23 Shivaji University researchers named among the world's top 2% of scientists

Kolhapur: Twenty-three researchers and teachers from Shivaji University have made the 2026 list of the world's top 2% of researchers published by Stanford University in the United States. They include current and former teachers and alumni of the university, among them pro-vice-chancellor Dr Jyoti Jadhav (biochemistry) and former pro-vice-chancellor Prof Pramod Patil (physics).

Most of those on the list are physicists, with others from chemistry, nanotechnology, biotechnology, electronic materials and mathematics. They include Prof Vishwas Bapat (biotechnology), Dr Sagar Delekar (chemistry), Dr Sachin Otari (nanotechnology), Prof Tukaram Dongale (electronic materials) and Dr Sachin Bhalekar (mathematics).

The ranking looks at researchers' performance both in the latest year and over their whole careers, judged on the number and quality of their published papers, the citations those papers receive and their contribution to research.

The career-long list includes Dr Jyoti Jadhav, Dr Pramod Patil, Dr Keshav Rajpure, Dr Sushilkumar Jadhav, Dr Sanjay Govindwar, Dr Chandrakant Bhosale, Dr Vishwas Bapat, Dr C.D. Lokhande and retired teacher Dr A. Venkateshwara Rao.

Source: Pudhari