Naveed Akhtar

4.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
142 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Naveed Akhtar is a scholar working on Epidemiology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and Neurology. According to data from OpenAlex, Naveed Akhtar has authored 142 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 70 papers in Epidemiology, 42 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and 36 papers in Neurology. Recurrent topics in Naveed Akhtar's work include Acute Ischemic Stroke Management (61 papers), Cerebrovascular and Carotid Artery Diseases (26 papers) and Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery (23 papers). Naveed Akhtar is often cited by papers focused on Acute Ischemic Stroke Management (61 papers), Cerebrovascular and Carotid Artery Diseases (26 papers) and Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery (23 papers). Naveed Akhtar collaborates with scholars based in Qatar, Canada and United States. Naveed Akhtar's co-authors include Ashfaq Shuaib, Abdul Salam, Maher Saqqur, Saadat Kamran, Andrei V. Alexandrov, Zsolt Garami, Ken Uchino, Carlos A. Molina, S. Calleja and Andrew M. Demchuk and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Clinical Oncology, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Blood.

In The Last Decade

Naveed Akhtar

134 papers receiving 2.3k 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.

Site of Arterial Occlusion Identified by Transcranial Doppler Predicts the Response to Intravenous Thrombolysis for Stroke

2007 513 citations Naveed Akhtar, Abdul Salam et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Naveed Akhtar Qatar	23	1.3k	1.0k	580	389	359	142	2.3k
Charles Matouk United States	30	1.2k 0.9×	1.4k 1.4×	1.8k 3.1×	259 0.7×	130 0.4×	172	3.8k
Joanna Lovett United Kingdom	16	1.6k 1.2×	1.7k 1.6×	471 0.8×	312 0.8×	144 0.4×	26	2.6k
Stefan Greisenegger Austria	21	640 0.5×	272 0.3×	240 0.4×	43 0.1×	168 0.5×	43	1.5k
Piero Verro United States	22	1.4k 1.1×	676 0.6×	668 1.2×	67 0.2×	407 1.1×	31	2.0k
Vivian Gahtan United States	28	199 0.2×	716 0.7×	117 0.2×	98 0.3×	95 0.3×	103	2.2k
Gun Jörneskog Sweden	25	185 0.1×	387 0.4×	69 0.1×	103 0.3×	307 0.9×	67	2.1k
Shin Yi Jang South Korea	24	234 0.2×	498 0.5×	72 0.1×	198 0.5×	61 0.2×	95	1.5k
Mariuca Vasa‐Nicotera Germany	25	1.1k 0.9×	641 0.6×	785 1.4×	392 1.0×	20 0.1×	89	4.6k
Jessica C. Cardenas United States	28	425 0.3×	271 0.3×	369 0.6×	32 0.1×	18 0.1×	78	2.6k
Sung Eun Kim South Korea	17	472 0.4×	166 0.2×	88 0.2×	105 0.3×	40 0.1×	102	1.1k

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Abujaber, Ahmad A., et al.. (2025). Machine learning-based prediction of 90-day prognosis and in-hospital mortality in hemorrhagic stroke patients. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 16242–16242. 1 indexed citations

Akhtar, Naveed, et al.. (2024). Effect of different concentrations of soil and foliar applied zinc, boron and iron fertilizers on seedling growth, chlorophyll content and productivity of chickpea seedlings under semi-arid environment. Plant Science Today. 1 indexed citations

Abujaber, Ahmad A., et al.. (2024). Utilizing machine learning to facilitate the early diagnosis of posterior circulation stroke. BMC Neurology. 24(1). 156–156. 4 indexed citations

Bhutta, Zain A., Naveed Akhtar, Sameer A. Pathan, et al.. (2024). Epidemiological profile of stroke in Qatar: Insights from a seven-year observational study. Journal of Clinical Neuroscience. 123. 30–35. 3 indexed citations

Abujaber, Ahmad A., et al.. (2024). Machine learning-based prognostication of mortality in stroke patients. Heliyon. 10(7). e28869–e28869. 4 indexed citations

