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Researcher · Medical Research Institute · Sri Lanka

Sunethra Gunasena

Sunethra Gunasena publishes mostly in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology, on topics such as Mosquito-borne diseases and control, Viral Infections and Vectors and Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research.

OpenAlex
World rank
#3,183,961
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Sri Lanka
#856
of 3,827
Works
38
Citations
757
Citations per work
19.9
h-index
15
i10-index 17Top 31% in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Sunethra Gunasena

What does Sunethra Gunasena research?

Sunethra Gunasena's work is mostly in Medicine (82%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (2%), Mathematics (2%).

Health Sciences: 31 works · 82.2% of their workMedicine: 31 works · 82.2% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 14 works · 36.6% of their workInfectious Diseases: 13 works · 33.7% of their workEpidemiology: 3 works · 6.9% of their workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 2 works · 5.0% of their workEverything else: 5 works · 13.8% of their workLife Sciences: 1 works · 2.0% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 works · 2.0% of their workEndocrinology: 1 works · 2.0% of their workPhysical Sciences: 1 works · 2.0% of their workMathematics: 1 works · 2.0% of their workModeling and Simulation: 1 works · 2.0% of their workTHEIR WORKSunethra Gunasena38works
Life Sciences2%Physical Sciences2%Health Sciences82%

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. Medicine3182.2%
  2. Everything else513.8%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology12.0%
    1. Mathematics12.0%
  1. 1Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health37% of their works
  2. 2Infectious Diseases34% of their works
  3. 3Epidemiology7% of their works
  4. 4Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine5% of their works
  5. 5Endocrinology2% of their works
  6. 6Modeling and Simulation2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Sunethra Gunasena's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Epidemiology, Vaccine Development, Pathogenesis, Arboviral Diseases, Zika Virus, Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers, Zoonotic Infections and Vaccine.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Epidemiology717 topics
  2. Vaccine Development403 topics
  3. Pathogenesis333 topics
  4. Arboviral Diseases281 topic
  5. Zika Virus281 topic
  6. Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers211 topic
  7. Zoonotic Infections211 topic
  8. Vaccine122 topics
  9. Ebola Virus91 topic
  10. Outbreak91 topic
  11. Artemisinin Resistance81 topic
  12. Plasmodium falciparum81 topic
  13. Myocarditis51 topic
  14. Viral Infection51 topic
  15. Human Metapneumovirus41 topic
  16. Respiratory Syncytial Virus41 topic
  17. Norovirus31 topic
  18. Rotavirus31 topic
  19. Cholera21 topic
  20. Vibrio cholerae21 topic

Where does Sunethra Gunasena work?

Sunethra Gunasena's main affiliation in the publication record is Medical Research Institute, Sri Lanka.

How many publications and citations does Sunethra Gunasena have?

OpenAlex counts 38 works and 757 citations for Sunethra Gunasena, an h-index of 15, ranking #3,183,961 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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