Jukka Leppänen

7.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
118 papers, 5.6k citations indexed

About

Jukka Leppänen is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Jukka Leppänen has authored 118 papers receiving a total of 5.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 29 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 19 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Jukka Leppänen's work include Face Recognition and Perception (36 papers), Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (16 papers) and Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior (14 papers). Jukka Leppänen is often cited by papers focused on Face Recognition and Perception (36 papers), Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (16 papers) and Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior (14 papers). Jukka Leppänen collaborates with scholars based in Finland, United States and South Africa. Jukka Leppänen's co-authors include Jari K. Hietanen, Charles A. Nelson, Mikko J. Peltola, Linda Forssman, Jarkko Rautio, Vanessa Vogel‐Farley, Santeri Yrttiaho, Margaret C. Moulson, Emma Terrière and Jo Bell and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature reviews. Neuroscience, PLoS ONE and NeuroImage.

In The Last Decade

Jukka Leppänen

116 papers receiving 5.5k citations

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Emotional information processing in mood disorders: a review of behavioral and neuroimaging findings

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jukka Leppänen Finland	43	2.7k	1.6k	1.1k	904	567	118	5.6k
David Q. Beversdorf United States	42	2.6k 0.9×	660 0.4×	500 0.4×	1.0k 1.1×	601 1.1×	163	6.2k
Clinton D. Kilts United States	49	4.0k 1.5×	1.3k 0.8×	1.7k 1.5×	1.2k 1.3×	1.5k 2.6×	171	10.3k
Susanne Walitza Switzerland	40	2.8k 1.0×	887 0.6×	560 0.5×	1.8k 2.0×	583 1.0×	246	6.4k
Gerhard Hellemann United States	49	2.9k 1.1×	1.5k 0.9×	508 0.4×	2.3k 2.5×	494 0.9×	193	8.4k
Gregory M. Brown Canada	58	2.8k 1.0×	1.5k 1.0×	770 0.7×	633 0.7×	1.4k 2.4×	254	10.9k
Andreas Papassotiropoulos Switzerland	50	1.6k 0.6×	570 0.4×	567 0.5×	775 0.9×	2.5k 4.4×	173	8.5k
Johannes Thome Germany	45	2.1k 0.8×	807 0.5×	491 0.4×	1.2k 1.4×	1.5k 2.6×	178	7.9k
David M. Diamond United States	56	3.9k 1.4×	455 0.3×	2.0k 1.8×	810 0.9×	1.8k 3.2×	156	12.2k
David Benton United Kingdom	55	819 0.3×	612 0.4×	1.2k 1.0×	932 1.0×	1.0k 1.8×	188	8.4k
Kent E. Hutchison United States	54	2.7k 1.0×	1.3k 0.8×	420 0.4×	1.4k 1.6×	1.6k 2.9×	225	9.5k

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Ashorn, Ulla, Per Ashorn, Lotta Hallamaa, et al.. (2025). Eye-tracking measures of oculomotor speed and control as markers of cognitive ability in Malawian adolescent population: Secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial. PLOS Global Public Health. 5(7). e0004811–e0004811. 1 indexed citations

Lauer, Jacqueline M, Juha Pyykkö, Doug Parkerson, et al.. (2024). Markers of Environmental Enteric Dysfunction are Associated with Poor Growth and Developmental Outcomes among Young Children in Lusaka, Zambia. The Journal of Pediatrics. 277. 114408–114408. 3 indexed citations

Rockers, Peter C., Jukka Leppänen, Amanda R. Tarullo, et al.. (2023). Evaluation of a community health worker home visit intervention to improve child development in South Africa: A cluster-randomized controlled trial. PLoS Medicine. 20(4). e1004222–e1004222. 8 indexed citations

Kataja, Eeva‐Leena, Juho Pelto, Riikka Korja, et al.. (2022). The stability of early developing attentional bias for faces and fear from 8 to 30 and 60 months in the FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study.. Developmental Psychology. 58(12). 2264–2274. 3 indexed citations

