Kawan Ghafor

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
33 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Kawan Ghafor is a scholar working on Civil and Structural Engineering, Building and Construction and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Kawan Ghafor has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering, 13 papers in Building and Construction and 3 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Kawan Ghafor's work include Innovative concrete reinforcement materials (33 papers), Concrete and Cement Materials Research (31 papers) and Concrete Properties and Behavior (10 papers). Kawan Ghafor is often cited by papers focused on Innovative concrete reinforcement materials (33 papers), Concrete and Cement Materials Research (31 papers) and Concrete Properties and Behavior (10 papers). Kawan Ghafor collaborates with scholars based in Iraq, Portugal and India. Kawan Ghafor's co-authors include Ahmed Salih Mohammed, Wael Mahmood, Warzer Qadir, Warzer Sarwar, Serwan Rafiq, Rawaz Kurda, Wael Emad, Panagiotis G. Asteris, Shaker Qaidi and Liborio Cavaleri and has published in prestigious journals such as Construction and Building Materials, Sustainability and Applied Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Kawan Ghafor

33 papers receiving 1.4k 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.

  1. Prediction of concrete materials compressive strength using surrogate models
    2022 199 citations Wael Emad, Ahmed Salih Mohammed et al. Structures profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Kawan Ghafor Iraq 23 1.3k 559 152 95 90 33 1.4k
Wael Mahmood Iraq 22 1.2k 0.9× 444 0.8× 132 0.9× 93 1.0× 93 1.0× 36 1.3k
Li Su China 21 1.2k 0.9× 591 1.1× 152 1.0× 34 0.4× 79 0.9× 57 1.4k
Éva Lublóy Hungary 22 1.3k 1.0× 565 1.0× 250 1.6× 56 0.6× 40 0.4× 116 1.5k
Brabha Nagaratnam United Kingdom 19 852 0.6× 679 1.2× 80 0.5× 103 1.1× 87 1.0× 51 1.1k
Daming Luo China 20 1.2k 0.9× 566 1.0× 175 1.2× 31 0.3× 70 0.8× 42 1.3k
Mohamed Ghrici Algeria 25 1.7k 1.3× 558 1.0× 178 1.2× 70 0.7× 102 1.1× 68 1.9k
Nicholas Howard Thom United Kingdom 25 1.7k 1.3× 703 1.3× 240 1.6× 54 0.6× 52 0.6× 42 1.9k
Philippe Turcry France 24 1.7k 1.3× 700 1.3× 275 1.8× 59 0.6× 162 1.8× 49 1.9k
Xiao Sun China 16 825 0.6× 456 0.8× 94 0.6× 41 0.4× 55 0.6× 47 947
Vahab Toufigh Iran 22 1.5k 1.2× 865 1.5× 158 1.0× 75 0.8× 116 1.3× 94 1.8k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kawan Ghafor

