Anna Kankaanpää

3.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
48 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Anna Kankaanpää is a scholar working on Physiology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Developmental and Educational Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Anna Kankaanpää has authored 48 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Physiology, 26 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 14 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology. Recurrent topics in Anna Kankaanpää's work include Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (24 papers), Physical Activity and Health (24 papers) and Children's Physical and Motor Development (12 papers). Anna Kankaanpää is often cited by papers focused on Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (24 papers), Physical Activity and Health (24 papers) and Children's Physical and Motor Development (12 papers). Anna Kankaanpää collaborates with scholars based in Finland, Australia and United Kingdom. Anna Kankaanpää's co-authors include Tuija Tammelin, Mirja Hirvensalo, Xiaolin Yang, Jorma Viikari, Olli T. Raitakari, R. Telama, Esko Leskinen, Marko Kantomaa, Heidi Syväoja and Timo Ahonen and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Anna Kankaanpää

44 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Tracking of Physical Activity from Early Childhood through Youth into Adulthood

2013 643 citations R. Telama, Xiaolin Yang et al. Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Anna Kankaanpää Finland	23	1.0k	776	704	299	208	48	2.0k
María Rodríguez‐Ayllón Spain	24	919 0.9×	686 0.9×	614 0.9×	285 1.0×	230 1.1×	66	2.3k
Sarah Buck United States	13	694 0.7×	346 0.4×	998 1.4×	201 0.7×	244 1.2×	25	2.1k
Diego Moliner‐Urdiales Spain	22	850 0.8×	463 0.6×	505 0.7×	282 0.9×	112 0.5×	75	1.7k
Kenn Konstabel Estonia	29	1.2k 1.2×	694 0.9×	465 0.7×	371 1.2×	287 1.4×	67	2.3k
José Pedro Ferreira Portugal	24	342 0.3×	531 0.7×	346 0.5×	225 0.8×	171 0.8×	122	1.8k
Erlingur Jóhannsson Iceland	24	696 0.7×	615 0.8×	232 0.3×	200 0.7×	83 0.4×	78	1.8k
Maarike Harro Estonia	25	2.5k 2.5×	1.6k 2.1×	1.3k 1.8×	790 2.6×	209 1.0×	33	4.1k
L. B. Andersen Denmark	14	804 0.8×	605 0.8×	391 0.6×	251 0.8×	69 0.3×	20	1.4k
Anna Bugge Denmark	23	749 0.7×	404 0.5×	655 0.9×	190 0.6×	57 0.3×	63	1.5k
Janet Buckworth United States	22	650 0.6×	1.0k 1.3×	250 0.4×	483 1.6×	621 3.0×	62	2.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Anna Kankaanpää

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Kankaanpää, Anna, et al.. (2026). Epigenetic aging and lifespan reflect reproductive history in the Finnish Twin Cohort. Nature Communications. 17(1). 44–44.

Lehti, Satu, Matti Jauhiainen, Anna Kankaanpää, et al.. (2025). Association of aerobic fitness and body composition with protein and major lipid class composition of high-density lipoprotein. American Journal of Physiology-Endocrinology and Metabolism. 329(2). E368–E381.

Waller, Katja, et al.. (2024). Genetic Liability to Cardiovascular Disease, Physical Activity, and Mortality: Findings from the Finnish Twin Cohort. Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise. 56(10). 1954–1963. 2 indexed citations

Föhr, Tiina, Anna Kankaanpää, Eija K. Laakkonen, et al.. (2024). Metabolic syndrome and epigenetic aging: a twin study. International Journal of Obesity. 48(6). 778–787. 19 indexed citations

Kankaanpää, Anna, Leonie H. Bogl, Aino Heikkinen, et al.. (2024). Suboptimal dietary patterns are associated with accelerated biological aging in young adulthood: A study with twins. Clinical Nutrition. 45. 10–21. 2 indexed citations

