Stanford University, a private American research university in California, announced the selection of 11 researchers from the faculty of the Faculty of Pharmacy, Ain Shams University, among the top 2% of the most influential people in the world in 2022, “within the classification of world scientists,” and they are Prof. Abdel Nasser Singab, Prof. Khaled Abu Zaid, Prof. Ebtihal Al-Demerdash, Prof. Omaima Al-Dahshan, Prof. Muhammad Ashour, Prof. Rania Hathout, Prof. Muhammad Al-Shazly, Prof. Maha Nasr, Prof. Fadia Youssef, Assistant Professor Dr. Nada Mustafa.

Under the auspices of Prof. Ghada Farouk, Acting President of Ain Shams University and Vice President of the University for Community Service and Environmental Development Affairs, Prof. Abdel Fattah Saoud, Vice President of the University for Education and Student Affairs, and Prof. Amani Osama Kamel, Dean of the Faculty.

Prof. Amani Kamel expressed her happiness and honor that 8% of the Faculty of Pharmacy’s faculty staff are on this list. She also praised the efforts of these scholars in advancing scientific research and the educational process and raising the status of Ain Shams University at the regional and international levels. This indicates the extent of the effort exerted by the faculty in the field. Promoting scientific research and increasing the number of research published in internationally classified scientific journals, in addition to the support the university provides to researchers.

In her speech, she mentioned that the Stanford University ranking is prestigious and includes many scholars from different fields of work and is based on the number of international scientific manuscripts published from the first year of the researcher’s scientific publication to the year the evaluation result is announced, and also depends on the number of total and qualitative citations in each specialty, in addition to the number of citations of references, reference research and books, in addition to the number of scientific manuscripts that have been peer-reviewed globally and internationally.

She added that there is standardized information on citations, the h-index, the combined rate of hm-index and citations to articles in different authorship positions, and a composite index, and the data is presented separately for the impact of these scholars in one year and in their entire careers.