Petri Lehenkari

10.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
220 papers, 7.9k citations indexed

About

Petri Lehenkari is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Rheumatology and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, Petri Lehenkari has authored 220 papers receiving a total of 7.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 63 papers in Molecular Biology, 58 papers in Rheumatology and 53 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in Petri Lehenkari's work include Osteoarthritis Treatment and Mechanisms (38 papers), Mesenchymal stem cell research (36 papers) and Bone health and treatments (25 papers). Petri Lehenkari is often cited by papers focused on Osteoarthritis Treatment and Mechanisms (38 papers), Mesenchymal stem cell research (36 papers) and Bone health and treatments (25 papers). Petri Lehenkari collaborates with scholars based in Finland, United States and Sweden. Petri Lehenkari's co-authors include H. Kalervo Väänänen, Simo Saarakkala, Juha Tuukkanen, M. A. Horton, Juha Risteli, Jérôme Thevenot, Katri S. Selander, Jari Salo, Siri Lehtonen and Guillaume Charras and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of Biological Chemistry and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Petri Lehenkari

215 papers receiving 7.7k citations

Hit Papers

align trajectories sort by overperformance

What are hit papers?

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.

Automatic knee osteoarthritis diagnosis from plain radiographs:a deep learning-based approach

2018 407 citations Aleksei Tiulpin, Jérôme Thevenot et al. University of Oulu Repository (University of Oulu) profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Petri Lehenkari Finland	49	2.8k	1.7k	1.7k	1.4k	1.2k	220	7.9k
Yin Tintut United States	43	3.0k 1.1×	1.7k 1.0×	1.2k 0.7×	1.1k 0.8×	383 0.3×	110	8.9k
Donald M. Salter United Kingdom	45	2.0k 0.7×	2.1k 1.2×	990 0.6×	3.4k 2.5×	1.2k 1.0×	165	8.8k
Oscar K. Lee Taiwan	45	3.4k 1.2×	2.8k 1.6×	1.1k 0.6×	489 0.4×	1.7k 1.5×	166	9.4k
Tetsuya Yamamoto Japan	41	1.6k 0.6×	1.2k 0.7×	1.0k 0.6×	859 0.6×	348 0.3×	329	6.4k
Stephen E. Harris United States	51	7.7k 2.8×	956 0.6×	2.9k 1.7×	1.8k 1.4×	1.1k 0.9×	153	12.8k
Shih‐Chieh Hung Taiwan	53	4.1k 1.5×	2.8k 1.6×	1.8k 1.1×	1000 0.7×	1.1k 1.0×	185	10.6k
Janet Rubin United States	49	4.2k 1.5×	832 0.5×	1.4k 0.8×	624 0.5×	1.0k 0.9×	147	7.9k
Catherine M. Shanahan United Kingdom	74	9.4k 3.4×	2.3k 1.3×	1.1k 0.7×	2.0k 1.5×	821 0.7×	191	21.0k
Louis C. Gerstenfeld United States	57	6.1k 2.2×	3.2k 1.9×	2.3k 1.3×	2.3k 1.7×	2.6k 2.2×	149	14.0k
Lingyun Sun China	55	3.0k 1.1×	1.5k 0.8×	1.1k 0.6×	1.9k 1.4×	691 0.6×	243	10.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Petri Lehenkari

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Petri Lehenkari's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Petri Lehenkari with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Petri Lehenkari more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Petri Lehenkari

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Petri Lehenkari. 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 Petri Lehenkari. The network helps show where Petri Lehenkari may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Petri Lehenkari

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Petri Lehenkari. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Petri Lehenkari 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 Petri Lehenkari. Petri Lehenkari is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

Rantakokko, Panu, et al.. (2025). Adipose tissue deposition and placental transfer of persistent organic pollutants in ewes. Environmental Research. 287. 123164–123164. 1 indexed citations

Thevenot, Jérôme, Aleksei Tiulpin, Simo Saarakkala, et al.. (2025). Total radius BMD correlates with the hip and lumbar spine BMD among post-menopausal patients with fragility wrist fracture in a machine learning model. Archives of Osteoporosis. 20(1). 66–66.

