Humayun Asghar

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
29 papers, 766 citations indexed

About

Humayun Asghar is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Humayun Asghar has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 766 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Infectious Diseases, 19 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and 5 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Humayun Asghar's work include Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology (19 papers), Viral Infections and Immunology Research (19 papers) and Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology (5 papers). Humayun Asghar is often cited by papers focused on Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology (19 papers), Viral Infections and Immunology Research (19 papers) and Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology (5 papers). Humayun Asghar collaborates with scholars based in Egypt, Pakistan and United States. Humayun Asghar's co-authors include Ousmane M. Diop, Cara C. Burns, Sohail Zaidi, Goitom Weldegebriel, Sara A. Lowther, M. Steven Oberste, Jagadish M. Deshpande, Shiran Shetty, Johnson Adekunle Adeniji and Faisal Malik and has published in prestigious journals such as Applied and Environmental Microbiology, The Journal of Infectious Diseases and Vaccine.

In The Last Decade

Humayun Asghar

28 papers receiving 736 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Environmental Surveillance for Polioviruses in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative

2014 276 citations Humayun Asghar, Ousmane M. Diop et al. The Journal of Infectious Diseases profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Humayun Asghar Egypt	15	616	337	113	109	88	29	766
Haider Al‐Hello Finland	15	458 0.7×	204 0.6×	78 0.7×	98 0.9×	36 0.4×	30	599
Goitom Weldegebriel Republic of the Congo	13	505 0.8×	210 0.6×	169 1.5×	74 0.7×	28 0.3×	40	702
Adnan Khurshid Pakistan	17	542 0.9×	263 0.8×	117 1.0×	27 0.2×	47 0.5×	59	707
Carita Savolainen‐Kopra Finland	20	833 1.4×	598 1.8×	603 5.3×	127 1.2×	131 1.5×	53	1.4k
Jyh‐Yuan Yang Taiwan	17	606 1.0×	435 1.3×	214 1.9×	19 0.2×	137 1.6×	33	836
Prasanna Samuel Premkumar India	12	895 1.5×	290 0.9×	128 1.1×	27 0.2×	14 0.2×	32	1.2k
Diem‐Lan Vu Switzerland	16	687 1.1×	211 0.6×	217 1.9×	38 0.3×	23 0.3×	29	1.0k
Lizhi Song China	18	405 0.7×	406 1.2×	410 3.6×	35 0.3×	104 1.2×	75	859
Walda B. van Zyl South Africa	15	521 0.8×	193 0.6×	78 0.7×	22 0.2×	35 0.4×	22	686
Sabine Diedrich Germany	22	867 1.4×	822 2.4×	393 3.5×	10 0.1×	180 2.0×	65	1.2k

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Asghar, Humayun, et al.. (2025). Additive manufacturing for biomedical bone implants: Shaping the future of bones. Materials Science and Engineering R Reports. 163. 100931–100931. 15 indexed citations

Asghar, Humayun, et al.. (2024). Nasopharyngeal carcinoma with unusual metastatic spread to the spine and meninges: a case report with literature review. Journal of Surgical Case Reports. 2025(1). rjaf022–rjaf022. 1 indexed citations

Stehling-Ariza, Tasha, Amanda L. Wilkinson, Ousmane M. Diop, et al.. (2023). Surveillance To Track Progress Toward Poliomyelitis Eradication — Worldwide, 2021–2022. MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. 72(23). 613–620. 10 indexed citations

Asghar, Humayun, et al.. (2022). External quality assessment of laboratory performance in bacteriology in the Eastern Mediterranean Region, 2011–2019. Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal. 28(12). 856–862.

