India's Top 2% Scientists 2020

India has 2,313 scientists on the 2020 single-year Top 2% list. That places India 13th in the world by number of listed scientists. Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru has the most listed scientists (97), followed by Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (81).

Single Year

2,313

First year listed

Career Data

1,491

First year listed

World rank by count

#13

First year listed

Institutes

713

First year listed

Scientists in India on the list, by year

Single-year list, change on the previous year

2021+44.9%

2022+12.2%

2023+23.2%

2024+15.4%

2025+16.5%

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Year	Single Year	Change	Career Data	Change
2020	2,313		1,491
2021	3,352	+44.9%	2,042	+37.0%
2022	3,761	+12.2%	2,206	+8.0%
2023	4,635	+23.2%	2,578	+16.9%
2024	5,351	+15.4%	2,939	+14.0%
2025	6,236	+16.5%	3,371	+14.7%

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Rank in India	World rank	Scientist	Institute	Sub-field	Rank in sub-field
1	256	Ali, Imran	Jamia Millia Islamia	Analytical Chemistry	Rank 2
2	335	GH Garg, Harish	Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 24
3	422	DG Desiraju, Gautam R.	Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru	Inorganic & Nuclear Chemistry	Rank 1
4	758	RR Rao, Ravipudi Venkata	S. V. National Institute of Technology	Industrial Engineering & Automation	Rank 5
5	810	RC Rao, C. N.R.	Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research	Inorganic & Nuclear Chemistry	Rank 4
6	1,284	PA Pandey, Ashok	Indian Institute of Toxicology Research	Biotechnology	Rank 3
7	1,343	SR Siddique, Rafat	Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology	Building & Construction	Rank 7
8	1,800	AA Agarwal, Avinash Kumar	Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur	Energy	Rank 36
9	1,887	GP Gogate, Parag R.	Institute of Chemical Technology	Chemical Engineering	Rank 16
10	2,699	TN Tuteja, Narendra	International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology	Plant Biology & Botany	Rank 19
11	2,900	TS Thomas, Sabu	Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam	Polymers	Rank 20
12	3,658	PT Padmanabhan, T.	Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics India	Nuclear & Particle Physics	Rank 24
13	3,768	AM Ahmaruzzaman, M.	National Institute of Technology Silchar	Chemical Engineering	Rank 24
14	4,200	PD Philip, Daizy	Mar Ivanios College, Thiruvananthapuram	Chemical Physics	Rank 97
15	4,218	GR Gupta, Rajeev	Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur	General & Internal Medicine	Rank 59
16	4,239	Jha, Vivekanand	Manipal Academy of Higher Education	Urology & Nephrology	Rank 19
17	4,445	DY Devarajan, Yuvarajan	Madanapalle Institute of Technology & Science	Energy	Rank 91
18	4,771	KA Kumaravel, A.	Bharath Institute of Higher Education and Research	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 165
19	4,886	LD Late, Dattatray	Amity University, Maharashtra	Applied Physics	Rank 114
20	4,952	SB Singh, Bhim	Indian Institute of Technology Delhi	Electrical & Electronic Engineering	Rank 14
21	5,012	MV Mohan, Viswanathan	Madras Diabetes Research Foundation	Endocrinology & Metabolism	Rank 98
22	5,482	VM Venkata Mohan, S.	Indian Institute of Chemical Technology	Biotechnology	Rank 18
23	6,578	SV Srivastava, Vimal Chandra	Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee	Chemical Engineering	Rank 41
24	6,597	MD Mohan, Dinesh	Jawaharlal Nehru University	Environmental Sciences	Rank 59
25	6,608	SJ Sarkar, Jahar	Indian Institute of Technology Banaras Hindu University	Mechanical Engineering & Transports	Rank 65
26	6,663	JR Jayakumar, R.	Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences India	Polymers	Rank 50
27	6,668	JN Jana, Nikhil R.	Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science	Nanoscience & Nanotechnology	Rank 203
28	6,784	DS Das, Swagatam	Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 228
29	6,833	BM Basu, Mousumi	Jadavpur University	Energy	Rank 130
30	7,156	BR Banerjee, Rahul	Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata	Inorganic & Nuclear Chemistry	Rank 26
31	7,181	SG Singh, G. K.	Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee	Networking & Telecommunications	Rank 69
