Biophysics of Bone and Cartilage (BBC)

The BBC group in University of Eastern Finland is globally one of the leading research groups in cartilage and bone biophysics and -engineering. The group has extensively contributed to basic, applied and clinical research of the musculoskeletal disorders during the past 20 years.

Published items in each year	Citations in each year

Total times cited:	15857
Citing articles:	8574
Average citations per item:	23.48	Source: Web of Science
h-index:	64	Updated: Oct 17th 2019

Most recent BBC publications:

1. Leino A, Westeren-Punnonen S, Toyras J, Myllymaa S, Leppanen T, Yla-Herttuala S, Muraja-Murro A, Kantanen AM, Autere J, Jakala P, Mervaala E and Myllymaa K. Acute stroke and TIA patients have specific polygraphic features of obstructive sleep apnea. Sleep Breath. 2020 Jan 14. pii: 10.1007/s11325-019-02010-2. doi: 10.1007/s11325-019-02010-2.
   
   
2. Korkalainen H, Leppanen T, Aakko J, Nikkonen S, Kainulainen S, Leino A, Duce B, Afara IO, Myllymaa S and Toyras J. Accurate Deep Learning-Based Sleep Staging in a Clinical Population with Suspected Obstructive Sleep Apnea. IEEE J Biomed Health Inform. 2019 Dec 19. doi: 10.1109/JBHI.2019.2951346.
   
   
3. Tornquist E, Isaksson H and Turunen MJ. Mineralization of cortical bone during maturation and growth in rabbits. J Bone Miner Metab. 2019 Dec 5. pii: 10.1007/s00774-019-01068-y. doi: 10.1007/s00774-019-01068-y.
   
   
4. Ojanen SP, Finnila MAJ, Makela JTA, Saarela K, Happonen E, Herzog W, Saarakkala S and Korhonen RK. Anterior cruciate ligament transection of rabbits alters composition, structure and biomechanics of articular cartilage and chondrocyte deformation 2weeks post-surgery in a site-specific manner. J Biomech. 2020 Jan 2;98:109450. doi: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2019.109450. Epub 2019 Oct 23.
   
   
5. Reijonen J, Saisanen L, Kononen M, Mohammadi A and Julkunen P. The effect of coil placement and orientation on the assessment of focal excitability in motor mapping with navigated transcranial magnetic stimulation. J Neurosci Methods. 2020 Feb 1;331:108521. doi: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2019.108521. Epub 2019 Nov 13.