Irfan, Muhammad, et al.. (2023). Profiles of Thyroid Hormones in the Overweight Boys of District Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan. 4(3). 74–81. 1 indexed citations

Abujaber, Ahmad A., Ibraheem M. Alkhawaldeh, Yahia Imam, et al.. (2023). Predicting 90-day prognosis for patients with stroke: a machine learning approach. Frontiers in Neurology. 14. 1270767–1270767. 16 indexed citations

Abujaber, Ahmad A., et al.. (2023). Predicting 90-Day Prognosis in Ischemic Stroke Patients Post Thrombolysis Using Machine Learning. Journal of Personalized Medicine. 13(11). 1555–1555. 14 indexed citations

Imam, Yahia, et al.. (2023). Rescue Stent Placement for Acute Ischemic Stroke with Large Vessel Occlusion Refractory to Mechanical Thrombectomy: A Multiethnic Middle Eastern/African/Asian Cohort. Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology. 34(10). 1740–1748. 5 indexed citations

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Toor, Salman M., Eman Al‐Dous, Aijaz Parray, et al.. (2022). Circulating MicroRNA Profiling Identifies Distinct MicroRNA Signatures in Acute Ischemic Stroke and Transient Ischemic Attack Patients. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 24(1). 108–108. 16 indexed citations

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Al‐Dous, Eman, Salman M. Toor, Aijaz Parray, et al.. (2022). Identification of Novel Circulating miRNAs in Patients with Acute Ischemic Stroke. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 23(6). 3387–3387. 23 indexed citations

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Akhtar, Naveed, Rajvir Singh, Saadat Kamran, et al.. (2022). Ischemic stroke in patients that recover from COVID-19: Comparisons to historical stroke prior to COVID-19 or stroke in patients with active COVID-19 infection. PLoS ONE. 17(6). e0270413–e0270413. 9 indexed citations

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Kamran, Saadat, Naveed Akhtar, Rajvir Singh, et al.. (2019). Embolic Pattern of Stroke Associated with Cardiac Wall Motion Abnormalities; Narrowing the Embolic Stroke of Undetermined Source Category. Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases. 29(2). 104509–104509. 6 indexed citations

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Imam, Yahia, Saadat Kamran, Naveed Akhtar, et al.. (2019). Incidence, clinical features and outcomes of atrial fibrillation and stroke in Qatar. International Journal of Stroke. 15(1). 85–89. 15 indexed citations

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Khan, Adnan, Saadat Kamran, Naveed Akhtar, et al.. (2018). Corneal Confocal Microscopy detects a Reduction in Corneal Endothelial Cells and Nerve Fibres in Patients with Acute Ischemic Stroke. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 17333–17333. 16 indexed citations

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Wilkins, Stacy Schantz, Naveed Akhtar, Abdul Salam, et al.. (2018). Acute post stroke depression at a Primary Stroke Center in the Middle East. PLoS ONE. 13(12). e0208708–e0208708. 20 indexed citations

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Lansberg, Maarten G., Sören Christensen, Stephanie Kemp, et al.. (2017). Computed tomographic perfusion to Predict Response to Recanalization in ischemic stroke. Annals of Neurology. 81(6). 849–856. 95 indexed citations

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Tagawa, Scott T., Matthew I. Milowsky, Michael J. Morris, et al.. (2013). Phase II Study of Lutetium-177–Labeled Anti-Prostate-Specific Membrane Antigen Monoclonal Antibody J591 for Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer. Clinical Cancer Research. 19(18). 5182–5191. 308 indexed citations

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Iftikhar, Imran H., et al.. (2012). ATRIAL FIBRILLATION POST CARDIAC SURGERY: INCIDENCE, PREDISPOSING FACTORS AND PROGNOSTIC IMPLICATIONS.. Pakistan Heart Journal. 39. 3–8. 2 indexed citations

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Akhtar, Naveed, et al.. (2011). Management of acute ischemic stroke: time is brain.. PubMed Central. 107(5). 333–7. 7 indexed citations

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