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1456
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Heikki Lyytinen publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Heikki Lyytinen sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 253 publications — 81st percentile

81% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Heikki Lyytinen D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Heikki Lyytinen sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 80 D-Index — 88th percentile

88% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Overview

Heikki Lyytinen is affiliated with the University of Jyväskylä in Finland and specializes in research spanning psychology and social sciences. Their work covers multiple interconnected fields, including developmental and educational psychology, education, genetics, cognitive neuroscience, and statistics and probability.

The primary focus of Lyytinen's research lies in topics such as reading and literacy development, child development and digital technology, genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders, language development and disorders, cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills, neurobiology of language and bilingualism, and genetic associations and epidemiology.

Lyytinen has contributed to a variety of publications, often collaborating with several frequent coauthors including Till F. M. Andlauer, Thomas Bourgeron, Daniel Brandeis, Alessandro Gialluisi, and Juha Kere.

Their recent notable papers include:

  • Discovery of 42 genome-wide significant loci associated with dyslexia, 2022, Nature Genetics
  • Genome-wide association study reveals new insights into the heritability and genetic correlates of developmental dyslexia, 2020, Molecular Psychiatry
  • Genome-wide analyses of individual differences in quantitatively assessed reading- and language-related skills in up to 34,000 people, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Unveiling the Mysteries of Dyslexia-Lessons Learned from the Prospective Jyväskylä Longitudinal Study of Dyslexia, 2021, Brain Sciences
  • A mobile game as a support tool for children with severe difficulties in reading and spelling, 2020, Journal of Computer Assisted Learning

Lyytinen frequently publishes in venues such as Frontiers in Psychology, Nature Genetics, Brain Sciences, Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, and Molecular Psychiatry.

Best Publications

  • Orthographic Depth and Its Impact on Universal Predictors of Reading A Cross-Language Investigation

    Johannes C. Ziegler;Daisy Bertrand;Denes Toth;Valeria Csepe

  • Corpus Callosum Morphology in Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder: Morphometric Analysis of MRI

    George W. Hynd;Margaret Semrud-Clikeman;Alison R. Lorys;Edward S. Novey

  • Neural systems predicting long-term outcome in dyslexia

    Fumiko Hoeft;Bruce D. McCandliss;Jessica M. Black;Alexander Gantman

  • Predictors of developmental dyslexia in European orthographies with varying complexity

    Karin Landerl;Karin Landerl;Franck Ramus;Kristina Moll;Kristina Moll;Heikki Lyytinen

  • Brain sensitivity to print emerges when children learn letter–speech sound correspondences

    Silvia Brem;Silvia Bach;Silvia Bach;Karin Kucian;Tomi K. Guttorm

  • A candidate gene for developmental dyslexia encodes a nuclear tetratricopeptide repeat domain protein dynamically regulated in brain

    Mikko Joonas Oskari Taipale;Nina Kaminen;Jaana Nopola-Hemmi;Tuomas Haltia

  • Cognitive mechanisms underlying reading and spelling development in five European orthographies

    Kristina Moll;Franck Ramus;Juergen Bartling;Jennifer Bruder

  • Very early phonological and language skills: estimating individual risk of reading disability

    Anne Puolakanaho;Timo Ahonen;Mikko Aro;Kenneth Eklund

  • Language Development, Literacy Skills, and Predictive Connections to Reading in Finnish Children With and Without Familial Risk for Dyslexia

    Minna Torppa;Paula Lyytinen;Jane Erskine;Kenneth Eklund

  • Predicting Delay in Reading Achievement in a Highly Transparent Language

    Leena Holopainen;Timo Ahonen;Heikki Lyytinen

  • The development of children at familial risk for dyslexia: birth to early school age.

    Heikki Lyytinen;Mikko Aro;Kenneth Eklund;Jane Erskine

  • Postural Stability and Skilled Performance--A Study on Top-Level and Naive Rifle Shooters

    P. Era;N. Konttinen;P. Mehto;P. Saarela

  • Brain event-related potentials (ERPs) measured at birth predict later language development in children with and without familial risk for dyslexia.

    Tomi K. Guttorm;Paavo H.T. Leppänen;Anna-Maija Poikkeus;Kenneth M. Eklund

  • Computer-Assisted Remedial Reading Intervention for School Beginners at Risk for Reading Disability

    Nina L. Saine;Marja-Kristiina Lerkkanen;Timo Ahonen;Asko Tolvanen

  • heterogeneity in adult dyslexic readers: Relating processing skills to the speed and accuracy of oral text reading.

    Seija Leinonen;Kurt Müller;Paavo H.T. Leppänen;Mikko Aro

  • Developmental pathways of children with and without familial risk for dyslexia during the first years of life.

    Heikki Lyytinen;Timo Ahonen;Kenneth Eklund;Tomi K. Guttorm

  • Children's engagement during digital game-based learning of reading: The effects of time, rewards, and challenge

    Miia Ronimus;Janne Kujala;Asko Tolvanen;Heikki Lyytinen

  • Brain responses to changes in speech sound durations differ between infants with and without familial risk for dyslexia.

    Paavo H. T. Leppänen;Ulla Richardson;Elina Pihko;Kenneth M. Eklund

  • Trajectories of Reading Development: A Follow-up From Birth to School Age of Children With and Without Risk for Dyslexia

    Heikki Lyytinen;Jane Erskine;Asko Tolvanen;Minna Torppa

  • Predicting delayed letter knowledge development and its relation to grade 1 reading achievement among children with and without familial risk for dyslexia.

    Minna Torppa;Anna-Maija Poikkeus;Marja-Leena Laakso;Kenneth Eklund

Frequent Co-Authors

Paavo H.T. Leppänen
Paavo H.T. Leppänen University of Jyväskylä
Timo Ahonen
Timo Ahonen University of Jyväskylä
Kenneth Eklund
Kenneth Eklund University of Jyväskylä
Tapani Ristaniemi
Tapani Ristaniemi University of Jyväskylä
Asko Tolvanen
Asko Tolvanen University of Jyväskylä
Mikko Aro
Mikko Aro University of Jyväskylä
Juha Kere
Juha Kere Karolinska Institute
Anna-Maija Poikkeus
Anna-Maija Poikkeus University of Jyväskylä
Jarmo A. Hämäläinen
Jarmo A. Hämäläinen University of Jyväskylä
Risto Näätänen
Risto Näätänen University of Tartu

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