Four Professors from Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya, Vidyajyothi Professor H. Janaka de Silva (Department of Medicine), Senior Professor Nilanthi de Silva (Vice-Chancellor and Department of Parasitology), Professor Anuradhani Kasturiratne (Department of Public Health) and Vidyajyothi Professor H. Asita de Silva (Department of Pharmacology) are ranked among World’s Top 2% Scientists according to the latest update of the data in "Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators" four of them are from the University of Kelaniya out of 38 Scientists ranked who are from various universities in from Sri Lanka.

The analysis was performed by a team from Stanford University, USA using Scopus data provided by Elsevier. Scientists are classified into 22 scientific fields and 176 sub-fields. Field- and subfield-specific percentiles are also provided for all scientists with at least 5 papers. Career-long data are updated to end-of-2021 and single recent year data pertain to citations received during calendar year 2021. The selection is 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 were performed using all Scopus author profiles as of September 1, 2022.

For more details :- https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw 

According to the "Table_1_Authors_singleyr_2021_pubs_since_1788_wopp_extracted_202209.xlsx" results are shown.