Muhammad Sanaullah

4.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
73 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Muhammad Sanaullah is a scholar working on Soil Science, Plant Science and Agronomy and Crop Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Muhammad Sanaullah has authored 73 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Soil Science, 31 papers in Plant Science and 13 papers in Agronomy and Crop Science. Recurrent topics in Muhammad Sanaullah's work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (27 papers), Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis (14 papers) and Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism (10 papers). Muhammad Sanaullah is often cited by papers focused on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (27 papers), Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis (14 papers) and Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism (10 papers). Muhammad Sanaullah collaborates with scholars based in Pakistan, France and Saudi Arabia. Muhammad Sanaullah's co-authors include Yakov Kuzyakov, Abad Chabbi, Cornélia Rumpel, Abdul Wakeel, Еvgenia Blagodatskaya, Muhammad Farooq, Muhammad Usman, Sardar Alam Cheema, Imran Ashraf and Hafeez ur Rehman and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, The Science of The Total Environment and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Muhammad Sanaullah

63 papers receiving 2.9k citations

Hit Papers

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Muhammad Sanaullah Pakistan	23	1.2k	1.1k	498	483	475	73	3.0k
Ruiqiang Liu China	22	934 0.7×	725 0.6×	320 0.6×	769 1.6×	358 0.8×	52	2.7k
Tingxuan Li China	32	1.5k 1.2×	1.1k 1.0×	892 1.8×	283 0.6×	470 1.0×	183	3.4k
Jay Shankar Singh India	31	1.8k 1.4×	933 0.8×	583 1.2×	133 0.3×	620 1.3×	89	4.2k
Yanjiang Cai China	35	572 0.5×	1.6k 1.4×	564 1.1×	178 0.4×	787 1.7×	138	3.4k
Guoliang Wang China	35	1.1k 0.9×	2.0k 1.8×	408 0.8×	268 0.6×	1.4k 2.9×	169	4.2k
Yansheng Li China	26	1.2k 0.9×	1.0k 0.9×	795 1.6×	197 0.4×	562 1.2×	106	2.8k
Ghulam Mustafa Shah Pakistan	31	1.0k 0.8×	490 0.4×	513 1.0×	207 0.4×	194 0.4×	100	2.6k
Christoph Emmerling Germany	27	405 0.3×	931 0.8×	529 1.1×	347 0.7×	522 1.1×	67	2.6k
Huoyan Wang China	31	1.3k 1.0×	1.2k 1.1×	534 1.1×	144 0.3×	274 0.6×	99	3.1k
Mohammad Reza Mosaddeghi Iran	36	654 0.5×	1.9k 1.7×	243 0.5×	117 0.2×	332 0.7×	151	3.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Muhammad Sanaullah

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Maqsood, Muhammad Aamer, Tariq Aziz, Hafiz Muhammad Bilal, et al.. (2025). Zinc Application Methods Affect its Accumulation and Allocation Pattern in Maize Grown in Solution Culture. International Journal of Agriculture and Biology. 21(6). 1197–1204.

Ashraf, Muhammad Nadeem, Muhammad Kaleem Sarwar, Zia Ur Rahman Farooqi, et al.. (2025). Legume Inclusion in Wheat Rotations Increases Long‐Term Soil Carbon Storage via Carbon Management Indices and Microbial Stoichiometry. Soil Use and Management. 41(3). 1 indexed citations

Ashraf, Muhammad Nadeem, Zia Ur Rahman Farooqi, Muhammad Shahid Hassan, et al.. (2025). Long-term grass lawn management increases soil organic carbon sequestration and microbial carbon use efficiency. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 197(4). 483–483. 1 indexed citations

Ahmed, Waqar, Muhammad Nadeem Ashraf, Muhammad Sanaullah, et al.. (2024). Soil Organic Carbon and Nitrogen Mineralization Potential of Manures Regulated by Soil Microbial Activities in Contrasting Soil Textures. Journal of soil science and plant nutrition. 24(2). 3056–3067. 5 indexed citations

Anwar, Faiza, Muhammad Sanaullah, Hayssam M. Ali, et al.. (2024). Effect of combined application of inorganic nitrogen and phosphorus to an organic-matter poor soil on soil organic matter cycling. PeerJ. 12. e17984–e17984.

