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Research in Badulla

Science Explorer records 1 research institutions in Badulla, Sri Lanka. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Uva Wellassa University.

Research institutions
1
1 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
854
▼ 5% vs 2018-21
Citations
8.4k
9.9 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
14.5%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1978-2026
49 years on the record
Badulla

A city carries no overall standing here. The quality score is built for institutions and countries, the units its floors and field normalisation were designed around. An empty rank on this page is a statement about the measure, not about the place.

Which research institutions are in Badulla?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Uva Wellassa UniversityUniversity 854 #6,128

By fractional works over the whole record; world rank on research quality in 2022-now. Bars are scaled to the largest institution in this city, not to anything off the page.

Which fields of science does Badulla work in?

In 2022-now, 38% of research in Badulla is in Physical Sciences, 27% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Agricultural and Biological Sciences (17%), Environmental Science (13%), Engineering (9%). It does 1.6× the world's share of Life Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 148 fractional works · 38.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 52 fractional works · 13.4% of its workEcology: 10 fractional works · 2.5% of its workPollution: 9 fractional works · 2.4% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 8 fractional works · 2.1% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 7 fractional works · 1.9% of its workWater Science and Technology: 6 fractional works · 1.5% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 5 fractional works · 1.3% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEngineering: 35 fractional works · 8.9% of its workMechanical Engineering: 6 fractional works · 1.6% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 6 fractional works · 1.5% of its workBuilding and Construction: 5 fractional works · 1.2% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 4 fractional works · 1.1% of its workMechanics of Materials: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workOcean Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMedia Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science: 25 fractional works · 6.5% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 8 fractional works · 2.2% of its workInformation Systems: 5 fractional works · 1.4% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 4 fractional works · 0.9% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSignal Processing: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMaterials Science: 13 fractional works · 3.3% of its workPolymers and Plastics: 4 fractional works · 1.1% of its workBiomaterials: 4 fractional works · 1.0% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 12 fractional works · 3.1% of its workGeochemistry and Petrology: 4 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAtmospheric Science: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOceanography: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeophysics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workChemistry: 7 fractional works · 1.7% of its workInorganic Chemistry: 4 fractional works · 1.0% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAnalytical Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workEnergy: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 105 fractional works · 27.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 34 fractional works · 8.7% of its workMarketing: 10 fractional works · 2.7% of its workStrategy and Management: 7 fractional works · 1.9% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 4 fractional works · 1.0% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 4 fractional works · 1.0% of its workAccounting: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workBusiness and International Management: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workManagement Information Systems: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workTourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 32 fractional works · 8.3% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 29 fractional works · 7.5% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workFinance: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 28 fractional works · 7.3% of its workSociology and Political Science: 20 fractional works · 5.1% of its workEducation: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workDemography: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workTransportation: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workGender Studies: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workDecision Sciences: 6 fractional works · 1.5% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 4 fractional works · 1.1% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPsychology: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSocial Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workArts and Humanities: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workArcheology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 85 fractional works · 22.1% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 64 fractional works · 16.5% of its workPlant Science: 21 fractional works · 5.4% of its workFood Science: 10 fractional works · 2.7% of its workAnimal Science and Zoology: 7 fractional works · 1.7% of its workAquatic Science: 6 fractional works · 1.7% of its workInsect Science: 5 fractional works · 1.2% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 4 fractional works · 1.1% of its workAgronomy and Crop Science: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSoil Science: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workForestry: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 18 fractional works · 4.6% of its workMolecular Biology: 9 fractional works · 2.3% of its workGenetics: 4 fractional works · 1.0% of its workCell Biology: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBiotechnology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDevelopmental Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workImmunology: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNeuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 49 fractional works · 12.6% of its workMedicine: 27 fractional works · 7.1% of its workBiochemistry: 4 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSurgery: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEpidemiology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNephrology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysiology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 1.5% of its workHealth Professions: 16 fractional works · 4.1% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 14 fractional works · 3.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNursing: 4 fractional works · 1.1% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 4 fractional works · 1.1% of its workVeterinary: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKBadulla387fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences22%Physical Sciences38%Health Sciences13%Social Sciences27%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in 2022-now. Every slice is a page; the interactive view zooms down to single topics and colours each by how much more of it this city does than the world.

