KANO — Dr Auwal Abdullahi, an Associate Professor of Physiotherapy at Bayero University Kano (BUK), has been named among the world's top 2 per cent scientists in the 2026 Stanford/Elsevier ranking, published on October 7. He is ranked 3,204th out of 379,830 researchers in Neurology and Neurosurgery. Other BUK academics on the list include Prof. Abdulrazaq Garba Habib, ranked 83rd out of 39,335 in Tropical Medicine, Prof. Mukhtar Ahmed Gadanya and Dr Sunusi Marwana Manladan. The ranking is based on citation data from the Scopus database.