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Researcher · Industrial Technology Institute · Sri Lanka

Nirmala M. Pieris

Nirmala M. Pieris publishes mostly in Plant Science, Food Science and Molecular Biology, on topics such as Cassava research and cyanide, African Botany and Ecology Studies and Biochemical and biochemical processes.

OpenAlex
World rank
#2,978,753
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Sri Lanka
#746
of 3,827
Works
21
Citations
445
Citations per work
21.2
h-index
10
i10-index 10Top 50% in Plant Science
Nirmala M. Pieris

What does Nirmala M. Pieris research?

Nirmala M. Pieris's work is mostly in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (52%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (16%), Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics (4%).

Life Sciences: 15 works · 72.6% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 11 works · 52.2% of their workPlant Science: 7 works · 31.8% of their workFood Science: 3 works · 13.6% of their workForestry: 1 works · 6.8% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 3 works · 15.9% of their workMolecular Biology: 2 works · 9.1% of their workBiotechnology: 1 works · 6.8% of their workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1 works · 4.5% of their workPharmacology: 1 works · 4.5% of their workEverything else: 6 works · 27.4% of their workTHEIR WORKNirmala M. Pieris21works
Life Sciences73%

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. Agricultural and Biological Sciences1152.2%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology315.9%
    3. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics14.5%
  2. Everything else627.4%
  1. 1Plant Science32% of their works
  2. 2Food Science14% of their works
  3. 3Molecular Biology9% of their works
  4. 4Biotechnology7% of their works
  5. 5Forestry7% of their works
  6. 6Pharmacology4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Nirmala M. Pieris's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Cassava, Cyanogenic Glycosides, Metabolic Engineering, Sustainable Agriculture, Agroforestry, Antioxidants, Biotechnological Production and Free Radicals.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Cassava61 topic
  2. Cyanogenic Glycosides61 topic
  3. Metabolic Engineering42 topics
  4. Sustainable Agriculture32 topics
  5. Agroforestry21 topic
  6. Antioxidants21 topic
  7. Biotechnological Production21 topic
  8. Free Radicals21 topic
  9. Ginger21 topic
  10. Isoprenoid Pathway21 topic
  11. Terpenoid Biosynthesis21 topic
  12. Tree Domestication21 topic
  13. Vanillin21 topic
  14. Zingiber officinale21 topic
  15. Antimicrobial Activity11 topic
  16. Climate Change11 topic
  17. Essential Oils11 topic
  18. Forage Production11 topic

Where does Nirmala M. Pieris work?

Nirmala M. Pieris's main affiliation in the publication record is Industrial Technology Institute, Sri Lanka.

How many publications and citations does Nirmala M. Pieris have?

OpenAlex counts 21 works and 445 citations for Nirmala M. Pieris, an h-index of 10, ranking #2,978,753 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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