Saleem Abdullah

8.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
272 papers, 6.0k citations indexed

About

Saleem Abdullah is a scholar working on Management Science and Operations Research, Control and Systems Engineering and Computational Theory and Mathematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Saleem Abdullah has authored 272 papers receiving a total of 6.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 240 papers in Management Science and Operations Research, 119 papers in Control and Systems Engineering and 80 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics. Recurrent topics in Saleem Abdullah's work include Multi-Criteria Decision Making (216 papers), Optimization and Mathematical Programming (117 papers) and Fuzzy Systems and Optimization (76 papers). Saleem Abdullah is often cited by papers focused on Multi-Criteria Decision Making (216 papers), Optimization and Mathematical Programming (117 papers) and Fuzzy Systems and Optimization (76 papers). Saleem Abdullah collaborates with scholars based in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and China. Saleem Abdullah's co-authors include Shahzaib Ashraf, Fazli Amin, Madad Khan, Asad Ali, Tahir Mahmood, Muhammad Qiyas, Aliya Fahmi, Muhammad Aslam, Fazal Ghani and Khaista Rahman and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Scientific Reports and Expert Systems with Applications.

In The Last Decade

Saleem Abdullah

258 papers receiving 5.9k 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.

Spherical fuzzy sets and their applications in multi-attribute decision making problems

2018 322 citations Shahzaib Ashraf, Saleem Abdullah et al. Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Saleem Abdullah Pakistan	42	5.1k	2.6k	1.6k	1.5k	967	272	6.0k
Xindong Peng China	36	4.9k 1.0×	2.0k 0.8×	1.4k 0.9×	1.7k 1.2×	836 0.9×	88	5.7k
Meimei Xia China	31	6.9k 1.3×	2.6k 1.0×	2.2k 1.4×	2.1k 1.4×	2.0k 2.0×	56	7.4k
Shu‐Ping Wan China	44	4.7k 0.9×	2.0k 0.8×	1.1k 0.7×	1.0k 0.7×	1.3k 1.3×	185	5.6k
Xinwang Liu China	51	5.3k 1.0×	1.9k 0.7×	1.7k 1.1×	983 0.7×	1.8k 1.9×	199	7.1k
Ligang Zhou China	35	3.5k 0.7×	1.3k 0.5×	1.0k 0.7×	931 0.6×	971 1.0×	169	4.2k
Xiaolu Zhang China	20	3.2k 0.6×	1.4k 0.5×	961 0.6×	1.1k 0.7×	550 0.6×	45	3.7k
Kifayat Ullah Pakistan	30	3.1k 0.6×	1.4k 0.5×	827 0.5×	789 0.5×	619 0.6×	124	3.9k
Tapan Senapati China	29	3.3k 0.6×	1.3k 0.5×	699 0.5×	797 0.5×	737 0.8×	146	4.0k
José Luís Verdegay Spain	39	4.4k 0.9×	2.7k 1.0×	1.6k 1.0×	1.8k 1.3×	2.2k 2.3×	164	7.8k
Jiu-Ying Dong China	39	3.3k 0.7×	1.3k 0.5×	762 0.5×	745 0.5×	994 1.0×	117	4.0k

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Abdullah, Saleem, et al.. (2025). Analysis of artificial neural network based on pq-rung orthopair fuzzy linguistic muirhead mean operators. Expert Systems with Applications. 276. 127157–127157. 1 indexed citations

Abdullah, Saleem, et al.. (2025). Application of fuzzy credibility graph in climate mitigation strategy assessment. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 29925–29925.

