Mina Iskandar

544 total citations · 1 hit paper
7 papers, 303 citations indexed

About

Mina Iskandar is a scholar working on Surgery, Infectious Diseases and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Mina Iskandar has authored 7 papers receiving a total of 303 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 3 papers in Surgery, 2 papers in Infectious Diseases and 2 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Mina Iskandar's work include Cholesterol and Lipid Metabolism (1 paper), SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research (1 paper) and Diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis (1 paper). Mina Iskandar is often cited by papers focused on Cholesterol and Lipid Metabolism (1 paper), SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research (1 paper) and Diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis (1 paper). Mina Iskandar collaborates with scholars based in Bahrain, Ireland and Canada. Mina Iskandar's co-authors include Tharmegan Tharmaratnam, Rania M. El-Lababidi, Pardeep Sidhu, Bassam Atallah, Manaf AlQahtani, Omar Ghorab, Saad I. Mallah, Fatema Al‐Rashed, Rasheed Ahmad and Fahd Al‐Mulla and has published in prestigious journals such as The Journal of Immunology, Cellular Physiology and Biochemistry and Frontiers in Neurology.

In The Last Decade

Mina Iskandar

6 papers receiving 294 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.

COVID-19: breaking down a global health crisis

2021 206 citations Saad I. Mallah, Omar Ghorab et al. Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mina Iskandar Bahrain	5	109	44	42	42	36	7	303
Tharmegan Tharmaratnam Canada	5	107 1.0×	28 0.6×	42 1.0×	35 0.8×	38 1.1×	9	282
Saad I. Mallah Bahrain	9	202 1.9×	39 0.9×	66 1.6×	25 0.6×	38 1.1×	21	377
Grazia Caci Italy	10	131 1.2×	25 0.6×	35 0.8×	42 1.0×	23 0.6×	22	290
Diana Duong United States	8	132 1.2×	47 1.1×	20 0.5×	37 0.9×	35 1.0×	63	350
Rumana Rahman United Kingdom	5	82 0.8×	31 0.7×	37 0.9×	20 0.5×	37 1.0×	7	243
Eva M. Carmona Porquera United States	4	106 1.0×	27 0.6×	42 1.0×	23 0.5×	19 0.5×	7	281
Simran Batra Pakistan	6	148 1.4×	26 0.6×	47 1.1×	46 1.1×	27 0.8×	12	262
Luiz Carlos Francelino Silva Brazil	5	130 1.2×	35 0.8×	92 2.2×	19 0.5×	30 0.8×	8	300
Xianzhuo Zhang China	10	120 1.1×	54 1.2×	37 0.9×	47 1.1×	35 1.0×	27	400
Irma Convertino Italy	11	182 1.7×	49 1.1×	32 0.8×	37 0.9×	13 0.4×	32	395

Countries citing papers authored by Mina Iskandar

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Fields of papers citing papers by Mina Iskandar

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mina Iskandar

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

All Works

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7 of 7 papers shown

1.

Iskandar, Mina, et al.. (2025). Unmasking Postpartum Cardiomyopathy. Journal of Cardiac Failure. 31(1). 291–291.

2.

Mallah, Saad I., Omar Ghorab, Tharmegan Tharmaratnam, et al.. (2021). COVID-19: breaking down a global health crisis. Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials. 20(1). 35–35. 206 indexed citations breakdown →

3.

Tharmaratnam, Tharmegan, et al.. (2020). Entamoeba histolytica and amoebic liver abscess in northern Sri Lanka: a public health problem. Tropical Medicine and Health. 48(1). 2–2. 28 indexed citations

4.

Al‐Rashed, Fatema, et al.. (2019). TNF-a Induces a Pro-Inflammatory Phenotypic Shift in Monocytes through ACSL1: Relevance to Metabolic Inflammation. Cellular Physiology and Biochemistry. 52(3). 397–407. 38 indexed citations

5.

Al‐Rashed, Fatema, et al.. (2019). TNF-α induces a pro-inflammatory phenotypic shift in monocytes through ACSL1: Relevance to metabolic inflammation. The Journal of Immunology. 202(1_Supplement). 181.18–181.18. 1 indexed citations

6.

Tharmaratnam, Tharmegan, et al.. (2018). The Role of Physical Activity Prescription in Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Amongst South Asian Canadians. Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine. 5. 165–165. 8 indexed citations

7.

Tharmaratnam, Tharmegan, et al.. (2018). Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy in Professional American Football Players: Where Are We Now?. Frontiers in Neurology. 9. 445–445. 22 indexed citations

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