Biography

Ajar Nath Yadav, HOD & Assistant Professor (SS), Department of Genetics, Plant Breeding and Biotechnology, Dr. Khem Singh Gill Akal College of Agriculture, and Assistant Controller of Examinations Eternal University, Baru Sahib, Himachal Pradesh, India. He has 9 years of teaching and 12 years of research experience in the field of microbial biotechnology, microbial diversity and plant-microbe interactions. He obtained his doctorate degree in Science (Microbial Biotechnology) jointly from Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi & Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi, India; M.Sc. (Biotechnology) from Bundelkhand University and B.Sc. (BCZ) from the University of Allahabad, India. Dr. Yadav has 355 publications with h-index 92, i10-index 320 and 23512 citations. Dr. Yadav has published 33 International books including 21 Springer-Nature, 07 CRC Press Taylor & Francis, 04 Elsevier, and 1 Wiley-Blackwell books and 108 Book Chapters. Dr. Yadav published 131 research communications. He has been serving as Editor-in-Chief of “Journal of Applied Biology and Biotechnology” and Associated Editor for 11 international journals including Heliyon, Current Microbiology, Stress Biology, BMC Microbiology, BMC Biotechnology, Archaea, International Journal of Microbiology, Microbial Biosystems, Frontiers in Microbiology, Plant Science Today, and Journal of Food Quality and handled 203 manuscripts till date. Dr. Yadav is serving as reviewer for more than 131 national and international peer-reviewed journals and reviewed 486 manuscripts till date. Dr. Yadav edited 12 Special issues in Frontiers in Fungal Biology, Journal of Applied Biology and Biotechnology, Journal of Pharmaceutical Applied Sciences, MDPI Biology and Plant Science Today.

Dr. Yadav has been listed among 2% world scientists in 2022 & 2023 by Stanford University, California, USA and among Top 2% most influential scientists in single year 2022 by Stanford University, California, USA. Dr. Yadav is among Top 1% leading Scientists in World by Research.com, single scientist from Eternal University. Dr. Yadav is Best Scientist in Eternal University in 2020-2024 by AD Scientific Index.  Dr. Yadav is First ranked in Eternal University in Scopus databases (226 articles @30% of total publications) and received “Outstanding Associate Editor Award” by Frontiers in Microbiology for 2022 & 2023. Dr. Yadav has got 19 Best Paper Presentation Awards, and one Young Scientist Award (NASI-Swarna Jayanti Purskar). He received “University Best Researcher Award-2022 & 2023” in 11th & 10th and “Outstanding Teacher Award”-2018 in 6th  Annual Convocation  of Eternal University, Baru Sahib, Himachal Pradesh. 

Dr. Yadav has a long-standing interest in teaching at the UG, PG, and Ph.D. level and is involved in taking courses in agriculture microbiology, bacteriology, biosystematics and biodiversity, bioprocess engineering and technology, environmental biotechnology, environmental microbiology, industrial microbiology, microbial biotechnology and techniques in microbiology and biotechnology. Dr. Yadav is currently handling two projects one funded by the Department of Environments, Science & Technology (DEST), Shimla, and one by HP Council for Science, Technology & Environment (HIMCOSTE). Presently he is guiding 05 scholars for the Ph.D. degree and 01 for M.Sc. dissertations.

In his credit ~8700 microbes (Archaea, bacteria, and fungi) isolated from diverse sources and ~550 potential and efficient microbes were deposited at culture collection National Bureau of Agriculturally Important Microorganisms (NBAIM), Mau, India. He has deposited 2386 nucleotide sequences and 03 whole-genome sequences (Bacillus thuringiensis AKS47, Arthrobacter agilis L77, and Halolamina pelagica CDK2) and 02 transcriptomes to NCBI GenBank databases: in the public domain. The niche-specific microbes from extreme environments were reported as specific bio-inoculants (Biofertilizers) for crops growing in normal and diverse abiotic stress conditions. Dr.  Yadav and his group have developed technology for screening of archaea for phosphorus solubilization for the first time. He has the lifetime membership of Association of microbiologist in India, Indian Science Congress Council, India and National Academy of Sciences, India.

Research publications: 321

Research/review papers : 164

Editorial : 10

Books : 32

Book chapters : 101

Popular articles : 10 

Lab manuals : 02

Patents : 02

Others (Opinion/conceptual/Ed) : 35

Citations (Google Scholar)

Citations : 19157

h-index : 82

i10-index : 280