Sunali Goonesekera

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
17 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Sunali Goonesekera is a scholar working on Epidemiology, Infectious Diseases and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, Sunali Goonesekera has authored 17 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 4 papers in Epidemiology, 3 papers in Infectious Diseases and 3 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in Sunali Goonesekera's work include Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology (3 papers), Inhalation and Respiratory Drug Delivery (3 papers) and Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia detection and treatment (2 papers). Sunali Goonesekera is often cited by papers focused on Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology (3 papers), Inhalation and Respiratory Drug Delivery (3 papers) and Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia detection and treatment (2 papers). Sunali Goonesekera collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and France. Sunali Goonesekera's co-authors include Megan Murray, Christie Y. Jeon, Salah-Eddine Ottmani, Knut Lönnroth, Anil Kapur, Anthony Harries, Meghan A. Baker, Larry A. Feig, Barry R. Bloom and Csaba Szabó and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Biological Chemistry and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Sunali Goonesekera

17 papers receiving 1.3k 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 impact of diabetes on tuberculosis treatment outcomes: A systematic review

2011 621 citations Meghan A. Baker, Anthony Harries et al. BMC Medicine profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sunali Goonesekera United States	11	841	707	382	288	168	17	1.3k
Daniel Eliáš Ethiopia	20	512 0.6×	295 0.4×	138 0.4×	313 1.1×	198 1.2×	47	1.4k
David M. Davidson United States	17	994 1.2×	845 1.2×	307 0.8×	203 0.7×	233 1.4×	30	1.8k
Soo Aleman Sweden	21	357 0.4×	1.2k 1.6×	110 0.3×	144 0.5×	323 1.9×	121	1.9k
Toru Rikimaru Japan	20	179 0.2×	227 0.3×	173 0.5×	236 0.8×	138 0.8×	102	1.3k
Terry M. Jones United Kingdom	23	127 0.2×	661 0.9×	421 1.1×	158 0.5×	96 0.6×	70	2.0k
Eleanor Wilson United States	21	510 0.6×	1.1k 1.6×	100 0.3×	193 0.7×	248 1.5×	73	1.9k
Yiming Shao China	26	979 1.2×	767 1.1×	98 0.3×	468 1.6×	370 2.2×	110	2.1k
Seung Kyu Park South Korea	11	649 0.8×	498 0.7×	276 0.7×	192 0.7×	110 0.7×	38	945
Sandrine Samson France	22	240 0.3×	815 1.2×	139 0.4×	258 0.9×	1.2k 7.3×	54	2.2k
José Augusto da Costa Nery Brazil	21	949 1.1×	562 0.8×	462 1.2×	89 0.3×	164 1.0×	103	1.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sunali Goonesekera

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17 of 17 papers shown

Goonesekera, Sunali. (2024). Racial/ethnic differences in autoimmune disease prevalence in US claims/EHR data. The American Journal of Managed Care. 30(1). e4–e10. 3 indexed citations

Goonesekera, Sunali, et al.. (2020). The Burden of Heart Failure in North America and Western Europe. Future Cardiology. 17(4). 637–646. 5 indexed citations

Goonesekera, Sunali. (2017). A Global Epidemiological Forecast of Multiple Sclerosis and Disease Subtypes (S16.002). Neurology. 88(16_supplement). 2 indexed citations

Xu, Stanley, Susan Shetterly, Andrea J. Cook, et al.. (2016). Evaluation of propensity scores, disease risk scores, and regression in confounder adjustment for the safety of emerging treatment with group sequential monitoring. Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety. 25(4). 453–461. 6 indexed citations

Goonesekera, Sunali, Shona Fang, Rebecca Piccolo, José C. Florez, & John B. McKinlay. (2015). Biogeographic Ancestry Is Associated with Higher Total Body Adiposity among African-American Females: The Boston Area Community Health Survey. PLoS ONE. 10(4). e0122808–e0122808. 8 indexed citations

Goonesekera, Sunali, May Yang, Susan A. Hall, et al.. (2015). Racial ethnic differences in type 2 diabetes treatment patterns and glycaemic control in the Boston Area Community Health Survey. BMJ Open. 5(5). e007375–e007375. 19 indexed citations

Jarvis, Sheba, Philip W. Ind, Carol Thomas, et al.. (2014). Microbial contamination of domiciliary nebulisers and clinical implications in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. BMJ Open Respiratory Research. 1(1). e000018–e000018. 21 indexed citations

Baker, Meghan A., Douglas Wilson, Kristina Wallengren, et al.. (2012). Polymorphisms in the Gene That Encodes the Iron Transport Protein Ferroportin 1 Influence Susceptibility to Tuberculosis. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 205(7). 1043–1047. 8 indexed citations

Baker, Meghan A., Anthony Harries, Christie Y. Jeon, et al.. (2011). The impact of diabetes on tuberculosis treatment outcomes: A systematic review. BMC Medicine. 9(1). 81–81. 621 indexed citations breakdown →

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Jeon, Christie Y., Anthony Harries, Meghan A. Baker, et al.. (2010). Bi-directional screening for tuberculosis and diabetes: a systematic review. Tropical Medicine & International Health. 15(11). 1300–1314. 166 indexed citations

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Goonesekera, Sunali, et al.. (2009). The Transcriptional Regulator Rv0485 Modulates the Expression of a pe and ppe Gene Pair and Is Required for Mycobacterium tuberculosis Virulence. Infection and Immunity. 77(10). 4654–4667. 32 indexed citations

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Garcia‐Contreras, Lucila, Pavan Muttil, Danielle J. Padilla, et al.. (2008). Immunization by a bacterial aerosol. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105(12). 4656–4660. 109 indexed citations

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Sampson, Samantha L., Willem Andreas Germishuizen, Sunali Goonesekera, et al.. (2007). Drying a tuberculosis vaccine without freezing. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104(8). 2591–2595. 67 indexed citations

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Murthy, Kanneganti, Amitabha Deb, Sunali Goonesekera, Csaba Szabó, & Andrew L. Salzman. (2004). Identification of Conserved Domains in Salmonella muenchen Flagellin That Are Essential for Its Ability to Activate TLR5 and to Induce an Inflammatory Response in Vitro. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 279(7). 5667–5675. 104 indexed citations

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Mabley, Jon G., Pál Pacher, Péter Bai, et al.. (2004). Suppression of intestinal polyposis in Apcmin/+ mice by targeting the nitric oxide or poly(ADP-ribose) pathways. Mutation research. Fundamental and molecular mechanisms of mutagenesis. 548(1-2). 107–116. 23 indexed citations

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Goonesekera, Sunali, et al.. (1997). Activation of the exchange factor Ras‐GRF by calcium requires an intact Dbl homology domain. FEBS Letters. 407(1). 111–115. 48 indexed citations

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Buchsbaum, Rachel J., Jean‐Baptiste Telliez, Sunali Goonesekera, & Larry A. Feig. (1996). The N-Terminal Pleckstrin, Coiled-Coil, and IQ Domains of the Exchange Factor Ras-GRF Act Cooperatively To Facilitate Activation by Calcium. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 16(9). 4888–4896. 90 indexed citations

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