Chief of IBSD in top 2 pc of world scientists
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, October 17 2022:
Professor Pulok Kumar Mukherjee, Director of Institute of Bioresources and Sustainable Development (IBSD), Imphal and Director (Additional Charge) of Institute of Life Sciences (ILS) Bhubaneswar has been included among the top 2% scientists in the world in a study reported by Stanford University, California.
The analysis is published in the updated science-wide author database of standardized citation indicators - September 2022, said a press release issued by IBSD, Imphal.
Professor Pulok 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.
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He is a fellow of the National Academy of Agriculture Science (FNAAS); National Academy of Science, India (FNASc) and the Royal Society of Chemistry, UK (FRSC) .
In the analysis, scientists are classified into 22 scientific fields and 176 sub-fields and it 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% 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 .
Professor Mukherjee has also been ranked among top 0.51% and 0.17% in the field of Medicinal and Biomolecular Chemistry and Pharmacology and Pharmacy respectively.
The scientists, staff and students of IBSD congratulated the Director for this remarkable feat.