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61
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Tuula Pirttilä publication distribution in Neuroscience in 2026

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

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 182 publications — 56th percentile

56% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 887 publications or more.

Tuula Pirttilä D-index placement in Neuroscience in 2026

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

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 61 D-Index — 63rd percentile

63% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 163 D-Index or more.

Best Publications

  • CSF biomarkers and incipient Alzheimer disease in patients with mild cognitive impairment.

    Niklas Mattsson;Henrik Zetterberg;Oskar Hansson;Niels Andreasen

  • Cerebrospinal Fluid β-Amyloid 42 and Tau Proteins as Biomarkers of Alzheimer-Type Pathologic Changes in the Brain

    Tero Tapiola;Irina Alafuzoff;Sanna-Kaisa Herukka;Laura Parkkinen

  • Plasma and cerebrospinal fluid Levels of amyloid β proteins 1-40 and 1-42 in Alzheimer disease

    Pankaj D. Mehta;Tuula Pirttilä;Sangita P. Mehta;Eugene A. Sersen

  • Prevalence and prognostic value of CSF markers of Alzheimer's disease pathology in patients with subjective cognitive impairment or mild cognitive impairment in the DESCRIPA study: a prospective cohort study

    Pieter Jelle Visser;Pieter Jelle Visser;Frans Verhey;Dirk L Knol;Philip Scheltens

  • CSF phosphorylated tau protein correlates with neocortical neurofibrillary pathology in Alzheimer's disease

    Katharina Buerger;Michael Ewers;Tuula Pirttila;Raymond Zinkowski

  • Applicability of current staging/categorization of α-synuclein pathology and their clinical relevance

    Laura Parkkinen;Tuula Pirttilä;Irina Alafuzoff

  • Differential diagnosis of Alzheimer disease with cerebrospinal fluid levels of tau protein phosphorylated at threonine 231.

    Katharina Buerger;Raymond Zinkowski;Stefan J. Teipel;Tero Tapiola

  • Amyloid β protein 1–40 and 1–42 levels in matched cerebrospinal fluid and plasma from patients with Alzheimer disease

    P.D Mehta;T Pirttila;B.A Patrick;M Barshatzky

  • Alpha-synuclein pathology does not predict extrapyramidal symptoms or dementia

    Laura Parkkinen;Tarja Kauppinen;Tuula Pirttilä;Jaana M. Autere

  • Neuropsychiatric symptoms and quality of life in patients with very mild and mild Alzheimer's disease.

    Kristiina Karttunen;Pertti Karppi;Asta Hiltunen;Matti Vanhanen

  • Assessment of beta-amyloid in a frontal cortical brain biopsy specimen and by positron emission tomography with carbon 11-labeled Pittsburgh Compound B.

    Ville Leinonen;Irina Alafuzoff;Sargo Aalto;Timo Suotunen

  • CSF Abeta42 and tau or phosphorylated tau and prediction of progressive mild cognitive impairment.

    Sanna-Kaisa Herukka;Merja Hallikainen;Hilkka Soininen;Tuula Pirttilä

  • Pro-inflammatory interleukin-18 increases Alzheimer’s disease-associated amyloid-β production in human neuron-like cells

    Elina M Sutinen;Tuula Pirttilä;George Anderson;Antero Salminen

  • Expression of interleukin-18 is increased in the brains of Alzheimer's disease patients

    Johanna Ojala;Irina Alafuzoff;Sanna-Kaisa Herukka;Thomas van Groen;Thomas van Groen

  • Subgroups of Alzheimer's disease based on cerebrospinal fluid molecular markers.

    Khalid Iqbal;Michael Flory;Sabiha Khatoon;Hilkka Soininen

  • A worldwide multicentre comparison of assays for cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers in Alzheimer's disease.

    N. A. Verwey;W M van der Flier;K Blennow;C Clark

  • Association Between Blood Pressure and Survival over 9 Years in a General Population Aged 85 and Older

    Sari Rastas;Tuula Pirttilä;Petteri Viramo;Auli Verkkoniemi

  • Proteomic analysis of protein oxidation in Alzheimer's disease brain.

    Minna A. Korolainen;Gundars Goldsteins;Irina Alafuzoff;Jari Koistinaho

  • Amyloid and tau proteins in cortical brain biopsy and Alzheimer's disease

    Ville Leinonen;Anne M. Koivisto;Anne M. Koivisto;Sakari Savolainen;Jaana Rummukainen

  • Apolipoprotein E (apoE) polymorphism and its influence on ApoE concentrations in the cerebrospinal fluid in Finnish patients with Alzheimer's disease

    Terho Lehtimäki;Tuula Pirttilä;Pankaj D. Mehta;Henryk M. Wisniewski

  • Three-year follow-up of cerebrospinal fluid tau, β-amyloid 42 and 40 concentrations in Alzheimer's disease

    Tero Tapiola;Tuula Pirttilä;Mia Mikkonen;Pankaj D. Mehta

Frequent Co-Authors

Hilkka Soininen
Hilkka Soininen University of Eastern Finland
Irina Alafuzoff
Irina Alafuzoff Uppsala University
Sanna-Kaisa Herukka
Sanna-Kaisa Herukka University of Eastern Finland
Terho Lehtimäki
Terho Lehtimäki Tampere University
Aarno Palotie
Aarno Palotie University of Helsinki
Pentti J. Tienari
Pentti J. Tienari University of Helsinki
Janna Saarela
Janna Saarela University of Helsinki
Kaj Blennow
Kaj Blennow University of Gothenburg
Harald Hampel
Harald Hampel Eisai (United States)
Antero Salminen
Antero Salminen University of Eastern Finland

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