Khaled El Emam

11.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
179 papers, 7.5k citations indexed

About

Khaled El Emam is a scholar working on Information Systems, Artificial Intelligence and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Khaled El Emam has authored 179 papers receiving a total of 7.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 67 papers in Information Systems, 56 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 47 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Khaled El Emam's work include Software Engineering Research (56 papers), Software Engineering Techniques and Practices (46 papers) and Software Reliability and Analysis Research (38 papers). Khaled El Emam is often cited by papers focused on Software Engineering Research (56 papers), Software Engineering Techniques and Practices (46 papers) and Software Reliability and Analysis Research (38 papers). Khaled El Emam collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Germany. Khaled El Emam's co-authors include Fida K. Dankar, Lionel Briand, Nazim H. Madhavji, Walcélio L. Melo, Elizabeth Jonker, Lesley M. Pickard, Peter W. Jones, David C. Hoaglin, Shari Lawrence Pfleeger and Jarrett Rosenberg and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Clinical Oncology, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

In The Last Decade

Khaled El Emam

169 papers receiving 6.8k citations

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Preliminary guidelines for empirical research in software engineering

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Khaled El Emam Canada	44	4.2k	2.5k	2.3k	828	750	179	7.5k
William G. Griswold United States	43	3.0k 0.7×	1.8k 0.7×	1.7k 0.8×	435 0.5×	1.4k 1.8×	218	7.4k
Nancy G. Leveson United States	47	2.2k 0.5×	1.7k 0.7×	3.4k 1.5×	96 0.1×	994 1.3×	180	10.3k
John Grundy Australia	46	5.6k 1.3×	2.7k 1.1×	1.7k 0.7×	76 0.1×	2.8k 3.7×	574	9.0k
Ali Idri Morocco	34	1.9k 0.5×	1.2k 0.5×	1.2k 0.5×	168 0.2×	521 0.7×	265	4.9k
Pearl Brereton United Kingdom	30	3.4k 0.8×	1.5k 0.6×	703 0.3×	57 0.1×	1.2k 1.6×	107	6.4k
Mark A. Musen United States	61	3.3k 0.8×	8.4k 3.4×	200 0.1×	1.1k 1.4×	1.7k 2.3×	414	15.2k
Abraham Bernstein Switzerland	40	2.2k 0.5×	2.2k 0.9×	631 0.3×	99 0.1×	1.2k 1.6×	210	5.2k
Alain Abran Canada	34	4.6k 1.1×	1.3k 0.5×	2.6k 1.1×	42 0.1×	965 1.3×	403	6.3k
Kai Petersen Sweden	33	4.2k 1.0×	1.2k 0.5×	1.2k 0.5×	43 0.1×	1.4k 1.8×	120	6.9k
Carl A. Gunter United States	39	1.3k 0.3×	2.7k 1.1×	356 0.2×	175 0.2×	1.8k 2.4×	178	5.3k

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Myles, Puja, Randi E. Foraker, Sengwee Toh, et al.. (2025). Crossing borders securely: synthetic data and federated networks for privacy-preserving access to real-world data and emerging use cases. npj Digital Medicine. 8(1). 758–758.

Pilgram, Lisa, Haksoo Ko, Anthony K. H. Tung, & Khaled El Emam. (2025). Protecting patient privacy in tabular synthetic health data: a regulatory perspective. npj Digital Medicine. 8(1). 732–732.

Pilgram, Lisa, et al.. (2025). Should we synthesize more than we need: impact of synthetic data generation for high-dimensional cross-sectional medical data. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 32(12). 1843–1854.

Smith, Aaron, et al.. (2024). Creating High-Quality Synthetic Health Data: Framework for Model Development and Validation. JMIR Formative Research. 8. e53241–e53241.

Clemons, Mark, Lisa Vandermeer, Khaled El Emam, et al.. (2024). The REthinking Clinical Trials Program Retreat 2023: Creating Partnerships to Optimize Quality Cancer Care. Current Oncology. 31(3). 1376–1388.

Emam, Khaled El, et al.. (2024). Perspectives of Canadian privacy regulators on anonymization practices and anonymized information: a qualitative study. International Data Privacy Law. 14(4). 391–403. 2 indexed citations

Alipour, Pouria, Zahra Azizi, Valeria Raparelli, et al.. (2023). Role of sex and gender-related variables in development of metabolic syndrome: A prospective cohort study. European Journal of Internal Medicine. 121. 63–75. 21 indexed citations

Mitsakakis, Nicholas, Gregory R. Pond, Lisa Vandermeer, et al.. (2023). Can synthetic data accurately mimic oncology clinical trials?. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 41(16_suppl). 1554–1554. 2 indexed citations

Azizi, Zahra, Pouria Alipour, Farhad Maleki, et al.. (2022). Importance of sex and gender factors for COVID-19 infection and hospitalisation: a sex-stratified analysis using machine learning in UK Biobank data. BMJ Open. 12(5). e050450–e050450. 8 indexed citations

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Azizi, Zahra, et al.. (2021). Can synthetic data be a proxy for real clinical trial data? A validation study. BMJ Open. 11(4). e043497–e043497. 60 indexed citations

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Emam, Khaled El, et al.. (2018). Comparing the benefits of pseudonymisation and anonymisation under the GDPR. 2(2). 145–145. 24 indexed citations

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Emam, Khaled El & Luk Arbuckle. (2013). Anonymizing Health Data: Case Studies and Methods to Get You Started. 46 indexed citations

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Sokolova, Marina, et al.. (2013). Authorship Attribution in Health Forums. Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing. 74–82. 3 indexed citations

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Emam, Khaled El & Nazim H. Madhavji. (1999). Elements of Software Process Assessment & Improvement. IEEE Computer Society Press eBooks. 40 indexed citations

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Briand, Lionel, Khaled El Emam, & Frank Bomarius. (1998). COBRA: a hybrid method for software cost estimation, benchmarking, and risk assessment. International Conference on Software Engineering. 390–399. 90 indexed citations

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Emam, Khaled El, et al.. (1997). Spice: The Theory and Practice of Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination. IEEE Computer Society Press eBooks. 177 indexed citations

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Briand, Lionel, Khaled El Emam, & Sandro Morasca. (1995). Theoretical and Empirical Validation of Software Product Measures. 53 indexed citations

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Emam, Khaled El, et al.. (1993). Empirically Driven Improvement of Generic Process Models.. 61–65. 1 indexed citations

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Keller, Rudolf K., et al.. (1993). A comprehensive process model for studying software process papers. International Conference on Software Engineering. 78–88. 1 indexed citations

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Emam, Khaled El, et al.. (1991). Object oriented neural networks. 1007–1010. 3 indexed citations

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