Dr Sandeep Arya, Senior Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, University of Jammu, has been featured in Stanford University list of top 2% scientists in the world.

He is the only researcher from the university to be figured on the list.

The selection is based on the top 100,000 scientists by c-score (with and without self-citations) or a percentile rank of 2% or above in the sub-field. 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 Sept 1, 2022 snapshot from Scopus, updated to the end of the citation year 2021, reportedly.

A spokesperson said that Arya is working in the field of applied physics and his work is focused on the development of electrochemical sensors, colorimetric sensors, supercapacitors and energy storage devices among others. Further spokesperson added that he has published more than 100 research articles, many of which have been published in journals with good impact factors and is also a member of the editorial boards of numerous journals