Hassan Zafar

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
11 papers, 933 citations indexed

About

Hassan Zafar is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Food Science and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Hassan Zafar has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 933 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Molecular Biology, 5 papers in Food Science and 2 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Hassan Zafar's work include Gut microbiota and health (6 papers), Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology (2 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (2 papers). Hassan Zafar is often cited by papers focused on Gut microbiota and health (6 papers), Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology (2 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (2 papers). Hassan Zafar collaborates with scholars based in Pakistan, United States and Czechia. Hassan Zafar's co-authors include Milton H. Saier, Sajjad Ur Rahman, Muhammad Shahid Mahmood, Aftab Ahmad, Muhammad Tariq Javed, Muhammad Farhan Jahangir Chughtai, Imran Pasha, Sultan Ali, Muhammad Sohaib and Ubaid ur Rahman and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Cells and Gut Microbes.

In The Last Decade

Hassan Zafar

11 papers receiving 917 citations

Hit Papers

1 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.

Gut Bacteroides species in health and disease

2021 802 citations Hassan Zafar, Milton H. Saier Gut Microbes profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Hassan Zafar Pakistan	7	646	179	157	126	89	11	933
Bart van der Hee Netherlands	7	544 0.8×	226 1.3×	149 0.9×	89 0.7×	122 1.4×	18	935
Giulia Masetti United Kingdom	14	606 0.9×	254 1.4×	144 0.9×	116 0.9×	85 1.0×	20	1.0k
Zihao Ou China	13	796 1.2×	257 1.4×	177 1.1×	161 1.3×	112 1.3×	27	1.1k
Feifan Wu China	9	685 1.1×	253 1.4×	184 1.2×	88 0.7×	119 1.3×	25	937
Claire A Merrifield United Kingdom	11	643 1.0×	194 1.1×	214 1.4×	97 0.8×	128 1.4×	12	885
Nathiana Smit Germany	5	522 0.8×	116 0.6×	164 1.0×	143 1.1×	80 0.9×	6	750
Ahmad Ud Din China	18	568 0.9×	200 1.1×	152 1.0×	126 1.0×	99 1.1×	40	983
Sage Becker United States	5	558 0.9×	264 1.5×	146 0.9×	84 0.7×	125 1.4×	8	919
Matthew Bull United Kingdom	15	614 1.0×	132 0.7×	213 1.4×	153 1.2×	104 1.2×	30	1.2k
Yongzheng Peng China	9	575 0.9×	253 1.4×	131 0.8×	101 0.8×	91 1.0×	12	783

Countries citing papers authored by Hassan Zafar

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Fields of papers citing papers by Hassan Zafar

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Hassan Zafar

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

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11 of 11 papers shown

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Zafar, Hassan & Milton H. Saier. (2023). Understanding the Relationship of the Human Bacteriome with COVID-19 Severity and Recovery. Cells. 12(9). 1213–1213. 2 indexed citations

2.

Zafar, Hassan, et al.. (2023). Translation machinery captured in motion. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews - RNA. 14(5). e1792–e1792. 1 indexed citations

3.

Zafar, Hassan & Milton H. Saier. (2021). Gut Bacteroides species in health and disease. Gut Microbes. 13(1). 1–20. 802 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zafar, Hassan & Milton H. Saier. (2021). Comparative Analyses of the Transport Proteins Encoded within the Genomes of nine <b><i>Bifidobacterium</i></b> Species. Microbial Physiology. 32(1-2). 30–44. 3 indexed citations

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Zafar, Hassan & Milton H. Saier. (2020). Comparative Genomics of the Transport Proteins of Ten Lactobacillus Strains. Genes. 11(10). 1234–1234. 17 indexed citations

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Zafar, Hassan, Sajjad Ur Rahman, Sultan Ali, & Muhammad Tariq Javed. (2019). Evaluation of a Salmonella Strain Isolated from Honeybee Gut as a Potential Live Oral Vaccine Against Lethal Infection of Salmonella Typhimurium. Polish Journal of Microbiology. 68(2). 173–183. 3 indexed citations

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Zafar, Hassan, et al.. (2019). Comparative genomics of the transportome of Ten Treponema species. Microbial Pathogenesis. 132. 87–99. 18 indexed citations

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Mahmood, Muhammad Shahid, et al.. (2018). CRISPR/Cas9: the Jedi against the dark empire of diseases. Journal of Biomedical Science. 25(1). 29–29. 27 indexed citations

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Zafar, Hassan & Milton H. Saier. (2018). Comparative genomics of transport proteins in seven Bacteroides species. PLoS ONE. 13(12). e0208151–e0208151. 32 indexed citations

10.

Zafar, Hassan, et al.. (2017). Comparative genomics of transport proteins in probiotic and pathogenic Escherichia coli and Salmonella enterica strains. Microbial Pathogenesis. 107. 106–115. 22 indexed citations

11.

Rahman, Ubaid ur, Amna Sahar, Imran Pasha, et al.. (2016). Augmenting Quality and Microbial Safety of Broiler Meat at Refrigeration Storage by Applying Chemical Interventions. Journal of Food Processing and Preservation. 41(4). e13030–e13030. 6 indexed citations

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