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Predrag Petrovic

Predrag Petrovic

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
42
Citations
13424
World Ranking
7388
National Ranking
70

Predrag Petrovic 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 Predrag Petrovic sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 138 publications — 43rd percentile

43% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Predrag Petrovic 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 Predrag Petrovic sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 42 D-Index — 36th percentile

36% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Predrag Petrovic is affiliated with the Karolinska Institute in Sweden. Their research spans several fields, primarily focusing on Psychology, Neuroscience, and Medicine. Within these main fields, their work extends into subfields such as Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Social Psychology, and Clinical Psychology.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of areas, including:

  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Schizophrenia Research and Treatment
  • Sleep and Related Disorders
  • Sleep and Wakefulness Research
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Tryptophan and Brain Disorders

Predrag Petrovic has published in several notable venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Scientific Reports
  • Brain Behavior and Immunity
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Research Square (Research Square)

Among their recent papers are:

  • Bempedoic Acid and Cardiovascular Outcomes in Statin-Intolerant Patients, 2023, New England Journal of Medicine
  • Stress, depression, and risk of dementia - a cohort study in the total population between 18 and 65 years old in Region Stockholm, 2023, Alzheimer s Research & Therapy
  • Level of play and coach-rated game intelligence are related to performance on design fluency in elite soccer players, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Beyond Sharing Unpleasant Affect-Evidence for Pain-Specific Opioidergic Modulation of Empathy for Pain, 2020, Cerebral Cortex
  • Mania-related effects on structural brain changes in bipolar disorder - a narrative review of the evidence, 2023, Molecular Psychiatry

Frequent coauthors with whom Predrag Petrovic has collaborated include:

  • Martin Ingvar
  • Alexander V. Lebedev
  • Kasim Acar
  • John Axelsson
  • Morten L. Kringelbach

Best Publications

  • Placebo and opioid analgesia - Imaging a shared neuronal network

    Predrag Petrovic;Eija Kalso;Karl Magnus Petersson;Martin Ingvar

  • When Fear Is Near: Threat Imminence Elicits Prefrontal-Periaqueductal Gray Shifts in Humans

    Dean Mobbs;Predrag Petrovic;Jennifer L. Marchant;Demis Hassabis

  • The Predictive Coding Account of Psychosis

    Philipp Sterzer;Rick A. Adams;Paul Fletcher;Chris Frith

  • Executive functions predict the success of top-soccer players.

    Torbjörn Vestberg;Torbjörn Vestberg;Roland Gustafson;Liselotte Maurex;Martin Ingvar

  • Pain-related cerebral activation is altered by a distracting cognitive task

    P. Petrovic;Karl Magnus Petersson;P.H. Ghatan;S. Stone-Elander

  • From Threat to Fear: The Neural Organization of Defensive Fear Systems in Humans

    Dean Mobbs;Jennifer L. Marchant;Demis Hassabis;Ben Seymour

  • Placebo in Emotional Processing— Induced Expectations of Anxiety Relief Activate a Generalized Modulatory Network

    Predrag Petrovic;Thomas Dietrich;Peter Fransson;Jesper Andersson

  • Oxytocin Attenuates Affective Evaluations of Conditioned Faces and Amygdala Activity

    Predrag Petrovic;Raffael Kalisch;Tania Singer;Raymond J. Dolan

  • Imaging cognitive modulation of pain processing

    Predrag Petrovic;Martin Ingvar

  • Subliminal Instrumental Conditioning Demonstrated in the Human Brain

    Mathias Pessiglione;Mathias Pessiglione;Predrag Petrovic;Jean Daunizeau;Stefano Palminteri

  • How the number of learning trials affects placebo and nocebo responses

    Luana Colloca;Predrag Petrovic;Tor D. Wager;Martin Ingvar

  • Effects of Oxytocin and Prosocial Behavior on Brain Responses to Direct and Vicariously Experienced Pain

    Tania Singer;Romana Snozzi;Geoffrey Bird;Predrag Petrovic

  • Core executive functions are associated with success in young elite soccer players.

    Torbjörn Vestberg;Gustaf Reinebo;Liselotte Maurex;Martin Ingvar

  • Predictability modulates the affective and sensory-discriminative neural processing of pain

    Katrina Carlsson;Jesper Andersson;Predrag Bosko Petrovic;Karl Magnus Petersson

  • Tickling Expectations: Neural Processing in Anticipation of a Sensory Stimulus

    Katrina Carlsson;Predrag Petrovic;Stefan Skare;Karl Magnus Petersson

  • Placebo analgesia and its opioidergic regulation suggest that empathy for pain is grounded in self pain

    Markus Rütgen;Eva-Maria Seidel;Giorgia Silani;Giorgia Silani;Igor Riečanský;Igor Riečanský

  • Exploring the Mechanisms of Selectivity for Environmentally Significant Oxo-Anion Removal during Water Treatment: A Review of Common Competing Oxo-Anions and Tools for Quantifying Selective Adsorption.

    Lauren N. Pincus;Holly E. Rudel;Predrag V. Petrović;Srishti Gupta;Srishti Gupta

  • Delusions and the Role of Beliefs in Perceptual Inference

    Katharina Schmack;Ana Gòmez-Carrillo de Castro;Marcus Rothkirch;Maria Sekutowicz

  • A prefrontal non-opioid mechanism in placebo analgesia

    Predrag Petrovic;Eija Kalso;Karl Magnus Petersson;Karl Magnus Petersson;Karl Magnus Petersson;Jesper Andersson

  • A PET activation study of dynamic mechanical allodynia in patients with mononeuropathy.

    P. Petrovic;Martin Ingvar;S. Stone-Elander;Karl Magnus Petersson

  • Top-Down Dysregulation-From ADHD to Emotional Instability.

    Predrag Petrovic;F. Xavier Castellanos;F. Xavier Castellanos

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Ingvar
Martin Ingvar Karolinska Institute
Mats Lekander
Mats Lekander Karolinska Institute
Karl Magnus Petersson
Karl Magnus Petersson University of Algarve
Mikael Landén
Mikael Landén University of Gothenburg
John Axelsson
John Axelsson Stockholm University
Håkan Fischer
Håkan Fischer Stockholm University
Torbjörn Åkerstedt
Torbjörn Åkerstedt Karolinska Institute
Göran Kecklund
Göran Kecklund Stockholm University
Chris D. Frith
Chris D. Frith University College London
Raymond J. Dolan
Raymond J. Dolan University College London

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