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Scopus Young Scientists Awards presented

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Eduard Cohen, Managing Director of Elsevier (third left), and J.J. Theo Groothuizen, Science and Technology Counsellor, Embassy of the Netherlands (fourth left), with the winners of the Scopus Young Indian Scientist Awards 2008, in New Delhi on Friday.

NEW DELHI: Nine young scientists from different research institutions have won the prestigious Scopus Young Indian Scientists Awards for 2008. The awards are instituted by Elsevier, the world’s leading research publisher of scientific information.

The winners are: Govindasamy Bala of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (for Earth Sciences category), Siva Athreya of the Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore (Mathematics), B.V.S. Reddy of the Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad (Chemistry), Bhanuprakash Reddy of the National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad (Medicine), R. Raman of the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, New Delhi (Agriculture), S. Ganesh of IIT, Kanpur (Agriculture Biological Sciences), Suman Chakraborthy of IIT, Kharagpur, (Engineering) and Satyabrata Patnaik of JNU, Delhi, and Moulik Parikh of the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune (Physics).

J.J. Theo Groothuizen, Science & Technology Counsellor, Embassy of the Netherlands, on Friday presented the awards to six of them —Dr. Bala, Dr. B.V.S. Reddy, Dr. Bhanuprakash Reddy, Dr. R.Raman, Dr. Suman Chakraborthy, and Dr. Satyabrata Patnaik. The remaining three could not attend the function.

Speaking on the occasion, Prof. Groothuizen emphasised the need for greater science and technology collaboration between India and the Netherlands and said his country was keen on fostering such a cooperative venture, particularly in a public-private partnership mode.

Eduard Cohen, Managing Director (international markets) of Elsevier, Carl Schwaz, Publication Director, and Sander Verboom, Regional Director for South Asia, emphasised the importance of scholarly information in research process and said Elsevier was keen on providing all assistance to Indian researchers.

Kathy Christian, Production Manager, made a presentation on a research performance visualiser, which is proposed to be introduced by Elsevier soon.

The awardees received a certificate of recognition, a cash prize and a crystal trophy.

Over 200 Indian scientists and researchers under the age of 40 submitted their work for consideration in 11 disciplines — agriculture, biological sciences, chemistry, earth sciences, engineering, library and information sciences, mathematics, medicine, pharmacology, physics & social sciences.

Covering the world’s research literature, Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality web sources with smart tools to track, analyse and visualise research. Scopus was designed and developed with over 500 users and librarians internationally. Its unique database contains abstracts and references from over 15,000 peer-reviewed journals from 4,000 publishers worldwide, ensuring broad inter-disciplinary coverage. In addition, Scopus offers users citation information about the articles covered.

Elsevier is a world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, with its headquarters in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Working in partnership with the global science and health communities, it publishes more than 2,000 journals and 1,900 new books every year, in addition to offering a suite of innovative electronic products, such as ‘ScienceDirect,’ ‘MD Consult’ and Scopus and bibliographic databases, and online reference works.

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