Marta Čeko

4.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
35 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Marta Čeko is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology. According to data from OpenAlex, Marta Čeko has authored 35 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 15 papers in Physiology and 11 papers in Pharmacology. Recurrent topics in Marta Čeko's work include Pain Mechanisms and Treatments (14 papers), Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation (11 papers) and Pain Management and Placebo Effect (10 papers). Marta Čeko is often cited by papers focused on Pain Mechanisms and Treatments (14 papers), Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation (11 papers) and Pain Management and Placebo Effect (10 papers). Marta Čeko collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Marta Čeko's co-authors include M. Catherine Bushnell, Lucie A. Low, Richard H. Gracely, Petra Schweinhardt, John L. Gracely, Tor D. Wager, David A. Seminowicz, Mary‐Ann Fitzcharles, Choong‐Wan Woo and Philip A. Kragel and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, Nature Medicine and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Marta Čeko

33 papers receiving 3.1k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Cognitive and emotional control of pain and its disruption in chronic pain

2013 1.4k citations M. Catherine Bushnell, Marta Čeko et al. Nature reviews. Neuroscience profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Marta Čeko United States	22	1.3k	1.2k	918	735	386	35	3.1k
Eric A. Moulton United States	29	1.3k 0.9×	1.5k 1.2×	539 0.6×	1.1k 1.5×	435 1.1×	59	3.8k
Marco L. Loggia United States	43	1.8k 1.3×	1.5k 1.2×	1.4k 1.5×	1.5k 2.0×	462 1.2×	124	5.1k
Petra Schweinhardt Canada	37	2.0k 1.5×	1.7k 1.4×	1.7k 1.9×	1.4k 1.9×	783 2.0×	116	5.1k
Paul Geha United States	23	2.2k 1.6×	1.9k 1.5×	1.7k 1.8×	700 1.0×	596 1.5×	40	4.3k
L. Q. Huang United States	22	1.7k 1.2×	1.4k 1.2×	1.3k 1.4×	628 0.9×	427 1.1×	37	3.3k
Michael Valet Germany	27	1.2k 0.9×	910 0.7×	556 0.6×	710 1.0×	292 0.8×	45	2.7k
Ruth Ruscheweyh Germany	33	2.2k 1.6×	947 0.8×	875 1.0×	1.2k 1.6×	1.0k 2.6×	130	4.5k
Jon-Kar Zubieta United States	25	1.5k 1.1×	1.9k 1.5×	752 0.8×	835 1.1×	1.0k 2.7×	49	4.5k
Tobias Schmidt‐Wilcke Germany	42	1.7k 1.2×	2.1k 1.7×	1.7k 1.8×	2.1k 2.9×	359 0.9×	120	5.4k
Joshua A. Bueller United States	21	1.9k 1.4×	1.9k 1.5×	819 0.9×	749 1.0×	891 2.3×	27	4.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Marta Čeko

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Zorina-Lichtenwalter, Katerina, Marta Čeko, Yoni K. Ashar, et al.. (2025). Patterns of Shared Genetic Risk Between Chronic Pain, Psychopathologies, and Neuroticism. Clinical Psychological Science. 13(5). 933–950.

Čeko, Marta, et al.. (2024). The effects of virtual reality neuroscience-based therapy on clinical and neuroimaging outcomes in patients with chronic back pain: a randomized clinical trial. Pain. 165(8). 1860–1874. 10 indexed citations

Čeko, Marta, et al.. (2024). Cortical cognitive processing during reading captured using functional-near infrared spectroscopy. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 19483–19483. 2 indexed citations

Saxena, Nitesh, et al.. (2024). Misinformation research needs ecological validity. Nature Human Behaviour. 8(12). 2268–2271.

