Four professors from Kelaniya University among world’s Top 2% of scientists

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Four professors from the University of Kelaniya’s Faculty of Medicine are ranked among World’s Top 2% Scientists in the updated Science-wide author databases of standardised citation indicators published recently.

The four are Janaka de Silva (Department of Medicine), Nilanthi de Silva (Vice-Chancellor and Department of Parasitology), Anuradhani Kasturiratne (Department of Public Health) and Asita de Silva (Department of Pharmacology).

The analysis was performed by a team from Stanford University, USA using Scopus data provided by Elsevier. The four professors are among 38 scientists based in Sri Lanka who were included in the list.

Scientists are classified into 22 scientific fields and 176 sub-fields. Field- and subfield-specific percentiles are provided for all scientists with at least five papers. Single recent year data pertain to citations received during calendar year 2021.

The selection was based on the top 100,000 scientists by c-score (with and without self-citations) or a percentile rank of 2% or above in the sub-field. Calculation was performed using all Scopus author profiles as of 1 September 2022. The database of top-cited scientists provides standardised information on citations, h-index, co-authorship adjusted hm-index, citations to papers in different authorship positions and a composite indicator (c-score).

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