Saman Warnakulasuriya

33.6k total citations · 14 hit papers
392 papers, 22.8k citations indexed

About

Saman Warnakulasuriya is a scholar working on Periodontics, Otorhinolaryngology and Oral Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, Saman Warnakulasuriya has authored 392 papers receiving a total of 22.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 266 papers in Periodontics, 183 papers in Otorhinolaryngology and 111 papers in Oral Surgery. Recurrent topics in Saman Warnakulasuriya's work include Oral Health Pathology and Treatment (248 papers), Head and Neck Cancer Studies (183 papers) and Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology (109 papers). Saman Warnakulasuriya is often cited by papers focused on Oral Health Pathology and Treatment (248 papers), Head and Neck Cancer Studies (183 papers) and Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology (109 papers). Saman Warnakulasuriya collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Spain. Saman Warnakulasuriya's co-authors include Newell W. Johnson, I. van der Waal, Carrie Llewellyn, Priti Gupta, Alexander Ross Kerr, Miguel Ángel González‐Moles, Anura Ariyawardana, Fernanda Weber Mello, Wanninayake Mudiyanselage Tilakaratne and Pablo Ramos‐García and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Saman Warnakulasuriya

380 papers receiving 21.8k citations

Hit Papers

Global epidemiology of or... 2002 2026 2010 2018 2008 2007 2020 2015 2002 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
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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.

