Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 15:36:59 +0800
From: "Muralidharan, Padma (ELS-DEL)"
Dear Reader,
New Delhi - At a glittering award ceremony, the "SCOPUS - Young India
Scientist Awards" for 2006 were given away to nine young brilliant
scientists. These awards were instituted by Elsevier - the world's
largest publisher in STM - Science, Technology & Medicine to honour and
propel India's young research minds towards furthering Indian Science.
The selection process involved senior academicians, subject experts and
scientometricians from the eight subject areas in which the awards were
given away. The evaluation criteria were both qualitative and
quantitative criteria. For the former, the recently popular bibliometric
tool - the Hirsch Index, published papers and citation data and the
impact factors - another measurement tool for the quality of a journal
were considered. Qualitative analysis was used to see if the research
paper was path breaking and if it helped develop new insights into the
field.
The winners were :
Dr. Sunil Kumar Manna from Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and
Diagnostics, Hyderabad and Dr. Rajesh S Gokhale from National Institute
of Immunology, New Delhi for Biological Sciences
Dr. Kumar Biradha from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
for Chemistry
Dr. Shankar Doraiswamy from National Institute of Oceanography,
Goa in Earth Sciences
Dr. Giridhar Madras from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
in Engineering,
Dr. Abhay Gopal Bhatt from Indian Statistical Institute, New
Delhi in Mathematics
Dr. G Venkatasubramanian from National Institute of Mental Health
& Neurosciences, Bangalore in Medicine
Dr. C P Safvan from Inter University Accelerator Centre, New
Delhi and Dr. Tarun Souradeep from Inter University Centre for Astronomy
& Astrophysics, Pune for their work in Physics.
We would like to thank all the applicants for participating in this. We
hope to continue with this endeavour in the future years too.
Kind regards,
Padma Muralidharan
Account Development Manager,
Elsevier India (Science & Technology)
Phone : 011-42890202
