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IIT Guwahati

21 IIT Guwahati Researchers selected among World’s Top 2 percent Scientists List

| @indiablooms | Oct 12, 2022, at 09:27 pm

Guwahati: A total of 21 Researchers and faculty members from the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, including Prof. T. G. Sitharam, Director of the Institute, have been featured among the world’s Top 2 per cent Scientists List created by Stanford University, US.

Prof. T. G. Sitharam, Director, along with 20 other faculty members have been ranked for their research publications citations using all Scopus author profiles as of 1st September 2022 and their lifetime contribution to their specific fields of research in the list.

Congratulating the Institute’s faculty members for the scientific contribution, Prof. T.G. Sitharam, Director, IIT Guwahati, 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 21 scientists and their hard-work and commitment to furthering Science.”

Scientists are classified into 22 scientific fields and 176 sub-fields. The selection is based on the top 100,000 scientists by c-score (with and without self-citations) or a percentile rank of 2 per cent or above in the sub-field.

As many as 195,605 scientists are included in the career-long database and 200,409 scientists are included in the single recent year dataset. This version (4) is based on the 1st September 2022 snapshot from Scopus, updated to end of citation year 2021.

The IIT Guwahati faculty members featured in the Stanford University list are from various scientific fields including the Departments of Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Physics, Chemical Engineering, Biosciences and Bioengineering, Chemistry, Electrical and Electronics.

These faculty members include –

  1. Prof. T.G. Sitharam, Director, IIT Guwahati
  2. Prof. Vijay S. Moholkar, Department of Chemical Engineering
  3. Prof. P. K. Giri, Department of Physics and Center for Nanotechnology
  4. Prof. Mihir Kumar Pulkit, Department of Chemical Engineering
  5. Prof. Tharmalingam Punniyamurthy, Department of Chemistry
  6. Prof. M. Groll, Visiting Professor
  7. Prof. Biman B. Mandal, Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering,
  8. Prof. Kaustubha Mohanty, Department of Chemical Engineering
  9. Prof. Somanath Majhi, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering
  10. Prof. Amarendra K. Sarma, Department of Physics
  11. Prof. Jubaraj Bikash Baruah, Department of Chemistry
  12. Prof. Rakhesh Singh Kshetrimayum, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering
  13. Prof. Rajiv Tiwari, Department of Mechanical Engineering
  14. Prof. Debabrata Chakraborty, Department of Mechanical Engineering
  15. Prof. Vaibhav V. Goud, Department of Chemical Engineering
  16. Prof. Ujjwal K. Saha, Department of Mechanical Engineering
  17. Prof. P. Muthukumar, Department of Mechanical Engineering
  18. Dr. Lalit M. Pandey, Associate Professor, Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering
  19. Dr. Sanjib Ganguly, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering
  20. Dr. Bibhas Ranjan Majhi, Associate Professor at the Department of Physics
  21. Dr. Ajaikumar B. Kunnumakkara, Associate Professor, Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering

(Reporting by Hemanta Kumar Nath)

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