KUALA LUMPUR: Three Malaysian academicians have been listed in The World's Most Influential Scientific
Minds: 2014.
The report by the Intellectual Property and Science Business of Thomson Reuters honoured Prof Dr Abdul Latif
Ahmad from Universiti Sains Malaysia School of Chemical Engineering, Prof Dr Ishak Hashim from Universiti
Kebangsaan Malaysia Faculty of Science and Technology and Prof Dr Saidur Rahman Abdul Hakim from Universiti
Malaya Faculty of Engineering.
Abdul Latif's field of expertise include membrane technology, wastewater engineering, and separation process
and adsorption technology while Ishak is a professor of fluid dynamics and numerical methods.
Saidur's areas of expertise are energy management and audit solar energy, hydrocarbon refrigerant
application of neural network, energy efficiency, emission air-conditioning and refrigeration and
application of nanofluids in heat exchanging devices.
According to Thomson Reuters, the academicians listed are distinguished by the highest number of articles
published as well as ranked among those most frequently cited by fellow researchers.
The report is based on two studies, one that monitors emerging trends and innovators of the scientific
community through ranking with at least 15 papers recently published with notably higher levels of citations
while the second is the longer-range study that updates the world’s most influential researchers listing,
known as the most Highly Cited Researchers.
Thomson Reuters has assessed papers indexed between 2002 and 2012 in 21 broad fields of study by tracking
authors who published numerous articles that ranked among the top one percent of the most cited in their
respective fields in the given year of publication.
Thomson Reuters IP & Science president Basil Moftah said those listed were making the future come to life
through science and innovation.
“The global nature of the study highlights the countries, institutions and researchers on the cutting edge
of science.
"It’s our mission at Thomson Reuters to support these individuals as they advance innovation globally.”
Moftah said.