Heli Julkunen

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
9 papers, 513 citations indexed

About

Heli Julkunen is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Heli Julkunen has authored 9 papers receiving a total of 513 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Molecular Biology, 4 papers in Genetics and 1 paper in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Heli Julkunen's work include Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies (4 papers), Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (4 papers) and Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (3 papers). Heli Julkunen is often cited by papers focused on Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies (4 papers), Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (4 papers) and Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (3 papers). Heli Julkunen collaborates with scholars based in Finland, United States and Norway. Heli Julkunen's co-authors include Anna Cichońska, Peter Würtz, P. Eline Slagboom, Juho Rousu, Tapio Pahikkala, Tero Aittokallio, Sándor Szedmák, Veikko Salomaa, Pasi Soininen and Pekka Jousilahti and has published in prestigious journals such as Circulation, Nature Communications and Bioinformatics.

In The Last Decade

Heli Julkunen

8 papers receiving 510 citations

Hit Papers

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  1. Atlas of plasma NMR biomarkers for health and disease in 118,461 individuals from the UK Biobank
    2023 216 citations Heli Julkunen, Anna Cichońska et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Heli Julkunen Finland 6 272 106 102 79 76 9 513
Anna Cichońska Finland 14 476 1.8× 172 1.6× 245 2.4× 92 1.2× 110 1.4× 17 829
Johannes Raffler Germany 12 496 1.8× 253 2.4× 29 0.3× 148 1.9× 104 1.4× 20 838
Miriam Saiz‐Rodríguez Spain 19 191 0.7× 47 0.4× 46 0.5× 77 1.0× 32 0.4× 58 984
You Li China 12 235 0.9× 22 0.2× 71 0.7× 27 0.3× 156 2.1× 27 669
Irina Irincheeva Switzerland 9 154 0.6× 28 0.3× 26 0.3× 44 0.6× 99 1.3× 19 409
Alberto Chiappe Switzerland 7 248 0.9× 66 0.6× 17 0.2× 81 1.0× 56 0.7× 8 960
Patrizia Bernini Italy 8 522 1.9× 40 0.4× 17 0.2× 103 1.3× 86 1.1× 9 730
Ingrid Fricke-Galindo Mexico 14 119 0.4× 60 0.6× 32 0.3× 26 0.3× 55 0.7× 41 720
Jung Min Yoon South Korea 11 189 0.7× 34 0.3× 19 0.2× 43 0.5× 117 1.5× 33 529
Evgeny Krynetskiy United States 16 245 0.9× 70 0.7× 10 0.1× 63 0.8× 148 1.9× 36 729

Countries citing papers authored by Heli Julkunen

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Fields of papers citing papers by Heli Julkunen

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Heli Julkunen. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Heli Julkunen. The network helps show where Heli Julkunen may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Heli Julkunen

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Heli Julkunen. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Heli Julkunen based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Heli Julkunen. Heli Julkunen is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

9 of 9 papers shown
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Julkunen, Heli & Juho Rousu. (2025). Comprehensive interaction modeling with machine learning improves prediction of disease risk in the UK Biobank. Nature Communications. 16(1). 6620–6620. 1 indexed citations
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Julkunen, Heli. (2023). #5650 METABOLIC BLOOD BIOMARKER PROFILING FOR CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE PREDICTION – EVIDENCE FROM 275,000 INDIVIDUALS IN THE UK BIOBANK. Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation. 38(Supplement_1). 2 indexed citations
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Julkunen, Heli, Anna Cichońska, Mika Tiainen, et al.. (2023). Atlas of plasma NMR biomarkers for health and disease in 118,461 individuals from the UK Biobank. Nature Communications. 14(1). 604–604. 216 indexed citations breakdown →
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Sinnott-Armstrong, Nasa, Anna Cichońska, Heli Julkunen, et al.. (2022). Integrative analysis of metabolite GWAS illuminates the molecular basis of pleiotropy and genetic correlation. eLife. 11. 21 indexed citations
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Bell, Joshua A., Tom G. Richardson, Qin Wang, et al.. (2022). Effects of general and central adiposity on circulating lipoprotein, lipid, and metabolite levels in UK Biobank: A multivariable Mendelian randomization study. The Lancet Regional Health - Europe. 21. 100457–100457. 28 indexed citations
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Julkunen, Heli, Anna Cichońska, Prson Gautam, et al.. (2020). Leveraging multi-way interactions for systematic prediction of pre-clinical drug combination effects. Nature Communications. 11(1). 6136–6136. 75 indexed citations
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Cichońska, Anna, Tapio Pahikkala, Sándor Szedmák, et al.. (2018). Learning with multiple pairwise kernels for drug bioactivity prediction. Bioinformatics. 34(13). i509–i518. 53 indexed citations

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