Nazeeruddin is a co-author on numerous peer-reviewed papers, book chapters, and is a co-inventor on many patents. According to Thomson Reuters he has been named a "Highly Cited Researcher" in chemistry, materials science and engineering in 2016 and 2017, and was included in the list of "Worlds Most Influential Scientific Minds" from all scientific domains. As stated in the ISI listing he is one of the most cited chemists with more than 126000 citations and an h-index of 160. His group has earned worldwide recognition and leadership in Perovskite solar cells as evidenced by The Times of Higher Education named him  "the top 10 researchers in the world working on the high impact perovskite materials and devices". Nazeeruddin was listed as one of the Top 2% Most-Cited Scientists in the world from the list published by Stanford University in October 2022. 
He is an elected member of the European Academy of Sciences, and is a fellow of The Royal Society of Chemistry. Fellow of Telangana Academy of Sciences, and Member of the Swiss Chemical Society.  He was awarded the 34th Khwarizmi International Award in Basic Sciences, 2021.
Since 2018 he has been a jury member of the Rei Jaume I foundation in Spain.
He is the recipient of the best paper award from the journal Inorganics, the EPFL Excellence Prize (1998 and 2006), the Brazilian FAPESP fellowship award (1999), the Japanese Government Science & Technology Agency Fellowship (1998), and Government of India National Scholar award (1987-1989).
He is Editor in Chief, Chemistry of Inorganic Materials, an Advisory Board member at Advanced Functional Materials, an Associated Editor at Energy Chem, an Editorial Advisory Board member at Scientific Reports, an Editorial Advisory Board at RRL Solar, and an Editorial Advisory Board member at Artificial Photosynthesis.