Ahmed Mahas

4.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
25 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Ahmed Mahas is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Insect Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Ahmed Mahas has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Molecular Biology, 11 papers in Plant Science and 7 papers in Insect Science. Recurrent topics in Ahmed Mahas's work include CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (23 papers), Plant Virus Research Studies (10 papers) and Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (8 papers). Ahmed Mahas is often cited by papers focused on CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (23 papers), Plant Virus Research Studies (10 papers) and Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (8 papers). Ahmed Mahas collaborates with scholars based in Saudi Arabia, United States and Belgium. Ahmed Mahas's co-authors include Magdy M. Mahfouz, Rashid Aman, Zahir Ali, Tin Maršić, Fatimah Aljedaani, Haroon Butt, Norhan Hassan, Muhammad Zuhaib Khan, Shou‐Wei Ding and Khalid E. M. Sedeek and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Nano Letters.

In The Last Decade

Ahmed Mahas

24 papers receiving 2.3k citations

Hit Papers

RNA virus interference via CRISPR/Cas13a system in plants 2018 2026 2020 2023 2018 2020 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. RNA virus interference via CRISPR/Cas13a system in plants
    2018 394 citations Rashid Aman, Zahir Ali et al. Genome biology profile →
  2. Nucleic Acid Detection Using CRISPR/Cas Biosensing Technologies
    2020 316 citations Rashid Aman, Ahmed Mahas et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ahmed Mahas Saudi Arabia 19 2.0k 815 534 325 281 25 2.3k
Zahir Ali Saudi Arabia 29 2.5k 1.3× 1.9k 2.3× 333 0.6× 589 1.8× 197 0.7× 47 3.1k
Basem Al-Shayeb United States 17 1.4k 0.7× 355 0.4× 192 0.4× 176 0.5× 338 1.2× 19 1.8k
Jeremy Koob United States 6 1.6k 0.8× 159 0.2× 401 0.8× 83 0.3× 318 1.1× 8 1.9k
Qiuxiang Cheng China 11 1.4k 0.7× 132 0.2× 391 0.7× 81 0.2× 153 0.5× 18 1.5k
Joshua C. Cofsky United States 10 1.5k 0.8× 138 0.2× 206 0.4× 144 0.4× 85 0.3× 17 1.6k
Daan C. Swarts Netherlands 22 3.3k 1.7× 344 0.4× 321 0.6× 279 0.9× 110 0.4× 34 3.7k
Shengsong Xie China 22 1.1k 0.6× 227 0.3× 120 0.2× 85 0.3× 138 0.5× 63 1.7k
Tin Maršić Saudi Arabia 11 778 0.4× 178 0.2× 363 0.7× 85 0.3× 204 0.7× 14 917
Isaac P. Witte United States 6 1.1k 0.6× 124 0.2× 187 0.4× 99 0.3× 83 0.3× 6 1.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Ahmed Mahas

