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Thomas Citation Laureate Award for five researchers

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PROLIFIC RESEARCH: Keith MacGregor (centre), vice-president of Thomson Scientific's Academic and Government Markets, seen with the recipients of Thomson Citation Laureate Award (from left), Gautam R. Desiraju, University of Hyderabad; Ashok Pandey, D eputy Director, Regional Research Laboratory, CSIR, Thiruvananthapuram; Kalyanmoy Deb of Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur; and Ashok Sen, Harish Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad in Bangalore on Thursday. — Photo: Sampath Kumar G.P.

BANGALORE: Five researchers were awarded the "Thomson Citation Laureate Award" by Thomson Scientific on Thursday for their "prolific research over the past decade".

Recipients were C.N.R. Rao, honorary president of the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre of Advanced Scientific Research, Karnataka; Kalyanmoy Deb, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur; Gautam R. Desiraju, University of Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh; Ashok Pandey, Deputy Director, Regional Research Laboratory, CSIR, Thiruvananthapuram; and Ashok Sen, Harish Chandra Research Institute, Uttar Pradesh.

Announcing the results at a press conference, Nobuko Miyari, senior information analyst at the Thomson Scientific Asia-Pacific, said the finalists were selected from the fields of biology and biochemistry, chemistry, computer science, materials science and physics.

Ms. Miyari said the Thomson Scientific team looked into the research of Indian scientists. To qualify for the award, she said the criterion was that researchers had to have at least two papers that were regarded by the scientific community as being in the top one per cent.

The Thomson Scientific team also looked at the number of times those papers were cited in other academic works, the total number of papers that they had written and the citation index of the papers.

Keith MacGregor, executive vice-president of Thomson Scientific's Academic and Government Markets, said that Indian researchers were gaining more global presence. He said in the past five years, India's scientific output had increased by about 60 per cent.

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