Abdullah Zafar

889 total citations · 1 hit paper
7 papers, 801 citations indexed

About

Abdullah Zafar is a scholar working on Mechanics of Materials, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Spectroscopy. According to data from OpenAlex, Abdullah Zafar has authored 7 papers receiving a total of 801 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Mechanics of Materials, 4 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 3 papers in Spectroscopy. Recurrent topics in Abdullah Zafar's work include Laser-induced spectroscopy and plasma (4 papers), Spectroscopy and Laser Applications (3 papers) and Atomic and Molecular Physics (3 papers). Abdullah Zafar is often cited by papers focused on Laser-induced spectroscopy and plasma (4 papers), Spectroscopy and Laser Applications (3 papers) and Atomic and Molecular Physics (3 papers). Abdullah Zafar collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Saudi Arabia. Abdullah Zafar's co-authors include Steven Shannon, Qiao Qiao, David Peterson, Stefano Curtarolo, Du Zhang, Yifei Yu, R. Kumar, Frank Hunte, Linyou Cao and Weitao Yang and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Journal of Applied Physics and Review of Scientific Instruments.

In The Last Decade

Abdullah Zafar

6 papers receiving 789 citations

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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.

All The Catalytic Active Sites of MoS₂ for Hydrogen Evolution

2016 735 citations Guoqing Li, Du Zhang et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Abdullah Zafar United States	4	554	469	411	35	35	7	801
Youjin Zheng China	13	148 0.3×	360 0.8×	260 0.6×	38 1.1×	32 0.9×	45	542
Anant Mathur United States	7	301 0.5×	417 0.9×	100 0.2×	19 0.5×	15 0.4×	7	521
Ziwen Pan China	8	233 0.4×	120 0.3×	182 0.4×	82 2.3×	35 1.0×	49	402
Shannon S. Nicley Belgium	12	144 0.3×	380 0.8×	269 0.7×	126 3.6×	46 1.3×	29	554
Mitsuo Kurachi Japan	5	200 0.4×	197 0.4×	342 0.8×	47 1.3×	87 2.5×	7	400
Dennis König Germany	11	150 0.3×	236 0.5×	139 0.3×	14 0.4×	28 0.8×	14	407
Zhinan Ma China	10	119 0.2×	503 1.1×	189 0.5×	29 0.8×	6 0.2×	17	580
Xinru Li China	14	285 0.5×	590 1.3×	289 0.7×	9 0.3×	5 0.1×	33	738
Naigui Shang United Kingdom	6	96 0.2×	239 0.5×	154 0.4×	40 1.1×	32 0.9×	10	348
Xuyan Zhou China	10	406 0.7×	221 0.5×	313 0.8×	3 0.1×	59 1.7×	23	534

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7 of 7 papers shown

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Zafar, Abdullah, et al.. (2024). Comparing the Efficacies of Electrospun ZnO and TiO2 Nanofibrous Interlayers for Electron Transport in Perovskite Solar Cells. Ceramics. 7(4). 1742–1757.

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Zafar, Abdullah, E. H. Martin, & Steven Shannon. (2019). Doppler-free, Stark broadened profiles at low plasma densities in helium. Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer. 230. 48–55. 7 indexed citations

3.

Zafar, Abdullah, E. H. Martin, & Steven Shannon. (2018). High resolution magnetic field measurements in hydrogen and helium plasmas using active laser spectroscopy. Review of Scientific Instruments. 89(10). 10D126–10D126. 2 indexed citations

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Martin, E. H., Abdullah Zafar, J. B. O. Caughman, R. C. Isler, & G. L. Bell. (2016). Applications of Doppler-free saturation spectroscopy for edge physics studies (invited). Review of Scientific Instruments. 87(11). 11E402–11E402. 5 indexed citations

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Zafar, Abdullah, E. H. Martin, Steven Shannon, R. C. Isler, & J. B. O. Caughman. (2016). A temporally and spatially resolved electron density diagnostic method for the edge plasma based on Stark broadening. Review of Scientific Instruments. 87(11). 11E505–11E505. 3 indexed citations

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Li, Guoqing, Du Zhang, Qiao Qiao, et al.. (2016). All The Catalytic Active Sites of MoS₂ for Hydrogen Evolution. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 138(51). 16632–16638. 735 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zafar, Abdullah, et al.. (2015). Control of ion energy distributions using phase shifting in multi-frequency capacitively coupled plasmas. Journal of Applied Physics. 117(23). 49 indexed citations

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