32	7,300	LC Lokhande, Chandrakant D.	D. Y. Patil University, Kolhapur	Applied Physics	Rank 158
33	7,314	SN Singh, Narpinder	Guru Nanak Dev University	Food Science	Rank 33
34	7,324	VR Varshney, Rajeev K.	International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics	Plant Biology & Botany	Rank 85
35	7,850	PM Pal, Mahesh	National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra	Geological & Geomatics Engineering	Rank 66
36	7,970	SA Sen, Ashoke	Harish Chandra Research Institute	Nuclear & Particle Physics	Rank 73
37	8,053	FS Flora, Swaran Jeet Singh	National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Raebareli	Toxicology	Rank 34
38	8,173	YS Yadav, Sudesh Kumar	Center of Innovative and Applied Bioprocessing	Plant Biology & Botany	Rank 94
39	8,415	NH Nagendra, Harini	Azim Premji University	Ecology	Rank 231
40	8,425	PP Patil, Pramod S.	Shivaji University	Applied Physics	Rank 178
41	8,508	SR Sankaranarayanan, Rengaswamy	RTI International	Oncology & Carcinogenesis	Rank 316
42	8,942	KD Kundu, Debasis	Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur	Statistics & Probability	Rank 62
43	9,024	DA Das, Ashok Kumar	International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad	Networking & Telecommunications	Rank 87
44	9,028	SS Sarin, Shiv Kumar	Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences	Gastroenterology & Hepatology	Rank 101
45	9,121	KA Kumar, Anil	Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology	Nuclear & Particle Physics	Rank 83
46	9,135	SS Sharma, Sanjay	Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology	Nuclear & Particle Physics	Rank 84
47	9,307	Vijayaragavan, S. P.	Bharath Institute of Higher Education and Research	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 305
48	9,345	RK Reddy, Kolli Srinath	Public Health Foundation of India	General & Internal Medicine	Rank 125
49	9,554	JM Jain, Mukesh	Jawaharlal Nehru University	Plant Biology & Botany	Rank 115
50	9,603	SY Sharma, Yogesh Chandra	Indian Institute of Technology Banaras Hindu University	Chemical Engineering	Rank 55
51	9,634	GB Goswami, B. N.	Cotton University	Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences	Rank 184
52	9,723	JV Jain, V.	University of Mumbai	Nuclear & Particle Physics	Rank 91
53	9,784	VK Vijayaraghavan, K.	Indian Institute of Technology Madras	Chemical Engineering	Rank 60
54	9,827	NP Nidheesh, P. V.	National Environmental Engineering Research Institute India	Environmental Sciences	Rank 92
55	9,935	SR Sakthivel, Rathinasamy	Bharathiar University	Industrial Engineering & Automation	Rank 117
56	9,985	Tiwari, Aviral Kumar	Rajagiri Business School	Economics	Rank 169
57	9,987	SR Singh, Rajesh	Management Development Institute, Gurgaon	Business & Management	Rank 258
58	10,052	PM Prasad, M. N.V.	University of Hyderabad	Environmental Sciences	Rank 96
59	10,144	AT Aminabhavi, Tejraj M.	Soniya Education Trust's College of Pharmacy	Polymers	Rank 71
60	10,323	SK Srinivasan, Krishnapura	Central Food Technological Research Institute India	Food Science	Rank 52
61	10,799	RT Rudrapatnam, Tharanathan N.	Central Food Technological Research Institute India	Food Science	Rank 53
62	10,971	Roy, Kunal	Jadavpur University	Medicinal & Biomolecular Chemistry	Rank 23
63	11,342	Dhakshinamoorthy, Amarajothi	Madurai Kamaraj University	Organic Chemistry	Rank 185
64	11,358	CS Chakraborty, Suman	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Fluids & Plasmas	Rank 99
65	11,425	MS Mittal, Sparsh	Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad	Computer Hardware & Architecture	Rank 4
66	11,572	RM Rai, Mahendra	Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University	Nanoscience & Nanotechnology	Rank 329
67	11,677	Suthar, Surindra	Doon University	Environmental Sciences	Rank 118
68	11,788	YC Yajnik, Chittaranjan S.	King Edward Memorial Hospital India	Endocrinology & Metabolism	Rank 225
69	11,969	BK Biswas, Kanishka	Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research	Nanoscience & Nanotechnology	Rank 339
70	12,052	AA Ajayaghosh, A.	National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology	Organic Chemistry	Rank 197
71	12,208	PA Patra, Amlan Kumar	West Bengal University of Animal and Fishery Sciences	Dairy & Animal Science	Rank 13
