Predrag Petrović

12.3k total citations · 5 hit papers
115 papers, 8.0k citations indexed

About

Predrag Petrović is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Mental health and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Predrag Petrović has authored 115 papers receiving a total of 8.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 65 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 36 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health and 31 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Predrag Petrović's work include Pain Management and Placebo Effect (17 papers), Pain Mechanisms and Treatments (17 papers) and Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (15 papers). Predrag Petrović is often cited by papers focused on Pain Management and Placebo Effect (17 papers), Pain Mechanisms and Treatments (17 papers) and Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (15 papers). Predrag Petrović collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, United Kingdom and United States. Predrag Petrović's co-authors include Martin Ingvar, Karl Magnus Petersson, Raymond J. Dolan, Eija Kalso, Chris Frith, Ben Seymour, Dean Mobbs, Katrina Carlsson, Jennifer L. Marchant and Demis Hassabis and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Predrag Petrović

110 papers receiving 7.8k citations

Hit Papers

Placebo and Opioid Analgesia-- Imaging a Shared Neuronal ... 2002 2026 2010 2018 2002 2007 2018 2012 2009 250 500 750 1000
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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.

  1. Placebo and Opioid Analgesia-- Imaging a Shared Neuronal Network
    2002 1.1k citations Predrag Petrović, Karl Magnus Petersson et al. profile →
  2. When Fear Is Near: Threat Imminence Elicits Prefrontal-Periaqueductal Gray Shifts in Humans
    2007 675 citations Predrag Petrović, Raymond J. Dolan et al. profile →
  3. The Predictive Coding Account of Psychosis
    2018 484 citations Philipp Sterzer, Chris Frith et al. profile →
  4. Executive Functions Predict the Success of Top-Soccer Players
    2012 361 citations Torbjörn Vestberg, Roland Gustafson et al. PLoS ONE profile →
  5. From Threat to Fear: The Neural Organization of Defensive Fear Systems in Humans
    2009 352 citations Predrag Petrović, Raymond J. Dolan et al. Journal of Neuroscience profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Predrag Petrović Sweden 37 4.8k 1.8k 1.7k 1.6k 1.6k 115 8.0k
Wolfgang H. R. Miltner Germany 53 7.6k 1.6× 1.7k 0.9× 1.2k 0.7× 2.9k 1.8× 827 0.5× 186 11.8k
Ruchika Shaurya Prakash United States 40 3.9k 0.8× 2.6k 1.4× 838 0.5× 1.4k 0.8× 2.6k 1.6× 91 11.9k
Mario Liotti United States 47 8.4k 1.8× 2.7k 1.5× 1.1k 0.7× 2.5k 1.5× 582 0.4× 101 11.8k
Göran Hajak Germany 56 4.6k 1.0× 1.4k 0.7× 817 0.5× 3.1k 1.9× 911 0.6× 310 9.6k
Darren R. Gitelman United States 59 8.5k 1.8× 1.6k 0.9× 976 0.6× 1.8k 1.1× 1.0k 0.7× 125 12.3k
Jim Lagopoulos Australia 49 3.6k 0.7× 2.7k 1.5× 690 0.4× 1.3k 0.8× 589 0.4× 284 8.6k
Pierre Rainville Canada 49 6.4k 1.3× 2.2k 1.2× 1.8k 1.0× 1.5k 0.9× 3.7k 2.3× 166 10.9k
Jennifer Keller United States 33 5.4k 1.1× 1.4k 0.8× 858 0.5× 2.0k 1.2× 450 0.3× 69 9.0k
David Silbersweig United States 50 5.4k 1.1× 3.0k 1.6× 1.4k 0.8× 1.8k 1.1× 341 0.2× 144 10.4k
Alessandro Tessitore Italy 45 4.6k 1.0× 2.7k 1.5× 789 0.5× 1.3k 0.8× 611 0.4× 165 10.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Predrag Petrović

