Jamshedpur, Oct 8: Prof. (Dr.) Balram Ambade, faculty of Department of Chemistry, National Institute of Technology Jamshedpur has been named among world’s top 2 percent scientists by Stanford University.
Professor Ambade, Associate Professor, has been ranked for research publications citations using all Scopus author profiles as of October, 2022 and lifetime contribution to specific fields of research in the list.
Scientists are classified into 22 scientific fields and 176 sub-fields. The selection is based on the top 100,000 scientists by c-score (with and without self-citations) or a percentile rank of 2 per cent or above in the sub-field. As many as 195,605 scientists are included in the career-long database and 200,409 scientists are included in the single recent year dataset. This version (4) is based on the October 2023 snapshot from Scopus, updated to end of citation year 2022.
Dr. Balram Ambade is a Asso. Professor of Atmospheric Science- and Water- research at the Department of Chemistry, NIT Jamshedpur, India. His academic background covers environmental science, atmospheric chemistry, emerging contaminants, and remediation of contaminated soils using value-added products recycle. His main research is on soils, sediments, waters, air, and their pollutions (trace elements and nutrients) and linked biogeochemical issues with a special focus on PAHs, and microplastics. Professor Ambade is internationally recognized particularly for his research in the areas of Environmental Chemistry, Atmospheric Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, and Environmental Engineering. He published plenty of scientific papers in leading international and national journals. According to SCOPUS, Professor Ambade published over 100 research papers, These papers have been cited 2000+ times in Scopus with h-index = 25. Also, he published four books entitled “Physico-Chemical Assessment of Rain, Fog and Runoff Water” (2012), “Toxicity of Fluorides in the Environment” (2012), “Handbook of Novel Drug Delivery” (2021), and” Characterization of Ambient Aerosol” (2021), as well as numerous book chapters. He is serving as Lead Guest Editor for Special Issues of “Environmental Science and Pollution Research (Springer, IF: 5.1) ” and “Sustainability”(MDPI, IF: 3.8). Guest Editor for Special Issues of “Science of the Total Environment” (Elsevier, IF: 10.75), Physics and Chemistry of the Earth (Elsevier, IF: 3.31) “Atmosphere”, and “Urban Science” and as topic editor of the international journals “Frontiers in Sustainable Cities”. Associate Editor of “Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene”.
Also, he is member of serval editorial boards “Applied and Environmental Soil Science” and reviewer for many leading international journals. He organized many special symposia at various international conferences such as “Green Chemistry and Sustainable Development” (GCSD-2017)”, and “Global Initiative on Academic Network (GIAN)” GIAN 2017. He was an invited speaker (plenary and keynote) at many international conferences. In 2019 he got the responsibility of Head of Department (HOD) in the Department of Chemistry, NIT Jamshedpur. He supervised five Ph.D. students and Six Ph.D. students are doing research under his guidance. He has handled six funded research projects funded by national and international funding agencies.