Wakeel, Abdul, et al.. (2024). Integrated Impacts of Soil Salinity and Drought Stresses on the Decomposition of Plant Residues. Sustainability. 16(13). 5368–5368. 1 indexed citations

Sanaullah, Muhammad, et al.. (2024). Co-application of biochar and salt tolerant PGPR to improve soil quality and wheat production in a naturally saline soil. Rhizosphere. 29. 100849–100849. 13 indexed citations

Ali, Muhammad Arif, Muhammad Sanaullah, Niaz Ahmed, et al.. (2023). Unlocking the secrets of soil microbes: How decades-long contamination and heavy metals accumulation from sewage water and industrial effluents shape soil biological health. Chemosphere. 342. 140193–140193. 16 indexed citations

Kiran, Aysha, et al.. (2023). MITIGATION OF DROUGHT STRESS IN WHEAT THROUGH EXOGENOUS APPLICATION OF PROLINE. The Journal of Animal and Plant Sciences. 33(6). 1392–1401. 1 indexed citations

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Tayyab, Muhammad, Abdul Wakeel, Muhammad Sanaullah, et al.. (2023). Foliar application of boron enhances sugar beet yield and industrial sugar content by promoting indigenous soil-boron uptake. Pakistan Journal of Botany. 55(4). 5 indexed citations

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Tayyab, Muhammad, Muhammad Sanaullah, & Abdul Wakeel. (2023). Sodium substitutes potassium requirements of sugar beet under saline–sodic conditions. Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science. 186(4). 464–472. 1 indexed citations

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Sultana, Rashida, Aysha Kiran, Muhammad Sanaullah, & Abdul Wakeel. (2023). Exploring the linkage between root system architecture and grain iron content in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. 7. 3 indexed citations

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Ahmed, Nisar, et al.. (2021). The Bawang Member, a unique unit of Belaga Formation in the Miri Zone, Central Sarawak, NW Borneo Malaysia: Revised stratigraphic and sedimentological characteristics. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 6(1). 27–42. 2 indexed citations

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Ullah, Aman, et al.. (2021). Impact of zinc and plant growth‐promoting bacteria on soil health as well as aboveground biomass of desi and kabuli chickpea under arid conditions. Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture. 102(6). 2262–2269. 3 indexed citations

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Khan, Muhammad Imran, Safdar Bashir, Muhammad Naveed, et al.. (2021). Improving Nutrient Uptake, Growth, Yield and Protein Content in Chickpea by the Co-Addition of Phosphorus Fertilizers, Organic Manures, and Bacillus sp. MN-54. Agronomy. 11(3). 436–436. 24 indexed citations

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Hussain, Saddam, Sardar Alam Cheema, Muhammad Sanaullah, & Muhammad Farooq. (2020). Weed Management in Direct-Seeded Fine Rice Using Allelopathic Crop Residue Mulches and Nitrogen for Sustained Yields in Pakistan. International Journal of Agriculture and Biology. 24(5). 1178–1186.

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Khalid, Perveiz, et al.. (2019). Estimating active storage of groundwater quality zones in alluvial deposits of Faisalabad area, Rechna Doab, Pakistan. Arabian Journal of Geosciences. 12(6). 12 indexed citations

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Ahmed, Mutez Ali, Muhammad Sanaullah, Еvgenia Blagodatskaya, Michaela A. Dippold, & Andrea Carminati. (2017). Mucilage: More than just a carbon source for microbial life in the rhizosphere. EGUGA. 9650. 1 indexed citations

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Shahid, Muhammad, Annabelle Austruy, Guillaume Echevarria, et al.. (2013). EDTA-Enhanced Phytoremediation of Heavy Metals: A Review. Soil and Sediment Contamination An International Journal. 23(4). 389–416. 183 indexed citations

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Sanaullah, Muhammad. (1996). On the occurrence of Trypanosoma sp. (Protozoa: Kinetoplastida) in Channa punctatus (Bloch) and Anabas testudineus (Bloch) at Beel Mahmoodpur, Faridpur.. Bangladesh Journal of Zoology. 24(2). 195–198. 2 indexed citations

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