46 Punjab University faculty among world’s top 2% scientists, says Stanford University report

Stanford University has released a report on the world's top scientists and a total of 46 PU faculty members are listed in the top 2%.

Study Abroad: Stanford University (SU) has released a list of top scientists, and 46 faculty members of Panjab University (PU) have made it to the top 2% of the list. These scientists are mainly from the sciences and engineering disciplines.

As per the university officials, this is the highest-ever number of PU teachers selected in this list.

While commenting on this, PU’s director of research and development cell Harsh Nayyar said, “This is our best showing in the list. When it was first started around 2020, there were only 11 professors in the first edition. Now we have been able to increase the number four fold," as reported by Hindustan Times.

Nayyar highlighted that this improvement in the scientist's ranking is due to the fact that the researchers at the university are now choosing interesting topics which are getting more citations.

"It is remarkable that the number has increased from 32 to 46 this year and it will reflect in the next yearly rankings of PU," said Vice-chancellor Renu Vig.

More details of Stanford University report

The list is divided into two categories - based on research in 2023 and career-long research. A team comprising Elsevier BV- a leading scientific publisher and Stanford University has conducted a subject-wise bibliometric analysis where scientists were divided into 22 fields and 174 sub-fields. The list will also focus on young professors in the coming years, and the report will aim to increase the number of young professors by 10 to 20% in next year's list.

For career-long research category in the list, there were 24 scientists of the university which included - Indu Pal Kaur, VR Sinha, Anil Kumar, Kanwaljit Chopra, Ashish Dhir, Bhupinder Singh, I Aggarwal, SK Kulkarni, Vishal Gupta, Jaswinder Singh, Sonal Singhal, Rohit Sharma, SK Tomar, Daizy R Batish, Santosh Kumar Upadhyay, L Kumar, Sushil Kumar Kansal, SK Tripathi, MM Aggarwal, Harminder Pal Singh, Kewal Krishan, Harsh Nayyar, and Navneet Kaur.

There are 23 scientists in the single-year data list including Gargi Ghoshal, Navpreet Kaur, SK Mehta, Suman Mor, Rajat Sandhir, Vishal Sharma, Shweta Sharma, Sanjay Chhibber, Sanjeev Gautam, Mamta Juneja, Ravneet Kaur, Neera Garg, Monika Nehra, Subhash Chander, Prince Sharma, Gaurav Verma, Subash C Sahoo, Chetan Sharma, Gurjaspreet Singh, Renu Chadha, Anil Kumar Singla, Gajanand Sharma, and Anurag Kuhad. Gajanand Sharma is a research scholar and not on the PU's faculty list.

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