Wilson Suraweera

4.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
24 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

Wilson Suraweera is a scholar working on Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Infectious Diseases and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Wilson Suraweera has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, 7 papers in Infectious Diseases and 7 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Wilson Suraweera's work include Global Maternal and Child Health (8 papers), Child Nutrition and Water Access (4 papers) and Injury Epidemiology and Prevention (4 papers). Wilson Suraweera is often cited by papers focused on Global Maternal and Child Health (8 papers), Child Nutrition and Water Access (4 papers) and Injury Epidemiology and Prevention (4 papers). Wilson Suraweera collaborates with scholars based in Canada, India and United States. Wilson Suraweera's co-authors include Prabhat Jha, Vendhan Gajalakshmi, Chinthanie Ramasundarahettige, David A. Warrell, Peter S. Rodriguez, Raju Jotkar, Neeraj Dhingra, Romulus Whitaker, Prakash C. Gupta and Prakash Bhatia and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, The Lancet and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Wilson Suraweera

23 papers receiving 2.7k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Suicide mortality in India: a nationally representative survey

2012 681 citations Chinthanie Ramasundarahettige, Vendhan Gajalakshmi et al. The Lancet profile →
Snakebite Mortality in India: A Nationally Representative Mortality Survey

2011 451 citations Bijayeeni Mohapatra, David A. Warrell et al. PLoS neglected tropical diseases profile →
Trends in snakebite deaths in India from 2000 to 2019 in a nationally representative mortality study

2020 190 citations Wilson Suraweera, David A. Warrell et al. eLife profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Wilson Suraweera Canada	18	661	595	450	351	315	24	2.9k
Elena Ricci Italy	36	214 0.3×	359 0.6×	653 1.5×	469 1.3×	552 1.8×	215	4.1k
Neeraj Dhingra India	18	448 0.7×	408 0.7×	456 1.0×	353 1.0×	465 1.5×	42	2.3k
Edward Trapido United States	30	214 0.3×	244 0.4×	531 1.2×	779 2.2×	168 0.5×	99	3.3k
Elizabeth Cooney United States	28	144 0.2×	456 0.8×	760 1.7×	970 2.8×	216 0.7×	61	2.8k
Margaret Fitzgerald United Kingdom	39	819 1.2×	171 0.3×	471 1.0×	1.3k 3.6×	374 1.2×	167	5.1k
Emily L. Webb United Kingdom	37	456 0.7×	347 0.6×	667 1.5×	1.3k 3.6×	785 2.5×	199	4.9k
Louis Loutan Switzerland	31	448 0.7×	291 0.5×	1.3k 2.8×	860 2.5×	86 0.3×	97	3.2k
Georgios K. Nikolopoulos Greece	38	944 1.4×	420 0.7×	494 1.1×	2.0k 5.7×	85 0.3×	212	4.9k
Geraldo Bezerra da Silva Brazil	30	281 0.4×	159 0.3×	684 1.5×	507 1.4×	173 0.5×	250	3.2k
Mitsuaki Hosoya Japan	36	201 0.3×	163 0.3×	483 1.1×	1.7k 4.8×	440 1.4×	327	4.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Wilson Suraweera

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wilson Suraweera

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Nikam, Chaitali, Wilson Suraweera, Sze Hang Fu, et al.. (2023). PCR Test Positivity and Viral Loads during Three SARS-CoV-2 Viral Waves in Mumbai, India. Biomedicines. 11(7). 1939–1939. 1 indexed citations

Suraweera, Wilson, David A. Warrell, Romulus Whitaker, et al.. (2020). Trends in snakebite deaths in India from 2000 to 2019 in a nationally representative mortality study. eLife. 9. 190 indexed citations breakdown →

Menon, Geetha R., Lucky Singh, Palak Sharma, et al.. (2019). National Burden Estimates of healthy life lost in India, 2017: an analysis using direct mortality data and indirect disability data. The Lancet Global Health. 7(12). e1675–e1684. 85 indexed citations

Verguet, Stéphane, Edward O. Jones, Mira Johri, et al.. (2017). Characterizing measles transmission in India: a dynamic modeling study using verbal autopsy data. BMC Medicine. 15(1). 151–151. 5 indexed citations

