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Researcher · University of Colombo · Sri Lanka

Asanga Tilakaratne

Asanga Tilakaratne publishes mostly in Religious studies, Political Science and International Relations and Archeology, on topics such as Indian and Buddhist Studies, Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography and Eurasian Exchange Networks.

OpenAlex
World rank
#3,181,975
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Sri Lanka
#853
of 3,827
Works
46
Citations
87
Citations per work
1.9
h-index
5
i10-index 2Top 38% in Religious studies
Asanga Tilakaratne

What does Asanga Tilakaratne research?

Asanga Tilakaratne's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (47%), Social Sciences (34%).

Social Sciences: 37 works · 81.2% of their workArts and Humanities: 21 works · 46.7% of their workReligious studies: 11 works · 23.4% of their workArcheology: 6 works · 12.1% of their workPhilosophy: 5 works · 11.2% of their workSocial Sciences: 16 works · 34.5% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 7 works · 15.9% of their workAnthropology: 4 works · 9.3% of their workSociology and Political Science: 4 works · 9.3% of their workEverything else: 9 works · 18.8% of their workTHEIR WORKAsangaTilakaratne46works
Social Sciences81%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Arts and Humanities2146.7%
    2. Social Sciences1634.5%
  2. Everything else918.8%
  1. 1Religious studies23% of their works
  2. 2Political Science and International Relations16% of their works
  3. 3Archeology12% of their works
  4. 4Philosophy11% of their works
  5. 5Anthropology9% of their works
  6. 6Sociology and Political Science9% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Asanga Tilakaratne's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: History, Religion, Buddhism, South Asia, Conflict, Myanmar, Alchemy and Eurasian Exchange.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 19 words, with their numbers
  1. History302 topics
  2. Religion302 topics
  3. Buddhism251 topic
  4. South Asia251 topic
  5. Conflict131 topic
  6. Myanmar131 topic
  7. Alchemy92 topics
  8. Eurasian Exchange91 topic
  9. Silk Roads91 topic
  10. Ancient Magic61 topic
  11. Arabia61 topic
  12. Byzantine61 topic
  13. Gnosticism61 topic
  14. China51 topic
  15. Regulation51 topic
  16. Ethics31 topic
  17. Just War Theory31 topic
  18. Occultism31 topic
  19. Spiritualism31 topic

Where does Asanga Tilakaratne work?

Asanga Tilakaratne's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Colombo, Sri Lanka.

How many publications and citations does Asanga Tilakaratne have?

OpenAlex counts 46 works and 87 citations for Asanga Tilakaratne, an h-index of 5, ranking #3,181,975 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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