Prof Pulok in world's top 2 pc scientist list
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, October 17 2022:
Institute of Bioresources and Sustainable Development (IBSD), Imphal director Prof Pulok Kumar Mukherjee has been included among top 2 per cent scientists in the world as per a subject-wise analysis conducted by Stanford University, California in United States of America.
The analysis is published (https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000384) in updated science-wide author databases of standardised citation indicators - September 2022, said an IBSD, Imphal release.
Prof Pulok is working on traditional medicine-inspired drug discovery and development from Indian medicinal plants with major emphasis on their validation, formulation and standardisation, metabolomic profiling, safety and related aspects.
He is also a fellow of the National Academy of Agriculture Science (FNAAS); National Academy of Science, India (FNASc); and the Royal Society of Chemistry, UK (FRSC).
Scientists are classified into 22 scientific fields and 176 sub-fields.
The analysis was conducted using citation from Scopus along with data assessing scientists for career-long citation impact till 2021 and the citation impact during a single calendar year.
The selection is based on the top 100,000 scientists by c-score (with and without self-citations) or a percentile rank of 2 per cent or above in the sub-field.
195,605 scientists are included in the career-long database and 200,409 scientists are included in the single recent year dataset.
Calculations were performed using all Scopus author profiles as of September 1, 2022 .
Prof Mukherjee has also been ranked among top 0.51 per cent and 0.17 per cent in the field of Medicinal and Biomolecular Chemistry and Pharmacology and Pharmacy respectively.
The scientists, staff and students of IBSD congratulated the director for the remarkable feat, the release said.