Luís Pintor Spain	25	391 1.0×	1.2k 3.3×	156 0.7×	218 1.0×	174 0.9×	114	2.5k
Hyun‐Ghang Jeong South Korea	20	195 0.5×	443 1.3×	112 0.5×	267 1.3×	424 2.1×	89	1.9k
Rajeev Krishnadas United Kingdom	20	221 0.6×	457 1.3×	170 0.8×	117 0.6×	108 0.5×	68	1.7k
Massimo Pasquini Italy	27	564 1.4×	441 1.2×	154 0.7×	97 0.5×	95 0.5×	103	2.3k
Jeffrey Ma United States	13	434 1.1×	239 0.7×	158 0.7×	97 0.5×	150 0.7×	21	1.4k
Jiansong Zhou China	26	656 1.6×	359 1.0×	197 0.9×	74 0.4×	468 2.3×	162	2.5k
Hadar Shalev Israel	20	306 0.8×	320 0.9×	79 0.4×	180 0.9×	150 0.7×	60	1.5k

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Nagy, Tamás, Xénia Gonda, András Gézsi, et al.. (2025). Pharmacological profiling of major depressive disorder-related multimorbidity clusters. European Neuropsychopharmacology. 96. 71–83.

Ameling, Sabine, Sandra Van der Auwera, Silva Holtfreter, et al.. (2025). Cytokine atlas of the population-based cohort SHIP-TREND-0 – Associations with age, sex, and BMI. Cytokine. 189. 156896–156896.

Stahl, Maximilian, Sandra Van der Auwera, Hans J. Grabe, et al.. (2024). RIOK2 transcriptionally regulates TRiC and dyskerin complexes to prevent telomere shortening. Nature Communications. 15(1). 7138–7138. 2 indexed citations

Hullám, Gábor, Zsófia Gál, Xénia Gonda, et al.. (2023). A sound mind in a sound body: a novel concept unravelling heterogeneity of depression. ScholarWorks @ UTRGV (The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley). 1 indexed citations

Frenzel, Stefan, Alexander Teumer, Katharina Wittfeld, et al.. (2022). TREML2 Gene Expression and Its Missense Variant rs3747742 Associate with White Matter Hyperintensity Volume and Alzheimer’s Disease-Related Brain Atrophy in the General Population. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 23(22). 13764–13764. 4 indexed citations

Auwera, Sandra Van der, Katharina Wittfeld, Stefan Frenzel, et al.. (2021). Body mass index but not genetic risk is longitudinally associated with altered structural brain parameters. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 24246–24246. 8 indexed citations

Schwahn, Christian, Stefan Frenzel, Birte Holtfreter, et al.. (2021). Effect of periodontal treatment on preclinical Alzheimer's disease—Results of a trial emulation approach. Alzheimer s & Dementia. 18(1). 127–141. 42 indexed citations

Hertel, Johannes, Helena U. Zacharias, Jan Terock, et al.. (2020). Vitamin D moderates the interaction between 5-HTTLPR and childhood abuse in depressive disorders. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 22394–22394. 5 indexed citations

Klinger-König, Johanna, Johannes Hertel, Sandra Van der Auwera, et al.. (2019). Methylation of the FKBP5 gene in association with FKBP5 genotypes, childhood maltreatment and depression. Neuropsychopharmacology. 44(5). 930–938. 60 indexed citations

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Auwera, Sandra Van der, Deborah Janowitz, Johannes Hertel, et al.. (2019). The Impact of Childhood Trauma and Depressive Symptoms on Body Mass Index. 2(1). 97–105. 4 indexed citations

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Janowitz, Deborah, Sandra Van der Auwera, Katharina Wittfeld, et al.. (2017). Association between serum neuron-specific enolase, age, overweight, and structural MRI patterns in 901 subjects. Translational Psychiatry. 7(12). 1272–1272. 11 indexed citations

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Block, Andrea, Sabine Schipf, Sandra Van der Auwera, et al.. (2016). Sex- and age-specific associations between major depressive disorder and metabolic syndrome in two general population samples in Germany. Nordic Journal of Psychiatry. 70(8). 611–620. 20 indexed citations

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Habes, Mohamad, Güray Erus, Jon B. Toledo, et al.. (2016). White matter hyperintensities and imaging patterns of brain ageing in the general population. Brain. 139(4). 1164–1179. 284 indexed citations breakdown →

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Auwera, Sandra Van der, Georg Schomerus, Sebastian‐Edgar Baumeister, Herbert Matschinger, & Matthias C. Angermeyer. (2016). Approval of psychotherapy and medication for the treatment of mental disorders over the lifespan. An age period cohort analysis. Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences. 26(1). 61–69. 10 indexed citations

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Habes, Mohamad, Jon B. Toledo, Susan M. Resnick, et al.. (2016). Relationship betweenAPOEGenotype and Structural MRI Measures throughout Adulthood in the Study of Health in Pomerania Population-Based Cohort. American Journal of Neuroradiology. 37(9). 1636–1642. 32 indexed citations

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Habes, Mohamad, Deborah Janowitz, Güray Erus, et al.. (2016). Advanced brain aging: relationship with epidemiologic and genetic risk factors, and overlap with Alzheimer disease atrophy patterns. Translational Psychiatry. 6(4). e775–e775. 95 indexed citations

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Schomerus, Georg, Sandra Van der Auwera, Herbert Matschinger, Sebastian‐Edgar Baumeister, & M. C. Angermeyer. (2015). Do attitudes towards persons with mental illness worsen during the course of life? An age‐period‐cohort analysis. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica. 132(5). 357–364. 42 indexed citations

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Schulz, Andrea, Sandra Van der Auwera, Sven Barnow, et al.. (2014). The impact of childhood trauma on depression: Does resilience matter? Population-based results from the Study of Health in Pomerania. Journal of Psychosomatic Research. 77(2). 97–103. 91 indexed citations

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Auwera, Sandra Van der, Ingo Bulla, Mario Ziller, et al.. (2014). ClassyFlu: Classification of Influenza A Viruses with Discriminatively Trained Profile-HMMs. PLoS ONE. 9(1). e84558–e84558. 8 indexed citations

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Huybrechts, G., Guy Van Assche, & Sandra Van der Auwera. (1998). Kinetics and mechanism of the pyrolysis of 1-chloro-1,1-difluoroethane in the presence of additives. International Journal of Chemical Kinetics. 30(5). 359–366. 9 indexed citations

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