Kanchane Gunawardena

1.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
11 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Kanchane Gunawardena is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Building and Construction and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. According to data from OpenAlex, Kanchane Gunawardena has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Environmental Engineering, 7 papers in Building and Construction and 6 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. Recurrent topics in Kanchane Gunawardena's work include Urban Heat Island Mitigation (10 papers), Building Energy and Comfort Optimization (7 papers) and Urban Green Space and Health (5 papers). Kanchane Gunawardena is often cited by papers focused on Urban Heat Island Mitigation (10 papers), Building Energy and Comfort Optimization (7 papers) and Urban Green Space and Health (5 papers). Kanchane Gunawardena collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Australia and Austria. Kanchane Gunawardena's co-authors include Tristan Kershaw, Koen Steemers, Yujin Park, Yongling Zhao, Xiaohai Zhou, Yifan Fan, Ronita Bardhan, Jan Carmeliet, Aytaç Kubilay and Dominique Derome and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Kanchane Gunawardena

11 papers receiving 1.1k 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.

Utilising green and bluespace to mitigate urban heat island intensity

2017 929 citations Kanchane Gunawardena, Tristan Kershaw et al. The Science of The Total Environment profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kanchane Gunawardena United Kingdom	8	876	735	458	247	168	11	1.1k
Carlos Bartesaghi-Koc Australia	14	724 0.8×	569 0.8×	443 1.0×	199 0.8×	164 1.0×	17	897
Teresa Zölch Germany	6	764 0.9×	659 0.9×	477 1.0×	190 0.8×	167 1.0×	7	1.0k
Henrique Andrade Portugal	8	1.0k 1.1×	908 1.2×	368 0.8×	425 1.7×	245 1.5×	16	1.3k
Paul Coseo United States	12	557 0.6×	448 0.6×	285 0.6×	148 0.6×	139 0.8×	22	760
Nancy J. Selover United States	8	630 0.7×	444 0.6×	302 0.7×	273 1.1×	116 0.7×	14	856
D. Armson United Kingdom	6	780 0.9×	693 0.9×	461 1.0×	184 0.7×	120 0.7×	7	973
Federica Marando Italy	10	696 0.8×	884 1.2×	572 1.2×	119 0.5×	194 1.2×	12	1.3k
Michal Lehnert Czechia	20	1.2k 1.3×	788 1.1×	476 1.0×	314 1.3×	354 2.1×	44	1.3k
Laura Kleerekoper Netherlands	6	954 1.1×	644 0.9×	241 0.5×	528 2.1×	232 1.4×	12	1.1k
Yulin Dong China	15	452 0.5×	431 0.6×	416 0.9×	99 0.4×	96 0.6×	25	743

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kanchane Gunawardena

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11 of 11 papers shown

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Zhao, Yongling, Sushobhan Sen, Tiziana Susca, et al.. (2023). Beating urban heat: Multimeasure-centric solution sets and a complementary framework for decision-making. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 186. 113668–113668. 35 indexed citations

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Gunawardena, Kanchane & Koen Steemers. (2023). Assessing the influence of neighbourhood-scale vertical greening application. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(1). 103–123. 6 indexed citations

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Gunawardena, Kanchane & Koen Steemers. (2020). Living wall influence on the microclimates of sheltered urban conditions: results from monitoring studies. Architectural Science Review. 64(3). 235–246. 7 indexed citations

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Gunawardena, Kanchane & Koen Steemers. (2020). Urban living walls: reporting on maintenance challenges from a review of European installations. Architectural Science Review. 63(6). 526–535. 21 indexed citations

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Gunawardena, Kanchane & Koen Steemers. (2019). Adaptive comfort assessments in urban neighbourhoods: Simulations of a residential case study from London. Energy and Buildings. 202. 109322–109322. 11 indexed citations

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Gunawardena, Kanchane, Tristan Kershaw, & Koen Steemers. (2019). Simulation pathway for estimating heat island influence on urban/suburban building space-conditioning loads and response to facade material changes. Building and Environment. 150. 195–205. 16 indexed citations

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Gunawardena, Kanchane & Koen Steemers. (2019). Living wall influence on microclimates: an indoor case study. Journal of Physics Conference Series. 1343(1). 12188–12188. 9 indexed citations

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Gunawardena, Kanchane & Koen Steemers. (2018). Living walls in indoor environments. Building and Environment. 148. 478–487. 61 indexed citations

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Gunawardena, Kanchane, et al.. (2017). Utilising green and bluespace to mitigate urban heat island intensity. The Science of The Total Environment. 584-585. 1040–1055. 929 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kershaw, Tristan & Kanchane Gunawardena. (2017). Urban Climate Influence on Building Energy Use. 1 indexed citations

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Gunawardena, Kanchane & Tristan Kershaw. (2016). Green and blue space significance to urban heat island mitigation. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 3 indexed citations

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