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Ivanka Savic 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 Ivanka Savic sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 128 publications — 32nd percentile

32% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Ivanka Savic 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 Ivanka Savic sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 57 D-Index — 56th percentile

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

The last bar groups every scientist with 163 D-Index or more.

Overview

Ivanka Savic is affiliated with the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and has contributed extensively to research at the intersection of psychology and medicine. Their work spans several key subfields including clinical psychology, psychiatry and mental health, cognitive neuroscience, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

Their research topics cover a range of areas with an emphasis on eating disorders and behaviors, psychosomatic disorders and their treatments, epilepsy research and treatment, functional brain connectivity studies, evolutionary psychology and human behavior, schizophrenia research and treatment, and LGBTQ health, identity, and policy.

Frequent co-authors in their publications include Jamie D. Feusner, Behzad Sorouri Khorashad, Mats Holmberg, Amirhossein Manzouri, and Wesley T. Kerr.

Ivanka Savic has published in multiple scientific venues, with multiple contributions to:

  • Epilepsy & Behavior
  • NeuroImage Clinical
  • Journal of the Neurological Sciences
  • Scientific Reports
  • Stress

Their notable recent papers include:

  • "Predicting outcomes of cross-sex hormone therapy in transgender individuals with gender incongruence based on pre-therapy resting-state brain connectivity," 2020, NeuroImage Clinical
  • "Clinical MRI morphological analysis of functional seizures compared to seizure-naïve and psychiatric controls," 2022, Epilepsy & Behavior
  • "A minority of patients with functional seizures have abnormalities on neuroimaging," 2021, Journal of the Neurological Sciences
  • "Cross-sex hormone treatment and own-body perception: behavioral and brain connectivity profiles," 2021, Scientific Reports
  • "Cortical Gyrification in Transgender Individuals," 2021, Cerebral Cortex

Best Publications

  • Olfactory Functions Are Mediated by Parallel and Hierarchical Processing

    Ivanka Savic;Balazs Gulyas;Maria Larsson;Maria Larsson;Per Roland

  • Smelling of Odorous Sex Hormone-like Compounds Causes Sex-Differentiated Hypothalamic Activations in Humans

    Ivanka Savic;Hans Berglund;Balazs Gulyas;Per Roland

  • Brain response to putative pheromones in homosexual men

    Ivanka Savic;Hans Berglund;Per Lindström

  • In-vivo demonstration of reduced benzodiazepine receptor binding in human epileptic foci.

    Ivanka Savic;Per Roland;Göran Sedvall;Anders Persson

  • PET and MRI show differences in cerebral asymmetry and functional connectivity between homo- and heterosexual subjects

    Ivanka Savic;Per Lindström

  • Stress-related exhaustion disorder - clinical manifestation of burnout? A review of assessment methods, sleep impairments, cognitive disturbances, and neuro-biological and physiological changes in clinical burnout

    Giorgio Grossi;Giorgio Grossi;Aleksander Perski;Walter Osika;Ivanka Savic

  • Brain response to putative pheromones in lesbian women

    Hans Berglund;Per Lindström;Ivanka Savic

  • Limbic reductions of 5-HT1A receptor binding in human temporal lobe epilepsy.

    I. Savic;P. Lindström;B. Gulyás;C. Halldin

  • Sexual differentiation of the human brain in relation to gender identity and sexual orientation

    Ivanka Savic;Alicia Garcia-Falgueras;Alicia Garcia-Falgueras;Dick F. Swaab

  • Allopregnanolone and mood disorders.

    Torbjörn Bäckström;Marie Bixo;Maja Johansson;Sigrid Nyberg

  • The Influence of Work-Related Chronic Stress on the Regulation of Emotion and on Functional Connectivity in the Brain

    Armita Golkar;Emilia Johansson;Maki Kasahara;Walter Osika

  • MR spectroscopy shows reduced frontal lobe concentrations of N-acetyl aspartate in patients with juvenile myoclonic epilepsy.

    Ivanka Savic;Åsa Lekvall;Dan Greitz;Gunther Helms

  • Comparison of [11C]flumazenil and [18F]FDG as PET markers of epileptic foci.

    I Savic;M Ingvar;S Stone-Elander

  • Male-to-Female Transsexuals Show Sex-Atypical Hypothalamus Activation When Smelling Odorous Steroids

    H Berglund;P Lindström;C Dhejne-Helmy;I Savic

  • Sex Differences in the Human Brain and the Impact of Sex Chromosomes and Sex Hormones

    E. Lentini;M. Kasahara;S. Arver;I. Savic

  • Sex Dimorphism of the Brain in Male-to-Female Transsexuals

    Ivanka Savic;Stefan Arver

  • Imaging of brain activation by odorants in humans.

    Ivanka Savic

  • [11C]Flumazenil positron emission tomography visualizes frontal epileptogenic regions

    Ivanka Savic;Jan Olof Thorell;Per Roland

  • Chronic stress is linked to 5-HT(1A) receptor changes and functional disintegration of the limbic networks.

    Hristina Jovanovic;A. Perski;H. Berglund;Ivanka Savic

  • Long-Term Occupational Stress Is Associated with Regional Reductions in Brain Tissue Volumes

    Eva Blix;Aleksander Perski;Hans Berglund;Ivanka Savic

  • Brain activation during odor perception in males and females.

    S Bengtsson;H Berglund;B Gulyas;E Cohen

Frequent Co-Authors

Jussi Jokinen
Jussi Jokinen University of Jyväskylä
Sheilagh Hodgins
Sheilagh Hodgins University of Montreal
Balázs Gulyás
Balázs Gulyás Nanyang Technological University
Christer Halldin
Christer Halldin Karolinska Institute
Jari Tiihonen
Jari Tiihonen Karolinska Institute
Per E. Roland
Per E. Roland University of Copenhagen
Jerome Engel
Jerome Engel University of California, Los Angeles
Lars Farde
Lars Farde Karolinska Institute
Kenneth Hugdahl
Kenneth Hugdahl University of Bergen
Maria Larsson
Maria Larsson Stockholm University

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