Muhammad Shafiq

10.8k total citations · 5 hit papers
266 papers, 7.2k citations indexed

About

Muhammad Shafiq is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Artificial Intelligence and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Muhammad Shafiq has authored 266 papers receiving a total of 7.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 83 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 60 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 38 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Muhammad Shafiq's work include Network Security and Intrusion Detection (30 papers), Advanced Malware Detection Techniques (22 papers) and Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting (21 papers). Muhammad Shafiq is often cited by papers focused on Network Security and Intrusion Detection (30 papers), Advanced Malware Detection Techniques (22 papers) and Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting (21 papers). Muhammad Shafiq collaborates with scholars based in Pakistan, China and United States. Muhammad Shafiq's co-authors include Alex X. Liu, Zhaoquan Gu, Zhihong Tian, Lusheng Ji, Ali Kashif Bashir, Mohsen Guizani, Xiaojiang Du, Jia Wang, Jeffrey Pang and Asif Ali Laghari and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and Applied Physics Letters.

In The Last Decade

Muhammad Shafiq

249 papers receiving 6.9k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition: A Survey

2022 496 citations Muhammad Shafiq, Zhaoquan Gu Applied Sciences profile →
CorrAUC: A Malicious Bot-IoT Traffic Detection Method in IoT Network Using Machine-Learning Techniques

2020 397 citations Muhammad Shafiq, Zhihong Tian et al. profile →
Selection of effective machine learning algorithm and Bot-IoT attacks traffic identification for internet of things in smart city

2020 280 citations Muhammad Shafiq, Zhihong Tian et al. profile →
IoT malicious traffic identification using wrapper-based feature selection mechanisms

2020 207 citations Muhammad Shafiq, Zhihong Tian et al. profile →
Bacterial and Fungal Biocontrol Agents for Plant Disease Protection: Journey from Lab to Field, Current Status, Challenges, and Global Perspectives

2023 115 citations Muhammad Shafiq et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Muhammad Shafiq Pakistan	45	2.9k	1.8k	1.2k	1.2k	1.1k	266	7.2k
Iqbal H. Sarker Bangladesh	32	1.5k 0.5×	2.6k 1.4×	1.3k 1.1×	582 0.5×	956 0.8×	102	8.4k
Kuan‐Ching Li Taiwan	45	2.8k 1.0×	2.7k 1.5×	3.0k 2.5×	1.4k 1.2×	527 0.5×	467	8.1k
Jianqiang Li China	55	2.0k 0.7×	2.7k 1.5×	1.0k 0.9×	1.3k 1.1×	609 0.5×	495	11.8k
Anand Nayyar Vietnam	46	2.2k 0.8×	1.6k 0.9×	1.5k 1.3×	1.7k 1.4×	314 0.3×	312	7.7k
Dan Wang China	44	2.8k 1.0×	1.1k 0.6×	988 0.8×	2.0k 1.7×	274 0.2×	598	8.8k
Chang Liu China	45	1.4k 0.5×	2.1k 1.1×	957 0.8×	3.1k 2.6×	470 0.4×	574	10.1k
Mohamed Elhoseny Egypt	59	3.1k 1.1×	2.9k 1.6×	2.1k 1.8×	1.5k 1.3×	491 0.4×	253	10.5k
Jian Ma China	43	2.7k 0.9×	2.7k 1.5×	1.3k 1.1×	1.8k 1.5×	530 0.5×	344	8.6k
Sotiris Kotsiantis Greece	32	927 0.3×	4.9k 2.7×	1.7k 1.4×	758 0.7×	649 0.6×	185	11.3k
Václav Snåšel Czechia	38	1.0k 0.3×	2.7k 1.5×	970 0.8×	1.1k 0.9×	516 0.4×	572	7.4k

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Farooq, Ameeq, et al.. (2025). Effect of temperature control on tribological and corrosion properties of copper in cathodic cage plasma nitriding. AIP Advances. 15(1).

