Sixty-seven faculty members from IIT Kharagpur have been featured in a recent article by a famous analyst group of Stanford University published in the journal of PLOS Biology. The article has ranked top scientists inclusive from various disciplines worldwide by normalizing all publication data across fields, which is inclusive of the top 2% of scientists of their respective main subfield disciplines.
Prof. Suman Chakraborty (Fluids & Plasmas – Mechanical Engineering & Transports) is leading the list from IIT Kharagpur, followed by Prof. Debabrata Das (Energy – Biotechnology), Prof. Pratim Chattaraj (Chemical Physics – Organic Chemistry), Prof. Ajay Singh (Environmental Engineering), Prof. Ramkrishna Sen (Biotechnology), and other luminaries.