Indians featured in Stanford’s top scientists of the world

World renowned Standford University has released a report of the top 2% scientists in the world in various fields and over 1000 Indian scientists made it to the list. Standford experts made the list of the scientists on the basis of indicators like information on citations, h-index, co-authorship, and a composite indicator.

Interestingly many notable Indian scientists feature on the list. A majority are from IITs, IISc, and other top institutes and come from fields like physics, material sciences, chemical engineering, plant biology, energy etc.

All of these scientists were classified into 22 scientific fields and 176 sub-fields in the report which was created under the lead of Dr John Ioannidis. The report has been published in PLOS Biology.

A few of the most prominent names among Indian scientists features in the study are:

• Dr RA Mashelkar — who pioneered Gandhian engineering.

• Ahmed Kamal — Jamia Hamdard Pro-Chancellor.

• Ambuj Sagar, DK Sharma, KA Subramaniam IIT Delhi.

• Prof Rakesh Aggarwal, currently on deputation as director of JIPMER Puducherry.

• Dr Vidya Arankalle — former director grade scientists at National Institute of Virology.

• Dr Bhushan Patwardhan — Vice-chairman of University Grants Commission (UGC).

• Dr T Padmanabhan — theoretical physicist.

• Dr Naresh Dadich — from IUCAA.

• Dr Sundeep Salvi and Dr C S Yajnik — top names in their respective fields of
respiratory medicine and diabetes.

• AK Srivastava, Deepak Kumar, Vishnu J Ram from Lucknow University

• Ashok Pandey, Kunwar P Singh, Rikabh C Srimal, Y Shukla, BS Khangarot, Poonam Kakkar,
Biswaroop Das from IIT Roorkee.

• Prof. KS Rangappa — former Vice-Chancellor, University of Mysore (UoM) and past General
President of Indian Science Congress Association.

• Prof. Ranjan Bose — Director of Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi
(IIIT-Delhi), national coordinator for the Mission Project on Virtual Labs, and recipient
of Vikram Sarabhai Research Award.

• Prof. GPS Raghava — bio-informatician, head of the Department of Computational Biology
at the Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, and recipient of Shanti Swarup
Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in 2008.