Thanya Pathirana

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
21 papers, 720 citations indexed

About

Thanya Pathirana is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Economics and Econometrics and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Thanya Pathirana has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 720 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in General Health Professions, 10 papers in Economics and Econometrics and 7 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Thanya Pathirana's work include Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life (8 papers), Healthcare cost, quality, practices (7 papers) and Global Cancer Incidence and Screening (6 papers). Thanya Pathirana is often cited by papers focused on Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life (8 papers), Healthcare cost, quality, practices (7 papers) and Global Cancer Incidence and Screening (6 papers). Thanya Pathirana collaborates with scholars based in Australia, Sri Lanka and United Kingdom. Thanya Pathirana's co-authors include Caroline Jackson, Ray Moynihan, Justin Clark, Katy Bell, Paul Glasziou, Alexandra Barratt, Mark Jones, Paul A. Gardiner, Loai Albarqouni and Jenny Doust and has published in prestigious journals such as BMJ, British Journal of Dermatology and Journal of Hypertension.

In The Last Decade

Thanya Pathirana

20 papers receiving 710 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.

Socioeconomic status and multimorbidity: a systematic review and meta‐analysis

2018 292 citations Thanya Pathirana, Caroline Jackson Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thanya Pathirana Australia	10	233	221	177	155	138	21	720
Giorgi Kvizhinadze New Zealand	18	216 0.9×	132 0.6×	163 0.9×	101 0.7×	129 0.9×	32	706
Ruth Bond Canada	7	230 1.0×	239 1.1×	142 0.8×	86 0.6×	62 0.4×	11	676
Beat Brüngger Switzerland	10	189 0.8×	332 1.5×	174 1.0×	36 0.2×	80 0.6×	24	622
Amelia Harshfield United Kingdom	9	195 0.8×	274 1.2×	121 0.7×	55 0.4×	68 0.5×	20	538
Kate Brameld Australia	18	209 0.9×	282 1.3×	157 0.9×	65 0.4×	67 0.5×	43	1.0k
Briana Coles United Kingdom	11	152 0.7×	136 0.6×	61 0.3×	264 1.7×	48 0.3×	28	885
Leigh Johnson United Kingdom	4	304 1.3×	584 2.6×	269 1.5×	200 1.3×	93 0.7×	5	1.1k
Jenny S. Guadamuz United States	16	109 0.5×	118 0.5×	166 0.9×	107 0.7×	51 0.4×	52	636
Meltem Tuna Canada	19	425 1.8×	290 1.3×	229 1.3×	55 0.4×	103 0.7×	41	996
George Isham United States	13	595 2.6×	294 1.3×	208 1.2×	134 0.9×	82 0.6×	36	1.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thanya Pathirana

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20 of 20 papers shown

Lindsay, Daniel, et al.. (2024). Estimating the magnitude and healthcare costs of melanoma in situ and thin invasive melanoma overdiagnosis in Australia. British Journal of Dermatology. 191(6). 906–913. 6 indexed citations

Pickles, Kristen, Romi Haas, Michelle Guppy, et al.. (2024). Clinician and health service interventions to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions generated by healthcare: a systematic review. BMJ evidence-based medicine. 29(5). 300–312. 5 indexed citations

Albarqouni, Loai, Thanya Pathirana, Mina Bakhit, et al.. (2023). Overuse of medications in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review. Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 101(1). 36–61D. 34 indexed citations

Albarqouni, Loai, Thanya Pathirana, & Ray Moynihan. (2022). 89 Overdiagnosis and overuse of healthcare in limited-resource settings: a workshop. Abstracts. A16.2–A17. 1 indexed citations

Pathirana, Thanya, Chris Del Mar, James A. Dickinson, et al.. (2022). Trends in Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) testing and prostate cancer incidence and mortality in Australia: A critical analysis. Cancer Epidemiology. 77. 102093–102093. 16 indexed citations

Pathirana, Thanya, Yu Wang, Tessa Copp, et al.. (2022). Perspectives from China, India and Sri Lanka on the drivers and potential solutions to overuse and overdiagnosis. BMJ evidence-based medicine. 28(2). 85–88. 2 indexed citations

Albarqouni, Loai, Morteza Arab‐Zozani, Hannah Greenwood, et al.. (2022). Overdiagnosis and overuse of diagnostic and screening tests in low-income and middle-income countries: a scoping review. BMJ Global Health. 7(10). e008696–e008696. 26 indexed citations

Glasziou, Paul, Mark Jones, Thanya Pathirana, Alexandra Barratt, & Katy Bell. (2019). Estimating the magnitude of cancer overdiagnosis in Australia. The Medical Journal of Australia. 212(4). 163–168. 102 indexed citations

Pathirana, Thanya, et al.. (2019). Is the risk of cancer in Australia overstated? The importance of competing mortality for estimating lifetime risk. The Medical Journal of Australia. 212(1). 17–22. 9 indexed citations

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Pathirana, Thanya, Andrew Hayen, Jenny Doust, Paul Glasziou, & Katy Bell. (2019). Lifetime risk of prostate cancer overdiagnosis in Australia: quantifying the risk of overdiagnosis associated with prostate cancer screening in Australia using a novel lifetime risk approach. BMJ Open. 9(3). e022457–e022457. 26 indexed citations

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Pathirana, Thanya, et al.. (2019). 8 Drivers and potential solutions for overdiagnosis: perspectives from the low and middle income countries. A6.2–A7. 7 indexed citations

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Glasziou, Paul, Mark Jones, Thanya Pathirana, Alexandra Barratt, & Katy Bell. (2019). 16 The burden of cancer overdiagnosis in australia. Oral Presentations. A14.2–A14. 2 indexed citations

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Pathirana, Thanya & Caroline Jackson. (2018). Socioeconomic status and multimorbidity: a systematic review and meta‐analysis. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health. 42(2). 186–194. 292 indexed citations breakdown →

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Pathirana, Thanya, et al.. (2017). Impact evaluation of “Have Fun — Be Healthy” program: A community based health promotion intervention to prevent childhood obesity. Health Promotion Journal of Australia. 29(1). 100–104. 10 indexed citations

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Pathirana, Thanya, Justin Clark, & Ray Moynihan. (2017). Mapping the drivers of overdiagnosis to potential solutions. BMJ. 358. j3879–j3879. 127 indexed citations

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Jackson, Caroline, Thanya Pathirana, & Paul A. Gardiner. (2016). Depression, anxiety and risk of hypertension in mid-aged women. Journal of Hypertension. 34(10). 1959–1966. 35 indexed citations

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Pathirana, Thanya, et al.. (2016). A rare anomaly of the human spleen with nine notches associated with multiple accessory spleens. A case study, hypothesis on origin and review of clinical significance. Italian Journal of Anatomy and Embryology. 121(2). 188–197. 3 indexed citations

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Pathirana, Thanya, et al.. (2015). Quality of life of caregivers and impact on the nuclear family of children with leukaemia in the National Cancer Institute of Sri Lanka. Bond University Research Portal (Bond University). 2(0). 18–18. 9 indexed citations

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Pathirana, Thanya, et al.. (2015). Developing an online CPD module on management of breast cancer for general practitioners in Sri Lanka – A need analysis. South-East Asian Journal of Medical Education. 9(1). 58–58.

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Pathirana, Thanya, et al.. (2012). A desk review of Sri Lankan migrant worker deaths in 2009. Ceylon Medical Journal. 57(3). 120–120. 4 indexed citations

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