Global Acclaim For NUST: 31 Researchers In Top 2% Worldwide

News Desk

Islamabad: Thirty-one researchers from the National University of Science and Technology (NUST) in Islamabad have achieved global recognition by securing a place among the world’s top 2 per cent of researchers among the 100,000 top-ranked worldwide.

The number of NUST researchersfeatured among the top 2 percent has steadily increased over the past four years, with 8, 9, 23 and 31 faculty members making it to the list published in 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023, respectively.

NUST is currently ranked #367 in the world, #67 in Asia, among the top leading universities in Pakistan, as per the QS University Rankings 2024, and among the top 300 universities in the world as per the Impact Ranking 2023.

This speaks volumes about the conducive research environment NUST affords for knowledge seekers and creators to make a difference in these epoch-making times.

Compiled by Stanford University and published by Elsevier, the ranking data is based on a composite index factoring in several bibliometrics, including citations, hirsch-index, citations to papers in different authorship positions, etc.

The thirty-one researchers are from ten different institutions at NUST and fifteen different disciplines, including artificial intelligence, signal processing, materials, energy, chemical, mechanical, civil engineering, nanotechnology, bio-medical, robotics, cyber security, computer science, design and manufacturing, humanities, mathematics, and fluid mechanics.