Youssef Shiban

3.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
51 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Youssef Shiban is a scholar working on Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Youssef Shiban has authored 51 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, 16 papers in Social Psychology and 14 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Youssef Shiban's work include Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes (20 papers), Digital Mental Health Interventions (11 papers) and Stress Responses and Cortisol (9 papers). Youssef Shiban is often cited by papers focused on Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes (20 papers), Digital Mental Health Interventions (11 papers) and Stress Responses and Cortisol (9 papers). Youssef Shiban collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Canada and United Kingdom. Youssef Shiban's co-authors include Andreas Mühlberger, Julia Diemer, Georg W. Alpers, Paul Pauli, Stefan Wüst, Martin Dechant, S. Brandl, Christian Wolff, Max Kinateder and Bernhard Meyer and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Youssef Shiban

47 papers receiving 1.5k 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.

The impact of perception and presence on emotional reactions: a review of research in virtual reality

2015 605 citations Julia Diemer, Georg W. Alpers et al. Frontiers in Psychology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Youssef Shiban Germany	17	582	405	399	395	185	51	1.5k
Julia Diemer Germany	16	586 1.0×	372 0.9×	322 0.8×	337 0.9×	168 0.9×	43	1.4k
Anna Felnhofer Austria	23	492 0.8×	216 0.5×	451 1.1×	258 0.7×	315 1.7×	63	1.6k
Helena Villa Spain	21	528 0.9×	353 0.9×	237 0.6×	343 0.9×	584 3.2×	37	1.6k
Merel Krijn Netherlands	8	995 1.7×	318 0.8×	351 0.9×	407 1.0×	206 1.1×	9	1.6k
Charles A.P.G. van der Mast Netherlands	9	983 1.7×	272 0.7×	326 0.8×	356 0.9×	177 1.0×	19	1.6k
Claudia Repetto Italy	21	594 1.0×	398 1.0×	352 0.9×	398 1.0×	137 0.7×	68	1.7k
Katharina Meyerbröker Netherlands	12	393 0.7×	175 0.4×	165 0.4×	315 0.8×	265 1.4×	23	984
José Vasconcelos-Raposo Portugal	22	475 0.8×	134 0.3×	441 1.1×	154 0.4×	195 1.1×	104	1.3k
Évelyne Klinger France	21	422 0.7×	443 1.1×	195 0.5×	362 0.9×	199 1.1×	45	1.6k
Dan Opdyke United States	7	655 1.1×	269 0.7×	195 0.5×	241 0.6×	226 1.2×	7	1.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Youssef Shiban

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Kubota, Naoyuki, et al.. (2025). Hearing emotions: fine-tuning speech emotion recognition models. Reutlingen University Academic Bibliography (Reutlingen University). 18–18.

Fox, J. H., et al.. (2025). Psychological transdiagnostic factors and migraine characteristics as predictors of migraine-related disability. The Journal of Headache and Pain. 26(1). 167–167.

Fox, James H., et al.. (2025). Effects of change in dysfunctional beliefs in avatar-based cognitive therapy for depressive symptoms: a randomized parallel trial. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 19668–19668.

Kubota, Naoyuki, et al.. (2024). Zero-Shot Strike: Testing the generalisation capabilities of out-of-the-box LLM models for depression detection. Computer Speech & Language. 88. 101663–101663. 15 indexed citations

Fox, J. H., et al.. (2024). GPT-4 shows potential for identifying social anxiety from clinical interview data. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 30498–30498. 2 indexed citations

Zhang, Yihong, et al.. (2024). Enhancing early depression detection with AI: a comparative use of NLP models. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 17(1). 135–143. 3 indexed citations

Fox, J. H., et al.. (2024). The impact of fear of attacks on pain‐related disability in cluster headache: Insights from the fear avoidance model. Headache The Journal of Head and Face Pain. 65(1). 45–53. 4 indexed citations

Shiban, Youssef, et al.. (2024). AI-Supported Diagnostic of Depression Using Clinical Interviews: A Pilot Study. Reutlingen University Academic Bibliography (Reutlingen University). 500–507. 3 indexed citations

Shiban, Youssef, et al.. (2023). Computer-Assisted Avatar-Based Treatment for Dysfunctional Beliefs and Eating-Disorder Symptomatology: A Randomized Control Pilot Study. International Journal of Cognitive Therapy. 17(2). 251–278. 1 indexed citations

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Riva, Giuseppe, Daniele Di Lernia, Cosimo Tuena, et al.. (2023). A Self-Help Virtual Therapeutic Experience Intervention for Overcoming Psychological Distress Related to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Results From the European Multicentric COVID Feel Good Trial. Psychosomatic Medicine. 85(7). 639–650. 5 indexed citations

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Serino, Silvia, Daniele Di Lernia, Cosimo Tuena, et al.. (2022). COVID Feel Good: Evaluation of a Self-Help Protocol to Overcome the Psychological Burden of the COVID-19 Pandemic in a German Sample. Journal of Clinical Medicine. 11(8). 2080–2080. 11 indexed citations

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Shiban, Youssef, et al.. (2022). Emotions and emotion up-regulation during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany. PLoS ONE. 17(1). e0262283–e0262283. 11 indexed citations

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Sütterlin, Stefan, et al.. (2021). Psychological Burden During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Germany. Frontiers in Psychology. 12. 640518–640518. 11 indexed citations

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Wagner, Arthur, et al.. (2019). Psychological predictors of quality of life and functional outcome in patients undergoing elective surgery for degenerative lumbar spine disease. European Spine Journal. 29(2). 349–359. 17 indexed citations

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Pfaller, Michael A., et al.. (2019). Men Scare Me More: Gender Differences in Social Fear Conditioning in Virtual Reality. Frontiers in Psychology. 10. 1617–1617. 29 indexed citations

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Shiban, Youssef, et al.. (2017). Diaphragmatic breathing during virtual reality exposure therapy for aviophobia: functional coping strategy or avoidance behavior? a pilot study. BMC Psychiatry. 17(1). 29–29. 38 indexed citations

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Diemer, Julia, et al.. (2015). The impact of perception and presence on emotional reactions: a review of research in virtual reality. Frontiers in Psychology. 6. 26–26. 605 indexed citations breakdown →

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Shiban, Youssef, et al.. (2015). Effect of combined multiple contexts and multiple stimuli exposure in spider phobia: A randomized clinical trial in virtual reality. Behaviour Research and Therapy. 71. 45–53. 113 indexed citations

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Shiban, Youssef, et al.. (2015). Social conditioning and extinction paradigm: a translational study in virtual reality. Frontiers in Psychology. 6. 400–400. 19 indexed citations

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Shiban, Youssef, Paul Pauli, & Andreas Mühlberger. (2012). Effect of multiple context exposure on renewal in spider phobia. Behaviour Research and Therapy. 51(2). 68–74. 116 indexed citations

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