Mazhar Ali

2.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
40 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Mazhar Ali is a scholar working on Information Systems, Computer Networks and Communications and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Mazhar Ali has authored 40 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Information Systems, 17 papers in Computer Networks and Communications and 13 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Mazhar Ali's work include Cloud Data Security Solutions (8 papers), IoT and Edge/Fog Computing (8 papers) and Advanced Malware Detection Techniques (8 papers). Mazhar Ali is often cited by papers focused on Cloud Data Security Solutions (8 papers), IoT and Edge/Fog Computing (8 papers) and Advanced Malware Detection Techniques (8 papers). Mazhar Ali collaborates with scholars based in Pakistan, United States and Australia. Mazhar Ali's co-authors include Samee U. Khan, Athanasios V. Vasilakos, Muhammad Usman Shahid Khan, Assad Abbas, Albert Y. Zomaya, Keqin Li, Ahmad Salman Khan, Junaid Shuja, Ashfaq Ahmad and Hafiz Umar Farid and has published in prestigious journals such as Scientific Reports, IEEE Access and Energy.

In The Last Decade

Mazhar Ali

38 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Hit Papers

Security in cloud computing: Opportunities and challenges 2015 2026 2018 2022 2015 100 200 300 400 500
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. Security in cloud computing: Opportunities and challenges
    2015 520 citations Mazhar Ali, Samee U. Khan et al. profile →

Peers

Mazhar Ali
Chunming Hu China
Sara Comai Italy
Md. Nasir Sulaiman Malaysia
Mingwu Zhang China
Ming Zhong China
Carlos Kamienski Brazil
Daniel Rodríguez Spain
Weipeng Jing China
Sushma Jain India
Kumar Abhishek India
Chunming Hu China
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Countries citing papers authored by Mazhar Ali

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Fields of papers citing papers by Mazhar Ali

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mazhar Ali

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

All Works

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Rehman, Faisal, et al.. (2025). Deep Reinforcement Learning With Dueling DQN for Partial Computation Offloading and Resource Allocation in Mobile Edge Computing. IEEE Access. 13. 94319–94335. 3 indexed citations
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Ali, Mazhar, et al.. (2024). Presenting a model for decentralized operation based on the internet of things in a system multiple microgrids. Energy. 293. 130637–130637. 5 indexed citations
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Ali, Mazhar, Abdul Mateen Khattak, Naveed Ahmed, et al.. (2024). Optimizing Phytohormone Combinations in Murashige and Skoog Media for Enhanced Micropropagation of Ajuga bracteosa. 4(3-4). 85–90.
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Rehman, Saeed Ur, et al.. (2023). Frequency of Congenital Cardiac Conditions in Children Born to Diabetic Moms. 17(6). 378–380.
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Waleed, Mirza, Muhammad Mubeen, Ashfaq Ahmad, et al.. (2022). Evaluating the efficiency of coarser to finer resolution multispectral satellites in mapping paddy rice fields using GEE implementation. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 13210–13210. 51 indexed citations
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Abbas, Assad, et al.. (2022). Deep reinforcement learning approach towards a smart parking architecture. Cluster Computing. 26(1). 255–266. 15 indexed citations
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Amin, Noor Ul, et al.. (2021). A Survey on Privacy-Preserving Authentication Schemes in VANETs: Attacks, Challenges and Open Issues. IEEE Access. 9. 153701–153726. 39 indexed citations
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Abbas, Assad, et al.. (2020). Requirement Validation for Embedded Systems in Automotive Industry Through Modeling. IEEE Access. 8. 8697–8719. 10 indexed citations
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Abbas, Assad, Mahdi Zareei, Hasan Ali Khattak, et al.. (2019). Towards a Fog Enabled Efficient Car Parking Architecture. IEEE Access. 7. 159100–159111. 66 indexed citations
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Khan, Muhammad Usman Shahid, et al.. (2019). Bot detection using a single post on social media. 215–220. 31 indexed citations
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Hussain, Sajjad, Muhammad Mubeen, Ashfaq Ahmad, et al.. (2019). Using GIS tools to detect the land use/land cover changes during forty years in Lodhran District of Pakistan. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 27(32). 39676–39692. 123 indexed citations
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Ali, Mazhar, Assad Abbas, Muhammad Usman Shahid Khan, & Samee U. Khan. (2018). SeSPHR: A Methodology for Secure Sharing of Personal Health Records in the Cloud. IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. 9(1). 347–359. 15 indexed citations
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Khan, Fiaz Gul, et al.. (2018). Secure‐CamFlow: A device‐oriented security model to assist information flow control systems in cloud environments for IoTs. Concurrency and Computation Practice and Experience. 31(8). 30 indexed citations
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Khan, Muhammad Usman Shahid, Assad Abbas, Mazhar Ali, Muhammad Jawad, & Samee U. Khan. (2018). Convolutional neural networks as means to identify apposite sensor combination for human activity recognition. 45–50. 10 indexed citations
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Ali, Mazhar, Kashif Bilal, Samee U. Khan, et al.. (2015). DROPS: Division and Replication of Data in Cloud for Optimal Performance and Security. IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. 6(2). 303–315. 53 indexed citations
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Shah, Syed Attique, et al.. (2011). RESOLVING CLOUD COMPUTING SECURITY ISSUES USING ITIL SECURITY MANAGEMENT PROCESS. 2(2). 190–196. 1 indexed citations
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Ali, Mazhar, et al.. (2011). Incorporating Security in Embedded System - A critical analysis. 1 indexed citations

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