Ali Kianifar

95 total papers · 4.7k total citations
67 papers, 4.1k citations indexed

About

Ali Kianifar is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Ali Kianifar has authored 67 papers receiving a total of 4.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 30 papers in Mechanical Engineering and 27 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Ali Kianifar's work include Solar Thermal and Photovoltaic Systems (38 papers), Nanofluid Flow and Heat Transfer (25 papers) and Solar-Powered Water Purification Methods (14 papers). Ali Kianifar is often cited by papers focused on Solar Thermal and Photovoltaic Systems (38 papers), Nanofluid Flow and Heat Transfer (25 papers) and Solar-Powered Water Purification Methods (14 papers). Ali Kianifar collaborates with scholars based in Iran, Thailand and Saudi Arabia. Ali Kianifar's co-authors include Omid Mahian, Somchai Wongwises, Ioan Pop, Ahmet Z. Şahin, Soteris A. Kalogirou, Saeed Zeinali Heris, Moh’d A. Al-Nimr, Clement Kleinstreuer, Dongsheng Wen and Saleh Salavati Meibodi and has published in prestigious journals such as Nano Energy, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer and Energy Conversion and Management.

In The Last Decade

Ali Kianifar

62 papers receiving 4.0k 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 benchmark for papers published in the same subfield and year, or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. A review of the applications of nanofluids in solar energy
    2012 1.1k citations Omid Mahian, Ali Kianifar et al. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer profile →
  2. A review of entropy generation in nanofluid flow
    2013 455 citations Omid Mahian, Ali Kianifar et al. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Ali Kianifar 2.7k 2.5k 2.1k 826 263 67 4.1k
A. Behzadmehr 3.0k 1.1× 2.8k 1.1× 1.2k 0.6× 1.4k 1.7× 359 1.4× 96 4.3k
Mohammad Sadegh Valipour 1.5k 0.6× 2.3k 0.9× 1.1k 0.5× 951 1.2× 237 0.9× 119 3.8k
Obai Younis 1.8k 0.7× 2.6k 1.1× 1.5k 0.7× 1.1k 1.3× 264 1.0× 176 3.7k
Rasool Kalbasi 2.0k 0.7× 3.2k 1.3× 1.8k 0.9× 507 0.6× 477 1.8× 92 4.5k
Himanshu Tyagi 2.0k 0.7× 1.1k 0.4× 2.1k 1.0× 341 0.4× 437 1.7× 74 3.4k
S.A. Nada 1.2k 0.4× 3.2k 1.3× 2.1k 1.0× 581 0.7× 393 1.5× 136 4.9k
Amin Asadi 3.2k 1.2× 2.8k 1.1× 1.3k 0.6× 616 0.7× 578 2.2× 60 4.7k
Wael M. El‐Maghlany 954 0.4× 1.5k 0.6× 1.4k 0.7× 464 0.6× 141 0.5× 113 2.9k
Ahmed Kadhim Hussein 4.2k 1.6× 4.1k 1.7× 1.8k 0.9× 2.7k 3.3× 561 2.1× 222 6.7k
Aissa Abderrahmane 2.4k 0.9× 2.5k 1.0× 899 0.4× 1.4k 1.6× 213 0.8× 127 3.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Ali Kianifar

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ali Kianifar

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ali Kianifar

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ali Kianifar. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ali Kianifar 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 Ali Kianifar. Ali Kianifar is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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