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Researcher · University of Kelaniya · Sri Lanka

Sachith Mettananda

Sachith Mettananda publishes mostly in Hematology, Genetics and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, on topics such as Hemoglobinopathies and Related Disorders, Iron Metabolism and Disorders and Child Nutrition and Water Access.

ORCID 0000-0002-0760-0418 OpenAlex
World rank
#343,266
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Sri Lanka
#40
of 3,827
Works
178
Citations
20k
Citations per work
112.4
h-index
35
i10-index 65Top 8.5% in Hematology
Sachith Mettananda

What does Sachith Mettananda research?

Sachith Mettananda's work is mostly in Medicine (33%), Nursing (5%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (4%).

Everything else: 104 works · 58.4% of their workHealth Sciences: 67 works · 37.4% of their workMedicine: 58 works · 32.6% of their workHematology: 19 works · 10.9% of their workGenetics: 18 works · 9.9% of their workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 14 works · 7.8% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 7 works · 4.0% of their workNursing: 9 works · 4.8% of their workNutrition and Dietetics: 9 works · 4.8% of their workLife Sciences: 7 works · 4.2% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 7 works · 4.2% of their workMolecular Biology: 7 works · 4.2% of their workTHEIR WORKSachithMettananda178works
Life Sciences4%Health Sciences37%

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 else10458.4%
    1. Medicine5832.6%
    2. Nursing94.8%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology74.2%
  1. 1Hematology11% of their works
  2. 2Genetics10% of their works
  3. 3Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health8% of their works
  4. 4Nutrition and Dietetics5% of their works
  5. 5Molecular Biology4% of their works
  6. 6Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Sachith Mettananda's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Anemia, Sickle-cell Disease, Thalassemia, Erythropoiesis, Hepcidin, Iron Regulation, Child Development and Maternal and Child Undernutrition.

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. Anemia462 topics
  2. Sickle-cell Disease441 topic
  3. Thalassemia441 topic
  4. Erythropoiesis382 topics
  5. Hepcidin311 topic
  6. Iron Regulation311 topic
  7. Child Development191 topic
  8. Maternal and Child Undernutrition191 topic
  9. Alloimmunization151 topic
  10. Blood Groups151 topic
  11. Child Mortality121 topic
  12. Maternal Mortality121 topic
  13. Biochemical Genetics71 topic
  14. Metabolic Disorders71 topic
  15. Piezo171 topic
  16. Piezo271 topic
  17. Medical Ethics61 topic
  18. Pediatric61 topic

Where does Sachith Mettananda work?

Sachith Mettananda's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka.

How many publications and citations does Sachith Mettananda have?

OpenAlex counts 178 works and 20,003 citations for Sachith Mettananda, an h-index of 35, ranking #343,266 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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