University of Colombo in the Stanford/Elsevier 2026 list
The Stanford/Elsevier list covers the top 2% most-cited scientists in each subfield. These are the people from this institution on at least one of its two rankings: career-long and single-year (citations from 2025).
7
researchers on the list
3
rank in Sri Lanka
5,717
rank worldwide, of 38,384
Ranks by number of people on the list; we calculate them from the same data.
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| Name | Subfield | Career | Single-year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jayawardena, Ranil | Endocrinology & Metabolism | — | 617 / 100,693 |
| Rajapakse, Senaka | Tropical Medicine | 272 / 39,335 | 53 / 39,335 |
| Ediriweera, Meran Keshawa | Medicinal & Biomolecular Chemistry | 2,520 / 120,621 | 493 / 120,621 |
| Thilakarathne, Navod Neranjan | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | — | 9,650 / 517,648 |
| Karunaweera, Nadira Darshani | Tropical Medicine | 503 / 39,335 | 659 / 39,335 |
| de Silva, Keshara Manindri Nalin | Organic Chemistry | — | 3,107 / 188,664 |
| Wickramasinghe, Dakshitha Praneeth | General & Internal Medicine | — | 3,201 / 360,081 |
Source: Ioannidis JPA, Elsevier (2026). August 2026 data-update for "Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators". Mendeley Data, version 9. Licence CC BY-NC 3.0. doi:10.17632/btchxktzyw.9
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