Sudhir Nair

4.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
114 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Sudhir Nair is a scholar working on Otorhinolaryngology, Surgery and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sudhir Nair has authored 114 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 80 papers in Otorhinolaryngology, 55 papers in Surgery and 41 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Sudhir Nair's work include Head and Neck Cancer Studies (80 papers), Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment (26 papers) and Salivary Gland Tumors Diagnosis and Treatment (23 papers). Sudhir Nair is often cited by papers focused on Head and Neck Cancer Studies (80 papers), Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment (26 papers) and Salivary Gland Tumors Diagnosis and Treatment (23 papers). Sudhir Nair collaborates with scholars based in India, United Kingdom and United States. Sudhir Nair's co-authors include Pankaj Chaturvedi, Deepa Nair, Jai Prakash Agarwal, Shubhada Kane, Poonam Joshi, Sarbani Ghosh Laskar, Gouri Pantvaidya, Prathamesh Pai, Anuja Deshmukh and Devendra Chaukar and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of Clinical Oncology and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Sudhir Nair

104 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Hit Papers

Elective versus Therapeutic Neck Dissection in Node-Negat... 2015 2026 2018 2022 2015 250 500 750
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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. Elective versus Therapeutic Neck Dissection in Node-Negative Oral Cancer
    2015 782 citations Anil D’Cruz, Richa Vaish et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Sudhir Nair India 25 1.5k 1.0k 865 421 367 114 2.4k
Chun‐Ta Liao Taiwan 29 982 0.6× 772 0.7× 771 0.9× 298 0.7× 464 1.3× 73 2.3k
Shanthi Marur United States 21 2.3k 1.5× 1.3k 1.2× 1.4k 1.7× 258 0.6× 1.0k 2.8× 49 4.2k
Anil D′Cruz India 32 1.9k 1.3× 1.5k 1.5× 1.1k 1.3× 276 0.7× 1.0k 2.8× 138 3.3k
Jin‐Ching Lin Taiwan 29 2.2k 1.5× 1.5k 1.5× 1.8k 2.0× 133 0.3× 908 2.5× 106 4.0k
Marcos Brasilino de Carvalho Brazil 22 631 0.4× 438 0.4× 518 0.6× 168 0.4× 269 0.7× 84 1.6k
Li Xu United States 23 219 0.1× 342 0.3× 681 0.8× 121 0.3× 237 0.6× 90 1.8k
Imjai Chitapanarux Thailand 24 512 0.3× 613 0.6× 589 0.7× 98 0.2× 498 1.4× 172 2.0k
M. Krishnan Nair India 21 257 0.2× 142 0.1× 373 0.4× 305 0.7× 187 0.5× 48 1.4k
Nair Mk India 20 170 0.1× 228 0.2× 352 0.4× 130 0.3× 140 0.4× 93 1.2k
Danielle N. Margalit United States 22 505 0.3× 356 0.3× 580 0.7× 39 0.1× 301 0.8× 87 1.4k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sudhir Nair

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Nair, Sudhir, et al.. (2025). Gene-Polymorphism in Non - Syndromic Hearing Loss: A Systematic Review. Indian Journal of Otolaryngology and Head & Neck Surgery. 77(4). 1981–1986.
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Nair, Sudhir, et al.. (2024). Surgical management of patients with distant metastasized adenoid cystic carcinoma of the head and neck. Oral Surgery Oral Medicine Oral Pathology and Oral Radiology. 138(3). 362–366.
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Nair, Sudhir, et al.. (2024). Marginal Mandibulectomy in Oral Cavity Cancers — Classification and Indications. Indian Journal of Surgical Oncology. 16(2). 581–586.
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Sinha, Shwetabh, et al.. (2024). A Prospective Study to Evaluate the Association of Sensory Dysregulation and Adverse Pathologic Features in Oral Tongue Cancers. Journal of Maxillofacial and Oral Surgery. 24(5). 1311–1318. 1 indexed citations
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Patil, Vijay, Vanita Noronha, Nandini Menon, et al.. (2022). Phase 3 randomized study comparing docetaxel-platinum with docetaxel-platinum-5 fluorouracil as neoadjuvant chemotherapy in technically unresectable oral cancer.. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 40(16_suppl). 6013–6013. 3 indexed citations
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Chaukar, Devendra, Vijay Patil, Shivakumar Thiagarajan, et al.. (2021). Prospective Phase II Open-Label Randomized Controlled Trial to Compare Mandibular Preservation in Upfront Surgery With Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy Followed by Surgery in Operable Oral Cavity Cancer. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 40(3). 272–281. 37 indexed citations
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Sulkshane, Prasad, et al.. (2021). Elevated USP9X drives early-to-late-stage oral tumorigenesis via stabilisation of anti-apoptotic MCL-1 protein and impacts outcome in oral cancers. British Journal of Cancer. 125(4). 547–560. 18 indexed citations
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D′Cruz, Anil, Harsh Dhar, Richa Vaish, et al.. (2021). Depth of invasion in early oral cancers- is it an independent prognostic factor?. European Journal of Surgical Oncology. 47(8). 1940–1946. 15 indexed citations
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Nair, Sudhir, Manish Mair, Arjun Singh, et al.. (2020). Addressing the contralateral neck for ipsilateral disease recurrence in oral cavity cancers. European Journal of Surgical Oncology. 47(6). 1384–1388. 3 indexed citations
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Chaturvedi, Pankaj, Sourav Datta, Aseem Mishra, et al.. (2019). Frozen section is not cost beneficial for the assessment of margins in oral cancer. Indian Journal of Cancer. 56(1). 19–19. 13 indexed citations
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Chaturvedi, Pankaj, et al.. (2019). Emergency department visits by head-and-neck cancer patients. Indian Journal of Palliative Care. 25(4). 535–535. 4 indexed citations
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Laskar, Sarbani Ghosh, Kumar Prabhash, Amit Joshi, et al.. (2019). Taxane-based Induction Chemotherapy Plus Concurrent Chemoradiotherapy in Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma: Prospective Results from a Non-endemic Cohort. Clinical Oncology. 31(12). 850–857. 5 indexed citations
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Shah, Ankit B., Akshat Malik, Apurva Garg, et al.. (2017). Oral sex and human papilloma virus-related head and neck squamous cell cancer: a review of the literature. Postgraduate Medical Journal. 93(1105). 704–709. 27 indexed citations
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Nair, Sudhir, Bikramjit Singh, Sourav Datta, et al.. (2016). Squamous cell carcinoma of tongue and buccal mucosa: clinico-pathologically different entities. European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology. 273(11). 3921–3928. 46 indexed citations
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Malik, Akshat, et al.. (2015). Necrotizing fasciitis in patients with head and neck cancer. American Journal of Infection Control. 43(4). 404–405. 5 indexed citations
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Nair, Sudhir, Pankaj Chaturvedi, Devendra Chaukar, et al.. (2013). Hypopharyngeal Cancers Requiring Reconstruction: A Single Institute Experience. Indian Journal of Otolaryngology and Head & Neck Surgery. 65(S1). 135–139. 6 indexed citations
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Chaturvedi, Pankaj, Sagar Vaishampayan, Sudhir Nair, et al.. (2012). Oral squamous cell carcinoma arising in background of oral submucous fibrosis: a clinicopathologically distinct disease. Head & Neck. 35(10). 1404–1409. 81 indexed citations

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