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Simo Saarakkala

Simo Saarakkala

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Engineering and Technology 52 3687 3533 22 22 289 8768

Simo Saarakkala publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Simo Saarakkala between 2002 and 2026, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Simo Saarakkala published across 25 years, from 2002 to 2026, averaging 18.1 papers a year. Output peaked at 50 publications in 2017. 36 of the 452 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
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Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 2002 to 2026. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 50. Peak 50 publications in 2017. 2002: 1 publication 2003: 8 publications 2004: 7 publications 2005: 4 publications 2006: 6 publications 2007: 3 publications 2008: 5 publications 2009: 11 publications 2010: 16 publications 2011: 12 publications 2012: 10 publications 2013: 15 publications 2014: 19 publications 2015: 9 publications 2016: 28 publications 2017: 50 publications 2018: 26 publications 2019: 46 publications 2020: 40 publications 2021: 36 publications 2022: 31 publications 2023: 12 publications 2024: 21 publications 2025: 35 publications 2026: 1 publication
2002 2026

452 publications in total across all disciplines

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Simo Saarakkala: publications per year, 2002 to 2026
Year Publications
2002 1
2003 8
2004 7
2005 4
2006 6
2007 3
2008 5
2009 11
2010 16
2011 12
2012 10
2013 15
2014 19
2015 9
2016 28
2017 50
2018 26
2019 46
2020 40
2021 36
2022 31
2023 12
2024 21
2025 35
2026 1
Total 452
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Simo Saarakkala publication distribution in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Engineering and Technology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Simo Saarakkala sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300 400
Bar chart with 78 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 38–47 to 804+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 457. Most scientists, 457, have 148–157 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 804 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 288–297 publications, is where this scientist sits. 38–47 publications: 20 scientists 48–57 publications: 35 scientists 58–67 publications: 96 scientists 68–77 publications: 135 scientists 78–87 publications: 190 scientists 88–97 publications: 259 scientists 98–107 publications: 283 scientists 108–117 publications: 369 scientists 118–127 publications: 341 scientists 128–137 publications: 386 scientists 138–147 publications: 372 scientists 148–157 publications: 457 scientists 158–167 publications: 415 scientists 168–177 publications: 407 scientists 178–187 publications: 421 scientists 188–197 publications: 378 scientists 198–207 publications: 403 scientists 208–217 publications: 317 scientists 218–227 publications: 346 scientists 228–237 publications: 321 scientists 238–247 publications: 260 scientists 248–257 publications: 280 scientists 258–267 publications: 240 scientists 268–277 publications: 214 scientists 278–287 publications: 242 scientists 288–297 publications: 203 scientists 298–307 publications: 166 scientists 308–317 publications: 154 scientists 318–327 publications: 175 scientists 328–337 publications: 159 scientists 338–347 publications: 99 scientists 348–357 publications: 131 scientists 358–367 publications: 106 scientists 368–377 publications: 118 scientists 378–387 publications: 97 scientists 388–397 publications: 108 scientists 398–407 publications: 82 scientists 408–417 publications: 71 scientists 418–427 publications: 64 scientists 428–437 publications: 55 scientists 438–447 publications: 54 scientists 448–457 publications: 60 scientists 458–467 publications: 47 scientists 468–477 publications: 40 scientists 478–487 publications: 30 scientists 488–497 publications: 29 scientists 498–507 publications: 38 scientists 508–517 publications: 40 scientists 518–527 publications: 32 scientists 528–537 publications: 23 scientists 538–547 publications: 28 scientists 548–557 publications: 23 scientists 558–567 publications: 19 scientists 568–577 publications: 16 scientists 578–587 publications: 17 scientists 588–597 publications: 18 scientists 598–607 publications: 22 scientists 608–617 publications: 15 scientists 618–627 publications: 9 scientists 628–637 publications: 11 scientists 638–647 publications: 21 scientists 648–657 publications: 12 scientists 658–667 publications: 9 scientists 668–677 publications: 11 scientists 678–687 publications: 9 scientists 688–697 publications: 6 scientists 698–707 publications: 14 scientists 708–717 publications: 7 scientists 718–727 publications: 8 scientists 728–737 publications: 10 scientists 738–747 publications: 9 scientists 748–757 publications: 5 scientists 758–767 publications: 5 scientists 768–777 publications: 11 scientists 778–787 publications: 7 scientists 788–797 publications: 2 scientists 798–803 publications: 4 scientists 804+ publications: 100 scientists
38–47 publications 804+

This scientist: 289 publications — 74th percentile

74% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 804 publications or more.

