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Researcher · Rio Tinto (Australia) · Australia

Palitha Welgama

Palitha Welgama publishes mostly in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Control and Systems Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, on topics such as Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics Optimization, Mining Techniques and Economics and Belt Conveyor Systems Engineering.

OpenAlex
World rank
#1,483,443
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Australia
#45,858
of 140,210
Works
17
Citations
332
Citations per work
19.5
h-index
10
i10-index 10Top 40% in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (Engineering)
Palitha Welgama

What does Palitha Welgama research?

Palitha Welgama's work is mostly in Engineering (92%), Business, Management and Accounting (4%).

Physical Sciences: 16 works · 91.5% of their workEngineering: 16 works · 91.5% of their workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 9 works · 53.2% of their workControl and Systems Engineering: 3 works · 17.0% of their workMechanical Engineering: 2 works · 12.8% of their workBuilding and Construction: 1 works · 6.4% of their workOcean Engineering: 0 works · 2.1% of their workSocial Sciences: 1 works · 4.3% of their workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 works · 4.3% of their workStrategy and Management: 1 works · 4.3% of their workEverything else: 1 works · 4.2% of their workTHEIR WORKPalitha Welgama17works
Physical Sciences92%Social Sciences4%

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. Engineering1691.5%
    1. Business, Management and Accounting14.3%
  3. Everything else14.2%
  1. 1Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering53% of their works
  2. 2Control and Systems Engineering17% of their works
  3. 3Mechanical Engineering13% of their works
  4. 4Building and Construction6% of their works
  5. 5Strategy and Management4% of their works
  6. 6Ocean Engineering2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Palitha Welgama's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Optimization, Order Picking, Warehouse Design, Open Pit Mining, Production Scheduling, Belt Conveyors, Energy Efficiency and Genetic Algorithm.

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. Optimization132 topics
  2. Order Picking111 topic
  3. Warehouse Design111 topic
  4. Open Pit Mining71 topic
  5. Production Scheduling71 topic
  6. Belt Conveyors61 topic
  7. Energy Efficiency61 topic
  8. Genetic Algorithm62 topics
  9. Assembly Planning51 topic
  10. Design for Manufacture51 topic
  11. Cutting41 topic
  12. Packing41 topic
  13. BIM31 topic
  14. Construction31 topic
  15. Manufacturing21 topic
  16. Scheduling21 topic
  17. Constraint Optimization11 topic
  18. Distributed Algorithms11 topic

Where does Palitha Welgama work?

Palitha Welgama's main affiliation in the publication record is Rio Tinto (Australia), Australia.

How many publications and citations does Palitha Welgama have?

OpenAlex counts 17 works and 332 citations for Palitha Welgama, an h-index of 10, ranking #1,483,443 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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