Assela Pathirana

3.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
89 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Assela Pathirana is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering and Water Science and Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Assela Pathirana has authored 89 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 52 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 28 papers in Environmental Engineering and 20 papers in Water Science and Technology. Recurrent topics in Assela Pathirana's work include Flood Risk Assessment and Management (38 papers), Water resources management and optimization (16 papers) and Urban Stormwater Management Solutions (16 papers). Assela Pathirana is often cited by papers focused on Flood Risk Assessment and Management (38 papers), Water resources management and optimization (16 papers) and Urban Stormwater Management Solutions (16 papers). Assela Pathirana collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, Australia and Vietnam. Assela Pathirana's co-authors include Chris Zevenbergen, Berry Gersonius, Richard Ashley, Mohanasundar Radhakrishnan, Kala Vairavamoorthy, S. D. Gorantiwar, Chris Zevenbergen, Dafang Fu, Karsten Arnbjerg‐Nielsen and William Veerbeek and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Water Research and Journal of Hydrology.

In The Last Decade

Assela Pathirana

82 papers receiving 2.3k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Urbanization and climate change impacts on future urban flooding in Can Tho city, Vietnam

2013 471 citations Assela Pathirana et al. Hydrology and earth system sciences profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Assela Pathirana Netherlands	25	1.6k	888	702	425	361	89	2.4k
Berry Gersonius Netherlands	22	1.3k 0.9×	646 0.7×	316 0.5×	173 0.4×	287 0.8×	68	1.8k
Shaofeng Jia China	28	1.6k 1.0×	981 1.1×	1.3k 1.8×	846 2.0×	451 1.2×	127	3.3k
Ho Huu Loc Vietnam	28	1.4k 0.9×	589 0.7×	873 1.2×	242 0.6×	165 0.5×	115	2.7k
Qian Tan China	32	1000 0.6×	381 0.4×	1.1k 1.6×	798 1.9×	771 2.1×	128	2.8k
Sutat Weesakul Thailand	19	1.2k 0.8×	637 0.7×	552 0.8×	456 1.1×	136 0.4×	48	1.8k
Ole Mark Denmark	27	2.1k 1.3×	1.4k 1.5×	1.1k 1.6×	581 1.4×	233 0.6×	80	2.8k
Alistair Ford United Kingdom	14	1.0k 0.6×	309 0.3×	277 0.4×	298 0.7×	187 0.5×	39	1.7k
Jaroslav Myšiak Italy	26	1.5k 1.0×	267 0.3×	492 0.7×	358 0.8×	391 1.1×	110	2.5k
Martina Zeleňáková Slovakia	26	850 0.5×	763 0.9×	761 1.1×	164 0.4×	203 0.6×	251	2.4k
Karsten Arnbjerg‐Nielsen Denmark	38	3.6k 2.3×	1.8k 2.0×	1.7k 2.5×	1.4k 3.2×	343 1.0×	147	4.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Assela Pathirana

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Pathirana, Assela, et al.. (2026). Optimizing irrigation gate operations using evolutionary algorithms: Talibon SRIS case study. Agricultural Water Management. 323. 110104–110104.

Pathirana, Assela. (2025). Small islands: living laboratories revealing global climate and sustainable development challenges. Frontiers in Climate. 6. 3 indexed citations

Pathirana, Assela, et al.. (2024). Biofilm biofertilizer application in paddy cultivation: pioneering studies in Sri Lanka. 10(1). 56–107. 1 indexed citations

Pathirana, Assela, et al.. (2024). Impact of land use land cover changes on urban temperature in Jakarta: insights from an urban boundary layer climate model. Frontiers in Environmental Science. 12. 2 indexed citations

Huynh, Thi Thao Nguyen, Nynke Hofstra, Hồng Quân Nguyễn, et al.. (2023). Estimating disease burden of rotavirus in floodwater through traffic in the urban areas: A case study of Can Tho city, Vietnam. Journal of Flood Risk Management. 17(1). 2 indexed citations

Ranasinghe, Roshanka, et al.. (2020). An efficient modelling approach for probabilistic assessments of present-day and future fluvial flooding. 3 indexed citations

Radhakrishnan, Mohanasundar, et al.. (2019). Development of context specific sustainability criteria for selection of plant species for green urban infrastructure: The case of Singapore. Sustainable Production and Consumption. 20. 316–325. 23 indexed citations

Pathirana, Assela, et al.. (2018). An Effective Modelling Approach to Support Probabilistic Flood Forecasting in Coastal Cities—Case Study: Can Tho, Mekong Delta, Vietnam. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering. 6(2). 55–55. 8 indexed citations

Daramola, Michael O., et al.. (2015). Coupled 1D-2D hydrodynamic inundation model for sewer overflow: Influence of modeling parameters. Water Science. 29(2). 146–155. 25 indexed citations

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Pathirana, Assela, et al.. (2013). Urbanization and climate change impacts on future urban flooding in Can Tho city, Vietnam. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 17(1). 379–394. 471 indexed citations breakdown →

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Gersonius, Berry, et al.. (2012). Developing the evidence base for mainstreaming adaptation of stormwater systems to climate change. Water Research. 46(20). 6824–6835. 56 indexed citations

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Pathirana, Assela, et al.. (2012). On teaching styles of water educators and the impact of didactic training. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 16(10). 3677–3688. 19 indexed citations

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Pathirana, Assela, Berry Gersonius, & Mohanasundar Radhakrishnan. (2012). Web 2.0 collaboration tool to support student research in hydrology – an opinion. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 16(8). 2499–2509. 10 indexed citations

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Veerbeek, William, et al.. (2011). Spatial metrics modeling to analyse correlations between urban form and surface water drainage performance.. Research Repository (Delft University of Technology). 4 indexed citations

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Pathirana, Assela, et al.. (2011). A simple 2-D inundation model for incorporating flood damage in urban drainage planning. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 15(8). 2747–2761. 30 indexed citations

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Gersonius, Berry, et al.. (2010). A resilience perspective to water risk management: case-study application of the adaptation tipping point method. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 1627. 1 indexed citations

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Pathirana, Assela. (2009). Paraneoplastic neurological syndromes. Ceylon Medical Journal. 53(4). 148–148.

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Maharjan, Manisha, Assela Pathirana, Berry Gersonius, & Kalanithy Vairavamoorthy. (2009). Staged cost optimization of urban storm drainage systems based on hydraulic performance in a changing environment. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 13(4). 481–489. 27 indexed citations

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Pathirana, Assela, Srikantha Herath, & T. Yamada. (2005). Simulating orographic rainfall with a limited-area, non-hydrostatic atmospheric model under idealized forcing. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 5(1). 215–226. 8 indexed citations

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Pathirana, Assela, Srikantha Herath, & Tadashi Yamada. (2003). On the modelling of temporal correlations in spatial-cascade rainfall downscaling. IAHS-AISH publication. 74–82. 1 indexed citations

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