Bigger India
Only 10 Indians On List Of World’s 4,000 Top Scientists
While India’s representation is negligible, neighbor China is third on the list, ahead of Germany.
India boasts of eminent science and social science institutes like IISc, the IITs, TIFR, JNU and Tiss. Yet, only 10 Indians figure among the world’s top 1% highly-cited researchers (HCR) in the two fields. To top it, some of the 10 are not from the country’s leading institutes. The list, comprising over 4,000 of the globe’s most ‘influential’ researchers, in its fifth edition, has been released by the firm Clarivate Analytics.