Sana Ullah

2.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
42 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Sana Ullah is a scholar working on Plant Science, Pollution and Agronomy and Crop Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Sana Ullah has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Plant Science, 11 papers in Pollution and 5 papers in Agronomy and Crop Science. Recurrent topics in Sana Ullah's work include Heavy metals in environment (11 papers), Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance (10 papers) and Plant Micronutrient Interactions and Effects (9 papers). Sana Ullah is often cited by papers focused on Heavy metals in environment (11 papers), Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance (10 papers) and Plant Micronutrient Interactions and Effects (9 papers). Sana Ullah collaborates with scholars based in Pakistan, Lithuania and China. Sana Ullah's co-authors include Muzammal Rehman, Muhammad Hamzah Saleem, Lijun Liu, Dingxiang Peng, Qin Wang, Saqib Bashir, Karolina Barčauskaitė, Sajid Mahmood, Hesham S. Ghazzawy and E. A. Kamel and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Chemosphere and Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology.

In The Last Decade

Sana Ullah

39 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Hit Papers

Copper environmental toxicology, recent advances, and fut... 2019 2026 2021 2023 2019 2022 100 200 300
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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.

  1. Copper environmental toxicology, recent advances, and future outlook: a review
    2019 385 citations Sana Ullah et al. profile →
  2. Mulching as a Sustainable Water and Soil Saving Practice in Agriculture: A Review
    2022 183 citations Hossam S. El‐Beltagi, Abdul Basıt et al. Agronomy profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Sana Ullah Pakistan 15 688 250 146 119 83 42 1.2k
Omar Aziz China 20 953 1.4× 288 1.2× 125 0.9× 81 0.7× 53 0.6× 31 1.2k
Xuecheng Sun China 21 725 1.1× 257 1.0× 149 1.0× 87 0.7× 104 1.3× 47 1.1k
Zhiqin Chen China 19 729 1.1× 407 1.6× 113 0.8× 103 0.9× 118 1.4× 44 1.2k
Muhammad Tahir Pakistan 19 745 1.1× 202 0.8× 181 1.2× 141 1.2× 65 0.8× 54 1.2k
Huanxiu Li China 19 656 1.0× 241 1.0× 189 1.3× 169 1.4× 53 0.6× 81 1.1k
Manoj Shrivastava India 17 431 0.6× 171 0.7× 176 1.2× 105 0.9× 54 0.7× 74 1.1k
Sofia I.A. Pereira Portugal 23 883 1.3× 402 1.6× 168 1.2× 176 1.5× 172 2.1× 45 1.5k
Fangdong Zhan China 20 732 1.1× 372 1.5× 138 0.9× 68 0.6× 71 0.9× 88 1.1k
Atif A. Bamagoos Saudi Arabia 20 873 1.3× 239 1.0× 188 1.3× 132 1.1× 38 0.5× 50 1.3k
Shaohua Chu China 18 510 0.7× 298 1.2× 164 1.1× 146 1.2× 84 1.0× 40 975

Countries citing papers authored by Sana Ullah

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sana Ullah

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sana Ullah

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All Works

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Abbas, Muhammad, et al.. (2025). Comparative efficacy of soil and foliar zinc application for agronomic biofortification of wheat with zinc. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(1).
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Ullah, Sana, Katarina Vogel‐Mikuš, Asif Naeem, Iftikhar Ahmad, & Karolina Barčauskaitė. (2025). Differential Response of Buckwheat Growth, Physiology, and Elements Distribution to Copper and Zinc Toxicity in Hydroponics. Water Air & Soil Pollution. 236(6). 2 indexed citations
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Ullah, Sana, et al.. (2025). Comparative toxicity of copper and zinc contaminated wastewater irrigation on growth, physiology, and mineral absorption of wheat. Water Environment Research. 97(1). e70001–e70001. 4 indexed citations
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Khan, Nadeem A., G. Rooh, Shaukat Ali Khattak, et al.. (2024). Assessment of radiation shielding capability of a high-density TeO2–Tl2O–Ag2O glass system: A simulation and theoretical studies. Radiation Physics and Chemistry. 222. 111834–111834. 1 indexed citations
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Chang, Te‐Sheng, et al.. (2024). Isolation and development of rosmarinic acid derivatives from Zostera marina L. and evaluating their hypopigmentation activity: In vitro and in silico study. Journal of Biologically Active Products from Nature. 14(4). 411–426.
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El‐Beltagi, Hossam S., Abdul Basıt, Heba I. Mohamed, et al.. (2022). Mulching as a Sustainable Water and Soil Saving Practice in Agriculture: A Review. Agronomy. 12(8). 1881–1881. 183 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ullah, Sana, et al.. (2020). Comparing chromium phyto-assessment in Brachiaria mutica and Leptochloa fusca growing on chromium polluted soil. Chemosphere. 269. 128728–128728. 28 indexed citations
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Ullah, Sana, et al.. (2020). Phytoextraction potential of different grasses for the uptake of cadmium and lead from industrial wastewater. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 39(1). 77–86. 16 indexed citations
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Ullah, Sana, et al.. (2019). Phytoremediative potential of salt-tolerant grass species for cadmium and lead under contaminated nutrient solution. International Journal of Phytoremediation. 21(10). 1012–1018. 28 indexed citations
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Ullah, Abid, Mohammad Nisar, Hazrat Ali, et al.. (2019). Drought tolerance improvement in plants: an endophytic bacterial approach. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 103(18). 7385–7397. 143 indexed citations
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Ullah, Sana, et al.. (2019). Plant growth promoting rhizobacteria mediated amelioration of drought in crop plants: A Review. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 38(1). 1–20. 13 indexed citations
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Rahman, Inayat Ur, Aftab Afzal, Zafar Iqbal, et al.. (2018). Historical perspectives of ethnobotany. Clinics in Dermatology. 37(4). 382–388. 56 indexed citations
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Akhtar, Muhammad Javed, Sana Ullah, Iftikhar Ahmad, et al.. (2017). Nickel phytoextraction through bacterial inoculation in Raphanus sativus. Chemosphere. 190. 234–242. 54 indexed citations
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Afzal, Irfan, et al.. (2015). FOLIAR APPLICATION OF POTASSIUM IMPROVES FRUIT QUALITY AND YIELD OF TOMATO PLANTS. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 14(1). 3–13. 29 indexed citations

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