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Researcher · Rajarata University of Sri Lanka · Sri Lanka

Kosala Weerakoon

Kosala Weerakoon publishes mostly in Parasitology, Infectious Diseases and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, on topics such as Parasites and Host Interactions, Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology and Immune responses and vaccinations.

ORCID 0000-0002-4814-6928 OpenAlex
World rank
#194,245
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Sri Lanka
#17
of 423
Works
17
Citations
491
Citations per work
28.9

What does Kosala Weerakoon research?

Parasitology: 22.2%Infectious Diseases: 16.7%Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 5.6%Demography: 5.6%other fields: 49.9%22%top field
Parasitology22.2%Infectious Diseases16.7%Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health5.6%Demography5.6%other fields49.9%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Parasitology22% of their works
  2. 2Infectious Diseases17% of their works
  3. 3Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health6% of their works
  4. 4Demography6% of their works
  5. 5Health6% of their works
  6. 6Economics and Econometrics6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Kosala Weerakoon's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Epidemiology, Helminth Infections, Infectious Diseases, Schistosomiasis, African Swine Fever, Breastfeeding, COVID-19 and Foot-and-Mouth Disease.

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.

All 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Epidemiology33 topics
  2. Helminth Infections21 topic
  3. Infectious Diseases22 topics
  4. Schistosomiasis21 topic
  5. African Swine Fever11 topic
  6. Breastfeeding11 topic
  7. COVID-1911 topic
  8. Foot-and-Mouth Disease11 topic
  9. Infant Health11 topic
  10. Innate Memory11 topic
  11. Leptospira11 topic
  12. Lyme Disease11 topic
  13. Modeling11 topic
  14. Precarious Employment11 topic
  15. Tick-Borne Diseases11 topic
  16. Trained Immunity11 topic
  17. Unemployment11 topic
  18. Zoonotic Disease11 topic

Where does Kosala Weerakoon work?

Kosala Weerakoon's main affiliation in the publication record is Rajarata University of Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka.

How many publications and citations does Kosala Weerakoon have?

Science Explorer counts 17 works and 491 citations for Kosala Weerakoon, ranking #194,245 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised 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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