Botvinik‐Nezer, Rotem, Bogdan Petre, Marta Čeko, et al.. (2024). Placebo treatment affects brain systems related to affective and cognitive processes, but not nociceptive pain. Nature Communications. 15(1). 6017–6017. 10 indexed citations

Zorina-Lichtenwalter, Katerina, Lukas Van Oudenhove, Marta Čeko, et al.. (2023). Genetic risk shared across 24 chronic pain conditions: identification and characterization with genomic structural equation modeling. Pain. 164(10). 2239–2252. 32 indexed citations

Čeko, Marta, Kerstin S. Haring, Pilyoung Kim, et al.. (2023). Interdisciplinary views of fNIRS: Current advancements, equity challenges, and an agenda for future needs of a diverse fNIRS research community. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience. 17. 1059679–1059679. 20 indexed citations

Kragel, Philip A., Marta Čeko, Jordan E. Theriault, et al.. (2021). A human colliculus-pulvinar-amygdala pathway encodes negative emotion. Neuron. 109(15). 2404–2412.e5. 40 indexed citations

Frangos, Eleni, Marta Čeko, John L. Gracely, et al.. (2020). Neural effects of placebo analgesia in fibromyalgia patients and healthy individuals. Pain. 162(2). 641–652. 9 indexed citations

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Perini, Irene, Marta Čeko, Leonardo Cerliani, et al.. (2020). Mutation Carriers with Reduced C-Afferent Density Reveal Cortical Dynamics of Pain–Action Relationship during Acute Pain. Cerebral Cortex. 30(9). 4858–4870. 8 indexed citations

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Stussman, Barbara, Richard L. Nahin, & Marta Čeko. (2018). Fibromyalgia patients and healthy volunteers express difficulties and variability in rating experimental pain: a qualitative study. Scandinavian Journal of Pain. 18(4). 657–666. 4 indexed citations

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Kragel, Philip A., Michiko Kano, Lukas Van Oudenhove, et al.. (2017). Generalizable representations of pain, cognitive control, and negative emotion in medial frontal cortex. Nature Neuroscience. 21(2). 283–289. 171 indexed citations

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Walitt, Brian, Marta Čeko, John L. Gracely, et al.. (2016). Characterizing “fibrofog”: Subjective appraisal, objective performance, and task-related brain activity during a working memory task. NeuroImage Clinical. 11. 173–180. 39 indexed citations

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Pomares, Florence B., Thomas Funck, Natasha A. Feier, et al.. (2016). Histological Underpinnings of Grey Matter Changes in Fibromyalgia Investigated Using Multimodal Brain Imaging. Journal of Neuroscience. 37(5). 1090–1101. 69 indexed citations

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Chesler, Alexander T., Marcin Szczot, Diana Bharucha‐Goebel, et al.. (2016). The Role of PIEZO2 in Human Mechanosensation. New England Journal of Medicine. 375(14). 1355–1364. 298 indexed citations

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Čeko, Marta, John L. Gracely, Mary‐Ann Fitzcharles, et al.. (2015). Is a Responsive Default Mode Network Required for Successful Working Memory Task Performance?. Journal of Neuroscience. 35(33). 11595–11605. 61 indexed citations

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Walitt, Brian, Marta Čeko, John L. Gracely, & Richard H. Gracely. (2015). Neuroimaging of Central Sensitivity Syndromes: Key Insights from the Scientific Literature. Current Rheumatology Reviews. 12(1). 55–87. 49 indexed citations

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Čeko, Marta, Nevena Milenkovic, Philipp le Coutre, Jörg Westermann, & Gary R. Lewin. (2014). Inhibition of c-Kit signaling is associated with reduced heat and cold pain sensitivity in humans. Pain. 155(7). 1222–1228. 8 indexed citations

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Bushnell, M. Catherine, Marta Čeko, & Lucie A. Low. (2013). Cognitive and emotional control of pain and its disruption in chronic pain. Nature reviews. Neuroscience. 14(7). 502–511. 1410 indexed citations breakdown →

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Liljencrantz, Jaquette, Malin Björnsdotter, India Morrison, et al.. (2012). Altered C-tactile processing in human dynamic tactile allodynia. Pain. 154(2). 227–234. 55 indexed citations

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