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Prof Khalid Almas among world’s top 2% scientists

Karachi: Professor Khalid Almas has been figured in the list of the world’s top two per cent scientists in a global list issued by the United States’ Stanford University. 

The global list, compiled by Prof John Ioannidis and his team, carries names of 159,683 people from all scientific disciplines.

All these authors have been selected on the basis of an international evaluation of their research papers and classified based on career-long citation impact until the end of 2019 as well as for their citation impact in a single year (2019).

Dr Khalid Almas, Professor, Preventive Dental Sciences Department, College of Dentistry, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University has been figured in the list for career-long citation impact. A report on this list has been recently published in PLOS Biology.

Dr Khalid Almas stood 41st among dental scientists in the lists and was listed as 1,16153rd in the list.

Dr Khalid completed his BDS in Pakistan and currently working as Professor, Preventive Dental Sciences Department, College of Dentistry, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

-DN Report

Dr Muattar Hanif

The author is Editor at Dental News Pakistan and can be reached at newsdesk@medicalnewsgroup.com.pk