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Jayantha Dhanapala

Jayantha Dhanapala publishes mostly in Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science and Economics and Econometrics, on topics such as Nuclear Issues and Defense, Global Peace and Security Dynamics and Defense, Military, and Policy Studies.

OpenAlex
World rank
#2,205,496
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#661,506
of 1,627,098
Works
48
Citations
117
Citations per work
2.4
h-index
6
i10-index 4Top 38% in Political Science and International Relations
Jayantha Dhanapala

What does Jayantha Dhanapala research?

Jayantha Dhanapala's work is mostly in Social Sciences (74%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (7%), Environmental Science (1%).

Social Sciences: 39 works · 81.0% of their workSocial Sciences: 35 works · 73.9% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 25 works · 52.4% of their workSociology and Political Science: 8 works · 16.7% of their workDevelopment: 2 works · 3.6% of their workArcheology: 1 works · 1.2% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 3 works · 7.1% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 3 works · 7.1% of their workEverything else: 9 works · 17.8% of their workPhysical Sciences: 1 works · 1.2% of their workEnvironmental Science: 1 works · 1.2% of their workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 1 works · 1.2% of their workTHEIR WORKJayanthaDhanapala48works
Physical Sciences1%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. Social Sciences3573.9%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance37.1%
  2. Everything else917.8%
    1. Environmental Science11.2%
  1. 1Political Science and International Relations52% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science17% of their works
  3. 3Economics and Econometrics7% of their works
  4. 4Development4% of their works
  5. 5Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law1% of their works
  6. 6Archeology1% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Jayantha Dhanapala's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: International Law, Climate Consequences, Nuclear War, Humanitarian Intervention, Responsibility to Protect, Economic Growth, Global Governance and Globalization.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. International Law183 topics
  2. Climate Consequences131 topic
  3. Nuclear War131 topic
  4. Humanitarian Intervention111 topic
  5. Responsibility to Protect111 topic
  6. Economic Growth72 topics
  7. Global Governance72 topics
  8. Globalization72 topics
  9. British Army41 topic
  10. Counterinsurgency41 topic
  11. Defense Spending41 topic
  12. International Institutions41 topic
  13. Military Expenditure41 topic
  14. Power41 topic
  15. Development Policies31 topic
  16. Foreign Aid31 topic
  17. Private Security Companies31 topic
  18. Privatized Military Industry31 topic
  19. Radicalization31 topic
  20. Terrorism31 topic

Where does Jayantha Dhanapala work?

Jayantha Dhanapala's main affiliation in the publication record is United Nations, United States.

How many publications and citations does Jayantha Dhanapala have?

OpenAlex counts 48 works and 117 citations for Jayantha Dhanapala, an h-index of 6, ranking #2,205,496 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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