New Delhi
Jamia Milia Islamia university’s 16 researchers figure in the list of top two percent scientists in the world prepared by the Stanford University of the USA.
In all, 3,352 researchers from India have figured in the list.
Stanford University has released two lists in which the first coveted list is based on career-long data and eight professors from JMI got enlisted in it.
The second list is based on the 2020 performance in which 16 scientists from the JMI are featured.
According to an official statement from JMI, Prof Imran Ali, Prof Atiqur Rehman, Prof Anjan A Sen, Prof Haseeb Ahsan, Prof Sushant G Ghosh, Prof S Ahmad, Prof Tokeer Ahmad, and Dr Mohd Imtaiyaz are included in both the coveted lists.
In the 2020 list of top two percent scientists, Prof Abid Haleem, Prof Rafiq Ahmad, Prof Tabrez Alam Khan, Prof Mohd Javaid, Prof Arshad Noor Siddique, Prof Musheer Ahmad, Prof Faizan Ahmad, and Prof Tarikul Islam have been included.
In a statement, JMI University said, the Stanford list was prepared by a team of experts led by Prof John Ioannidis, the eminent professor at Stanford University and published by Elsevier BV, reads a 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.
Scientists are classified into 22 scientific fields and 176 sub- fields. Career-long data are updated to end-of-2020. The selection is based on the top 100,000 by c-score or a percentile rank of 2 percent or above.
JMI vice-chancellor professor Najma Akhtar said “It is an acknowledgment of the high standard of research being undertaken at JMI. This recognition places the university in the global map of excellence and brings great pride to the institution.”