Abdullah, Saleem, et al.. (2025). Barriers and enhance strategies for green supply chain management using continuous linear diophantine neural networks. Complex & Intelligent Systems. 11(2). 1 indexed citations

Zhang, Yang, et al.. (2023). A new approach to neural network via double hierarchy linguistic information: Application in robot selection. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence. 129. 107581–107581. 41 indexed citations

Abdullah, Saleem, et al.. (2023). A New Approach to Artificial Intelligent Based Three-Way Decision Making and Analyzing S-Box Image Encryption Using TOPSIS Method. Mathematics. 11(6). 1559–1559. 38 indexed citations

Abdullah, Saleem, Alaa Omran Almagrabi, & Nawab Ali. (2023). A New Method for Commercial-Scale Water Purification Selection Using Linguistic Neural Networks. Mathematics. 11(13). 2972–2972. 11 indexed citations

Aamir, Muhammad, et al.. (2023). Impacts of crude oil market on global economy: Evidence from the Ukraine-Russia conflict via fuzzy models. Heliyon. 10(1). e23874–e23874. 8 indexed citations

Abdullah, Saleem, et al.. (2021). A Decision Support Model for Hotel Recommendation Based on the Online Consumer Reviews Using Logarithmic Spherical Hesitant Fuzzy Information. Entropy. 23(4). 432–432. 6 indexed citations

Ashraf, Shahzaib, Saleem Abdullah, & Tahir Mahmood. (2020). Aggregation operators of cubic picture fuzzy quantities and their application in decision support systems. Korean Journal of Mathematics. 28(2). 343–359. 15 indexed citations

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Fahmi, Aliya, et al.. (2019). Power Average Operators of Trapezoidal Cubic Fuzzy Numbers and Application to Multi-attribute Group Decision Making. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 29(1). 1643–1661. 3 indexed citations

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Fahmi, Aliya, et al.. (2019). Trapezoidal Linguistic Cubic Fuzzy TOPSIS Method and Application in a Group Decision Making Program. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 29(1). 1283–1300. 15 indexed citations

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Abdullah, Saleem & Shahzaib Ashraf. (2019). Cubic Picture Fuzzy Sets and Their Application to a Petroleum Circulation Center Evaluation Problem. Sigma Journal of Engineering and Natural Sciences – Sigma Mühendislik ve Fen Bilimleri Dergisi. 10. 99. 3 indexed citations

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Rahman, Khaista, Saleem Abdullah, & Madad Khan. (2018). Some Interval-Valued Pythagorean Fuzzy Einstein Weighted Averaging Aggregation Operators and Their Application to Group Decision Making. Journal of Intelligent Systems. 29(1). 393–408. 30 indexed citations

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Abdullah, Saleem, et al.. (2018). Cubic Ordered Weighted Distance Operator and Application in Group Decision-Making. Journal of Intelligent Systems. 29(1). 440–458. 1 indexed citations

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Rahman, Khaista, Saleem Abdullah, Asad Ali, & Fazli Amin. (2018). Pythagorean Fuzzy Einstein Hybrid Averaging Aggregation Operator and its Application to Multiple-Attribute Group Decision Making. Journal of Intelligent Systems. 29(1). 736–752. 8 indexed citations

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Khan, Madad, Saleem Abdullah, Asad Ali, & Khaista Rahman. (2018). Pythagorean Hesitant Fuzzy Information Aggregation and Their Application to Multi-Attribute Group Decision-Making Problems. Journal of Intelligent Systems. 29(1). 154–171. 20 indexed citations

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Khan, Madad, et al.. (2018). Gray Method for Multiple Attribute Decision Making with Incomplete Weight Information under the Pythagorean Fuzzy Setting. Journal of Intelligent Systems. 29(1). 858–876. 12 indexed citations

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Fahmi, Aliya, Saleem Abdullah, Fazli Amin, & Madad Khan. (2018). Trapezoidal cubic fuzzy number Einstein hybrid weighted averaging operators and its application to decision making. Soft Computing. 23(14). 5753–5783. 90 indexed citations

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Fahmi, Aliya, Saleem Abdullah, Fazli Amin, & Asad Ali. (2017). Precursor Selection for Sol–Gel Synthesis of Titanium Carbide Nanopowders by a New Cubic Fuzzy Multi-Attribute Group Decision-Making Model. Journal of Intelligent Systems. 28(5). 699–720. 56 indexed citations

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Abdullah, Saleem, et al.. (2013). A new type of fuzzy normal subgroups and fuzzy cosets. Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems. 25(1). 37–47. 16 indexed citations

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