Shafiullah Khan

2.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
71 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Shafiullah Khan is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Shafiullah Khan has authored 71 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 43 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 16 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 9 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Shafiullah Khan's work include Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (23 papers), Energy Efficient Wireless Sensor Networks (17 papers) and Opportunistic and Delay-Tolerant Networks (16 papers). Shafiullah Khan is often cited by papers focused on Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (23 papers), Energy Efficient Wireless Sensor Networks (17 papers) and Opportunistic and Delay-Tolerant Networks (16 papers). Shafiullah Khan collaborates with scholars based in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and China. Shafiullah Khan's co-authors include Nabil Alrajeh, Jonathan Loo, Bilal Shams, Jaime Lloret, Wali Ullah Khan, Al‐Sakib Khan Pathan, Amjad Mehmood, Muhammad Altaf Khan, Dhananjay Singh and Furqan Jameel and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Access, Sensors and IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems.

In The Last Decade

Shafiullah Khan

67 papers receiving 1.3k 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.

Cybersecurity Solutions for Industrial Internet of Things–Edge Computing Integration: Challenges, Threats, and Future Directions

2025 23 citations Tamara Zhukabayeva, Shafiullah Khan et al. Sensors profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Shafiullah Khan Pakistan	21	923	550	208	149	111	71	1.4k
Prashant Krishnamurthy United States	23	995 1.1×	933 1.7×	154 0.7×	145 1.0×	72 0.6×	108	1.6k
John Panneerselvam United Kingdom	19	424 0.5×	210 0.4×	267 1.3×	319 2.1×	33 0.3×	74	892
Giovanni Stea Italy	24	1.4k 1.5×	1.2k 2.1×	146 0.7×	142 1.0×	34 0.3×	119	2.0k
Pushpita Chatterjee United States	18	473 0.5×	210 0.4×	369 1.8×	411 2.8×	29 0.3×	67	1.1k
Lukman Audah‏ Malaysia	21	772 0.8×	1.1k 2.0×	155 0.7×	106 0.7×	56 0.5×	119	1.5k
Marja Matinmikko Finland	21	998 1.1×	941 1.7×	70 0.3×	37 0.2×	27 0.2×	73	1.4k
Muhammad Adil United States	21	599 0.6×	246 0.4×	253 1.2×	262 1.8×	53 0.5×	54	960
Ana Lucila Sandoval Orozco Spain	19	635 0.7×	249 0.5×	272 1.3×	311 2.1×	44 0.4×	97	1.2k
Suleman Khan Malaysia	20	776 0.8×	303 0.6×	272 1.3×	388 2.6×	23 0.2×	41	1.1k
Hussam Al Hamadi United Arab Emirates	15	293 0.3×	117 0.2×	259 1.2×	226 1.5×	51 0.5×	68	850

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Shafiullah Khan

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20 of 20 papers shown

Zhukabayeva, Tamara, et al.. (2025). Cybersecurity Solutions for Industrial Internet of Things–Edge Computing Integration: Challenges, Threats, and Future Directions. Sensors. 25(1). 213–213. 23 indexed citations breakdown →

Khan, Jamal Ahmad, et al.. (2024). Thyroid dysfunction in patients with chronic kidney disease.. The Professional Medical Journal. 31(9). 1288–1293.

Khan, Shafiullah, Muhammad Altaf Khan, & Noha Alnazzawi. (2024). Artificial Neural Network-Based Mechanism to Detect Security Threats in Wireless Sensor Networks. Sensors. 24(5). 1641–1641. 7 indexed citations

Khan, Shafiullah, et al.. (2023). A Cross-Layer Solution for Contention Control to Enhance TCP Performance in Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks. IEEE Access. 11. 24875–24893. 9 indexed citations

Khan, Shafiullah, et al.. (2023). Association of Severity of Diabetic Foot Ulcer with Glycated Hemoglobin A1C Levels. Pakistan Journal of Health Sciences. 161–165. 1 indexed citations

Hassan, Saima, et al.. (2023). Data Diversity in Convolutional Neural Network Based Ensemble Model for Diabetic Retinopathy. Biomimetics. 8(2). 187–187. 11 indexed citations

Roman, Muhammad, Abdul Shahid, Shafiullah Khan, et al.. (2022). Investigating Maps of Science Using Contextual Proximity of Citations Based on Deep Contextualized Word Representation. IEEE Access. 10. 31397–31419. 4 indexed citations

Khan, Shafiullah, et al.. (2022). Game-Theory-Based Multimode Routing Protocol for Internet of Things. Electronics. 11(24). 4134–4134. 3 indexed citations

Bangash, Javed Iqbal, et al.. (2022). An Efficient Smart Streamlet Management System Using Internet of Thing. Procedia Computer Science. 207. 1743–1753. 2 indexed citations

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Nazir, Shah, et al.. (2021). Analysis of Simple K-Mean and Parallel K-Mean Clustering for Software Products and Organizational Performance Using Education Sector Dataset. Scientific Programming. 2021. 1–20. 12 indexed citations

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Roman, Muhammad, Abdul Shahid, Shafiullah Khan, Anis Koubâa, & Lisu Yu. (2021). Citation Intent Classification Using Word Embedding. IEEE Access. 9. 9982–9995. 37 indexed citations

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Khan, Wali Ullah, Muhammad Awais Javed, Tu N. Nguyen, Shafiullah Khan, & Basem M. ElHalawany. (2021). Energy-Efficient Resource Allocation for 6G Backscatter-Enabled NOMA IoV Networks. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. 23(7). 9775–9785. 95 indexed citations

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Mehmood, Amjad, et al.. (2019). A survey on intrusion detection and prevention in wireless ad-hoc networks. Journal of Systems Architecture. 105. 101701–101701. 79 indexed citations

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Alrajeh, Nabil, Shafiullah Khan, Jaime Lloret, & Jonathan Loo. (2014). Artificial neural network based detection of energy exhaustion attacks in wireless sensor networks capable of energy harvesting. UWL Repository (University of West London). 22. 109–133. 17 indexed citations

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Khan, Shafiullah, et al.. (2014). Cloned Access Point Detection and Prevention Mechanism in IEEE 802.11 Wireless Mesh Networks.

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Khan, Shafiullah & Al‐Sakib Khan Pathan. (2013). Wireless Networks and Security: Issues, Challenges and Research Trends. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 16 indexed citations

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Ziauddin, Ziauddin, et al.. (2013). A Fuzzy Logic Based Software Cost Estimation Model. International Journal of Software Engineering and Its Applications. 7(2). 7–18. 18 indexed citations

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Khan, Shafiullah, Jonathan Loo, & Zia Ud Din. (2010). Framework for Intrusion Detection in IEEE 802.11 Wireless Mesh Networks. The International Arab Journal of Information Technology. 7. 435–440. 23 indexed citations

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Khan, Shafiullah, et al.. (2008). Passive security threats and consequences in IEEE 802.11 wireless mesh networks. International Journal of Digital Content Technology and its Applications. 2. 4–8. 14 indexed citations

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Khan, Shafiullah, et al.. (2005). Data mining approach to implement a recommendation system for electronic tour guides. University of Salford Institutional Repository (University of Salford). 215–218. 2 indexed citations

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