Abubakar Isah

1.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
54 papers, 810 citations indexed

About

Abubakar Isah is a scholar working on Mechanical Engineering, Ocean Engineering and Mechanics of Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Abubakar Isah has authored 54 papers receiving a total of 810 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Mechanical Engineering, 21 papers in Ocean Engineering and 20 papers in Mechanics of Materials. Recurrent topics in Abubakar Isah's work include Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis (19 papers), Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis (18 papers) and Enhanced Oil Recovery Techniques (16 papers). Abubakar Isah is often cited by papers focused on Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis (19 papers), Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis (18 papers) and Enhanced Oil Recovery Techniques (16 papers). Abubakar Isah collaborates with scholars based in Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Nigeria. Abubakar Isah's co-authors include Mohamed Mahmoud, Muhammad Arif, Amjed Hassan, Stefan Iglauer, Ammar El‐Husseiny, Murtada Saleh Aljawad, Abdulrauf R. Adebayo, Khaled Al-Azani, Ahmed Al‐Yaseri and Mahmoud Elsayed and has published in prestigious journals such as Energy & Environmental Science, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C and Earth-Science Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Abubakar Isah

46 papers receiving 783 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.

A review on the applications of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) in the oil and gas industry: laboratory and field-scale measurements

2022 110 citations Mahmoud Elsayed, Abubakar Isah et al. profile →
Recent progress in underground hydrogen storage

2025 35 citations Muhammad Ali, Abubakar Isah et al. Energy & Environmental Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Abubakar Isah Saudi Arabia	16	369	365	340	204	125	54	810
Yong Tang China	21	616 1.7×	643 1.8×	506 1.5×	376 1.8×	94 0.8×	90	1.4k
Zhan Meng China	16	436 1.2×	494 1.4×	435 1.3×	140 0.7×	43 0.3×	54	792
Mohammed Amro Germany	17	352 1.0×	636 1.7×	318 0.9×	165 0.8×	51 0.4×	87	934
Shiferaw Regassa Jufar Malaysia	13	246 0.7×	307 0.8×	227 0.7×	126 0.6×	61 0.5×	45	596
Yajun Li China	21	488 1.3×	720 2.0×	755 2.2×	205 1.0×	64 0.5×	49	1.3k
Hamid Roshan Australia	14	420 1.1×	605 1.7×	436 1.3×	510 2.5×	172 1.4×	27	1.0k
Morteza Akbarabadi United States	12	361 1.0×	551 1.5×	338 1.0×	377 1.8×	74 0.6×	19	769
Behnam Sedaee Iran	14	397 1.1×	327 0.9×	213 0.6×	414 2.0×	270 2.2×	53	827
Caspar Daniel Adenutsi Ghana	18	456 1.2×	548 1.5×	272 0.8×	74 0.4×	35 0.3×	68	858
Xiao Feng China	21	401 1.1×	472 1.3×	440 1.3×	90 0.4×	35 0.3×	50	972

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Isah, Abubakar, Zeeshan Tariq, Ayyaz Mustafa, Mohamed Mahmoud, & Esuru Rita Okoroafor. (2025). A Review of Data-Driven Machine Learning Applications in Reservoir Petrophysics. Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering. 50(24). 20343–20377. 1 indexed citations

Isah, Abubakar, et al.. (2025). Surface wettability of quartz and calcite: Impact of cleavage, exposure time, and scale of measurement. Petroleum Research. 10(4). 738–748.

Ali, Muhammad, Abubakar Isah, Nurudeen Yekeen, et al.. (2025). Recent progress in underground hydrogen storage. Energy & Environmental Science. 18(12). 5740–5810. 35 indexed citations breakdown →

Isah, Abubakar, et al.. (2025). Evaluating Hydrogen Generation in Fractured Iron-Rich Rocks Under Dynamic Subsurface Conditions. SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition.

