A total of 22 faculty members and researchers of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati have been featured in the list of the world's top 2% scientists created by Stanford University. They have been ranked for their research publications citations for 2019 and their lifetime contribution to their fields of research.

The list, which was released on October 16, has over 1,00,000 scientists listed in its report.

"This recognition of several faculty in the world's top 2% of Scientists List has placed IIT Guwahati in the global map of science and has brought great pride to the institute. I congratulate all the 22 Scientists and their hard-work and commitment to furthering Science," said T G Sitharam, a professor of IIT, in a statement.

According to IIT Guwahati, the database was created to provide updated analyses and a publicly available database of top scientists that provide standardized information on citations, h-index, co-authorship-adjusted hm-index, citations to papers in different authorship positions, and a composite indicator.

Furthermore, the featured faculty members of the institute are from the Departments of Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Physics, Chemical Engineering, Biosciences and Bioengineering, Chemistry, Electrical and Electronics.