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Researcher · Lancet Laboratories · South Africa

Udani Samarasekera

Udani Samarasekera publishes mostly in General Health Professions, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, on topics such as Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology, Child and Adolescent Health and Health and Conflict Studies.

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World rank
#4,912,711
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#21,238
of 29,826
Works
210
Citations
940
Citations per work
4.5
h-index
15
i10-index 23Top 23% in General Health Professions
Udani Samarasekera

What does Udani Samarasekera research?

Udani Samarasekera's work is mostly in Health Professions (16%), Medicine (11%), Business, Management and Accounting (8%).

Everything else: 115 works · 54.9% of their workHealth Sciences: 57 works · 27.2% of their workHealth Professions: 33 works · 15.9% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 33 works · 15.9% of their workMedicine: 24 works · 11.3% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 15 works · 7.3% of their workInfectious Diseases: 8 works · 4.0% of their workSocial Sciences: 38 works · 17.9% of their workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 17 works · 8.1% of their workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 17 works · 8.1% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 12 works · 5.5% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 12 works · 5.5% of their workPsychology: 9 works · 4.3% of their workClinical Psychology: 9 works · 4.3% of their workTHEIR WORKUdaniSamarasekera210works
Health Sciences27%Social Sciences18%

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 else11554.9%
    1. Health Professions3315.9%
    2. Medicine2411.3%
    1. Business, Management and Accounting178.1%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance125.5%
    3. Psychology94.3%
  1. 1General Health Professions16% of their works
  2. 2Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management8% of their works
  3. 3Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health7% of their works
  4. 4Economics and Econometrics6% of their works
  5. 5Clinical Psychology4% of their works
  6. 6Infectious Diseases4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Udani Samarasekera's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Public Health, Corporate Political Activity, Non-Communicable Diseases, Community Health, Conflict, Mortality, Pediatrics and Economic Growth.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Public Health382 topics
  2. Corporate Political Activity341 topic
  3. Non-Communicable Diseases341 topic
  4. Community Health191 topic
  5. Conflict191 topic
  6. Mortality191 topic
  7. Pediatrics191 topic
  8. Economic Growth181 topic
  9. HIV/AIDS181 topic
  10. Child Mortality111 topic
  11. Maternal Mortality111 topic
  12. Ebola Virus91 topic
  13. Outbreak91 topic
  14. COVID-19 Vaccine81 topic
  15. Immigrant81 topic
  16. Refugee81 topic
  17. Vaccine Hesitancy81 topic

Where does Udani Samarasekera work?

Udani Samarasekera's main affiliation in the publication record is Lancet Laboratories, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Udani Samarasekera have?

OpenAlex counts 210 works and 940 citations for Udani Samarasekera, an h-index of 15, ranking #4,912,711 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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