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Which institutions in India have the most top-cited scientists in Materials?

448 researchers in India whose main subfield is Materials are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list: 6.4% of all listed authors in India, and 3rd of 84 countries in the subfield. 120 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). Indian Institute of Science has the most (15), followed by Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (13) and Indian Institute of Technology Madras (11). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors
448
6.4% of all in India
In the global top 100,000
120
26.8% of them
Country rank in the subfield
#3
of 84 countries in Materials
Highest-ranked
#126
Sathish, T.
#InstitutionListed authorsTop 100kRank worldwideHighest-ranked author
1Indian Institute of Science152#65Basu, Bikramjit #12,480
2Indian Institute of Technology Delhi131#84Majumdar, Abhijit #18,830
3Indian Institute of Technology Madras112#104Murty, Budaraju Srinivasa #24,226
4Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur105#133Srivastava, Suneel Kumar #38,218
5Vellore Institute of Technology103#136Manivasagam, Geetha #58,729
6Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee71#202Dwivedi, Dheerendra K. #48,589
7Bhabha Atomic Research Centre71#206Kain, Vivekanand #68,307
8Graphic Era (Deemed to be University)72#214Singh, Desh Bandhu #85,674
9Saveetha School of Engineering64#219Sathish, T. #126
10Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur61#256Biswas, Krishanu #97,422
11Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research51#311Baldev, Raj #56,049
12Indian Institute of Technology Bombay50#331Naik, Niranjan K. #101,099
13Chitkara University, Punjab42#354Sharma, Shubham Sh #10,890
14Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur41#358Pandey, Chandan #16,085
15Manipal University Jaipur42#379Ajay, Kumar #34,189
16Jamia Millia Islamia41#384Ahmad, Tokeer #38,650
17National Institute of Technology Rourkela43#386Ray, Bankim Chandra #41,216
18Galgotias University41#399Saxena, Kuldeep Kr #47,231
19Marwadi University43#400Singh, Sunpreet #47,282
20University of Petroleum and Energy Studies41#404Verma, Akarsh #50,413
21National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli41#410Ponalagusamy, R. #58,944
22Pandit Dwarka Prasad Mishra Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design & Manufacturing Jabalpur42#411Ansari, Mohammad Zahid #59,676
23SRM Institute of Science and Technology42#413Thangaraj, Muthuramalingam #64,651
24Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi41#418Sathiyamoorthi, Praveen #74,376
25Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, Bhubaneswar40#445Sahoo, Ashok Kumar #137,207
26National Institute of Technology Karnataka40#446Jeyaraj, Pitchaimani #142,107
27Anna University40#451Karthick, S. #154,195
28GLA University, Mathura40#454Sharma, Aman #163,082
29National Institute of Technology, Warangal40#456Rakesh Kumar, Rajaboina #175,349
30Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute India40#459Karmakar, Basudeb #229,785
31National Institute of Technology Silchar32#475Mahesh, Vinyas M. #14,635
32Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra32#485Acherjee, Bappa #20,030
33Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore31#487Radhika, N. #23,018
34Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences31#496Dinaharan, Isaac #29,333
35Panjab University31#506Kansal, Sushil Kumar #34,127
36Advanced Materials and Processes Research Institute India32#516Rajak, Dipen Kumar #42,420
37Jadavpur University31#558Das, Suman #71,371
38Chennai Institute of Technology31#560Veeman, Dhinakaran #73,050
39Tumkur University31#567Nagabhushana, H. #83,083
40National Metallurgical Laboratory India31#573Kumar, Sanjay #87,923
41DRDO Defence Metallurgical Research Laboratory31#580Gurrappa, Injeti #93,716
42Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani30#588Ghosh, Narendra Nath #104,892
43Siksha O Anusandhan (Deemed to be University)30#593Acharya, Rashmi #110,056
44Shivaji University30#600Venkateswara Rao, Amirisetty Venkateswara #117,680
45Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad30#602Bhattacharjee, Pinaki Prasad #122,029
46Pandit Deendayal Energy University30#618Chaudhari, Rakesh #150,697
47Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad30#621Dixit, Amit Rai #155,736
48Kalasalingam Academy of Research and Education30#635Nagarajan, Rajini #181,478

