Citation Rankings
Highly Cited Researchers

Indian Council of Medical Research Highly Cited Researchers Citation Rankings 2025

Citation Rankings (Highly Cited Researchers) and the list of the most cited and influential researchers cover a wide range of scientific fields, spanning 197 main and sub-disciplines, as well as the Art and Humanities Citation Rankings and Social Sciences and Humanities Citation Rankings, offering a unique service. Additionally, the list without CERN, Statistical Data, etc., provided exclusively by “AD Scientific Index”, is part of our effort to balance the situation created by CERN and researchers with statistical data, who have an advantage over others, especially those in the social and humanities fields. There should be new regulations for multi-author and CERN papers. Citation lists also reveal many rule violations and unethical practices. See also for more specific citation analyses: Scientists Last 6 years Citation IndexUniversities Total Citations Rankings 2025 and Universities Last 6 Years Citations Rankings 2025

* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :1
India
Indrapal Meshram
Public health Nutrition
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
28,469
23,636
0.830
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :2
India
Geetha R Menon
Meta-analysis
systematic review
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
19,337
16,551
0.856
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :3
India
G Bhanuprakash Reddy
Biochemistry
Nutrition
Chronic diseases
Health Sciences
Food Science
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
9,986
4,421
0.443
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :4
India
Nivedita Gupta
virology
vaccines
epidemiology
serology
etc
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
7,817
7,107
0.909
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :5
India
Vikas Dhikav
Evidence synthesis
Guidelines Development
Dementia
Yoga
Mental Health
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
6,948
4,824
0.694
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :6
India
Ravinder Singh
Stress
Mental Health
Assistive Technology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
6,867
4,416
0.643
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :7
India
Mamta Chawla-Sarkar
Virology
Host virus interaction
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
6,617
2,484
0.375
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :8
India
Pradyumna Kumar Mishra
Translational Research
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
6,418
3,876
0.604
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :9
India
Debprasad Chattopadhyay
Ethnomedicine
Virology
Molecular Medicine
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
6,196
3,092
0.499
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :10
India
Prashant Kumar Singh
Population health
Non-communicable diseases
tobacco
ageing
gender
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
5,650
4,040
0.715
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :11
India
Vishal Diwan
Public Health
Environmental Health
Interventions
One- Health- AMR
Capacity Building
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3,737
2,575
0.689
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :12
India
Subbiah Rajasekaran
Lung biology
Environmental toxicology
Cell signaling
microRNA
Therapeutics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3,185
1,494
0.469
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :13
India
Ira Praharaj
Virology
Gut Microbiome
Antimicrobial Resistance
Public Health Microbiology
Enteric Vaccines
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3,022
2,616
0.866
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :14
India
Aparna Mukherjee
Pediatric infectious disease
Tuberculosis
Clinical Trial
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
2,779
2,290
0.824
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :15
India
Roopa Shivashankar
Cardiovascular diseases
Diabetes
Non-communicable diseases
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
2,754
2,027
0.736
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :16
India
Vahab Ali
Biochemistry
protein structure and functions
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
2,596
1,094
0.421
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :17
India
Sidhartha Giri
Microbiology
Infectious diseases
Immunology
Vaccines
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
2,550
2,072
0.813
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :18
India
Sathish Kumar Mungamuri
Food Toxicity - Liver and Pancreas
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
2,537
1,247
0.492
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :19
India
Ravindra M Samartha|Ravindra M. Samarth
Radiation Biology
Toxicology
Chemoprevention
Molecular Cytogenetics
Cytogenetics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
2,116
784
0.371
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :20
India
Balachandar Rakesh
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,981
1,858
0.938
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :21
India
Harsha Hegde
Ethnomedicine
Angiosperm Taxonomy
Ethnopharmacology
Plant Biotechnology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,916
1,004
0.524
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :22
India
Rajnikant Dixit
Molecular & Functional Genomics of mosquito vectors
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,891
1,113
0.589
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :23
India
Shobi Veleri
Molecular Genetics and human disease modeling
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,885
895
0.475
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :24
India
Madhanraj K
Public health
Community medicine
Epidemiology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,882
1,778
0.945
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :25
India
Meesha Chaturvedi
cancer epidemiology
cancer registration
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,800