  1. Global epidemiology of oral and oropharyngeal cancer
    2008 2.5k citations Saman Warnakulasuriya Oral Oncology profile →
  2. Nomenclature and classification of potentially malignant disorders of the oral mucosa
    2007 1.2k citations Saman Warnakulasuriya et al. Journal of Oral Pathology and Medicine profile →
  3. Oral potentially malignant disorders: A consensus report from an international seminar on nomenclature and classification, convened by the WHO Collaborating Centre for Oral Cancer
    2020 636 citations Saman Warnakulasuriya, Miguel Ángel González‐Moles et al. Oral Diseases profile →
  4. Global burden of oral diseases: emerging concepts, management and interplay with systemic health
    2015 508 citations Saman Warnakulasuriya et al. Oral Diseases profile →
  5. Global epidemiology of areca nut usage
    2002 502 citations Saman Warnakulasuriya et al. profile →
  6. Oral epithelial dysplasia classification systems: predictive value, utility, weaknesses and scope for improvement
    2008 482 citations Saman Warnakulasuriya et al. Journal of Oral Pathology and Medicine profile →
  7. Oral lichen planus and oral lichenoid lesions: diagnostic and therapeutic considerations
    2007 443 citations Saman Warnakulasuriya et al. profile →
  8. Malignant transformation of oral leukoplakia: a systematic review of observational studies
    2015 328 citations Saman Warnakulasuriya et al. Journal of Oral Pathology and Medicine profile →
  9. Prevalence of oral potentially malignant disorders: A systematic review and meta‐analysis
    2018 273 citations Fernanda Weber Mello, Andressa Fernanda Paza Miguel et al. Journal of Oral Pathology and Medicine profile →
  10. Worldwide prevalence of oral lichen planus: A systematic review and meta‐analysis
    2020 256 citations Miguel Ángel González‐Moles, Saman Warnakulasuriya et al. Oral Diseases profile →
  11. Oral Cancer Screening: Past, Present, and Future
    2021 222 citations Saman Warnakulasuriya et al. Journal of Dental Research profile →
  12. Oral potentially malignant disorders: A comprehensive review on clinical aspects and management
    2020 181 citations Saman Warnakulasuriya Oral Oncology profile →
  13. Malignant transformation of oral leukoplakia: Systematic review and meta‐analysis of the last 5 years
    2021 158 citations Saman Warnakulasuriya et al. Oral Diseases profile →
  14. Oral epithelial dysplasia: Recognition, grading and clinical significance
    2021 145 citations Saman Warnakulasuriya et al. Oral Diseases profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Saman Warnakulasuriya United Kingdom 74 14.5k 9.1k 5.4k 3.9k 3.1k 392 22.8k
Newell W. Johnson United Kingdom 68 11.8k 0.8× 4.9k 0.5× 3.5k 0.7× 2.4k 0.6× 2.9k 0.9× 431 20.9k
Joel B. Epstein United States 81 5.3k 0.4× 9.5k 1.0× 2.2k 0.4× 3.0k 0.8× 1.4k 0.4× 502 23.7k
Luiz Paulo Kowalski Brazil 72 1.9k 0.1× 8.1k 0.9× 2.0k 0.4× 9.0k 2.3× 3.8k 1.2× 734 20.5k
Chun‐Pin Chiang Taiwan 51 3.3k 0.2× 1.1k 0.1× 2.0k 0.4× 1.1k 0.3× 1.8k 0.6× 523 9.8k
Stephen T. Sonis United States 71 1.9k 0.1× 8.6k 0.9× 260 0.0× 1.2k 0.3× 1.9k 0.6× 309 18.2k
Prakash C. Gupta India 50 2.8k 0.2× 1.5k 0.2× 1.0k 0.2× 658 0.2× 769 0.2× 184 10.1k
Anne‐Marie Glenny United Kingdom 53 3.0k 0.2× 1.1k 0.1× 1.4k 0.3× 1.2k 0.3× 374 0.1× 184 9.4k
Douglas E. Peterson United States 44 1.1k 0.1× 4.1k 0.4× 293 0.1× 679 0.2× 666 0.2× 129 9.8k
Steven Offenbacher United States 88 18.0k 1.2× 162 0.0× 4.5k 0.8× 1.1k 0.3× 2.9k 0.9× 314 25.9k
Peter A. Brennan United Kingdom 44 770 0.1× 944 0.1× 1.4k 0.3× 2.0k 0.5× 659 0.2× 484 7.4k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Soares, Andresa Borges, et al.. (2025). Risk Assessment of Oral Leukoplakia by Individual Dysplasia Features. Journal of Oral Pathology and Medicine. 54(7). 537–546. 1 indexed citations
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Warnakulasuriya, Saman & Adalberto Miranda‐Filho. (2025). Oral Cancer in the South and South‐East Asia Region, 2022: Incidence and Mortality. Oral Diseases. 31(5). 1398–1405. 1 indexed citations
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Monteiro, Luı́s, et al.. (2025). Tissue Biomarkers for Predicting the Risk of Oral Cancer in Patients Diagnosed With Oral Leukoplakia: A Systematic Review of the Past 4 Years. Journal of Oral Pathology and Medicine. 54(5). 283–289. 1 indexed citations
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Rumgay, Harriet, Murielle Colombet, Amanda Ramos da Cunha, et al.. (2025). Global incidence of lip, oral cavity, and pharyngeal cancers by subsite in 2022. CA A Cancer Journal for Clinicians. 76(1).
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Vazquez, Fabiana de Lima, Fábio Luiz Coracin, Elisa M. Barroso, et al.. (2024). An oral cancer screening program in Brazil: Analysis of seven years of outcome after its implementation in the suburban cities of São Paulo. Oral Oncology. 154. 106826–106826.
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Alves, Fábio Abreu, Manoela Domingues Martins, Luiz Paulo Kowalski, et al.. (2024). Surgical protocols for oral leukoplakia and precancerous lesions across three different anatomic sites. Oral Diseases. 31(1). 89–98. 1 indexed citations
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Freitas, Márcio Diniz, Rosa María López‐Pintor, Alan Roger Santos‐Silva, Saman Warnakulasuriya, & Pedro Diz Dios. (2024). Assessing the accuracy and readability of ChatGPT-4 and Gemini in answering oral cancer queries—an exploratory study. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 334–345. 2 indexed citations
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Rumgay, Harriet, Suzanne Tanya Nethan, Richa Shah, et al.. (2024). Global burden of oral cancer in 2022 attributable to smokeless tobacco and areca nut consumption: a population attributable fraction analysis. The Lancet Oncology. 25(11). 1413–1423. 29 indexed citations
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Gondak, Rogério, Elena Riet Corrêa Rivero, Saman Warnakulasuriya, et al.. (2022). Comparison of tobacco and alcohol consumption in young and older patients with oral squamous cell carcinoma: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Clinical Oral Investigations. 26(12). 6855–6869. 13 indexed citations
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Țovaru, Șerban, Mariana Costache, Paula Perlea, et al.. (2022). Oral leukoplakia: A clinicopathological study and malignant transformation. Oral Diseases. 29(4). 1454–1463. 23 indexed citations
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Ramos‐García, Pablo, et al.. (2022). Autoimmune disorders in oral lichen planus: A systematic review and meta‐analysis. Oral Diseases. 29(4). 1382–1394. 38 indexed citations
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Ranganathan, Kannan, Roopa S. Rao, Vinay K. Hazarey, et al.. (2020). Intra‐observer and inter‐observer variability in two grading systems for oral epithelial dysplasia: A multi‐centre study in India. Journal of Oral Pathology and Medicine. 49(9). 948–955. 34 indexed citations
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Warnakulasuriya, Saman, et al.. (2020). Lichenoid morphology could be an early feature of oral proliferative verrucous leukoplakia. Journal of Oral Pathology and Medicine. 50(2). 229–235. 28 indexed citations
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Piemonte, Eduardo, et al.. (2020). Lichenoid proliferative leukoplakia, lichenoid lesions with evolution to proliferative leukoplakia or a continuum of the same precancerous condition? A revised hypothesis. Journal of Oral Pathology and Medicine. 50(2). 129–135. 11 indexed citations
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Mello, Fernanda Weber, Carolina Amália Barcellos Silva, Eric Kenneth Parkinson, et al.. (2020). Prognostic and clinicopathological significance of podoplanin immunoexpression in oral and oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma: A systematic review. Journal of Oral Pathology and Medicine. 50(1). 1–9. 15 indexed citations
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Mello, Fernanda Weber, Andressa Fernanda Paza Miguel, Kamile Leonardi Dutra, et al.. (2018). Prevalence of oral potentially malignant disorders: A systematic review and meta‐analysis. Journal of Oral Pathology and Medicine. 47(7). 633–640. 273 indexed citations breakdown →
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Wimardhani, Yuniardini Septorini, et al.. (2018). Public awareness of oral cancer among adults in Jakarta, Indonesia. Journal of Investigative and Clinical Dentistry. 10(1). e12379–e12379. 22 indexed citations
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Nagao, T, Saman Warnakulasuriya, Hidenori Sakuma, Katsuhiko Suzuki, & Shuji Hashimoto. (2010). Is Response to Chemoprevention in Oral Leukoplakia Determined by p53 Expression. Oral Diseases. 16(6). 518–518. 1 indexed citations
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Warnakulasuriya, Saman. (2009). Causes of oral cancer – an appraisal of controversies. BDJ. 207(10). 471–475. 229 indexed citations
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Warnakulasuriya, Saman, et al.. (2003). Characteristics of Patients Attending a Dysplasia Clinic; An Audit of Risk Factors and Outcome. Journal of Dental Research. 82. 2 indexed citations

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