Imran Ali

55.0k total citations · 19 hit papers
1.0k papers, 44.7k citations indexed

About

Imran Ali is a scholar working on Spectroscopy, Biomedical Engineering and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Imran Ali has authored 1.0k papers receiving a total of 44.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 174 papers in Spectroscopy, 173 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 154 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Imran Ali's work include Analytical Chemistry and Chromatography (161 papers), Adsorption and biosorption for pollutant removal (82 papers) and Microfluidic and Capillary Electrophoresis Applications (80 papers). Imran Ali is often cited by papers focused on Analytical Chemistry and Chromatography (161 papers), Adsorption and biosorption for pollutant removal (82 papers) and Microfluidic and Capillary Electrophoresis Applications (80 papers). Imran Ali collaborates with scholars based in India, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. Imran Ali's co-authors include Vinod Kumar Gupta, Hassan Y. Aboul‐Enein, Zeid A. ALOthman, Tabrez Alam Khan, Abdulrahman Al‐Warthan, Omar M.L. Alharbi, Mohd Asim, C. K. Jain, Vipin Kumar Saini and Kishwar Saleem and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Cell and Chemical Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Imran Ali

974 papers receiving 43.4k citations

Hit Papers

New Generation Adsorbents for Water Treatment 2000 2026 2008 2017 2012 2012 2006 2012 2020 500 1000 1.5k
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. New Generation Adsorbents for Water Treatment
    2012 1.5k citations Imran Ali profile →
  2. Chemical treatment technologies for waste-water recycling—an overview
    2012 1.3k citations Imran Ali et al. profile →
  3. Advances in water treatment by adsorption technology
    2006 1.3k citations Imran Ali et al. profile →
  4. Low cost adsorbents for the removal of organic pollutants from wastewater
    2012 1.1k citations Imran Ali et al. Journal of Environmental Management profile →
  5. Methods for preparation and activation of activated carbon: a review
    2020 962 citations Imran Ali, Mika Sillanpää et al. profile →
  6. Arsenic: occurrence, toxicity and speciation techniques
    2000 834 citations Imran Ali et al. profile →
  7. Removal of lead and chromium from wastewater using bagasse fly ash—a sugar industry waste
    2003 637 citations Imran Ali et al. profile →
  8. Health and environmental effects of persistent organic pollutants
    2018 526 citations Al Arsh Basheer, Imran Ali et al. Journal of Molecular Liquids profile →
  9. Removal of cadmium and nickel from wastewater using bagasse fly ash—a sugar industry waste
    2003 525 citations Imran Ali et al. profile →
  10. Removal of chromium(VI) from aqueous solution using treated waste newspaper as a low-cost adsorbent: Kinetic modeling and isotherm studies
    2016 410 citations Imran Ali et al. Journal of Molecular Liquids profile →
  11. Chromium removal from water by activated carbon developed from waste rubber tires
    2012 399 citations Imran Ali, Mohammad Nahid Siddiqui et al. profile →
  12. Graphene based adsorbents for remediation of noxious pollutants from wastewater
    2019 372 citations Imran Ali, Al Arsh Basheer et al. profile →
  13. COVID-19: Disease, management, treatment, and social impact
    2020 363 citations Imran Ali et al. profile →
  14. Modeling of fenuron pesticide adsorption on CNTs for mechanistic insight and removal in water
    2018 319 citations Imran Ali, Zeid A. ALOthman et al. profile →
  15. Imidazoles as potential anticancer agents
    2017 316 citations Imran Ali et al. profile →
  16. Recent development of super-wettable materials and their applications in oil-water separation
    2020 255 citations Changsheng Peng, Dichu Lin et al. profile →
  17. Green profile tools: Current status and future perspectives
    2023 134 citations Marcello Locatelli, Imran Ali et al. profile →
  18. Environmental remediation of the norfloxacin in water by adsorption: Advances, current status and prospects
    2024 75 citations Tonni Agustiono Kurniawan, Gunel Imanova et al. profile →
  19. Unlocking synergies between waste management and climate change mitigation to accelerate decarbonization through circular-economy digitalization in Indonesia
    2024 68 citations Tonni Agustiono Kurniawan, Hui Hwang Goh 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
Imran Ali India 109 13.9k 8.0k 7.6k 7.6k 5.8k 1.0k 44.7k
Zeid A. ALOthman Saudi Arabia 94 11.0k 0.8× 9.1k 1.1× 7.1k 0.9× 5.9k 0.8× 3.4k 0.6× 782 34.2k
P. Senthil Kumar India 96 15.1k 1.1× 9.2k 1.2× 5.6k 0.7× 9.2k 1.2× 2.5k 0.4× 887 41.9k
Ki‐Hyun Kim South Korea 129 7.3k 0.5× 23.5k 2.9× 3.8k 0.5× 15.1k 2.0× 6.1k 1.0× 1.6k 80.5k
Guibin Jiang China 112 4.2k 0.3× 9.2k 1.2× 2.4k 0.3× 7.0k 0.9× 4.7k 0.8× 1.3k 54.9k
Tejraj M. Aminabhavi India 112 7.9k 0.6× 10.9k 1.4× 6.2k 0.8× 13.8k 1.8× 4.5k 0.8× 932 52.1k
Tawfik A. Saleh Saudi Arabia 93 12.9k 0.9× 14.7k 1.8× 7.2k 0.9× 7.6k 1.0× 1.3k 0.2× 522 38.3k
Yuh‐Shan Ho Taiwan 82 31.6k 2.3× 7.8k 1.0× 9.1k 1.2× 5.1k 0.7× 961 0.2× 328 50.0k
Muhammad Bilal China 100 4.2k 0.3× 10.5k 1.3× 3.4k 0.4× 9.6k 1.3× 9.6k 1.6× 1.1k 41.9k
Mika Sillanpää Finland 121 29.7k 2.1× 18.1k 2.3× 8.9k 1.2× 13.8k 1.8× 2.3k 0.4× 1.3k 73.7k
Chen Zhang China 114 10.3k 0.7× 16.8k 2.1× 4.4k 0.6× 8.1k 1.1× 3.6k 0.6× 877 44.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Imran Ali

