Muhammad Ismail

2.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
23 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Muhammad Ismail is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Muhammad Ismail has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 14 papers in Atmospheric Science and 4 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Muhammad Ismail's work include Climate variability and models (14 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (12 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (4 papers). Muhammad Ismail is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (14 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (12 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (4 papers). Muhammad Ismail collaborates with scholars based in Saudi Arabia, Italy and United States. Muhammad Ismail's co-authors include Mansour Almazroui, M. Nazrul Islam, Sajjad Saeed, Fahad Saeed, Muhammad Haroon Siddiqui, Nana Ama Browne Klutse, Muhammad Azhar Ehsan, Muhammad Adnan Abid, Srijana Joshi and Irfan Ur Rashid and has published in prestigious journals such as Atmospheric Environment, Sustainability and International Journal of Climatology.

In The Last Decade

Muhammad Ismail

21 papers receiving 1.2k 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.

Projections of Precipitation and Temperature over the South Asian Countries in CMIP6

2020 346 citations Mansour Almazroui, Sajjad Saeed et al. Earth Systems and Environment profile →
Projected Change in Temperature and Precipitation Over Africa from CMIP6

2020 336 citations Mansour Almazroui, Fahad Saeed et al. Earth Systems and Environment profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Muhammad Ismail Saudi Arabia	14	937	602	230	169	89	23	1.2k
S. K. Patwardhan India	16	1.1k 1.1×	748 1.2×	326 1.4×	251 1.5×	93 1.0×	26	1.5k
Peter Ambenje Kenya	4	901 1.0×	582 1.0×	234 1.0×	149 0.9×	113 1.3×	4	1.3k
Solomon H. Gebrechorkos United Kingdom	16	879 0.9×	377 0.6×	259 1.1×	332 2.0×	99 1.1×	25	1.2k
Ousmane Ndiaye Senegal	20	974 1.0×	685 1.1×	383 1.7×	153 0.9×	141 1.6×	79	1.6k
Matthias Büchner Germany	8	1.2k 1.3×	766 1.3×	398 1.7×	221 1.3×	54 0.6×	12	1.5k
Shaukat Ali Pakistan	21	770 0.8×	575 1.0×	191 0.8×	189 1.1×	118 1.3×	57	1.1k
Diriba Korecha Ethiopia	17	902 1.0×	380 0.6×	419 1.8×	174 1.0×	86 1.0×	30	1.3k
Nana Ama Browne Klutse Ghana	19	1.1k 1.2×	672 1.1×	340 1.5×	205 1.2×	87 1.0×	49	1.5k
A. Verdin United States	11	805 0.9×	551 0.9×	114 0.5×	235 1.4×	152 1.7×	19	1.2k
Gillian Kay United Kingdom	13	690 0.7×	395 0.7×	148 0.6×	199 1.2×	64 0.7×	24	1.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Muhammad Ismail

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Fields of papers citing papers by Muhammad Ismail

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Muhammad Ismail

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

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Islam, M. Nazrul, et al.. (2025). Jazan Rainfall’s Seasonal Shift in Saudi Arabia: Evidence of a Changing Regional Climate. Atmosphere. 16(3). 300–300. 1 indexed citations

Munir, Said, et al.. (2025). Cooling of Maximum Temperatures in Six Saudi Arabian Cities (1994–2024)—Reversal of Urban Heat Islands. Urban Science. 9(11). 445–445.

Almazroui, Mansour, Muhammad Adnan Abid, Irfan Ur Rashid, et al.. (2024). ENSO teleconnections and predictability of the boreal summer temperature over the Arabian Peninsula in C3S and Saudi-KAU seasonal forecast systems. Atmospheric Research. 315. 107856–107856.

