Mark Ahmad

2.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
8 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Mark Ahmad is a scholar working on Biotechnology, Plant Science and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Mark Ahmad has authored 8 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Biotechnology, 5 papers in Plant Science and 5 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Mark Ahmad's work include Enzyme-mediated dye degradation (5 papers), Biochemical and biochemical processes (5 papers) and Lignin and Wood Chemistry (3 papers). Mark Ahmad is often cited by papers focused on Enzyme-mediated dye degradation (5 papers), Biochemical and biochemical processes (5 papers) and Lignin and Wood Chemistry (3 papers). Mark Ahmad collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom and Canada. Mark Ahmad's co-authors include Timothy D. H. Bugg, Elizabeth M. Hardiman, Rahul Singh, Rahman Rahmanpour, Lindsay D. Eltis, Joseph N. Roberts, Gary D. Bending, Charles R. Taylor, Daniel C. Eastwood and Kerry S. Burton and has published in prestigious journals such as Biochemistry, Current Opinion in Biotechnology and Natural Product Reports.

In The Last Decade

Mark Ahmad

8 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Pathways for degradation of lignin in bacteria and fungi

2011 709 citations Timothy D. H. Bugg, Mark Ahmad et al. Natural Product Reports profile →
The emerging role for bacteria in lignin degradation and bio-product formation

2010 623 citations Timothy D. H. Bugg, Mark Ahmad et al. Current Opinion in Biotechnology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mark Ahmad United Kingdom	6	1.2k	1.1k	859	514	205	8	2.1k
Elizabeth M. Hardiman United Kingdom	8	1.2k 1.0×	1.1k 1.0×	862 1.0×	572 1.1×	221 1.1×	10	2.2k
Rahul Singh Canada	14	747 0.6×	1.0k 0.9×	619 0.7×	595 1.2×	250 1.2×	17	2.0k
Grzegorz Janusz Poland	20	509 0.4×	1.5k 1.4×	721 0.8×	482 0.9×	112 0.5×	56	2.3k
Anna Pawlik Poland	15	445 0.4×	1.2k 1.1×	553 0.6×	391 0.8×	112 0.5×	33	1.9k
Rahman Rahmanpour United Kingdom	9	797 0.7×	706 0.6×	542 0.6×	363 0.7×	131 0.6×	11	1.4k
Taina Lundell Finland	34	982 0.8×	2.9k 2.5×	1.4k 1.7×	578 1.1×	153 0.7×	73	3.5k
Justyna Sulej Poland	13	393 0.3×	867 0.8×	459 0.5×	381 0.7×	94 0.5×	26	1.5k
J. P. Nakas United States	24	647 0.5×	563 0.5×	379 0.4×	637 1.2×	106 0.5×	48	1.9k
Christiane Liers Germany	20	321 0.3×	1.2k 1.1×	525 0.6×	376 0.7×	80 0.4×	47	1.6k
Urszula Świderska-Burek Poland	5	331 0.3×	719 0.6×	345 0.4×	298 0.6×	90 0.4×	17	1.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Mark Ahmad

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Fields of papers citing papers by Mark Ahmad

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mark Ahmad

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Mark Ahmad. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Mark Ahmad 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 Mark Ahmad. Mark Ahmad is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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8 of 8 papers shown

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Hardiman, Elizabeth M., Mark Ahmad, Hiroshi Otani, et al.. (2013). Breaking Down Lignin to High-Value Chemicals: The Conversion of Lignocellulose to Vanillin in a Gene Deletion Mutant of Rhodococcus jostii RHA1. ACS Chemical Biology. 8(10). 2151–2156. 212 indexed citations

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Bugg, Timothy D. H., Mark Ahmad, Elizabeth M. Hardiman, & Rahman Rahmanpour. (2012). ChemInform Abstract: Pathways for Degradation of Lignin in Bacteria and Fungi. ChemInform. 43(9). 2 indexed citations

3.

Bugg, Timothy D. H., Mark Ahmad, Elizabeth M. Hardiman, & Rahman Rahmanpour. (2011). Pathways for degradation of lignin in bacteria and fungi. Natural Product Reports. 28(12). 1883–1883. 709 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ahmad, Mark, Joseph N. Roberts, Elizabeth M. Hardiman, et al.. (2011). Identification of DypB from Rhodococcus jostii RHA1 as a Lignin Peroxidase. Biochemistry. 50(23). 5096–5107. 329 indexed citations

5.

Ahmad, Mark, Charles R. Taylor, David Pink, et al.. (2010). Development of novel assays for lignin degradation: comparative analysis of bacterial and fungal lignin degraders. Molecular BioSystems. 6(5). 815–821. 226 indexed citations

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Bugg, Timothy D. H., Mark Ahmad, Elizabeth M. Hardiman, & Rahul Singh. (2010). The emerging role for bacteria in lignin degradation and bio-product formation. Current Opinion in Biotechnology. 22(3). 394–400. 623 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ahmad, Mark, Timothy D. H. Bugg, A. J. Clark, et al.. (2010). Wealth out of waste. 1 indexed citations

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Ahmad, Mark, et al.. (2009). Investigation of acid–base catalysis in the extradiol and intradiol catechol dioxygenase reactions using a broad specificity mutant enzyme and model chemistry. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry. 7(7). 1368–1368. 9 indexed citations

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