Bergmann, Ulrich, et al.. (2024). Cigarette smoke and nicotine effect on human mesenchymalstromal cell wound healing and osteogenic differentiationcapacity. Tobacco Induced Diseases. 22(March). 1–10. 5 indexed citations

Åström, Pirjo, Hanna Öhman, Timo Sorsa, et al.. (2022). Insights into Preservation of Blood Biomarkers in Biobank Samples. Biopreservation and Biobanking. 20(3). 297–301. 1 indexed citations

Tickner, Ben. J., et al.. (2022). Hyperpolarised NMR to aid molecular profiling of electronic cigarette aerosols. RSC Advances. 12(3). 1479–1485. 5 indexed citations

Oura, Petteri, Markku Niskanen, Christopher B. Ruff, et al.. (2019). The association between knee breadth and body mass: The Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966 case study. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 170(2). 196–206. 9 indexed citations

Skarp, Sini, Olli‐Pekka Kämäräinen, Gong‐Hong Wei, et al.. (2018). Whole exome sequencing in Finnish families identifies new candidate genes for osteoarthritis. PLoS ONE. 13(8). e0203313–e0203313. 5 indexed citations

Tiulpin, Aleksei, Jérôme Thevenot, Esa Rahtu, Petri Lehenkari, & Simo Saarakkala. (2018). Automatic knee osteoarthritis diagnosis from plain radiographs:a deep learning-based approach. University of Oulu Repository (University of Oulu). 407 indexed citations breakdown →

Leppänen, Joni, Olli Helminen, Heikki Huhta, et al.. (2018). Weak HIF-1alpha expression indicates poor prognosis in resectable pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. World Journal of Surgical Oncology. 16(1). 127–127. 8 indexed citations

10.

Koskela, Antti, Jani Koponen, Petri Lehenkari, et al.. (2017). Perfluoroalkyl substances in human bone: concentrations in bones and effects on bone cell differentiation. STM:n Hallinnonalan avoin julkaisuarkisto (Julkari). 1 indexed citations

11.

Leppänen, Joni, Olli Helminen, Heikki Huhta, et al.. (2017). High toll-like receptor (TLR) 9 expression is associated with better prognosis in surgically treated pancreatic cancer patients. Archiv für Pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie und für Klinische Medicin. 470(4). 401–410. 25 indexed citations

12.

Finnilä, Mikko, Jérôme Thevenot, Virpi Tiitu, et al.. (2016). Association between subchondral bone structure and osteoarthritis histopathological grade. Journal of Orthopaedic Research®. 35(4). 785–792. 82 indexed citations

13.

Lehtonen, Siri, Fredrik Yannopoulos, Kari Ylitalo, et al.. (2015). High number of transplanted stem cells improves myocardial recovery after AMI in a porcine model. Scandinavian Cardiovascular Journal. 49(2). 82–94. 8 indexed citations

14.

Bitu, Carolina Cavalcante, Joonas H. Kauppila, Andréia Bufalino, et al.. (2013). Cathepsin K Is Present in Invasive Oral Tongue Squamous Cell Carcinoma In Vivo and In Vitro. PLoS ONE. 8(8). e70925–e70925. 29 indexed citations

15.

Salo, Sirpa, Carolina Cavalcante Bitu, Pia Nyberg, et al.. (2013). Correction: Human Bone Marrow Mesenchymal Stem Cells Induce Collagen Production and Tongue Cancer Invasion. PLoS ONE. 8(11). 6 indexed citations

16.

Lehtonen, Siri, Fredrik Yannopoulos, Kari Ylitalo, et al.. (2012). Activity of Mesenchymal Stem Cells in a Nonperfused Cardiac Explant Model. Tissue Engineering Part A. 19(9-10). 1122–1131. 4 indexed citations

17.

Pietilä, Mika, Siri Lehtonen, Ilja Ritamo, et al.. (2011). Mitochondrial Function and Energy Metabolism in Umbilical Cord Blood- and Bone Marrow-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells. Stem Cells and Development. 21(4). 575–588. 59 indexed citations

18.

Pietilä, Mika, Siri Lehtonen, Kari Aranko, et al.. (2009). Determimg cell viability and osteogenic differentiation potency of hMSCs based on mitocondrial function: A new method for characterization of cell based products.. Tissue Engineering. 16. 1–2. 2 indexed citations

19.

Anttila, Vesa, Kari Ylitalo, Reijo Takalo, et al.. (2009). Acute homing of bone marrow-derived mononuclear cells in intramyocardial vs. intracoronary transplantation. Scandinavian Cardiovascular Journal. 43(6). 366–373. 31 indexed citations

20.

Charras, Guillaume, Petri Lehenkari, & M.A. Horton. (2002). Biotechnological Applications of Atomic Force Microscopy. Methods in cell biology. 68. 171–191. 8 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact