Afaq Hassan

729 total citations · 1 hit paper
22 papers, 511 citations indexed

About

Afaq Hassan is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Afaq Hassan has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 511 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 8 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 8 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Afaq Hassan's work include Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (9 papers), Copper-based nanomaterials and applications (5 papers) and Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (5 papers). Afaq Hassan is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (9 papers), Copper-based nanomaterials and applications (5 papers) and Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (5 papers). Afaq Hassan collaborates with scholars based in China, Poland and Pakistan. Afaq Hassan's co-authors include Jide Wang, Yuan Guo, Changyan Guo, Muhammad Babar, Muhammad Mubashir, Kuan Shiong Khoo, Jia Guo, Muhammad Sagir, Naeem Akram and Umair Azhar and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Energy Materials, Journal of Power Sources and Applied Catalysis B: Environmental.

In The Last Decade

Afaq Hassan

22 papers receiving 500 citations

Hit Papers

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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. Remediation techniques for elimination of heavy metal pollutants from soil: A review
    2022 173 citations Umair Azhar, Muhammad Babar et al. Environmental Research profile →

Peers

Afaq Hassan
Yiting Luo China
Liyuan Chai China
Zhensheng Xiong China
Elham F. Mohamed Egypt
Cuibai Chen China
Ouassila Benhabiles Algeria
Caroline Andriantsiferana France
Adeola Akeem Akinpelu Saudi Arabia
Changhao Yao China
Yan Tian China
Yiting Luo China
Afaq Hassan
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Countries citing papers authored by Afaq Hassan

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Fields of papers citing papers by Afaq Hassan

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Afaq Hassan. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Afaq Hassan. The network helps show where Afaq Hassan may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Afaq Hassan

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Afaq Hassan. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Afaq Hassan 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 Afaq Hassan. Afaq Hassan 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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Łuczak, Justyna, et al.. (2025). Role of Cu and Ni in dual sites layered electrocatalysts for ammonia electrooxidation. Applied Catalysis A General. 696. 120181–120181. 3 indexed citations
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Feng, Chao, Jiaxin Shao, Hanyang Wu, et al.. (2025). Ultra-high overpotential induces NiS2 deep reconstruction to significantly improve HER performance. CHINESE JOURNAL OF CATALYSIS (CHINESE VERSION). 72. 230–242. 2 indexed citations
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Hassan, Afaq, Muhammad Arif, Justyna Łuczak, et al.. (2025). Rationally design and modulation strategies of cobalt-based covalent organic frameworks (COFs) electrocatalysts towards energy conversion applications. Coordination Chemistry Reviews. 543. 216926–216926. 5 indexed citations
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Feng, Chao, Hanyang Wu, Jiaxin Shao, et al.. (2024). Sub‐Nanometer‐Scale Cu9S5 Enables Efficiently Electrochemical Nitrate Reduction to Ammonia. Advanced Energy Materials. 15(8). 6 indexed citations
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Wang, Jingjing, Meng Wang, Jiang Li, et al.. (2024). Magnetic Porous Material Derived from Ni-MOF for the Removal of Tetracycline from Aqueous Solution. ACS Applied Nano Materials. 7(7). 7614–7621. 9 indexed citations
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Li, Jiang, Kefu Wang, Kangkang Wang, et al.. (2024). Adsorption behavior of Methylene Blue and Rhodamine B on microplastics before and after ultraviolet irradiation. Colloids and Surfaces A Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects. 699. 134671–134671. 10 indexed citations
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Iqbal, Jibran, Mohamad Azmi Bustam, Muhammad Babar, et al.. (2023). Performance evaluation of phosphonium based deep eutectic solvents coated cerium oxide nanoparticles for CO2 capture. Environmental Research. 222. 115314–115314. 21 indexed citations
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Zhang, Liugen, Xianglei Cao, Changyan Guo, et al.. (2023). Interface and morphology engineering of Ru-FeCoP hollow nanocages as alkaline electrocatalyst for overall water splitting. Journal of environmental chemical engineering. 11(6). 111373–111373. 7 indexed citations
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Li, Shiang, Yuehong Xie, Chao Feng, Afaq Hassan, & Jide Wang. (2023). Nitrogen-Rich Porous Carbon Nanotubes Coated Co/Mo2N Composites Derived from Metal-Organic Framework as Efficient Bifunctional Oxygen Electrocatalysts. Catalysts. 13(5). 801–801. 2 indexed citations
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Hassan, Afaq, Muhammad Babar, Umair Azhar, et al.. (2022). A Comparison of the Exergy Efficiencies of Various Heat-Integrated Distillation Columns. Energies. 15(18). 6498–6498. 12 indexed citations
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Azhar, Umair, Muhammad Babar, Hafiz Muhammad Shahzad Munir, et al.. (2022). Remediation techniques for elimination of heavy metal pollutants from soil: A review. Environmental Research. 214(Pt 4). 113918–113918. 173 indexed citations breakdown →
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Zhang, Liugen, Di Pang, Xianglei Cao, et al.. (2022). Phosphorus modified hollow, porous Nickel-Cobalt oxides nanocubes with heterostructure for oxygen evolution reaction in alkaline. Journal of Alloys and Compounds. 925. 166338–166338. 13 indexed citations
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Guo, Changyan, Tao Wang, Li Zhang, et al.. (2022). Precise regulation of defect concentration in MOF and its influence on photocatalytic overall water splitting. Nanoscale. 14(41). 15316–15326. 30 indexed citations
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Zhang, Li, Changyan Guo, Tingxiang Chen, et al.. (2021). Effects of different defective linkers on the photocatalytic properties of Cu-BTC for overall water decomposition. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 303. 120888–120888. 43 indexed citations
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Akram, Naeem, et al.. (2020). Synergistic Catalysis of Co(OH)2/CuO for the Degradation of Organic Pollutant Under Visible Light Irradiation. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 1939–1939. 41 indexed citations
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Akram, Naeem, Jia Guo, Yuan Guo, et al.. (2020). Synergistic catalysis of Fe3O4/CuO bimetallic catalyst derived from Prussian blue analogues for the efficient decomposition of various organic pollutants. Chemical Physics. 540. 110974–110974. 41 indexed citations
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Qiao, Shanshan, Jia Guo, Di Wang, et al.. (2019). Core-shell cobalt particles Co@CoO loaded on nitrogen-doped graphene for photocatalytic water-splitting. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 45(3). 1629–1639. 26 indexed citations
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