Over 100 from TN, Pondy ranked among world’s top 2% scientists

Over 100 from TN, Pondy ranked among world’s top 2% scientists

Bosco.Dominique@timesgroup.com

06.11.2020

medicine. The report was based on a data-set of one lakh top scientists from 22 main fields and 176 sub-fields. Based on various indicators, mainly the impact of the scientists in terms of citations of their publications, the Stanford team has identified the world’s top 2% scientists.

Specialist doctors, researchers and teaching faculty from more than a dozen premier institutions Puducherry: More than 100 experts from Tamil Nadu and Puducherry have featured in the top 2% of scientists worldwide, in a report by Stanford University. The Stanford report was published in the October issue of PLOS, a nonprofit and an open-access publisher empowering researchers to accelerate progress in science and including Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras, National Institute of Technology (NIT), Trichy, Christian Medical College (CMC), Vellore, Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), Madurai Kamaraj University, Bharathiar University and Bharathidasan University in Tamil Nadu, and Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (Jipmer) and Pondicherry University in Puducherry, are among the top 2%.

The list includes N Kumarasamy (virology) from Chennai Antiviral Research and Treatment Clinical Research Site, Jipmer director Rakesh Aggarwal (gastroenterology & hepatology), former Jipmer director S C Parija (tropical medicine) and S A Abbasi (strategic, defence & security studies) from Pondicherry University among others.

Kumarasamy is the chief and director of the centre at Voluntary Health Services (VHS) Hospital in Chennai, an advisor and expert panel member for WHO - ARV treatment guidelines committee and a clinical advisor to Clinton Health Access Initiative. Parija has two patents, authored 16 books and more than 350 papers both in the national and international journals of repute.