Hany Arafa

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
28 papers, 473 citations indexed

About

Hany Arafa is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Surgery and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Hany Arafa has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 473 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 4 papers in Surgery and 4 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Hany Arafa's work include Biosensors and Analytical Detection (4 papers), Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (4 papers) and Advanced Biosensing Techniques and Applications (4 papers). Hany Arafa is often cited by papers focused on Biosensors and Analytical Detection (4 papers), Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (4 papers) and Advanced Biosensing Techniques and Applications (4 papers). Hany Arafa collaborates with scholars based in United States, Egypt and Philippines. Hany Arafa's co-authors include H. Kasban, S. M. Elaraby, M. El-Kordy, Changsheng Wu, O. Zahran, Fathi E. Abd El-Samie, John A. Rogers, Jennifer Blain Christen, John A. Rogers and Yonggang Huang and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Science Advances.

In The Last Decade

Hany Arafa

26 papers receiving 461 citations

Hit Papers

align trajectories

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.

A soft thermal sensor for the continuous assessment of flow in vascular access

2025 16 citations Yujun Deng, Hany Arafa et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Hany Arafa United States	9	269	80	71	50	41	28	473
Yang Zheng China	14	329 1.2×	115 1.4×	43 0.6×	44 0.9×	97 2.4×	53	512
Borhan Beigzadeh Iran	13	387 1.4×	142 1.8×	33 0.5×	21 0.4×	31 0.8×	76	613
Lin Yang China	13	160 0.6×	61 0.8×	76 1.1×	26 0.5×	34 0.8×	89	508
Babak Assadsangabi Canada	13	261 1.0×	81 1.0×	139 2.0×	9 0.2×	11 0.3×	31	454
Gordon Paul United Kingdom	13	392 1.5×	60 0.8×	137 1.9×	93 1.9×	31 0.8×	19	539
Fei Yang China	14	181 0.7×	155 1.9×	85 1.2×	20 0.4×	67 1.6×	68	589
Nadia Naghavi Iran	11	267 1.0×	18 0.2×	32 0.5×	19 0.4×	18 0.4×	34	369
James H. Chandler United Kingdom	18	731 2.7×	325 4.1×	64 0.9×	15 0.3×	16 0.4×	58	951
Lawrence Yu United States	8	468 1.7×	87 1.1×	343 4.8×	37 0.7×	58 1.4×	14	662

Countries citing papers authored by Hany Arafa

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Hany Arafa's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Hany Arafa with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Hany Arafa more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Hany Arafa

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Hany Arafa. 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 Hany Arafa. The network helps show where Hany Arafa may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Hany Arafa

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

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

Deng, Yujun, Hany Arafa, Hassan Albadawi, et al.. (2025). A soft thermal sensor for the continuous assessment of flow in vascular access. Nature Communications. 16(1). 38–38. 16 indexed citations breakdown →

Kasban, H., et al.. (2025). In situ gamma radiometry of river bottom based on natural radioactivity measurements. Applied Radiation and Isotopes. 219. 111711–111711.

Trueb, Jacob, Andreas Tzavelis, Hee‐Sup Shin, et al.. (2025). A skin-interfaced wireless wearable device and data analytics approach for sleep-stage and disorder detection. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(23). e2501220122–e2501220122. 3 indexed citations

Tzavelis, Andreas, Radhika Mathur, Jacob Trueb, et al.. (2024). Development of a Miniaturized Mechanoacoustic Sensor for Continuous, Objective Cough Detection, Characterization and Physiologic Monitoring in Children With Cystic Fibrosis. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics. 28(10). 5941–5952. 6 indexed citations

Franklin, Daniel, Andreas Tzavelis, Jong Yoon Lee, et al.. (2023). Synchronized wearables for the detection of haemodynamic states via electrocardiography and multispectral photoplethysmography. Nature Biomedical Engineering. 7(10). 1229–1241. 71 indexed citations

Kang, Youn J., Hany Arafa, Jae‐Young Yoo, et al.. (2022). Soft skin-interfaced mechano-acoustic sensors for real-time monitoring and patient feedback on respiratory and swallowing biomechanics. npj Digital Medicine. 5(1). 147–147. 54 indexed citations

Lu, Di, Shupeng Li, Quansan Yang, et al.. (2022). Implantable, wireless, self-fixing thermal sensors for continuous measurements of microvascular blood flow in flaps and organ grafts. Biosensors and Bioelectronics. 206. 114145–114145. 36 indexed citations

Madhvapathy, Surabhi R., et al.. (2022). Advanced thermal sensing techniques for characterizing the physical properties of skin. Applied Physics Reviews. 9(4). 41307–41307. 22 indexed citations

Lu, Di, Hany Arafa, Quansan Yang, et al.. (2022). Intramuscular Microvascular Flow Sensing for Flap Monitoring in a Porcine Model of Arterial and Venous Occlusion. Journal of Reconstructive Microsurgery. 39(3). 231–237. 2 indexed citations

10.

Bai, Wubin, Hexia Guo, Wei Ouyang, et al.. (2021). Intramuscular Near-Infrared Spectroscopy for Muscle Flap Monitoring in a Porcine Model. Journal of Reconstructive Microsurgery. 38(4). 321–327. 8 indexed citations

11.

Spanias, Andreas, Jennifer Blain Christen, T. J. Thornton, et al.. (2020). Board 78 : The Sensor Signal and Information Processing REU Site.

12.

Smith, Joseph T., Meilin Zhu, Benjamin A. Katchman, et al.. (2018). A compact, low-cost, quantitative and multiplexed fluorescence detection platform for point-of-care applications. Biosensors and Bioelectronics. 117. 153–160. 41 indexed citations

13.

Spanias, Andreas, Jennifer Blain Christen, T. J. Thornton, et al.. (2018). The sensor signal and information processing REU site. 3 indexed citations

14.

Arafa, Hany, et al.. (2017). Toward wearable, crowd-sourced air quality monitoring for respiratory disease. 140–143. 7 indexed citations

15.

Smith, Joseph T., et al.. (2017). Live demonstration: A highly sensitive and quantitative fluorescence sensing platform, for disease diagnosis. 1–1. 1 indexed citations

16.

Kasban, H., Hany Arafa, & S. M. Elaraby. (2016). Principle component analysis for radiotracer signal separation. Applied Radiation and Isotopes. 112. 20–26. 7 indexed citations

17.

Smith, Joseph T., Radwa Ewaisha, Benjamin A. Katchman, et al.. (2016). Low-cost, disposable fluorescence-based biorecognition system architecture for multiplexed point-of-care molecular diagnostics. 500. 154–157. 1 indexed citations

18.

Kasban, H., Hany Arafa, S. M. Elaraby, O. Zahran, & M. El-Kordy. (2011). Automatic segmentation of industrial radiographic images. 213–218. 2 indexed citations

19.

Kasban, H., O. Zahran, Hany Arafa, et al.. (2010). An efficient approach for Residence Time Distribution signal processing and identification. 1–8. 4 indexed citations

20.

Kasban, H., O. Zahran, Hany Arafa, et al.. (2010). Laboratory experiments and modeling for industrial radiotracer applications. Applied Radiation and Isotopes. 68(6). 1049–1056. 31 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact