29 Faculty Members Also Ranked among ‘Top 0.5% Scholars’ Worldwide in Prestigious ScholarGPS Listing
Khalifa University of Science and Technology today announced 15 faculty members are included in the Highly Ranked Scholars who are ‘Top 0.05% Worldwide’, according to ScholarGPS, which recognizes top international scholars for their outstanding performance in various research areas. There are also 29 faculty members ranked among the Top 0.5% Scholars worldwide in the prestigious ScholarGPS listing.
Highly Ranked Scholars™ are those authors ranked in the top 0.05% with ScholarGPS within their specialty, discipline, field or across all fields, and they have the most number of publications whose works are of profound impact (citations) and of high quality (h-index). The scholarly contributions of Highly Ranked Scholars position these eminent individuals within the top 0.05% of all scholars worldwide.
This is enabled by the generation of over 30 million detailed scholar profiles based on unique ScholarGPS® classification of over 200 million scholarly publications of record. The data used to identify the ScholarGPS®. Highly Ranked Scholars™ are based on lifetime or prior five-year activity, weighting each publication and citation by the number of authors, and excluding self-citations.
Prof. Ahmed Al Durra, Associate Provost for Research, Khalifa University, said: “With 15 faculty in the Highly Ranked Scholars among ‘Top 0.05%’, and 29 among the Top 0.5% Scholars worldwide, Khalifa University remains top in the UAE in world-class faculty experts who lead research and innovation. This ScholarGPS ranking for Khalifa University is also in line with the UAE’s emphasis on attracting worldwide talent in STEM fields, and follows the country’s efforts to create the right environment for scientific exploration which researchers can utilize to obtain solutions to real-world challenges. We believe such faculty accomplishments bring honor not only to Khalifa University but to the UAE and the region in general, while making the UAE’s status as a country with progressive policies that facilitate research and innovation.”
In the ‘Global Discipline Lifetime’ category, Khalifa University’s Industrial Engineering and Operations Research discipline is ranked #53 worldwide and Aerospace and Aeronautical Engineering is ranked #54, thus remaining among the top 100. With Chemical Engineering at #137 and Electrical and Computer Engineering at #160, Khalifa University remained among the top 200 in these disciplines. In addition, the number of total publications in five years reached 7,340 with Total Citations touching 91,528.
In the Specialties category, Khalifa University remained among top 10 with #2 in Six Sigma, #3 in Distributed Generation and Deep eutectic solvent, #5 in Distillation, Glass fiber and Pulse-width modulation, #6 in Desalination and Performance management, #7 in Heat transfer enhancement, #8 in Inelastic electron tunneling spectroscopy, Palpation, and Drilling fluid, and #9 in Fractal dimension.
Khalifa University also had 90 faculty members who have earned a place on the prestigious 2023 Stanford University World Ranking, which identifies the Top 2% most influential researchers worldwide, according to a study conducted by global information analytics company Elsevier and Stanford University. The Khalifa University faculty represents more than 22% of all UAE faculty totaling 407 for 2023. Earlier, in 2019, a total of 45 Khalifa University faculty were included in the prestigious listing of the world’s top 2% of scientists.
Clarence Michael
English Editor – Specialist
3 Sep 2024
