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DR. VILASHINI SOMIAH
Dr Vilashini Somiah is a feminist anthropologist from Sabah, Malaysia, and a Senior Lecturer in the Gender Studies Programme at Universiti Malaya. She holds a PhD from the National University of Singapore, an MA from Ohio University, an MRes from Universiti Malaya, and a BA from Universiti Malaya. Her research centres on underrepresented narratives of women, migrants, and interior Bornean communities, with a particular focus on marginality, survival, and lived political realities. She is co-edit...
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ASSOCIATE PROF. DR. MOHD ZAIDI BIN DAUD
Dr. Mohd Zaidi Daud is an Associate Professor in the Department of Syariah and Law at the Academy of Islamic Studies, University of Malaya (UM), where he served as Head of the Department from 2019 to 2025. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Syariah (Islamic Law) with Honours, as well as a Master’s and a PhD in Syariah and Law, all from the University of Malaya. Dr. Mohd Zaidi Daud specializes in Islamic Estate Planning—covering Hibah, Wakaf, Islamic Inheritance, and Islamic Wills—as well as Islamic...
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DR. YEW WEI LIT
Dr. Yew Wei Lit is a senior lecturer in the Department of Geography at the University of Malaya. Prior to this, he was a lecturer at Hong Kong Baptist University and a postdoctoral fellow at Yale-NUS College in Singapore. Based disciplinarily in comparative politics and environmental studies, his research has focused on the politics of development and environmental contention, and more broadly on civil society dynamics in China and Southeast Asia. Dr. Yew obtained a PhD in Asian and Internationa...
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TOP RESEARCHER BY WoS (WEB OF SCIENCE) PUBLICATION
This list ranks active academic staff by their total number of distinct Web of Science (WoS/ISI) publications. Only publications where the author is affiliated with Universiti Malaya are included. Publications with ownership disputes or those marked as ineligible under university criteria are excluded. Counts include all eligible WoS publications on record, not limited to a specific year. Rankings are generated automatically from UMEXPERT records.