DINDIGUL: Four professors from the Gandhigram Rural Institute (GRI) have made it to the top 2% of scientists in the world, according to a press note from GRI. The rank list of the top 2% influential scientists is prepared by Prof.
John PA Loannidis and his colleagues at Stanford University. The luminaries are classified into 22 scientific fields and 176 sub-fields. At least five research papers published by all classified scientists are ranked based on the field and subfield-specific percentages.
The list includes more than two lakh researchers from across the world, including over 3,500 Indian researchers. Among them are GRI professors Dr P Balasubramaniam, Department of Mathematics, Dr. M G Sethuraman and Dr S Meenakshi, Department of Chemistry and Dr K Marimuthu, Department of Physics.
Balasubramaniam is conducting systematic research on transforming low-quality images into high-quality images using fuzzy logic approaches and detecting trauma in the patient's brain through cryptography and processing technology. Sethuraman is engaged in the study of creating factors that inhibit metal corrosion using compounds from plant materials.
Meenakshi is involved in research to develop methods to remove toxic fluoride, chromium, mercury, and toxins from wastewater by absorption. Marimuthu has been researching the emission of white light and laser light through glasses made of rare earth elements and is working on creating glasses to prevent hazardous radiation. These four scientists had been featured in the rank list in the past three years too.