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Researcher · East–West Center · United States

Wimal Dissanayake

Wimal Dissanayake publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Visual Arts and Performing Arts and Literature and Literary Theory, on topics such as South Asian Cinema and Culture, Asian Culture and Media Studies and Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics.

OpenAlex
World rank
#579,343
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#199,411
of 1,627,098
Works
108
Citations
3k
Citations per work
27.6
h-index
21
i10-index 31Top 5.7% in Sociology and Political Science
Wimal Dissanayake

What does Wimal Dissanayake research?

Wimal Dissanayake's work is mostly in Social Sciences (30%), Arts and Humanities (26%).

Social Sciences: 60 works · 56.0% of their workSocial Sciences: 33 works · 30.1% of their workSociology and Political Science: 17 works · 15.3% of their workCultural Studies: 9 works · 8.6% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 7 works · 6.2% of their workArts and Humanities: 28 works · 25.9% of their workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 10 works · 9.6% of their workLiterature and Literary Theory: 10 works · 9.1% of their workPhilosophy: 8 works · 7.2% of their workEverything else: 48 works · 44.0% of their workTHEIR WORKWimal Dissanayake108works
Social Sciences56%

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. Social Sciences3330.1%
    2. Arts and Humanities2825.9%
  2. Everything else4844.0%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science15% of their works
  2. 2Visual Arts and Performing Arts10% of their works
  3. 3Literature and Literary Theory9% of their works
  4. 4Cultural Studies9% of their works
  5. 5Philosophy7% of their works
  6. 6Political Science and International Relations6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Wimal Dissanayake's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Globalization, Cultural Identity, Bollywood, Indian cinema, Nationalism, Hallyu, Korean Wave and Literature.

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. Globalization333 topics
  2. Cultural Identity192 topics
  3. Bollywood181 topic
  4. Indian cinema181 topic
  5. Nationalism142 topics
  6. Hallyu101 topic
  7. Korean Wave101 topic
  8. Literature102 topics
  9. Democratization91 topic
  10. Hong Kong Identity91 topic
  11. Conversation Analysis71 topic
  12. Interactional Linguistics71 topic
  13. Multilingualism61 topic
  14. Translanguaging61 topic
  15. Adaptation51 topic
  16. Democracy51 topic
  17. Film51 topic
  18. Identity51 topic
  19. Postcolonialism51 topic
  20. Rhetoric51 topic

Where does Wimal Dissanayake work?

Wimal Dissanayake's main affiliation in the publication record is East–West Center, United States.

How many publications and citations does Wimal Dissanayake have?

OpenAlex counts 108 works and 2,984 citations for Wimal Dissanayake, an h-index of 21, ranking #579,343 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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