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Researcher · CSIRO Land and Water · Australia

Ruchira Somaweera

Ruchira Somaweera publishes mostly in Ecological Modeling, Ecology and Global and Planetary Change, on topics such as Species Distribution and Climate Change, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation and Amphibian and Reptile Biology.

ORCID 0000-0002-7470-8736 OpenAlex
World rank
#1,467,340
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Australia
#33,167
of 35,497
Works
16
Citations
28
Citations per work
1.8

What does Ruchira Somaweera research?

Ecological Modeling: 23.8%Ecology: 23.8%Global and Planetary Change: 19.0%Nature and Landscape Conservation: 14.3%other fields: 19.1%24%top field
Ecological Modeling23.8%Ecology23.8%Global and Planetary Change19.0%Nature and Landscape Conservation14.3%other fields19.1%

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

  1. 1Ecological Modeling24% of their works
  2. 2Ecology24% of their works
  3. 3Global and Planetary Change19% of their works
  4. 4Nature and Landscape Conservation14% of their works
  5. 5Aquatic Science10% of their works
  6. 6Political Science and International Relations5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ruchira Somaweera's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Climate Change, Population Dynamics, Conservation Biology, Biodiversity, Conservation, Phylogenetic Analysis, Ecological Niche and Species Distribution Modeling.

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 Change124 topics
  2. Population Dynamics125 topics
  3. Conservation Biology92 topics
  4. Biodiversity72 topics
  5. Conservation64 topics
  6. Phylogenetic Analysis62 topics
  7. Ecological Niche51 topic
  8. Species Distribution Modeling51 topic
  9. Amphibian Declines41 topic
  10. Animal Movement41 topic
  11. Chytridiomycosis41 topic
  12. Occupancy Rates41 topic
  13. Bycatch21 topic
  14. Fish21 topic
  15. Length-Weight Relationships21 topic
  16. Marine Turtles21 topic
  17. Anthropogenic Noise11 topic
  18. Envenoming11 topic
  19. Marine Mammals11 topic
  20. Rays11 topic
  21. Sharks11 topic
  22. Snake Venom11 topic

Where does Ruchira Somaweera work?

Ruchira Somaweera's main affiliation in the publication record is CSIRO Land and Water, Australia.

How many publications and citations does Ruchira Somaweera have?

Science Explorer counts 16 works and 28 citations for Ruchira Somaweera, ranking #1,467,340 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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