Kankaanpää, Anna, Asko Tolvanen, Aino Heikkinen, et al.. (2022). The role of adolescent lifestyle habits in biological aging: A prospective twin study. eLife. 11. 35 indexed citations

Kankaanpää, Anna, Asko Tolvanen, Aino Heikkinen, et al.. (2021). Do Epigenetic Clocks Provide Explanations for Sex Differences in Life Span? A Cross-Sectional Twin Study. The Journals of Gerontology Series A. 77(9). 1898–1906. 35 indexed citations

Sillanpää, Elina, Aino Heikkinen, Anna Kankaanpää, et al.. (2021). Blood and skeletal muscle ageing determined by epigenetic clocks and their associations with physical activity and functioning. Clinical Epigenetics. 13(1). 110–110. 20 indexed citations

Kallio, Jouni, et al.. (2020). Associations of neck and shoulder pain with objectively measured physical activity and sedentary time among school-aged children. Scandinavian Journal of Pain. 20(4). 821–827. 5 indexed citations

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Lounassalo, Irinja, Mirja Hirvensalo, Anna Kankaanpää, et al.. (2019). Associations of Leisure-Time Physical Activity Trajectories with Fruit and Vegetable Consumption from Childhood to Adulthood: The Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 16(22). 4437–4437. 8 indexed citations

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Salin, Kasper, Anna Kankaanpää, Mirja Hirvensalo, et al.. (2019). Smoking and Physical Activity Trajectories from Childhood to Midlife. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 16(6). 974–974. 33 indexed citations

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Yang, Xiaolin, Anna Kankaanpää, Stuart Biddle, et al.. (2018). Long‐term determinants of changes in television viewing time in adults: Prospective analyses from the Young Finns Study. Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports. 28(12). 2723–2733. 3 indexed citations

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Jaakkola, Timo, Harto Hakonen, Anna Kankaanpää, et al.. (2018). Longitudinal associations of fundamental movement skills with objectively measured physical activity and sedentariness during school transition from primary to lower secondary school. Journal of science and medicine in sport. 22(1). 85–90. 22 indexed citations

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Kantomaa, Marko, Marjaana Tikanmäki, Anna Kankaanpää, et al.. (2016). Accelerometer-Measured Physical Activity and Sedentary Time Differ According to Education Level in Young Adults. PLoS ONE. 11(7). e0158902–e0158902. 31 indexed citations

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Yang, Xiaolin, Liisa Keltikangas‐Järvinen, Laura Pulkki-Råbäck, et al.. (2016). Does Childhood Temperamental Activity Predict Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior over a 30-Year Period? Evidence from the Young Finns Study. International Journal of Behavioral Medicine. 24(2). 171–179. 7 indexed citations

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Syväoja, Heidi, Tuija Tammelin, Timo Ahonen, et al.. (2014). Internal consistency and stability of the CANTAB neuropsychological test battery in children.. Psychological Assessment. 27(2). 698–709. 39 indexed citations

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Syväoja, Heidi, Marko Kantomaa, Timo Ahonen, et al.. (2013). Physical Activity, Sedentary Behavior, and Academic Performance in Finnish Children. Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise. 45(11). 2098–2104. 95 indexed citations

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Lappalainen, Raimo, et al.. (2013). Towards a physically more active lifestyle based on one’s own values: study design of a randomized controlled trial for physically inactive adults. BMC Public Health. 13(1). 260–260. 22 indexed citations

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Vihko, V., et al.. (2012). The Motor-Learning Process of Older Adults in Eccentric Bicycle Ergometer Training. Journal of Aging and Physical Activity. 20(3). 345–362. 5 indexed citations

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Vekovischeva, Olga, Teemu Aitta‐aho, Anna Kankaanpää, et al.. (2004). Reduced aggression in AMPA‐type glutamate receptor GluR‐A subunit‐deficient mice. Genes Brain & Behavior. 3(5). 253–265. 90 indexed citations

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