Ahmad, Niaz & Humayun Asghar. (2022). PERCEPTION OF GENERAL POPULATION ABOUT SMOG IN LAHORE AND ITS IMPACT ON HUMAN HEALTH.. 4(1). 14–18. 1 indexed citations

Mbaeyi, Chukwuma, Thomas Moran, Tasha Stehling-Ariza, et al.. (2021). Stopping a polio outbreak in the midst of war: Lessons from Syria. Vaccine. 39(28). 3717–3723. 10 indexed citations

O’Reilly, Kathleen, David J. Allen, Paul Fine, & Humayun Asghar. (2020). The challenges of informative wastewater sampling for SARS-CoV-2 must be met: lessons from polio eradication. The Lancet Microbe. 1(5). e189–e190. 39 indexed citations

Greene, Sharon A., Blanche-Philomene Melanga Anya, Humayun Asghar, et al.. (2020). Strengthening National Immunization Technical Advisory Groups in resource-limited settings: current and potential linkages with polio national certification committees. Health Research Policy and Systems. 18(1). 116–116. 2 indexed citations

O’Reilly, Kathleen, Robert Verity, Elias Durry, et al.. (2018). Population sensitivity of acute flaccid paralysis and environmental surveillance for serotype 1 poliovirus in Pakistan: an observational study. BMC Infectious Diseases. 18(1). 176–176. 22 indexed citations

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Majumdar, Manasi, Salmaan Sharif, Dimitra Klapsa, et al.. (2018). Environmental Surveillance Reveals Complex Enterovirus Circulation Patterns in Human Populations. Open Forum Infectious Diseases. 5(10). ofy250–ofy250. 43 indexed citations

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Altmann, Mathias, et al.. (2018). Identifying hotspots of viral haemorrhagic fevers in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: perspectives for the Emerging and Dangerous Pathogens Laboratory Network. Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal. 24(11). 1049–1057. 2 indexed citations

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Diop, Ousmane M., Humayun Asghar, Gloria Rey-Benito, et al.. (2017). Virologic Monitoring of Poliovirus Type 2 after Oral Poliovirus Vaccine Type 2 Withdrawal in April 2016 — Worldwide, 2016–2017. MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. 66(20). 538–542. 26 indexed citations

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Zaidi, Syed Sohail Zahoor, Humayun Asghar, Salmaan Sharif, & Muhammad Masroor Alam. (2016). Poliovirus Laboratory Based Surveillance: An Overview. Methods in molecular biology. 1387. 11–18. 7 indexed citations

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Minh, Nhu Nguyen Tran, Humayun Asghar, Dalia Samhouri, et al.. (2016). Zika virus: no cases in the Eastern Mediterranean Region but concerns remain. Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal. 22(5). 350–353. 16 indexed citations

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Asghar, Humayun, Ousmane M. Diop, Goitom Weldegebriel, et al.. (2014). Environmental Surveillance for Polioviruses in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 210(suppl 1). S294–S303. 276 indexed citations breakdown →

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Simpson, Diane M., Taufiq Mashal, Arshad Quddus, et al.. (2014). Polio Eradication Initiative in Afghanistan, 1997–2013. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 210(suppl_1). S162–S172. 17 indexed citations

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Wolff, Christopher, Sigrun Roesel, Galina Lipskaya, et al.. (2014). Progress Toward Laboratory Containment of Poliovirus After Polio Eradication. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 210(suppl_1). S454–S458. 2 indexed citations

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Blomqvist, Soile, et al.. (2012). Detection of Imported Wild Polioviruses and of Vaccine-Derived Polioviruses by Environmental Surveillance in Egypt. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 78(15). 5406–5409. 23 indexed citations

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Shahmahmoodi, Shohreh, Nima Parvaneh, Cara C. Burns, et al.. (2008). Isolation of a type 3 vaccine-derived poliovirus (VDPV) from an Iranian child with X-linked agammaglobulinemia. Virus Research. 137(1). 168–172. 32 indexed citations

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Khan, Aamir, Hailemichael Gebreselassie, Edwin J. Asturias, et al.. (2006). No evidence for prolonged excretion of polioviruses in persons with residual paralytic poliomyelitis in Ethiopia, Pakistan and Guatemala. Biologicals. 34(2). 113–116. 3 indexed citations

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