Three Malaysian based chemical engineering experts have received scientific recognition as being among the 'World's Most Influential Minds in 2015'

Three Malaysia-based scientists named world’s most influential minds

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KUALA LUMPUR: Three chemical engineering experts attached to Malaysian universities have received scientific recognition as being among the 'World's Most Influential Minds in 2015' by Thomson Reuters.

A report carrying that title released recently listed them as Prof Datuk Ir Dr Wan Ramli Wan Daud and Prof Dr Siti Khatum Kamarudin, both from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM).

Their expertise is in the field of hydrogen energy and fuel cells.

Also on the list of the top one per cent scientists in the world was Iraqi Prof Dr Bassim H Hameed, in the field of reactor engineering and adsorption, from Universiti Sains Malaysia.

The Malaysian Industry-Government Group for High Technology (MIGHT) said in a statement that 3,000 from 21 different science and social science fields out of the nine million scientists worldwide were listed in the report.

It said these highly cited researchers were selected based on citation data over an 11-year period and identifying those who published the greatest number of highly cited papers.

The citation data was from the scientific citation database of Thomson Reuters Web of Science. - Bernama