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Monday 20 November 2017

Professor Dr. Bassim H. Hameed selected for the fourth consecutive year as Highly Cited Researcher for 2017


Professor Dr. Bassim H. Hameed selected for the fourth consecutive year as Highly Cited Researcher for 2017



We are pleased to share that, for the fourth consecutive year, Professor Dr. Bassim H. Hameed, School of ChemicalEngineering, Universiti Sains Malaysia, has been listed in the top 1% of Engineering field for most Highly Cited Researcher 2017. The list of the Engineering field includes 176 scientists form different institutions in the world. Professor Bassim was first included in this prestige list in 2014, and has remained there since.

According to the report, released by Clarivate Analytics, the list includes more than 3,300 Highly Cited Researchers in 21 fields of the sciences and social sciences. About 10 million research articles in 11,000 academic journals were analysed and how often these articles have been cited by other researchers were counted over a period of 11 years.

Last year, Prof. Bassim was listed as one of the Most Cited Researchers for Chemical Engineering and Environmental Science & Engineering Subjects of 2016 by Shanghai Global Rankings ofAcademic Subjects.


To date, he has published more than 250 articles in ISI-indexed journals. He has also published 100 articles in other international and national journals and proceedings. Professor Bassim’s publications have been cited over 18,000 times (Scopus database). He has an author h-index of 73, and an i10-index of 195.



Thursday 2 November 2017

Prof. Dr. Bassim H. Hameed’s publications reached 60,000 reads in ResearchGate


Prof. Dr. Bassim H. Hameed’s publications reached 60,000 reads in ResearchGate



Prof. Dr. Bassim H. Hameed’s publications reached 60,000 reads on 30th October 2017 according ResearchGate, a social networking site for scientists and researchers. Presently, Prof. Bassim has 295 listed documents in this platform and received more than 18,750 citations. 



Recipient Sanggar Sanjung (Hall of Fame) Award 2016, Journal Publication Category

Recipient of Sanggar Sanjung (Hall of Fame) Award 2016, Journal Publication Category




Professor Dr. Bassim H. Hameed, group leader of Reaction Engineering & Adsorption (READ) research group, School of Chemical Engineering, Universiti Sains Malaysia received Universiti Sains Malaysia Sanggar Sanjung (Hall of Fame) Award 2016, Journal Publication Category.


The event held on 25th November 2017 at Hotel Equatorial Penang. The award recognizes his achievement to published research articles in top 10 indexed-journals.






Prof. Dr. Bassim H. Hameed invited by UniKL MICET as a speaker for a workshop on “The Art of Writing Publishable Scientific Manuscripts”

Prof. Dr. Bassim H. Hameed invited by UniKL MICET as a speaker for a workshop on “The Art of Writing Publishable Scientific Manuscripts”



Prof. Dr. Bassim H. Hameed, group leader of Reaction Engineering & Adsorption (READ) research group, School of Chemical Engineering, Universiti Sains Malaysia was invited last Wednesday, 25th October 2017, by the Universiti Kuala Lumpur Malaysian Institute of Chemical& Bioengineering Technology (UniKL MICET), Malacca, as a speaker for one-day workshop on  “The Art of Writing Publishable Scientific Manuscripts” to share his experience with 30 lecturers and postgraduate students. The program of the workshop included six sessions; strategy and steps for publishing in top ISI-indexed journals, structure of research manuscript, how to write publishable review article, writing the first draft, selecting select the right journal for your manuscript, and dealing with reviewers’ & Editors’ comments.

Prof. Bassim has conducted this workshop more than 50 times so far and they were attended by more than 1,500 university lecturers, postgraduate students, and researchers from more than 45 institutions, universities, industries, and research centers from Malaysia and other countries.