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All Works

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Mohammed, Ahmed Salih, et al.. (2023). Modeling the Impact of Liquid Polymers on Concrete Stability in Terms of a Slump and Compressive Strength. Applied Sciences. 13(2). 1208–1208. 16 indexed citations
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Mohammed, Ahmed Salih, et al.. (2023). Investigation of Hybrid Intelligence Models to Optimize Cement Kiln Content Based on the Failure Stress, Chemical Composition, and Loss on Ignition of Mortar. Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering. 36(3). 2 indexed citations
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Mohammed, Ahmed Salih, et al.. (2023). Soft computing techniques to estimate the uniaxial compressive strength of mortar incorporated with cement kiln dust. Innovative Infrastructure Solutions. 8(11). 6 indexed citations
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Emad, Wael, Ahmed Salih Mohammed, Rawaz Kurda, et al.. (2022). Prediction of concrete materials compressive strength using surrogate models. Structures. 46. 1243–1267. 199 indexed citations breakdown →
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Mohammed, Ahmed Salih, et al.. (2021). Clay Nanosize Effects on the Rheological Behavior at Various Elevated Temperatures and Mechanical Properties of the Cement Paste: Experimental and Modeling. Iranian Journal of Science and Technology Transactions of Civil Engineering. 46(2). 819–842. 20 indexed citations
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Mohammed, Ahmed Salih, Serwan Rafiq, Parveen Sihag, et al.. (2020). ANN, M5P-tree and nonlinear regression approaches with statistical evaluations to predict the compressive strength of cement-based mortar modified with fly ash. Journal of Materials Research and Technology. 9(6). 12416–12427. 83 indexed citations
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Ghafor, Kawan, et al.. (2020). Enhancing the Fresh and Hardened Properties of the Early Age Concrete Modified with Powder Polymers and Characterized Using Different Models. Advances in Civil Engineering Materials. 9(1). 227–249. 30 indexed citations
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Salih, Ahmed, et al.. (2020). Systemic multi-scale approaches to predict the flowability at various temperature and mechanical properties of cement paste modified with nano-calcium carbonate. Construction and Building Materials. 262. 120777–120777. 63 indexed citations
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Ghafor, Kawan, et al.. (2020). Statistical variations and new correlation models to predict the mechanical behaviour of the cement mortar modified with silica fume. Geomechanics and Geoengineering. 17(1). 118–130. 39 indexed citations
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Mohammed, Ahmed Salih, Serwan Rafiq, Parveen Sihag, et al.. (2020). ANN, M5P-tree model, and nonlinear regression approaches to predict the compression strength of cement-based mortar modified by quicklime at various water/cement ratios and curing times. Arabian Journal of Geosciences. 13(22). 32 indexed citations
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Mohammed, Ahmed Salih, et al.. (2020). Characterization and modeling the flow behavior and compression strength of the cement paste modified with silica nano-size at different temperature conditions. Construction and Building Materials. 257. 119590–119590. 58 indexed citations
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Ghafor, Kawan, et al.. (2020). Evaluation and nonlinear quantification of early age strength of concrete containing PCE polymer. IOP Conference Series Materials Science and Engineering. 737. 12061–12061. 6 indexed citations
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Mohammed, Ahmed Salih, et al.. (2020). Artificial neural network (ANN), M5P-tree, and regression analyses to predict the early age compression strength of concrete modified with DBC-21 and VK-98 polymers. Neural Computing and Applications. 33(13). 7851–7873. 64 indexed citations
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Mohammed, Ahmed Salih, Wael Mahmood, & Kawan Ghafor. (2019). Shear stress limit, rheological properties and compressive strength of cement-based grout modified with polymers. Journal of Building Pathology and Rehabilitation. 5(1). 50 indexed citations
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Mahmood, Wael, Ahmed Salih Mohammed, & Kawan Ghafor. (2019). Viscosity, yield stress and compressive strength of cement-based grout modified with polymers. Results in Materials. 4. 100043–100043. 56 indexed citations
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Mohammed, Ahmed Salih, Wael Mahmood, & Kawan Ghafor. (2019). TGA, rheological properties with maximum shear stress and compressive strength of cement-based grout modified with polycarboxylate polymers. Construction and Building Materials. 235. 117534–117534. 110 indexed citations
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Qadir, Warzer, Kawan Ghafor, & Ahmed Salih Mohammed. (2019). Characterizing and Modeling the Mechanical Properties of the Cement Mortar Modified with Fly Ash for Various Water‐to‐Cement Ratios and Curing Times. Advances in Civil Engineering. 2019(1). 71 indexed citations
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Ghafor, Kawan, Wael Mahmood, Warzer Qadir, & Ahmed Salih Mohammed. (2019). Effect of Particle Size Distribution of Sand on Mechanical Properties of Cement Mortar Modified with Microsilica. ACI Materials Journal. 117(1). 39 indexed citations
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Ghafor, Kawan, et al.. (2019). Modeling the effect of silica fume on the compressive, tensile strengths and durability of NSC and HSC in various strength ranges. Journal of Building Pathology and Rehabilitation. 4(1). 55 indexed citations

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