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Researcher · University of Colombo · Sri Lanka

Praveen Weeratunga

Praveen Weeratunga publishes mostly in Infectious Diseases, Surgery and Neurology, on topics such as Vibrio bacteria research studies, Leptospirosis research and findings and Hereditary Neurological Disorders.

ORCID 0000-0003-2306-0885 OpenAlex
World rank
#1,065,800
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Sri Lanka
#165
of 423
Works
15
Citations
24
Citations per work
1.6

What does Praveen Weeratunga research?

Infectious Diseases: 25.0%Surgery: 12.5%Neurology: 12.5%Epidemiology: 6.3%other fields: 43.7%25%top field
Infectious Diseases25.0%Surgery12.5%Neurology12.5%Epidemiology6.3%other fields43.7%

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

  1. 1Infectious Diseases25% of their works
  2. 2Surgery12% of their works
  3. 3Neurology12% of their works
  4. 4Epidemiology6% of their works
  5. 5Biomedical Engineering6% of their works
  6. 6Endocrinology6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Praveen Weeratunga's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Epidemiology, Neuroprotection, Anemia, Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease, Cholera, Chronic Kidney Disease, Coronavirus and Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia.

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. Epidemiology22 topics
  2. Neuroprotection22 topics
  3. Anemia11 topic
  4. Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease11 topic
  5. Cholera11 topic
  6. Chronic Kidney Disease11 topic
  7. Coronavirus11 topic
  8. Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia11 topic
  9. Ischemic Stroke11 topic
  10. Leptospira11 topic
  11. Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification11 topic
  12. Paper-Based Microfluidics11 topic
  13. SARS-CoV-211 topic
  14. SMN111 topic
  15. Spinal Muscular Atrophy11 topic
  16. Thrombolysis11 topic
  17. Vibrio cholerae11 topic
  18. Zoonotic Disease11 topic

Where does Praveen Weeratunga work?

Praveen Weeratunga's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Colombo, Sri Lanka.

How many publications and citations does Praveen Weeratunga have?

Science Explorer counts 15 works and 24 citations for Praveen Weeratunga, ranking #1,065,800 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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