Expressnews
Chennai, October 2023: With great pride Hindustan Group of Institutions announces that five faculty members have been featured in the list of top 2 percent scientists around the world in Stanford University Rankings 2023. The selection is based on the top 100,000 scientists by c-score (with and without self-citations) or a percentile rank of 2% or above in the sub-field.
There are two lists which have been released — one based on career-long data and another focusing on the performance of researchers in the year 2022. A total of five professors have been named in both lists — Dr. M.Prabaharan, Dr. Adeyeye Samuel Ayofemi Olalekan, Dr. Panigrahi Puspamitra, Dr. V. Hariram from Hindustan and Dr. M Arulprakasajoth from KCG college of Technology.
Two professors have been named in the ‘career’ list — Dr.M.Prabaharan and Dr. M Arulprakasajothi.
This recognition is based on a publicly available database of over 96,17,763 top scientists, which includes standardised information on citations, h-index, citations to papers in various authorship positions, and a composite indicator.
Speaking about the achievement Dr. Anand Jacob Verghese, Chairman Hindustan Group of Institutions and Chancellor, Hindustan Institute of Technology and Science said “I extend my heartfelt congratulations to the professors, on being recognised as one of the world’s Top 2% of scientists in 2023. I am happy that the honour came during the time when our institution had acquired A+ (3.48/4) grade by NAAC.
Stanford University’s global list includes top 2% scientists in all fields in 2 categories: (1) Career wise and (2) Previous 1 year (2022). Globally, the list comprises 210,199 scientists from all fields who are in the top 2 per cent. There are 4,635 from India (2.2%)
Stanford University’s list features approximately 3,500 researchers from India.
