Anshari has been named in the Stanford University List of the Top 2% of World Researchers for 2022 and 2023 in the fields of ICT, business, and management. He received the Outstanding Paper award at the Emerald Literati Awards 2023 for two published papers in two Emerald journals. His research has also been referenced in two patents 2021 & 2022. After completing his PhD at FBEPS UBD, Anshari served as a research fellow at National Taiwan University and as a researcher at UIN Sunan Kalijaga Jogjakarta, Indonesia. Prior to that, in 2009, he was a research fellow in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia at King Saud University. Anshari has successfully completed eight research grant projects and three research industry consultancies. Anshari's research interests focus on Digital Health, and he has experience as an editor for several edited books and as an author for healthcare information systems in various peer-reviewed journals