Saad Zafar

982 total citations · 1 hit paper
34 papers, 576 citations indexed

About

Saad Zafar is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Sociology and Political Science and Information Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, Saad Zafar has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 576 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 9 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 9 papers in Information Systems. Recurrent topics in Saad Zafar's work include Access Control and Trust (6 papers), Information and Cyber Security (4 papers) and Security and Verification in Computing (4 papers). Saad Zafar is often cited by papers focused on Access Control and Trust (6 papers), Information and Cyber Security (4 papers) and Security and Verification in Computing (4 papers). Saad Zafar collaborates with scholars based in Pakistan, Australia and Saudi Arabia. Saad Zafar's co-authors include Naurin Farooq Khan, Nadeem Zafar, R. Geoff Dromey, Kirsten Winter, Elankayer Sithirasenan, Lars Grunske, Naveed Ikram, Vallipuram Muthukkumarasamy, Peter Lindsay and Mahmood Niazi and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Medical Internet Research and Artificial Intelligence Review.

In The Last Decade

Saad Zafar

30 papers receiving 542 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.

Synthetic data generation: State of the art in health care domain

2023 93 citations Naurin Farooq Khan, Saad Zafar et al. Computer Science Review profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Saad Zafar Pakistan	13	192	108	92	68	63	34	576
E. M. Almahdi Malaysia	9	353 1.8×	168 1.6×	185 2.0×	127 1.9×	84 1.3×	9	941
Vijay Mago Canada	15	465 2.4×	87 0.8×	58 0.6×	101 1.5×	90 1.4×	89	992
Junaid Rashid Pakistan	15	347 1.8×	150 1.4×	166 1.8×	39 0.6×	119 1.9×	71	967
Andrea Giovanni Nuzzolese Italy	13	360 1.9×	159 1.5×	52 0.6×	57 0.8×	18 0.3×	49	866
Sandro José Rigo Brazil	15	153 0.8×	235 2.2×	23 0.3×	63 0.9×	85 1.3×	101	994
Andreas Prinz Norway	14	93 0.5×	147 1.4×	13 0.1×	34 0.5×	47 0.7×	76	580
Roseline Oluwaseun Ogundokun Nigeria	16	315 1.6×	143 1.3×	163 1.8×	29 0.4×	30 0.5×	99	836
Varadraj P. Gurupur United States	15	130 0.7×	70 0.6×	35 0.4×	18 0.3×	67 1.1×	54	567
Jingjing Ren China	11	340 1.8×	145 1.3×	29 0.3×	88 1.3×	31 0.5×	32	660
Jean-Baptiste Lamy France	14	408 2.1×	95 0.9×	69 0.8×	18 0.3×	141 2.2×	70	883

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Saad Zafar

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Gibbons, Michael, et al.. (2025). Collaborative intelligence in AI: Evaluating the performance of a council of AIs on the USMLE. PLOS Digital Health. 4(10). e0000787–e0000787. 1 indexed citations

Khan, Naurin Farooq, et al.. (2025). Cyberbullying victimization among university students- a national study of Pakistan. Security Journal. 38(1). 1 indexed citations

Zafar, Saad, et al.. (2025). A novelty towards neural signatures − Unveiling the inter-subject distance metric for EEG-based motor imagery. Biomedical Signal Processing and Control. 105. 107552–107552.

Khan, Naurin Farooq, et al.. (2023). Synthetic data generation: State of the art in health care domain. Computer Science Review. 48. 100546–100546. 93 indexed citations breakdown →

Zafar, Saad, et al.. (2023). Etiological Profile of Hereditary Hemolytic Anemia among Patients Presenting in Tertiary Care Hospital of Lahore. 17(3). 103–105.

Alam, Gulzar, Sajjad Mahmood, Mohammad Alshayeb, Mahmood Niazi, & Saad Zafar. (2023). Maturity model for secure software testing. Journal of Software Evolution and Process. 36(5).

Khan, Naurin Farooq, et al.. (2022). Systematic literature reviews in cyberbullying/cyber harassment: A tertiary study. Technology in Society. 70. 102055–102055. 25 indexed citations

Khan, Naurin Farooq, et al.. (2022). Cyber-security and risky behaviors in a developing country context: a Pakistani perspective. Security Journal. 36(2). 373–405. 20 indexed citations

Kazi, Abdul Momin, et al.. (2020). Current Challenges of Digital Health Interventions in Pakistan: Mixed Methods Analysis. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 22(9). e21691–e21691. 49 indexed citations

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Noman, Ali, Muhammad Aqeel, Noreen Khalid, et al.. (2020). Spike glycoproteins: Their significance for corona viruses and receptor binding activities for pathogenesis and viral survival. Microbial Pathogenesis. 150. 104719–104719. 19 indexed citations

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Niazi, Mahmood, et al.. (2020). A maturity model for secure requirements engineering. Computers & Security. 95. 101852–101852. 21 indexed citations

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Khalid, Ali, et al.. (2019). Reaching Target Depth with Zero NPT in an HPHT Tight Gas Well: A Case for Automated Managed Pressure Drilling. 2 indexed citations

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Zafar, Saad, et al.. (2017). Machine learning based decision support systems (DSS) for heart disease diagnosis: a review. Artificial Intelligence Review. 50(4). 597–623. 96 indexed citations

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Zafar, Saad. (2016). Internet Addiction or Problematic Internet Use: Current Issues and Challenges in Conceptualization, Measurement and Treatment. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2 indexed citations

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Zafar, Saad, et al.. (2014). Evaluation of use of e-Learning in undergraduate radiology education: A review. European Journal of Radiology. 83(12). 2277–2287. 65 indexed citations

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Zafar, Saad, et al.. (2013). Security quality model: an extension of Dromey’s model. Software Quality Journal. 23(1). 29–54. 5 indexed citations

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Masood, Isma & Saad Zafar. (2011). A Systematic Mapping Study on Patient Data Privacy and Security for Software System Development. International Conference on Software Engineering Advances. 166–170. 1 indexed citations

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Zafar, Saad. (2009). A Light-Weight Formal Approach for Modeling, Verifying and Integrating Role-Based Access Control Requirements. lncs 3655. 257–264. 1 indexed citations

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Sithirasenan, Elankayer, Saad Zafar, & Vallipuram Muthukkumarasamy. (2008). Analysis of IEEE 802.11i WLAN Security Protocol. Tropical Animal Health and Production. 2(1). 13–25. 1 indexed citations

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Zafar, Saad & R. Geoff Dromey. (2005). Integrating safety and security requirements into design of an embedded system. Griffith Research Online (Griffith University, Queensland, Australia). 24 indexed citations

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