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81 Pakistanis named in top 2% scientists across the globe
November 28, 2020

American leading university Stanford has featured eighty-one Pakistani scientists in its global list of the world’s top scientists.

According to global list compiled by Prof. John Ioannidis of Stanford University and his team, as many as eleven professors from Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad figured among the top two per cent researchers in a global list.

These Pakistani researchers from different universities have been included in the list for their best research work.

The QAU scientists whose names have appeared in the list include Dr. Bilal Haider Abbasi from Biotechnology, Zabta Khan Shinwari and Mushtaq Ahmad from Plant Sciences, Amir Ali Shah from Microbiology, Riffle Nasim Malik from Environment Sciences, Muhammad Rashid Khan from Biochemistry, Masood Khan from Maths, Afzal Shah and Aamer Saeed from Chemistry, Abdul Haq from Statistics.

Among the other scientists in the list are three professors of University of the Punjab have also been ranked in Stanford list of researchers, including Prof. Dr. Muhammad Sharif, Dean, Faculty of Science (ranked in the field of Nuclear and Particle Physics), Prof. Dr. Khalid Mahmood, Dean, Faculty of Economics and Management Sciences (ranked in the field of Information and Library Science), and Prof. Dr. Muhammad Akram, Department of Mathematics (ranked in the field of Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing).

All these authors were selected on the basis of an international evaluation of their research papers. A report on this list has been recently published in PLOS Biology.