Ram, Usha, Prabhat Jha, Patrick Gerland, et al.. (2015). Age-specific and sex-specific adult mortality risk in India in 2014: analysis of 0·27 million nationally surveyed deaths and demographic estimates from 597 districts. The Lancet Global Health. 3(12). e767–e775. 43 indexed citations

Patra, Jayadeep, Mehak Bhatia, Wilson Suraweera, et al.. (2015). Exposure to Second-Hand Smoke and the Risk of Tuberculosis in Children and Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of 18 Observational Studies. PLoS Medicine. 12(6). e1001835–e1001835. 120 indexed citations

Norheim, Ole Frithjof, Prabhat Jha, Kesetebirhan Admasu, et al.. (2014). Avoiding 40% of the premature deaths in each country, 2010–30: review of national mortality trends to help quantify the UN Sustainable Development Goal for health. The Lancet. 385(9964). 239–252. 190 indexed citations

Patra, Jayadeep, Prabhat Jha, Jürgen Rehm, & Wilson Suraweera. (2014). Tobacco Smoking, Alcohol Drinking, Diabetes, Low Body Mass Index and the Risk of Self-Reported Symptoms of Active Tuberculosis: Individual Participant Data (IPD) Meta-Analyses of 72,684 Individuals in 14 High Tuberculosis Burden Countries. PLoS ONE. 9(5). e96433–e96433. 52 indexed citations

Aleksandrowicz, Lukasz, Varun Malhotra, Rajesh Dikshit, et al.. (2014). Performance criteria for verbal autopsy-based systems to estimate national causes of death: development and application to the Indian Million Death Study. BMC Medicine. 12(1). 21–21. 45 indexed citations

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Aleksandrowicz, Lukasz, Peter Byass, Stephen Tollman, et al.. (2014). Comparison of physician-certified verbal autopsy with computer-coded verbal autopsy for cause of death assignment in hospitalized patients in low- and middle-income countries: systematic review. BMC Medicine. 12(1). 22–22. 66 indexed citations

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Morris, Shaun K., Diego G. Bassani, Shally Awasthi, et al.. (2013). Correction: Diarrhea, Pneumonia, and Infectious Disease Mortality in Children Aged 5 to 14 Years in India. PLoS ONE. 8(11). 2 indexed citations

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Suraweera, Wilson, Shaun K. Morris, Rajesh Kumar, et al.. (2012). Deaths from Symptomatically Identifiable Furious Rabies in India: A Nationally Representative Mortality Survey. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 6(10). e1847–e1847. 69 indexed citations

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Ramasundarahettige, Chinthanie, et al.. (2012). Suicide mortality in India: a nationally representative survey. The Lancet. 379(9834). 2343–2351. 681 indexed citations breakdown →

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Dikshit, Rajesh, Prakash C. Gupta, Chinthanie Ramasundarahettige, et al.. (2012). Cancer mortality in India: a nationally representative survey. The Lancet. 379(9828). 1807–1816. 376 indexed citations

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Jagnoor, Jagnoor, et al.. (2012). Unintentional injury mortality in India, 2005: Nationally representative mortality survey of 1.1 million homes. BMC Public Health. 12(1). 487–487. 54 indexed citations

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Jagnoor, Jagnoor, Wilson Suraweera, Lisa Keay, et al.. (2011). Childhood and adult mortality from unintentional falls in India. Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 89(10). 733–740. 34 indexed citations

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Mohapatra, Bijayeeni, David A. Warrell, Wilson Suraweera, et al.. (2011). Snakebite Mortality in India: A Nationally Representative Mortality Survey. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 5(4). e1018–e1018. 451 indexed citations breakdown →

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Morris, Shaun K., Diego G. Bassani, Shally Awasthi, et al.. (2011). Diarrhea, Pneumonia, and Infectious Disease Mortality in Children Aged 5 to 14 Years in India. PLoS ONE. 6(5). e20119–e20119. 41 indexed citations

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Jha, Prabhat, Ramya Kumar, Ajay Khera, et al.. (2010). HIV mortality and infection in India: estimates from nationally representative mortality survey of 1.1 million homes. BMJ. 340(feb23 2). c621–c621. 47 indexed citations

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Dhingra, Neeraj, Prabhat Jha, Atul Sharma, et al.. (2010). Adult and child malaria mortality in India: a nationally representative mortality survey. The Lancet. 376(9754). 1768–1774. 199 indexed citations

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