Nimal Perera

835 total citations
14 papers, 554 citations indexed

About

Nimal Perera is a scholar working on Anthropology, Paleontology and Archeology. According to data from OpenAlex, Nimal Perera has authored 14 papers receiving a total of 554 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Anthropology, 9 papers in Paleontology and 7 papers in Archeology. Recurrent topics in Nimal Perera's work include Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (9 papers), Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (8 papers) and Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (7 papers). Nimal Perera is often cited by papers focused on Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (9 papers), Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (8 papers) and Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (7 papers). Nimal Perera collaborates with scholars based in Sri Lanka, United Kingdom and Australia. Nimal Perera's co-authors include Siran Deraniyagala, Michael D. Petraglia, Oshan Wedage, Patrick Roberts, Jude Perera, Ian A. Simpson, Nikos Kourampas, Julia A. Lee‐Thorp, Nicole Boivin and Dorian Q. Fuller and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Nimal Perera

14 papers receiving 533 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Nimal Perera Sri Lanka 11 364 332 224 180 96 14 554
Noel Amano Germany 15 330 0.9× 300 0.9× 187 0.8× 268 1.5× 71 0.7× 46 625
Siran Deraniyagala Sri Lanka 12 443 1.2× 388 1.2× 334 1.5× 205 1.1× 152 1.6× 21 751
Oshan Wedage Sri Lanka 9 259 0.7× 240 0.7× 164 0.7× 142 0.8× 66 0.7× 14 415
Nikos Kourampas United Kingdom 9 275 0.8× 198 0.6× 134 0.6× 102 0.6× 80 0.8× 12 396
Ceren Kabukcu United Kingdom 13 199 0.5× 358 1.1× 190 0.8× 91 0.5× 85 0.9× 18 512
Christopher Morgan United States 15 481 1.3× 493 1.5× 135 0.6× 136 0.8× 182 1.9× 38 807
Anne Ford New Zealand 9 236 0.6× 218 0.7× 69 0.3× 284 1.6× 69 0.7× 25 436
Llorenç Picornell-Gelabert Spain 14 258 0.7× 362 1.1× 238 1.1× 99 0.6× 185 1.9× 43 712
Alfred Pawlik Philippines 20 710 2.0× 475 1.4× 418 1.9× 478 2.7× 52 0.5× 58 896
Steven T. Goldstein Germany 14 346 1.0× 292 0.9× 111 0.5× 60 0.3× 63 0.7× 32 575

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Fields of papers citing papers by Nimal Perera

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nimal Perera

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Nimal Perera. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Nimal Perera based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Nimal Perera. Nimal Perera is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

14 of 14 papers shown
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Langley, Michelle C., Noel Amano, Oshan Wedage, et al.. (2020). Bows and arrows and complex symbolic displays 48,000 years ago in the South Asian tropics. Science Advances. 6(24). eaba3831–eaba3831. 49 indexed citations
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Allué, Ethel, Charlene Murphy, Eleanor Kingwell-Banham, et al.. (2020). A step forward in tropical anthracology: understanding woodland vegetation and wood uses in ancient Sri Lanka based on charcoal records from Mantai, Kirinda and Kantharodai. Quaternary International. 593-594. 236–247. 3 indexed citations
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Wedage, Oshan, Noel Amano, Michelle C. Langley, et al.. (2019). Specialized rainforest hunting by Homo sapiens ~45,000 years ago. Nature Communications. 10(1). 739–739. 67 indexed citations
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Wedage, Oshan, Andrea Picin, James Blinkhorn, et al.. (2019). Microliths in the South Asian rainforest ~45-4 ka: New insights from Fa-Hien Lena Cave, Sri Lanka. PLoS ONE. 14(10). e0222606–e0222606. 48 indexed citations
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Murphy, Charlene, Alison Weisskopf, Nimal Perera, et al.. (2018). Early agriculture in Sri Lanka: New Archaeobotanical analyses and radiocarbon dates from the early historic sites of Kirinda and Kantharodai (Kandarodai). Archaeological Research in Asia. 16. 88–102. 11 indexed citations
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Kingwell-Banham, Eleanor, et al.. (2018). Spice and rice: pepper, cloves and everyday cereal foods at the ancient port of Mantai, Sri Lanka. Antiquity. 92(366). 1552–1570. 15 indexed citations
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Roberts, Patrick, Nimal Perera, Oshan Wedage, et al.. (2017). Fruits of the forest: Human stable isotope ecology and rainforest adaptations in Late Pleistocene and Holocene (∼36 to 3 ka) Sri Lanka. Journal of Human Evolution. 106. 102–118. 60 indexed citations
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Perera, Nimal & Sarath W. Kotagama. (2016). OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES IN MAINTAINING THE ECOLOGICAL CHARACTER OF BUNDALA RAMSAR SITE, SRI LANKA. 4(3). 1 indexed citations
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Roberts, Patrick, Nimal Perera, Oshan Wedage, et al.. (2015). Direct evidence for human reliance on rainforest resources in late Pleistocene Sri Lanka. Science. 347(6227). 1246–1249. 93 indexed citations
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Lewis, Laura A., Nimal Perera, & Michael D. Petraglia. (2014). First technological comparison of Southern African Howiesons Poort and South Asian Microlithic industries: An exploration of inter-regional variability in microlithic assemblages. Quaternary International. 350. 7–25. 34 indexed citations
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Perera, Nimal, et al.. (2014). The Discovery and Excavation of a Human Burial from the Mini-athiliya Shell Midden in Southern Sri Lanka. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5. 9 indexed citations
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Perera, Nimal, Nikos Kourampas, Ian A. Simpson, et al.. (2011). People of the ancient rainforest: Late Pleistocene foragers at the Batadomba-lena rockshelter, Sri Lanka. Journal of Human Evolution. 61(3). 254–269. 92 indexed citations
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Perera, Nimal. (1975). A Physiognomic Vegetation Map of Sri Lanka (Ceylon). Journal of Biogeography. 2(3). 185–185. 25 indexed citations

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