| ISSLS prize winner: vertebral endplate (Modic) change is an independent risk factor for episodes of severe and disabling low back pain JH Määttä, S Wadge, A MacGregor, J Karppinen, FMK Williams Spine 40 (15), 1187-1193, 2015 | 151 | 2015 |
| Refined phenotyping of Modic changes: imaging biomarkers of prolonged severe low back pain and disability JH Määttä, J Karppinen, M Paananen, C Bow, KDK Luk, KMC Cheung, ... Medicine 95 (22), e3495, 2016 | 104 | 2016 |
| Phenotype profiling of Modic changes of the lumbar spine and its association with other MRI phenotypes: a large-scale population-based study JH Määttä, JI Karppinen, KDK Luk, KMC Cheung, D Samartzis The spine journal 15 (9), 1933-1942, 2015 | 101 | 2015 |
| Vertebral endplate defect as initiating factor in intervertebral disc degeneration: strong association between endplate defect and disc degeneration in the general population M Rade, JH Määttä, MB Freidin, O Airaksinen, J Karppinen, FMK Williams Spine 43 (6), 412-419, 2018 | 99 | 2018 |
| Vertebral endplate change as a feature of intervertebral disc degeneration: a heritability study JH Määttä, M Kraatari, L Wolber, J Niinimäki, S Wadge, J Karppinen, ... European Spine Journal 23, 1856-1862, 2014 | 77 | 2014 |
| Endplate defect is heritable, associated with low back pain and triggers intervertebral disc degeneration: a longitudinal study from TwinsUK S Munir, MB Freidin, M Rade, J Määttä, G Livshits, FMK Williams Spine 43 (21), 1496-1501, 2018 | 68 | 2018 |
| Association between Modic changes and low back pain in middle age: a northern Finland birth cohort study J Saukkonen, J Määttä, P Oura, E Kyllönen, O Tervonen, J Niinimäki, ... Spine 45 (19), 1360-1367, 2020 | 59 | 2020 |
| Intervertebral disc biology: genetic basis of disc degeneration S Munir, M Rade, JH Määttä, MB Freidin, FMK Williams Current molecular biology reports 4, 143-150, 2018 | 57 | 2018 |
| Lumbosacral transitional vertebrae are associated with lumbar degeneration: retrospective evaluation of 3855 consecutive abdominal CT scans J Hanhivaara, JH Määttä, J Niinimäki, MT Nevalainen European Radiology 30, 3409-3416, 2020 | 56 | 2020 |
| Strong association between vertebral endplate defect and Modic change in the general population JH Määttä, M Rade, MB Freidin, O Airaksinen, J Karppinen, FMK Williams Scientific reports 8 (1), 16630, 2018 | 53 | 2018 |
| Hybridiorganisaatioiden ja niiden konsernijohtamisen muotoutuminen J Määttä Tampere University Press, 2010 | 38 | 2010 |
| The association of lumbosacral transitional vertebrae with low back pain and lumbar degenerative findings in MRI: a large cohort study J Hanhivaara, JH Määttä, J Karppinen, J Niinimäki, MT Nevalainen Spine 47 (2), 153-162, 2022 | 23 | 2022 |
| The relationship between Modic changes and intervertebral disc degeneration JH Määttä, A MacGregor, J Karppinen, FMK Williams BMC musculoskeletal disorders 17, 1-3, 2016 | 20 | 2016 |
| Association of lumbar disc degeneration with low back pain in middle age in the Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966 T Mertimo, J Karppinen, J Niinimäki, R Blanco, J Määttä, M Kankaanpää, ... BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 23 (1), 359, 2022 | 19 | 2022 |
| Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies genetic locus on chromosome 9 associated with Modic changes M Freidin, M Kraatari, S Skarp, J Määttä, J Kettunen, J Niinimäki, ... Journal of Medical Genetics 56 (7), 420-426, 2019 | 18 | 2019 |
| Association of accelerometer-measured physical activity, back static muscular endurance and abdominal obesity with radicular pain and non-specific low back pain ME Bayartai, J Määttä, J Karppinen, P Oura, J Takatalo, J Auvinen, ... Scientific Reports 13 (1), 7736, 2023 | 6 | 2023 |
| External validation of SpineNet, an open-source deep learning model for grading lumbar disk degeneration MRI features, using the Northern Finland birth cohort 1966 TP McSweeney, A Tiulpin, S Saarakkala, J Niinimäki, R Windsor, ... Spine 48 (7), 484-491, 2023 | 6 | 2023 |
| Association of Modic changes with health-related quality of life among patients referred to spine surgery J Määttä, H Kautiainen, V Leinonen, J Niinimäki, S Järvenpää, ... Scandinavian journal of pain 5 (1), 36-40, 2014 | 6 | 2014 |
| A stronger baseline for automatic pfirrmann grading of lumbar spine mri using deep learning N Kowlagi, HH Nguyen, T McSweeney, S Saarakkala, J Määttä, ... 2023 IEEE 20th International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), 1-5, 2023 | 4 | 2023 |
| Lower thoracic spine extension mobility is associated with higher intensity of thoracic spine pain J Määttä, J Takatalo, T Leinonen, T Pienimäki, J Ylinen, A Häkkinen Journal of Manual & Manipulative Therapy 30 (5), 300-308, 2022 | 4 | 2022 |
