Coimbatore: In a very prestigious landmark achievement and honour, globally renowned Stanford University Group, has recognised and honored, Dr S Rajasekaran, Ganga Hospital, Coimbatore in Top 2% of World Scientists contributing to Orthopaedic Surgery.
Coimbatore: In a very prestigious landmark achievement and honour, globally renowned Stanford University Group, has recognised and honored, Dr S Rajasekaran, Ganga Hospital, Coimbatore in Top 2% of World Scientists contributing to Orthopaedic Surgery.
And, within the top 1% of world's scientists who have contributed maximally in the field of orthopaedic surgery.
Stanford University USA has released the database of 100,000 scientists in 21 fields of science and categorised the top 2% of scientists whose work has had the maximum impact in their respective fields. Of the two surgeons chosen from India in the field of orthopaedic science Dr S Rajasekaran tops the list from our country.
In the field of orthopaedic surgery, only two surgeons from India were selected and Dr S Rajasekaran, Director of Orthopedic and Spine Surgery has been categorised as the surgeon worldwide who has contributed in the top 1% to the science of orthopaedic surgery.
Recognition
The Stanford University group, USA created a publicly available database of 100,000 top scientists. The work was done by three of the top scientists John P.A. Ioannidis from the Department of Medicine, Stanford University, USA, Kevin W. Boyack of SciTech Strategies Inc, New Mexico, United States of America and Jeroen Baas from Research Intelligence, Elsevier, Amsterdam and published in the prestigious journal PLOS BIOLOGY (PLoS Bio 18(10); e3000918).
Parameters
The authors used scopus data to compile a database of the 100,000 most cited across authors across all scientific fields based on their ranking of a composite indicator that considered six important citation metrics – total citations, Hirsch-h index, co-authorship-adjusted Schreiber hm-index, number of citations to papers as single author, number of citations to papers as single or first author, and number of citations to papers as single, first or last author.
The authors also refined the method of analysis by excluding self citations. For each author, separate data for career-long and single-year impact was calculated. Metrics with and without self-citations and ratio of citations to citing papers were done. Scientists were classified into 22 scientific fields and 176 subfields. Field- and subfield-specific percentiles were also provided for all scientists.
Dr Rajasekaran’s Research
Dr S Rajasekaran’s research in the field of orthopaedic surgery is mainly focused in the field of spinal infections, spinal deformity and low back pain. Of the numerous publications, the top 227 international papers of Dr S Rajasekaran were considered for the analysis.
Just as he completed his Post Graduation, Dr Rajasekaran published his first research paper in 1987 on problem of severe spinal deformities following spinal tuberculosis and other infections. This was published in the American Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery.
His research work predominantly focusses on low back pain, disc biology and the problem of severe spinal deformities. His scientific work forms a good example of bed to bedside research combining both clinical and basic science.
Ganga Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation (GOREF)
He set up the Ganga Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation (GOREF) in August 2002, which was approved by the Department of Science and Technology to fund the research of the Ganga Research Centre which focuses on molecular level research to see how disc degeneration (which is the cause for more than 90% of back pain) can be prevented or even reversed.
International Recognitions
His work has been published in many international journals and they have also been the recipient of many international awards like the
• North American Spine Society Outstanding Research Award consecutively for 2019 & 2020
• Asia Pacific Spine Society Best Clinical Research Award for 2019
• Asia Pacific Spine Journal Award for Best Clinical Paper for 2019
• Asia Pacific Spine Society Basic Science Research Award for 2019
• Asia Pacific Spine Journal Award for Best Basic Science Paper for 2019
• ISSLS (International Society for the Study of Lumbar Spine, Canada) Prize for Spine Research for four years - 2004,2010,2013 & 2017
• EuroSpine Open Paper Award’ for 2008
• Macnab LaRocca Research Award of ISSLS, Canada in 2005
• Sofamer Danek Award for the best Scientific presentation internationally by the International Society for the Study of Lumbar Spine thrice for the years 1996, 2002 & 2006.
National Level Recognitions
Dr B C Roy Silver Jubilee Research Award for 2004 by Medical Council of India
Hari Om Ashram Alembic Research Award for 2004 and 2017 by Medical Council of India Hari Om Ashram Prerit Dr S Rangachari Research Endowment Lecture Award in 2007 by Association of Surgeons of India Research & Publication Awards for the years 2003 to 2020 by Association of Spine Surgeons of India.