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2026

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D-Index
95
Citations
30162
World Ranking
780
National Ranking
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Marko Elovainio 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 Marko Elovainio sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 464 publications — 96th percentile

96% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Marko Elovainio 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 Marko Elovainio sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 95 D-Index — 93rd percentile

93% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in Finland Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Psychology in Finland Leader Award

Overview

Marko Elovainio is affiliated with the University of Helsinki in Finland. Their research spans several key fields, primarily focused on psychology, health professions, and social sciences. Within these overarching disciplines, their work often intersects with subfields such as general health professions, clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, health, and social psychology.

The scholar's scientific contributions address a range of topics related to health and social factors, including health disparities and outcomes, workplace health and well-being, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, mental health research topics, employment and welfare studies, stress and burnout among healthcare professionals, and maternal mental health during pregnancy and postpartum.

Marko Elovainio has published in various venues, with frequent appearances in outlets such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), BMJ Open, Scientific Reports, Journal of Affective Disorders, and the American Journal of Epidemiology. Their research output includes analyses combining large datasets and observational studies, often employing cohort data to explore health-related phenomena.

Selected recent papers include:

  • Hospital-treated infectious diseases and the risk of dementia: a large, multicohort, observational study with a replication cohort, 2021, The Lancet Infectious Diseases
  • Pandemic Dreams: Network Analysis of Dream Content During the COVID-19 Lockdown, 2020, Frontiers in Psychology
  • Association of social isolation, loneliness and genetic risk with incidence of dementia: UK Biobank Cohort Study, 2022, BMJ Open
  • Association of social isolation and loneliness with risk of incident hospital-treated infections: an analysis of data from the UK Biobank and Finnish Health and Social Support studies, 2023, The Lancet Public Health
  • Network structure of depression symptomology in participants with and without depressive disorder: the population-based Health 2000-2011 study, 2020, Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

The scientist collaborates frequently with a variety of peers, with coauthors including Christian Hakulinen, Laura Pulkki-Råbäck, Kaisla Komulainen, Marianna Virtanen, and Mika Kivimäki. This network reflects interdisciplinary research efforts across psychology, public health, and epidemiology.

Best Publications

  • Work stress in the etiology of coronary heart disease - a meta-analysis

    Mika Kivimäki;Marianna Virtanen;Marko Elovainio;Anne Kouvonen

  • Organizational Justice: Evidence of a New Psychosocial Predictor of Health

    Marko Elovainio;Mika Kivimäki;Jussi Vahtera

  • Workplace bullying and the risk of cardiovascular disease and depression

    M Kivimäki;M Virtanen;M Vartia;M Elovainio

  • Workplace bullying and sickness absence in hospital staff

    Mika Kivimäki;Marko Elovainio;Jussi Vahtera

  • Associations of C-reactive protein and interleukin-6 with cognitive symptoms of depression: 12-year follow-up of the Whitehall II study.

    D. Gimeno;M. Kivimäki;E. J. Brunner;M. Elovainio

  • Contribution of risk factors to excess mortality in isolated and lonely individuals: an analysis of data from the UK Biobank cohort study

    Marko Elovainio;Marko Elovainio;Christian Hakulinen;Christian Hakulinen;Laura Pulkki-Råback;Marianna Virtanen

  • PERSONALITY AND DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS: INDIVIDUAL PARTICIPANT META-ANALYSIS OF 10 COHORT STUDIES.

    Christian Hakulinen;Marko Elovainio;Marko Elovainio;Laura Pulkki-Råback;Marianna Virtanen

  • Organizational justice evaluations, job control, and occupational strain.

    Marko Elovainio;Mika Kivimäki;Klaus Helkama

  • Social isolation and loneliness as risk factors for myocardial infarction, stroke and mortality: UK Biobank cohort study of 479 054 men and women

    Christian Hakulinen;Laura Pulkki-Råback;Marianna Virtanen;Markus Jokela

  • A short version of the Team Climate inventory : Development and psychometric properties

    Mika Kivimaki;Marko Elovainio

  • Effort-reward imbalance, procedural injustice and relational injustice as psychosocial predictors of health: Complementary or redundant models?

    Mika Kivimäki;Jussi Vahtera;Marko Elovainio;Marianna Virtanen

  • Psychosocial work characteristics and incidence of newly diagnosed depression: a prospective cohort study of three different models.

    Jaana Ylipaavalniemi;Mika Kivimäki;Mika Kivimäki;Marko Elovainio;Marianna Virtanen

  • The Beck Depression Inventory and General Health Questionnaire as measures of depression in the general population: A validation study using the Composite International Diagnostic Interview as the gold standard

    Anna-Mari Aalto;Marko Elovainio;Mika Kivimäki;Antti Uutela

  • Long Working Hours and Sleep Disturbances: The Whitehall II Prospective Cohort Study

    Marianna Virtanen;Jane E. Ferrie;David Gimeno;David Gimeno;Jussi Vahtera

  • Job demands and job control as correlates of early retirement thoughts in Finnish social and health care employees

    Marko Elovainio;Pauli Forma;Mika Kivimäki;Timo Sinervo

  • Psychometric evaluation of a short measure of social capital at work

    Anne Kouvonen;Mika Kivimäki;Mika Kivimäki;Jussi Vahtera;Tuula Oksanen

  • Combined effects of uncertainty and organizational justice on employee health: testing the uncertainty management model of fairness judgments among Finnish public sector employees.

    Marko Elovainio;Kees van den Bos;Anne Linna;Mika Kivimäki;Mika Kivimäki

  • Socioeconomic Position, Co-Occurrence of Behavior-Related Risk Factors, and Coronary Heart Disease: the Finnish Public Sector Study

    Mika Kivimäki;Debbie A. Lawlor;George Davey Smith;Anne Kouvonen

  • Personality traits as risk factors for stroke and coronary heart disease mortality: pooled analysis of three cohort studies

    Markus Jokela;Markus Jokela;Laura Pulkki-Råback;Marko Elovainio;Mika Kivimäki

  • Low Workplace Social Capital as a Predictor of Depression The Finnish Public Sector Study

    Anne Kouvonen;Tuula Oksanen;Jussi Vahtera;Mai Stafford

  • PERSONALITY AND DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS: INDIVIDUAL PARTICIPANT META-ANALYSIS OF 10 COHORT STUDIES

    Christian Hakulinen;Marko Elovainio;Laura Pulkki-Raback;Marianna Virtanen

Frequent Co-Authors

Mika Kivimäki
Mika Kivimäki University College London
Jussi Vahtera
Jussi Vahtera Turku University Hospital
Olli T. Raitakari
Olli T. Raitakari Turku University Hospital
Liisa Keltikangas-Järvinen
Liisa Keltikangas-Järvinen University of Helsinki
Laura Pulkki-Råback
Laura Pulkki-Råback University of Helsinki
Marianna Virtanen
Marianna Virtanen University of Eastern Finland
Markus Jokela
Markus Jokela University of Helsinki
Tarja Heponiemi
Tarja Heponiemi Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
Mirka Hintsanen
Mirka Hintsanen University of Oulu
Christian Hakulinen
Christian Hakulinen University of Helsinki

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