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Researcher · Teaching Hospital Kandy · Sri Lanka

Nihal Fernando

Nihal Fernando publishes mostly in Ocean Engineering, Sociology and Political Science and Surgery, on topics such as Water resources management and optimization, African history and culture analysis and Transboundary Water Resource Management.

OpenAlex
World rank
#5,264,275
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Sri Lanka
#2,086
of 3,827
Works
26
Citations
213
Citations per work
8.2
h-index
4
i10-index 2Top 88% in Ocean Engineering
Nihal Fernando

What does Nihal Fernando research?

Nihal Fernando's work is mostly in Engineering (11%), Social Sciences (11%), Computer Science (9%).

Everything else: 12 works · 46.2% of their workPhysical Sciences: 7 works · 27.8% of their workEngineering: 3 works · 11.1% of their workOcean Engineering: 3 works · 11.1% of their workComputer Science: 2 works · 9.3% of their workComputer Networks and Communications: 2 works · 9.3% of their workEnvironmental Science: 2 works · 7.4% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 2 works · 7.4% of their workSocial Sciences: 3 works · 11.1% of their workSocial Sciences: 3 works · 11.1% of their workSociology and Political Science: 3 works · 11.1% of their workHealth Sciences: 2 works · 9.3% of their workMedicine: 2 works · 9.3% of their workSurgery: 2 works · 9.3% of their workLife Sciences: 1 works · 5.6% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 works · 5.6% of their workSoil Science: 1 works · 5.6% of their workTHEIR WORKNihal Fernando26works
Life Sciences6%Physical Sciences28%Health Sciences9%Social Sciences11%

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. Everything else1246.2%
    1. Engineering311.1%
    2. Computer Science29.3%
    3. Environmental Science27.4%
    1. Social Sciences311.1%
    1. Medicine29.3%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences15.6%
  1. 1Ocean Engineering11% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science11% of their works
  3. 3Surgery9% of their works
  4. 4Computer Networks and Communications9% of their works
  5. 5Global and Planetary Change7% of their works
  6. 6Soil Science6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Nihal Fernando's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Climate Change, Water Resources, Conflict, Reservoir Operation, Water Demand, Drought, Security and Global Warming.

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 22 words, with their numbers
  1. Climate Change134 topics
  2. Water Resources92 topics
  3. Conflict62 topics
  4. Reservoir Operation61 topic
  5. Water Demand61 topic
  6. Drought52 topics
  7. Security52 topics
  8. Global Warming42 topics
  9. Arid Regions31 topic
  10. Eritrea31 topic
  11. Ethiopia31 topic
  12. Transboundary Water31 topic
  13. Climate Modeling21 topic
  14. Development Policies21 topic
  15. Extreme Events21 topic
  16. Foreign Aid21 topic
  17. Hydrological21 topic
  18. Mobile Agents21 topic
  19. Monitoring21 topic
  20. Network Management21 topic
  21. Risk Management21 topic
  22. Vulnerability21 topic

Where does Nihal Fernando work?

Nihal Fernando's main affiliation in the publication record is Teaching Hospital Kandy, Sri Lanka.

How many publications and citations does Nihal Fernando have?

OpenAlex counts 26 works and 213 citations for Nihal Fernando, an h-index of 4, ranking #5,264,275 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality 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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