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Researcher · Industrial Technology Institute · Sri Lanka

Kushani Mahatantila

Kushani Mahatantila publishes mostly in Pollution, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and Geochemistry and Petrology, on topics such as Microplastics and Plastic Pollution, Recycling and Waste Management Techniques and Heavy metals in environment.

ORCID 0000-0001-6051-2751 OpenAlex
World rank
#1,762,769
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Sri Lanka
#311
of 3,827
Works
34
Citations
807
Citations per work
23.7
h-index
14
i10-index 16Top 47% in Pollution
Kushani Mahatantila

What does Kushani Mahatantila research?

Kushani Mahatantila's work is mostly in Environmental Science (49%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (10%), Materials Science (5%).

Physical Sciences: 22 works · 64.0% of their workEnvironmental Science: 17 works · 48.8% of their workPollution: 7 works · 20.9% of their workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 6 works · 16.3% of their workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 2 works · 5.8% of their workWater Science and Technology: 2 works · 5.8% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 4 works · 10.5% of their workGeochemistry and Petrology: 4 works · 10.5% of their workMaterials Science: 2 works · 4.7% of their workBiomaterials: 2 works · 4.7% of their workEverything else: 12 works · 36.0% of their workTHEIR WORKKushaniMahatantila34works
Physical Sciences64%

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 Science1748.8%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences410.5%
    3. Materials Science24.7%
  2. Everything else1236.0%
  1. 1Pollution21% of their works
  2. 2Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering16% of their works
  3. 3Geochemistry and Petrology10% of their works
  4. 4Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis6% of their works
  5. 5Water Science and Technology6% of their works
  6. 6Biomaterials5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Kushani Mahatantila's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Recycling, Waste Management, Pollution, Environmental Impacts, Marine Environment, Microplastics, Heavy Metals and E-Waste.

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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Recycling192 topics
  2. Waste Management192 topics
  3. Pollution172 topics
  4. Environmental Impacts112 topics
  5. Marine Environment111 topic
  6. Microplastics111 topic
  7. Heavy Metals92 topics
  8. E-Waste81 topic
  9. Metal Recovery81 topic
  10. Contamination61 topic
  11. Soil61 topic
  12. Groundwater51 topic
  13. Isotopes51 topic
  14. Biodegradable Polymers41 topic
  15. Polylactic Acid41 topic
  16. Manganese Oxides31 topic
  17. Medicinal Plants31 topic
  18. Metal Toxicity31 topic
  19. Oxidative Stress31 topic
  20. Rare Earth Elements31 topic
  21. Trace Elements31 topic

Where does Kushani Mahatantila work?

Kushani Mahatantila's main affiliation in the publication record is Industrial Technology Institute, Sri Lanka.

How many publications and citations does Kushani Mahatantila have?

OpenAlex counts 34 works and 807 citations for Kushani Mahatantila, an h-index of 14, ranking #1,762,769 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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