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Selected from research articles and reviews






Meta-Science, science ethics, policy, conflicts and lobbyism
 
Panel stacking is a threat to consensus statement validity
KP Kepp, P Aavitsland, M Ballin, F Balloux, S Baral, et al.
Journal of clinical epidemiology 2024, 173, 111428

Biases and debiasing in policy decision‐making
MC Schippers, KP Kepp, JPA Ioannidis, Eur. J. Clinical investigation 2025, 55 (9), e70064

Communicating scientific evidence: Drugs for Alzheimer’s disease as a case study
KP Kepp, PF Hřilund-Carlsen, IA Cristea, RG Cumming, et al.
Current Medical Research and Opinion 2025, 41 (2), 347-354

Advocacy by nonprofit scientific institutions needs to be evidence-based: a case study
F Gonon, H Gouraud, A Gillibert, B Falissard, L Cosgrove, KP Kepp, et al.
SSM-Mental Health 7,  2025, 100464



Alzheimer's disease and paradigm criticism


Ten challenges of the amyloid hypothesis of Alzheimer’s disease
KP Kepp, Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease 2016, 55 (2), 447-457

The amyloid cascade hypothesis: an updated critical review
KP Kepp, NK Robakis, PF Hřilund-Carlsen, SL Sensi, B Vissel Brain 2023, 146 (10), 3969-3990

Bioinorganic chemistry of Alzheimer’s disease
KP Kepp, Chemical reviews 2012, 112 (10), 5193-5239

Lecanemab and donanemab as therapies for Alzheimer's disease: an illustrated perspective on the data
AJ Espay, KP Kepp, K Herrup, eneuro 2024, 11 (7), ENEURO. 0319-23.2024

A quantitative model of human neurodegenerative diseases involving protein aggregation
KP Kepp, Neurobiology of Aging 80, 46-55



COVID-19

Structure and Mutations of SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein: A Focused Overview
R Mehra, KP Kepp, ACS infectious diseases 2022, 8 (1), 29-58

Estimates of excess mortality for the five Nordic countries during the COVID-19 pandemic 2020−2021
KP Kepp, J Bjork, V Kontis, RM Parks, KT Bćk, L Emilsson, T Lallukka
International Journal of Epidemiology 51, 2022, 1722–1732

The contribution of population age-sex structure to the excess mortality estimates of 2020–2021
in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden
KP Kepp, J Björk, L Emilsson, T Lallukka, SSM-Population Health 2023 22, 101377

Excess mortality in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden during the COVID-19 pandemic 2020–2022
I Forthun, C Madsen, L Emilsson, A Nilsson, KP Kepp, J Björk, et al.
Eur. J. of Public Health 2024, 34 (4), 737-743

Cause-specific excess mortality in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden during the COVID-19 pandemic 2020–2022:
a study using nationwide population data

A Nilsson, L Emilsson, KP Kepp, AKS Knudsen, I Forthun, et al., Eur. J. of epidemiology 2024, 39 (9), 1037-1050



Molecular Evolution

Survival of the cheapest: how proteome cost minimization drives evolution
KP Kepp, Quarterly Reviews of Biophysics 2020, 53



(Bio)Inorganic and theoretical chemistry

Heme: From quantum spin crossover to oxygen manager of life
KP Kepp, Coordination Chemistry Reviews 2017, 344, 363-374

A quantitative scale of oxophilicity and thiophilicity
KP Kepp, Inorganic chemistry 2016, 55 (18), 9461-9470

Chemical causes of metal nobleness
KP Kepp, ChemPhysChem 2020, 21, 5, 360-369

Comment on “Density functional theory is straying from the path toward the exact functional”
KP Kepp, Science 2017, 356 (6337), 496-497

Bioinorganic chemistry of zinc in relation to the immune system
KP Kepp, ChemBioChem 2022, 23 (9), e202100554

Consistent descriptions of metal–ligand bonds and spin-crossover in inorganic chemistry
KP Kepp, Coordination Chemistry Reviews 2013, 257 (1), 196-209


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