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Veranja Liyanapathirana

Veranja Liyanapathirana publishes mostly in Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology and Health, on topics such as Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing, Antibiotic Use and Resistance and Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus.

World rank
#1,521,780
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Sri Lanka
#348
of 423
Works
17
Citations
7
Citations per work
0.4

What does Veranja Liyanapathirana research?

Infectious Diseases: 12.0%Epidemiology: 8.0%Health: 8.0%Clinical Biochemistry: 8.0%other fields: 64.0%12%top field
Infectious Diseases12.0%Epidemiology8.0%Health8.0%Clinical Biochemistry8.0%other fields64.0%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Infectious Diseases12% of their works
  2. 2Epidemiology8% of their works
  3. 3Health8% of their works
  4. 4Clinical Biochemistry8% of their works
  5. 5Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology8% of their works
  6. 6Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health8% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Veranja Liyanapathirana's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Epidemiology, Antibiotic Resistance, Antimicrobial Resistance, Clinical Management, Infectious Diseases, Antimicrobial Stewardship, Global Health and Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization-Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry.

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 23 words, with their numbers
  1. Epidemiology64 topics
  2. Antibiotic Resistance43 topics
  3. Antimicrobial Resistance32 topics
  4. Clinical Management32 topics
  5. Infectious Diseases32 topics
  6. Antimicrobial Stewardship21 topic
  7. Global Health21 topic
  8. MRSA21 topic
  9. Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization-Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry21 topic
  10. Microbial Communities22 topics
  11. Microorganism Identification21 topic
  12. Pathogenesis22 topics
  13. Staphylococcus aureus21 topic
  14. Antibiotics11 topic
  15. Bacteria11 topic
  16. Bacterial Meningitis11 topic
  17. Biofilms11 topic
  18. Corynebacterium11 topic
  19. ESKAPE Pathogens11 topic
  20. Infections11 topic
  21. Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria11 topic
  22. Neisseria meningitidis11 topic
  23. Resistance Genes11 topic

Where does Veranja Liyanapathirana work?

Veranja Liyanapathirana's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka.

How many publications and citations does Veranja Liyanapathirana have?

Science Explorer counts 17 works and 7 citations for Veranja Liyanapathirana, ranking #1,521,780 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite 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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