Samer El-Zahab

583 total citations
22 papers, 406 citations indexed

About

Samer El-Zahab is a scholar working on Civil and Structural Engineering, Ocean Engineering and Building and Construction. According to data from OpenAlex, Samer El-Zahab has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 406 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering, 6 papers in Ocean Engineering and 5 papers in Building and Construction. Recurrent topics in Samer El-Zahab's work include Water Systems and Optimization (9 papers), Infrastructure Maintenance and Monitoring (7 papers) and Geophysical Methods and Applications (4 papers). Samer El-Zahab is often cited by papers focused on Water Systems and Optimization (9 papers), Infrastructure Maintenance and Monitoring (7 papers) and Geophysical Methods and Applications (4 papers). Samer El-Zahab collaborates with scholars based in Lebanon, Hong Kong and Egypt. Samer El-Zahab's co-authors include Tarek Zayed, Eslam Mohammed Abdelkader, Abdulkader El‐Mir, Hilal El-Hassan, Zoubir Mehdi Sbartaï, Jacqueline Saliba, Adel Elkordi, Ghasan Alfalah, Hassan Ghanem and Jamal Khatib and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Sustainability and Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing.

In The Last Decade

Samer El-Zahab

19 papers receiving 395 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Samer El-Zahab Lebanon 8 341 124 81 58 49 22 406
Ali Fares Hong Kong 10 254 0.7× 82 0.7× 34 0.4× 54 0.9× 48 1.0× 25 352
Zhongyu Hu Hong Kong 9 214 0.6× 95 0.8× 38 0.5× 54 0.9× 38 0.8× 13 323
S.N.R. Shah Pakistan 13 433 1.3× 80 0.6× 27 0.3× 57 1.0× 49 1.0× 21 644
Mudasser Iqbal United States 7 284 0.8× 131 1.1× 129 1.6× 24 0.4× 34 0.7× 9 360
Jafar Jafari‐Asl Iran 13 312 0.9× 50 0.4× 48 0.6× 62 1.1× 36 0.7× 27 448
Binghan Xue China 14 497 1.5× 121 1.0× 13 0.2× 82 1.4× 28 0.6× 58 648
Ivo Pothof Netherlands 10 171 0.5× 51 0.4× 57 0.7× 40 0.7× 11 0.2× 34 322
Divesh Ranjan Kumar Thailand 18 568 1.7× 49 0.4× 22 0.3× 89 1.5× 27 0.6× 54 692
Luisa Fernanda Ribeiro Reis Brazil 12 521 1.5× 253 2.0× 176 2.2× 70 1.2× 82 1.7× 34 661
Rony Kalfarisi United States 8 231 0.7× 37 0.3× 30 0.4× 47 0.8× 10 0.2× 12 318

Countries citing papers authored by Samer El-Zahab

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Fields of papers citing papers by Samer El-Zahab

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Samer El-Zahab. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Samer El-Zahab. The network helps show where Samer El-Zahab may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Samer El-Zahab

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Samer El-Zahab. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Samer El-Zahab based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Samer El-Zahab. Samer El-Zahab is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Douaoui, Abdelkader, et al.. (2025). Investigating the Impact of Salinity on Soil Organic Matter Dynamics Using Molecular Biomarkers and Principal Component Analysis. Sustainability. 17(7). 2940–2940. 1 indexed citations
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Younes, Khaled, et al.. (2025). Principal Component Analysis of Biomass-Derived Carbon Aerogels: Unveiling Key Performance Factors for Supercapacitor Applications. Sustainability. 17(10). 4530–4530. 1 indexed citations
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El‐Mir, Abdulkader, et al.. (2024). Use of machine learning models to predict the water penetration depth in concrete. Journal of Building Engineering. 95. 110107–110107. 5 indexed citations
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El-Zahab, Samer, et al.. (2024). Enhancing Automated Acoustic Leak Detection in a Water Distribution Network Using Ensemble Machine Learning. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management. 151(3). 1 indexed citations
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Ghanem, Hassan, et al.. (2024). The Effect of Adding Banana Fibers on the Physical and Mechanical Properties of Mortar for Paving Block Applications. Ceramics. 7(4). 1533–1553. 8 indexed citations
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Ghanem, Hassan, et al.. (2024). Effect of Olive Waste Ash as a Partial Replacement of Cement on the Volume Stability of Cement Paste. Infrastructures. 9(11). 193–193. 7 indexed citations
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El‐Mir, Abdulkader, et al.. (2022). Machine learning prediction of concrete compressive strength using rebound hammer test. Journal of Building Engineering. 64. 105538–105538. 56 indexed citations
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El-Zahab, Samer, Abobakr Al-Sakkaf, Eslam Mohammed Abdelkader, & Tarek Zayed. (2022). A machine learning-based model for real-time leak pinpointing in buildings using accelerometers. Journal of Vibration and Control. 29(7-8). 1539–1553. 5 indexed citations
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El-Zahab, Samer, et al.. (2022). Rehabilitation of municipal infrastructure using risk-based performance. Automation in Construction. 140. 104335–104335. 8 indexed citations
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Al-Sakkaf, Abobakr, Samer El-Zahab, Eslam Mohammed Abdelkader, & Ghasan Alfalah. (2021). A Holistic and Systematic Assessment of Maintenance Approaches in Heritage Sites. WSEAS TRANSACTIONS ON SYSTEMS AND CONTROL. 16. 335–350. 2 indexed citations
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El-Zahab, Samer, et al.. (2021). Client-driven performance-evaluation framework for municipal infrastructure. Structure and Infrastructure Engineering. 18(5). 710–727. 1 indexed citations
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Al-Sakkaf, Abobakr, Eslam Mohammed Abdelkader, Samer El-Zahab, Ashutosh Bagchi, & Tarek Zayed. (2021). A Holistic methodology for lifecycle energy consumption of heritage buildings. Journal of Physics Conference Series. 1900(1). 12014–12014. 1 indexed citations
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El-Zahab, Samer, et al.. (2020). Minimum-Cost Flight Package Development Using Dijkstra's Shortest Path. 2020 International Conference on Decision Aid Sciences and Application (DASA). 1082–1085. 3 indexed citations
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El-Zahab, Samer, Abobakr Al-Sakkaf, Eslam Mohammed Abdelkader, & Tarek Zayed. (2020). A Novel Lazy Serpent Algorithm for the Prioritization of Leak Repairs in Water Networks. Water. 12(8). 2235–2235.
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El-Zahab, Samer, et al.. (2018). Development of a clustering-based model for enhancing acoustic leak detection. Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering. 46(4). 278–286. 17 indexed citations
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El-Zahab, Samer, Eslam Mohammed Abdelkader, & Tarek Zayed. (2018). An accelerometer-based leak detection system. Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing. 108. 276–291. 128 indexed citations
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El-Zahab, Samer & Tarek Zayed. (2017). Leak detection model for pressurized pipelines using support vector machines. 975–984. 3 indexed citations
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El-Zahab, Samer, et al.. (2016). Collective thinking approach for improving leak detection systems. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(1). 14 indexed citations

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