Udupi : Dr. Satheesha Nayak B, Alambi, Professor of Anatomy at Melaka Manipal Medical College, Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE) Manipal, gets the distinction of being one among the only three Indian Anatomists featured in the updated Stanford University List of “Most influential Scientists in the world”. In the last year’s survey, he had secured a world ranking of 117 in the category “Anatomy and Morphology”. With a massive leap, he has secured 79th rank in the recently updated list of Scientists.
According to the Stanford – Elsevier report published on October 19, 2021, the top 100,000 Scientists in the world, were ranked based on standardized citation indicators such as information on citations, H-index, co-authorship, and a composite indicator. These scientists were classified into 22 scientific fields and 176 sub-fields. For analyses of the citations and the composite indicators, SCOPUS data was used. Scopus is a huge multidisciplinary database with citations and abstracts from peer-reviewed journal literature, trade journals, books, patent records, and conference publications.
2043 Indian researchers found a place in this list that represents the impact of India on the global research platform. Most of the researchers in this list are from the leading universities like IISc, IITs, NITs, and IIITs, etc. The list has been available publicly in Oct 2020 for the first time and now the new list has been available publicly from October 19, 2021. Dr. Nayak is the only Anatomist from Karnataka State and one among the only three Indian Anatomists to get into this prestigious list.
Dr. Nayak, has published more than 400 scientific research article in many prestigious high impact International Journals, the main area of his research being Human Anatomy and Medical Education. His research has benefitted the scientists of various medical sub disciplines worldwide. He has guided several Ph.D. projects and has been the Ph.D. examiner for many other universities. Apart from bagging the best teacher wards several times, he has bagged University level and state level gold medals for excellence in scientific research.
Dr. Nayak is an active reviewer and member of editorial boards of many prestigious international journals. He also has to his credit “The Certified Sentinel of Science” award from PUBLONS for his excellent review of scientific research articles.
Dr. Nayak is the alumnus of Govt Higher Primary School, 80th Badagabettu, Parkala High School, Manipal Junior College, Mahathma Gandhi Memorial College, Udupi and Kasturba Medical College, Manipal, He is the son of Shri. Vittal Nayak and Lakshmi Nayak, Alambi. Udupi District of Karnataka.
