IIPH and LVPEI faculty in elite scientists’ list

Thirteen faculty members from the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI), including president Dr. K. Srinath Reddy and Hyderabad director Dr. G.V.S. Murthy, have been recognised in the top 2% scient

Thirteen faculty members from the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI), including president Dr. K. Srinath Reddy and Hyderabad director Dr. G.V.S. Murthy, have been recognised in the top 2% scientists worldwide in a study from Stanford University. The study led by Professor John P. A. Ioannidis and his research team has published a list that comprises top 2% scientists from various scientific fields.

It contains a publicly available database of 1,00,000 top scientists that provides standardised information on citations, h-index, co-authorship-adjusted hm-index, citations to papers in different authorship positions, and a composite indicator. Other IIPH members in the list are D. Prabhakaran, Sanjay Zodpey, Sutapa Agrawal, G. Anil Kumar, Dileep Mavalankar, Shifalika Goenka, Manu Raj Mathur, Anup Karan, Ashish Awasthi, Anamika Pandey and Sakthivel Selvaraj.

LV Prasad Eye Institute (LVPEI) has six of its eminent scientists listed among the top researchers (lifetime achievers) in the study including founder Dr. G.N. Rao, director-emeritus Prof. D. Balasubramanian, director-emeritus Dr. Savitri Sharma, visiting professor Jill Keeffe, director-emeritus Dr. Shivaji Sisinthy and Dr. Prashant Garg.