Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan in the Stanford/Elsevier 2026 list
The Stanford/Elsevier list covers the top 2% most-cited scientists in each subfield. These are the people from this institution on at least one of its two rankings: career-long and single-year (citations from 2025).
22
researchers on the list
11
rank in Pakistan
2,443
rank worldwide, of 38,384
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| Name | Subfield | Career | Single-year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Khan, Haroon | Pharmacology & Pharmacy | 282 / 166,116 | 23 / 166,116 |
| Fahad, Shah | Plant Biology & Botany | 875 / 204,373 | 54 / 204,373 |
| Azam, Muhammad | Economics | 501 / 54,592 | 135 / 54,592 |
| Ahmad, Manzoor | Environmental Sciences | 2,166 / 140,934 | 901 / 140,934 |
| Zada, Amir | Materials | 5,885 / 330,896 | 1,234 / 330,896 |
| Ali, Abid | Microbiology | — | 1,330 / 232,186 |
| Hamayun, Muhammad Asif | Plant Biology & Botany | 3,588 / 204,373 | 1,384 / 204,373 |
| Abdullah, Saleem | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 5,157 / 517,648 | 4,020 / 517,648 |
| Hameed, Abdul | Organic Chemistry | 2,202 / 188,664 | 1,155 / 188,664 |
| Ullah, Hakeem | Mechanical Engineering & Transports | — | 1,178 / 157,792 |
| Shah, Rasool | Applied Mathematics | — | 347 / 23,982 |
| Shah, Farooq | Plant Biology & Botany | — | 2,541 / 204,373 |
| Khan, Javed Ali | Chemical Engineering | — | 1,431 / 97,821 |
| Khan, Momin | Medicinal & Biomolecular Chemistry | — | 831 / 120,621 |
| Ali, Yasir | Nuclear & Particle Physics | — | 2,543 / 164,120 |
| Khan, Zeeshan | Mechanical Engineering & Transports | — | 2,044 / 157,792 |
| Khan, Imran | Microbiology | — | 4,295 / 232,186 |
| Siddiq, Muhammad | Food Science | 1,457 / 107,913 | — |
| Arif, Muhammad | General Mathematics | — | 1,530 / 76,268 |
| Salam, Abdu | Networking & Telecommunications | — | 3,707 / 228,312 |
| Khan, Aurangzeb | Applied Physics | — | 5,788 / 323,282 |
| Alam, Waqas | Medicinal & Biomolecular Chemistry | — | 1,540 / 120,621 |
Source: Ioannidis JPA, Elsevier (2026). August 2026 data-update for "Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators". Mendeley Data, version 9. Licence CC BY-NC 3.0. doi:10.17632/btchxktzyw.9
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