Its 4 domains and 26 fields, with their numbers
    1. Environmental Science5213.4%
    2. Engineering358.9%
    3. Computer Science256.5%
    4. Materials Science133.3%
    5. Earth and Planetary Sciences123.1%
    6. Chemistry71.7%
    7. Energy30.8%
    8. Physics and Astronomy10.2%
    9. Chemical Engineering10.2%
    10. Mathematics00.0%
    1. Business, Management and Accounting348.7%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance328.3%
    3. Social Sciences287.3%
    4. Decision Sciences61.5%
    5. Psychology30.8%
    6. Arts and Humanities20.5%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences6416.5%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology184.6%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology20.6%
    4. Neuroscience10.2%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.1%
    1. Medicine277.1%
    2. Health Professions164.1%
    3. Nursing41.1%
    4. Veterinary10.2%
    5. Dentistry00.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

Which keywords describe research in Badulla?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Pandemic, COVID-19, Consumer Behavior, Digital Transformation, Financial Markets, Stock Market, business impact and Food Supply Chain.

▲ more of its work than of the world's◆ about the world's share▼ less than the world's

Size is fractional works in 2022-now in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this city's work against its share of the world's. The 40 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 40 words, with their numbers
  1. COVID-1939▲ 7.7×10 topics
  2. Pandemic38▲ 9.9×5 topics
  3. Consumer Behavior35▲ 14×6 topics
  4. Digital Transformation28▲ 13×5 topics
  5. Environmental Impact26▲ 4.0×32 topics
  6. Financial Markets26▲ 54×2 topics
  7. Stock Market26▲ 30×2 topics
  8. Food Supply Chain25▲ 58×1 topic
  9. business impact25▲ 73×1 topic
  10. Climate Change21▲ 2.0×52 topics
  11. Sustainability20▲ 2.1×36 topics
  12. Nanoparticles15▲ 3.2×12 topics
  13. Waste Management15▲ 9.7×7 topics
  14. Social Impact14▲ 9.4×3 topics
  15. Recycling14▲ 9.4×6 topics
  16. Treatment13▲ 2.8×6 topics
  17. Health12▲ 7.9×2 topics
  18. Vaccine12▲ 7.9×3 topics
  19. Coronavirus12▲ 16×2 topics
  20. Genetic Diversity12▲ 7.2×13 topics
  21. Herbal Medicine12▲ 11×3 topics
  22. economic burden12▲ 86×1 topic
  23. Biodiversity11▲ 3.8×17 topics
  24. Antioxidant Activity10▲ 4.3×15 topics
  25. Health Benefits10▲ 8.2×9 topics
  26. Antioxidant10▲ 3.8×20 topics
  27. Metal Recovery9▲ 12×3 topics
  28. User-Generated Content8▲ 16×2 topics
  29. Environmental Impacts8▲ 8.0×6 topics
  30. Consumer Engagement8▲ 17×1 topic
  31. Electronic Word-of-Mouth8▲ 17×1 topic
  32. Pollution8▲ 11×3 topics
  33. Antimicrobial8▲ 7.0×7 topics
  34. Marine Environment8▲ 13×3 topics
  35. Phylogenetic Analysis7▲ 5.8×10 topics
  36. Cancer Prevention7▲ 6.8×5 topics
  37. Fatty Acids6▲ 16×4 topics
  38. Phenolic Compounds6▲ 8.8×7 topics
  39. Bioavailability6▲ 8.1×4 topics
  40. Nutritional Significance6▲ 10×4 topics

What research is done in Badulla?

COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts25COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts: 25 fractional worksDiverse Scientific Resea…12Diverse Scientific Research Studies: 12 fractional worksDigital Marketing and So…8Digital Marketing and Social Media: 8 fractional worksMicroplastics and Plastic Pollution: 6 fractional worksRecycling and Waste Management Techniques: 4 fractional worksConsumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification: 4 fractional worksTechnology Adoption and User Behaviour: 4 fractional worksDiverse Aspects of Tourism Research: 4 fractional worksPhytochemicals and Antioxidant Activities: 4 fractional worksEntrepreneurship Studies and Influences: 4 fractional works
Economics and EconometricsGeneral Health ProfessionsSociology and Political SciencePollution5 others

Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.

  1. 1 COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts Economics and Econometrics 25 works
  2. 2 Diverse Scientific Research Studies General Health Professions 12 works
  3. 3 Digital Marketing and Social Media Sociology and Political Science 8 works
  4. 4 Microplastics and Plastic Pollution Pollution 6 works
  5. 5 Recycling and Waste Management Techniques Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering 4 works
  6. 6 Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification Marketing 4 works
  7. 7 Technology Adoption and User Behaviour Information Systems and Management 4 works
  8. 8 Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research Sociology and Political Science 4 works
  9. 9 Phytochemicals and Antioxidant Activities Biochemistry 4 works
  10. 10 Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences Management of Technology and Innovation 4 works

Research output over time

still counting1990200020102020
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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year, against all institutions in the same year.

still counting10%20%30%Badulla10.5% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 20252020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 30.0% in 2018.

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