42 JU teachers feature in Stanford University’s list for research publications – Times of India

Kolkata: Forty-two teachers Jadavpur University Ranked in the list compiled by Stanford University A spokeswoman for the United States ranked the top two percent of scientists worldwide based on their research publications. The spokesperson said on Thursday that among the 3,796 scientist-researchers included in the list compiled by Stanford University, Jadavpur University tops the count of citations of research papers and h-index among all Indian universities.
The h-index is an author-level metric that measures the productivity and citation impact of publications.
The spokesperson said that only six IITs including IISC, Bengaluru and IIT Kharagpur have been ranked first in the list by JU in terms of number of best scientist-researchers.
Jadavpur University Vice Chancellor Prof. Suranjan Daso He told PTI that it is a matter of great pride that his institute has the largest number of teacher-scientists among all Indian universities and this is because of the constant pursuit of excellence in scientific research by his colleagues.
Expressing gratitude to the Government of West Bengal for financial assistance to JU to maintain its academic excellence, Das said, “We would appreciate if the funding allocation is increased as much as possible to support our activities.”
“We also want the Center to allocate funds to JU as we have maintained such high standards despite not having adequate infrastructure,” he added.
Jadavpur University Teachers’ Association general secretary Partha Pratim Roy told PTI, “It was a matter of pride for JU and the state university has consistently shown excellence in scientific and technological research over the past several years, despite less financial support from both the Center and the Center.” is the state.”
The database of top-cited scientists takes into account research publications up to the end of 2021 and covers the top two percent of scientists in the term based on percentile scores.
Scientists are classified into 22 regions and 176 sub-areas. Field and subfield-specific percentiles are also awarded for all scientists with at least five papers.