1,647
0.915
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
23,501
India
180
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 1
Indrapal Meshram
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
28,469
23,636
0.830
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
41,220
India
342
2
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
Geetha R Menon
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
19,337
16,551
0.856
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
95,944
India
1,215
3
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
G Bhanuprakash Reddy
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
9,986
4,421
0.443
Biochemistry
Nutrition
Chronic diseases
Health Sciences
Food Science
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
126,420
India
1,791
4
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
Nivedita Gupta
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
7,817
7,107
0.909
virology
vaccines
epidemiology
serology
etc
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
143,555
India
2,162
5
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
Vikas Dhikav
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
6,948
4,824
0.694
Evidence synthesis
Guidelines Development
Dementia
Yoga
Mental Health
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
145,320
India
2,203
6
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
Ravinder Singh
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
6,867
4,416
0.643
Stress
Mental Health
Assistive Technology
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
151,048
India
2,311
7
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
Mamta Chawla-Sarkar
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
6,617
2,484
0.375
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
155,876
India
2,423
8
Ranking Based On Selection: 8
Pradyumna Kumar Mishra
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
6,418
3,876
0.604
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
161,582
India
2,540
9
Ranking Based On Selection: 9
Debprasad Chattopadhyay
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
6,196
3,092
0.499
Ethnomedicine
Virology
Molecular Medicine
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
177,159
India
2,897
10
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
Prashant Kumar Singh
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
5,650
4,040
0.715
Population health
Non-communicable diseases
tobacco
ageing
gender
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
261,315
India
5,191
11
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
Vishal Diwan
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3,737
2,575
0.689
Public Health
Environmental Health
Interventions
One- Health- AMR
Capacity Building
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
299,560
India
6,403
12
Ranking Based On Selection: 12
Subbiah Rajasekaran
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3,185
1,494
0.469
Lung biology
Environmental toxicology
Cell signaling
microRNA
Therapeutics
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
312,940
India
6,830
13
Ranking Based On Selection: 13
Ira Praharaj
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3,022
2,616
0.866
Virology
Gut Microbiome
Antimicrobial Resistance
Public Health Microbiology
Enteric Vaccines
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
335,169
India
7,528
14
Ranking Based On Selection: 14
Aparna Mukherjee
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
2,779
2,290
0.824
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
337,567
India
7,612
15
Ranking Based On Selection: 15
Roopa Shivashankar
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
2,754
2,027
0.736
Cardiovascular diseases
Diabetes
Non-communicable diseases
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
353,989
India
8,138
16
Ranking Based On Selection: 16
Vahab Ali
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
2,596
1,094
0.421
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
358,947
India
8,298
17
Ranking Based On Selection: 17
Sidhartha Giri
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
2,550
2,072
0.813
Microbiology
Infectious diseases
Immunology
Vaccines
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
360,418
India
8,356
18
Ranking Based On Selection: 18
Sathish Kumar Mungamuri
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
2,537
1,247
0.492
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
413,159
India
10,221
19
Ranking Based On Selection: 19
Ravindra M Samartha|Ravindra M. Samarth
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
2,116
784
0.371
Radiation Biology
Toxicology
Chemoprevention
Molecular Cytogenetics
Cytogenetics
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
433,520
India
10,959
20
Ranking Based On Selection: 20
Balachandar Rakesh
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,981
1,858
0.938
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
444,093
India
11,385
21
Ranking Based On Selection: 21
Harsha Hegde
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,916
1,004
0.524
Ethnomedicine
Angiosperm Taxonomy
Ethnopharmacology
Plant Biotechnology
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
448,327
India
11,546
22
Ranking Based On Selection: 22
Rajnikant Dixit
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,891
1,113
0.589
Molecular & Functional Genomics of mosquito vectors
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
449,342
India
11,580
23
Ranking Based On Selection: 23
Shobi Veleri
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,885
895
0.475
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
449,700
India
11,590
24
Ranking Based On Selection: 24
Madhanraj K
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,882
1,778
0.945
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
463,914
India
12,093
25
Ranking Based On Selection: 25
Meesha Chaturvedi
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,800
1,647
0.915
cancer epidemiology
cancer registration