Purnima Kumar

13.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
104 papers, 6.5k citations indexed

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Purnima Kumar is a scholar working on Periodontics, Oral Surgery and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Purnima Kumar has authored 104 papers receiving a total of 6.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 66 papers in Periodontics, 25 papers in Oral Surgery and 22 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Purnima Kumar's work include Oral microbiology and periodontitis research (61 papers), Oral Health Pathology and Treatment (19 papers) and Salivary Gland Disorders and Functions (18 papers). Purnima Kumar is often cited by papers focused on Oral microbiology and periodontitis research (61 papers), Oral Health Pathology and Treatment (19 papers) and Salivary Gland Disorders and Functions (18 papers). Purnima Kumar collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and India. Purnima Kumar's co-authors include Eugene J. Leys, Ann L. Griffen, Shareef M. Dabdoub, Melvin L. Moeschberger, Haikady N. Nagaraja, Matthew R. Mason, Dimitris N. Tatakis, Michael R. Brooker, Scot E. Dowd and Vinayak Joshi and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, The Journal of Physiology and Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Purnima Kumar

101 papers receiving 6.2k 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.

Distinct and complex bacterial profiles in human periodontitis and health revealed by 16S pyrosequencing

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Purnima Kumar United States	40	3.9k	1.7k	1.3k	1.2k	1.2k	104	6.5k
Egija Zaura Netherlands	42	4.4k 1.1×	2.3k 1.3×	1.3k 1.0×	949 0.8×	864 0.7×	114	7.2k
Eija Könönen Finland	42	3.9k 1.0×	1.3k 0.7×	1.0k 0.8×	1.3k 1.1×	933 0.8×	167	6.5k
Ann L. Griffen United States	32	4.7k 1.2×	1.6k 0.9×	972 0.8×	1.8k 1.5×	808 0.7×	62	6.3k
Eugene J. Leys United States	34	4.5k 1.2×	1.9k 1.1×	984 0.8×	1.7k 1.4×	702 0.6×	53	6.4k
Yoshihisa Yamashita Japan	49	4.2k 1.1×	1.9k 1.1×	1.6k 1.3×	1.3k 1.1×	536 0.5×	228	7.8k
Nobuhiro Hanada Japan	37	2.8k 0.7×	1.0k 0.6×	794 0.6×	795 0.7×	619 0.5×	229	4.9k
Anne D. Haffajee United States	49	8.4k 2.2×	1.3k 0.7×	1.4k 1.1×	3.1k 2.6×	2.2k 1.9×	72	10.0k
A. C. R. Tanner United States	55	8.7k 2.2×	2.5k 1.5×	1.6k 1.2×	3.1k 2.7×	2.0k 1.7×	115	12.0k
Bart J. F. Keijser Netherlands	36	2.0k 0.5×	2.8k 1.6×	1.2k 0.9×	589 0.5×	280 0.2×	76	6.2k
D. Beighton United Kingdom	54	5.2k 1.3×	1.8k 1.1×	955 0.8×	2.5k 2.2×	1.5k 1.3×	220	9.3k

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Wang, Hom‐Lay, Gustavo Ávila‐Ortiz, Alberto Monje, et al.. (2025). AO/AAP consensus on prevention and management of peri‐implant diseases and conditions: Summary report. Journal of Periodontology. 96(6). 519–541. 2 indexed citations

Buduneli, Nurcan, et al.. (2024). Placental TLR recognition of salivary and subgingival microbiota is associated with pregnancy complications. Microbiome. 12(1). 64–64. 6 indexed citations

Ravidà, Andrea, Muhammad H. A. Saleh, Purnima Kumar, et al.. (2024). Impact of smoking on cost‐effectiveness of 10–48 years of periodontal care. Periodontology 2000. 98(1). 32–44. 3 indexed citations

Saleh, Muhammad H. A., et al.. (2024). Performance of three artificial intelligence (AI)‐based large language models in standardized testing; implications for AI‐assisted dental education. Journal of Periodontal Research. 60(2). 121–133. 27 indexed citations

