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Researcher · La Trobe University · Australia

Tharanga Bandara

Tharanga Bandara publishes mostly in Pollution, Plant Science and Soil Science, on topics such as Heavy metals in environment, Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics and Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions.

ORCID 0000-0001-5071-8094 OpenAlex
World rank
#1,646,739
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Australia
#50,060
of 140,210
Works
25
Citations
1k
Citations per work
41.7
h-index
14
i10-index 14Top 47% in Pollution
Tharanga Bandara

What does Tharanga Bandara research?

Tharanga Bandara's work is mostly in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (29%), Environmental Science (21%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (4%).

Everything else: 10 works · 41.0% of their workPhysical Sciences: 8 works · 30.2% of their workEnvironmental Science: 5 works · 21.2% of their workPollution: 4 works · 16.7% of their workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 1 works · 4.5% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1 works · 4.5% of their workGeochemistry and Petrology: 1 works · 4.5% of their workMaterials Science: 1 works · 4.5% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 1 works · 4.5% of their workLife Sciences: 7 works · 28.8% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 7 works · 28.8% of their workPlant Science: 4 works · 15.2% of their workSoil Science: 3 works · 13.6% of their workTHEIR WORKTharanga Bandara25works
Life Sciences29%Physical Sciences30%

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 else1041.0%
    1. Environmental Science521.2%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences14.5%
    3. Materials Science14.5%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences728.8%
  1. 1Pollution17% of their works
  2. 2Plant Science15% of their works
  3. 3Soil Science14% of their works
  4. 4Geochemistry and Petrology4% of their works
  5. 5Materials Chemistry4% of their works
  6. 6Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Tharanga Bandara's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Heavy Metals, Contamination, Ecosystem Functioning, Soil, Nitrogen Cycle, Soil Carbon Sequestration, Biochar and Coal Geochemistry.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Heavy Metals153 topics
  2. Contamination101 topic
  3. Ecosystem Functioning102 topics
  4. Soil101 topic
  5. Nitrogen Cycle71 topic
  6. Soil Carbon Sequestration71 topic
  7. Biochar42 topics
  8. Coal Geochemistry31 topic
  9. Fungal Diversity31 topic
  10. Mycorrhizal Fungi31 topic
  11. Trace Elements31 topic
  12. Adsorption21 topic
  13. Antioxidants21 topic
  14. Biomass21 topic
  15. Clay Nanotubes21 topic
  16. Contaminant Removal21 topic
  17. Halloysite21 topic
  18. Pyrolysis21 topic
  19. Reactive Oxygen Species21 topic

Where does Tharanga Bandara work?

Tharanga Bandara's main affiliation in the publication record is La Trobe University, Australia.

How many publications and citations does Tharanga Bandara have?

OpenAlex counts 25 works and 1,043 citations for Tharanga Bandara, an h-index of 14, ranking #1,646,739 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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