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Håkan Olausson

Håkan Olausson

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Neuroscience

D-Index
61
Citations
15146
World Ranking
3650
National Ranking
67

Håkan Olausson 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 Håkan Olausson sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 142 publications — 39th percentile

39% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Håkan Olausson 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 Håkan Olausson sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 61 D-Index — 63rd percentile

63% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Håkan Olausson is affiliated with Linköping University in Sweden. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience, with a significant focus on subfields such as Cognitive Neuroscience, Physiology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Pharmacology.

Their work explores key topics including Tactile and Sensory Interactions, Pain Mechanisms and Treatments, Musculoskeletal Pain and Rehabilitation, Action Observation and Synchronization, Multisensory Perception and Integration, Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments, and Neural Dynamics and Brain Function.

Olausson has contributed to several recent research papers, including:

  • Pleasant Deep Pressure: Expanding the Social Touch Hypothesis, 2020, Neuroscience
  • The Effects of Ageing on Tactile Function in Humans, 2021, Neuroscience
  • The Language of Social Touch Is Intuitive and Quantifiable, 2022, Psychological Science
  • Nav1.7 is required for normal C-low threshold mechanoreceptor function in humans and mice, 2021, Brain
  • Altered relationship between subjective perception and central representation of touch hedonics in adolescents with autism-spectrum disorder, 2021, Translational Psychiatry

The most frequent co-authors collaborating with Olausson include Saad S. Nagi, Rebecca Boehme, Sarah McIntyre, Andrew Marshall, and Otmane Bouchatta.

Olausson has published in various venues, with frequent publications in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Brain Sciences, SSRN Electronic Journal, Neuroscience, and Brain.

Best Publications

  • Unmyelinated tactile afferents signal touch and project to insular cortex

    H. Olausson;Y. Lamarre;H. Backlund;H. Backlund;C. Morin

  • Coding of pleasant touch by unmyelinated afferents in humans

    Line S Löken;Johan Wessberg;India Morrison;India Morrison;Francis McGlone

  • Discriminative and Affective Touch: Sensing and Feeling

    Francis McGlone;Francis McGlone;Johan Wessberg;Håkan Olausson

  • The skin as a social organ.

    India Morrison;Line S. Löken;Håkan Olausson

  • Unmyelinated afferents constitute a second system coding tactile stimuli of the human hairy skin.

    Å. B. Vallbo;H. Olausson;J. Wessberg

  • The neurophysiology of unmyelinated tactile afferents

    Håkan Olausson;Johan Wessberg;India Morrison;Francis McGlone

  • Human C-tactile afferents are tuned to the temperature of a skin-stroking caress.

    Rochelle Ackerley;Helena Backlund Wasling;Jaquette Liljencrantz;Jaquette Liljencrantz;Håkan Olausson

  • Discriminative touch and emotional touch.

    Francis McGlone;Åke Vallbo;Håkan Olausson;Line Sofie Löken

  • Vicarious Responses to Social Touch in Posterior Insular Cortex Are Tuned to Pleasant Caressing Speeds

    India Morrison;Malin Björnsdotter;Håkan Olausson

  • Touching and feeling: differences in pleasant touch processing between glabrous and hairy skin in humans

    F. McGlone;H. Olausson;J. A. Boyle;M. Jones-Gotman

  • Somatotopic Organization of Gentle Touch Processing in the Posterior Insular Cortex

    Malin Björnsdotter;Line Löken;Håkan Olausson;Ake Vallbo

  • A system of unmyelinated afferents for innocuous mechanoreception in the human skin.

    A˚ke Vallbo;Ha˚kan Olausson;Johan Wessberg;Ulf Norrsell

  • Receptive field characteristics of tactile units with myelinated afferents in hairy skin of human subjects.

    A B Vallbo;H Olausson;J Wessberg;N Kakuda

  • Touch perceptions across skin sites: differences between sensitivity, direction discrimination and pleasantness

    Rochelle Ackerley;Rochelle Ackerley;Ida Carlsson;Henric Wester;Håkan Olausson;Håkan Olausson

  • Feeling good: on the role of C fiber mediated touch in interoception

    Malin Björnsdotter;India Morrison;Håkan Olausson

  • Functional role of unmyelinated tactile afferents in human hairy skin: sympathetic response and perceptual localization

    Håkan Olausson;Jonathan Cole;Karin Rylander;Francis McGlone

  • Reduced C-afferent fibre density affects perceived pleasantness and empathy for touch

    India Morrison;India Morrison;Line S. Löken;Jan Minde;Johan Wessberg

  • Receptive Field Properties of Unmyelinated Tactile Afferents in the Human Skin

    Johan Wessberg;Håkan Olausson;Håkan Olausson;Katarina Wiklund Fernström;Åke B. Vallbo

  • The Neurobiology Shaping Affective Touch: Expectation, Motivation, and Meaning in the Multisensory Context

    Dan Mikael Ellingsen;Dan Mikael Ellingsen;Siri Leknes;Guro Engvig Løseth;Johan Wessberg

  • Interpersonal stroking touch is targeted to C tactile afferent activation.

    Ilona Croy;Ilona Croy;A. Luong;C. Triscoli;E. Hofmann

  • Unmyelinated tactile afferents have opposite effects on insular and somatosensory cortical processing

    Håkan W. Olausson;Jonathan Cole;Åke Vallbo;Francis McGlone

Frequent Co-Authors

Ilona Croy
Ilona Croy Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Johan Wessberg
Johan Wessberg University of Gothenburg
Francis McGlone
Francis McGlone Liverpool John Moores University
M. Catherine Bushnell
M. Catherine Bushnell National Institutes of Health
Jonathan Cole
Jonathan Cole Bournemouth University
Markus Heilig
Markus Heilig Linköping University
Vaughan G. Macefield
Vaughan G. Macefield Monash University
Y. Lamarre
Y. Lamarre University of Montreal
Frank Birklein
Frank Birklein Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Riitta Hari
Riitta Hari Aalto University

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