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Number of Engineering and Technology scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,796 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
38–47 20
48–57 35
58–67 96
68–77 135
78–87 190
88–97 259
98–107 283
108–117 369
118–127 341
128–137 386
138–147 372
148–157 457
158–167 415
168–177 407
178–187 421
188–197 378
198–207 403
208–217 317
218–227 346
228–237 321
238–247 260
248–257 280
258–267 240
268–277 214
278–287 242
288–297 203 289
298–307 166
308–317 154
318–327 175
328–337 159
338–347 99
348–357 131
358–367 106
368–377 118
378–387 97
388–397 108
398–407 82
408–417 71
418–427 64
428–437 55
438–447 54
448–457 60
458–467 47
468–477 40
478–487 30
488–497 29
498–507 38
508–517 40
518–527 32
528–537 23
538–547 28
548–557 23
558–567 19
568–577 16
578–587 17
588–597 18
598–607 22
608–617 15
618–627 9
628–637 11
638–647 21
648–657 12
658–667 9
668–677 11
678–687 9
688–697 6
698–707 14
708–717 7
718–727 8
728–737 10
738–747 9
748–757 5
758–767 5
768–777 11
778–787 7
788–797 2
798–803 4
804+ 100
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Simo Saarakkala D-index placement in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Engineering and Technology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Simo Saarakkala sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300 400
Bar chart with 78 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 107+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 426. Most scientists, 426, have 42 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 107 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 52 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 59 scientists 31 D-Index: 114 scientists 32 D-Index: 129 scientists 33 D-Index: 189 scientists 34 D-Index: 200 scientists 35 D-Index: 262 scientists 36 D-Index: 311 scientists 37 D-Index: 312 scientists 38 D-Index: 350 scientists 39 D-Index: 385 scientists 40 D-Index: 348 scientists 41 D-Index: 362 scientists 42 D-Index: 426 scientists 43 D-Index: 380 scientists 44 D-Index: 310 scientists 45 D-Index: 341 scientists 46 D-Index: 301 scientists 47 D-Index: 306 scientists 48 D-Index: 271 scientists 49 D-Index: 246 scientists 50 D-Index: 210 scientists 51 D-Index: 253 scientists 52 D-Index: 213 scientists 53 D-Index: 221 scientists 54 D-Index: 195 scientists 55 D-Index: 186 scientists 56 D-Index: 170 scientists 57 D-Index: 167 scientists 58 D-Index: 166 scientists 59 D-Index: 144 scientists 60 D-Index: 152 scientists 61 D-Index: 141 scientists 62 D-Index: 138 scientists 63 D-Index: 131 scientists 64 D-Index: 118 scientists 65 D-Index: 114 scientists 66 D-Index: 119 scientists 67 D-Index: 95 scientists 68 D-Index: 87 scientists 69 D-Index: 77 scientists 70 D-Index: 89 scientists 71 D-Index: 69 scientists 72 D-Index: 54 scientists 73 D-Index: 46 scientists 74 D-Index: 55 scientists 75 D-Index: 54 scientists 76 D-Index: 49 scientists 77 D-Index: 53 scientists 78 D-Index: 46 scientists 79 D-Index: 28 scientists 80 D-Index: 39 scientists 81 D-Index: 36 scientists 82 D-Index: 24 scientists 83 D-Index: 26 scientists 84 D-Index: 36 scientists 85 D-Index: 18 scientists 86 D-Index: 25 scientists 87 D-Index: 19 scientists 88 D-Index: 26 scientists 89 D-Index: 27 scientists 90 D-Index: 23 scientists 91 D-Index: 15 scientists 92 D-Index: 12 scientists 93 D-Index: 9 scientists 94 D-Index: 15 scientists 95 D-Index: 10 scientists 96 D-Index: 13 scientists 97 D-Index: 13 scientists 98 D-Index: 9 scientists 99 D-Index: 7 scientists 100 D-Index: 7 scientists 101 D-Index: 8 scientists 102 D-Index: 7 scientists 103 D-Index: 7 scientists 104 D-Index: 9 scientists 105 D-Index: 6 scientists 106 D-Index: 9 scientists 107+ D-Index: 99 scientists
30 D-Index 107+

This scientist: 52 D-Index — 64th percentile

64% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 107 D-Index or more.