Shafiq, Muhammad, et al.. (2024). Examining the Influence of Adoptability, Alignment, and Agility Approaches on the Sustainable Performance of Aviation Industry: An Empirical Investigation of Supply Chain Perspective. International Journal of Aviation Aeronautics and Aerospace. 11(1). 5 indexed citations

Yuan, Ye, Mengqian Zhang, Muhammad Shafiq, et al.. (2024). Toxic effects of heavy metals on crustaceans and associated health risks in humans: a review. Environmental Chemistry Letters. 22(3). 1391–1411. 53 indexed citations

Montanari, Gian Carlo, et al.. (2024). A discussion on the dependence of partial discharge inception voltage on supply voltage waveform: sinusoidal and modulated AC. 392–396. 2 indexed citations

Shafiq, Muhammad, et al.. (2024). Discharge Characteristics for Surface Discharges at Variable Atmospheric Pressure. 409–412. 2 indexed citations

Qiu, Jing, Yang Lin, Hao Chen, et al.. (2023). Diverse classifiers with label dependencies for long-tail relation extraction in big data. Computers & Electrical Engineering. 110. 108812–108812. 1 indexed citations

Mohsan, Syed Agha Hassnain, Dun Li, Zhiyun Zheng, et al.. (2023). HyproBert: A Fake News Detection Model Based on Deep Hypercontext. Symmetry. 15(2). 296–296. 26 indexed citations

Hussain, Ghulam Amjad, Waqar Hassan, Farhan Mahmood, et al.. (2023). Review on Partial Discharge Diagnostic Techniques for High Voltage Equipment in Power Systems. IEEE Access. 11. 51382–51394. 46 indexed citations

Zhang, Huan, et al.. (2023). Medical Specialty Classification Based on Semiadversarial Data Augmentation. Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience. 2023(1). 4919371–4919371.

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Hassan, Waqar, Ghulam Amjad Hussain, Farhan Mahmood, Muhammad Shafiq, & Gian Carlo Montanari. (2023). Effects of Temperature and Pressure on Failure Risk of Electric Motors based on Partial Discharge Measurements. IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems. 1–9. 9 indexed citations

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Teng, Lin, Yulong Qiao, Muhammad Shafiq, et al.. (2023). FLPK-BiSeNet: Federated Learning Based on Priori Knowledge and Bilateral Segmentation Network for Image Edge Extraction. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management. 20(2). 1529–1542. 20 indexed citations

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Jia, Yan, et al.. (2023). Extracting Novel Attack Strategies for Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems Based on Cyber Range. IEEE Systems Journal. 17(4). 5292–5302. 4 indexed citations

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Shafiq, Muhammad, Zhaoquan Gu, Omar Cheikhrouhou, Wajdi Alhakami, & Habib Hamam. (2022). The Rise of “Internet of Things”: Review and Open Research Issues Related to Detection and Prevention of IoT‐Based Security Attacks. Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing. 2022(1). 69 indexed citations

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Wang, Le, et al.. (2022). Adversarial Attack and Defense Strategies of Speaker Recognition Systems: A Survey. Electronics. 11(14). 2183–2183. 24 indexed citations

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Shafiq, Muhammad & Zhaoquan Gu. (2022). Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition: A Survey. Applied Sciences. 12(18). 8972–8972. 496 indexed citations breakdown →

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Shafiq, Muhammad, Zhaoquan Gu, Shah Nazir, & Rahul Yadav. (2022). Analyzing IoT Attack Feature Association with Threat Actors. Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing. 2022(1). 3 indexed citations

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Yadav, Rahul, Weizhe Zhang, Ibrahim A. Elgendy, et al.. (2021). Smart Healthcare: RL-Based Task Offloading Scheme for Edge-Enable Sensor Networks. IEEE Sensors Journal. 21(22). 24910–24918. 111 indexed citations

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Awais, Muhammad, et al.. (2020). The role and analysis of Microfinance Banks in Pakistan. 5(1). 34–62. 6 indexed citations

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Uchida, Kazunori, et al.. (2002). Monitoring Soil Erosion in a Mountainous Watershed under High Rainfall Zone in Pakistan. 2002(43). 23–30. 2 indexed citations

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Shafiq, Muhammad, et al.. (2001). Constraints of wheat crop production in under-rainfed area: An analysis. Sarhad Journal of Agriculture. 1 indexed citations

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