The top 2% list of Researchers is out again. have created a publicly available database of top-cited scientists that provides standardized information on citations, h-index, co-authorship adjusted hm-index, citations to papers in different authorship positions and a composite indicator (c-score). Separate data are shown for career-long and single recent year impact. Metrics with and without self-citations, ratio of citations to citing papers, retracted papers (based on Retraction Watch database) and citations to/from retracted papers are also shown to facilitate mapping of potential research integrity issues. Scientists are classified into 20 scientific fields and 174 sub-fields (Science-Metrix classification). Field- and subfield-specific percentiles are also provided for all scientists with at least 5 papers.
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6239 Indians in Top 2% List in 2024
Across areas, this year, 6239 Indian Researchers (working in Indian Institutions / universities) are listed as top researchers in their field. The entire data set is published here:
Ioannidis, John P.A. (2025), “August 2025 data-update for “Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators””, Elsevier Data Repository, V8, doi: 10.17632/btchxktzyw.8
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5352 Researchers from India are in the list of Top 2% of researchers across the world, which has 223,152 listed researchers. This is a percentage of 2.4% from the total of the top 2% list. Kudos to all Indians in this list of 5352 researchers who are contributing very heavily to the growth of the academic reputation of Indian academia and research.
Details in Ioannidis, John P.A. (2023), “September 2023 data-update for “Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators”, Mendeley Data.
Link to dataset https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/7
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Four Significant Asbestos-Related Diseases and their Symptoms
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Continue reading “Four Significant Asbestos-Related Diseases and their Symptoms”3796 Researchers from India in Top 2% Researchers List of Elsevier in 2022 based on single year
3796 Researchers from India are in the list of Top 2% of researchers across the world, which has 79,48,526. This is a percentage of 0.48% from the top 2% list. Kudos to all Indians in this list of 3796 researchers who are contributing very heavily to the growth of the academic reputation of Indian academia and research.
Details in Ioannidis, John P.A. (2022), “September 2022 data-update for “Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators””, Mendeley Data.
Link to dataset https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/4
The below list released in September 2022 is based on the citation impact of a single year of the authors, with publications starting from 1788.
Continue reading “3796 Researchers from India in Top 2% Researchers List of Elsevier in 2022 based on single year”15,918 Indian Researchers in the top 2% list of Elsevier across Disciplines based on Career Impacts
There are 15,918 Indian Researchers in the top 2% list of Elsevier across Disciplines, from among 195,605 scientists who are included globally in the career-long database. They are listed in terms of rank in the table below. So 8.13% of the total global researchers in the top 2% list based on career impact are from Indian Institutions.
Details in Ioannidis, John P.A. (2022), “September 2022 data-update for “Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators””, Mendeley Data. Continue reading “15,918 Indian Researchers in the top 2% list of Elsevier across Disciplines based on Career Impacts”
QS Ranking in Business and Management 2021 – India
The QS Rankings in Business and Management is out for 2021. The Indian Institutes have done fairly well. The ranks are led by IIM Bangalore, followed closely by IIM Ahmedabad and IIT Delhi (DMS). The other two institutes in the top 5 ranks in QS University rankings are IIM Calcutta and IIT Bombay (SJSOM). This year, there are 16 institutions who make it to the QS ranking list.
Congratulations to all the 16 Institutions which made it to the list.

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Continue reading “7 Important Steps to Take After a Car Crash”Top QS Ranked Institutions in Business Management in India
QS rankings for business and management for 2021 is out. Following are the relative performance of the Indian institutions across India. Four components are used to rank universities in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2021: Academic reputation, Employer reputation, Research citations per paper, H-index. Detailed rankings are available in QS website.
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NIRF Ranking from the Ministry of Education is considered to be the most aspired ranking for all disciplines across India. The ranking for 2021 is just out today. We are sharing the overall performance scores across the top 20 institutions ranked by NIRF. Congratulations to all the ranked institutions.
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