7 NUST researchers featured among the top 2% in the world

According to a database published by PLOS Biology, seven researchers from NUST are featured amongst the top 2% researchers worldwide by Citation Impact for the calendar year 2019. The research was published by a consortium of authors from Stanford University USA, SciTech Strategies USA, and Elsevier, The Netherlands, whereby they recently published updates to their lists of top 100,000 researchers based on standardised citation indicators using the Scopus (Elsevier) database. The researchers are ranked according to a composite index created by the authors factoring in several bibliometrics including citations, hirsch-index, citations to papers in different authorship positions, etc.

The seven researchers are from four different institutions of NUST and four different disciplines including Artificial Intelligence, Telecommunications, Signal Processing and Mathematical Methods in Fluid Mechanics. The researchers are Dr Noreen Sher Akbar and Dr Usman Akram from the NUST College of Electrical & Mechanical Engineering (CEME), Dr Meraj Mustafa Hashmi from the NUST School of Natural Sciences (SNS), Dr Faisal Shafait, Dr Muhammad Moazam Fraz and Dr Saad Bin Qaisar from the NUST School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (SEECS) and Dr Farooq Tahir from NUST Research Institute for Microwave & Millimeter-Wave Studies (RIMMS).

Rector NUST felicitated the researchers on this achievement; he wished them all the best and expressed hoped that many more researchers from NUST will be featured in such league tables in the future and bring laurels to their university and their country.