Five city researchers among top 200 in the world

Hyderabad: Five city researchers have made it to the top 200 ranks across the world in their fields, as per data complied by a professor from Stanford University. The rankings were published in journal PLOS Biology recently.

Among the top was B Yegnanarayana, who was ranked 29 in speech-language pathology and audiology and is associated with International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (

IIITH

).

Making it to the list were three faculty members from University of Hyderabad (UoH), including

MNV Prasad

of the School of Life Science, who was ranked 116 in the field of environmental sciences; Ashwini Nangia of School of Chemistry, ranked 124th in the field of

Inorganic

and Nuclear Chemistry; and Pramod K Nayar of the department of English ranked 189, in the field of Literary Studies.

From the Indian Institute of Technology, Mathukumalli Vidyasagar bagged a rank of 154 in industrial engineering and automation. Sparsh Mittal, who has been ranked 107 in computer hardware and architecture, was formerly with IITH, but is now with Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee.

The data was studied and complied by a team at Stanford University led by Dr

John PA Loannidis

. The database ranks over 100,000 top scientists of the world. For analyses indicators, SCOPUS data provided by Elsevier was used with data freeze as of May 6 this year.

While Prasad is an honorary professor at UoH after superannuation, Nangia is associated with UoH and is presently serving as director of National Chemical Laboratory in Pune, and Pramod K Nayar is also the director, Institution of Eminence at UoH. Incidentally, 15 UoH faculty members figure in the top two per cent of Indian researchers according to this study. In some cases, such as Literary Studies, Nayar is the only academic in the world’s top 200.

Prof Appa Rao Podile, UoH vice-chancellor, said: “I am delighted but not really surprised at the wonderful rankings and citation record of our faculty. UoH clearly demonstrates excellence across multiple disciplines as can be seen from this data, with concentrations of high-impact work in physics, chemistry, life sciences, computer science and English. UoH has been at the forefront of

research

in multiple disciplines and the faculty listed here are all high performers. I see them as setting the high standards for other UoH faculty to be inspired by.”