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Researcher · Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka · Sri Lanka

Hasintha Wijesekara

Hasintha Wijesekara publishes mostly in Pollution, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and Environmental Chemistry, on topics such as Microplastics and Plastic Pollution, Recycling and Waste Management Techniques and Heavy metals in environment.

ORCID 0000-0002-7451-7462 OpenAlex
World rank
#205,013
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Sri Lanka
#18
of 3,827
Works
86
Citations
6.4k
Citations per work
74.2
h-index
33
i10-index 46Top 10% in Pollution
Hasintha Wijesekara

What does Hasintha Wijesekara research?

Hasintha Wijesekara's work is mostly in Environmental Science (53%), Materials Science (6%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (5%).

Physical Sciences: 50 works · 58.1% of their workEnvironmental Science: 45 works · 52.6% of their workPollution: 19 works · 21.8% of their workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 12 works · 14.5% of their workEnvironmental Chemistry: 7 works · 8.6% of their workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 7 works · 7.7% of their workMaterials Science: 5 works · 5.5% of their workBiomaterials: 5 works · 5.5% of their workEverything else: 32 works · 36.9% of their workLife Sciences: 4 works · 5.0% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 4 works · 5.0% of their workSoil Science: 4 works · 5.0% of their workTHEIR WORKHasinthaWijesekara86works
Life Sciences5%Physical 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. Environmental Science4552.6%
    2. Materials Science55.5%
  2. Everything else3236.9%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences45.0%
  1. 1Pollution22% of their works
  2. 2Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering14% of their works
  3. 3Environmental Chemistry9% of their works
  4. 4Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis8% of their works
  5. 5Biomaterials6% of their works
  6. 6Soil Science5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Hasintha Wijesekara's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Recycling, Waste Management, Pollution, Environmental Impact, Environmental Impacts, Marine Environment, Microplastics and Remediation.

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 25 words, with their numbers
  1. Recycling462 topics
  2. Waste Management462 topics
  3. Pollution392 topics
  4. Environmental Impact322 topics
  5. Environmental Impacts272 topics
  6. Marine Environment271 topic
  7. Microplastics271 topic
  8. Remediation202 topics
  9. E-Waste191 topic
  10. Metal Recovery191 topic
  11. Contamination172 topics
  12. Heavy Metals172 topics
  13. Mineralogy132 topics
  14. Health Risk121 topic
  15. Soil121 topic
  16. Nitrogen Cycle91 topic
  17. Soil Carbon Sequestration91 topic
  18. Biodegradable Polymers81 topic
  19. Metal Removal81 topic
  20. Polylactic Acid81 topic
  21. Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria81 topic
  22. Arsenic51 topic
  23. Coal Geochemistry51 topic
  24. Trace Elements51 topic
  25. Water51 topic

Where does Hasintha Wijesekara work?

Hasintha Wijesekara's main affiliation in the publication record is Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka.

How many publications and citations does Hasintha Wijesekara have?

OpenAlex counts 86 works and 6,382 citations for Hasintha Wijesekara, an h-index of 33, ranking #205,013 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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