Karachi: Pakistan Council for Science and Technology (PCST), Islamabad has found Prof. Dr. Atta-ur-Rahman, former Chairman of the Higher Education Commission Pakistan, and Prof Dr Muhammad Iqbal Choudhary, Director International Centre for Chemical and Biological Sciences (ICCBS), Karachi University (KU) the most productive scientists of Pakistan.
The PCST, in its sixth directory titled “Productive Scientists of Pakistan 2011”, has ranked these two great scientists, Dr Atta and Dr Iqbal Choudhary, the top first and second among 1109 productive scientists of Pakistan, employed in public/private sector Universities, colleges and R&D Organistions, who have contributed in research, supervision of students and any other productive work during the period 1960-2008.
An official of the ICCBS said that the scoring system takes into account different factors from which the academic status and output of scientists and engineers is judged. These include research publications at national and international level, books written or edited, supervision of PhD, MPhil or MSc students, international awards, research grants won, impact factor of the journals in which the research papers were published, citation figures for the papers that were published in science citation index.
As per the said criteria, in the field of chemistry, Dr. Atta and Dr Iqbal Choudhary have lead over 1109 productive scientists of Pakistan, he said.
It is also pertinent to mention here that six more scientists of HEJ Research Institute of Chemistry, KU are included among the top ten scientists of the country in the field of chemistry. The names of these scientists included Prof. Dr. Viqar Uddin Ahmed (ranked 3rd), Prof. Dr. Bina Shaheen Siddiqui (4th), Prof. Dr. Abdul Malik (5th), Prof. Dr. Muhammad Khalid Khan (7th), Prof. Dr. Shaheen Faizi (8th) and Sabira Begum (10th). On the other hand, there are more seven scientists of the ICCBS who are included in the list of chemistry scientists, prepared by PCST. Names of these scientists included Dr M. Shaiq Ali (14), Dr Atiya Abbasi (27), Dr Faryal Vali Muhammad (67), Dr M. Raza Shah (71), Dr Iftikhar Imam Naqvi (109), Dr Zaheer-ul-Haq (112) and Dr Sabira Naqvi (175). Vice Chancellor Karachi University (KU) Prof Dr Muhammad Qaiser has congratulated these scientists on their great achievements.
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