Monteiro, Mabelle Freitas, et al.. (2023). Clinical, immunological and microbiological evaluation of experimental peri‐implant mucositis and gingivitis in subjects with Grade C, stage III/IV periodontitis background. Journal Of Clinical Periodontology. 51(2). 209–221. 4 indexed citations

Kumar, Purnima, et al.. (2023). A Comparative Study to Assess the Add on Effects of Probiotic in Allergic Rhinitis Patients in a Tertiary Care Hospital. Indian Journal of Otolaryngology and Head & Neck Surgery. 75(S1). 934–940. 1 indexed citations

Khosravi, Yalda, Sara R. Palmer, Carlo Amorin Daep, et al.. (2022). A commercial SnF2 toothpaste formulation reduces simulated human plaque biofilm in a dynamic typodont model. Journal of Applied Microbiology. 133(3). 1341–1352. 3 indexed citations

Saraswat, Shweta, et al.. (2021). Sources of SARS-CoV-2 and Other Microorganisms in Dental Aerosols. Journal of Dental Research. 100(8). 817–823. 56 indexed citations

Saraswat, Shweta, et al.. (2021). Estimating salivary carriage of SARS-CoV2 in non-symptomatic individuals and efficacy of mouthwash in reducing viral load: a randomized controlled trial. The Journal of the American Dental Association.

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Khosravi, Yalda, Sara R. Palmer, Erin S. Gloag, et al.. (2020). Use of an oxygen planar optode to assess the effect of high velocity microsprays on oxygen penetration in a human dental biofilms in-vitro. BMC Oral Health. 20(1). 230–230. 13 indexed citations

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Kumar, Purnima. (2019). Systemic Risk Factors for the Development of Periimplant Diseases. Implant Dentistry. 28(2). 115–119. 21 indexed citations

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Longo, Priscila Larcher, Shareef M. Dabdoub, Purnima Kumar, et al.. (2018). Glycaemic status affects the subgingival microbiome of diabetic patients. Journal Of Clinical Periodontology. 45(8). 932–940. 38 indexed citations

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Casarin, Renato Côrrea Viana, et al.. (2017). Furcation Therapy With Enamel Matrix Derivative: Effects on the Subgingival Microbiome. Journal of Periodontology. 88(7). 617–625. 14 indexed citations

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Dabdoub, Shareef M., et al.. (2016). PhyloToAST: Bioinformatics tools for species-level analysis and visualization of complex microbial datasets. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 29123–29123. 42 indexed citations

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Dabdoub, Shareef M., Sukirth M. Ganesan, & Purnima Kumar. (2016). Comparative metagenomics reveals taxonomically idiosyncratic yet functionally congruent communities in periodontitis. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 38993–38993. 91 indexed citations

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Kumar, Purnima. (2013). Oral microbiota and systemic disease. Anaerobe. 24. 90–93. 93 indexed citations

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Giusti, M. Mónica, et al.. (2012). Susceptibility of anthocyanins to ex vivo degradation in human saliva. Food Chemistry. 135(2). 738–747. 73 indexed citations

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Tatakis, Dimitris N., et al.. (2011). Contribution of host genotype to the composition of health-associated supragingival and subgingival microbiomes. Journal Of Clinical Periodontology. 38(6). 517–524. 20 indexed citations

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Sharma, Kulbhushan, Shashank Tripathi, Priya Ranjan, et al.. (2011). Influenza A Virus Nucleoprotein Exploits Hsp40 to Inhibit PKR Activation. PLoS ONE. 6(6). e20215–e20215. 62 indexed citations

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Montagner, Francisco, Brenda Paula Figueiredo de Almeida Gomes, & Purnima Kumar. (2010). Molecular Fingerprinting Reveals the Presence of Unique Communities Associated with Paired Samples of Root Canals and Acute Apical Abscesses. Journal of Endodontics. 36(9). 1475–1479. 23 indexed citations

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