74 BHU scientists named in world’s top 2% of scientists: Stanford University

NEW DELHI: A total of 74 scientists of Banaras Hindu University (BHU) have been listed in the world’s top 2 percent of scientists published by Stanford University, USA. Out of the 74 scientists, 32 scientists are from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT-BHU) and 36 doctors of BHU and six doctors of Institute Of Medical Sciences (IMS BHU).

Shyam Sundar, JS Singh, Subash Chandra Gupta, Ajay Tyagi from Banaras Hindu University. Yogesh C Sharma, SK Gupta, Pranjal Chandra, Rajiv Prakash are among the scientists listed from IIT BHU.

The data is collected manually based on the ranking from Google Scholar, the profiles with up to 300 citations and verified addresses or the profiles that build confidence for their accuracy are listed primarily.

“Thus, it is aimed to standardize the names, institutions, and branches as much as possible. Non-standardized data including wide ranges of variations in the information and the use of abbreviations and a variety of languages have caused difficulties,” the university said in a statement.

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Methodology

Having a large number of publications indicates that the researcher is productive, but data alone may not be the actual indicator of the success of the researcher.

“The i10-index is another academic scoring system, in which the scores are calculated by Google Scholar. In this scoring system, only scientific studies such as articles and books that have received 10 or more citations are taken into consideration,” it said.

The i10 index and the h-index values calculated for the last five years do not show that the article was written and published in the last 5 years. Instead, these values show the citation power in the last 5 years, indicating whether the paper is still effective.

Welcoming contributions in data cleaning and ensuring accuracy, it said, “Some of the profiles were excluded during the regular examination of the data onward.”