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Saturday 7 October 2017

Professor Dr. Bassim H. Hameed received Malaysia’ Research Star Award 2017

Professor Dr. Bassim H. Hameed received Malaysia’ Research Star Award 2017




Professor Dr. Bassim H. Hameed, group leader of Reaction Engineering & Adsorption (READ) research group, received Malaysia’s Research Star Award 2017 from YB Dato 'Seri Idris bin Jusoh, Minister of Higher Education, Malaysia. The event held on 5th October 2017 at Putrajaya International Convention Center (PICC), Putrajaya. The award recognizes his achievement as a Highly Cited Researcher according to Elsevier and Clarivate Analytics



Professor Bassim has been already listed as Thomson Reuters’ the World's Most Influential Scientific Minds and Thomson Reuters’ Highly Cited Researcher 2016, 2015 and 2014 in Engineering. This time last year, He received Malaysia’ Rising Star Award 2016, Most Cited Researcher 2016 in Chemical Engineering (Shanghai Ranking) and most Cited Researcher 2016 in Environmental Science & Engineering (Shanghai Ranking).

To date, he published more than 260 articles in indexed journals and his publications have been cited over 17,500 times (Scopus database), and 48 of these articles were cited more than 100 times each. Professor Bassim’s author h-index is 71, and his i10-index is 192.






According to Chemical Engineering Journal, the Top 5 Journal in Chemical Engineering with an Impact Factor of 6.216, my published article titled “Insights into the modeling of adsorption isotherm systems” is the most downloaded article from Chemical Engineering Journal in the last 90 days. To date, this article has been cited 1,638 time since its publication in 2010.