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Number of Engineering and Technology scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,796 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 59
31 114
32 129
33 189
34 200
35 262
36 311
37 312
38 350
39 385
40 348
41 362
42 426
43 380
44 310
45 341
46 301
47 306
48 271
49 246
50 210
51 253
52 213 52
53 221
54 195
55 186
56 170
57 167
58 166
59 144
60 152
61 141
62 138
63 131
64 118
65 114
66 119
67 95
68 87
69 77
70 89
71 69
72 54
73 46
74 55
75 54
76 49
77 53
78 46
79 28
80 39
81 36
82 24
83 26
84 36
85 18
86 25
87 19
88 26
89 27
90 23
91 15
92 12
93 9
94 15
95 10
96 13
97 13
98 9
99 7
100 7
101 8
102 7
103 7
104 9
105 6
106 9
107+ 99
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Overview

Simo Saarakkala is affiliated with the University of Oulu in Finland and has a research focus primarily in the field of Medicine, with extensive work in Rheumatology, Surgery, Biomedical Engineering, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, as well as Orthopedics and Sports Medicine. The scientific contributions span 305 publications concentrated in these areas, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach to musculoskeletal and joint disorders.

The main research topics covered by Saarakkala include osteoarthritis treatment and mechanisms, total knee arthroplasty outcomes, and lower extremity biomechanics and pathologies. Additional subjects of interest are knee injuries and reconstruction techniques, spectroscopy techniques in biomedical and chemical research, medical imaging and analysis, and rheumatoid arthritis research and therapies.

The prominent venues for Saarakkala's publications are:

  • Osteoarthritis and Cartilage
  • Annals of Biomedical Engineering
  • Osteoarthritis and Cartilage Open
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

Frequent collaborators within Saarakkala's research network include Mikko Finnilä, Aleksei Tiulpin, Martin Englund, Rami K. Korhonen, and Petri Tanska, each having coauthored multiple publications with Saarakkala.

Significant papers documenting Saarakkala's recent scientific contributions are:

  • "State of the Art: Imaging of Osteoarthritis-Revisited 2020" (2020), Radiology
  • "Automatic Grading of Individual Knee Osteoarthritis Features in Plain Radiographs Using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks" (2020), MDPI (MDPI AG)
  • "Nanotechnological Strategies for Osteoarthritis Diagnosis, Monitoring, Clinical Management, and Regenerative Medicine: Recent Advances and Future Opportunities" (2020), Current Rheumatology Reports
  • "Raman microspectroscopic analysis of the tissue-specific composition of the human osteochondral junction in osteoarthritis: A pilot study" (2020), Acta Biomaterialia
  • "Deep learning-based segmentation of knee MRI for fully automatic subregional morphological assessment of cartilage tissues: Data from the Osteoarthritis Initiative" (2021), Journal of Orthopaedic Research®

Best Publications

  • Automatic Knee Osteoarthritis Diagnosis from Plain Radiographs: A Deep Learning-Based Approach

    Aleksei Tiulpin;Jérôme Thevenot;Esa Rahtu;Petri Lehenkari

  • Depth-wise progression of osteoarthritis in human articular cartilage: investigation of composition, structure and biomechanics

    S. Saarakkala;P. Julkunen;P. Kiviranta;J. Mäkitalo

  • Biomechanical properties of knee articular cartilage.

    M S Laasanen;J Töyräs;R K Korhonen;J Rieppo

  • Application of second derivative spectroscopy for increasing molecular specificity of Fourier transform infrared spectroscopic imaging of articular cartilage.

    L. Rieppo;S. Saarakkala;T. Närhi;H.J. Helminen

  • Multimodal Machine Learning-based Knee Osteoarthritis Progression Prediction from Plain Radiographs and Clinical Data.