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All Works

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Gomaa, Mohamed S., Samir M. El Rayes, Imran Ali, et al.. (2025). Design, synthesis and antiproliferative activity against colorectal cancer cells of methyl 2-(3-(2-oxo-3-phenylquinoxalin-1(2H)-yl)propanamido)alkanoates and related compounds. Journal of Molecular Structure. 1330. 141456–141456.
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Rauf, A., et al.. (2024). Effectiveness of horizontal magnetic field in Darcy's flow of viscoelastic fluid over rotatory disk. Chinese Journal of Physics. 89. 1309–1324. 5 indexed citations
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Ali, Imran, et al.. (2024). Template-free hierarchical TiO2/rGO nanocomposites for enhanced photocatalytic performance. Chemical Physics Letters. 848. 141372–141372. 4 indexed citations
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Fatima, Batool, Tonni Agustiono Kurniawan, Ayesha Mohyuddin, et al.. (2024). Rosa damascena waste as biosorbent for co-existing pollutants removal: Fixed-bed column study and ANN modeling. Chemical Engineering Science. 293. 120057–120057. 18 indexed citations
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Kurniawan, Tonni Agustiono, Ayesha Mohyuddin, Sajid Khan, et al.. (2024). Cultivating sustainability: Harnessing biochar-derived composites for carbon-neutral wastewater treatment. Process Safety and Environmental Protection. 187. 665–697. 16 indexed citations
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Ali, Imran, Mohamed Bouzidi, Maryam Al Huwayz, et al.. (2024). Structural and optical characterizations of cubic GaN layers grown by MOVPE on GaAs(114) substrate. Optical Materials. 154. 115644–115644. 1 indexed citations
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Ahmad, Irshad, Ahmed Mahal, Waheed Qamar Khan, et al.. (2024). Recent progress in ZnO-based heterostructured photocatalysts: A review. Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing. 180. 108578–108578. 41 indexed citations
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Ali, Imran, et al.. (2023). Preparation of polyhydroquinone graphene oxide nanocomposite for cephalexin removal from water by adsorption: Simulation, kinetics, and thermodynamic studies. Inorganic Chemistry Communications. 157. 111414–111414. 7 indexed citations
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Ali, Imran, et al.. (2023). Advances in ionic liquids as future anti-cancer drugs. Journal of Molecular Liquids. 388. 122823–122823. 15 indexed citations
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Sekkoum, Khaled, Nasser Belboukhari, Zeid A. ALOthman, et al.. (2023). Enantio-resolution of some chiral sulfoxide drugs on amylose and cellulose-based stationary phases: Elution order, absolute configuration and chiral mechanism determination. Microchemical Journal. 193. 109019–109019. 4 indexed citations
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Ali, Imran, Hyung Jin, Chong Hak Chae, et al.. (2023). DW71177: A novel [1,2,4]triazolo[4,3-a]quinoxaline-based potent and BD1-Selective BET inhibitor for the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia. European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 265. 116052–116052. 7 indexed citations
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Kurniawan, Tonni Agustiono, Xue Liang, Hui Hwang Goh, et al.. (2023). Leveraging food waste for electricity: A low-carbon approach in energy sector for mitigating climate change and achieving net zero emission in Hong Kong (China). Journal of Environmental Management. 351. 119879–119879. 29 indexed citations
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Ali, Imran, et al.. (2023). Combined gas effect on the oil reservoir in a dual-well system. Journal of Umm Al-Qura University for Applied Sciences. 10(2). 330–336. 1 indexed citations
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Khan, Nadeem A., et al.. (2021). Performance Evaluation and Parameter Optimization of Moving Bed Biofilm Reactor (MBBR) along with Electrocoagulation for Removal of Azithromycin. Letters in Applied NanoBioScience. 11(2). 3329–3343. 1 indexed citations
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Al-Mamary, Mohamed, et al.. (2021). Antioxidant Activity Evaluation of FlexirubinType Pigment from Chryseobacterium artocarpi CECT 8497 and Related Docking Study. Molecules. 26(4). 979–979. 18 indexed citations
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Ali, Imran, Changsheng Peng, Dichu Lin, & Iffat Naz. (2018). Green synthesis of the innovative super paramagnetic nanoparticles from the leaves extract of Fraxinus chinensis Roxb and their application for the decolourisation of toxic dyes. Green Processing and Synthesis. 8(1). 256–271. 31 indexed citations
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Khan, Ikramullah, et al.. (2016). Fertility improvement in cross-bred dairy cows through supplementation of vitamin E as antioxidant. Pakistan Journal of Zoology. 48(4). 923–930. 6 indexed citations
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Singh, M. K., et al.. (2015). Comparative Gross and Histological Studies on Nasal Cavity of Black Bangal Goat and Garole Sheep. 27(1). 53–54.

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