2026 Vivek Prabhakaran: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	48	6095	5612	2661	2400	214	13702

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Overview

Vivek Prabhakaran is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within medicine and neuroscience, focusing on cognitive neuroscience, radiology, nuclear medicine, imaging, psychiatry, mental health, neurology, and epidemiology.

The scientist's recent publications highlight a diverse range of topics. These include:

Tractography dissection variability: What happens when 42 groups dissect 14 white matter bundles on the same dataset? (2021, NeuroImage)
Rethinking Measures of Functional Connectivity via Feature Extraction (2020, Scientific Reports)
Cohort study into the neural correlates of postoperative delirium: the role of connectivity and slow-wave activity (2020, British Journal of Anaesthesia)
Network, clinical and sociodemographic features of cognitive phenotypes in temporal lobe epilepsy (2020, NeuroImage Clinical)
Graph Theory Analysis of Functional Connectivity Combined with Machine Learning Approaches Demonstrates Widespread Network Differences and Predicts Clinical Variables in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy (2020, Brain Connectivity)

The primary fields of study for their research include medicine with 132 publications and neuroscience with 79 publications. More specifically, their work delves into subfields such as cognitive neuroscience (61 publications), radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging (51 publications), psychiatry and mental health (29 publications), neurology (13 publications), and epidemiology (10 publications).

The scientist's main research topics cover:

Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications
Epilepsy Research and Treatment
EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
Fetal and Pediatric Neurological Disorders

Frequent coauthors contributing to their work include Veena A. Nair, Nagesh Adluru, Bruce P. Hermann, Andrew L. Alexander, and Barbara B. Bendlin.

Notable journals and venues where the scientist has frequently published are:

Alzheimer's & Dementia
Stroke
NeuroImage
British Journal of Anaesthesia
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Best Publications

The effect of scan length on the reliability of resting-state fMRI connectivity estimates.

Rasmus M. Birn;Erin K. Molloy;Rémi Patriat;Taurean Parker

946
Citations
Integration of diverse information in working memory within the frontal lobe.

V. Prabhakaran;K. Narayanan;Z. Zhao;J. D. E. Gabrieli

894
Citations
Rostrolateral Prefrontal Cortex Involvement in Relational Integration during Reasoning

Kalina Christoff;Vivek Prabhakaran;Jennifer Dorfman;Zuo Zhao

837
Citations
Load-dependent roles of frontal brain regions in the maintenance of working memory

Bart Rypma;Vivek Prabhakaran;John E. Desmond;Gary H. Glover

761
Citations
Neural substrates of fluid reasoning: an fMRI study of neocortical activation during performance of the Raven's Progressive Matrices Test.

Vivek Prabhakaran;Jennifer A.L. Smith;John E. Desmond;Gary H. Glover

712
Citations
Sniffing and smelling: separate subsystems in the human olfactory cortex

N. Sobel;V. Prabhakaran;J. E. Desmond;G. H. Glover

638
Citations
Striatal activation during acquisition of a cognitive skill.

Russell A. Poldrack;Vivek Prabhakaran;Carol A. Seger;John D. E. Gabrieli

547
Citations
An open science resource for establishing reliability and reproducibility in functional connectomics

Xi Nian Zuo;Jeffrey S. Anderson;Pierre Bellec;Rasmus M. Birn

485
Citations
The effect of resting condition on resting-state fMRI reliability and consistency: a comparison between resting with eyes open, closed, and fixated.

Rémi Patriat;Erin K. Molloy;Timothy B. Meier;Gregory R. Kirk

442
Citations
Neural correlates of cognitive efficiency

Bart Rypma;Jeffrey S. Berger;Vivek Prabhakaran;Benjamin Martin Bly

421
Citations
Time Course of Odorant-Induced Activation in the Human Primary Olfactory Cortex

Noam Sobel;Vivek Prabhakaran;Zuo Zhao;John E. Desmond

364
Citations
Odorant-Induced and Sniff-Induced Activation in the Cerebellum of the Human

Noam Sobel;Vivek Prabhakaran;Catherine A. Hartley;John E. Desmond

300
Citations
Age-related reorganizational changes in modularity and functional connectivity of human brain networks.

Jie Song;Rasmus M. Birn;Mélanie Boly;Timothy B. Meier

288
Citations
Blind smell: brain activation induced by an undetected air-borne chemical.

Noam Sobel;Vivek Prabhakaran;Catherine A. Hartley;John E. Desmond

277
Citations
The Role of the Prefrontal Cortex in the Maintenance of Verbal Working Memory: An Event-Related fMRI Analysis.

Nandakumar S. Narayanan;Vivek Prabhakaran;Silvia A. Bunge;Kalina Christoff

268
Citations
Effects of hypoperfusion in Alzheimer's disease.

Benjamin P. Austin;Veena A. Nair;Timothy B. Meier;Guofan Xu

255
Citations
Age differences in prefrontal cortical activity in working memory

Bart Rypma;Bart Rypma;Vivek Prabhakaran;John E. Desmond;John D E Gabrieli

233
Citations
Support vector machine classification and characterization of age-related reorganization of functional brain networks

Timothy B. Meier;Alok S. Desphande;Svyatoslav Vergun;Veena A. Nair

218
Citations
Role of the Contralesional vs. Ipsilesional Hemisphere in Stroke Recovery

Keith C. Dodd;Veena A. Nair;Vivek Prabhakaran

217
Citations
Neural substrates of mathematical reasoning: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study of neocortical activation during performance of the necessary arithmetic operations test

Vivek Prabhakaran;Bart Rypma;John D E Gabrieli

163
Citations