IBSD director among world's top scientists
Source: Chronicle News Service

Imphal, November 06 2024: Institute of Bioresources and Sustainable Development (IBSD), Imphal, director Professor Pulok Kumar Mukherjee has been included among top two percent of scientists in the world as per a subject-wise analysis conducted by Stanford University, California, United States of America.

A release issued by IBSD informed that the analysis available at https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/7, had the scientists classified into 22 scientific fields and 176 sub fields.

According to the release, Prof Pulok is one of the scientists working on several aspects of exploring bio resources with their chemical and therapeutic validation for drug discovery and development.

He is prioritising research on traditional medicine-inspired drug discovery and development of Indian medicinal plants used by traditional healers for different ailments with major emphasis on their validation, formulation and standardisation, metabolomics profiling, safety and related aspects.

The IBSD director is a fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry, UK (FRSC), National Academy of Agriculture Science (FNAAS), National Academy of Science, India (FNASc) and West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology (FAScT), and has received several recognitions and laurels.

In the study reported by Stanford University, the analysis was conducted using citation from Scopus along with data assessing scientists for career-long citation impact till date and the citation impact during a single calendar year.

The selection is based on the top 100,000 scientists by c-score or a percentile rank of 2 per cent or above in the sub-field.

Total of 1,95,605 scientists are included in the career-long database and 2,00,409 scientists in the single recent year dataset and calculations performed using all Scopus author profiles as of August 1, 2024.Prof Pulok is also ranked among the top 0.51 per cent and 0.17 per cent in the field of Medicinal & Biomolecular Chemistry and Pharmacology & Pharmacy respectively, the release added.

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