28 Panjab University faculty members feature in global top 2% scientists list

The prestigious database, based on a composite citation score assessing career-long and recent research impact, reflects PU's sustained growth in high-quality publications, interdisciplinary collaborations, and international visibility.

By: Express News Service

Chandigarh | September 21, 2025 12:03 PM IST

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This is a marked improvement of 13 in the year category from 35 last year to 48 and 17 in the career category from 11 to 28. (File Photo)

The Panjab University has achieved a remarkable milestone in global research recognition, with 28 of its faculty members featuring in this year’s latest Stanford–Elsevier list of the world’s top 2% scientists. Thirty faculty members have secured a place in career-wise ranks in the world’s top 2% scientists. Single-year ranks focus on research impact within a specific year; for this ranking, 2024 research and publication data have been taken, while the career-wise ranks provide a comprehensive evaluation of their research impact across their entire academic career.

This is a marked improvement of 13 in the year category from 35 last year to 48 and 17 in the career category from 11 to 28.

The prestigious database, based on a composite citation score assessing career-long and recent research impact, reflects PU’s sustained growth in high-quality publications, interdisciplinary collaborations, and international visibility.

Congratulating the faculty, the Vice-Chancellor, Prof Renu Vig, said that the distinguished PU scholars named in the two categories of 2025 represent a wide cross-section of departments and institutes, from the University Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Forensic Science, Environmental Sciences, Chemistry, Botany, and Physics, to UICET, UIET, Microbiology, Biotechnology, and Biophysics, underlining PU’s broad research base and growing international visibility. “Our sustained focus on high-quality, impactful research is now showing up in global bibliometric and ranking indicators, and this latest recognition by the Stanford–Elsevier team is an important external validation,” she said.

Prof Vig added that PU’s academic excellence has been reaffirmed time and time again, through its improvement in almost all global rankings in the last two years, now being placed in the 601–800 bracket in the Times Higher Education World Rankings and 901–950 in the QS World University Rankings 2025.

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