Five university teachers among top 2% of scientists
Five faculty members of the University of Haripur (UoH) in Pakistan’s Khyber Paktunkhwa (KP) province have been included among the top 2% of the scientists of the world, in a list compiled by the US’s Stanford University.
According to a statement issued by the office of the UoH registrar, the list classified the scientists based on career-long citation impact until the end of 2019, and also for the single year (2019).
It said that 81 Pakistanis were included among the top 2% scientists across the world for their career-long citation impact, while citation impact in a single year included 243 Pakistani scientists.
UoH Vice-Chancellor Dr Anwarul Hassan Gilani is the only serving vice-chancellor, who got three civil awards including Hilal-i-Imtiaz.
Dr Khalid Zaman, another faculty member of the UoH, has been ranked among 70 top scientists from Pakistan.
Based on single-year citation impact, three newly-appointed faculty members of UoH – Dr Shah Fahd, Dr Hashim, and Dr Mohamed Farooq – have also been included among the top 2% researchers of the world.
Dr Gilani is a distinguished pharmacologist. He obtained his PhD degree from the University of Sydney in 1985.
He also holds the title of Higher Education Commission “distinguished national professor”.
He has co-edited two World Health Organisation (WHO) books on essential medicine.
He also has to his credit around 500 articles.
Dr Gilani has supervised the research work of 20 PhD graduates.
He is a member of the editorial boards of 12 international journals.
Meanwhile, Dr Hashim has been working as assistant professor at the UoH’s Department of Pure and Applied Mathematics since July.
Dr Fahad is an assistant professor at the UoH’s Department of Agronomy.
He obtained his PhD degree from China’s Huazhong Agriculture University.
Dr Farooq is an assistant professor at the UoH’s Department of Pure and Applied Mathematics.
He earned his PhD degree from Islamabad’s Quaid-eAzam University.
Dr Zaman is a assistant professor at the Faculty of Social and Management Sciences, part of the UoH’s Department of Economics.