IBSD Director among Stanford's database top international scientists list
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, October 27 2021:
Professor Pulok Kumar Mukherjee, Director of Institute of Bioresources and Sustainable Development (IBSD), Imphal have secured a spot in the list that ranks the top two percent of scientists worldwide released by Stanford University, California and Elsevier BV, a Netherlands-based publishing company, for the second consecutive time.
A press release issued by IBSD, Imphal stated that this database has been prepared by the research group of Dr Jeroen Baas (Elzevier BV), Dr Kevin Boyack (SciTech Strategies, Inc, USA) and Dr Jon PA Loannidis (Stanford University, USA).
The creators of this database have classified top scientists of the world in 22 different fields and 176 subfields.
The research group published two different datasets to recognize the top scientists who have made outstanding research contributions in the year 2020 and the international scientists who have done exceptional research work during their career.
The press release further stated that Professor Pulok Kumar Mukherjee is also ranked 3rd in India in the subject of Medicinal & Biomolecular Chemistry based on his research publications.
The rank is based on the top 1,00,000 by C-scores (number of citations excluding self-citations) or a percentile rank of 2% or above.
Prof Pulok Kumar Mukherjee is working on traditional medicine inspired drug discovery and development from Indian medicinal plants with major emphasis on their validation, formulation and standardization, metabolomic profiling, safety and related aspects.
He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Agricultural Science, India (FNAAS), Fellow of the National Academy of Science, India (FNASc) and the Royal Society of Chemistry, UK (FRSC).
The scientists, staff and students of IBSD congratulated the Director for this remarkable feat, added the press release.