As many as nine researchers from the National Uni-versity of Sciences & Technology (NUST) have risen to prominence by standing among world’s Top 2% research luminaries from among 100,000 top-of-the-line researchers in 2021.
The data for ranking is compiled by Stanford Uni-versity’s Prof John PA Loannidis and his team, and published by Elsevier.
The researchers are ranked based on a composite index factoring in several bibliometrics, including citations, hirsch-index, citations to papers in different authorship positions, etc. The nine researchers are from six different insti-tutions of NUST and seven different disciplines, including Telecommunications, Signal Processing, Materials, Chemical, Bio-medical, Computer Sci-ence and Mathematical Methods in Fluid Mechan-ics.
The researchers are Dr Noreen Sher Akbar, Dr Meraj Mustafa Hashmi, Dr Salman Raza Naqvi, Dr Muhammad Usman Akram, Dr Adeeb Shehzad, Dr Muhammad Ishaq, Dr Iftikhar Hussain Gul, Dr Ab-dul Ghafoor, and Dr Farooq Ahmed Tahir.
