A.R. Wickremasinghe

3.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
28 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

A.R. Wickremasinghe is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, A.R. Wickremasinghe has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 5 papers in Infectious Diseases and 4 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in A.R. Wickremasinghe's work include Mosquito-borne diseases and control (7 papers), Malaria Research and Control (5 papers) and Parasitic Diseases Research and Treatment (3 papers). A.R. Wickremasinghe is often cited by papers focused on Mosquito-borne diseases and control (7 papers), Malaria Research and Control (5 papers) and Parasitic Diseases Research and Treatment (3 papers). A.R. Wickremasinghe collaborates with scholars based in Sri Lanka, United Kingdom and Australia. A.R. Wickremasinghe's co-authors include Anuradhani Kasturiratne, David G. Lalloo, A. Pathmeswaran, Hithanadura Janaka de Silva, Lorenzo Savioli, N.K. Gunawardena, Nilanthi de Silva, R. Premaratna, Norihiro Kato and Axel Kroeger and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences and Journal of Clinical Microbiology.

In The Last Decade

A.R. Wickremasinghe

28 papers receiving 2.0k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

The Global Burden of Snakebite: A Literature Analysis and Modelling Based on Regional Estimates of Envenoming and Deaths

2008 1.4k citations Anuradhani Kasturiratne, A.R. Wickremasinghe et al. PLoS Medicine profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
A.R. Wickremasinghe Sri Lanka	15	1.4k	1.1k	425	395	191	28	2.1k
A. Pathmeswaran Sri Lanka	25	1.8k 1.3×	1.4k 1.3×	523 1.2×	421 1.1×	205 1.1×	139	3.3k
Francisco Oscar de Siqueira França Brazil	24	1.2k 0.9×	756 0.7×	307 0.7×	313 0.8×	434 2.3×	82	2.1k
Fábio Bucaretchi Brazil	18	629 0.4×	247 0.2×	130 0.3×	324 0.8×	75 0.4×	63	1.1k
Julian White Australia	23	1.7k 1.2×	1.1k 1.0×	483 1.1×	483 1.2×	69 0.4×	74	2.2k
Leslie Boyer United States	22	1.3k 0.9×	780 0.7×	242 0.6×	338 0.9×	65 0.3×	60	1.6k
Carlos Faria Santos Amaral Brazil	23	900 0.6×	216 0.2×	89 0.2×	518 1.3×	136 0.7×	54	1.4k
Frank G. Walter United States	19	378 0.3×	245 0.2×	71 0.2×	141 0.4×	77 0.4×	59	990
Alfonso Zavaleta Peru	10	254 0.2×	96 0.1×	72 0.2×	180 0.5×	55 0.3×	35	644
Nilton Alves de Rezende Brazil	20	602 0.4×	128 0.1×	50 0.1×	401 1.0×	113 0.6×	69	1.2k
James H. Diaz United States	23	178 0.1×	82 0.1×	52 0.1×	207 0.5×	279 1.5×	78	1.6k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Wickremasinghe, A.R., et al.. (2023). REACh for the preschoolers; a developmental assessment tool for 2–5 year old children in Sri Lanka. BMC Pediatrics. 23(1). 80–80. 1 indexed citations

Abeysuriya, Visula, et al.. (2022). Regional and demographic variations of Carotid artery Intima and Media Thickness (CIMT): A Systematic review and meta-analysis. PLoS ONE. 17(7). e0268716–e0268716. 11 indexed citations

Stewart‐Brown, Sarah, et al.. (2022). Measuring mental well-being in Sri Lanka: validation of the Warwick Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (WEMWBS) in a Sinhala speaking community. BMC Psychiatry. 22(1). 569–569. 10 indexed citations

Mettananda, Chamila, T. S. G. Peiris, Anuradhani Kasturiratne, et al.. (2021). Validation of the World Health Organization/ International Society of Hypertension (WHO/ISH) cardiovascular risk predictions in Sri Lankans based on findings from a prospective cohort study. PLoS ONE. 16(6). e0252267–e0252267. 6 indexed citations

