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Top institutions in India for Microbiology

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

117 researchers in India whose main subfield is Microbiology are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list: 1.7% of all listed authors in India, and 11th of 93 countries in the subfield. 39 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). Indian Council of Medical Research has the most (6), followed by Pondicherry University (5) and Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh (4). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors
117
1.7% of all in India
In the global top 100,000
39
33.3% of them
Country rank in the subfield
#11
of 93 countries in Microbiology
Highest-ranked
#8,915
Yadav, Ajar Nath
#InstitutionListed authorsTop 100kRank worldwideHighest-ranked author
1Indian Council of Medical Research62#147Pati, Sanghamitra C. #19,407
2Pondicherry University50#233Selvin, Joseph A. #111,277
3Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh42#255Chakrabarti, Arunaloke K. #14,385
4Aligarh Muslim University44#277Khan, A. U. #39,152
5Graphic Era (Deemed to be University)41#300Mitra, Debasis #74,194
6National Institute of Technology Raipur31#369Kumar, Awanish Kiran #29,525
7Chandigarh University31#383Kumar, Manoj Krishna #39,955
8ICAR - National Bureau of Agriculturally Important Microorganisms, Maunath Bhanjan31#398Saxena, Anil Kumar #49,048
9Christian Medical College, Vellore32#410Kang, Gangandeep #59,672
10Banaras Hindu University30#497Verma, Satish K. #214,199

