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Peter W. Kalivas 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 Peter W. Kalivas sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 517 publications — 95th percentile

95% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Peter W. Kalivas 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 Peter W. Kalivas sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 149 D-Index — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Neuroscience in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Neuroscience in United States Leader Award

Overview

Peter W. Kalivas is affiliated with the Medical University of South Carolina in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience, with significant contributions to cellular and molecular neuroscience, molecular biology, cognitive neuroscience, neurology, and pharmacology. The body of work encompasses a range of studies addressing neurotransmitter receptor influence on behavior, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, receptor mechanisms and signaling, memory and neural mechanisms, neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration mechanisms, stress responses and cortisol, as well as neuropeptides and animal physiology.

Key recent publications by Peter W. Kalivas include:

  • Cocaine and sucrose rewards recruit different seeking ensembles in the nucleus accumbens core, 2020, Molecular Psychiatry
  • Opposing Regulation of Cocaine Seeking by Glutamate and GABA Neurons in the Ventral Pallidum, 2020, Cell Reports
  • Astrocyte regulation of synaptic signaling in psychiatric disorders, 2022, Neuropsychopharmacology
  • The Potential of N-Acetyl-L-Cysteine (NAC) in the Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders, 2022, CNS Drugs
  • Circuit selectivity in drug versus natural reward seeking behaviors, 2021, Journal of Neurochemistry

Frequent co-authors with whom Peter W. Kalivas has published multiple papers include:

  • Anna Kruyer
  • Brittany N. Kuhn
  • Reda Chalhoub
  • Constanza García-Keller
  • Nazzareno Cannella

Peter W. Kalivas often publishes in specific scientific venues, with the highest number of publications appearing in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Molecular Psychiatry
  • Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Addiction Biology
  • CNS Drugs

Best Publications

  • The Neural Basis of Addiction: A Pathology of Motivation and Choice

    Peter W. Kalivas;Nora D. Volkow

  • Dopamine transmission in the initiation and expression of drug- and stress-induced sensitization of motor activity

    Peter W. Kalivas;Jane Stewart

  • Alterations in dopaminergic and glutamatergic transmission in the induction and expression of behavioral sensitization: a critical review of preclinical studies.

    L. J. M. J. Vanderschuren;P. W. Kalivas

  • Specificity in the projection patterns of accumbal core and shell in the rat.

    L. Heimer;D.S. Zahm;L. Churchill;P.W. Kalivas

  • A circuitry model of the expression of behavioral sensitization to amphetamine-like psychostimulants

    R.Christopher Pierce;Peter W Kalivas

  • The glutamate homeostasis hypothesis of addiction

    Peter W. Kalivas

  • Harnessing neuroplasticity for clinical applications

    Steven C. Cramer;Mriganka Sur;Bruce H. Dobkin;Charles J O'Brien

  • The Circuitry Mediating Cocaine-Induced Reinstatement of Drug-Seeking Behavior

    Krista McFarland;Peter W. Kalivas

  • Prefrontal glutamate release into the core of the nucleus accumbens mediates cocaine-induced reinstatement of drug-seeking behavior.

    Krista McFarland;Christopher C. Lapish;Peter W. Kalivas

  • The cystine/glutamate antiporter system xc- in health and disease: From molecular mechanisms to novel therapeutic opportunities

    Jan Lewerenz;Sandra J. Hewett;Ying Huang;Maria Lambros

  • Drug Addiction as a Pathology of Staged Neuroplasticity

    Peter W Kalivas;Charles O'Brien

  • Neurotransmitter regulation of dopamine neurons in the ventral tegmental area.

    Peter W. Kalivas

  • Extinction circuits for fear and addiction overlap in prefrontal cortex

    Jamie Peters;Peter W. Kalivas;Gregory J. Quirk

  • Neuroadaptations in cystine-glutamate exchange underlie cocaine relapse.

    David A Baker;Krista McFarland;Russell W Lake;Hui Shen

  • Drug Wanting: Behavioral Sensitization and Relapse to Drug-Seeking Behavior

    Jeffery D. Steketee;Peter W. Kalivas

  • Unmanageable motivation in addiction: a pathology in prefrontal-accumbens glutamate transmission.

    P.W. Kalivas;N. Volkow;J. Seamans

  • Neurotensin: topographical distribution in rat brain by immunohistochemistry.

    Lothar Jennes;Walter E. Stumpf;Peter W. Kalivas

  • Repeated cocaine augments excitatory amino acid transmission in the nucleus accumbens only in rats having developed behavioral sensitization

    RC Pierce;K Bell;P Duffy;PW Kalivas

  • Neuroadaptations involved in amphetamine and cocaine addiction.

    Francis J White;Peter W Kalivas

  • Brain circuitry and the reinstatement of cocaine-seeking behavior.

    Peter W. Kalivas;Krista McFarland

Frequent Co-Authors

Barbara A. Sorg
Barbara A. Sorg Washington State University Vancouver
Karen K. Szumlinski
Karen K. Szumlinski University of California, Santa Barbara
Ryan T. LaLumiere
Ryan T. LaLumiere University of Iowa
Jennifer L. Cornish
Jennifer L. Cornish Macquarie University
Paul F. Worley
Paul F. Worley Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Robert Malcolm
Robert Malcolm Medical University of South Carolina
Nora D. Volkow
Nora D. Volkow National Institutes of Health
Daniel S. Zahm
Daniel S. Zahm Saint Louis University
Matthias Klugmann
Matthias Klugmann University of New South Wales
Ronald E. See
Ronald E. See Medical University of South Carolina

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