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21 students from Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) have featured in the Stanford University's researcher list.

This list comprises of top 2% scientists worldwide and was released by the world-renowned university a few days back.

It was prepared by a team of experts led by Prof. John Loannidis, Professor at Stanford University and published by Elsevier BV,.

Stanford University scientists have created a database of top-cited scientists that provide standardized information on citations, h-index, co-authorship adjusted hm-index, citations to papers in different authorship positions and a composite indicator (c-score). They show separate data for career-long and for single recent year impact.

Career-long data are updated to end-of-2021, and single current-year data pertain to citations received during the calendar year 2021. The selection is based on a percentile rank of 2% or above in the sub-field. They classified scientists into 22 scientific fields and 176 sub-fields.

JMI Vice Chancellor Prof. Najma Akhtar said, “It is an acknowledgement of the high standard of research being undertaken at JMI. This recognition places the university on the global map of excellence and brings great pride to the institution.”

Almost three thousand researchers from India found a place in the list that represents the beneficial impact of the country on the global research platform.

Stanford University released two separate lists. The first list is based on career-long in which 07 JMI professors found their place. The second list for the year 2021 performance has 21 scientists from JMI.

From JMI, Prof. Imran Ali, Prof. Sushant G. Ghosh, Prof. Tokeer Ahmad, Prof Sharif Ahmed and Prof Tariqul Islam found a place in both the coveted lists (Career-long and Single year 2021).

While in the 2021 list of the top 2% scientists, Prof Abid Haleem, Prof Haseeb Ahsan, Prof Mohd Javaid, Prof Atiqur Rahman, Prof Rafiq Ahmad, Dr Md Imtiyaas Hassan, Prof Sharf Ilahi Siddiqui, Prof Saif Ali Chaudhry, Prof Tabrez Alam Khan, Dr Musheer Ahmad, Dr Khalid Raza, Dr Arshad Noor Siddiquee, Prof Faqeer Mohammad, Dr Ufana Riaz, Dr Ahteshamul Haque, and Dr Rana Tabassum have been included.

Prof Ankan Sen and Prof Amir Azam are only on the Career-long top 2% of scientists list.

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The publicly available database of over 100,000 top scientists provides standardized information on citations, h-index, and citations to papers in different authorship positions and a composite indicator.