Adnan Aftab

2.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
33 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Adnan Aftab is a scholar working on Ocean Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Civil and Structural Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Adnan Aftab has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Ocean Engineering, 18 papers in Mechanical Engineering and 10 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering. Recurrent topics in Adnan Aftab's work include Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis (15 papers), Drilling and Well Engineering (13 papers) and Tunneling and Rock Mechanics (10 papers). Adnan Aftab is often cited by papers focused on Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis (15 papers), Drilling and Well Engineering (13 papers) and Tunneling and Rock Mechanics (10 papers). Adnan Aftab collaborates with scholars based in Pakistan, Australia and Malaysia. Adnan Aftab's co-authors include Abdul Razak Ismail, Zafar Hussain Ibupoto, Mohammad Sarmadivaleh, Muhammad Ali, Stefan Iglauer, Aliakbar Hassanpouryouzband, Alireza Keshavarz, Quan Xie, Laura L. Machuca and Hussein J. Akeiber and has published in prestigious journals such as Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Journal of The Electrochemical Society and ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.

In The Last Decade

Adnan Aftab

33 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Toward a Fundamental Understanding of Geological Hydrogen Storage

2022 222 citations Adnan Aftab, Aliakbar Hassanpouryouzband et al. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Adnan Aftab Pakistan	20	1.3k	1.2k	588	416	311	33	1.9k
Hanyi Zhong China	29	1.8k 1.4×	1.4k 1.2×	872 1.5×	58 0.1×	344 1.1×	85	2.1k
Mileva Radonjic United States	20	830 0.6×	626 0.5×	425 0.7×	315 0.8×	454 1.5×	87	1.3k
Xianbin Huang China	27	1.4k 1.1×	1.1k 1.0×	672 1.1×	41 0.1×	266 0.9×	102	2.0k
Yuhuan Bu China	27	841 0.6×	361 0.3×	1.4k 2.4×	242 0.6×	141 0.5×	119	1.9k
Ramadan Ahmed United States	32	2.3k 1.8×	1.6k 1.4×	1.1k 1.9×	176 0.4×	354 1.1×	186	3.2k
Gaosheng Wang China	25	748 0.6×	1.1k 0.9×	452 0.8×	891 2.1×	472 1.5×	78	2.3k
Abdulmohsin Imqam United States	26	2.0k 1.5×	1.2k 1.0×	292 0.5×	311 0.7×	1.0k 3.3×	113	2.3k
Shibin Wang China	21	545 0.4×	489 0.4×	57 0.1×	52 0.1×	332 1.1×	77	1.3k
Md Amanullah United States	18	1.1k 0.8×	845 0.7×	518 0.9×	34 0.1×	145 0.5×	94	1.4k
Chunsheng Pu China	24	973 0.7×	713 0.6×	58 0.1×	67 0.2×	574 1.8×	95	1.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Adnan Aftab

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Mohshim, Dzeti Farhah, et al.. (2024). Comprehensive Review of CO₂ Adsorption on Shale Formations: Exploring Widely Adopted Isothermal Models and Calculation Techniques. ACS Omega. 9(51). 50078–50096. 4 indexed citations

Aftab, Adnan, et al.. (2024). Microbial impact on basalt‐water‐hydrogen system: Insights into wettability, capillary pressure, and interfacial tension for subsurface hydrogen storage. Greenhouse Gases Science and Technology. 14(3). 546–560. 7 indexed citations

Aftab, Adnan, et al.. (2023). Quantifying onshore salt deposits and their potential for hydrogen energy storage in Australia. Journal of Energy Storage. 65. 107252–107252. 35 indexed citations

Aftab, Adnan, Aliakbar Hassanpouryouzband, Jackie E. Kendrick, et al.. (2023). Geochemical Integrity of Wellbore Cements during Geological Hydrogen Storage. Environmental Science & Technology Letters. 10(7). 551–556. 50 indexed citations

Arain, Zain-UL-Abedin, et al.. (2023). Influence of stearic acid and alumina nanofluid on CO2 wettability of calcite substrates: Implications for CO2 geological storage in carbonate reservoirs. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 646. 567–575. 33 indexed citations

