Vladan Starčević

12.7k total citations · 4 hit papers
224 papers, 6.5k citations indexed

About

Vladan Starčević is a scholar working on Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Psychiatry and Mental health. According to data from OpenAlex, Vladan Starčević has authored 224 papers receiving a total of 6.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 146 papers in Clinical Psychology, 96 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 70 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health. Recurrent topics in Vladan Starčević's work include Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes (79 papers), Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments (53 papers) and Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders (53 papers). Vladan Starčević is often cited by papers focused on Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes (79 papers), Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments (53 papers) and Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders (53 papers). Vladan Starčević collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and Italy. Vladan Starčević's co-authors include David Berle, Joël Billieux, Elias Aboujaoude, Adriano Schimmenti, Vlasios Brakoulias, Sandra Arnáez, Kirupamani Viswasam, Yasser Khazaal, Denise Milicevic and Matthew W. Savage and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews and The British Journal of Psychiatry.

In The Last Decade

Vladan Starčević

216 papers receiving 6.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Cyberbullying: Review of an Old Problem Gone Viral

2015 324 citations Vladan Starčević et al. profile →
Cyberchondria: towards a better understanding of excessive health-related Internet use

2013 322 citations Vladan Starčević, David Berle profile →
The relationships between health anxiety, online health information seeking, and cyberchondria: Systematic review and meta-analysis

2018 251 citations David Berle, Sandra Arnáez et al. Journal of Affective Disorders profile →
The Four Horsemen of Fear: An Integrated Model of Understanding Fear Experiences During the Covid-19 Pandemic.

2020 235 citations Adriano Schimmenti, Joël Billieux et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Vladan Starčević Australia	41	3.3k	1.8k	1.8k	1.5k	1.1k	224	6.5k
Brian M. Hicks United States	48	5.2k 1.6×	1.6k 0.8×	1.7k 0.9×	772 0.5×	1.1k 1.1×	115	7.8k
Andrew G. Ryder Canada	37	3.6k 1.1×	2.3k 1.2×	1.2k 0.7×	938 0.6×	2.1k 2.0×	125	7.1k
Marco Sarchiapone Italy	47	4.9k 1.5×	1.6k 0.9×	692 0.4×	1.6k 1.1×	1.6k 1.6×	130	7.4k
Cecilia A. Essau United Kingdom	42	5.3k 1.6×	1.0k 0.5×	2.2k 1.2×	1.1k 0.7×	1.6k 1.5×	172	7.2k
Vladimir Carli Sweden	42	4.6k 1.4×	1.5k 0.8×	659 0.4×	1.4k 1.0×	1.7k 1.6×	147	7.2k
Mark G. Haviland United States	32	2.9k 0.9×	655 0.4×	2.0k 1.1×	1.8k 1.2×	1.7k 1.6×	84	6.9k
Phillip K. Wood United States	52	3.9k 1.2×	709 0.4×	2.3k 1.2×	847 0.6×	1.2k 1.1×	138	9.0k
Kevin Power United Kingdom	43	2.8k 0.9×	780 0.4×	1.2k 0.7×	1.1k 0.7×	1.1k 1.0×	153	5.5k
Yasser Khazaal Switzerland	40	2.6k 0.8×	3.2k 1.7×	812 0.4×	772 0.5×	609 0.6×	243	6.5k
Matthew S. Stanford United States	25	5.0k 1.5×	1.5k 0.8×	1.9k 1.0×	1.9k 1.3×	1.2k 1.2×	61	9.4k

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Xu, Richard Huan, Xiao Liang, & Vladan Starčević. (2025). Exploring the Relationship Between Cyberchondria and Suicidal Ideation: Cross-Sectional Mediation Analysis. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 27. e72414–e72414. 2 indexed citations

Starčević, Vladan, et al.. (2025). The relationship between e-Health literacy and cyberchondria in Iranian students of health sciences. Frontiers in Psychiatry. 15. 1421391–1421391. 2 indexed citations

Baggio, Stéphanie, et al.. (2025). Psychological consequences of school mobile phone bans: Emulated trial of a natural experiment in South Australia. Computers in Human Behavior. 172. 108767–108767.

