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Researcher · University of Saskatchewan · Canada

Thushari Gunawardana

Thushari Gunawardana publishes mostly in Animal Science and Zoology, Microbiology and Immunology, on topics such as Animal Virus Infections Studies, Antimicrobial Peptides and Activities and Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology.

OpenAlex
World rank
#5,334,028
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Canada
#154,220
of 183,316
Works
23
Citations
377
Citations per work
16.4
h-index
11
i10-index 15Top 44% in Animal Science and Zoology
Thushari Gunawardana

What does Thushari Gunawardana research?

Thushari Gunawardana's work is mostly in Immunology and Microbiology (24%), Medicine (21%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (13%).

Life Sciences: 10 works · 44.7% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 5 works · 23.8% of their workImmunology: 3 works · 11.9% of their workMicrobiology: 3 works · 11.9% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 3 works · 13.4% of their workAnimal Science and Zoology: 3 works · 13.4% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2 works · 7.5% of their workMolecular Biology: 2 works · 7.5% of their workEverything else: 8 works · 34.4% of their workHealth Sciences: 5 works · 20.9% of their workMedicine: 5 works · 20.9% of their workInfectious Diseases: 3 works · 11.9% of their workEpidemiology: 2 works · 9.0% of their workTHEIR WORKThushariGunawardana23works
Life Sciences45%Health Sciences21%

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. Immunology and Microbiology523.8%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences313.4%
    3. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology27.5%
  2. Everything else834.4%
    1. Medicine520.9%
  1. 1Animal Science and Zoology13% of their works
  2. 2Microbiology12% of their works
  3. 3Immunology12% of their works
  4. 4Infectious Diseases12% of their works
  5. 5Epidemiology9% of their works
  6. 6Molecular Biology8% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Thushari Gunawardana's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Epidemiology, Pathogenesis, Vaccine, Antimicrobial Peptides, Coronavirus, Host Defense, Norovirus and Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Epidemiology173 topics
  2. Pathogenesis142 topics
  3. Vaccine142 topics
  4. Antimicrobial Peptides71 topic
  5. Coronavirus71 topic
  6. Host Defense71 topic
  7. Norovirus71 topic
  8. Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus71 topic
  9. Rotavirus71 topic
  10. Gene Therapy62 topics
  11. Pattern Recognition Receptors61 topic
  12. Toll-like Receptors61 topic
  13. AAV31 topic
  14. Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization-Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry31 topic
  15. Microorganism Identification31 topic
  16. Myocarditis31 topic
  17. RNA Interference31 topic
  18. Viral Infection31 topic
  19. Viral Vectors31 topic
  20. siRNA Delivery31 topic

Where does Thushari Gunawardana work?

Thushari Gunawardana's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Saskatchewan, Canada.

How many publications and citations does Thushari Gunawardana have?

OpenAlex counts 23 works and 377 citations for Thushari Gunawardana, an h-index of 11, ranking #5,334,028 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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