Farhan Mustafa

956 total citations · 1 hit paper
27 papers, 636 citations indexed

About

Farhan Mustafa is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Farhan Mustafa has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 636 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 10 papers in Atmospheric Science and 4 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Farhan Mustafa's work include Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (13 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (8 papers) and Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (7 papers). Farhan Mustafa is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (13 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (8 papers) and Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (7 papers). Farhan Mustafa collaborates with scholars based in China, Pakistan and Hong Kong. Farhan Mustafa's co-authors include Muhammad Bilal, Muhammad Shahzaman, Rana Waqar Aslam, Lingbing Bu, Rashid Iqbal, Qin Wang, Irfan Ullah, Muhammad Arshad, Weijun Zhu and Abdul Quddoos and has published in prestigious journals such as The Science of The Total Environment, Scientific Reports and IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing.

In The Last Decade

Farhan Mustafa

26 papers receiving 619 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.

Monitoring landuse change in Uchhali and Khabeki wetland lakes, Pakistan using remote sensing data

2024 74 citations Rana Waqar Aslam, Hong Shu et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Farhan Mustafa China	13	418	187	128	105	61	27	636
Muhammad Shahzaman China	10	390 0.9×	197 1.1×	73 0.6×	61 0.6×	29 0.5×	17	514
Emmanuel Quansah Ghana	17	330 0.8×	256 1.4×	86 0.7×	79 0.8×	28 0.5×	49	720
Chun‐Ho Cho South Korea	14	551 1.3×	371 2.0×	102 0.8×	43 0.4×	55 0.9×	72	747
Jessica L. Matthews United States	12	321 0.8×	161 0.9×	71 0.6×	93 0.9×	63 1.0×	25	608
Sean Crowell United States	13	693 1.7×	408 2.2×	123 1.0×	179 1.7×	34 0.6×	33	859
John M. Zobitz United States	10	352 0.8×	187 1.0×	48 0.4×	86 0.8×	38 0.6×	20	469
V. Y. Chow United States	9	692 1.7×	509 2.7×	100 0.8×	106 1.0×	80 1.3×	10	793
Wenmin Zhang China	11	229 0.5×	44 0.2×	93 0.7×	79 0.8×	64 1.0×	48	587
Mark F. Lunt United Kingdom	14	723 1.7×	508 2.7×	44 0.3×	86 0.8×	28 0.5×	29	871
Patrick T. Brown United States	11	417 1.0×	267 1.4×	52 0.4×	61 0.6×	32 0.5×	23	672

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Farhan Mustafa

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Mustafa, Farhan, et al.. (2025). Improved estimation of carbon dioxide and methane using machine learning with satellite observations over the Arabian Peninsula. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 766–766. 3 indexed citations

Mustafa, Farhan & Ming Xu. (2025). Improving Model-Based Carbon Dioxide Datasets Using Deep Learning and Satellite Observations. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 63. 1–14.

Khaliq, Muhammad Athar, Farhan Mustafa, Muhammad Shahzaman, et al.. (2024). Spatiotemporal investigation of near-surface CH4 and factors influencing CH4 over South, East, and Southeast Asia. The Science of The Total Environment. 922. 171311–171311. 5 indexed citations

Aslam, Rana Waqar, Hong Shu, Farhan Mustafa, et al.. (2023). Wetland identification through remote sensing: Insights into wetness, greenness, turbidity, temperature, and changing landscapes. Big Data Research. 35. 100416–100416. 53 indexed citations

An, Ning, Farhan Mustafa, Lingbing Bu, et al.. (2022). Monitoring of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide over Pakistan Using Satellite Dataset. Remote Sensing. 14(22). 5882–5882. 13 indexed citations

Iqbal, Rashid, Muhammad Aown Sammar Raza, Muhammad Habib ur Rahman, et al.. (2022). Effect of partial rhizosphere drying on plant photosynthetic, antioxidative and water related indicators in cotton. Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis. 53(16). 2125–2140. 2 indexed citations

Mustafa, Farhan & Vinay Sharma. (2022). Factors enabling pervasiveness of belief and ethics-based marketing practice: an interpretive structural modeling approach. Journal of Islamic marketing. 14(10). 2429–2449. 4 indexed citations

Shahzaman, Muhammad, Weijun Zhu, Muhammad Bilal, et al.. (2021). Remote Sensing Indices for Spatial Monitoring of Agricultural Drought in South Asian Countries. Remote Sensing. 13(11). 2059–2059. 84 indexed citations

Iqbal, Rashid, Muhammad Aown Sammar Raza, Muhammad Adil Rashid, et al.. (2021). Partial Root Zone Drying Irrigation Improves Water Use Efficiency but Compromise the Yield and Quality of Cotton Crop. Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis. 52(13). 1558–1573. 12 indexed citations

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Shahzaman, Muhammad, Weijun Zhu, Irfan Ullah, et al.. (2021). Comparison of Multi-Year Reanalysis, Models, and Satellite Remote Sensing Products for Agricultural Drought Monitoring over South Asian Countries. Remote Sensing. 13(16). 3294–3294. 90 indexed citations

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Mustafa, Farhan, Huijuan Wang, Lingbing Bu, et al.. (2021). Validation of GOSAT and OCO-2 against In Situ Aircraft Measurements and Comparison with CarbonTracker and GEOS-Chem over Qinhuangdao, China. Remote Sensing. 13(5). 899–899. 40 indexed citations

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Qiu, Zhongfeng, Md. Arfan Ali, Janet E. Nichol, et al.. (2021). Spatiotemporal Investigations of Multi-Sensor Air Pollution Data over Bangladesh during COVID-19 Lockdown. Remote Sensing. 13(5). 877–877. 38 indexed citations

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Iqbal, Rashid, Muhammad Habib ur Rahman, Muhammad Aown Sammar Raza, et al.. (2021). Assessing the potential of partial root zone drying and mulching for improving the productivity of cotton under arid climate. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 28(46). 66223–66241. 22 indexed citations

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Mustafa, Farhan, et al.. (2021). Atmospheric carbon dioxide measurement from aircraft and comparison with OCO-2 and CarbonTracker model data. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 14(10). 6601–6617. 17 indexed citations

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Mustafa, Farhan, Lingbing Bu, Qin Wang, et al.. (2021). Neural Network Based Estimation of Regional Scale Anthropogenic CO ₂ Emissions Using OCO-2 Dataset Over East and West Asia. 2 indexed citations

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Mustafa, Farhan, Lingbing Bu, Qin Wang, et al.. (2021). Neural-network-based estimation of regional-scale anthropogenic CO ₂ emissions using an Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) dataset over East and West Asia. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 14(11). 7277–7290. 35 indexed citations

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Xie, Jiaming, et al.. (2020). Detection of Water Cloud Microphysical Properties Using Multi-scattering Polarization Lidar. Current Optics and Photonics. 4(3). 174–185. 2 indexed citations

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Rabbani, Syed Arman, et al.. (2020). Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS): Awareness among Future Health Care Providers of United Arab Emirates. International Journal of Medicine and Public Health. 10(1). 9 indexed citations

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Mustafa, Farhan, Lingbing Bu, Qin Wang, et al.. (2020). Multi-Year Comparison of CO2 Concentration from NOAA Carbon Tracker Reanalysis Model with Data from GOSAT and OCO-2 over Asia. Remote Sensing. 12(15). 2498–2498. 40 indexed citations

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Rabbani, Syed Arman, et al.. (2018). Zika virus disease knowledge among the future health-care providers of the United Arab Emirates. Journal of Advanced Pharmaceutical Technology amp Research. 9(1). 20–20. 6 indexed citations

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