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Researcher · University of Prince Edward Island · Canada

Ranga K. Dissanayake

Ranga K. Dissanayake publishes mostly in Biomaterials, Molecular Biology and Biomedical Engineering, on topics such as Nanoparticle-Based Drug Delivery, Essential Oils and Antimicrobial Activity and Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques.

ORCID 0000-0002-0321-5942 OpenAlex
World rank
#3,443,591
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Canada
#109,146
of 183,316
Works
15
Citations
431
Citations per work
28.7
h-index
9
i10-index 9Top 77% in Biomaterials
Ranga K. Dissanayake

What does Ranga K. Dissanayake research?

Ranga K. Dissanayake's work is mostly in Materials Science (16%), Medicine (16%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (9%).

Everything else: 7 works · 44.1% of their workPhysical Sciences: 4 works · 25.6% of their workMaterials Science: 2 works · 16.3% of their workBiomaterials: 2 works · 16.3% of their workEngineering: 1 works · 9.3% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 1 works · 9.3% of their workHealth Sciences: 2 works · 16.3% of their workMedicine: 2 works · 16.3% of their workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 1 works · 9.3% of their workPharmacology: 1 works · 7.0% of their workLife Sciences: 2 works · 14.0% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 works · 9.3% of their workMolecular Biology: 1 works · 9.3% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 works · 4.7% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 1 works · 4.7% of their workTHEIR WORKRanga K.Dissanayake15works
Life Sciences14%Physical Sciences26%Health Sciences16%

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 else744.1%
    1. Materials Science216.3%
    2. Engineering19.3%
    1. Medicine216.3%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology19.3%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences14.7%
  1. 1Biomaterials16% of their works
  2. 2Molecular Biology9% of their works
  3. 3Biomedical Engineering9% of their works
  4. 4Pathology and Forensic Medicine9% of their works
  5. 5Pharmacology7% of their works
  6. 6Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ranga K. Dissanayake's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Nanoparticles, Biomedical Applications, Drug Delivery, Nanocarriers, Surface Engineering, Antimicrobial, Nanomaterials and Natural Products.

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 23 words, with their numbers
  1. Nanoparticles93 topics
  2. Biomedical Applications72 topics
  3. Drug Delivery72 topics
  4. Nanocarriers51 topic
  5. Surface Engineering51 topic
  6. Antimicrobial42 topics
  7. Nanomaterials42 topics
  8. Natural Products42 topics
  9. Toxicity42 topics
  10. Antibacterial Activity21 topic
  11. Antimicrobial Activity21 topic
  12. Biological Synthesis21 topic
  13. DNA nanotechnology21 topic
  14. Deficiency21 topic
  15. Drug Discovery21 topic
  16. Essential Oils21 topic
  17. Graphene21 topic
  18. Green Tea21 topic
  19. Secondary Metabolites21 topic
  20. Self-Assembly21 topic
  21. Silver21 topic
  22. Tea Polyphenols21 topic
  23. Vitamin D21 topic

Where does Ranga K. Dissanayake work?

Ranga K. Dissanayake's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Prince Edward Island, Canada.

How many publications and citations does Ranga K. Dissanayake have?

OpenAlex counts 15 works and 431 citations for Ranga K. Dissanayake, an h-index of 9, ranking #3,443,591 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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