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Jukka M. Leppänen

Jukka M. Leppänen

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
41
Citations
8136
World Ranking
7832
National Ranking
59

Jukka M. Leppänen 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 Jukka M. Leppänen sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 93 publications — 15th percentile

15% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Jukka M. Leppänen 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 Jukka M. Leppänen sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 41 D-Index — 33rd percentile

33% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Jukka M. Leppänen is affiliated with the University of Turku in Finland. Their research focuses primarily on Medicine with a particular concentration on Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Cognitive Neuroscience, Nutrition and Dietetics, Social Psychology, and Education.

The scientist has contributed to topics including Child Nutrition and Water Access, Infant Development and Preterm Care, Neuroendocrine Regulation and Behavior, Face Recognition and Perception, Early Childhood Education and Development, Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues, and Infant Health and Development.

The frequent co-authors working collaboratively with Jukka M. Leppänen include Peter C. Rockers, Günther Fink, Juha Pyykkö, Eeva-Leena Kataja, and Saara Nolvi.

Publications by Jukka M. Leppänen have appeared in various scholarly venues, notably:

  • Behavior Research Methods
  • BMJ Open
  • NeuroImage
  • Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Significant papers associated with Jukka M. Leppänen include:

  • RETRACTED ARTICLE: Eye tracking: empirical foundations for a minimal reporting guideline, 2022, Behavior Research Methods
  • Converging neural and behavioral evidence for a rapid, generalized response to threat-related facial expressions in 3-year-old children, 2021, NeuroImage
  • Newborn left amygdala volume associates with attention disengagement from fearful faces at eight months, 2020, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Tyrosine-Chlorambucil Conjugates Facilitate Cellular Uptake through L-Type Amino Acid Transporter 1 (LAT1) in Human Breast Cancer Cell Line MCF-7, 2020, International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Assessing infant cognition in field settings using eye-tracking: a pilot cohort trial in Sierra Leone, 2022, BMJ Open

Best Publications

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

    Jukka M Leppänen

  • Depression biases the recognition of emotionally neutral faces

    Jukka M. Leppänen;Maarten Milders;J.Stephen Bell;Emma Terriere

  • Tuning the developing brain to social signals of emotions

    Jukka M. Leppänen;Charles A. Nelson

  • Positive facial expressions are recognized faster than negative facial expressions, but why?

    Jukka M. Leppänen;Jari K. Hietanen

  • An ERP Study of Emotional Face Processing in the Adult and Infant Brain

    Jukka M. Leppänen;Margaret C. Moulson;Vanessa K. Vogel-Farley;Charles A. Nelson;Charles A. Nelson

  • Seeing direct and averted gaze activates the approach-avoidance motivational brain systems.

    Jari K. Hietanen;Jukka M. Leppänen;Mikko J. Peltola;Kati Linna-aho

  • Does facial expression affect attention orienting by gaze direction cues

    Jari K Hietanen;Jukka M Leppänen

  • Emergence of enhanced attention to fearful faces between 5 and 7 months of age.

    Mikko J. Peltola;Jukka M. Leppänen;Silja Mäki;Jari K. Hietanen

  • Emotion recognition and social adjustment in school-aged girls and boys.

    Jukka M. Leppänen;Jari K. Hietanen

  • Affect and face perception: odors modulate the recognition advantage of happy faces.

    Jukka M. Leppänen;Jari K. Hietanen

  • Fearful faces modulate looking duration and attention disengagement in 7-month-old infants.

    Mikko J. Peltola;Jukka M. Leppänen;Tiina Palokangas;Jari K. Hietanen

  • Does it make a difference if I have an eye contact with you or with your picture? An ERP study

    Laura M. Pönkänen;Annemari Alhoniemi;Jukka M. Leppänen;Jari K. Hietanen

  • Faster choice-reaction times to positive than to negative facial expressions: The role of cognitive and motor processes.

    Jukka M. Leppänen;Mirja Tenhunen;Jari K. Hietanen

  • Differential electrocortical responses to increasing intensities of fearful and happy emotional expressions.

    Jukka M. Leppänen;Pasi Kauppinen;Mikko J. Peltola;Jari K. Hietanen

  • Robustness and Precision : How Data Quality May Influence Key Dependent Variables in Infant Eye-Tracker Analyses

    Sam V. Wass;Linda Forssman;Jukka Leppänen

  • Fearful faces but not fearful eyes alone delay attention disengagement in 7-month-old infants.

    Mikko J. Peltola;Jukka M. Leppänen;Vanessa K. Vogel-Farley;Jari K. Hietanen

  • Faster Choice-Reaction Times to Positive than to Negative Facial Expressions

    Jukka M. Leppänen;Mirja Tenhunen;Jari K. Hietanen

  • Affective-motivational brain responses to direct gaze in children with autism spectrum disorder.

    Anneli Kylliäinen;Simon Wallace;Marc N. Coutanche;Jukka M. Leppänen

  • Visuospatial attention shifts by gaze and arrow cues: an ERP study.

    Jari K. Hietanen;Jukka M. Leppänen;Lauri Nummenmaa;Piia Astikainen

  • The Emergence and Stability of the Attentional Bias to Fearful Faces in Infancy

    Mikko J. Peltola;Mikko J. Peltola;Jari K. Hietanen;Linda Forssman;Jukka M. Leppänen

  • The development and neural bases of facial emotion recognition.

    Jukka M. Leppänen;Charles A. Nelson

Frequent Co-Authors

Jari K. Hietanen
Jari K. Hietanen Tampere University
Kaija Puura
Kaija Puura Tampere University
Charles A. Nelson
Charles A. Nelson Boston Children's Hospital
Sam Wass
Sam Wass University of East London
Terho Lehtimäki
Terho Lehtimäki Tampere University
Marinus H. van IJzendoorn
Marinus H. van IJzendoorn University College London
Sampsa Vanhatalo
Sampsa Vanhatalo University of Helsinki
Tuomas Virtanen
Tuomas Virtanen Tampere University
Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg
Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg ISPA - University Institute of Psychological, Social and Life Sciences
Anthony J. Bailey
Anthony J. Bailey University of British Columbia

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