Xie, Wanze, et al.. (2021). Converging neural and behavioral evidence for a rapid, generalized response to threat-related facial expressions in 3-year-old children. NeuroImage. 229. 117732–117732. 16 indexed citations

Kylliäinen, Anneli, Outi Saarenpää‐Heikkilä, E. Juulia Paavonen, et al.. (2021). Signaled night awakening and its association with social information processing and socio-emotional development across the first two years. SLEEP. 44(12). 3 indexed citations

Kataja, Eeva‐Leena, Jukka Leppänen, Katri Kantojärvi, et al.. (2020). The role of TPH2 variant rs4570625 in shaping infant attention to social signals. Infant Behavior and Development. 60. 101471–101471. 5 indexed citations

Pyykkö, Juha, Linda Forssman, Kenneth Maleta, et al.. (2018). Early development of visual attention in infants in rural Malawi. Developmental Science. 22(5). e12761–e12761. 14 indexed citations

Kärkkäinen, Olli, Tomi Tuomainen, Ville Koistinen, et al.. (2018). Whole grain intake associated molecule 5-aminovaleric acid betaine decreases β-oxidation of fatty acids in mouse cardiomyocytes. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 13036–13036. 28 indexed citations

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Kärkkäinen, Olli, Maria Lankinen, Marilena Vitale, et al.. (2018). Diets rich in whole grains increase betainized compounds associated with glucose metabolism. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 108(5). 971–979. 43 indexed citations

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Leppänen, Jukka. (2016). Using Eye Tracking to Understand Infants' Attentional Bias for Faces. Child Development Perspectives. 10(3). 161–165. 44 indexed citations

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Gynther, Mikko, Lauri Peura, Jukka Leppänen, et al.. (2016). Amino Acid Promoieties Alter Valproic Acid Pharmacokinetics and Enable Extended Brain Exposure. Neurochemical Research. 41(10). 2797–2809. 45 indexed citations

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Leppänen, Jukka, et al.. (2014). Widely applicable MATLAB routines for automated analysis of saccadic reaction times. Behavior Research Methods. 47(2). 538–548. 54 indexed citations

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Peura, Lauri, Jukka Leppänen, Krista Laine, et al.. (2012). Structure–activity relationship study of compounds binding to large amino acid transporter 1 (LAT1) based on pharmacophore modeling and in situ rat brain perfusion. European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences. 48(3). 523–531. 39 indexed citations

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Leppänen, Jukka. (2011). Neural and Developmental Bases of the Ability to Recognize Social Signals of Emotions. Emotion Review. 3(2). 179–188. 30 indexed citations

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Suuronen, Tiina, Erik A. A. Wallén, Jukka Leppänen, et al.. (2009). N^ϵ-Thioacetyl-Lysine-Containing Tri-, Tetra-, and Pentapeptides as SIRT1 and SIRT2 Inhibitors. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 52(7). 2153–2156. 44 indexed citations

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Leppänen, Jukka, Jenny L. Richmond, Vanessa Vogel‐Farley, Margaret C. Moulson, & Charles A. Nelson. (2009). Categorical Representation of Facial Expressions in the Infant Brain. Infancy. 14(3). 346–362. 35 indexed citations

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Tervo, Anu J., Tiina Suuronen, Sergiy Kyrylenko, et al.. (2006). Discovering Inhibitors of Human Sirtuin Type 2: Novel Structural Scaffolds. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 49(24). 7239–7241. 37 indexed citations

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Leppänen, Jukka, M. Tenhunen, & Jari K. Hietanen. (2003). Faster choice-reaction times to positive than to negative facial expressions: The role of cognitive and motor processes.. Journal of Psychophysiology. 17(3). 113. 61 indexed citations

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Savolainen, Jouko, Jukka Leppänen, Markus Forsberg, et al.. (2000). Synthesis and in vitro/in vivo evaluation of novel oral N-alkyl- and N,N-dialkyl-carbamate esters of entacapone. Life Sciences. 67(2). 205–216. 28 indexed citations

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