University reference
General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University
General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University, established in 1980, is an active ROR organization in Colombo, LK. ROR classifies the organization under education. This profile preserves public aliases, acronyms, external identifiers, location details and organization relationships supplied by the Research Organization Registry, then links the record to other organizations in the same city and country and to recorded airports in the same city. It is a directory profile, not a university ranking, quality assessment, admissions guide or statement of endorsement by ROR or DataOfWorld.
Key facts
- ROR identifier
- https://ror.org/04n37he08
- Country
- LK
- City
- Colombo
- Administrative area
- Western Province
- Website
- https://kdu.ac.lk
- Established
- 1980
- Organization types
- education
- Aliases
- General Sir John Kotelawala Defence Academy
- Acronyms
- KDU
- External identifiers
grid grid.448842.6 isni 0000 0004 0494 0761 wikidata Q5532198 - Organization relationships
- Latitude
- 6.93548
- Longitude
- 79.84868
- ROR last modified
- 2024-12-11
ROR identity context
Names, identifiers and relationships
These identifiers describe the organization record and do not imply ranking or endorsement.
| Aliases | General Sir John Kotelawala Defence Academy |
|---|---|
| Acronyms | KDU |
| GRID identifiers | grid.448842.6 |
| ISNI identifiers | 0000 0004 0494 0761 |
| WIKIDATA identifiers | Q5532198 |
Wikidata structured context
Published identifiers and revision
Only allowlisted structured claims are used. Wikipedia prose and Wikimedia media are not copied.
| QID | Q5532198 | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revision | 2511236355 | ||||||||||||
| Modified | 2026-06-27T21:20:06Z | ||||||||||||
| Structured label | General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University | ||||||||||||
| Website | http://www.kdu.ac.lk/ | ||||||||||||
| Country QID | Q854 | ||||||||||||
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OpenAlex institution metadata
Works and research-topic context
Institution-level directory statistics only; they are not rankings, quality judgments or endorsements.
Published topics: Mosquito-borne diseases and control, Malaria Research and Control, Viral Infections and Vectors, Natural Antidiabetic Agents Studies, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research, Diabetes, Cardiovascular Risks, and Lipoproteins, COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies, Sustainable Building Design and Assessment, Essential Oils and Antimicrobial Activity, Chronic Kidney Disease and Diabetes
Annual indicator
Institution works indexed by OpenAlex
282.00 works2024
Institution-level yearly works counts in OpenAlex; not a ranking or quality measure. Values retain the source period and unit.
View source data
| Period | works | Source flag | Confidentiality |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 282.00 works | — | — |
| 2023 | 304.00 works | — | — |
| 2022 | 262.00 works | — | — |
| 2021 | 245.00 works | — | — |
| 2020 | 188.00 works | — | — |
| 2019 | 107.00 works | — | — |
| 2018 | 70.00 works | — | — |
| 2017 | 68.00 works | — | — |
| 2016 | 58.00 works | — | — |
| 2015 | 28.00 works | — | — |
| 2014 | 20.00 works | — | — |
| 2013 | 11.00 works | — | — |
| 2012 | 10.00 works | — | — |
| 2011 | 1.00 works | — | — |
| 2010 | 1.00 works | — | — |
Field-level provenance
Sources for this profile
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Research Organization Registry
- Applicable date
- 2026-07-20
- Dataset version
- dbdfb9b8dad3
- License
- Creative Commons CC0 1.0
- Attribution
- Research Organization Registry (ROR)
DataOfWorld deterministic university profile template
- Applicable date
- 2026-07-20
- Dataset version
- university-profile-v1
- License
- Original DataOfWorld text
- Attribution
- DataOfWorld
Wikidata structured data
- Applicable date
- 2026-07-31
- Dataset version
- eb43f3a86f09
- License
- Creative Commons CC0 1.0
- Attribution
- Wikidata structured data; DataOfWorld preserves QID and revision metadata.
OpenAlex metadata
- Applicable date
- 2026-07-31
- Dataset version
- d2db0733a699
- License
- Creative Commons CC0 1.0
- Attribution
- OpenAlex; metadata only, no full text or abstracts are published.
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