Abdullah Ayub Khan

3.7k total citations · 5 hit papers
93 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Abdullah Ayub Khan is a scholar working on Information Systems, Computer Networks and Communications and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. According to data from OpenAlex, Abdullah Ayub Khan has authored 93 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Information Systems, 31 papers in Computer Networks and Communications and 23 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Recurrent topics in Abdullah Ayub Khan's work include Blockchain Technology Applications and Security (34 papers), IoT and Edge/Fog Computing (21 papers) and Digital and Cyber Forensics (9 papers). Abdullah Ayub Khan is often cited by papers focused on Blockchain Technology Applications and Security (34 papers), IoT and Edge/Fog Computing (21 papers) and Digital and Cyber Forensics (9 papers). Abdullah Ayub Khan collaborates with scholars based in Pakistan, China and Saudi Arabia. Abdullah Ayub Khan's co-authors include Asif Ali Laghari, Zaffar Ahmed Shaikh, Aftab Ahmed Shaikh, Sami Bourouis, Shahid Karim, Asif Ali Wagan, Mamoon Rashid, Thippa Reddy Gadekallu, Mazhar Ali Dootio and Sebastian Kot and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Scientific Reports and Expert Systems with Applications.

In The Last Decade

Abdullah Ayub Khan

75 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Multiclass skin cancer classification using EfficientNets – a first step towards preventing skin cancer

2021 194 citations Zaffar Ahmed Shaikh, Abdullah Ayub Khan et al. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología profile →
Internet of Things (IoT) Security With Blockchain Technology: A State-of-the-Art Review

2022 134 citations Abdullah Ayub Khan, Asif Ali Laghari et al. IEEE Access profile →
The collaborative role of blockchain, artificial intelligence, and industrial internet of things in digitalization of small and medium-size enterprises

2023 99 citations Abdullah Ayub Khan, Asif Ali Laghari et al. Scientific Reports profile →
Artificial intelligence and blockchain technology for secure smart grid and power distribution Automation: A State-of-the-Art Review

2023 95 citations Abdullah Ayub Khan, Asif Ali Laghari et al. Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments profile →
Secure Remote Sensing Data With Blockchain Distributed Ledger Technology: A Solution for Smart Cities

2024 42 citations Abdullah Ayub Khan, Asif Ali Laghari et al. IEEE Access profile →

Peers

Abdullah Ayub Khan

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CVPR

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Bharat Bhushan India

E. Laxmi Lydia India

Wathiq Mansoor United Arab Emirates

S. Neelakandan India

Umesh Kumar Lilhore India

Shitharth Selvarajan India

R. Manikandan India

Asadullah Shaikh Saudi Arabia

Tehseen Mazhar Pakistan

Md. Ashraf Uddin Bangladesh

Bharat Bhushan India

Abdullah Ayub Khan

962 ×1.2

1.0k ×1.9

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497 ×1.1

200 ×0.8

CVPR

274 ×1.4

EEE

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Countries citing papers authored by Abdullah Ayub Khan

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Abdullah Ayub Khan

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20 of 20 papers shown

Khan, Abdullah Ayub, et al.. (2025). Blockchain-enabled secure Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) architecture for multi-modal data fusion in precision cancer diagnosis and continuous monitoring. Journal of Cloud Computing Advances Systems and Applications. 14(1).

Shaikh, Abdul Khalique, et al.. (2025). Transforming ERP systems with collaborative AI: Paving the path to strategic growth and sustainability. Array. 28. 100517–100517.

Yang, Jing, et al.. (2025). A Generative Adversarial Network-Based Extractive Text Summarization Using Transductive and Reinforcement Learning. IEEE Access. 13. 65490–65509.

Chen, Li, et al.. (2025). A smart facial acne disease monitoring for automate severity assessment using AI-enabled cloud-based internet of things. Discover Computing. 28(1). 1 indexed citations

Yang, Jing, V. S. Govindarajan, Lip Yee Por, et al.. (2025). DDoS Attack Detection in Consumer IoT-Based Healthcare Systems Using Improved Off-Policy Proximal Policy Optimization and Generative Adversarial Network. IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics. 71(4). 11662–11675.

