Quaid-i-Azam University 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).
46
researchers on the list
4
rank in Pakistan
1,336
rank worldwide, of 38,384
Ranks by number of people on the list; we calculate them from the same data.
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| Name | Subfield | Career | Single-year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hayat, Tasawar | Mechanical Engineering & Transports | 10 / 157,792 | 29 / 157,792 |
| Nadeem, S. | Mechanical Engineering & Transports | 91 / 157,792 | 103 / 157,792 |
| Saeed, Aamer | Organic Chemistry | 719 / 188,664 | 162 / 188,664 |
| Ahmad, Mushtaq A. | Plant Biology & Botany | 350 / 204,373 | 232 / 204,373 |
| KHAN, Masood Waleed Ahmad | Mechanical Engineering & Transports | 230 / 157,792 | 209 / 157,792 |
| Shah, Afzal | Energy | 1,303 / 371,959 | 796 / 371,959 |
| Abbasi, Bilal Haider | Plant Biology & Botany | 3,143 / 204,373 | 679 / 204,373 |
| Ahmad, Mahtab | Environmental Sciences | 1,852 / 140,934 | 1,096 / 140,934 |
| Din, Fakhar Ud | Pharmacology & Pharmacy | — | 415 / 166,116 |
| Shinwari, Zabta Khan | Plant Biology & Botany | 1,185 / 204,373 | 1,055 / 204,373 |
| Ali, Muhammad Irfan | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 1,939 / 517,648 | 3,290 / 517,648 |
| Naseer, Muhammad Tayyab | Geochemistry & Geophysics | — | 1,043 / 108,013 |
| Shah, Aamer Ali | Microbiology | — | 1,419 / 232,186 |
| Haq, Abdul | Operations Research | 399 / 31,951 | 340 / 31,951 |
| Ali, Sajid | Statistics & Probability | — | 408 / 24,695 |
| Malik, Riffat Naseem | Environmental Sciences | 1,660 / 140,934 | 1,964 / 140,934 |
| Zia, Muhammad Adnan | Plant Biology & Botany | — | 1,545 / 204,373 |
| Mahmood, Tariq | Plant Biology & Botany | — | 1,875 / 204,373 |
| Ali, Muhammad | Virology | — | 378 / 79,508 |
| Mustafa, Ghazala | Plant Biology & Botany | — | 1,962 / 204,373 |
| Khan, Sohail A. | Mechanical Engineering & Transports | — | 1,237 / 157,792 |
| Waseem, Amir | Analytical Chemistry | — | 905 / 137,328 |
| Khan, M. N. | Mechanical Engineering & Transports | — | 1,403 / 157,792 |
| Khan, Mair Waleed Ahmed | Mechanical Engineering & Transports | — | 1,436 / 157,792 |
| Iftikhar, Hasnain | Applied Mathematics | — | 440 / 23,982 |
| Baig, Muhammed Aslam | General Physics | 1,380 / 87,024 | 948 / 87,024 |
| Naqvi, Qaisar Abbas | Networking & Telecommunications | 1,633 / 228,312 | — |
| Shah, Tariq M. | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 6,866 / 517,648 | 7,674 / 517,648 |
| Hasan, Fariha | Microbiology | — | 3,242 / 232,186 |
| Qayyum, Sumaira | Mechanical Engineering & Transports | 2,024 / 157,792 | 1,895 / 157,792 |
| Shabir, Muhammad Faisal | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 6,015 / 517,648 | 8,985 / 517,648 |
| Ahmed, Naveed | Pharmacology & Pharmacy | — | 1,603 / 166,116 |
| Khan, Muhammad Kashif | Physical Chemistry | — | 774 / 44,088 |
| Chaudhary, Hassan Javed | Plant Biology & Botany | — | 3,964 / 204,373 |
| Hayat, Khizar | Applied Physics | — | 4,626 / 323,282 |
| Ali, Muhammad Ishtiaq | Energy | — | 8,158 / 371,959 |
| Khan Khattak, Muazzam A. | Networking & Telecommunications | — | 3,334 / 228,312 |
| Shah, Faisal | Mechanical Engineering & Transports | — | 2,639 / 157,792 |
| Shabir, Ghulam | Organic Chemistry | — | 3,711 / 188,664 |
| Khan, Muhammad Rashid | Complementary & Alternative Medicine | 108 / 14,206 | 81 / 14,206 |
| Badshah, Amin | Inorganic & Nuclear Chemistry | — | 1,215 / 86,991 |
| Khan, Salman | Pharmacology & Pharmacy | — | 2,489 / 166,116 |
| Hafeez, Abdul | Mechanical Engineering & Transports | — | 3,074 / 157,792 |
| Shah, Muzamil | Optics | — | 1,348 / 83,504 |
| Qazi, Javaria | Virology | — | 1,677 / 79,508 |
| Sultana, Shazia | Microscopy | — | 68 / 4,178 |
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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