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Researcher · Medical Research Institute · Sri Lanka

Buddhini Samaraweera

Buddhini Samaraweera publishes mostly in Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology and Molecular Biology, on topics such as SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research, SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing and Animal Virus Infections Studies.

ORCID 0000-0002-9920-4622 OpenAlex
World rank
#1,186,517
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Sri Lanka
#181
of 3,827
Works
28
Citations
3.7k
Citations per work
132.0
h-index
12
i10-index 13Top 53% in Infectious Diseases
Buddhini Samaraweera

What does Buddhini Samaraweera research?

Buddhini Samaraweera's work is mostly in Medicine (58%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (6%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (6%).

Health Sciences: 16 works · 58.4% of their workMedicine: 16 works · 58.4% of their workInfectious Diseases: 12 works · 44.6% of their workEpidemiology: 4 works · 13.8% of their workEverything else: 6 works · 23.0% of their workLife Sciences: 3 works · 12.4% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 2 works · 6.2% of their workAnimal Science and Zoology: 2 works · 6.2% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2 works · 6.2% of their workMolecular Biology: 2 works · 6.2% of their workPhysical Sciences: 2 works · 6.2% of their workEngineering: 1 works · 3.1% of their workBuilding and Construction: 1 works · 3.1% of their workMathematics: 1 works · 3.1% of their workModeling and Simulation: 1 works · 3.1% of their workTHEIR WORKBuddhiniSamaraweera28works
Life Sciences12%Physical Sciences6%Health Sciences58%

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. Medicine1658.4%
  2. Everything else623.0%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences26.2%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology26.2%
    1. Engineering13.1%
    2. Mathematics13.1%
  1. 1Infectious Diseases45% of their works
  2. 2Epidemiology14% of their works
  3. 3Molecular Biology6% of their works
  4. 4Animal Science and Zoology6% of their works
  5. 5Building and Construction3% of their works
  6. 6Modeling and Simulation3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Buddhini Samaraweera's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: SARS-CoV-2, Vaccine, ACE2 Receptor, Coronavirus, antibody, Epidemiology, spike protein and COVID-19.

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 23 words, with their numbers
  1. SARS-CoV-2283 topics
  2. Vaccine223 topics
  3. ACE2 Receptor192 topics
  4. Coronavirus192 topics
  5. Epidemiology155 topics
  6. antibody151 topic
  7. spike protein151 topic
  8. COVID-19112 topics
  9. Immune Response113 topics
  10. Diagnostics91 topic
  11. wastewater surveillance91 topic
  12. Circovirus41 topic
  13. Clinical Characteristics41 topic
  14. Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus41 topic
  15. Thrombosis41 topic
  16. Nipah Virus31 topic
  17. Paramyxovirus31 topic
  18. Human Metapneumovirus21 topic
  19. Modeling21 topic
  20. Respiratory Syncytial Virus21 topic
  21. transmission dynamics21 topic
  22. Plant Immunity11 topic
  23. Viral RNA Silencing11 topic

Where does Buddhini Samaraweera work?

Buddhini Samaraweera's main affiliation in the publication record is Medical Research Institute, Sri Lanka.

How many publications and citations does Buddhini Samaraweera have?

OpenAlex counts 28 works and 3,697 citations for Buddhini Samaraweera, an h-index of 12, ranking #1,186,517 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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