Young Scientist Award for 11

Updated on: Saturday, March 26, 2011

 Eleven scientists, including two from the Bangalore-based Indian Institute of Science (IISc), have been given the prestigious NASI-Scopus Young Scientist Award for 2010.

Besides Debnath Pal and P.S. Anil Kumar of the IISc the other winners are: Rajeev K. Varshney of the International Crop Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics, Hyderabad; S. Venkata Mohan of the Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad; R. Ramachandran of the Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow; M. Venkat Ratnam of the National Atmospheric Research Laboratory, Tirupati; Souvik Maiti of the Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Delhi; Naval K. Vikram of the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi; Priya Mahadevan of the S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata; Parag R. Gogate of the Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai; and Bikramjit Basu of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.

The annual award was instituted five years ago by the National Academy of Sciences, India, (NASI) and Scopus, the abstract and citation database of the peer-reviewed scientific literature of Elsevier, the Amsterdam-based publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services.

The applicants were evaluated in two stages based on criteria such as publication output, citations and other metrics based on Scopus data as well as research quality and impact by 48 panellists.

The award presentation function was held here earlier this week. T. Ramasami, Secretary, Department of Science and Technology, presented the awards and appreciated the effort of NASI and Scopus to spot and encourage scientific talent in the country.

Each award carries a trophy, a citation and a cash prize of Rs.50,000.

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