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1,494 Indians among top 2% scientists in world: Stanford
Twenty-two faculty members and researchers of IIT-G and seven faculty members of Tezpur University are among 1,494 Indian scientists who featured in a list of top 2 per cent of the world scientists
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Twenty-two faculty members and researchers of IIT-G and seven faculty members of Tezpur University are among 1,494 Indian scientists who featured in a list of top 2 per cent of the world scientists
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Twenty-two faculty members and researchers of Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati (IIT-G) and seven faculty members of Tezpur University are among 1,494 Indian scientists who featured in a list of top 2 per cent of the world scientists.
The prestigious list was prepared by a team of scientists in the US' Stanford University, officials said on Saturday.
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Apart from faculty members from IIT-G and Tezpur University, the list also features faculty members from Cotton University, Gauhati University and Assam University.
According to a Tezpur University Press Release, the Stanford University list features a total of 1,494 Indian scientists. The database of the independent study has been published in one of the highly rated journals, PLOS Biology.
A spokesperson of the IIT-G said that the report prepared by experts at Stanford University has listed over 100,000 scientists, whose published research manuscripts have accelerated progress in their respective fields and influenced the productivity of other researchers' work as well.
"Led by Prof T.G. Sitharam, Director IIT-G, the faculty members have been ranked for their research publications citations for the year 2019 and their lifetime contribution to their specific fields of research," an official release of the IIT-G said.
Congratulating the 22 Scientists and their hard-work and commitment to furthering Science, Sitharam said: "This recognition of several faculty in the world's top 2 per cent of Scientists List has placed IIT Guwahati in the global map of Science and has brought great pride to the Institute. I congratulate all of them."
The release said that the database report on field specific analysis was prepared by Prof John P. A. Loannidis of the Stanford University and his team and was published in PLOS Biology.
The submitted research journals in PLOS Biology publication get a wide spectrum of readers as the publication focuses on publishing highly selective research papers across the various global research reports.
The database was created to provide updated analyses and a publicly available database of 100,000 top scientists that provide standardized information on citations, h-index (an index to measure an individual's scientific research output), co-authorship-adjusted hm-index, citations to papers in different authorship positions, and a composite indicator. Such citation metric provides a basis to measure and reflect the impact of a published journal.
The release said that the IIT-G faculty members featuring in the updated list are from various scientific fields -- the Departments of Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Physics, Chemical Engineering, Biosciences and Bioengineering, Chemistry, Electrical and Electronics.
A Press Release of Tezpur University said that all the seven scientists were classified into 22 scientific fields and 176 sub-fields.
For analyses of the citations and the composite indicators, SCOPUS data was used. Scopus is a huge multidisciplinary database with citations and abstracts from peer-reviewed journal literature, trade journals, books, patent records, and conference publications.
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Explained: Why Stanford University has a list of the top 2 per cent scientists
In the exhaustive list of 1,59,683 persons, 1,492 Indians have found a place, with a majority of them being from IITs and IISc and other top institutes, representing fields like physics, material sciences, chemical engineering, plant biology, energy and others.
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Nearly 1,500 Indians in the list, majority from IITs, IISc, other top institutes
In the exhaustive list of 1,59,683 persons, 1,492 Indians have found a place, with a majority of them being from IITs and IISc and other top institutes, representing fields like physics, material sciences, chemical engineering, plant biology, energy and others. There were 16 Indian scientists who are ranked 30 or higher in the world, in their respective fields. The list represents the top 2 per cent of the most-cited scientists in various disciplines using a cumulative career citation index (c-index ) as a guide.
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In the field of Nuclear & Particle Physics, there are two Indians: Ashoke Sen (ranked 13) and T. Padmanabhan (ranked 24). In Pune, distinguished professor at Inter University Centre of Astronomy and Astrophysics Prof Thanu Padmanabhan said that he was prompted by several inquiries and congratulatory messages, to closely study the Stanford list of scientists.
“I was interested in finding who were the top physicists in the area I work in (the area of theoretical physics, which the Stanford list calls “Nuclear & Particle Physics”). There were only two Indians and the next Indian name in my field is way down the list, so that the cut-off at 30 does not seriously affect the situation. The fact that many non-Nobel Laureates outrank Nobel Laureates shows the multidimensionality of the selection criteria of the rank list,” Prof Padmanabhan said.
Edward Witten from the Institute of Advanced Studies tops the list in the field of as many as 1,10,499 authors.
Two ranked close to the top in the field of Inorganic and Nuclear Chemistry
There are two Indian in the field of Inorganic and Nuclear Chemistry: Prof Gautam Desiraju, (ranked 2) and CNR Rao (ranked 3) close to the top. Prof Desiraju, former President of the International Year of Crystallography said that the study has been a serious effort as nearly 1.6 lakh scientists are included. “I suppose we are beginning to make a mark in chemistry,” Prof Desiraju said. “Those who are making this list with very high ranks, say less than 1000, are generally known names,” he said.
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Others in the top 30 list are two from Biotechnology
Biotechnology also has two names: Dr Ashok Pandey, (ranked 8) and Dr S Venkata Mohan, (rank 29). The remaining 10 Indians are distributed as one each in different subjects, defined by a somewhat subjective classification. For instance Dr Shyam Sundar (rank 7) is from Banaras Hindu University in the field of Tropical medicine. There are 28,529 total authors in this field. Similarly, Anisur Rahman Khuda-Bukhsh (rank 26 in the field of complementary and alternative) is from the University of Kalyani. He said that he had to work with many constraints, particularly lack of proper infrastructural facilities and funding. “The survey has given the scope to know where we really stand in terms of contributing to science in our respective fields,” the retired Professor Emeritus of UGC said. Such studies encourage potential researchers to put in more vigor and zeal to do meaningful research, he added.
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