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:	15520
Citing articles:	8389
Average citations per item:	23.48	Source: Web of Science
h-index:	63	Updated: Aug 9th 2019

Most recent BBC publications:

1. Miettinen T, Myllymaa K, Muraja-Murro A, Westeren-Punnonen S, Hukkanen T, Toyras J, Lappalainen R, Mervaala E, Sipila K and Myllymaa S. Polysomnographic scoring of sleep bruxism events is accurate even in the absence of video recording but unreliable with EMG-only setups. Sleep Breath. 2019 Aug 12. pii: 10.1007/s11325-019-01915-2. doi: 10.1007/s11325-019-01915-2.
   
   
2. Kariminezhad S, Karhu J, Saisanen L, Kononen M and Julkunen P. Interaction between repetition suppression in motor activation and long-interval intracortical inhibition. Sci Rep. 2019 Aug 8;9(1):11543. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-47932-9.
   
   
3. Husso M, Nissi MJ, Kuivanen A, Halonen P, Tarkia M, Teuho J, Saunavaara V, Vainio P, Sipola P, Manninen H, Yla-Herttuala S, Knuuti J and Toyras J. Quantification of porcine myocardial perfusion with modified dual bolus MRI - a prospective study with a PET reference. BMC Med Imaging. 2019 Jul 26;19(1):58. doi: 10.1186/s12880-019-0359-8.
   
   
4. Oksenberg A, Gadoth N, Toyras J and Leppanen T. Prevalence and characteristics of positional obstructive sleep apnea (POSA) in patients with severe OSA. Sleep Breath. 2019 Jul 20. pii: 10.1007/s11325-019-01897-1. doi: 10.1007/s11325-019-01897-1.
   
   
5. Tormalehto S, Aarnio E, Mononen ME, Arokoski JPA, Korhonen RK and Martikainen JA. Eight-year trajectories of changes in health-related quality of life in knee osteoarthritis: Data from the Osteoarthritis Initiative (OAI). PLoS One. 2019 Jul 19;14(7):e0219902. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0219902. eCollection 2019.