Nilmini Mendis

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
13 papers, 918 citations indexed

About

Nilmini Mendis is a scholar working on Endocrinology, Molecular Biology and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. According to data from OpenAlex, Nilmini Mendis has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 918 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Endocrinology, 7 papers in Molecular Biology and 3 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. Recurrent topics in Nilmini Mendis's work include Legionella and Acanthamoeba research (8 papers), Vibrio bacteria research studies (6 papers) and Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing (5 papers). Nilmini Mendis is often cited by papers focused on Legionella and Acanthamoeba research (8 papers), Vibrio bacteria research studies (6 papers) and Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing (5 papers). Nilmini Mendis collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Ivory Coast. Nilmini Mendis's co-authors include Sébastien P. Faucher, Hana Trigui, Laam Li, James D. Oliver, Geneviève Marchand, Simon Lévesque, Cécile Tremblay, Frédéric Raymond, Hugues Charest and Jacques Corbeil and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Scientific Reports and Frontiers in Microbiology.

In The Last Decade

Nilmini Mendis

13 papers receiving 899 citations

Hit Papers

align trajectories

What are hit papers?

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 importance of the viable but non-culturable state in human bacterial pathogens

2014 719 citations Laam Li, Nilmini Mendis et al. Frontiers in Microbiology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nilmini Mendis Canada	9	429	353	152	130	116	13	918
Hana Trigui Canada	12	439 1.0×	337 1.0×	166 1.1×	132 1.0×	174 1.5×	26	1.0k
Laam Li Canada	8	353 0.8×	292 0.8×	144 0.9×	100 0.8×	117 1.0×	12	872
Maria Carla Tafi Italy	11	250 0.6×	282 0.8×	154 1.0×	63 0.5×	111 1.0×	12	881
Maria del Mar Lleò Italy	15	414 1.0×	433 1.2×	178 1.2×	86 0.7×	178 1.5×	19	1.2k
Thierry De Baere Belgium	24	669 1.6×	566 1.6×	88 0.6×	85 0.7×	173 1.5×	34	1.6k
Mariana Fittipaldi Spain	13	238 0.6×	226 0.6×	157 1.0×	92 0.7×	123 1.1×	21	748
Mesrop Ayrapetyan United States	11	356 0.8×	389 1.1×	155 1.0×	73 0.6×	154 1.3×	15	882
Meena H. Mahbubani United States	12	400 0.9×	380 1.1×	205 1.3×	172 1.3×	204 1.8×	12	1.0k
Signe Marie Drømtorp Norway	9	326 0.8×	240 0.7×	351 2.3×	169 1.3×	148 1.3×	9	882
Cláudia N. H. Marques United States	13	775 1.8×	211 0.6×	91 0.6×	88 0.7×	81 0.7×	28	1.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Nilmini Mendis

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Nilmini Mendis's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Nilmini Mendis with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Nilmini Mendis more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Nilmini Mendis

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Nilmini Mendis. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Nilmini Mendis. The network helps show where Nilmini Mendis may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nilmini Mendis

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Nilmini Mendis. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Nilmini Mendis based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Nilmini Mendis. Nilmini Mendis is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

13 of 13 papers shown

Mendis, Nilmini, et al.. (2019). Quantification of Viable but Non-Culturable Cells of Legionella pneumophila. Methods in molecular biology. 1921. 45–53. 5 indexed citations

Mendis, Nilmini, et al.. (2018). The LetA/S two-component system regulates transcriptomic changes that are essential for the culturability of Legionella pneumophila in water. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 6764–6764. 13 indexed citations

Mendis, Nilmini, et al.. (2018). The Virulence Effect of CpxRA in Citrobacter rodentium Is Independent of the Auxiliary Proteins NlpE and CpxP. Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology. 8. 320–320. 13 indexed citations

Mendis, Nilmini, et al.. (2018). Knockdown of BNIP3L or SQSTM1 alters cellular response to mitochondria target drugs. Autophagy. 15(5). 900–907. 20 indexed citations

Mendis, Nilmini, et al.. (2018). Deletion of oxyR in Legionella pneumophila causes growth defect on agar. Canadian Journal of Microbiology. 64(12). 1030–1041. 3 indexed citations

Trigui, Hana, Kristen Lee, Alexandre Thibodeau, et al.. (2017). Phenotypic and Transcriptomic Responses of Campylobacter jejuni Suspended in an Artificial Freshwater Medium. Frontiers in Microbiology. 8. 1781–1781. 3 indexed citations

Mendis, Nilmini, et al.. (2015). Short-Term and Long-Term Survival and Virulence of Legionella pneumophila in the Defined Freshwater Medium Fraquil. PLoS ONE. 10(9). e0139277–e0139277. 26 indexed citations

Li, Laam, Nilmini Mendis, Hana Trigui, & Sébastien P. Faucher. (2015). Transcriptomic changes of Legionella pneumophila in water. BMC Genomics. 16(1). 637–637. 36 indexed citations

Foudeh, Amir M., Hana Trigui, Nilmini Mendis, et al.. (2015). Rapid and specific SPRi detection of L. pneumophila in complex environmental water samples. Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry. 407(18). 5541–5545. 20 indexed citations

10.

Li, Laam, Nilmini Mendis, Hana Trigui, James D. Oliver, & Sébastien P. Faucher. (2014). The importance of the viable but non-culturable state in human bacterial pathogens. Frontiers in Microbiology. 5. 258–258. 719 indexed citations breakdown →

11.

Lévesque, Simon, Pier-Luc Plante, Nilmini Mendis, et al.. (2014). Genomic Characterization of a Large Outbreak of Legionella pneumophila Serogroup 1 Strains in Quebec City, 2012. PLoS ONE. 9(8). e103852–e103852. 48 indexed citations

12.

Mendis, Nilmini, et al.. (2014). Comparison of virulence properties of Pseudomonas aeruginosa exposed to water and grown in rich broth. Canadian Journal of Microbiology. 60(11). 777–781. 9 indexed citations

13.

Trigui, Hana, et al.. (2013). Facets of Small RNA-Mediated Regulation in Legionella pneumophila. Current topics in microbiology and immunology. 376. 53–80. 3 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact