Selected Publications
2026. Burger, J., Wang, K., Hollinsaid, N. L., Safren, S. A., & Pachankis, J. E. Toward a mechanistic understanding of
LGBTQ-affirmative cognitive-behavioral therapy: Testing treatment mediators in a randomized controlled trial with
young gay and bisexual men. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 198, 104966.
2024. Burger, J., & Pachankis, J. E. State of the science: LGBTQ-affirmative psychotherapy. Behavior Therapy, 55(6), 1318-1334.
2024. Burger, J., Andikkhash, V., Jäger, N., Anderbro, T., Blanken, T. F., & Klintwall, L. A novel approach for constructing personalized networks from longitudinal perceived causal relations. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 173, 104456.
2023. Burger, J., Isvoranu, A. M., Lunansky, G., Haslbeck, J., Epskamp, S., Hoekstra, R. H. A., et al. Reporting standards
for psychological network analyses in cross-sectional data. Psychological Methods, 28(4), 806-824.
2022. Burger, J., Epskamp, S., van der Veen, D. C., Dablander, F., Schoevers, R. A., Fried, E. I., & Riese, H. A clinical
PREMISE for personalized models: Toward a formal integration of case formulations and statistical networks. Journal
of Psychopathology and Clinical Science, 131(8), 906-916.
2022. Burger, J., Ralph-Nearman, C., & Levinson, C. A. Integrating clinician and patient case conceptualization with momentary assessment data to construct idiographic networks: Moving toward personalized treatment for eating
disorders. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 159, 104221.
2020. Burger, J., van der Veen, D. C., Robinaugh, D. J., Quax, R., Riese, H., Schoevers, R. A., & Epskamp, S. Bridging the gap between complexity science and clinical practice by formalizing idiographic theories: A computational model of
functional analysis. BMC Medicine, 18, 99.
Additional Publications
2024
Schumacher, L., Burger, J., Echterhoff, J., & Kriston, L. Methodological and Statistical Practices of Using Symptom Networks to Evaluate Mental Health Interventions: A review and reflections. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 59(4), 663-676.
Lelutiu-Weinberger, C., Filimon, M. L., Zavodszky, A. M., Lixandru, M., Hanu, L., Fierbinteanu, C., Patrascu, R., Streinu-Cercel, A., Luculescu, S., Bora, M., Filipescu, I., Jianu, C., Hightow-Weidman, L. B., Rochelle, A., Yi, B., Buckner, N., Golub, S. A., van Dyk, I. S., Burger, J., Li, F., & Pachankis, J. E. Prepare Romania: Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial of an intervention to promote pre-exposure prophylaxis adherence and persistence among gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men. Trials, 25(1), 470.
Karnbach, K., Witkowski, M., Ebrahimi, O. V., & Burger, J. Back to life, back to reality: A multi-level dynamic network analysis of student mental health upon return to campus during the COVID-19 pandemic. Current Psychology, 43, 12998-13010.
2023
Hoffart, A., Burger, J., Johnson, S. U., & Ebrahimi, O. V. Daily dynamics and mechanisms of anxious symptomatology in the general population: A network study during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 93, 102658.
2022
Mares, S. H., Burger, J., Lemmens, L. H., van Elburg, A. A., & Vroling, M. S. Evaluation of the cognitive behavioural theory of eating disorders: A network analysis investigation. Eating Behaviors, 44, 101590.
2021
Ebrahimi, O. V., Burger, J., Hoffart, A., & Johnson, S. U. Within- and across-day patterns of interplay between depressive symptoms and related psychopathological processes: A dynamic network approach during the COVID-19 pandemic. BMC Medicine, 19, 317.
Schumacher, L., Burger, J., Zoellner, F., Zindler, A., Epskamp, S., & Barthel, D. Using clinical expertise and empirical data in constructing networks of trauma symptoms in refugee youth. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 12(1), 1920200.
2020
Burger, J., Stroebe, M. S., Perrig-Chiello, P., Schut, H. A., Spahni, S., Eisma, M. C., & Fried, E. I. Bereavement or breakup: Differences in networks of depression. Journal of Affective Disorders, 267, 1–8.