Hesham Ali

11.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
461 papers, 7.6k citations indexed

About

Hesham Ali is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Molecular Biology and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Hesham Ali has authored 461 papers receiving a total of 7.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 117 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 96 papers in Molecular Biology and 71 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Hesham Ali's work include Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine Chemistry (60 papers), Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (45 papers) and Photodynamic Therapy Research Studies (33 papers). Hesham Ali is often cited by papers focused on Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine Chemistry (60 papers), Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (45 papers) and Photodynamic Therapy Research Studies (33 papers). Hesham Ali collaborates with scholars based in Egypt, United States and Canada. Hesham Ali's co-authors include Johan E. van Lier, Johan E. van Lier, Mahmoud Badawy, Réjean Langlois, Hesham El‐Rewini, Ahmed I. Saleh, Nicole Brasseur, Mostafa A. Elhosseini, Theodore Lewis and Abdelhameed Ibrahim‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬ and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Nucleic Acids Research and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Hesham Ali

418 papers receiving 7.3k citations

Hit Papers

Metal Complexes as Photo- and Radiosensitizers 1999 2026 2008 2017 1999 250 500 750
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. Metal Complexes as Photo- and Radiosensitizers
    1999 769 citations Hesham Ali 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
Hesham Ali Egypt 46 2.1k 1.7k 1.6k 1.3k 1.0k 461 7.6k
Ming‐Wei Lin Taiwan 58 3.1k 1.5× 404 0.2× 662 0.4× 694 0.5× 1.4k 1.4× 395 13.0k
Le Zhang China 48 596 0.3× 384 0.2× 281 0.2× 875 0.7× 3.0k 3.0× 558 9.9k
Jianqiang Li China 55 420 0.2× 296 0.2× 2.0k 1.3× 1.1k 0.8× 2.6k 2.6× 495 11.8k
Hao Zhang China 49 543 0.3× 204 0.1× 519 0.3× 1.6k 1.2× 2.4k 2.4× 489 8.6k
Zhanfeng Cui United Kingdom 57 793 0.4× 175 0.1× 916 0.6× 5.0k 3.9× 2.5k 2.5× 343 12.7k
Shanshan Wang China 46 771 0.4× 355 0.2× 213 0.1× 1.4k 1.1× 1.8k 1.8× 416 7.9k
Yen‐Lin Chen Taiwan 30 1.1k 0.5× 312 0.2× 203 0.1× 759 0.6× 295 0.3× 260 5.3k
Abhishek Kumar India 51 2.0k 0.9× 82 0.0× 1.3k 0.8× 1.2k 0.9× 607 0.6× 482 11.5k
Long Chen China 54 943 0.4× 117 0.1× 604 0.4× 1.5k 1.1× 866 0.9× 549 11.5k
Chun‐yang Zhang China 65 4.6k 2.1× 245 0.1× 492 0.3× 4.5k 3.5× 10.2k 10.2× 644 18.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Hesham Ali

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Fields of papers citing papers by Hesham Ali

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Hesham Ali

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Hesham Ali. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Hesham Ali 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 Hesham Ali. Hesham Ali 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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Ali, Hesham, et al.. (2025). Lisfranc Joint Injury: A Comprehensive Review of Rehabilitation Duration in Basketball Athletes. Orthopedic Reviews. 17. 132222–132222.
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Ali, Hesham, et al.. (2024). A new approach to computing the distances between research disciplines based on researcher collaborations and similarity measurement techniques. Journal of Informetrics. 18(3). 101527–101527. 2 indexed citations
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Saleh, Ahmed I., et al.. (2024). An effective robot selection and recharge scheduling approach for improving robotic networks performance. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 28439–28439. 1 indexed citations
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Ali, Hesham, et al.. (2024). An evaluation and innovative coupling of seawater heat pumps in district heating networks. Energy. 312. 133461–133461. 3 indexed citations
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Moustafa, Hossam El-Din, et al.. (2023). A deep learning framework for early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease on MRI images. Multimedia Tools and Applications. 83(2). 3767–3799. 60 indexed citations
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McMahon, Terry, et al.. (2023). Revisiting psychiatric support for the National Socialist Agenda in Germany: Implications for medical and residency training. The Southwest Respiratory and Critical Care Chronicles. 11(46). 19–24.
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Ali, Zainab H. & Hesham Ali. (2023). Energy-efficient routing protocol on public roads using real-time traffic information. Telecommunication Systems. 82(4). 465–486. 10 indexed citations
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Talhi, Oualid, et al.. (2022). Metabolomics approaches for early cancer diagnosis: a review. Asian Journal of Agriculture and Biology. 2 indexed citations
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Kim, Yohan, Edwin van der Pol, Ishwor Thapa, et al.. (2022). Calibration and standardization of extracellular vesicle measurements by flow cytometry for translational prostate cancer research. Nanoscale. 14(27). 9781–9795. 12 indexed citations
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Nelson, Carl A., et al.. (2021). Assessing Laparoscopic Surgical Skills Using Similarity Network Models: A Pilot Study. Surgical Innovation. 28(5). 600–610. 1 indexed citations
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Gamel, Samah A., Ahmed I. Saleh, & Hesham Ali. (2021). A fog-based Traffic Light Management Strategy (TLMS) based on fuzzy inference engine. Neural Computing and Applications. 34(3). 2187–2205. 12 indexed citations
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Ali, Hesham, et al.. (2020). Alzheimer Disease Early Detection Using Convolutional Neural Networks. 1–6. 19 indexed citations
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Thapa, Ishwor, et al.. (2020). Cutibacterium acnes Central Nervous System Catheter Infection Induces Long-Term Changes in the Cerebrospinal Fluid Proteome. Infection and Immunity. 89(4). 8 indexed citations
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Ali, Zainab H. & Hesham Ali. (2020). Towards sustainable smart IoT applications architectural elements and design: opportunities, challenges, and open directions. The Journal of Supercomputing. 77(6). 5668–5725. 41 indexed citations
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Badawy, Mahmoud & Hesham Ali. (2019). New approach to enhancing the performance of cloud-based vision system of mobile robots. Computers & Electrical Engineering. 74. 1–21. 8 indexed citations
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Farsi, Mohammed, et al.. (2019). A Congestion-Aware Clustering and Routing (CCR) Protocol for Mitigating Congestion in WSN. IEEE Access. 7. 105402–105419. 32 indexed citations
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Heim, Cortney E., et al.. (2018). Heterogeneity of Ly6G+Ly6C+Myeloid-Derived Suppressor Cell Infiltrates during Staphylococcus aureus Biofilm Infection. Infection and Immunity. 86(12). 45 indexed citations
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AbdulAzeem, Yousry, Ali I. El-Desouky, & Hesham Ali. (2014). A framework for ranking uncertain distributed database. Data & Knowledge Engineering. 92. 1–19. 8 indexed citations

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