72	12,314	PK Parida, Kulamani	Siksha O Anusandhan (Deemed to be University)	Physical Chemistry	Rank 81
73	12,366	OS Ogale, Satish	Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune	Applied Physics	Rank 277
74	12,440	Senthil Kumar, P.	SSN College of Engineering, Kalavakkam	Chemical Engineering	Rank 75
75	12,523	PK Priyadarsini, K. I.	Bhabha Atomic Research Centre	Chemical Physics	Rank 249
76	12,550	KR Kumar, Rakesh	All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi	Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging	Rank 30
77	12,576	RM Rajeevan, M.	Ministry of Earth Sciences Government of India	Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences	Rank 220
78	12,602	MA Mittal, Alok	Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology	Chemical Physics	Rank 251
79	12,639	RS Ramaswamy, Sriram	Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru	Fluids & Plasmas	Rank 112
80	12,760	MA Mandal, Ajay	Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad	Energy	Rank 242
81	12,835	VS Vinodh, S.	National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli	Business & Management	Rank 325
82	13,069	BB Basu, Bikramjit	Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru	Materials	Rank 234
83	13,071	GR Gupta, Rajeev	Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur	Nuclear & Particle Physics	Rank 124
84	13,155	SS Sundar, Shyam	Banaras Hindu University	Tropical Medicine	Rank 11
85	13,368	PN Pal, Nikhil R.	Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 408
86	13,400	DS Das, Sarit K.	Indian Institute of Technology Madras	Mechanical Engineering & Transports	Rank 130
87	13,596	TG Tiwari, G. N.	Shri Ramswaroop Memorial University	Energy	Rank 252
88	13,641	MU Maulik, Ujjwal	Jadavpur University	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 416
89	13,678	SS Sushil, S.	Indian Institute of Technology Delhi	Business & Management	Rank 343
90	14,107	ZD Zipes, Douglas P.	Krannert Institute of Cardiology	Cardiovascular System & Hematology	Rank 436
91	14,190	ST Sathish, T.	SMR East Coast College of Engineering and Technology	Polymers	Rank 107
92	14,229	MA Manikandan, A.	Bharath Institute of Higher Education and Research	General Physics	Rank 93
93	14,232	RA Ramachandran, Ambady	India Diabetes Research Foundation	Endocrinology & Metabolism	Rank 281
94	14,512	KN Khan, Nafees A.	Aligarh Muslim University	Plant Biology & Botany	Rank 166
95	14,906	KS Kundu, Subrata	Central Electrochemical Research Institute India	Chemical Physics	Rank 298
96	14,991	AR Agarwal, Ritesh	Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education & Research, Chandigarh	Respiratory System	Rank 81
97	15,211	SJ Singh, Jagdev	JECRC University	Mechanical Engineering & Transports	Rank 152
98	15,462	BS Bandyopadhyay, Sanghamitra	Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 465
99	15,501	GA Goel, Atul	Seth GS Medical College and KEM Hospital	Neurology & Neurosurgery	Rank 932
100	15,541	KP K., Palanikumar	Sri Sai Ram Institute of Technology	Materials	Rank 273
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Frequently asked questions

How many scientists from India are in the 2020 Stanford Top 2% list?

2,313 scientists affiliated with India are on the 2020 single-year list, and 1,491 are on the career-long list.

Which institute in India has the most Top 2% scientists?

On the 2020 single-year list, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru has the most listed scientists from India, with 97. It is followed by Indian Institute of Technology Delhi with 81.

What is the difference between the single-year and career-long lists?

The single-year list ranks scientists on the citations their work received in one year. The career-long list ranks them on citations across their whole career. Both lists are published every year, and a scientist can be on one, both or neither.

What is the official source of this data?

The rankings come from the science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators published by Ioannidis et al. in the Elsevier Data Repository, updated every year. TOPSCINET, an independent platform, organises that data by country, year, institute and field, so you can compare and explore it.