Ganga Hospital's Dr S Rajasekaran Ranks First in India Among Stanford Top 2% Global Scientists

Coimbatore: Dr S Rajasekaran of Ganga Hospital, Coimbatore has been ranked First in India and 62nd in the world among orthopaedic surgeons in Stanford University's list of Top 2% scientists contributing to scientific literature.

Stanford University, in collaboration with Elsevier, releases the list of top 2% global scientists every year, ranking them according to their scientific publications and the citations attracted by their work in world literature. In this list, Dr Rajasekaran has been placed at Number 1 among scientific contributors from India.

Dr Rajasekaran has featured in this list continuously for the last seven years, with 648 of his publications recognised in Scopus, one of the largest and most authentic scientific publication databases in the world. His original scientific contributions are widely cited in the fields of spinal tuberculosis, spinal deformities, low back pain, disc biology and subclinical infection as a cause of disc degeneration.

Most of his research is based on clinical surgery and basic science, and the research group at Ganga Hospital stands as a strong example of 'Bed to Bench-side Research', involving surgeons, radiologists and basic science researchers from the Ganga Orthopaedic Research Centre.

As per ResearchGate statistics, Dr Rajasekaran has an H index of 58, a Research Index Score of 9234, and total citations of 16,027.