Assiri, Mazen E., et al.. (2024). Dust over Saudi Arabia from multisource data: case studies in winter and spring. Air Quality Atmosphere & Health. 18(2). 555–573. 1 indexed citations

Rashid, Irfan Ur, Muhammad Adnan Abid, Mansour Almazroui, et al.. (2022). Early summer surface air temperature variability over Pakistan and the role of El Niño–Southern Oscillation teleconnections. International Journal of Climatology. 42(11). 5768–5784. 17 indexed citations

Almazroui, Mansour, Shahzad Kamil, Muhammad Ismail, et al.. (2022). Skill assessment of Saudi-KAU and C3S models in prediction of spring season rainfall over the Arabian Peninsula. Atmospheric Research. 280. 106461–106461. 4 indexed citations

Almazroui, Mansour, Muhammad Azhar Ehsan, Michael K. Tippett, et al.. (2022). Skill of the Saudi-KAU CGCM in Forecasting ENSO and its Comparison with NMME and C3S Models. Earth Systems and Environment. 6(2). 327–341. 8 indexed citations

Ehsan, Muhammad Azhar, Michael K. Tippett, Andrew W. Robertson, et al.. (2021). Seasonal predictability of Ethiopian Kiremt rainfall and forecast skill of ECMWF's SEAS5 model. Climate Dynamics. 57(11-12). 3075–3091. 28 indexed citations

Ismail, Muhammad. (2021). A Project of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor: A Case study of Significant and Drawbacks for Pakistan. VI(I). 95–104. 1 indexed citations

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Almazroui, Mansour, Fahad Saeed, Sajjad Saeed, et al.. (2021). Projected Changes in Climate Extremes Using CMIP6 Simulations Over SREX Regions. Earth Systems and Environment. 5(3). 481–497. 153 indexed citations

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Khan, Babar, et al.. (2021). Community-based trophy hunting programs secure biodiversity and livelihoods: Learnings from Asia's high mountain communities and landscapes. Environmental Challenges. 4. 100175–100175. 14 indexed citations

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Almazroui, Mansour, Sajjad Saeed, Fahad Saeed, M. Nazrul Islam, & Muhammad Ismail. (2020). Projections of Precipitation and Temperature over the South Asian Countries in CMIP6. Earth Systems and Environment. 4(2). 297–320. 346 indexed citations breakdown →

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Almazroui, Mansour, Fahad Saeed, Sajjad Saeed, et al.. (2020). Projected Change in Temperature and Precipitation Over Africa from CMIP6. Earth Systems and Environment. 4(3). 455–475. 336 indexed citations breakdown →

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Almazroui, Mansour, M. Nazrul Islam, Sajjad Saeed, Fahad Saeed, & Muhammad Ismail. (2020). Future Changes in Climate over the Arabian Peninsula based on CMIP6 Multimodel Simulations. Earth Systems and Environment. 4(4). 611–630. 93 indexed citations

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Joshi, Srijana, et al.. (2020). Ethnic and Cultural Diversity amongst Yak Herding Communities in the Asian Highlands. Sustainability. 12(3). 957–957. 49 indexed citations

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Ehsan, Muhammad Azhar, Fred Kucharski, Mansour Almazroui, Muhammad Ismail, & Michael K. Tippett. (2019). Potential predictability of Arabian peninsula summer surface air temperature in the North American multimodel ensemble. Climate Dynamics. 53(7-8). 4249–4266. 21 indexed citations

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Ehsan, Muhammad Azhar, Michael K. Tippett, Mansour Almazroui, et al.. (2016). Skill and predictability in multimodel ensemble forecasts for Northern Hemisphere regions with dominant winter precipitation. Climate Dynamics. 48(9-10). 3309–3324. 38 indexed citations

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Zhu, Dan, Ning Wu, Nabin Bhattarai, et al.. (2015). A comparative study of daytime-based methane emission from two wetlands of Nepal Himalaya. Atmospheric Environment. 106. 196–203. 6 indexed citations

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Wu, Ning, et al.. (2014). Livelihood diversification as an adaptation approach to change in the pastoral Hindu-Kush Himalayan region. Journal of Mountain Science. 11(5). 1342–1355. 51 indexed citations

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Ning, Wu, G. S. Rawat, & Muhammad Ismail. (2014). High-Altitude Rangelands and Their Interfaces in the Hindu Kush Himalayas. 13 indexed citations

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