Dr. Bhaskar Singh is working as Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences. Dr. Sachin Kumar is working as Associate Professor in the Department of Energy Engineering and Dr. Arnab Sankar Bhattacharyya is also working as Associate Professor in the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering at Central University of Jharkhand, Ranchi.

Name of all three researchers has been recently featured in the Stanford University’s list of “World’s Top 2% Scientists” published by Elsevier on 7th October 2026 (DOI: 10.17632/btchxktzyw.9).

According to the Stanford – Elsevier report, a publicly available database of over 100,000 top-scientists has been created that provides standardized information on citations, h-index, co-authorship adjusted hm-index, citations to papers in different authorship positions and a composite indicator. The selection is based on the top 100,000 by C-scores (number of citations, excluding self-citations) or a percentile rank of 2% or above. Separate data are shown for career-long and, separately, for single recent year impact. Scientists are classified into 22 scientific fields and 174 sub-fields according to the standard Science-Metrix classification. Dr. Bhaskar Singh’s name is in the ‘Single Year’ list for the sixth consecutive year in the main field ‘Enabling & Strategic Technologies’ and sub-field ‘Energy (sub-field-1)’ & ‘Environmental Sciences (sub-field-2)’. Dr. Sachin Kumar appeared for the fourth time on single year impact list in the in the main field ‘Enabling & Strategic Technologies’ and sub-field ‘Energy (sub-field-1)’ and ‘Environmental Sciences (sub-field-2)’. Dr. Bhattacharyya’s name appears in the main field ‘Enabling & Strategic Technologies’ and sub-field ‘Applied Physics (sub-field-1)’ and ‘Materials (sub-field-2)’for the second time on single year impact list.

Dr. Bhaskar Singh works in the area of various aspects of biodiesel development (novel feedstocks, catalysis, improvement of fuel properties, etc.) and addressing other contemporary environmental issues. As per Scopus data, Dr. Bhaskar Singh has 115 publications having 7270 citations and the current h-index of his articles is ‘39’. Dr. Bhaskar also has patent granted for the invention entitled ‘Method for the Enhancement for Oxidative Stability and Cold-Flow Properties of Biodiesel’ by the Patent Office, Govt. of India

Dr. Sachin Kumar works in the area of waste valorization (energy generation from waste plastics and biomass, catalysis) and exploring the other energy related issues. As per Scopus data, Dr. Sachin Kumar has 69 publications having 2720 citations and the current h-index of his articles is ‘25’.

Dr. Bhattacharyya works extensively in the field of nanostructured thin films, coatings, nanoindentation studies, surface engineering, computational modelling, and energy/biomedical materials. As per Scopus data, Dr. Arnab Sankar Bhattacharyya has 74 publications with 865 citations and the current h-index of his articles is ‘18’.

Vice-Chancellor of Central University of Jharkhand, Prof. Sarang Medhekar congratulated all three researchers and stated, “All three researchers have made commendable contributions in the fields of environment, energy, and materials science. This is a matter of great pride for the University. I wish them a bright and successful future.”