By Barsha Misra

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New Delhi: This year’s Stanford University’s list of world’s top 2% scientists has recognised altogether 17 gynaecologists, doctors and scientists for their research in Obstetrics and Reproductive Medicine.The prestigious database of world’s top 2% of scientists has been curated by Professor John P.A. Ioannidis of Stanford University, in collaboration with the Elsevier Data Repository.Being recognised in Stanford University’s top 2% list of scientists acknowledges these doctors’ and scientists’ pioneering research, clinical achievements, and consistent impact on the field.Stanford University’s 2025 database of the top-cited scientists provides standardised information on citations, h-index, co-authorship-adjusted hm-index, citations to papers in different authorship positions, and a composite indicator (c-score). The selection is based on the top 100,000 scientists by c-score (with and without self-citations) or a 2% or above percentile rank in the sub-field.Below are the details of Indian Gynaceologists, doctors and scientists featured in Stanford University’s list for 2025:(1) Dr. Neerja Bhatla- AIIMS New Delhi:A renowned Indian gynecologist and obstetrician, Dr. Neerja Bhatla was conferred the Padma Shri, one of India’s highest civilian honours, in 2025, for her contributions to women’s healthcare, particularly for the detection, prevention, and management of cervical cancer.Dr. Bhatla played a key role in creating resource-based guidelines for cervical cancer screening, management and HPV vaccination. She has worked for the prevention and elimination of cervical cancer for the last 35 years in low-resource settings.After pursuing her MBBS and post-graduation in Ob-Gyn, she worked as a faculty at the Obstetrics and Gynaecologist department at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi. She also worked as the Head of the Gynaecologic Oncology National Cancer Institute, Jhajjar, AIIMS.Dr Bhatla is a recipient of Dr SK Ghai Bhandari Award by the All India Coordination Committee of the Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology for Best Research Work Presentation, ISCCP Excellence Award by the Indian Society of Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology, Women’s Leadership Conclave Award and more.After retiring from AIIMS, she continued to lead numerous research projects in India on cervical cancer and prevention, including screening in low-resource settings, HPV epidemiology, trials on affordable HPV testing and vaccines. She became the first Indian to serve as the President of the International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) and led the 2018 revision of FIGO’s staging guidelines for cervical cancer.Dr. Bhatla has been recognised as one of the top 2% scientists across the world, as per Stanford University’s list of 2025. She holds a rank of 72432 in the list based on the composite score excluding self-citations, and 83240 when all citations are included. By the end of 2024, her h-index, excluding self-citations, stands at 15, with altogether 1056 citations for 2024 (excluding self-citations).Medical Dialogues had earlier reported that Dr. Bhatla had been recognised as top 2% scientists in Stanford University’s 2024 list as well. Last year, she held the highest rank of 72,280 based on the composite score excluding self-citations, and a rank of 81,039 when all citations were included in the list. As of the end of 2023, her h-index, excluding self-citations, stood at 14.(2) Dr. Rima Dada- AIIMS New Delhi: After pursuing her MBBS from Maulana Azad Medical College under Delhi University, Prof. Rima Dada joined the MD programme in Anatomy at the University College of Medical Sciences. Consequently, she completed her Senior Residency and her Ph.D. studies in Genetics at AIIMS, New Delhi. Later, she joined AIIMS as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anatomy.Her research interests include Genetics of reproductive disorders, ocular disorders and various childhood cancers, lifestyle interventions on markers of aging Yoga in Health promotions and disease prevention.Prof. Dada is on the editorial board of several national and international journals and she is a member of various scientific bodies. She was conferred with several prestigious national and international awards and has 235 international and national indexed papers and 75 book chapters. Dr. Dada received ICMR Shakuntala Amir Chand Prize, GP Talwar Gold Medal & Rashtriya Gaurav Award, ICMR national award – Genetics of Infertility, Young scientist award at 2nd European American Course in Clinical Genetics in Croatia and many more.Prof. Dada has been recognised as one of the top 2% scientists across the world, as per Stanford University’s list of 2025. She holds a rank of 140070 in the list based on the composite score excluding self-citations, and 127317 when all citations are included. By the end of 2024, her h-index, excluding self-citations, stands at 10, with altogether 618 citations for 2024 (excluding…