Aaro Toomela

2.3k total citations
74 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Aaro Toomela is a scholar working on Social Psychology, Neurology and Developmental and Educational Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Aaro Toomela has authored 74 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Social Psychology, 15 papers in Neurology and 15 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology. Recurrent topics in Aaro Toomela's work include Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (13 papers), Social Representations and Identity (13 papers) and Neurological disorders and treatments (8 papers). Aaro Toomela is often cited by papers focused on Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (13 papers), Social Representations and Identity (13 papers) and Neurological disorders and treatments (8 papers). Aaro Toomela collaborates with scholars based in Estonia, United Kingdom and Belgium. Aaro Toomela's co-authors include Tiiu Tomberg, Jaan Valsiner, Sven Nõmm, Aleksander Pulver, Pille Taba, Eve Kikas, Toomas Asser, Xuechao Wang, Michael Ruzhansky and Markus Bühner and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Child Development and Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Aaro Toomela

69 papers receiving 1.2k citations

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Aaro Toomela Estonia	19	389	274	195	192	156	74	1.2k
Laura A. Rabin United States	19	198 0.5×	126 0.5×	387 2.0×	434 2.3×	81 0.5×	54	1.5k
Crina Damşa Norway	18	125 0.3×	368 1.3×	112 0.6×	270 1.4×	57 0.4×	91	1.5k
Daniel M. Bernstein Canada	30	564 1.4×	586 2.1×	364 1.9×	166 0.9×	104 0.7×	108	2.2k
Mary Katsikitis Australia	22	233 0.6×	133 0.5×	276 1.4×	479 2.5×	96 0.6×	79	1.6k
Leslie J. Caplan United States	15	125 0.3×	168 0.6×	192 1.0×	92 0.5×	30 0.2×	30	775
Sarah B. Bush United States	17	91 0.2×	288 1.1×	262 1.3×	202 1.1×	171 1.1×	81	1.7k
Francesca M. Bosco Italy	32	346 0.9×	899 3.3×	439 2.3×	405 2.1×	40 0.3×	95	2.4k
Diego Fernandez‐Duque United States	20	250 0.6×	267 1.0×	447 2.3×	157 0.8×	50 0.3×	25	2.1k
Lawrence J. Lewandowski United States	25	74 0.2×	676 2.5×	236 1.2×	354 1.8×	52 0.3×	89	1.7k
Daniel Collins Australia	20	220 0.6×	83 0.3×	315 1.6×	369 1.9×	32 0.2×	37	1.5k

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Uher, Jana, Jan Ketil Arnulf, Paul Barrett, et al.. (2025). Psychology's Questionable Research Fundamentals (QRFs): Key problems in quantitative psychology and psychological measurement beyond Questionable Research Practices (QRPs). Frontiers in Psychology. 16. 1553028–1553028. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Xuechao, et al.. (2024). LSTM-CNN: An efficient diagnostic network for Parkinson's disease utilizing dynamic handwriting analysis. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine. 247. 108066–108066. 18 indexed citations

Wang, Xuechao, et al.. (2023). Comparison of one- two- and three-dimensional CNN models for drawing-test-based diagnostics of the Parkinson’s disease. Biomedical Signal Processing and Control. 87. 105436–105436. 5 indexed citations

Nõmm, Sven, et al.. (2022). Machine Learning Based Analysis of the Upper Limb Freezing During Handwriting in Parkinson's Disease Patients. IFAC-PapersOnLine. 55(29). 91–95.

Nõmm, Sven, et al.. (2022). Generative Adversarial Networks as a Data Augmentation Tool for CNN-Based Parkinson's Disease Diagnostics. IFAC-PapersOnLine. 55(29). 108–113. 7 indexed citations

Toomela, Aaro, et al.. (2019). Studies in the Mentality of Literates: 1. Conceptual Structure and Aspects of Visual Perception. Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science. 54(2). 465–493. 9 indexed citations

Nõmm, Sven, et al.. (2018). Gait Analysis Based Approach for Parkinson's Disease Modeling with Decision Tree Classifiers. 3720–3725. 6 indexed citations

Toomela, Aaro. (2018). Vygotskian (but only partly Vygotsky’s) understanding of special education. Educação. 41(3). 347–361. 5 indexed citations

Nõmm, Sven, et al.. (2016). Recognition and Analysis of the Contours Drawn during the Poppelreuter's Test. 170–175. 3 indexed citations

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Toomela, Aaro. (2015). What are Higher Psychological Functions?. Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science. 50(1). 91–121. 28 indexed citations

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Nõmm, Sven, et al.. (2013). Alternative Approach to Model Changes of Human Motor Functions. 169–174. 8 indexed citations

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Toomela, Aaro. (2011). Travel Into a Fairy Land: A Critique of Modern Qualitative and Mixed Methods Psychologies. Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science. 45(1). 21–47. 32 indexed citations

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Toomela, Aaro. (2010). Systemic person-oriented study of child development in early primary school. Peter Lang eBooks. 19 indexed citations

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Toomela, Aaro & Jaan Valsiner. (2010). Methodological thinking in psychology : 60 years gone astray?. 89 indexed citations

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Toomela, Aaro. (2010). Quantitative methods in psychology: inevitable and useless. Frontiers in Psychology. 1. 29–29. 39 indexed citations

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Ziegler, Matthias, Aaro Toomela, & Markus Bühner. (2009). A Reanalysis of Toomela (2003): Spurious measurement error as cause for common variance between personality factors. 51(1). 65. 7 indexed citations

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Tomberg, Tiiu, et al.. (2007). Changes in coping strategies, social support, optimism and health-related quality of life following traumatic brain injury: A longitudinal study. Brain Injury. 21(5). 479–488. 77 indexed citations

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Toomela, Aaro. (2003). How Should Culture be Studied?. Culture & Psychology. 9(1). 35–45. 13 indexed citations

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Toomela, Aaro. (2003). Cultural Guidance in the Development of the Human Mind. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 29 indexed citations

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Toomela, Aaro. (1999). Drawing Development: Stages in the Representation of a Cube and a Cylinder. Child Development. 70(5). 1141–1150. 21 indexed citations

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