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Christopher I. Petkov

Christopher I. Petkov

D-Index & Metrics

Neuroscience

D-Index
45
Citations
7763
World Ranking
6925
National Ranking
540

Christopher I. Petkov publication distribution in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Neuroscience in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Christopher I. Petkov sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 154 publications — 45th percentile

45% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 887 publications or more.

Christopher I. Petkov D-index placement in Neuroscience in 2026

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

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This scientist: 45 D-Index — 29th percentile

29% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Christopher I. Petkov is affiliated with Newcastle University in the United Kingdom. Their research contributions are primarily in the field of neuroscience, with a strong focus on cognitive neuroscience, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, biomedical engineering, cellular and molecular neuroscience, and neurology.

Their recent published work includes the following papers:

  • Accelerating the Evolution of Nonhuman Primate Neuroimaging, 2020, Neuron
  • An Open Resource for Non-human Primate Optogenetics, 2020, Neuron
  • Primate auditory prototype in the evolution of the arcuate fasciculus, 2020, Nature Neuroscience
  • Combining brain perturbation and neuroimaging in non-human primates, 2021, NeuroImage
  • Common fronto-temporal effective connectivity in humans and monkeys, 2021, Neuron

Frequent collaborators in their work include:

  • Timothy D. Griffiths
  • Matthew A. Howard
  • Yukiko Kikuchi
  • Fabien Balezeau
  • Hiroyuki Oya

Christopher I. Petkov's publications often appear in the following venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Current Research in Neurobiology
  • Neuron
  • NeuroImage
  • Nature Communications

The main topics of their research encompass neural dynamics and brain function, functional brain connectivity studies, neuroscience and music perception, hearing loss and rehabilitation, advanced neuroimaging techniques and applications, advanced MRI techniques and applications, and ultrasound and hyperthermia applications.

Best Publications

  • Visual Modulation of Neurons in Auditory Cortex

    Christoph Kayser;Christopher I. Petkov;Nikos K. Logothetis

  • Birds, primates, and spoken language origins: behavioral phenotypes and neurobiological substrates.

    Christopher I. Petkov;Erich D. Jarvis

  • Integration of Touch and Sound in Auditory Cortex

    Christoph Kayser;Christopher I. Petkov;Mark Augath;Nikos K. Logothetis

  • A voice region in the monkey brain

    Christopher I Petkov;Christoph Kayser;Thomas Steudel;Kevin Whittingstall

  • Mechanisms for allocating auditory attention: an auditory saliency map

    Christoph Kayser;Christopher I. Petkov;Michael Lippert;Nikos K. Logothetis

  • Attentional modulation of human auditory cortex.

    Christopher I Petkov;Xiaojian Kang;Kimmo Alho;Olivier Bertrand

  • Functional Imaging Reveals Visual Modulation of Specific Fields in Auditory Cortex

    Christoph Kayser;Christopher I. Petkov;Mark Augath;Nikos K. Logothetis

  • Functional Imaging Reveals Numerous Fields in the Monkey Auditory Cortex

    Christopher I Petkov;Christoph Kayser;Mark Augath;Nikos K Logothetis

  • An Open Resource for Non-human Primate Imaging

    Michael P. Milham;Michael P. Milham;Lei Ai;Bonhwang Koo;Ting Xu

  • Voice cells in the primate temporal lobe.

    Catherine Perrodin;Christoph Kayser;Nikos K. Logothetis;Nikos K. Logothetis;Christopher I. Petkov;Christopher I. Petkov

  • Auditory artificial grammar learning in macaque and marmoset monkeys.

    Benjamin Wilson;Heather Slater;Yukiko Kikuchi;Alice E. Milne

  • Encoding of illusory continuity in primary auditory cortex.

    Christopher I. Petkov;Kevin N. O'Connor;Mitchell L. Sutter

  • Orthogonal representation of sound dimensions in the primate midbrain

    Simon Baumann;Timothy D Griffiths;Li Sun;Christopher I Petkov

  • Multisensory interactions in primate auditory cortex: fMRI and electrophysiology

    Christoph Kayser;Christopher I. Petkov;Nikos K. Logothetis

  • Auditory attention activates peripheral visual cortex.

    Anthony D. Cate;Timothy J. Herron;E. William Yund;G. Christopher Stecker

  • Brain structure and cognition in a community sample of elderly Latinos

    C. C. Wu;Dan M Mungas;C. I. Petkov;J. L. Eberling

  • An Open Resource for Non-human Primate Optogenetics.

    Sébastien Tremblay;Leah Acker;Arash Afraz;Daniel L. Albaugh

  • Common Fronto-temporal Effective Connectivity in Humans and Monkeys

    Francesca Rocchi;Hiroyuki Oya;Fabien Balezeau;Alexander J. Billig

  • Accelerating the Evolution of Nonhuman Primate Neuroimaging

    Michael Milham;Christopher I. Petkov;Daniel S. Margulies;Charles E. Schroeder

  • A unified framework for the organization of the primate auditory cortex

    Simon Baumann;Christopher I. Petkov;Timothy D. Griffiths

  • Auditory sequence processing reveals evolutionarily conserved regions of frontal cortex in macaques and humans.

    Benjamin Wilson;Yukiko Kikuchi;Li Sun;David Hunter

  • Conserved Sequence Processing in Primate Frontal Cortex.

    Benjamin Wilson;William D. Marslen-Wilson;Christopher I. Petkov

Frequent Co-Authors

Nikos K. Logothetis
Nikos K. Logothetis Chinese Academy of Sciences
Christoph Kayser
Christoph Kayser Bielefeld University
Timothy D. Griffiths
Timothy D. Griffiths University College London
Alexander Thiele
Alexander Thiele Newcastle University
Hiroyuki Oya
Hiroyuki Oya University of Iowa
Matthew A. Howard
Matthew A. Howard University of Iowa
Hiroto Kawasaki
Hiroto Kawasaki University of Iowa
Ralph Adolphs
Ralph Adolphs California Institute of Technology
Adrian Rees
Adrian Rees Newcastle University
Charles E. Schroeder
Charles E. Schroeder Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research

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