Abla Smahi

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
24 papers, 769 citations indexed

About

Abla Smahi is a scholar working on Information Systems, Artificial Intelligence and Computer Networks and Communications. According to data from OpenAlex, Abla Smahi has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 769 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Information Systems, 10 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 7 papers in Computer Networks and Communications. Recurrent topics in Abla Smahi's work include Blockchain Technology Applications and Security (11 papers), Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data (7 papers) and Cryptography and Data Security (6 papers). Abla Smahi is often cited by papers focused on Blockchain Technology Applications and Security (11 papers), Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data (7 papers) and Cryptography and Data Security (6 papers). Abla Smahi collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and New Zealand. Abla Smahi's co-authors include Qi Xia, Emmanuel Boateng Sifah, Xiaosong Zhang, Sandro Amofa, Jianbin Gao, Hu Xia, Kwame Omono Asamoah, Guishan Dong, Kwame Opuni-Boachie Obour Agyekum and Khelifa Benahmed and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Access, Sensors and IEEE Internet of Things Journal.

In The Last Decade

Abla Smahi

22 papers receiving 743 citations

Hit Papers

BBDS: Blockchain-Based Data Sharing for Electronic Medica... 2017 2026 2020 2023 2017 100 200 300
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.

  1. BBDS: Blockchain-Based Data Sharing for Electronic Medical Records in Cloud Environments
    2017 378 citations Qi Xia, Emmanuel Boateng Sifah et al. Information profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Abla Smahi China 10 640 345 242 89 84 24 769
Aitizaz Ali Malaysia 15 567 0.9× 434 1.3× 278 1.1× 41 0.5× 33 0.4× 52 862
Xiangyun Tang China 11 322 0.5× 290 0.8× 346 1.4× 79 0.9× 22 0.3× 28 649
Sangrae Cho South Korea 9 583 0.9× 407 1.2× 141 0.6× 69 0.8× 25 0.3× 21 737
Shahrulniza Musa Malaysia 14 322 0.5× 386 1.1× 265 1.1× 71 0.8× 99 1.2× 71 716
Ahsan Manzoor Finland 11 339 0.5× 262 0.8× 141 0.6× 54 0.6× 15 0.2× 13 480
Mayra Samaniego Canada 9 509 0.8× 445 1.3× 90 0.4× 49 0.6× 16 0.2× 12 598
Jiangshan Yu Australia 15 617 1.0× 461 1.3× 314 1.3× 52 0.6× 15 0.2× 57 822
Nicolas Gailly Switzerland 6 890 1.4× 637 1.8× 326 1.3× 48 0.5× 9 0.1× 9 1.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Abla Smahi

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Fields of papers citing papers by Abla Smahi

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Abla Smahi

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Abla Smahi. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Abla Smahi based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Abla Smahi. Abla Smahi is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Fateh, Ahmed Ameen, Abla Smahi, Muhammad Hassan, et al.. (2024). From brain connectivity to cognitive function: Dissecting the salience network in pediatric BECTS-ESES. Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry. 135. 111110–111110. 4 indexed citations
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Smahi, Abla, et al.. (2024). VFL-Chain: Bulletproofing Federated Learning in the V2X environments. Future Generation Computer Systems. 155. 419–436. 1 indexed citations
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Li, Hui, Abla Smahi, Minglong Zhang, et al.. (2024). QSCCP: A QoS-Aware Congestion Control Protocol for Information-Centric Networking. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management. 22(1). 532–556. 2 indexed citations
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Li, Hui, et al.. (2023). MIS: A Multi-Identifier Management and Resolution System in the Metaverse. ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications. 20(7). 1–25. 12 indexed citations
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Li, Hui, et al.. (2023). GBT-CHAIN: A System Framework for Solving the General Trilemma in Permissioned Blockchains. 3(2). 1–15. 5 indexed citations
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Smahi, Abla, et al.. (2023). BV-ICVs: A privacy-preserving and verifiable federated learning framework for V2X environments using blockchain and zkSNARKs. Journal of King Saud University - Computer and Information Sciences. 35(6). 101542–101542. 14 indexed citations
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Ukwuoma, Chiagoziem C., Zhiguang Qin, Md Belal Bin Heyat, et al.. (2022). Automated Lung-Related Pneumonia and COVID-19 Detection Based on Novel Feature Extraction Framework and Vision Transformer Approaches Using Chest X-ray Images. Bioengineering. 9(11). 709–709. 41 indexed citations
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Wang, Yunmin, Abla Smahi, Huayu Zhang, & Hui Li. (2022). Towards Double Defense Network Security Based on Multi-Identifier Network Architecture. Sensors. 22(3). 747–747. 3 indexed citations
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Fateh, Ahmed Ameen, Xiaoyu Wang, Yi Luo, et al.. (2022). Abnormal Insular Dynamic Functional Connectivity and Its Relation to Social Dysfunctioning in Children With Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. Frontiers in Neuroscience. 16. 890596–890596. 8 indexed citations
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Yang, Xin, et al.. (2022). SPM: A Novel Hierarchical Model for Evaluating the Effectiveness of Combined ACDs in a Blockchain-Based Cloud Environment. Applied Sciences. 12(18). 9230–9230. 1 indexed citations
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Sifah, Emmanuel Boateng, Qi Xia, Kwame Opuni-Boachie Obour Agyekum, et al.. (2021). A Blockchain Approach to Ensuring Provenance to Outsourced Cloud Data in a Sharing Ecosystem. IEEE Systems Journal. 16(1). 1673–1684. 16 indexed citations
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Xia, Qi, et al.. (2021). Personal health records sharing scheme based on attribute based signcryption with data integrity verifiable. Journal of Computer Security. 30(2). 291–324. 9 indexed citations
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Smahi, Abla, Qi Xia, Hu Xia, et al.. (2020). A blockchainized privacy-preserving support vector machine classification on mobile crowd sensed data. Pervasive and Mobile Computing. 66. 101195–101195. 18 indexed citations
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Xia, Qi, Emmanuel Boateng Sifah, Kwame Opuni-Boachie Obour Agyekum, et al.. (2019). Secured Fine-Grained Selective Access to Outsourced Cloud Data in IoT Environments. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 6(6). 10749–10762. 26 indexed citations
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Gao, Jianbin, Kwame Omono Asamoah, Emmanuel Boateng Sifah, et al.. (2018). GridMonitoring: Secured Sovereign Blockchain Based Monitoring on Smart Grid. IEEE Access. 6. 9917–9925. 161 indexed citations
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Amofa, Sandro, Emmanuel Boateng Sifah, Kwame Opuni-Boachie Obour Agyekum, et al.. (2018). A Blockchain-based Architecture Framework for Secure Sharing of Personal Health Data. 1–6. 45 indexed citations
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Xia, Qi, Emmanuel Boateng Sifah, Abla Smahi, Sandro Amofa, & Xiaosong Zhang. (2017). BBDS: Blockchain-Based Data Sharing for Electronic Medical Records in Cloud Environments. Information. 8(2). 44–44. 378 indexed citations breakdown →
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Benahmed, Khelifa & Abla Smahi. (2015). Security concerns in smart grids: Threats, vulnerabilities and countermeasures. 1–6. 15 indexed citations

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