PU Professor appointed Associate Editor of a reputed Public Health journal

Chandigarh, February 26, 2022: This is a matter of great pride for Panjab University that Dr. Kewal Krishan, Professor and former Chair of the Department of Anthropology has been appointed as a permanent Associate Editor of an international and reputed journal “Frontiers in Public Health”. He has been offered this position on the basis of his commendable work on the interface of Anthropology and Public health. The “Frontiers in Public Health” is one of the highly rated journals with an impact factor of 3.709. ‘Frontiers’ is the 3rd most-cited publisher amongst the 20 top publishers of the scientific literature.
Apart from his expertise in forensic science, Prof. Krishan is regularly contributing articles on various aspects of anthropology and public health including COVID-19. Since the commencement of the COVID-19 pandemic, he has contributed many articles on COVID-19 exploring his anthropological and forensic knowledge. Looking at his contributions to these aspects of COVID-19, two international reputed journals “The Journal of Infection in Developing Countries” and “Acta Biomedica” have also appointed him as editorial board member in 2021. He is already on the editorial panel of highly rated forensic journals such as “Forensic Science International” and “Medicine Science and the law”.
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 275 articles, most of which are in international journals of repute. He has more than 25000 citations of the research work to his credit. Dr. Krishan endorsed “this is due to the constant encouragement and motivation by our worthy Vice Chancellor, Prof. Raj Kumar for international research collaboration”.