Pekka Niemi

Pekka Niemi

Turun yliopisto

H-index: 53

Europe-Finland

About Pekka Niemi

Pekka Niemi, With an exceptional h-index of 53 and a recent h-index of 34 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at Turun yliopisto, specializes in the field of Literacy acquisition, reading difficulties.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

Associations between the aetiology of preterm birth and mortality and neurodevelopment up to 11 years

Discrepancies between Radiology Specialists and Residents in Fracture Detection from Musculoskeletal Radiographs

Reading development from kindergarten to age 18: The role of gender and parental education

Development of silent reading fluency and reading comprehension across grades 1 to 9: unidirectional or bidirectional effects between the two skills?

Can we explain the large gender gap in PISA reading performance? The Finnish enigma demystified

Military performance of men with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: findings from a follow-up study in the Northern Finland birth cohort 1986

Deep learning accurately classifies elbow joint effusion in adult and pediatric radiographs

Long-term effects of the home literacy environment on reading development: Familial risk for dyslexia as a moderator

Pekka Niemi Information

University

Position

Department of Psychology Finland

Citations(all)

10072

Citations(since 2020)

3797

Cited By

7700

hIndex(all)

53

hIndex(since 2020)

34

i10Index(all)

103

i10Index(since 2020)

74

Email

University Profile Page

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Pekka Niemi Skills & Research Interests

Literacy acquisition

reading difficulties

Top articles of Pekka Niemi

Associations between the aetiology of preterm birth and mortality and neurodevelopment up to 11 years

Acta Paediatrica

2024/3

Discrepancies between Radiology Specialists and Residents in Fracture Detection from Musculoskeletal Radiographs

Diagnostics

2023/10/13

Mikko Nyman
Mikko Nyman

H-Index: 6

Pekka Niemi
Pekka Niemi

H-Index: 32

Reading development from kindergarten to age 18: The role of gender and parental education

Reading Research Quarterly

2023/10

Minna Torppa
Minna Torppa

H-Index: 30

Pekka Niemi
Pekka Niemi

H-Index: 32

Development of silent reading fluency and reading comprehension across grades 1 to 9: unidirectional or bidirectional effects between the two skills?

Reading and Writing

2023/10

Can we explain the large gender gap in PISA reading performance? The Finnish enigma demystified

2023/6/2

Military performance of men with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: findings from a follow-up study in the Northern Finland birth cohort 1986

Nordic Journal of Psychiatry

2023/1/3

Pekka Niemi
Pekka Niemi

H-Index: 32

Deep learning accurately classifies elbow joint effusion in adult and pediatric radiographs

Scientific Reports

2022/7/12

Long-term effects of the home literacy environment on reading development: Familial risk for dyslexia as a moderator

Journal of experimental child psychology

2022/3/1

Calcaneal bone bruise after surgery for insertional Achilles tendinopathy

Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine

2022/1/1

Pekka Niemi
Pekka Niemi

H-Index: 32

Performance in hand coordination tasks and concurrent functional MRI findings in 13-year-olds born very preterm

Pediatric Neurology

2021/10/1

Longitudinal associations between poor reading skills, bullying and victimization across the transition from elementary to middle school

PLoS one

2021/3/31

Kindergarten pre-reading skills predict Grade 9 reading comprehension (PISA Reading) but fail to explain gender difference

Reading and Writing

2021/3

Kirjojen lukeminen tukee luetun ymmärtämisen kehitystä

Oppimisen ja oppimisvaikeuksien erityislehti: NMI-bulletin

2021

Longitudinal effects of the home learning environment and parental difficulties on reading and math development across grades 1–9

Frontiers in psychology

2020/10/8

Visual perceptual skills in very preterm children: Developmental course and associations with neural activation

Pediatric Neurology

2020/8/1

Vocabulary, metacognitive knowledge and task orientation as predictors of narrative picture book comprehension: from preschool to grade 3

Reading and Writing

2020/5

Janne Lepola
Janne Lepola

H-Index: 13

Pekka Niemi
Pekka Niemi

H-Index: 32

Leisure reading (but not any kind) and reading comprehension support each other—A longitudinal study across grades 1 and 9

Child development

2020/5

Minna Torppa
Minna Torppa

H-Index: 30

Pekka Niemi
Pekka Niemi

H-Index: 32

Diffusion tensor imaging is associated with motor outcomes of very preterm born children at 11 years of age

Acta Paediatrica

2020/4

Reading comprehension difficulty is often distinct from difficulty in reading fluency and accompanied with problems in motivation and school well-being

Educational Psychology

2020/1/2

Varhaiset kielelliset taidot ja suvussa kulkeva lukivaikeus lukutaidon ennustamisessa: seurantatutkimus 2-vuotiaasta 15-vuotiaaksi

Oppimisen ja oppimisvaikeuksien erityislehti: NMI-bulletin

2020

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