Six JU teachers-students among world 2pc top most cited scientists

JU Correspondent :
A total of five teachers and one student from Jahangirnagar University (JU) have figured in the list of world two percent top most cited scientists compiled by Stanford University based researchers in the USA.
The ranked faculty members and student are Professor
 Dr. A A Mamaun of physics department along with Professor Ibrahim Khalil of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Professor Shamim Kaiser of Institute of Information Technology, Associate Professor Mostafizur Rahman of Environmental Sciences and Associate Professor Humayun Kabir of Physics department and Mohammed A Mamun, a student of Public Health and Informatics Department. They have been ranked for their research publications citations using all Scopus author profiles as of September 1, and their lifetime contribution to their specific fields of research in the list.
Scientists are classified into 22 scientific fields and 176 sub-fields. The selection is based on the top one lakh scientists by c-score (with and without self-citations) or a percentile rank of two per cent or above in the sub-field. As many as 1,95,605 scientists are included in the career-long database and 2,00,409 scientists are included in the single recent year dataset. This version (4) is based on the September 1 snapshot from Scopus, updated to the end of citation year 2021.
The JU faculty members and student featured in the Stanford University list are from various scientific fields including Fluids and Plasmas, Psychiatry, Medicinal and Bio-molecular Chemistry, Artificial Intelligence and image Processing Environmental Sciences and Networking and Telecommunications.