Indian man, born to daily-wage labourers, ranked among world's top 5% scientists

Born to daily-wage labourers, Indian scientist Dr Manoj P Rayaroth has been ranked among the world's top 5% of scientists by the SciRank Global Registry 2025. He collected fjord water and glacier meltwater samples during the 2026-27 Indian Arctic Expedition to study how pollutants travel from Arctic ice into oceans. Notably, he has 2,900 citations and an h-index of 25.