STM publisher Elsevier and the National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI), has announced the winners of the 2016 NASI-Scopus Young Scientist Awards and the 10th year commemoration of the awards.
First introduced in 2006, the program was officially institutionalized within India's scientific community in 2009 through Elsevier's collaboration with NASI. The awards serve to honour researchers under the age of forty years old building a career in academic research and help them gain broad recognition in India and abroad for their work.
Over the past decade, the NASI-Scopus Young Scientist Awards have attracted more than 4,000 applications which were reviewed by 60 scientific experts from India's scholarly community who were part of the judging panel. As of 2015, 82 winners across nine scientific disciplines have been announced.
More than 600 applications were submitted for the 2016 NASI-Scopus Young Scientist Awards from researchers of premier academic institutions across India. Elsevier provided quantitative analyses from Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature, and applications were judged by a panel of 32 subject experts from India's academic community on criteria as: Quality and number of publications; Nature and uniqueness of research; Outcomes of research; Impact on society; and Vision of the researcher. Special consideration was also given to novel and innovative ideas with the potential for research commercialization.
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