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Steven E. Petersen 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 Steven E. Petersen sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 260 publications — 76th percentile

76% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Steven E. Petersen 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 Steven E. Petersen sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 126 D-Index — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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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

  • 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

  • Functional network organization of the human brain

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

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

    Steven E. Petersen;Michael I. Posner

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

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

  • Toward discovery science of human brain function

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

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

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

  • Distinct brain networks for adaptive and stable task control in humans

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

  • The Human Connectome Project: A data acquisition perspective

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

  • Reproducible brain-wide association studies require thousands of individuals

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  • Prediction of Individual Brain Maturity Using fMRI

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

  • 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

  • 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

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

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

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

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

  • A PET study of visuospatial attention

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

  • A Core System for the Implementation of Task Sets

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

  • Localization of cognitive operations in the human brain

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Bradley L. Schlaggar
Bradley L. Schlaggar Kennedy Krieger Institute
Nico U.F. Dosenbach
Nico U.F. Dosenbach Washington University in St. Louis
Abraham Z. Snyder
Abraham Z. Snyder Washington University in St. Louis
Evan M. Gordon
Evan M. Gordon Washington University in St. Louis
Steven M. Nelson
Steven M. Nelson Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center
Caterina Gratton
Caterina Gratton University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Francis M. Miezin
Francis M. Miezin Washington University in St. Louis
Marcus E. Raichle
Marcus E. Raichle Washington University in St. Louis
Timothy O. Laumann
Timothy O. Laumann Washington University in St. Louis
Jonathan D. Power
Jonathan D. Power Cornell University

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