PENANG, 18 July 2014 - Thomson Reuters recently released a list of the world's best and brightest scientific minds through the report The World's Most Influential Scientific Minds 2014, which analysed data for the past 11 years using the Web of Science and InCites platforms that showed how researchers around the world produced work that are most frequently cited and reviewed by their peers (fellow researchers).

Three Malaysian scientists made it to the list and they are Professor Dr. Saidur Rahman Abdul Hakim from Universiti Malaya (UM), Professor Dr. Ishak Hashim from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) and Profesor Dr. Abdul Latif Ahmad from Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM).