Muhammad Numan

3.6k total citations · 3 hit papers
55 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Muhammad Numan is a scholar working on Plant Science, Materials Chemistry and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Muhammad Numan has authored 55 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Plant Science, 18 papers in Materials Chemistry and 9 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Muhammad Numan's work include Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (10 papers), Zeolite Catalysis and Synthesis (8 papers) and Nanoparticles: synthesis and applications (7 papers). Muhammad Numan is often cited by papers focused on Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (10 papers), Zeolite Catalysis and Synthesis (8 papers) and Nanoparticles: synthesis and applications (7 papers). Muhammad Numan collaborates with scholars based in Pakistan, United States and South Korea. Muhammad Numan's co-authors include Sajjad Asaf, Abdul Latif Khan, Ahmed Al-Harrasi, Zabta Khan Shinwari, Rahmatullah Jan, Lubna Bilal, Kyung‐Min Kim, Samina Bashir, Ahmed Al‐Harrasi and Yasmin Khan and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Journal of Hazardous Materials.

In The Last Decade

Muhammad Numan

51 papers receiving 2.4k citations

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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.

Plant Secondary Metabolite Biosynthesis and Transcriptional Regulation in Response to Biotic and Abiotic Stress Conditions

2021 453 citations Sajjad Asaf, Muhammad Numan et al. profile →
Sphingomonas: from diversity and genomics to functional role in environmental remediation and plant growth

2020 436 citations Sajjad Asaf, Muhammad Numan et al. profile →
Plant growth promoting bacteria as an alternative strategy for salt tolerance in plants: A review

2018 381 citations Muhammad Numan, Samina Bashir et al. Microbiological Research profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Muhammad Numan Pakistan	18	1.3k	508	451	192	170	55	2.5k
Santa Ram Joshi India	25	498 0.4×	416 0.8×	236 0.5×	152 0.8×	202 1.2×	126	2.0k
Harshad Lade South Korea	21	848 0.7×	578 1.1×	264 0.6×	151 0.8×	528 3.1×	36	2.6k
Meenu Saraf India	27	1.5k 1.2×	651 1.3×	78 0.2×	163 0.8×	175 1.0×	116	2.5k
Mukesh Meena India	38	3.1k 2.4×	1.2k 2.4×	362 0.8×	182 0.9×	340 2.0×	130	5.0k
Archana Yadav India	22	760 0.6×	343 0.7×	378 0.8×	75 0.4×	127 0.7×	83	2.0k
Tomasz Oszako Poland	23	1.2k 0.9×	458 0.9×	194 0.4×	287 1.5×	39 0.2×	204	2.2k
Ashwag Shami Saudi Arabia	19	825 0.6×	440 0.9×	312 0.7×	58 0.3×	138 0.8×	114	1.8k
Sudhir K. Upadhyay India	28	1.7k 1.3×	448 0.9×	356 0.8×	179 0.9×	300 1.8×	79	2.6k
Diby Paul South Korea	28	1.3k 1.0×	951 1.9×	229 0.5×	268 1.4×	646 3.8×	62	3.4k
Poonam C. Singh India	29	2.1k 1.6×	830 1.6×	324 0.7×	112 0.6×	554 3.3×	93	3.7k

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Numan, Muhammad, et al.. (2025). Enhanced Stability of Pt‐Co Catalysts Supported on Zeolite Nanosponges for Propane Dehydrogenation. ChemNanoMat. 11(2). 1 indexed citations

Numan, Muhammad, et al.. (2024). Konsep Dasar Penerjemahan Bahasa Arab. 7(1). 754–758. 1 indexed citations

Akhtar, Tanveer, et al.. (2023). Anti-fasciolic effect of raw seeds of Nigella sativa, Fumaria parviflora (aerial), in naturally infected Buffaloes. Bioscience Journal. 39. e39068–e39068.

Numan, Muhammad, et al.. (2023). Influence of Nanoscale Intimacy in Bi-Functional Catalysts for CO2-Assisted Dehydrogenation of C5-Paraffins. Catalysts. 13(6). 933–933. 1 indexed citations

Numan, Muhammad, et al.. (2022). Acidophilic Actinobacteria: Isolation, Taxonomic Characterization and Bioactivity against Multidrug Resistant Pathogens. Pakistan Journal of Life and Social Sciences (PJLSS). 20(1).

Numan, Muhammad, Muddaser Shah, Sajjad Asaf, Najeeb Ur Rehman, & Ahmed Al‐Harrasi. (2022). Bioactive Compounds from Endophytic Bacteria Bacillus subtilis Strain EP1 with Their Antibacterial Activities. Metabolites. 12(12). 1228–1228. 6 indexed citations

Salehin, Mohammad, Muhammad Numan, Xuegeng Wang, et al.. (2022). Genome-wide transcriptome analysis of the orphan crop tef (Eragrostis tef (Zucc.) Trotter) under long-term low calcium stress. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 19552–19552. 7 indexed citations

Nasir‐ud‐Din, Guang‐Ying Chen, Xiaobao Li, et al.. (2022). Comparison of Phytochemical Constituents and Pharmacological Activities of Various Solvent Extracts Obtained from Millettia speciosa Stem Powder. BioMed Research International. 2022(1). 2486979–2486979. 6 indexed citations

Weli, Afaf Mohammed, et al.. (2022). The antibacterial, antioxidant and anti enzymatic activities of the leaves’ crude extracts of Hyoscyamus gallagheri. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4. 28–35. 2 indexed citations

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Zohra, Tanzeel, Muhammad Numan, Aamer Ikram, et al.. (2021). Cracking the Challenge of Antimicrobial Drug Resistance with CRISPR/Cas9, Nanotechnology and Other Strategies in ESKAPE Pathogens. Microorganisms. 9(5). 954–954. 31 indexed citations

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Khan, Abdul Latif, et al.. (2021). Spectroscopic and Molecular Methods to Differentiate Gender in Immature Date Palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.). Plants. 10(3). 536–536. 8 indexed citations

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Numan, Muhammad, Ang Li, Michal Mazur, et al.. (2021). Oxidative Dehydrogenation of Ethane with CO₂ as a Soft Oxidant over a PtCe Bimetallic Catalyst. ACS Catalysis. 11(15). 9221–9232. 53 indexed citations

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Asaf, Sajjad, Abdul Latif Khan, Muhammad Numan, & Ahmed Al‐Harrasi. (2021). Mangrove tree (Avicennia marina): insight into chloroplast genome evolutionary divergence and its comparison with related species from family Acanthaceae. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 3586–3586. 16 indexed citations

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Iqrar, Irum, Muhammad Numan, Tariq Khan, Zabta Khan Shinwari, & Gul Shad Ali. (2021). LC–MS/MS-based profiling of bioactive metabolites of endophytic bacteria from Cannabis sativa and their anti-Phytophthora activity. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek. 114(8). 1165–1179. 14 indexed citations

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Numan, Muhammad, et al.. (2020). Dynamic adsorption/desorption of p-xylene on nanomorphic MFI zeolites: Effect of zeolite crystal thickness and mesopore architecture. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 403. 123659–123659. 35 indexed citations

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Iqbal, Mudassar, Hamida Bibi, Zafar Iqbal, et al.. (2018). Mycelial extract of Acremonium sp.: a potent target specific bio herbecide against Echinochloa crus-galli and Asphodelus tenuifolius.. Fresenius environmental bulletin. 27(3). 1778–1785. 1 indexed citations

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Bashir, Samina, et al.. (2018). Pigments from Soil Bacteria and Their Therapeutic Properties: A Mini Review. Current Microbiology. 76(6). 783–790. 38 indexed citations

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Numan, Muhammad, Samina Bashir, Yasmin Khan, et al.. (2018). Plant growth promoting bacteria as an alternative strategy for salt tolerance in plants: A review. Microbiological Research. 209. 21–32. 381 indexed citations breakdown →

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Numan, Muhammad, Samina Bashir, Najeeb Ur Rehman, et al.. (2018). Therapeutic applications of bacterial pigments: a review of current status and future opportunities. 3 Biotech. 8(4). 207–207. 84 indexed citations

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Numan, Muhammad, et al.. (2016). Genetic variability and interrelationship of various agronomic traits using correlation and path analysis in cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.).. 4(6). 315–318. 9 indexed citations

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