7th Rising Star - Engineering- Pakistan
12th Rising Star - Mathematics - Pakistan
Increase in citation
Pakistan is nominated as “Rising Star” in the field of science and engineering
International publishing house conducted an international survey & rate as “Rising Star”. Thomson Reuters in its publication Science Watch categorized Pakistan as “Rising Star” in the field of science and engineering. They listed Pakistan in top 12 countries of the world which increased in the citations and publications
They recognized the efforts of Higher Education Commission in Pakistan. Pakistan got “Rising Star” status in so many fields due to extraordinary progress in the higher education during the last 6 years resulting in the increase of publications and citations by universities and research centers
In a short period of six years Higher Education Commission has sent 6000+ scholars for PhD studies to different universities worldwide which brought about **400 **percent increase in research output. HEC has launched free digital library to provide access to 45,000 books, research monographs and 23,000 international journals
These achievements have been reported by USIAD report and world’s top science journal Nature in an editorial published on August 28,2008
http://sciencewatch.com/dr/rs/08sep-rs/](http://sciencewatch.com/dr/rs/08sep-rs/)