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Kenneth M. Prkachin 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 Kenneth M. Prkachin sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 120 publications — 32nd percentile

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

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

Kenneth M. Prkachin 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 Kenneth M. Prkachin sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 51 D-Index — 56th percentile

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

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

Overview

Kenneth M. Prkachin is affiliated with the University of Northern British Columbia in Canada. Their research lies predominantly within the field of Medicine, with notable contributions to subfields including Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Physiology, Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Pharmacology.

Their work has focused on several main topics, such as Pediatric Pain Management Techniques, Pain Mechanisms and Treatments, Pain Management and Opioid Use, Pain Management and Placebo Effect, Musculoskeletal Pain and Rehabilitation, Temporomandibular Joint Disorders, and Non-Invasive Vital Sign Monitoring.

Frequent publication venues for their research include:

  • Frontiers in Pain Research
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics
  • European Journal of Pain
  • Journal of Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies Engineering

Several papers authored or coauthored by Kenneth M. Prkachin illustrate their research interests and progression:

  • "Unobtrusive Pain Monitoring in Older Adults With Dementia Using Pairwise and Contrastive Training," 2020, IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics
  • "Faces of clinical pain: Inter-individual facial activity patterns in shoulder pain patients," 2020, European Journal of Pain
  • "Automated vs. manual pain coding and heart rate estimations based on videos of older adults with and without dementia," 2020, Journal of Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies Engineering
  • "Computer Mediated Automatic Detection of Pain-Related Behavior: Prospect, Progress, Perils," 2021, Frontiers in Pain Research
  • "Unobtrusive Pain Monitoring in Older Adults with Dementia using Pairwise and Contrastive Training," 2021, arXiv (Cornell University)

They have collaborated frequently with the following coauthors:

  • Abhishek Moturu
  • Thomas Hadjistavropoulos
  • Babak Taati
  • Siavash Rezaei
  • Shun Zhao

Best Publications

  • Viewing facial expressions of pain engages cortical areas involved in the direct experience of pain.

    Matthew Botvinick;Amishi P. Jha;Lauren M. Bylsma;Sara A. Fabian

  • The consistency of facial expressions of pain: a comparison across modalities

    Kenneth M. Prkachin

  • Painful data: The UNBC-McMaster shoulder pain expression archive database

    Patrick Lucey;Jeffrey F. Cohn;Kenneth M. Prkachin;Patricia E. Solomon

  • The painful face - Pain expression recognition using active appearance models

    Ahmed Bilal Ashraf;Simon Lucey;Jeffrey F. Cohn;Tsuhan Chen

  • The structure, reliability and validity of pain expression: evidence from patients with shoulder pain.

    Kenneth M. Prkachin;Patricia E. Solomon

  • Pain assessment in elderly adults with dementia

    Thomas Hadjistavropoulos;Keela A. Herr;Kenneth M. Prkachin;Kenneth D. Craig

  • Gratitude and Well‐Being: Who Benefits the Most from a Gratitude Intervention?

    Joshua A. Rash;M. Kyle Matsuba;Kenneth M. Prkachin

  • Reducing racial disparities in pain treatment: the role of empathy and perspective-taking.

    Brian B. Drwecki;Colleen F. Moore;Sandra E. Ward;Kenneth M. Prkachin

  • The facial expression of pain.

    Kenneth D. Craig;Kenneth M. Prkachin;Ruth Eckstein Grunau

  • Expressing pain: The communication and interpretation of facial pain signals.

    Kenneth M. Prkachin;Kenneth D. Craig

  • Is pain the price of empathy? The perception of others' pain in patients with congenital insensitivity to pain.

    Nicolas Danziger;Kenneth M. Prkachin;Jean-Claude Willer

  • Assessing pain by facial expression: facial expression as nexus.

    Kenneth M Prkachin

  • Health care providers' judgments in chronic pain: the influence of gender and trustworthiness

    Gráinne Schäfer;Kenneth M Prkachin;Kimberley A Kaseweter;Amanda C de C Williams

  • Painful monitoring: Automatic pain monitoring using the UNBC-McMaster shoulder pain expression archive database

    Patrick Lucey;Jeffrey F. Cohn;Kenneth M. Prkachin;Patricia E. Solomon

  • Optimism and Unrealistic Optimism have an Interacting Impact on Health-Promoting Behavior and Knowledge Changes

    Karina Davidson;Kenneth Prkachin

  • Underestimation of pain by health-care providers: towards a model of the process of inferring pain in others.

    Kenneth M. Prkachin;Patricia E. Solomon;Joan Ross

  • The expression and perception of facial emotion in alexithymia (a pilot study)

    Paul W. McDonald;Kenneth M. Prkachin

  • Alexithymia and perception of facial expressions of emotion

    Glenda C. Prkachin;Catherine Casey;Kenneth M. Prkachin

  • Testing two accounts of pain underestimation.

    Judith Kappesser;Amanda C. de C. Williams;Kenneth M. Prkachin

  • Pain expression in patients with shoulder pathology: validity, properties and relationship to sickness impact.

    Kenneth M. Prkachin;Susan R. Mercer

  • Encoding and decoding of pain expressions: a judgement study

    Kenneth M. Prkachin;Sandra Berzins;Susan R. Mercer

  • Emotional contagion for pain is intact in autism spectrum disorders

    N Hadjikhani;N R Zürcher;O Rogier;L Hippolyte

  • Processing of facial expressions of negative emotion in alexithymia: the influence of temporal constraint.

    Philippa D. Parker;Kenneth M. Prkachin;Glenda C. Prkachin

Frequent Co-Authors

Kenneth D. Craig
Kenneth D. Craig University of British Columbia
Thomas Hadjistavropoulos
Thomas Hadjistavropoulos University of Regina
Joy L. Johnson
Joy L. Johnson Simon Fraser University
Jean Shoveller
Jean Shoveller University of British Columbia
Jeffrey F. Cohn
Jeffrey F. Cohn University of Pittsburgh
Bruno D. Zumbo
Bruno D. Zumbo University of British Columbia
Simon Lucey
Simon Lucey University of Adelaide
Pamela A. Ratner
Pamela A. Ratner University of British Columbia
Joan L. Bottorff
Joan L. Bottorff University of British Columbia
Patrick Lucey
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