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Aikaterini Fotopoulou publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Aikaterini Fotopoulou sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 164 publications — 56th percentile

56% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Aikaterini Fotopoulou D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Aikaterini Fotopoulou sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 57 D-Index — 66th percentile

66% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Overview

Aikaterini Fotopoulou is a researcher affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their work primarily spans the field of Psychology, with a focus on a range of subfields including Social Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

The topics addressed in their research include:

  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Action Observation and Synchronization
  • Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts
  • Spatial Neglect and Hemispheric Dysfunction
  • Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
  • Eating Disorders and Behaviors
  • Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies

Their recent publications demonstrate an ongoing engagement with psychological and neuroscientific themes:

  • "Social touch deprivation during COVID-19: effects on psychological wellbeing and craving interpersonal touch," 2021, Royal Society Open Science
  • "Effects of route of administration on oxytocin-induced changes in regional cerebral blood flow in humans," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "Gender and geographical disparity in editorial boards of journals in psychology and neuroscience," 2022, Nature Neuroscience
  • "Damage to the right insula disrupts the perception of affective touch," 2020, eLife
  • "Affective regulation through touch: homeostatic and allostatic mechanisms," 2021, Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences

Frequent collaborators with whom Fotopoulou has published multiple times include Paul M. Jenkinson, Laura Crucianelli, Athanasios Koukoutsakis, Valentina Moro, and Mariana Von Mohr.

Fotopoulou's research is published predominantly in journals such as Nature Communications, Scientific Reports, Brain Communications, Cognition, and Neuropsychologia. These venues indicate a consistent presence in both psychology and neuroscience literature.

Best Publications

  • Mentalizing homeostasis: The social origins of interoceptive inference

    Aikaterini Fotopoulou;Manos Tsakiris

  • Hands only illusion: multisensory integration elicits sense of ownership for body parts but not for non-corporeal objects

    Manos Tsakiris;Lewis Carpenter;Dafydd James;Aikaterini Fotopoulou

  • ‘Bodily precision’: a predictive coding account of individual differences in interoceptive accuracy

    Vivien Ainley;Matthew A. J. Apps;Aikaterini Fotopoulou;Manos Tsakiris

  • The social modulation of pain: others as predictive signals of salience - a systematic review.

    Charlotte Krahé;Anne Springer;John A. Weinman;Aikaterini Fotopoulou

  • Why empathy has a beneficial impact on others in medicine: unifying theories.

    Jean Decety;Aikaterini Fotopoulou

  • Bodily pleasure matters: velocity of touch modulates body ownership during the rubber hand illusion.

    Laura Crucianelli;Nicola K Metcalf;Aikaterini Katerina Fotopoulou;Paul M Jenkinson

  • Looking into myself: changes in interoceptive sensitivity during mirror self-observation.

    Vivien Ainley;Ana Tajadura-Jiménez;Aikaterini Fotopoulou;Manos Tsakiris

  • A Spatiotemporal Profile of In Vivo Cerebral Blood Flow Changes Following Intranasal Oxytocin in Humans

    Yannis Paloyelis;Orla M. Doyle;Fernando O. Zelaya;Stefanos Maltezos

  • The soothing function of touch: affective touch reduces feelings of social exclusion.

    Mariana von Mohr;Louise P. Kirsch;Aikaterini Fotopoulou

  • Interoceptive Ingredients of Body Ownership: Affective Touch and Cardiac Awareness in the Rubber Hand Illusion

    Laura Crucianelli;Laura Crucianelli;Charlotte Krahé;Paul M Jenkinson;Aikaterini Katerina Fotopoulou

  • The role of motor intention in motor awareness: an experimental study on anosognosia for hemiplegia

    Aikaterini Fotopoulou;Manos Tsakiris;Patrick Haggard;Angelique Vagopoulou

  • Implicit awareness in anosognosia for hemiplegia: unconscious interference without conscious re-representation.

    Aikaterini Fotopoulou;Aikaterini Fotopoulou;Simone Pernigo;Rino Maeda;Anthony Rudd

  • The perception of affective touch in anorexia nervosa

    Laura Crucianelli;Valentina Cardi;Janet Treasure;Paul M. Jenkinson

  • Alexithymia in Neurological Disease: A Review

    Lucia Ricciardi;Benedetta Demartini;Aikaterini Fotopoulou;Mark J. Edwards

  • Wishful reality distortions in confabulation: a case report.

    Aikaterini Fotopoulou;Mark Solms;Mark Solms;Oliver Turnbull

  • Neurobiology of functional (psychogenic) movement disorders

    Mark J. Edwards;Aikaterini Fotopoulou;Isabel Pareés

  • Knowing you care: effects of perceived empathy and attachment style on pain perception.

    Chiara F. Sambo;Matthew Howard;Michael Kopelman;Steven Williams

  • Mirror-view reverses somatoparaphrenia: Dissociation between first- and third-person perspectives on body ownership

    Aikaterini Fotopoulou;Paul Mark Jenkinson;Manos Tsakiris;Patrick Haggard

  • Self-observation reinstates motor awareness in anosognosia for hemiplegia.

    Aikaterini Fotopoulou;Anthony Rudd;Paul Holmes;Michael Kopelman

  • Social touch deprivation during COVID-19: effects on psychological wellbeing and craving interpersonal touch.

    Mariana von Mohr;Mariana von Mohr;Louise P. Kirsch;Aikaterini Fotopoulou

  • Affective touch and attachment style modulate pain: A laser-evoked potentials study

    Charlotte Krahé;Marianne M. Drabek;Yannis Paloyelis;Aikaterini Fotopoulou

Frequent Co-Authors

Manos Tsakiris
Manos Tsakiris Royal Holloway University of London
Mark Solms
Mark Solms University of Cape Town
Michael D. Kopelman
Michael D. Kopelman King's College London
Michel Thiebaut de Schotten
Michel Thiebaut de Schotten University of Bordeaux
Fernando Zelaya
Fernando Zelaya King's College London
Patrick Haggard
Patrick Haggard University College London
Oliver H. Turnbull
Oliver H. Turnbull Bangor University
Martin A. Conway
Martin A. Conway City, University of London
James M. Kilner
James M. Kilner University College London
Elizabeth Pellicano
Elizabeth Pellicano University College London

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