S. Vishnu Sharma
22 researchers from IIT Guwahati have found place among the world’s top 2 percent scientists list created by Stanford University and was released on 16 October this year in the journal PLOS.
The journal featuring 22 researchers from IIT Guwahati is available on the link ‘https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3000918’
22 researchers from IIT Guwahati feature in great top list
The 22 researchers from IIT Guwahati who featured in the world’s top 2 percent scientist list were faculties at IIT Guwahati and belong to various scientific areas like Departments of Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Physics, Chemical Engineering, Biosciences and Bioengineering, Chemistry, Electrical and Electronics.
The 22 researchers from IIT Guwahati led by Professor T.G. Sitharam, director of IIT Guwahati have been ranked for their research publications, citation for 2019 and their lifetime contribution to their scientific fields of research.
The report which also features 22 researchers from IIT Guwahati was prepared by experts at Stanford University and has listed over 100,000 scientists whose published research manuscripts have accelerated progress in their respective fields and influenced the productivity of other researcher’s work as well.
The report which also features 22 researchers from IIT Guwahati on field specific analysis was prepared by Professor John P.A. Loannidis of the Stanford University (USA) and his team and was published in PLOS Biology- prestigious publication forum.
The submitted research journals in PLOS Biology publication get a wide spectrum of readers as the publication focusses on publishing highly selective research papers across the various global research reports.
The database which also features 22 researchers from IIT Guwahati was created to provide updated analyses and a publicly available database of 100,000 top Scientists who 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.
Speaking about the 22 researchers from IIT Guwahati who are featured in world’s top scientist list, Professor T.G. Sitharam said this recognition of several faculty in the world’s top 2% of Scientists List has placed IIT Guwahati in the global map of Science and has brought great pride to the Institute.
‘I congratulate all the 22 researchers from IIT Guwahati and their hard-work and commitment to furthering Science.’
These 22 researchers from IIT Guwahati have made the entire nation proud.
The names of the 22 researchers from IIT Guwahati is available in a tabular format which is provided below:
The following are the 22 researchers from IIT Guwahati who have featured in the list of World’s Top 2% Scientists, the list has the name of the researcher and the department they belong to
| 1 | Ajaikumar B. Kunnumakkara, | Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering |
| 2 | Mihir Kumar Purkait | Department of Chemical Engineering |
| 3 | Vijayanand S. Moholkar | Department of Chemical Engineering |
| 4 | Pravat Kumar Giri | Department of Physics, |
| 5 | Biman B. Mandal | Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering |
| 6 | Tharmalingam Punniyamurthy | Department of Chemistry |
| 7 | Kaustubha Mohanty | Department of Chemical Engineering |
| 8 | Shyam Biswas | Department of Chemistry |
| 9 | Sanjib Ganguly | Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering |
| 10 | Gautam Biswas (Former Director, IITG) | Professor of Mechanical Engineering |
| 11 | Pranjal Chandra | Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering |
| 12 | Vaibhav V. Goud | Department of Chemical Engineering |
| 13 | Ujjwal K. Saha | Professor of Mechanical Engineering |
| 14 | Ajay S. Kalamdhad | Department of Civil Engineering |
| 15 | P. Muthukumar | Department of Mechanical Engineering |
| 16 | Amarendra K. Sarma | Department of Physics |
| 17 | Rakhesh Singh Kshetrimayum | Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering |
| 18 | M. Groll (Visiting Professor, IITG) | Visiting Professor, IITG |
| 19 | Bibhas Ranjan Majhi | Department of Physics |
| 20 | Rajiv Tiwari | Department of Mechanical Engineering |
| 21 | Debasish Borah | Department of Physics |
| 22 | T. G. Sitharam | Director of Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati |
About IIT GuwahatiIndian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati established in 1994 has completed 25 years of glorious existence in 2019.
At present, the Institute has eleven departments and five inter-disciplinary academic centres covering all the major engineering, science and humanities disciplines, offering BTech, BDes, MA, MDes, MTech, MSc and PhD programmes.
The Institute offers a residential campus to 412 faculty members and more than 6,000 students at present.
Besides its laurels in teaching and research, IIT Guwahati has been able to fulfil the aspirations of people of the North East region to a great extent since its inception in 1994.
The picturesque campus is on a sprawling 285 hectares plot on the north bank of the Brahmaputra, around 20 kms from the heart of the Guwahati city.