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Researcher · Swinburne University of Technology · Australia

Themiya Nanayakkara

Themiya Nanayakkara publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Computational Mechanics, on topics such as Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena, Astronomy and Astrophysical Research and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies.

ORCID 0000-0003-2804-0648 OpenAlex
World rank
#9,814
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Australia
#263
of 140,210
Works
327
Citations
9k
Citations per work
27.4
h-index
52
i10-index 146Top 5.5% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Themiya Nanayakkara

What does Themiya Nanayakkara research?

Themiya Nanayakkara's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (89%), Engineering (4%).

Physical Sciences: 304 works · 93.0% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 290 works · 88.6% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 192 works · 58.6% of their workInstrumentation: 83 works · 25.5% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 8 works · 2.3% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 7 works · 2.2% of their workEngineering: 14 works · 4.4% of their workComputational Mechanics: 9 works · 2.9% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 5 works · 1.5% of their workEverything else: 23 works · 7.0% of their workTHEIR WORKThemiyaNanayakkara327works
Physical Sciences93%

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. Physics and Astronomy29088.6%
    2. Engineering144.4%
  2. Everything else237.0%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics59% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation26% of their works
  3. 3Computational Mechanics3% of their works
  4. 4Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics2% of their works
  5. 5Nuclear and High Energy Physics2% of their works
  6. 6Electrical and Electronic Engineering2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Themiya Nanayakkara's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Star Formation, Black Holes, Cosmology, Galaxies, Astronomical Instrumentation, Spectrograph, Accretion Disks and Magnetic Fields.

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. Star Formation3152 topics
  2. Black Holes2762 topics
  3. Cosmology2421 topic
  4. Galaxies2421 topic
  5. Astronomical Instrumentation2311 topic
  6. Spectrograph2311 topic
  7. Accretion Disks1072 topics
  8. Magnetic Fields1072 topics
  9. Exoplanets921 topic
  10. Stellar Astrophysics921 topic
  11. Molecular Clouds731 topic
  12. Protoplanetary Disks731 topic
  13. Gamma-Ray Bursts721 topic
  14. Supernovae721 topic
  15. Event Horizon Telescope341 topic
  16. X-Ray Astronomy341 topic
  17. Optical 3D Laser Measurement271 topic
  18. Position-Sensitive Detector271 topic
  19. Adaptive Optics191 topic
  20. Wavefront Sensing191 topic

Where does Themiya Nanayakkara work?

Themiya Nanayakkara's main affiliation in the publication record is Swinburne University of Technology, Australia.

How many publications and citations does Themiya Nanayakkara have?

OpenAlex counts 327 works and 8,971 citations for Themiya Nanayakkara, an h-index of 52, ranking #9,814 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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