Review Activities

 

Publons reviewer profile: publons.com/a/832115/

 

Completed the course Nature Master Classes on "Focus on Peer Review"

 

Book Review Activities:

 

1. Studies in Natural Products Chemistry (Bentham)

 

2. Basic Principles of Drug Discovery and Development, Second Edition (Elsevier)

 

Journal Review Activities: 3Biotech (Springer), ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters (American Chemical Society), Annals of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (Brazilian Academy of Sciences), Anti-Infective Agents (Bentham), Applied Sciences (MDPI), Assay and Drug Development Technologies, Bioanalysis (Future Science), Biochemical Systematics and Ecology (Elsevier), Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry (Elsevier), Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters (Elsevier), BMC Biochemistry (Biomed Central),  BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine (Biomed Central), BMC Research Notes (Biomed Central), Chemical Data Collections (Elsevier), Combinatorial Chemistry and High throughput Screening (Bentham), Computational Biology and Chemistry (Elsevier), Current Diabetes Reviews (Bentham), Current Medicinal Chemistry (Bentham), Current Women's Health Reviews (Bentham), Data (MDPI), Database (Oxford Press), Expert Opinion on Drug Discovery (Taylor & Francis), Future Medicinal Chemistry (Future Science), Health Informatics Journal (SAGE), International Journal of Medicinal Plants Research (Academic Journals), International Journal of Molecular Sciences (MDPI), International Journal for Parasitology: Drugs and Drug Resistance (Elsevier), International Journal of Pharmaceutics (Elsevier), Journal of Bioenergetics and Biomembranes (Springer), Journal of Biomolecular Structure & Dynamics (Taylor & Francis), Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling (American Chemical Society), Journal of Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics (Wiley), Journal of Ethnopharmacology (Elsevier), Journal of Intercultural Ethnopharmacology (Ejmanager LLC), Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling (Elsevier), Journal of Natural Products (American Chemical Society), Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology (Wiley), Letters in Drug Design and Discovery (Bentham), Medicinal Chemistry Current Research (Bentham), Metabolites (MDPI), Mini-Reviews in Medicinal Chemistry (Bentham), Molecular BioSystems (Royal Society of Chemistry), Molecules (MDPI), Natural Product Communication (NPC Inc.), Natural Product Research (Taylor & Francis), Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry (Royal Society of Chemistry), Pest Management Science (Wiley), Pharmaceuticals (MDPI), Phytotherapy Research (Wiley), Physical Sciences Reviews (Degruyter), QJM: An International Journal of Medicine (Oxford Press), RSC Advances (Royal Society of Chemistry),  SAR, QSAR and Environmental Research (Taylor & Francis), Scientific Reports (Springer Nature), South African Journal of Botany (Elsevier), Trends in Parasitology (Cell Press).

 

Project (Grant) Proposal Review Activities:

 

1. Reviewer of project proposals for APPEAR (Austrian Development Cooperation),

 

2. Isaac Newton Trust (Cambridge, UK),

 

3. Competitive Support for Unrated Researchers (CSUR) Programme (South Africa),

 

4. African-German Network of Excellence in Science (AGNES) Junior Researcher Grant (South Africa).

 

5. African-German Network of Excellence in Science (AGNES) Intra African Mobility Grant (South Africa).

 

6. Newton Advanced Fellowships (Cambridge, UK).

 

6. Polish Academy of Sciences Junior Grants (Poland).

 

Editorial Activities

 

1. BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine

(Associate Editor: Basic Research),

https://bmccomplementalternmed.biomedcentral.com/about/editorial-board)

 

2. SpringerPlus

(member of Editorial board; Section: Chemistry and Materials Science),

http://springerplus.springeropen.com/about/editorial-board)

 

3. Organic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters

(formerly member of Editorial board, journal merged with Chemistry Central Journal in 2015, (https://orgmedchemlett.springeropen.com/)

 

4. Bentham Brand Ambassador

Appointment by Bentham Science publishers on behalf of Dr. Atta Ur Rahman. 

(http://benthamambassadors.com)

 

5. Frontiers in Pharmacology

Invited Editor for a Special Issue on "Natural Product Inhibitors of Epigenetic Targets". (2-year Impact Factor = 4.400; 5-year Impact Factor = 4.644) (https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/pharmacology#editorial-board)

 

6. Book Series Editor

Chemoinformatics of Natural Products (book). DeGruyter, Berlin

 

7. Molecules

Special Issue "Structure–Activity Relationships (SAR) of Natural Products". Invited guest co-editor (Impact Factor = 3.06).

 

8. Scientific African (Elsevier)

Associate editor for Chemistry (https://www.journals.elsevier.com/scientific-african/editorial-board)