2026 Steven E. Petersen: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	126	310	278	185	163	260	132205

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Research.com Recognitions

2002 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
2001 - Grawemeyer Award in Psychology, University of Louisville

Overview

Steven E. Petersen is affiliated with Washington University in St. Louis in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of neuroscience and medicine, with a significant number of publications addressing subfields such as cognitive neuroscience, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, experimental and cognitive psychology, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, and neurology.

The main topics of Petersen's work encompass functional brain connectivity studies, neural dynamics and brain function, advanced neuroimaging techniques and applications, advanced MRI techniques, mental health research topics, EEG and brain-computer interfaces, as well as neonatal and fetal brain pathology.

Papers authored or co-authored by Petersen include:

Reproducible brain-wide association studies require thousands of individuals, 2022, Nature
A somato-cognitive action network alternates with effector regions in motor cortex, 2023, Nature
Towards Reproducible Brain-Wide Association Studies, 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Plasticity and Spontaneous Activity Pulses in Disused Human Brain Circuits, 2020, Neuron
Default-mode network streams for coupling to language and control systems, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Petersen include:

Caterina Gratton
Babatunde Adeyemo
Nico U.F. Dosenbach
Timothy O. Laumann
Deanna J. Greene

Major publication venues where Petersen has contributed multiple works are:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Cerebral Cortex
NeuroImage
Nature
UNC Libraries

Petersen has been recognized with awards including the Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2002 and the Grawemeyer Award in Psychology from the University of Louisville in 2001.

Best Publications

The Attention System of the Human Brain

Michael I. Posner;Steven E. Petersen

11884
Citations
Spurious but systematic correlations in functional connectivity MRI networks arise from subject motion

Jonathan D. Power;Kelly Anne Barnes;Abraham Z. Snyder;Bradley L. Schlaggar

7966
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Functional network organization of the human brain

Jonathan D. Power;Alexander L. Cohen;Steven M. Nelson;Gagan S. Wig

4625
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The attention system of the human brain: 20 years after.

Steven E. Petersen;Michael I. Posner

4096
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Methods to detect, characterize, and remove motion artifact in resting state fMRI

Jonathan D. Power;Anish Mitra;Timothy O. Laumann;Abraham Z. Snyder

3979
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Toward discovery science of human brain function

Bharat B. Biswal;Maarten Mennes;Xi Nian Zuo;Suril Gohel

3359
Citations
Positron emission tomographic studies of the cortical anatomy of single-word processing

Steven E. Petersen;P. T. Fox;Michael I. Posner;M. Mintun

3332
Citations
Distinct brain networks for adaptive and stable task control in humans

Nico U. F. Dosenbach;Damien A. Fair;Francis M. Miezin;Alexander L. Cohen

3066
Citations
The Human Connectome Project: A data acquisition perspective

D. C. Van Essen;Kamil Ugurbil;Edward J Auerbach

2751
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Reproducible brain-wide association studies require thousands of individuals

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2576
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Prediction of Individual Brain Maturity Using fMRI

Nico U.F. Dosenbach;Binyam Nardos;Alexander L. Cohen;Damien A. Fair

2416
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Common blood flow changes across visual tasks: I. increases in subcortical structures and cerebellum but not in nonvisual cortex

Gordon L. Shulman;Maurizio Corbetta;Randy L. Buckner;Julie A. Fiez

2348
Citations
Selective and divided attention during visual discriminations of shape, color, and speed: functional anatomy by positron emission tomography

M Corbetta;FM Miezin;S Dobmeyer;GL Shulman

2214
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A dual-networks architecture of top-down control.

Nico U.F. Dosenbach;Damien A. Fair;Alexander L. Cohen;Bradley L. Schlaggar

2211
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A Common Network of Functional Areas for Attention and Eye Movements

Maurizio Corbetta;Erbil Akbudak;Thomas E Conturo;Abraham Z Snyder

2170
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A PET study of visuospatial attention

Maurizio Corbetta;Francis M. Miezin;Gordon L. Shulman;Steven E. Petersen

2124
Citations
A Core System for the Implementation of Task Sets

Nico U.F. Dosenbach;Kristina M. Visscher;Erica D. Palmer;Francis M. Miezin

2046
Citations
Localization of cognitive operations in the human brain

Michael I. Posner;Steven E. Petersen;Peter T. Fox;Marcus E. Raichle

2007
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Common blood flow changes across visual tasks: Ii. decreases in cerebral cortex

Gordon L. Shulman;Julie A. Fiez;Maurizio Corbetta;Randy L. Buckner

2000
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Practice-related Changes in Human Brain Functional Anatomy during Nonmotor Learning

Marcus E. Raichle;Julie A. Fiez;Tom O. Videen;Ann mary K. Macleod

1964
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Functional brain networks develop from a "local to distributed" organization

Damien A. Fair;Alexander L. Cohen;Jonathan D. Power;Nico U. F. Dosenbach

1863
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