48 from PU on list of world’s top 2% scientists

As many as 48 Panjab University (PU) faculty members have featured in this year’s Stanford–Elsevier list of the world’s top 2% scientists. Thirty of them have secured place in career-wise ranks.

The PU faculty members who have made it to the list are Kewal Krishan, Santosh Kumar Upadhyay, Harsh Nayyar, Gargi Ghoshal, Sushil Kumar Kansal, Bhupinder Singh Bhoop, Suman Mor, Surinder Kumar Mehta, IP Kaur, Rajat Sandhir, Surya Kant Tripathi, Daizy Rani Batish, Harminder Pal Singh, SK Kulkarni, AH Kaur, Shweta Sharma, Sanjay Chhibber, Sonal Singhal, RK Kohli, Vishal K Sharma, Mamta Juneja, Jaswinder Singh, Kanwaljit K Chopra, Vivek Ranjan Sinha, Sanjeev Gautam, Neera Garg, Shankar Sehgal, Om Prakash Katare, Prince K Sharma, Monika Nehra, Kashmir Singh, Kusum Harjai, Gurjaspreet Singh, Sushil Kumar Tomar, Shailendra Kumar Arya, Vishal Gupta, Anupama Kaushik, Renu Chadha, Lokesh Ashok Kumar, Anil Kumar, Anurag Kuhad, Gajanand S Sharma, Gaurav Verma, Navneet Kaur, Vandita Kakkar, Ravi Pratap Barnwal, Subash Chandra Sahoo and Jatin Chadha.

Among those who achieved career-wise rank are SK Kulkarni, Kewal Krishan, Harsh Nayyar, Bhupinder Singh Bhoop, Surinder Kumar Mehta, Harminder Pal Singh, Anil Kumar, Kanwaljit K Chopra, Santosh Kumar Upadhyay, IP Kaur, Daizy Rani Batish, Surya Kant Tripathi, Vivek Ranjan Sinha, Sushil Kumar Kansal, Lokesh Ashok Kumar, MM Aggarwal, RK Kohli, Sonal Singhal, Suman Mor, Om Prakash Katare, AH Kaur, Sushil Kumar Tomar, Vishal Gupta, Gargi Ghoshal, Anurag Kuhad, Prince K Sharma, Jaswinder Singh and Harmesh Kumar.

The database, which is based on a composite citation score assessing career-long and recent research impact, reflects the PU’s sustained growth in high-quality publications, interdisciplinary collaborations and international visibility.

Single-year ranks focus on research impact within a specific year; for this ranking, 2024 research and publications data have been taken, while the career-wise ranks provide a comprehensive evaluation of their research impact across their entire academic career.

Congratulating the faculty, Vice Chancellor Prof Renu Vig said the distinguished PU scholars named in the two categories of the 2025 list represented a wide cross-section of departments and institutes — from the University Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, forensic science, environmental sciences, chemistry, botany and physics to the UICET, the UIET, microbiology, biotechnology and biophysics — underlining the university’s broad research-base and growing international visibility.

“Our sustained focus on high-quality, impactful research is showing up in global bibliometric and ranking indicators. This latest recognition by the Stanford–Elsevier team is an important external validation,” she said.