QU faculty member named Highly Cited Researcher for 2020 in Engineering
Qatar University’s Prof Bassim Hamid Hammadi from the Department of Chemical Engineering-College of Engineering, has been named as a Highly-Cited Researcher for 2020.
The recognition is for significant influence in engineering through the publication of multiple papers, highly cited by his peers, over the last decade and ranked the top 1% by citations in Web of Science, according to Clarivate Analytics.
Recently Prof Hammadi was listed in the 12th Edition of webometrics as a Highly-Cited Researcher (h-index \>100) according to Google Scholar Citations public profile. With this achievement, he is among the 4,167 Highly-Cited Researchers of all disciplines as of 2020, based on frequencies in the Google Scholar Citations database.
Prof Hammadi has been a Highly Cited Researcher in the Engineering field for the last seven years (2014-2020). Besides, he was listed as one of the Most Cited Researchers for Chemical Engineering and Environmental Science and Engineering Subjects of 2016 by the Shanghai Global Rankings of Academic Subjects.
The Highly Cited Researchers from Clarivate is an annual list recognising influential researchers in the sciences and social sciences worldwide. The 2020 list contains 3,896 scientists in 21 fields of the sciences and social sciences, including 173 scientists in the Engineering field, including Prof Hammadi.
The list also includes 2,493 Highly Cited Researchers for cross-field performance. The list focuses on contemporary research achievement: only highly cited papers in science and social sciences journals indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection during the 11-year period from 2009 to 2019 were surveyed. Highly cited papers are defined as those ranked in the top 1% by citations for field and publication year.
Prof Hammadi successfully supervised the works of five postdoctoral fellows, 22 PhD and 26 MSc students, and more than 70 final-year research projects to completion. He achieved a milestone of 21 research grants as a lead principal investigator. To date, he published more than 300 articles in indexed journals. According to Google Scholar, his total number of received citations are more than 43,700, and he has an author h-index of 104 and an i-10 index of 282.