PU Professor appointed Editor of ‘The Science of Nature’

Chandigarh, August 27, 2023: Dr. Kewal Krishan, Professor and former Chair of the Department of Anthropology, has been appointed as one of the Editors of a prestigious and reputed journal “The Science of Nature”. This is a Springer's flagship multidisciplinary science journal founded in 1913. In the scientific literature, this is considered as a highly rated international journal with an impact factor of 2.300. Professor Krishan has been appointed on the basis of his commendable work on the interface of natural sciences, human morphology and forensic identification.

Prof. Krishan has been conducting novel research and regularly contributing articles on forensic aspects of human body morphology such as human face, fingerprints, footprints, teeth, ear-prints, gait analysis, skeleton and various body parts. On the basis of this work, he has already been appointed on the editors and editorial panel of highly rated forensic and medical journals such as Forensic Science International, Medicine Science and the law, The Journal of Infection in Developing Countries, Frontiers in Public Health, Archives of Public Health, Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences, and Acta Biomedica.

Prof. Krishan is a renowned forensic anthropologist and one of the most cited researchers in the field of Anthropology and forensic science worldwide. He has published more than 319 articles, most of which are in international journals of repute. He has more than 56,000 citations of the research work to his credit. He has also been included among the Top 2% scientists of the world by STANFORD-ELSEVIER analysis for the years 2020, 2021 and 2022 and is positioned at 17th rank in the ‘Legal and Forensic Medicine Category’ worldwide.

Dr. Krishan said “Panjab University has been providing very conducive environment and infrastructure for conducting cutting-edge research and young faculty members should make use of every facility provided by the university for publishing research in highly rated journals of the world. This may help the university getting a top global position in the world ranking of the universities in near future.”