STM publisher Elsevier and the National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI), has announced the winners of the 2015 NASI-Scopus Young Scientist Awards.
More than 100 guests representing the best from India's scientific community attended the awards ceremony - now in its sixth year of inception - held at the Hyatt Regency, New Delhi. Dr. R. Chidambaram, Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India & Chairman Scientific Advisory Committee to Cabinet, presented the awards to this year's winners.
This year, the NASI-Scopus Young Scientist Awards program attracted more than 600 entries from premier research institutions across India. Elsevier provided quantitative analyses using data 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 such 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 commercialisation.
Elsevier first launched the Scopus Young Scientist Awards in 2006. In India, the program was officially institutionalised within its scientific community through Elsevier's collaboration with NASI in 2009. The program honours young researchers who are building their careers in academic research and helps them gain recognition of their work.
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