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ArticlePakistan journal of medical sciences2026

Comprehensive Analysis of the Global Standing of Universities, Research Performance, and the Impact of Scholarly Journals: Pakistan's Academic and Research Landscape 2026.

Sultan Ayoub Meo, Awaiza Khan, Shaukat Ali Jawaid

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Article in Pakistan journal of medical sciences, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Sultan Ayoub MeoSultan Ayoub Meo, MBBS, Ph.D, FRCP Department of Physiology and Clinical Physiology, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Awaiza KhanAwaiza Khan Department of Biomedical Sciences, Queen Mary University, London, UK.
Shaukat Ali JawaidShaukat Ali Jawaid Chief Editor, Pakistan Journal of Medical Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Academic institutes and innovative research play a pivotal role in knowledge, skills, professionalism, health, economic progress, and the sustainable development of nations. On June 17, 2026, QS World University Rankings released the ranking of global universities. Pakistan has 278 universities, 163 in the public sector and 115 in the private sector. Among these universities, only 02 were ranked in the top 500: Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, ranked 381st, and the National University of Sciences & Technology (NUST), Islamabad, 384th. On the same date, June 17, 2026, Web of Science, Clarivate, released the Journal Citation Report (JCR) of scholarly journals. Worldwide, Clarivate has indexed 22,643 journals from 113 countries. In Pakistan, the Higher Education Commission (HEC) has 723 journals; however, only

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