11 scientists of Panjab University in top world rankings

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, November 1

Eleven scientists from Panjab University have adorned the most coveted list of ‘World Ranking of Top 2% Scientists’ in the Indian subcontinent.

The subject-wise analysis was meticulously conducted by a team of scientists at the Stanford University, USA, led by Dr John PA Ioannidis. The database has just been published in one of the highly rated journals, PLOS Biology. The scientists of Stanford University have created a database of more than 100,000 top scientists of the world on the basis of standardised citation indicators such as information on citations, H-index, co-authorship and a composite indicator.

All scientists were classified into 22 scientific fields and 176 sub-fields. For analyses of the citations and the composite indicators, SCOPUS data provided by Elsevier was used with data freeze as on May 6.

The Vice-Chancellor, Prof Raj Kumar, expressed his felicitations for the scientists for bringing laurels to the PU and Prof VK Sinha, Dean Research, extended his heartiest congratulations to all for their commendable work which got due recognition through this study.

Those on the coveted list

• From the University of Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences (field of pharmacology and pharmacy), Professor (Emeritus) SK Kulkarni (eield of pharmacology), Professor VR Sinha (field of pharmaceutics), Professor Bhupinder Singh Bhoop (field of pharmaceutics), Professor Kanwaljit Chopra (field of pharmacology), Professor Indu Pal Kaur (field of pharmaceutics)
• Department of physics: Professor (Emeritus) Satya Prakash (field of materials), Professor (Emeritus) MM Aggarwal (field of nuclear and particle physics)
• Department of botany (plant biology and botany): Professor Harminder Pal Singh (field of plant biology and botany), Professor Harsh Nayyar (field of plant biology and botany)
• Dr SSB University Institute of Chemical Engineering and Technology: Professor Sushil Kumar Kansal (field of materials)
• Department of anthropology: Dr Kewal Krishan (field of legal and forensic medicine)

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