Isah, Abubakar, Hamidreza Samouei, & Esuru Rita Okoroafor. (2025). Assessing the Effect of Mineralogy and Reaction Pathways on Geological Hydrogen (H2) Generation in Ultramafic and Mafic (Basaltic) Rocks. Hydrogen. 6(4). 76–76.

Isah, Abubakar, et al.. (2024). Synthesis, characterization and application of Bentonite@ α-Fe2O3 nanocomposites in water-based drilling fluid. Geoenergy Science and Engineering. 246. 213607–213607. 2 indexed citations

Isah, Abubakar, Mohamed Mahmoud, Murtada Saleh Aljawad, et al.. (2024). Enforced CO2 mineralization in anhydrite-rich rocks. Energy. 305. 132323–132323. 12 indexed citations

Isah, Abubakar, et al.. (2023). Influence of surface cleaning on the wettability of calcite/oil/brine systems. Fuel. 351. 128908–128908. 10 indexed citations

Isah, Abubakar, Mohamed Mahmoud, Muhammad Arif, Murtada Saleh Aljawad, & Muhammad Shahzad Kamal. (2023). Influence of Surface Cleaning on the Wettability of Quartz/Oil/Brine Systems. Energy & Fuels. 37(17). 12744–12761. 6 indexed citations

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Isah, Abubakar, et al.. (2023). Multiscale Wettability Characterization of Anhydrite-Rich Carbonate Rocks: Insights into Zeta Potential, Flotation, and Contact Angle Measurements. SPE Reservoir Evaluation & Engineering. 26(3). 592–610. 12 indexed citations

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Mohammed, Isah, Abubakar Isah, Dhafer Al Shehri, et al.. (2022). Effect of Sulfate-Based Scales on Calcite Mineral Surface Chemistry: Insights from Zeta-Potential Experiments and Their Implications on Wettability. ACS Omega. 7(32). 28571–28587. 15 indexed citations

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Abbasi, Ghazanfer Raza, Ahmed Al‐Yaseri, Faisal Ur Rahman Awan, et al.. (2021). Effect of Rock Wettability on the Electric Resistivity of Hydrate Formations: An Experimental Investigation. Energy & Fuels. 35(24). 20037–20045. 17 indexed citations

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Abbasi, Ghazanfer Raza, Ahmed Al‐Yaseri, Abubakar Isah, Alireza Keshavarz, & Stefan Iglauer. (2021). Influence of Rock Wettability on THF Hydrate Saturation and Distribution in Sandstones. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 125(31). 17323–17332. 21 indexed citations

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Isah, Abubakar, et al.. (2021). Emerging Techniques in Measuring Capillary Pressure and Permeability Using NMR and AI.

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Adebayo, Abdulrauf R., Abubakar Isah, Mohamed Mahmoud, & Dhafer Al Shehri. (2020). Effects of Foam Microbubbles on Electrical Resistivity and Capillary Pressure of Partially Saturated Porous Media. Molecules. 25(15). 3385–3385. 16 indexed citations

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Auta, M., et al.. (2017). Comparative studies of CO₂ capture using acid and base modified activated carbon from sugarcane bagasse. Biofuels. 9(6). 719–728. 43 indexed citations

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Kovo, A. S., et al.. (2016). On The Synthesis of Zeolite Y/ZSM-5 Composite via Novel Technique. Chemical Engineering Science. 4(1). 1–4. 4 indexed citations

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Musa, Umaru, et al.. (2015). Extraction of Chrysophyllum albidum Seed Oil: Optimization and Characterization. 30. 1–8. 6 indexed citations

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Isah, Abubakar. (2015). Evaluation of Phytochemical, Anti-nutritional and Antioxidant Potentials of Flower and Seed Methanol Extracts of Senna alata L. Grown in Nigeria. American Journal of Applied Chemistry. 3(3). 93–93. 5 indexed citations

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Isah, Abubakar, et al.. (2013). Regeneration of Used Engine Oil. Lecture notes in computer science. 2204(1). 565–568. 12 indexed citations

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