Laghari, Asif Ali, Abdullah Ayub Khan, Amel Ksibi, et al.. (2025). A novel and secure artificial intelligence enabled zero trust intrusion detection in industrial internet of things architecture. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 26843–26843. 4 indexed citations

Khan, Abdullah Ayub, Asif Ali Laghari, Majed Alsafyani, et al.. (2025). A cost-effective approach using generative AI and gamification to enhance biomedical treatment and real-time biosensor monitoring. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 17305–17305. 7 indexed citations

Khan, Abdullah Ayub, et al.. (2024). B-LPoET: A middleware lightweight Proof-of-Elapsed Time (PoET) for efficient distributed transaction execution and security on Blockchain using multithreading technology. Computers & Electrical Engineering. 118. 109343–109343. 38 indexed citations

Mehmood, Faisal, et al.. (2024). BLPCA-ledger: A lightweight plenum consensus protocols for consortium blockchain based on the hyperledger indy. Computer Standards & Interfaces. 91. 103876–103876. 13 indexed citations

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Khan, Abdullah Ayub, Asif Ali Laghari, Roobaea Alroobaea, et al.. (2024). ORAN-B5G: A Next-Generation Open Radio Access Network Architecture With Machine Learning for Beyond 5G in Industrial 5.0. IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking. 8(3). 1026–1036. 29 indexed citations

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Khan, Abdullah Ayub, Asif Ali Laghari, Abdullah M. Baqasah, et al.. (2024). BDLT-IoMT—a novel architecture: SVM machine learning for robust and secure data processing in Internet of Medical Things with blockchain cybersecurity. The Journal of Supercomputing. 81(1). 37 indexed citations

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Khan, Abdullah Ayub, Tehseen Mazhar, Tariq Shahzad, et al.. (2024). PR-FCNN: a data-driven hybrid approach for predicting PM2.5 concentration. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(1). 17 indexed citations

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Laghari, Asif Ali, Vania V. Estrela, Hang Li, et al.. (2024). Quality of experience assessment in virtual/augmented reality serious games for healthcare: A systematic literature review. Technology and Disability. 36(1-2). 17–28. 5 indexed citations

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Laghari, Asif Ali, Abdullah Ayub Khan, Reem Alkanhel, Hela Elmannai, & Sami Bourouis. (2023). Lightweight-BIoV: Blockchain Distributed Ledger Technology (BDLT) for Internet of Vehicles (IoVs). Electronics. 12(3). 677–677. 69 indexed citations

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Khan, Abdullah Ayub, Asif Ali Laghari, Mamoon Rashid, et al.. (2023). Artificial intelligence and blockchain technology for secure smart grid and power distribution Automation: A State-of-the-Art Review. Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments. 57. 103282–103282. 95 indexed citations breakdown →

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Yang, Jing, et al.. (2023). Efficient reinforcement learning-based method for plagiarism detection boosted by a population-based algorithm for pretraining weights. Expert Systems with Applications. 238. 122088–122088. 6 indexed citations

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Por, Lip Yee, Jing Yang, Chin Soon Ku, & Abdullah Ayub Khan. (2023). Special Issue on Cryptography and Information Security. Applied Sciences. 13(10). 6042–6042. 1 indexed citations

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Yang, Jing, Lip Yee Por, Abdullah Ayub Khan, et al.. (2023). Intelligent lung cancer MRI prediction analysis based on cluster prominence and posterior probabilities utilizing intelligent Bayesian methods on extracted gray-level co-occurrence (GLCM) features. Digital Health. 9. 589816344–589816344. 6 indexed citations

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Khan, Abdullah Ayub, et al.. (2022). A Blockchain and Metaheuristic-Enabled Distributed Architecture for Smart Agricultural Analysis and Ledger Preservation Solution: A Collaborative Approach. Applied Sciences. 12(3). 1487–1487. 28 indexed citations

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Shaikh, Zaffar Ahmed, et al.. (2022). Blockchain Hyperledger with Non-Linear Machine Learning: A Novel and Secure Educational Accreditation Registration and Distributed Ledger Preservation Architecture. Applied Sciences. 12(5). 2534–2534. 32 indexed citations

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