Muhammad Rafiq Abuturab, a professor of Physics at the ‘School of Sciences’ at Maulana Azad National Urdu University (MANUU) in Hyderabad, has retained his place in the prestigious list of the world’s top 2% scientists for the seventh consecutive year (from 2020 to 2026).
He has been listed in the World’s Top 2% Scientists List in the Career-Long and Single-Year Impact Databases released by Stanford University (USA) with the Top 1% in the field of Optoelectronics and Photonics for five consecutive years (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024). He is a senior member of OSA and SPIE. He is reviewer of more than 50 international journals.
He has been a Professor in the Department of Physics, School of Sciences, at MANUU (A Central University), Hyderabad, India since 2023. His research focuses on Optical Information Processing, Optical Signal Processing, Optical transforms, Optical information security, Fourier Optics, and Digital Holography. He has single-authored 37 papers out of 39 papers in peer-reviewed international journals, 4 papers in conference proceedings, and 2 book chapters. The average journal impact factor (as per Clarivate Analytics, Journal Citation Report, 2025) of his papers is 3.1.
He has served as a Lead Guest Editor of the Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Security and Communication Networks, and International Journal of Optics. He is a senior member of the Optical Society of America (OSA) and Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). He is a reviewer of 54 reputed journals published by Nature, IEEE, IET, Optical Society of America(OSA) /Optica, Elsevier, Institute of Physics (IOP), American Institute of Physics (AIP), Springer, Wiley, Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE), Taylor & Francis, Hindawi Ltd., PeerJ Inc., and Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI).