Sanjib Kumar Karmee, Principal Scientist of the Sardar Patel Renewable Energy Research Institute (SPRERI), Anand, Gujarat, has adorned the most coveted list of "World Ranking of Top 2% Scientists" among Indian subcontinent as per a subject-wise analysis conducted by a team of scientists at the Stanford University led by Dr John PA Ioannidis.

Dr Karmee’s worldwide rank in the biotechnology discipline is 726 and C-score is 3.207. He is among the top 1.442%.

The database entitled “Updated science-wide author databases of standardised citation indicators” has been published in one of the reputed journals PLOS Biology on October 16. The Stanford University scientists have created a database of over 100,000 top scientists of the world on the basis of different standardised citation indicators, namely, information on citations, H-index, co-authorship and a composite indicator.

All of these scientists were classified into 22 scientific fields and 176 sub-fields. The SCOPUS data provided by Elsevier was used for analyses with data freeze as on May 6. The subject-wise ranking of top 2% scientists from India (all fields) is available online: http://shorturl.at/bdix8.Dr Karmee earned a PhD from the IIT Madras in 2006. His PhD research was on the preparation of biodiesel and value-added products from bioresources. Subsequently, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the RWTH Aachen University, Germany and at the Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands.

The institutions where he has held appointments include National University of Singapore, City University of Hong Kong and North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa.

He joined the SPRERI, Anand in 2018 as a principal scientist and is currently heading its Thermo-chemical Conversion Division.

Dr.Karmee is a native of Tebhapadar in Odisha’s Subarnapur district. His father Biswanath Karmee is a retired teacher.