Silke Schmidt

22.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
278 papers, 11.6k citations indexed

About

Silke Schmidt is a scholar working on Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, Silke Schmidt has authored 278 papers receiving a total of 11.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 75 papers in Clinical Psychology, 50 papers in Social Psychology and 48 papers in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in Silke Schmidt's work include Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (27 papers), Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life (26 papers) and Retinal Diseases and Treatments (24 papers). Silke Schmidt is often cited by papers focused on Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (27 papers), Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life (26 papers) and Retinal Diseases and Treatments (24 papers). Silke Schmidt collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and United Kingdom. Silke Schmidt's co-authors include Mick Power, Margaret A. Pericak‐Vance, Jonathan L. Haines, Holger Mühlan, Monika Bullinger, Eric A. Postel, Anita Agarwal, Michael A. Hauser, William K. Scott and Kylee L. Spencer and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Genetics and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Silke Schmidt

270 papers receiving 11.2k citations

Hit Papers

Complement Factor H Variant Increases the Risk of Age-Rel... 2005 2026 2012 2019 2005 500 1000 1.5k
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. Complement Factor H Variant Increases the Risk of Age-Related Macular Degeneration
    2005 1.9k citations Jonathan L. Haines, Michael A. Hauser et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Silke Schmidt Germany 48 2.7k 1.9k 1.8k 1.7k 1.4k 278 11.6k
Karen Bandeen‐Roche United States 78 2.3k 0.9× 978 0.5× 958 0.5× 2.1k 1.3× 208 0.2× 339 23.4k
Michael B. Bracken United States 71 2.1k 0.8× 2.6k 1.4× 966 0.5× 1.4k 0.8× 1.4k 1.0× 266 25.9k
Maarten Boers Netherlands 79 364 0.1× 1.4k 0.8× 710 0.4× 2.1k 1.3× 2.6k 1.9× 468 32.7k
Dallas R. English Australia 91 494 0.2× 3.8k 2.0× 5.8k 3.2× 898 0.5× 936 0.7× 592 29.5k
Frank Kee United Kingdom 56 325 0.1× 857 0.5× 541 0.3× 519 0.3× 393 0.3× 445 11.7k
David Lee United States 60 930 0.3× 501 0.3× 547 0.3× 774 0.5× 97 0.1× 496 12.3k
Yanping Li China 74 304 0.1× 3.2k 1.7× 559 0.3× 480 0.3× 524 0.4× 565 20.4k
Roger Harbord United Kingdom 33 172 0.1× 1.5k 0.8× 1.1k 0.6× 624 0.4× 533 0.4× 46 17.7k
Beverley Shea Canada 64 163 0.1× 1.7k 0.9× 1.0k 0.6× 920 0.5× 650 0.5× 217 25.4k
Giuseppe La Torre Italy 58 142 0.1× 1.5k 0.8× 953 0.5× 912 0.5× 433 0.3× 667 13.6k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Silke Schmidt

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Silke Schmidt

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

All Works

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Schulz, P., et al.. (2025). Psychometric properties of the German version of the moral disengagement in meat questionnaire (MDMQ-G). Food Quality and Preference. 127. 105439–105439. 1 indexed citations
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Schulz, P., et al.. (2024). Gender and Socioeconomic Influences on Ten Pro-Environmental Behavior Intentions: A German Comparative Study. Sustainability. 16(7). 2816–2816. 6 indexed citations
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Muehlan, Holger, Neeltje van den Berg, Wolfgang Hoffmann, et al.. (2023). Measuring context that matters: validation of the modular Tele-QoL patient-reported outcome and experience measure. Quality of Life Research. 32(11). 3223–3234. 1 indexed citations
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Stentzel, Ulrike, et al.. (2023). Mental health-related telemedicine interventions for pregnant women and new mothers: a systematic literature review. BMC Psychiatry. 23(1). 292–292. 18 indexed citations
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Steinbüechel, Nicole von, Holger Muehlan, Juan Carlos Arango‐Lasprilla, et al.. (2023). Impact of Sociodemographic, Premorbid, and Injury-Related Factors on Patient-Reported Outcome Trajectories after Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). Journal of Clinical Medicine. 12(6). 2246–2246. 9 indexed citations
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Tomczyk, Samuel, et al.. (2023). The Seeking Mental Health Care model: prediction of help-seeking for depressive symptoms by stigma and mental illness representations. BMC Public Health. 23(1). 69–69. 33 indexed citations
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Tomczyk, Samuel, et al.. (2022). Continuum beliefs of mental illness: a systematic review of measures. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology. 58(1). 1–16. 10 indexed citations
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Schmidt, Silke, Christine Ulke, Sven Speerforck, et al.. (2022). Even Now Women Focus on Family, Men on Work: An Analysis of Employment, Marital, and Reproductive Life-Course Typologies in Relation to Change in Health-Related Quality of Life. Applied Research in Quality of Life. 18(3). 1205–1223. 4 indexed citations
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Ulke, Christine, Holger Muehlan, Heide Glaesmer, et al.. (2021). Socio-political context as determinant of childhood maltreatment: a population-based study among women and men in East and West Germany. Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences. 30. 13 indexed citations
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Schmidt, Silke. (2020). Vaper, Beware: The Unique Toxicological Profile of Electronic Cigarettes. Environmental Health Perspectives. 128(5). 52001–52001. 14 indexed citations
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Ulke, Christine, Holger Mühlan, Manfred E. Beutel, et al.. (2020). Later-life depressive symptoms and anxiety attacks in displaced and nondisplaced populations. Journal of Affective Disorders Reports. 3. 100061–100061. 1 indexed citations
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Tomczyk, Samuel, Holger Muehlan, Simone Freitag, et al.. (2018). Is knowledge “half the battle”? The role of depression literacy in help-seeking among a non-clinical sample of adults with currently untreated mental health problems. Journal of Affective Disorders. 238. 289–296. 30 indexed citations
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Schomerus, Georg, Susanne Stolzenburg, Simone Freitag, et al.. (2018). Stigma as a barrier to recognizing personal mental illness and seeking help: a prospective study among untreated persons with mental illness. European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience. 269(4). 469–479. 142 indexed citations
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Kehl, Doris, et al.. (2017). Reasons for Volunteering in the Field of Civil Protection in Germany. Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management. 14(1). 6 indexed citations
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Chakraborty, Sushmita, et al.. (2017). Influence of Pasteurella multocida Toxin on the differentiation of dendritic cells into osteoclasts. Immunobiology. 223(1). 142–150. 10 indexed citations
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Haines, Jonathan L., Michael A. Hauser, Silke Schmidt, et al.. (2005). Complement Factor H Variant Increases the Risk of Age-Related Macular Degeneration. Science. 308(5720). 419–421. 1898 indexed citations breakdown →

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