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ahmed Mahas

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ahmed Mahas

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ahmed Mahas. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ahmed Mahas 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 Ahmed Mahas. Ahmed Mahas 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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Ferreira, Raphaël, et al.. (2025). Engineered base editors with reduced bystander editing through directed evolution. Nature Biotechnology.
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Aman, Rashid, et al.. (2024). Peptide nucleic acid-assisted generation of targeted double-stranded DNA breaks with T7 endonuclease I. Nucleic Acids Research. 52(6). 3469–3482. 6 indexed citations
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Maršić, Tin, et al.. (2023). Programmable site-specific DNA double-strand breaks via PNA-assisted prokaryotic Argonautes. Nucleic Acids Research. 51(17). 9491–9506. 9 indexed citations
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Aman, Rashid, Tin Maršić, Gundra Sivakrishna Rao, et al.. (2022). iSCAN-V2: A One-Pot RT-RPA–CRISPR/Cas12b Assay for Point-of-Care SARS-CoV-2 Detection. Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology. 9. 800104–800104. 60 indexed citations
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Mahas, Ahmed, Tin Maršić, Qiaochu Wang, et al.. (2022). Characterization of a thermostable Cas13 enzyme for one-pot detection of SARS-CoV-2. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(28). e2118260119–e2118260119. 58 indexed citations
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Mahas, Ahmed, et al.. (2022). Development of Cas12a-Based Cell-Free Small-Molecule Biosensors via Allosteric Regulation of CRISPR Array Expression. Analytical Chemistry. 94(11). 4617–4626. 46 indexed citations
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Maršić, Tin, Zahir Ali, Muhammad Tehseen, et al.. (2021). Vigilant: An Engineered VirD2-Cas9 Complex for Lateral Flow Assay-Based Detection of SARS-CoV2. Nano Letters. 21(8). 3596–3603. 69 indexed citations
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Zaidi, Syed Shan‐e‐Ali, Ahmed Mahas, Hervé Vanderschuren, & Magdy M. Mahfouz. (2020). Engineering crops of the future: CRISPR approaches to develop climate-resilient and disease-resistant plants. Genome biology. 21(1). 289–289. 123 indexed citations
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Aman, Rashid, Ahmed Mahas, Tin Maršić, Norhan Hassan, & Magdy M. Mahfouz. (2020). Efficient, Rapid, and Sensitive Detection of Plant RNA Viruses With One-Pot RT-RPA–CRISPR/Cas12a Assay. Frontiers in Microbiology. 11. 610872–610872. 133 indexed citations
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Ali, Zahir, Rashid Aman, Ahmed Mahas, et al.. (2020). iSCAN: An RT-LAMP-coupled CRISPR-Cas12 module for rapid, sensitive detection of SARS-CoV-2. Virus Research. 288. 198129–198129. 249 indexed citations
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Mahas, Ahmed, Rashid Aman, & Magdy M. Mahfouz. (2019). CRISPR-Cas13d mediates robust RNA virus interference in plants. Genome biology. 20(1). 263–263. 133 indexed citations
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Sedeek, Khalid E. M., Ahmed Mahas, & Magdy M. Mahfouz. (2019). Plant Genome Engineering for Targeted Improvement of Crop Traits. Frontiers in Plant Science. 10. 114–114. 118 indexed citations
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Mahas, Ahmed, Zahir Ali, Manal Tashkandi, & Magdy M. Mahfouz. (2019). Virus-Mediated Genome Editing in Plants Using the CRISPR/Cas9 System. Methods in molecular biology. 1917. 311–326. 11 indexed citations
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Aman, Rashid, Ahmed Mahas, Haroon Butt, et al.. (2018). Engineering RNA Virus Interference via the CRISPR/Cas13 Machinery in Arabidopsis. Viruses. 10(12). 732–732. 69 indexed citations
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Mahas, Ahmed & Magdy M. Mahfouz. (2018). Engineering virus resistance via CRISPR–Cas systems. Current Opinion in Virology. 32. 1–8. 52 indexed citations
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Aman, Rashid, Zahir Ali, Haroon Butt, et al.. (2018). RNA virus interference via CRISPR/Cas13a system in plants. Genome biology. 19(1). 1–1. 394 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ali, Zahir, Ahmed Mahas, & Magdy M. Mahfouz. (2018). CRISPR/Cas13 as a Tool for RNA Interference. Trends in Plant Science. 23(5). 374–378. 65 indexed citations
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Mahas, Ahmed, C. Neal Stewart, & Magdy M. Mahfouz. (2017). Harnessing CRISPR/Cas systems for programmable transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulation. Biotechnology Advances. 36(1). 295–310. 95 indexed citations
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Mahas, Ahmed, et al.. (2016). Copy number variation in archival melanoma biopsies versus benign melanocytic lesions. Cancer Biomarkers. 16(4). 575–597. 3 indexed citations
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Mahas, Ahmed, et al.. (2015). Genomic DNA extraction methods using formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissue. Analytical Biochemistry. 486. 17–23. 17 indexed citations

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