Six faculty members of the Sargodha University (SU) made their eminence among the top 2% researchers in a global list compiled by Prof John Ioannidis of Stanford University and his team.
The list featured the world’s top 2% scientists in numerous disciplines; all achievers on the list have been nominated based on the international evaluation of their research work, and are ranked based on either the life-long citation impact of their work till the year 2021 or the citation impact of their work for the single calendar year of 2020-21.
The exhaustive list based on career has more than 186,000 scientists, doctors and engineers with 127 scientists from Pakistan, while the list compiled on the basis of single year citation impact includes more than 190000 scientists of the world.
The SU faculty members who received global recognition life-long and single year citation impact for their contribution in research, include: Prof Dr Farooq Anwar from Institute of Chemistry, Prof Dr Muhammad Nawaz Tahir and Dr Muhammad Ashfaq from Physics Department, Dr Muhammad Adnan, Prof Dr Shoaib Akhtar and Dr Abdul Malik from Faculty of Pharmacy.
Meanwhile, SU VC Prof Dr Saleem Mazhar participated in the Presidential Elections of the Republic of Uzbekistan held on Oct 24, 2021, at Tashkent, as an international observer invited by the Central Election Commission of Uzbekistan.
