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Siran U. Deraniyagala

Siran U. Deraniyagala publishes mostly in Archeology, Anthropology and Paleontology, on topics such as Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies, Archaeology and ancient environmental studies and Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology.

OpenAlex
World rank
#547,654
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Sri Lanka
#63
of 3,827
Works
21
Citations
1.1k
Citations per work
53.0

What does Siran U. Deraniyagala research?

Siran U. Deraniyagala's work is mostly in Social Sciences (36%), Arts and Humanities (33%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (22%).

Physical Sciences22%Social Sciences69%

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. Social Sciences836.2%
    2. Arts and Humanities732.8%
    1. Earth and Planetary Sciences522.4%
  1. Everything else28.6%
  1. 1Archeology33% of their works
  2. 2Anthropology22% of their works
  3. 3Paleontology19% of their works
  4. 4Political Science and International Relations7% of their works
  5. 5Geography, Planning and Development7% of their works
  6. 6Atmospheric Science3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Siran U. Deraniyagala's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Age Estimation, Sex Determination, Agricultural Origins, Radiocarbon Dating, Hominin Genetics, Paleolithic Archaeology, Ancient Health and Pacific Islands.

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 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Age Estimation141 topic
  2. Sex Determination141 topic
  3. Agricultural Origins111 topic
  4. Radiocarbon Dating111 topic
  5. Hominin Genetics101 topic
  6. Paleolithic Archaeology101 topic
  7. Ancient Health41 topic
  8. Pacific Islands41 topic
  9. Paleoparasitology41 topic
  10. settlement41 topic
  11. Climate Change21 topic
  12. Laos21 topic
  13. Paleoclimatology21 topic
  14. Primates21 topic
  15. Social Behavior21 topic
  16. Thailand21 topic

Where does Siran U. Deraniyagala work?

Siran U. Deraniyagala's main affiliation in the publication record is Department of Archaeology, Sri Lanka.

How many publications and citations does Siran U. Deraniyagala have?

OpenAlex counts 21 works and 1,112 citations for Siran U. Deraniyagala, an h-index of 14, ranking #547,654 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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