Winfried Rief is an expert in Psychiatry at Archives School Marburg (Germany). As of October 2026, ScienceLeadR ranks Winfried Rief in the top 1% of experts worldwide for Somatoform Disorders. Winfried Rief has authored 783 publications, the most recent in 2026, and is an investigator in 58 clinical trials, 2 of them ongoing. SLR score: 3,836 (community average: 125). How the SLR is computed.

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Psychiatry

Subspecialties: Psychology

Full career – Last 3 years

Main Topics

Publications and Clinical Studies

Publications – Clinical Studies

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Organizations

Career arc: 1992 - 2026

Source: PubMed

Philipp University of Marburg

Publications Synthesis

Sources: PubMed, OpenAlex

Number : 783

Citations

Citations: 48 130 1st author: 105 Last author: 231 Unique author: 29


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Latest Publications

5 most recent indexed articles

Source: Pubmed

Title Journal Year Citations
Invisible cost of pain management by the current International Classification of Diseases coding system, a study in a tertiary care inpatient setting: erratum.
PMID 42872558 — pain, pain management, classification, international classification of diseases, tertiary healthcare
Pain20260
How to Define Psychological Therapy and Psychotherapy? - An Interdisciplinary Proposal.
PMID 42787769 — psychotherapy, work, therapeutics
Clin Psychol Eur20262
[What is psychotherapy? An interdisciplinary proposal for a definition].
PMID 42632823 — psychosomatic medicine, psychotherapy, work, therapeutics, neurology
Nervenarzt20260
Leveraging expectation effects to improve outcomes in the context of digital mental health interventions.
PMID 42604005 — therapeutics, mental health
Internet Interv20260
The spatial association between peritraumatic and chronic pain and its relation to posttraumatic stress disorder among trauma survivors.
PMID 42600064 — stress disorders, post-traumatic, chronic pain, pain, stress, physiological, signs and symptoms, stress disorders, traumatic, research, wounds and injuries
J Trauma Stress20260

Clinical Studies 58

Sources: ClinicalTrials, EU CTIS

Synthesis

Principal Investigator: 29 Study Chair: 5 Study Director: 6

By phase:

N/A 47
Phase 3 5
Phase 2 3
Phase 2/Phase 3 2
Phase 1/Phase 2 1

By status:

Completed 44
Unknown 11
Recruiting 2
Terminated 1

By type:

Interventional 53
Observational 5

By Monocentric/Multicentric:

monocentric 45
multicentric2to4 10
multicentric5to9 2
multicentricup10 1

Main Topics

Cohort/Consortium Investigators 1

Ongoing Clinical Trials

2 ongoing trials started since 2021, where this expert is an investigator

Source: ClinicalTrials

Study Phase Status Start
Group Therapy for Major Depression Comparing Expectation Focused and Reward Focused Psychotherapy Approaches
NCT07388004 — depression, immunization, psychotherapy, group, reinforcement, psychology, psychotherapy, reward, signs and symptoms, depressive disorder, motivation, therapeutics, learning, depressive disorder, major, cognitive restructuring
N/ARecruiting2025
Enhancing Treatment Outcomes The Impact of Physical Touch in Back and Neck Pain Management
NCT06069193 — exercise, touch, neck pain, pain, pain management, perception, pharmacy, analgesics, therapeutics
N/ARecruiting2023

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