Rashmin Gunasekera

637 total citations · 1 hit paper
21 papers, 459 citations indexed

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Rashmin Gunasekera is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Rashmin Gunasekera has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 459 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 5 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 5 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Rashmin Gunasekera's work include Flood Risk Assessment and Management (6 papers), Disaster Management and Resilience (5 papers) and Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research (4 papers). Rashmin Gunasekera is often cited by papers focused on Flood Risk Assessment and Management (6 papers), Disaster Management and Resilience (5 papers) and Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research (4 papers). Rashmin Gunasekera collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Rashmin Gunasekera's co-authors include Yoshi Abe, Anawat Suppasri, Kentaro Imai, Ingrid Charvet, Yo Fukutani, Fumihiko Imamura, Erick Mas, G. R. Foulger, Bruce R. Julian and Christoph Aubrecht and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Remote Sensing of Environment and Earth-Science Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Rashmin Gunasekera

20 papers receiving 431 citations

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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.

Building damage characteristics based on surveyed data and fragility curves of the 2011 Great East Japan tsunami

2012 229 citations Anawat Suppasri, Erick Mas et al. Natural Hazards profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rashmin Gunasekera United States	8	221	157	132	129	66	21	459
Kwanchai Pakoksung Japan	13	210 1.0×	97 0.6×	97 0.7×	130 1.0×	60 0.9×	45	452
Stefan Reese New Zealand	4	167 0.8×	168 1.1×	107 0.8×	148 1.1×	70 1.1×	5	374
Yo Fukutani Japan	9	267 1.2×	192 1.2×	73 0.6×	137 1.1×	82 1.2×	22	417
Filippo Dall’Osso Australia	9	247 1.1×	142 0.9×	125 0.9×	202 1.6×	81 1.2×	10	421
Abdul Muhari Indonesia	13	369 1.7×	100 0.6×	61 0.5×	75 0.6×	149 2.3×	22	717
Nick Horspool New Zealand	16	547 2.5×	282 1.8×	90 0.7×	157 1.2×	80 1.2×	38	868
Hamzah Latief Indonesia	13	540 2.4×	113 0.7×	38 0.3×	112 0.9×	110 1.7×	32	810
Mohammad Bagus Adityawan Indonesia	12	85 0.4×	170 1.1×	134 1.0×	106 0.8×	152 2.3×	94	438
Ryan Paulik New Zealand	15	140 0.6×	132 0.8×	199 1.5×	207 1.6×	155 2.3×	52	560
Chiara Scaini Italy	11	112 0.5×	60 0.4×	129 1.0×	141 1.1×	20 0.3×	35	360

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Wilson, Thomas, Josh L. Hayes, Carol Stewart, et al.. (2024). Rapid remote volcanic ashfall impact assessment for the 2022 eruption of Hunga volcano, Tonga: a bespoke approach and lessons identified. Bulletin of Volcanology. 86(11).

Bruijn, Jens de, James Daniell, Antonios Pomonis, et al.. (2022). Using rapid damage observations for Bayesian updating of hurricane vulnerability functions: A case study of Hurricane Dorian using social media. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. 72. 102839–102839. 9 indexed citations

Miranda, Juan José, et al.. (2021). Mangroves as Coastal Protection for Local Economic Activities from Hurricanes in the Caribbean. World Bank, Washington, DC eBooks. 2 indexed citations

Gunasekera, Rashmin, et al.. (2021). Mangroves as a Coastal Protection of Local Economic Activities from Hurricanes in the Caribbean. Washington, DC: World Bank eBooks. 1 indexed citations

Bruijn, Jens de, James Daniell, Antonios Pomonis, et al.. (2020). Using rapid damage observations from social media for Bayesian updating of hurricane vulnerability functions: A case study of Hurricane Dorian. 3 indexed citations

Gunasekera, Rashmin, et al.. (2020). Disaster Risk Finance for Adaptive Social Protection. World Bank, Washington, DC eBooks. 3 indexed citations

Gunasekera, Rashmin, et al.. (2018). An innovation to Disaster Response: The Global RApid-post-disaster Damage Estimation (GRADE) Approach. EGUGA. 10348. 1 indexed citations

Aubrecht, Christoph, et al.. (2016). Consistent yet adaptive global geospatial identification of urban–rural patterns: The iURBAN model. Remote Sensing of Environment. 187. 230–240. 18 indexed citations

Gunasekera, Rashmin, et al.. (2016). Consistent Yet Adaptive Global Geospatial Identification of Urban–Rural Patterns: The iURBAN Model. Elsevier eBooks. 2 indexed citations

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Mahul, Olivier, et al.. (2015). Fiscal disaster risk assessment options for consideration : Pakistan. 1–79. 4 indexed citations

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Gunasekera, Rashmin, Christoph Aubrecht, Brian Blankespoor, et al.. (2015). Developing an adaptive global exposure model to support the generation of country disaster risk profiles. Earth-Science Reviews. 150. 594–608. 50 indexed citations

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Gunasekera, Rashmin, et al.. (2014). Development and Analysis of a Hurricane Hazard Model for Disaster Risk Assessment in Central America. 2014 AGU Fall Meeting. 2014. 1 indexed citations

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Gunasekera, Rashmin, et al.. (2014). Developing an Adaptive Exposure Model to Support the Generation of Country Disaster Risk Profiles. EGUGA. 16168. 2 indexed citations

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Gunasekera, Rashmin, et al.. (2013). A Globally Consistent Methodology for an Exposure Model for Natural Catastrophe Risk Assessment. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 1 indexed citations

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Suppasri, Anawat, Erick Mas, Ingrid Charvet, et al.. (2012). Building damage characteristics based on surveyed data and fragility curves of the 2011 Great East Japan tsunami. Natural Hazards. 66(2). 319–341. 229 indexed citations breakdown →

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Gunasekera, Rashmin, et al.. (2009). Quantitative and Public Perception of Landslide Risk in Badulla, Sri Lanka. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 12385. 1 indexed citations

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Cole, Paul, José Pacheco, Rashmin Gunasekera, et al.. (2008). Contrasting styles of explosive eruption at Sete Cidades, São Miguel, Azores, in the last 5000 years: Hazard implications from modelling. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research. 178(3). 574–591. 30 indexed citations

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Gunasekera, Rashmin, Giovanni Zanchetta, Clive Oppenheimer, et al.. (2008). GIS‐assisted modelling for debris flow hazard assessment based on the events of May 1998 in the area of Sarno, Southern Italy: II. Velocity and dynamic pressure. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 33(11). 1693–1708. 27 indexed citations

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Gunasekera, Rashmin. (2004). Use of GIS for environmental impact assessment: an interdisciplinary approach. Interdisciplinary Science Reviews. 29(1). 37–48. 12 indexed citations

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Gunasekera, Rashmin, G. R. Foulger, & Bruce R. Julian. (2003). Reservoir depletion at The Geysers geothermal area, California, shown by four‐dimensional seismic tomography. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 108(B3). 60 indexed citations

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