Aftab, Adnan, et al.. (2023). Quartz–H₂–Brine Bacterium Wettability under Realistic Geo-Conditions: Towards Geological Hydrogen Storage. Energy & Fuels. 37(7). 5623–5631. 34 indexed citations

Mohanty, Udit Surya, Adnan Aftab, Faisal Ur Rahman Awan, et al.. (2022). Toward Improvement of Water-Based Drilling Mud via Zirconia Nanoparticle/API Bentonite Material. Energy & Fuels. 36(19). 12116–12125. 9 indexed citations

Aftab, Adnan, Aliakbar Hassanpouryouzband, Quan Xie, Laura L. Machuca, & Mohammad Sarmadivaleh. (2022). Toward a Fundamental Understanding of Geological Hydrogen Storage. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research. 61(9). 3233–3253. 222 indexed citations breakdown →

Panhwar, Sallahuddin, et al.. (2022). Synthesis and Characterization Approaches of Silver Nano particles for Various Novel Applications. Advances in Materials and Processing Technologies. 8(4). 4106–4121. 6 indexed citations

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Mohanty, Udit Surya, Faisal Ur Rahman Awan, Muhammad Ali, et al.. (2021). Physicochemical Characterization of Zirconia Nanoparticle-Based Sodium Alginate Polymer Suspension for Enhanced Oil Recovery. Energy & Fuels. 35(23). 19389–19398. 43 indexed citations

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Panhwar, Sallahuddin, Adnan Aftab, Hareef Ahmed Keerio, et al.. (2021). A Novel Approach for Real-Time Enumeration of Escherichia coli ATCC 47076 in Water through High Multi-Functional Engineered Nano-Dispersible Electrode. Journal of The Electrochemical Society. 168(3). 37514–37514. 13 indexed citations

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Ali, Muhammad, Adnan Aftab, Faisal Ur Rahman Awan, et al.. (2021). CO2-wettability reversal of cap-rock by alumina nanofluid: Implications for CO2 geo-storage. Fuel Processing Technology. 214. 106722–106722. 89 indexed citations

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Panhwar, Sallahuddin, Hasan İlhan, Adnan Aftab, et al.. (2021). High-Performance E. coli Antibody-Conjugated Gold Nanorods for the Selective Electrochemical Detection of Pathogens in Drinking Water. Journal of Electronic Materials. 50(12). 7119–7125. 14 indexed citations

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Mahmoud, Omar, et al.. (2021). Al ₂ O ₃ and CuO nanoparticles as promising additives to improve the properties of KCl ‐polymer mud: An experimental investigation. The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering. 100(6). 1384–1397. 5 indexed citations

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Ghauri, Sajjad Ahmed, et al.. (2021). DSCE: Comparative Analysis of Heuristic Computational Techniques. IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing. 10(3). 259–272. 1 indexed citations

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Aftab, Adnan, Muhammad Ali, Udit Surya Mohanty, et al.. (2020). Environmental Friendliness and High Performance of Multifunctional Tween 80/ZnO-Nanoparticles-Added Water-Based Drilling Fluid: An Experimental Approach. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 8(30). 11224–11243. 114 indexed citations

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Muther, Temoor, Adnan Aftab, & Abdul Razak Ismail. (2020). Analysis on the effect of different fracture geometries on the productivity of tight gas reservoirs. Malaysian Journal of Fundamental and Applied Sciences. 16(2). 201–211. 28 indexed citations

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Qadeer, Abdul, Adnan Aftab, & Imran Nazir. (2012). Optimization of Energy Consumption during Natural Gas Dehydration. 3(1). 7–11. 1 indexed citations

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Mushtaq, Faisal, et al.. (2012). Coal Fired Power Generation Potential of Balochistan. 7 indexed citations

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Aftab, Adnan, et al.. (2011). Spectrum sensing through implementation of USRP2. KTH Publication Database DiVA (KTH Royal Institute of Technology). 3 indexed citations

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