    Aleksei Tiulpin;Aleksei Tiulpin;Stefan Klein;Sita M. A. Bierma-Zeinstra;Jérôme Thevenot

  • Proteoglycan and collagen sensitive MRI evaluation of normal and degenerated articular cartilage.

    M. J. Nissi;J. Töyräs;M. S. Laasanen;J. Rieppo

  • Recent advances in understanding the phenotypes of osteoarthritis.

    Ali Mobasheri;Simo Saarakkala;Mikko Finnilä;Morten A. Karsdal

  • Power Doppler ultrasonography and synovitis: correlating ultrasound imaging with histopathological findings and evaluating the performance of ultrasound equipments

    Juhani M. Koski;Simo Saarakkala;Markku Helle;Ullamari Hakulinen

  • Novel mechano-acoustic technique and instrument for diagnosis of cartilage degeneration.

    M S Laasanen;J Töyräs;J Hirvonen;S Saarakkala

  • Speed of sound in normal and degenerated bovine articular cartilage.

    Juha Töyräs;Mikko S Laasanen;Simo Saarakkala;Mikko J Lammi

  • WS2 and MoS2 thin film gas sensors with high response to NH3 in air at low temperature

    Topias Järvinen;Gabriela S Lorite;Jani Peräntie;Geza Toth

  • Ultrasonic quantitation of superficial degradation of articular cartilage

    Simo Saarakkala;Juha Töyräs;Jani Hirvonen;Mikko S. Laasanen

  • Automatic grading of individual knee osteoarthritis features in plain radiographs using deep convolutional neural networks

    A. Tiulpin;S. Saarakkala

  • Ability of ultrasound backscattering to predict mechanical properties of bovine trabecular bone.

    Mikko A. Hakulinen;Juha Töyräs;Simo Saarakkala;Jani Hirvonen

  • Ultrasound attenuation in normal and spontaneously degenerated articular cartilage.

    Heikki J. Nieminen;Simo Saarakkala;Mikko S. Laasanen;Jani Hirvonen

  • Comparison of nonlinear mechanical properties of bovine articular cartilage and meniscus.

    E.K. Danso;J.T.J. Honkanen;S. Saarakkala;S. Saarakkala;R.K. Korhonen

  • Multiparametric MRI assessment of human articular cartilage degeneration: Correlation with quantitative histology and mechanical properties

    Jari Rautiainen;Jari Rautiainen;Mikko J. Nissi;Mikko J. Nissi;Elli Noora Salo;Virpi Tiitu

  • Quantitative ultrasound imaging detects degenerative changes in articular cartilage surface and subchondral bone.

    Simo Saarakkala;Mikko S Laasanen;Jukka S Jurvelin;Juha Töyräs

  • Automatic Grading of Individual Knee Osteoarthritis Features in Plain Radiographs Using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks.

    Aleksei Tiulpin;Simo Saarakkala

  • Infrared spectroscopy indicates altered bone turnover and remodeling activity in renal osteodystrophy

    Hanna Isaksson;Mikael J Turunen;Lassi Rieppo;Simo Saarakkala

  • Assessing the intra- and inter-reader reliability of dynamic ultrasound images in power Doppler ultrasonography

    J M Koski;S Saarakkala;M Helle;U Hakulinen

  • Determining collagen distribution in articular cartilage using contrast-enhanced micro-computed tomography

    H.J. Nieminen;H.J. Nieminen;T. Ylitalo;T. Ylitalo;S. Karhula;J.-P. Suuronen

Frequent Co-Authors

Juha Töyräs
Juha Töyräs University of Eastern Finland
Jukka S. Jurvelin
Jukka S. Jurvelin University of Eastern Finland
Rami K. Korhonen
Rami K. Korhonen University of Eastern Finland
Petri Lehenkari
Petri Lehenkari Oulu University Hospital
Heikki Kröger
Heikki Kröger University of Eastern Finland
Walter Herzog
Walter Herzog University of Calgary
Mikko J. Lammi
Mikko J. Lammi Umeå University
Martin Englund
Martin Englund Lund University
Frank W. Roemer
Frank W. Roemer University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Ali Guermazi
Ali Guermazi Boston University

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