Iman Azimi

3.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
63 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Iman Azimi is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and Computer Networks and Communications. According to data from OpenAlex, Iman Azimi has authored 63 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 20 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and 12 papers in Computer Networks and Communications. Recurrent topics in Iman Azimi's work include Non-Invasive Vital Sign Monitoring (26 papers), Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control (17 papers) and IoT and Edge/Fog Computing (12 papers). Iman Azimi is often cited by papers focused on Non-Invasive Vital Sign Monitoring (26 papers), Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control (17 papers) and IoT and Edge/Fog Computing (12 papers). Iman Azimi collaborates with scholars based in United States, Finland and Austria. Iman Azimi's co-authors include Pasi Liljeberg, Amir M. Rahmani, Arman Anzanpour, Tuan Nguyen Gia, Behailu Negash, Mingzhe Jiang, Amir M. Rahmani, Nikil Dutt, Anna Axelin and Hannakaisa Niela‐Vilén and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Scientific Reports and IEEE Access.

In The Last Decade

Iman Azimi

55 papers receiving 2.3k 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.

Exploiting smart e-Health gateways at the edge of healthcare Internet-of-Things: A fog computing approach

2017 802 citations Amir M. Rahmani, Arman Anzanpour et al. Future Generation Computer Systems profile →
ChatDiet: Empowering personalized nutrition-oriented food recommender chatbots through an LLM-augmented framework

2024 43 citations Iman Azimi, Ramesh Jain et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Iman Azimi United States	22	1.0k	553	470	439	318	63	2.4k
Amir M. Rahmani United States	24	747 0.7×	448 0.8×	295 0.6×	327 0.7×	280 0.9×	114	2.2k
Kunal Mankodiya United States	22	933 0.9×	684 1.2×	411 0.9×	449 1.0×	193 0.6×	98	2.2k
Nuno M. García Portugal	26	611 0.6×	450 0.8×	588 1.3×	253 0.6×	169 0.5×	164	2.4k
Mingzhe Jiang Finland	18	1.1k 1.1×	433 0.8×	473 1.0×	445 1.0×	214 0.7×	28	1.9k
Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed United States	28	788 0.8×	372 0.7×	623 1.3×	707 1.6×	84 0.3×	318	2.8k
Hua Fang United States	24	663 0.7×	554 1.0×	250 0.5×	470 1.1×	137 0.4×	106	2.2k
Hassan Ghasemzadeh United States	28	813 0.8×	1.1k 2.1×	1.3k 2.8×	149 0.3×	285 0.9×	182	3.2k
Raffaele Gravina Italy	32	1.6k 1.5×	1.5k 2.6×	1.3k 2.8×	407 0.9×	232 0.7×	115	4.0k
Asim Smailagic United States	27	516 0.5×	449 0.8×	1.4k 2.9×	188 0.4×	118 0.4×	138	3.3k
Arman Anzanpour Finland	15	943 0.9×	295 0.5×	384 0.8×	400 0.9×	112 0.4×	26	1.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Iman Azimi

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Iman Azimi'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 Iman Azimi with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Iman Azimi more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Iman Azimi

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Iman Azimi

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Iman Azimi. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Iman Azimi 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 Iman Azimi. Iman Azimi 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

Azimi, Iman, et al.. (2025). Conversational health agents: a personalized large language model-powered agent framework. JAMIA Open. 8(4). ooaf067–ooaf067. 8 indexed citations

Azimi, Iman, et al.. (2025). Multitask learning approach for PPG applications: Case studies on signal quality assessment and physiological parameters estimation. Computers in Biology and Medicine. 188. 109798–109798.

Borelli, Jessica L., Ken Yamashita, Brenda Nguyen, et al.. (2025). Detection of Depressive Symptoms in College Students Using Multimodal Passive Sensing Data and Light Gradient Boosting Machine: Longitudinal Pilot Study. JMIR Formative Research. 9. e67964–e67964.