Pozza, Andrea, et al.. (2024). Worldwide prevalence of obsessive-compulsive symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Journal of Psychiatric Research. 172. 360–381. 7 indexed citations

Giardina, Alessandro, Vladan Starčević, Daniel L. King, et al.. (2024). From active escapism to virtual withdrawal: Validation of the Compensatory-Dissociative Online Gaming scales (C-DOGs). Journal of Behavioral Addictions. 13(4). 1028–1050. 5 indexed citations

Starčević, Vladan, Guy D. Eslick, Kirupamani Viswasam, et al.. (2023). Problematic online behaviors and psychopathology in Australia. Psychiatry Research. 327. 115405–115405. 14 indexed citations

Starčević, Vladan. (2023). Keeping Dr. Google under control: how to prevent and manage cyberchondria. World Psychiatry. 22(2). 233–234. 12 indexed citations

Berle, David, Vladan Starčević, Bethany M. Wootton, Sandra Arnáez, & Stéphanie Baggio. (2023). A network approach to understanding obsessions and compulsions. Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders. 36. 100786–100786. 2 indexed citations

Santoro, Gianluca, Joël Billieux, Vladan Starčević, et al.. (2023). Psychometric Properties of the Multidimensional Assessment of Covid-19-Related Fears (MAC-RF) in French-Speaking Healthcare Professionals and Community Adults. SERVAL (Université de Lausanne). 3(1). 1 indexed citations

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Silberman, Edward, Antônio Egídio Nardi, Vladan Starčević, et al.. (2023). Resolving the Paradox of Long-Term Benzodiazepine Treatment. The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. 84(6). 3 indexed citations

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Starčević, Vladan, Adriano Schimmenti, Yasser Khazaal, et al.. (2023). Predictors of Cyberchondria During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Cross-sectional Study Using Supervised Machine Learning. JMIR Formative Research. 7. e42206–e42206. 8 indexed citations

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Viswasam, Kirupamani, David Berle, Denise Milicevic, & Vladan Starčević. (2021). Prevalence and onset of anxiety and related disorders throughout pregnancy: A prospective study in an Australian sample. Psychiatry Research. 297. 113721–113721. 9 indexed citations

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Starčević, Vladan, Adriano Schimmenti, Joël Billieux, & David Berle. (2020). Cyberchondria in the time of the COVID ‐19 pandemic. Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies. 3(1). 53–62. 81 indexed citations

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Starčević, Vladan & Yasser Khazaal. (2017). Relationships between Behavioural Addictions and Psychiatric Disorders: What Is Known and What Is Yet to Be Learned?. Frontiers in Psychiatry. 8. 53–53. 91 indexed citations

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Monti, Mario Rossi, et al.. (2016). Development, cross-cultural adaptation process and preliminary validation of the Italian version of the Nepean Dysphoria Scale. Giornale italiano di psicopatologia/Journal of psychopathology/Italian journal of psychopathology. 22. 149–156. 6 indexed citations

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Starčević, Vladan. (2007). Body as the source of threat and fear of death in hypochondriasis and panic disorder. 39(1). 73–82. 5 indexed citations

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Latas, Milan & Vladan Starčević. (1998). Comorbidity among psychiatric disorders: Theoretical considerations. 30(1). 113–126. 1 indexed citations

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Starčević, Vladan. (1995). Pathological worry in major depression: a preliminary report. Behaviour Research and Therapy. 33(1). 55–56. 130 indexed citations

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Starčević, Vladan, et al.. (1993). Post-traumatic stress disorder: Current conceptualization, an overview of research, and treatment. 25. 23–44. 1 indexed citations

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Starčević, Vladan, Robert Kellner, E. H. Uhlenhuth, & Dorothy R. Pathak. (1992). Panic disorder and hypochondriacal fears and beliefs. Journal of Affective Disorders. 24(2). 73–85. 35 indexed citations

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