The top 100 in Materials in India, in order

  1. 1
    Sathish, T.
    Saveetha School of Engineering
  2. 2
    Venkatesh, R.
    Saveetha School of Engineering
  3. 3
    Sampath, Boopathi
    Muthayammal Engineering College
  4. 4
    Manickam, Ramesh
    Mahendra Engineering College
  5. 5
    Singh, Nakshatra Bahadur
    Sharda University
  6. 6
    Sharma, Ashutosh
    Amity University Jharkhand
  7. 7
    Sharma, Shubham Sh
    Chitkara University, Punjab
  8. 8
    Thandavamoorthy, Raja
    Saveetha Dental College And Hospitals
  9. 9
    Basu, Bikramjit
    Indian Institute of Science
  10. 10
    Mahesh, Vinyas M.
    National Institute of Technology Silchar
  11. 11
    Pandey, Chandan
    Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur
  12. 12
    Singh, Ravi Pratap
    National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra
  13. 13
    Dixit, Saurav
    Chitkara University, Punjab
  14. 14
    Mohanavel, Vinayagam
    Academy of Maritime Education and Training
  15. 15
    Majumdar, Abhijit
    Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
  16. 16
    Kumar Paul, Surajit Kumar
    Indian Institute of Technology Patna
  17. 17
    Kumar, Rajesh
    Jagdish Chandra DAV College
  18. 18
    Acherjee, Bappa
    Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra
  19. 19
    Singh, Rupinder K.R.
    National Institute of Technical Teachers Training & Research
  20. 20
    Sebastian, Mailadil Thomas
    Mar Athenesius College
  21. 21
    Prakash, Chander
    Geeta University
  22. 22
    Mondal, Subrata
    National Institute of Technical Teachers' Training & Research, Kolkata
  23. 23
    Radhika, N.
    Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore
  24. 24
    Panda, Biranchi Narayan
    Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
  25. 25
    Murty, Budaraju Srinivasa
    Indian Institute of Technology Madras
  26. 26
    Palanikumarr, K. K.
    Sri Sai Ram Institute of Technology
  27. 27
    Sharma, S. C.
    JAIN (Deemed-to-be University)
  28. 28
    Nasar, Abu
    Zakir Husain College of Engineering and Technology
  29. 29
    Balasubràmanian, Visvalingam
    Annamalai University
  30. 30
    Dinaharan, Isaac
    Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences
  31. 31
    Naik, Nithesh
    Manipal Academy of Higher Education
  32. 32
    Kumar, S.
    Chandigarh Group of Colleges Landran
  33. 33
    Banerjee, Dipankar P.K.
    Physical Research Laboratory India
  34. 34
    Gupta, M. K.
    Madan Mohan Malaviya University of Technology
  35. 35
    Rajeshkumar, L.
    Alliance University
  36. 36
    Rathinasamy, Saravanan
    Saveetha School of Engineering
  37. 37
    Behera, B. K.
    The Technological Institute of Textile and Sciences India
  38. 38
    Kansal, Sushil Kumar
    Panjab University
  39. 39
    Ajay, Kumar
    Manipal University Jaipur
  40. 40
    Sundararajan, Govindan
    St. Martin’s Engineering College
  41. 41
    Vasudev, Hitesh
    Lovely Professional University
  42. 42
    Srivastava, Suneel Kumar
    Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
  43. 43
    Ahmad, Tokeer
    Jamia Millia Islamia
  44. 44
    Panda, Prasanta Kumar
    National Aerospace Laboratories India
  45. 45
    Yadav, Anil Singh
    Bakhtiyarpur College of Engineering
  46. 46
    Ray, Bankim Chandra
    National Institute of Technology Rourkela
  47. 47
    Rajak, Dipen Kumar
    Advanced Materials and Processes Research Institute India
  48. 48
    Dwivedi, Shashi Prakash
    LLoyd Institute of Engineering & Technology
  49. 49
    Sathees kumar, S.
    Saveetha Engineering College
  50. 50
    Saxena, Kuldeep Kr
    Galgotias University
  51. 51
    Singh, Sunpreet
    Marwadi University
  52. 52
    Prasad, C. Durga
    RV Institute of Technology and Management
  53. 53
    Rajendrachari, Shashanka
    Global Academy of Technology
  54. 54
    Dwivedi, Dheerendra K.
    Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
  55. 55