Azimi, Iman, Fatemeh Sarhaddi, Hannakaisa Niela‐Vilén, et al.. (2024). Preterm birth risk stratification through longitudinal heart rate and HRV monitoring in daily life. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 19896–19896. 4 indexed citations

Azimi, Iman, Sina Labbaf, Brenda Nguyen, et al.. (2024). Objective monitoring of loneliness levels using smart devices: A multi-device approach for mental health applications. PLoS ONE. 19(6). e0298949–e0298949. 5 indexed citations

Azimi, Iman, David Oniani, Zahra Shakeri Hossein Abad, et al.. (2024). Foundation metrics for evaluating effectiveness of healthcare conversations powered by generative AI. npj Digital Medicine. 7(1). 82–82. 72 indexed citations

Sarhaddi, Fatemeh, Iman Azimi, Hannakaisa Niela‐Vilén, et al.. (2023). Maternal Social Loneliness Detection Using Passive Sensing Through Continuous Monitoring in Everyday Settings: Longitudinal Study. JMIR Formative Research. 7. e47950–e47950. 3 indexed citations

Naeini, Emad Kasaeyan, Fatemeh Sarhaddi, Iman Azimi, et al.. (2023). A Deep Learning–based PPG Quality Assessment Approach for Heart Rate and Heart Rate Variability. 4(4). 1–22. 13 indexed citations

Azimi, Iman, et al.. (2023). Robust CNN-based Respiration Rate Estimation for Smartwatch PPG and IMU. 94–100. 3 indexed citations

10.

Bender, Miriam, et al.. (2023). Exploring Access as a Process of Adaptation in a Self-Monitoring Perinatal eHealth System: Mixed Methods Study From a Sociomaterial Perspective. JMIR Formative Research. 7. e44385–e44385. 4 indexed citations

11.

Azimi, Iman, et al.. (2023). Personalized Graph Attention Network for Multivariate Time-series Change Analysis: A Case Study on Long-term Maternal Monitoring. 8. 593–598. 1 indexed citations

12.

Azimi, Iman, Sina Labbaf, Ramesh Jain, et al.. (2022). Objective Prediction of Next-Day’s Affect Using Multimodal Physiological and Behavioral Data: Algorithm Development and Validation Study. JMIR Formative Research. 7. e39425–e39425. 15 indexed citations

13.

Sarhaddi, Fatemeh, Iman Azimi, Anna Axelin, et al.. (2022). Trends in Heart Rate and Heart Rate Variability During Pregnancy and the 3-Month Postpartum Period: Continuous Monitoring in a Free-living Context. JMIR mhealth and uhealth. 10(6). e33458–e33458. 31 indexed citations

14.

Azimi, Iman, et al.. (2022). Robust PPG Peak Detection Using Dilated Convolutional Neural Networks. Sensors. 22(16). 6054–6054. 25 indexed citations

15.

Anzanpour, Arman, Iman Azimi, Sina Labbaf, et al.. (2021). Exploring computation offloading in IoT systems. Information Systems. 107. 101860–101860. 17 indexed citations

16.

Sarhaddi, Fatemeh, Iman Azimi, Sina Labbaf, et al.. (2021). Long-Term IoT-Based Maternal Monitoring: System Design and Evaluation. Sensors. 21(7). 2281–2281. 46 indexed citations

17.

Mehrabadi, Milad Asgari, Iman Azimi, Fatemeh Sarhaddi, et al.. (2020). Sleep Tracking of a Commercially Available Smart Ring and Smartwatch Against Medical-Grade Actigraphy in Everyday Settings: Instrument Validation Study. JMIR mhealth and uhealth. 8(10). e20465–e20465. 100 indexed citations

18.

Niela‐Vilén, Hannakaisa, Eeva Ekholm, Lotta Hamari, et al.. (2020). Continuous 7-Month Internet of Things–Based Monitoring of Health Parameters of Pregnant and Postpartum Women: Prospective Observational Feasibility Study. JMIR Formative Research. 4(7). e12417–e12417. 27 indexed citations

19.

Azimi, Iman, Sina Labbaf, Hannakaisa Niela‐Vilén, et al.. (2019). Personalized Maternal Sleep Quality Assessment: An Objective IoT-based Longitudinal Study. IEEE Access. 7. 93433–93447. 29 indexed citations

20.

Azimi, Iman, Tapio Pahikkala, Amir M. Rahmani, et al.. (2019). Missing data resilient decision-making for healthcare IoT through personalization: A case study on maternal health. Future Generation Computer Systems. 96. 297–308. 64 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