Jayasuriya, Rohan, et al.. (2020). Assessing mental well-being in a Sinhala speaking Sri Lankan population: validation of the WHO-5 well-being index. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes. 18(1). 305–305. 26 indexed citations

Kasturiratne, Anuradhani, A. Pathmeswaran, A.R. Wickremasinghe, et al.. (2017). The socio-economic burden of snakebite in Sri Lanka. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 11(7). e0005647–e0005647. 56 indexed citations

Wickremasinghe, A.R., et al.. (2017). Should chemoprophylaxis be a main strategy for preventing re-introduction of malaria in highly receptive areas? Sri Lanka a case in point. Malaria Journal. 16(1). 102–102. 6 indexed citations

Jayasuriya, Rohan, Janani Pinidiyapathirage, Ranil Jayawardena, et al.. (2015). Translational research for Diabetes Self-Management in Sri Lanka: A randomized controlled trial. Primary care diabetes. 9(5). 338–345. 30 indexed citations

Abeyewickreme, W., et al.. (2012). Community mobilization and household level waste management for dengue vector control in Gampaha district of Sri Lanka; an intervention study. Pathogens and Global Health. 106(8). 479–487. 71 indexed citations

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Wickremasinghe, A.R., et al.. (2009). Quality of life in filarial lymphoedema patients in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 104(3). 219–224. 20 indexed citations

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Dassanayake, Anuradha Supun, Anuradhani Kasturiratne, Shaman Rajindrajith, et al.. (2009). Prevalence and risk factors for non‐alcoholic fatty liver disease among adults in an urban Sri Lankan population. Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology. 24(7). 1284–1288. 152 indexed citations

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Noyes, Harry, Nicholas J. Beeching, A.R. Wickremasinghe, et al.. (2008). Clinical Features of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in Sri Lanka and Molecular Identification of L. donovani as the Cause. International Journal of Infectious Diseases. 12. e387–e387. 1 indexed citations

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Kasturiratne, Anuradhani, A.R. Wickremasinghe, Nilanthi de Silva, et al.. (2008). The Global Burden of Snakebite: A Literature Analysis and Modelling Based on Regional Estimates of Envenoming and Deaths. PLoS Medicine. 5(11). e218–e218. 1417 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wickremasinghe, A.R., et al.. (2007). Efficacy of a limb-care regime in preventing acute adenolymphangitis in patients with lymphoedema caused by bancroftian filariasis, in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology. 101(6). 487–497. 19 indexed citations

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Wickremasinghe, A.R., et al.. (2007). Knowledge and perceptions of filariasis in Colombo, Sri Lanka, among patients with chronic filarial lymphoedema. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology. 101(3). 215–223. 7 indexed citations

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Wickremasinghe, A.R., et al.. (2006). Larvivorous Potential of Fish Species Found in River Bed Pools Below the Major Dams in Sri Lanka. Journal of Medical Entomology. 43(1). 79–82. 15 indexed citations

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Wickremasinghe, A.R., et al.. (2006). Anopheline breeding in river bed pools below major dams in Sri Lanka. Acta Tropica. 99(1). 30–33. 13 indexed citations

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Wickremasinghe, A.R., et al.. (2006). Toxicity due to organophosphorus compounds: what about chronic exposure?. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 100(9). 803–806. 74 indexed citations

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Wickremasinghe, A.R., et al.. (2004). Malarial vectors in an irrigated rice cultivation area in southern Sri Lanka. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 99(2). 106–114. 14 indexed citations

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Halford, Stephanie, David I. Wilson, S. C. M. Daw, et al.. (1993). Isolation of a gene expressed during early embryogenesis from the region of 22q11 commonly deleted in DiGeorge syndrome. Human Molecular Genetics. 2(10). 1577–1582. 39 indexed citations

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