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:	14070
Citing articles:	7574
Average citations per item:	23.14	Source: Web of Science
h-index:	60	Updated: Aug 17th 2018

Most recent BBC publications:

1. Mononen ME, Liukkonen MK and Korhonen RK. Utilizing Atlas-Based Modeling to Predict Knee Joint Cartilage Degeneration: Data from the Osteoarthritis Initiative. Ann Biomed Eng. 2018 Dec 13. pii: 10.1007/s10439-018-02184-y. doi: 10.1007/s10439-018-02184-y.
   
   
2. Ronkainen AP, Tanska P, Fick JM, Herzog W and Korhonen RK. Interrelationship of cartilage composition and chondrocyte mechanics after a partial meniscectomy in the rabbit knee joint - Experimental and numerical analysis. J Biomech. 2018 Nov 19. pii: S0021-9290(18)30859-5. doi: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2018.11.024.
   
   
3. Kulkas A, Leppanen T, Nikkonen S, Oksenberg A, Duce B, Mervaala E and Toyras J. Required CPAP usage time to normalize AHI in obstructive sleep apnea patients: a simulation study. Physiol Meas. 2018 Nov 28;39(11):115009. doi: 10.1088/1361-6579/aae7fe.
   
   
4. Bolcos PO, Mononen ME, Mohammadi A, Ebrahimi M, Tanaka MS, Samaan MA, Souza RB, Li X, Suomalainen JS, Jurvelin JS, Toyras J and Korhonen RK. Comparison between kinetic and kinetic-kinematic driven knee joint finite element models. Sci Rep. 2018 Nov 26;8(1):17351. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-35628-5.
   
   
5. Ebrahimi M, Mohammadi A, Ristaniemi A, Stenroth L and Korhonen RK. The effect of different preconditioning protocols on repeatability of bovine ACL stress-relaxation response in tension. J Mech Behav Biomed Mater. 2018 Nov 2;90:493-501. doi: 10.1016/j.jmbbm.2018.10.041.