Shahbaz Syed

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
30 papers, 640 citations indexed

About

Shahbaz Syed is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Information Systems and Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Shahbaz Syed has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 640 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 6 papers in Information Systems and 4 papers in Health. Recurrent topics in Shahbaz Syed's work include Topic Modeling (13 papers), Natural Language Processing Techniques (11 papers) and Advanced Text Analysis Techniques (8 papers). Shahbaz Syed is often cited by papers focused on Topic Modeling (13 papers), Natural Language Processing Techniques (11 papers) and Advanced Text Analysis Techniques (8 papers). Shahbaz Syed collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Canada and United States. Shahbaz Syed's co-authors include Hans Rosenberg, Salim Rezaie, Benno Stein, Martin Potthast, Henning Wachsmuth, Michael Völske, Rajiv Midha, Stephen W.P. Kemp, Sarah K. Walsh and Aubrey A. Webb and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Experimental Neurology and Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica.

In The Last Decade

Shahbaz Syed

27 papers receiving 616 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.

  1. The Twitter pandemic: The critical role of Twitter in the dissemination of medical information and misinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic
    2020 249 citations Hans Rosenberg, Shahbaz Syed et al. Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Shahbaz Syed Germany 10 227 192 95 90 86 30 640
Anna Sorrentino Italy 16 164 0.7× 242 1.3× 74 0.8× 4 0.0× 43 0.5× 35 1.0k
Octavio Rivera-Romero Spain 18 107 0.5× 125 0.7× 62 0.7× 8 0.1× 8 0.1× 61 971
Sarah Rosenberg France 11 35 0.2× 118 0.6× 94 1.0× 40 0.4× 27 0.3× 16 429
Justine Zhang United Kingdom 16 238 1.0× 118 0.6× 10 0.1× 7 0.1× 100 1.2× 30 908
Amy Franklin United States 14 87 0.4× 30 0.2× 17 0.2× 66 0.7× 6 0.1× 42 694
Bethany Snyder United States 12 47 0.2× 74 0.4× 56 0.6× 19 0.2× 12 0.1× 23 353
Lingnan He China 15 54 0.2× 199 1.0× 33 0.3× 2 0.0× 49 0.6× 40 687
Lili Song China 13 24 0.1× 323 1.7× 21 0.2× 5 0.1× 60 0.7× 61 966
Willow Bryant United States 7 12 0.1× 229 1.2× 93 1.0× 25 0.3× 6 0.1× 13 457
Kara Griffin United States 8 55 0.2× 63 0.3× 11 0.1× 22 0.2× 6 0.1× 13 461

Countries citing papers authored by Shahbaz Syed

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Fields of papers citing papers by Shahbaz Syed

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Shahbaz Syed

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Shahbaz Syed. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Shahbaz Syed 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 Shahbaz Syed. Shahbaz Syed 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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Scells, Harrisen, Niklas Deckers, Janek Bevendorff, et al.. (2024). Evaluating Generative Ad Hoc Information Retrieval. 1916–1929. 7 indexed citations
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Syed, Shahbaz, Khalid Al‐Khatib, & Martin Potthast. (2024). TL;DR Progress: Multi-faceted Literature Exploration in Text Summarization. 195–206.
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Syed, Shahbaz, Ahmad Hakimi, Khalid Al‐Khatib, & Martin Potthast. (2023). Citance-Contextualized Summarization of Scientific Papers. University of Groningen research database (University of Groningen / Centre for Information Technology). 8551–8568. 1 indexed citations
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Syed, Shahbaz, et al.. (2023). Frame-oriented Summarization of Argumentative Discussions. 114–129. 1 indexed citations
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Syed, Shahbaz, et al.. (2023). Modeling Appropriate Language in Argumentation. 4344–4363. 3 indexed citations
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Syed, Shahbaz, et al.. (2023). Just the facts: anaphylaxis and its mimics in the emergency department. Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine. 25(5). 370–373.
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Syed, Shahbaz, et al.. (2023). Indicative Summarization of Long Discussions. University of Groningen research database (University of Groningen / Centre for Information Technology). 2752–2788. 1 indexed citations
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Syed, Shahbaz, et al.. (2022). Sign Language Recognition Using Deep Learning. Journal of Pharmaceutical Negative Results. 13(SO3). 3 indexed citations
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Perry, Jeffrey J., Krishan Yadav, Shahbaz Syed, & Michel Shamy. (2022). Transient ischemic attack and minor stroke: diagnosis, risk stratification and management. Canadian Medical Association Journal. 194(39). E1344–E1349. 11 indexed citations
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Syed, Shahbaz, et al.. (2021). Summary Explorer: Visualizing the State of the Art in Text Summarization. University of Southern Denmark Research Portal (University of Southern Denmark). 185–194. 3 indexed citations
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Syed, Shahbaz, Mila Kingsbury, Kathryn Bennett, Ian Manion, & Ian Colman. (2020). Adolescents’ knowledge of a peer's non‐suicidal self‐injury and own non‐suicidal self‐injury and suicidality. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica. 142(5). 366–373. 26 indexed citations
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Al‐Khatib, Khalid, et al.. (2020). Exploiting Personal Characteristics of Debaters for Predicting Persuasiveness. 7067–7072. 22 indexed citations
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Syed, Shahbaz, Wei-Fan Chen, Matthias Hagen, et al.. (2020). Task Proposal: Abstractive Snippet Generation for Web Pages. 237–241. 2 indexed citations
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Rosenberg, Hans, Shahbaz Syed, & Salim Rezaie. (2020). The Twitter pandemic: The critical role of Twitter in the dissemination of medical information and misinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic. Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine. 22(4). 418–421. 249 indexed citations breakdown →
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Hall, Andrew K., et al.. (2020). Resident learning during a pandemic: Recommendations for training programs. Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine. 22(5). 617–621. 8 indexed citations
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Syed, Shahbaz, Michael Völske, Nedim Lipka, et al.. (2019). Towards Summarization for Social Media - Results of the TL;DR Challenge. 523–528. 8 indexed citations
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Syed, Shahbaz & Hans Rosenberg. (2018). FOAMed and social media – innovation or disruption?. Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine. 20(6). 818–820. 5 indexed citations
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Wachsmuth, Henning, Shahbaz Syed, & Benno Stein. (2018). Retrieval of the Best Counterargument without Prior Topic Knowledge. 241–251. 48 indexed citations
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Völske, Michael, Martin Potthast, Shahbaz Syed, & Benno Stein. (2017). TL;DR: Mining Reddit to Learn Automatic Summarization. 59–63. 58 indexed citations

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