    Verma, Akarsh
    University of Petroleum and Energy Studies
  56. 56
    Thakur, Atul
    Lovely Professional University
  57. 57
    Kumar, Raman
    Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College, Ludhiana
  58. 58
    Yuvakkumar, Rathinam
    Alagappa University
  59. 59
    Singh, Rajesh Kumar
    Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University
  60. 60
    Mobin, Mohammad
    Aligarh Muslim University
  61. 61
    Sankara Narayanan, T. S.N.
    University of Madras
  62. 62
    Mathew, M. D.
    Saintgits College of Engineering
  63. 63
    Dutta-Majumdar, Jyotsna
    Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
  64. 64
    Ganesh, Ibram
    International Advanced Research Centre for Powder Metallurgy and New Materials, Hyderabad
  65. 65
    Baldev, Raj
    Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research
  66. 66
    Balla, Vamsi Krishna
    Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR)
  67. 67
    Sathishkumar, T. P.
    Kongu Engineering College
  68. 68
    Manivasagam, Geetha
    Vellore Institute of Technology
  69. 69
    Kumar, Deepak
    Manipal University Jaipur
  70. 70
    Ponalagusamy, R.
    National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli
  71. 71
    Ansari, Mohammad Zahid
    Pandit Dwarka Prasad Mishra Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design & Manufacturing Jabalpur
  72. 72
    Kalita, Kanak
    Rajalakshmi Institute of Technology
  73. 73
    Bahl, Shashi
    I.K. Gujral Punjab Technical University, Jalandhar
  74. 74
    Kamaraj, M.
    Indian Institute of Technology Madras
  75. 75
    Babu, Punuri Jayasekhar
    Mizoram University
  76. 76
    Srivastava, Avanish Kumar
    Advanced Materials and Processes Research Institute India
  77. 77
    Byrappa, Kullaiah K.
    Adichunchanagiri University
  78. 78
    Thangaraj, Muthuramalingam
    SRM Institute of Science and Technology
  79. 79
    Thakur, Preeti
    AUH-Gurugram
  80. 80
    Krishnaraj, Ramaswamy Navanietha
    SRM Institute of Science and Technology
  81. 81
    Kumar, Ranvijay
    Marwadi University
  82. 82
    Suwas, Satyam
    Indian Institute of Science
  83. 83
    Kain, Vivekanand
    Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
  84. 84
    Pandey, K. M.
    National Institute of Technology Silchar
  85. 85
    Ramasamy, Rathinamoorthy
    Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai
  86. 86
    Mitra, Rahul
    Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
  87. 87
    Behera, Ajit Kumar
    National Institute of Technology Rourkela
  88. 88
    Das, Suman
    Jadavpur University
  89. 89
    Singh, Yashvir
    Harcourt Butler Technical University
  90. 90
    Veeman, Dhinakaran
    Chennai Institute of Technology
  91. 91
  92. 92
    Sathiyamoorthi, Praveen
    Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi
  93. 93
    Kumar, Rajesh
    Government Degree College Chaubattakhal (Affiliated to Sri Dev Suman Uttarakhand University)
  94. 94
    Pasupathi, Manoj Kumar
    Kangeyam Institute of Technology
  95. 95
    Roy Choudhury, Asim Kumar
    Government College of Engineering and Textile Technology, Serampore
  96. 96
    Manna, Indranil
    Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra
  97. 97
    Nandihalli, Nagaraj
    Independent Researcher
  98. 98
    Nagabhushana, H.
    Tumkur University
  99. 99
    Prabhu, Ram T.
    DRDO Centre for Military Airworthiness and Certification
  100. 100
    Sankapal, Babasaheb Raghunath
    Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur

448 listed scientists in Materials in India

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Data: Ioannidis, John P.A. (2026), ‘August 2026 data-update for “Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators”’, Mendeley Data, v9, doi:10.17632/btchxktzyw.9. 2026 list, ranked by composite citation score (c) excluding self-citations.

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