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All Works

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Bonetti, Leonardo, Torbjörn Vestberg, Martin Ingvar, et al.. (2025). Reply to Musculus et al.: A case of offside in scientific discourse?. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(25). e2507207122–e2507207122.
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Bonetti, Leonardo, Torbjörn Vestberg, Martin Ingvar, et al.. (2025). Decoding the elite soccer player’s psychological profile. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(3). e2415126122–e2415126122. 5 indexed citations
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Vestberg, Torbjörn, Alexander V. Lebedev, Henrik Børsting Jacobsen, et al.. (2024). Cognitive flexibility is associated with sickness resilience. Frontiers in Psychology. 15. 1253152–1253152.
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Balter, Leonie J. T., Benjamin C. Holding, Predrag Petrović, & John Axelsson. (2024). The rhythm of mental health: the relationship of chronotype with psychiatric trait dimensions and diurnal variation in psychiatric symptoms. Translational Psychiatry. 14(1). 237–237. 10 indexed citations
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Abé, Christoph, et al.. (2023). Mania-related effects on structural brain changes in bipolar disorder – a narrative review of the evidence. Molecular Psychiatry. 28(7). 2674–2682. 17 indexed citations
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Rütgen, Markus, I Riečanský, Allan Hummer, et al.. (2020). Beyond Sharing Unpleasant Affect—Evidence for Pain-Specific Opioidergic Modulation of Empathy for Pain. Cerebral Cortex. 31(6). 2773–2786. 28 indexed citations
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Axelsson, John, et al.. (2020). Vulnerability in Executive Functions to Sleep Deprivation Is Predicted by Subclinical Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Symptoms. Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging. 6(3). 290–298. 27 indexed citations
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Fernandes, Henrique M., Joana Cabral, Tim J. van Hartevelt, et al.. (2019). Disrupted brain structural connectivity in Pediatric Bipolar Disorder with psychosis. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 13638–13638. 19 indexed citations
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Tamm, Sandra, Gustav Nilsonne, Johanna Schwarz, et al.. (2019). Sleep restriction caused impaired emotional regulation without detectable brain activation changes—a functional magnetic resonance imaging study. Royal Society Open Science. 6(3). 181704–181704. 16 indexed citations
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Abé, Christoph, Sindre Rolstad, Predrag Petrović, et al.. (2018). Bipolar disorder type I and II show distinct relationships between cortical thickness and executive function. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica. 138(4). 325–335. 29 indexed citations
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Gustavsson, Petter, et al.. (2017). Delusion-proneness displays comorbidity with traits of autistic-spectrum disorders and ADHD. PLoS ONE. 12(5). e0177820–e0177820. 11 indexed citations
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Lekander, Mats, et al.. (2017). Longitudinal co-variations between inflammatory cytokines, lung function and patient reported outcomes in patients with asthma. PLoS ONE. 12(9). e0185019–e0185019. 9 indexed citations
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Tamm, Sandra, Gustav Nilsonne, Johanna Schwarz, et al.. (2014). Effect of partial sleep deprivation on empathy for pain in an fMRI experiment. Journal of Sleep Research. 23. 62–62. 1 indexed citations
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Schmack, Katharina, Ana Gòmez-Carrillo de Castro, Marcus Rothkirch, et al.. (2013). Delusions and the Role of Beliefs in Perceptual Inference. Journal of Neuroscience. 33(34). 13701–13712. 143 indexed citations
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Vestberg, Torbjörn, Roland Gustafson, Liselotte Maurex, Martin Ingvar, & Predrag Petrović. (2012). Executive Functions Predict the Success of Top-Soccer Players. PLoS ONE. 7(4). e34731–e34731. 361 indexed citations breakdown →
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Pessiglione, Mathias, Predrag Petrović, Jean Daunizeau, et al.. (2008). Subliminal Instrumental Conditioning Demonstrated in the Human Brain. Neuron. 59(4). 561–567. 192 indexed citations
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Petrović, Predrag, Karl Magnus Petersson, Per Hansson, & Martin Ingvar. (2004). Brainstem involvement in the initial response to pain. NeuroImage. 22(2). 995–1005. 71 indexed citations

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