Sunil Premawansa

1.9k total citations
51 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Sunil Premawansa is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Infectious Diseases and Parasitology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sunil Premawansa has authored 51 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 24 papers in Infectious Diseases and 16 papers in Parasitology. Recurrent topics in Sunil Premawansa's work include Malaria Research and Control (22 papers), Mosquito-borne diseases and control (20 papers) and Viral Infections and Vectors (20 papers). Sunil Premawansa is often cited by papers focused on Malaria Research and Control (22 papers), Mosquito-borne diseases and control (20 papers) and Viral Infections and Vectors (20 papers). Sunil Premawansa collaborates with scholars based in Sri Lanka, United Kingdom and United States. Sunil Premawansa's co-authors include Kamini Mendis, Shiroma Handunnetti, Gayani Premawansa, Senaka Rajapakse, Lilani Karunanayake, Richard Carter, Narmada Fernando, Aruna Dharshan De Silva, Hithanadura Janaka de Silva and Roshan Niloofa and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Journal of Experimental Medicine and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Sunil Premawansa

47 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Sunil Premawansa Sri Lanka 19 639 366 307 207 96 51 1.1k
Bolaji N. Thomas United States 18 408 0.6× 179 0.5× 384 1.3× 188 0.9× 151 1.6× 75 1.4k
Irma Aguilar-Delfín Mexico 10 238 0.4× 740 2.0× 496 1.6× 144 0.7× 92 1.0× 14 1.0k
Moses Lagog Papua New Guinea 13 993 1.6× 334 0.9× 82 0.3× 207 1.0× 107 1.1× 18 1.1k
Joseli Oliveira-Ferreira Brazil 21 1.2k 1.9× 322 0.9× 113 0.4× 323 1.6× 142 1.5× 69 1.5k
Mauro Shugiro Tada Brazil 17 894 1.4× 230 0.6× 104 0.3× 303 1.5× 191 2.0× 52 1.1k
María I. Giraldo United States 14 360 0.6× 74 0.2× 363 1.2× 271 1.3× 174 1.8× 26 779
Guojian Wei Canada 15 541 0.8× 193 0.5× 225 0.7× 586 2.8× 609 6.3× 28 1.2k
Sándor Bereczky Sweden 14 597 0.9× 171 0.5× 285 0.9× 163 0.8× 111 1.2× 16 876
Márcia Aparecida Sperança Brazil 13 373 0.6× 109 0.3× 172 0.6× 79 0.4× 110 1.1× 48 612
L Kabilan India 18 617 1.0× 117 0.3× 309 1.0× 217 1.0× 104 1.1× 42 942

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sunil Premawansa

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Premawansa, Sunil, et al.. (2025). Aqueous leaf extract of Vitex negundo modulates M1-M2 phenotypic switch and functional changes in human macrophages in an in vitro model of hypertension. Journal of Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine. 16(3). 101148–101148.
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Fernando, Narmada, et al.. (2024). Development and Evaluation of In‐House ELISAs for the Detection of SARS‐CoV‐2‐Specific Antibodies in COVID‐19 Patients in Sri Lanka. International Journal of Microbiology. 2024(1). 1331067–1331067.
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Premawansa, Gayani, Sunil Premawansa, Ananda Wijewickrama, et al.. (2024). Identifying the strains of dengue circulating in the western province of Sri Lanka during 2019–2022. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(7). e0003150–e0003150.
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Grifoni, Alba, Esther Dawen Yu, José Mateus, et al.. (2022). Transcriptomics of Acute DENV-Specific CD8+ T Cells Does Not Support Qualitative Differences as Drivers of Disease Severity. Vaccines. 10(4). 612–612. 6 indexed citations
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Handunnetti, Shiroma, et al.. (2022). Diagnosis of Apis dorsata venom allergy: use of recombinant allergens of Apis mellifera and a passive basophil activation test. Clinical and Molecular Allergy. 20(1). 11–11. 3 indexed citations
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Becker‐Ziaja, Beate, F. Schwarz, Gayani Premawansa, et al.. (2021). Detection of Alpha- and Betacoronaviruses in Miniopterus fuliginosus and Rousettus leschenaultii, two species of Sri Lankan Bats. Vaccines. 9(6). 650–650. 6 indexed citations
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Niloofa, Roshan, Lilani Karunanayake, Hithanadura Janaka de Silva, et al.. (2021). Development of in-house ELISAs as an alternative method for the serodiagnosis of leptospirosis. International Journal of Infectious Diseases. 105. 135–140. 7 indexed citations
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Handunnetti, Shiroma, et al.. (2019). Diagnosis of Vespa affinis venom allergy: use of immunochemical methods and a passive basophil activation test. Allergy Asthma and Clinical Immunology. 15(1). 80–80. 5 indexed citations
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Raut, Rajendra, Kizzmekia S. Corbett, Rashika N. Tennekoon, et al.. (2018). Dengue type 1 viruses circulating in humans are highly infectious and poorly neutralized by human antibodies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(1). 227–232. 54 indexed citations
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Grifoni, Alba, Daniela Weiskopf, Cecilia S. Lindestam Arlehamn, et al.. (2017). Sequence-based HLA-A, B, C, DP, DQ, and DR typing of 714 adults from Colombo, Sri Lanka. Human Immunology. 79(2). 87–88. 4 indexed citations
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Rajapakse, Senaka, Praveen Weeratunga, Roshan Niloofa, et al.. (2016). A Diagnostic Scoring Model for Leptospirosis in Resource Limited Settings. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 10(6). e0004513–e0004513. 24 indexed citations
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Weiskopf, Daniela, Michael A. Angelo, Alba Grifoni, et al.. (2016). HLA-DRB1 Alleles Are Associated With Different Magnitudes of Dengue Virus–Specific CD4 + T-Cell Responses. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 214(7). 1117–1124. 65 indexed citations
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Fernando, Narmada, Roshan Niloofa, Chaturaka Rodrigo, et al.. (2016). Protein Carbonyl as a Biomarker of Oxidative Stress in Severe Leptospirosis, and Its Usefulness in Differentiating Leptospirosis from Dengue Infections. PLoS ONE. 11(6). e0156085–e0156085. 47 indexed citations
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Perera, Inoka C., et al.. (2016). Lethal and sub-lethal effects on the Asian common toad Duttaphrynus melanostictus from exposure to hexavalent chromium. Aquatic Toxicology. 177. 98–105. 34 indexed citations
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Silva, Nipun Lakshitha de, Narmada Fernando, Lilani Karunanayake, et al.. (2014). Changes in full blood count parameters in leptospirosis: a prospective study. International Archives of Medicine. 7(1). 31–31. 36 indexed citations
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Snewin, Valerie A., et al.. (1995). A new polymorphic marker for PCR typing of Plasmodium vivax parasites. Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology. 71(1). 135–138. 19 indexed citations
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Premawansa, Sunil, et al.. (1993). Plasmodium vivax: Recombination Between Potential Allelic Types of the Merozoite Surface Protein MSP1 in Parasites Isolated from Patients. Experimental Parasitology. 76(2). 192–199. 49 indexed citations

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