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Researcher · Invalidisäätiö · Finland

Seppo Seitsalo

Seppo Seitsalo publishes mostly in Surgery, Pathology and Forensic Medicine and Pharmacology, on topics such as Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology, Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation and Total Knee Arthroplasty Outcomes.

OpenAlex
World rank
#695,098
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Finland
#4,189
of 37,370
Works
151
Citations
6.5k
Citations per work
42.9
h-index
47
i10-index 84Top 1.8% in Surgery
Seppo Seitsalo

What does Seppo Seitsalo research?

Seppo Seitsalo's work is mostly in Medicine (69%), Health Professions (5%).

Health Sciences: 112 works · 74.1% of their workMedicine: 104 works · 69.0% of their workSurgery: 48 works · 32.1% of their workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 28 works · 18.6% of their workPharmacology: 13 works · 8.4% of their workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 8 works · 5.6% of their workRheumatology: 6 works · 4.3% of their workHealth Professions: 8 works · 5.1% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 8 works · 5.1% of their workEverything else: 39 works · 25.9% of their workTHEIR WORKSeppo Seitsalo151works
Health Sciences74%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine10469.0%
    2. Health Professions85.1%
  2. Everything else3925.9%
  1. 1Surgery32% of their works
  2. 2Pathology and Forensic Medicine19% of their works
  3. 3Pharmacology8% of their works
  4. 4Orthopedics and Sports Medicine6% of their works
  5. 5General Health Professions5% of their works
  6. 6Rheumatology4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Seppo Seitsalo's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Low Back Pain, Spinal Fusion, Degenerative Disc Disease, Intervertebral Disc, Lumbar Disc Degeneration, Epidemiology, Chronic Pain and Global Burden.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Low Back Pain1042 topics
  2. Spinal Fusion922 topics
  3. Degenerative Disc Disease882 topics
  4. Intervertebral Disc721 topic
  5. Lumbar Disc Degeneration721 topic
  6. Epidemiology522 topics
  7. Chronic Pain321 topic
  8. Global Burden321 topic
  9. Biomechanics252 topics
  10. Arthroplasty201 topic
  11. Scoliosis201 topic
  12. Spinal Deformity201 topic
  13. Total Knee Replacement201 topic
  14. Anterior Cervical Discectomy161 topic
  15. Cervical Spine Surgery161 topic
  16. Pedicle Screw Fixation141 topic
  17. Vertebroplasty141 topic
  18. Extracellular Matrix111 topic
  19. Tendon111 topic
  20. Qualitative Research101 topic
  21. Social Sciences101 topic

Where does Seppo Seitsalo work?

Seppo Seitsalo's main affiliation in the publication record is Invalidisäätiö, Finland.

How many publications and citations does Seppo Seitsalo have?

OpenAlex counts 151 works and 6,485 citations for Seppo Seitsalo, an h-index of 47, ranking #695,098 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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