The top 100 in Microbiology in India, in order

  1. 1
    Yadav, Ajar Nath
    Eternal University
  2. 2
    Das, Surajit
    National Institute of Technology Rourkela
  3. 3
    Tamang, Jyoti Prakash
    Sikkim University
  4. 4
    Nautiyal, Chandra Shekhar
    Swami Rama Himalayan University
  5. 5
    Chakrabarti, Arunaloke K.
    Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh
  6. 6
    Arora, Naveen Kumar
    Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University
  7. 7
    Pati, Sanghamitra C.
    Indian Council of Medical Research
  8. 8
    Jan, Arif Tasleem
    Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University
  9. 9
    Chowdhary, Anuradha S.
    Vallabhbhai Patel Chest Institute
  10. 10
    Kumar, Awanish Kiran
    National Institute of Technology Raipur
  11. 11
    Khan, A. U.
    Aligarh Muslim University
  12. 12
    Kumar, Manoj Krishna
    Chandigarh University
  13. 13
    Kumar, Pradeep
    University of Lucknow
  14. 14
    Ahemad, Munees
    Aligarh Muslim University
  15. 15
    Chhipa, Hemraj
    Agriculture University, Kota
  16. 16
    Khan, Shams Tabrez
    Aligarh Muslim University
  17. 17
    Ahmad, Iqbal
    Aligarh Muslim University
  18. 18
    Das, Alok Prasad
    Rama Devi Women's University
  19. 19
    Saxena, Anil Kumar
    ICAR - National Bureau of Agriculturally Important Microorganisms, Maunath Bhanjan
  20. 20
    Swaminathan, Soumya
    M S Swaminathan Research Foundation
  21. 21
    Rahman, Zeeshanur
    Zakir Husain Delhi College
  22. 22
    Shivaji, Sisinthy S.
    L.V. Prasad Eye Institute India
  23. 23
    Sharma, Surendra Kumar
    Datta Meghe Institute of Higher Education & Research (Deemed to be University)
  24. 24
    Kang, Gangandeep
    Christian Medical College, Vellore
  25. 25
    Singh, Harpreet Lokendro
    Indian Council of Medical Research
  26. 26
    Gugnani, Harish Chander C.
    Vallabhbhai Patel Chest Institute
  27. 27
    Mitra, Debasis
    Graphic Era (Deemed to be University)
  28. 28
    Kumar, Ashwani
    University of Allahabad
  29. 29
    Bhattacharya, Manojit
    Fakir Mohan University
  30. 30
    Lahiri, Dibyajit
    University of Engineering & Management Kolkata
  31. 31
    Balaji, Veeraraghavan
    Christian Medical College, Vellore
  32. 32
    Goswami, Dweipayan
    Gujarat University, Ahmedabad
  33. 33
    Tiwari, Vishvanath
    Central University of Rajasthan
  34. 34
    Yadav, Mukesh Kumar
    Central University of Punjab
  35. 35
    Das, Bhabatosh
    Translational Health Science and Technology Institute
  36. 36
    Chhibber, Sanjay
    Panjab University
  37. 37
    Rudramurthy, Shivaprakash Mandya
    Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh
  38. 38
    Wani, Atif Khurshid
    Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir
  39. 39
    Ghosh, Tarini Shankar
    Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi
  40. 40
    Patel, Mitesh B.
    Marwadi University
  41. 41
    Murhekar, Manoj Vasant
    Indian Council of Medical Research
  42. 42
    Mathur, Purva
    Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
  43. 43
    Puniya, Anil Kumar
    ICAR - National Dairy Research Institute
  44. 44
    Selvin, Joseph A.
    Pondicherry University
  45. 45
    Kumar, Vikash Santhana
    ICAR - Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute, Barrackpore
  46. 46
    KOUR, Divjot
    Veer Bahadur Singh Purvanchal University
  47. 47
    Sahu, Pramod Kumar
    ICAR - National Bureau of Agriculturally Important Microorganisms, Maunath Bhanjan
  48. 48
    Seghal Kiran, G.
    Pondicherry University
  49. 49
    Prasad, Rajendra
    AUH-Gurugram
  50. 50
    Bhatnagar, Deepak P.
    University of Rajasthan
  51. 51
    Sarman, Singh
    Advanced Centre for Chronic and Rare Diseases
  52. 52
    Ramamurthy, Thandavarayan
    Indian Council of Medical Research
  53. 53
    Bagcchi, Sanjeet
    Physician and Medical Journalist
  54. 54
    Skariyachan, Sinosh
    St. Pius X College, Kasaragod
  55. 55
    Sharma, Divakar
    Graphic Era (Deemed to be University)
  56. 56
    Solanki, M. K.S.
    Indian Institute of Science
  57. 57
    Gupta, Pratima
    National Institute of Technology Raipur
  58. 58
    Sharma, Krishna Kant
    Maharshi Dayanand University
  59. 59
    Pandey, Anita K.
    Graphic Era (Deemed to be University)
  60. 60
    Rani, Anju T.
    Graphic Era (Deemed to be University)
  61. 61
    Mukherjee, Prasun Kumar
    Homi Bhabha National Institute
  62. 62
    Bramhachari, P. V.
    Krishna University
  63. 63
    Deshmukh, Sunil Kumar
    The Energy and Resources Institute India
  64. 64
    Shastry, Rajesh Padumane
    Yenepoya (Deemed to be University)
  65. 65
    Sodhi, Kushneet Kaur
    University of Delhi
  66. 66
    Ravishankar Rai, Vittal
    University of Mysore
  67. 67
    Mishra, Jitendra
    Amity University Punjab
  68. 68
    Malik, Y. S.
    Indian Veterinary Research Institute
  69. 69
    Sharma, Vijay Kumar
    Army Hospital (Research & Referral)
  70. 70
    Chatterjee, Subhankar
    Pondicherry University
  71. 71
    Bandh, Suhaib A.
    Cluster University Srinagar
  72. 72
    Nag, Moupriya
    University of Engineering & Management Kolkata
  73. 73
    Siddhardha, Busi
    Pondicherry University
  74. 74
    Tribedi, Prosun
    The Neotia University
  75. 75
    Kaur, Manpreet
    Chandigarh University
  76. 76
    Singh, Rajnish Prakash
    Jaypee Institute of Information Technology
  77. 77
    Karunasagar, Indrani
    Nitte (Deemed to be University)
  78. 78
    Dubey, Anamika
    Dr. H. S. Gour Vishwavidyalaya Sagar
  79. 79
    Rajendhran, Jeyaprakash
    Madurai Kamaraj University
  80. 80
    Boehme, Catharina C.
    World Health Organisation
  81. 81
    Sindhu, Satyavir Singh
    CCS Haryana Agricultural University
  82. 82
    Kerry, Rout George
    Siksha O Anusandhan (Deemed to be University)
  83. 83
    Tripathi, Nagesh K.
    Defence Research and Development Establishment
  84. 84
    Gupta, Sudheer
    All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhopal
  85. 85
    Suar, Mrutyunjay
    Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, Bhubaneswar
  86. 86
    Varghese, George Mannil
    Christian Medical College, Vellore
  87. 87
    Lal, Rup
    Acharya Narendra Dev College
  88. 88
    Chakdar, Hillol
    ICAR - National Bureau of Agriculturally Important Microorganisms, Maunath Bhanjan
  89. 89
    Sharma, Vivek Kumar
    Chandigarh University
  90. 90
    Verma, Satish K.
    Banaras Hindu University
  91. 91
    Kharwar, Ravindra Nath
    Banaras Hindu University
  92. 92
    Hassan, Saqib
    Pondicherry University
  93. 93
    Ghormade, Vandana S.
    Agharkar Research Institute
  94. 94
    Purohit, Hemant Jyotiswarup
    National Environmental Engineering Research Institute India
  95. 95
    Diwan, Vishal
    Indian Council of Medical Research
  96. 96
    Yadav, Pragya Dhruv
    Indian Council of Medical Research
  97. 97
    Mukherjee, Arpan
    Banaras Hindu University
  98. 98
    Pandey, Piyush
    Assam University
  99. 99
    Ahire, Jayesh Jagannath
    Dr. Reddy's Laboratories Ltd. India
  100. 100
    Satapathy, Prakasini
    Ravenshaw University

117 listed scientists in Microbiology 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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