Tarek Ganat

1.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
63 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Tarek Ganat is a scholar working on Ocean Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics of Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Tarek Ganat has authored 63 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 57 papers in Ocean Engineering, 30 papers in Mechanical Engineering and 16 papers in Mechanics of Materials. Recurrent topics in Tarek Ganat's work include Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis (27 papers), Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods (25 papers) and Enhanced Oil Recovery Techniques (23 papers). Tarek Ganat is often cited by papers focused on Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis (27 papers), Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods (25 papers) and Enhanced Oil Recovery Techniques (23 papers). Tarek Ganat collaborates with scholars based in Malaysia, Oman and Pakistan. Tarek Ganat's co-authors include Daniel Asante Otchere, Raoof Gholami, Syahrir Ridha, Najeebullah Lashari, Bennet Nii Tackie-Otoo, Maqsood Ahmad, Shams Kalam, Tushar Sharma, Mohammed Abdalla Ayoub and Meftah Hrairi and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Cleaner Production, Scientific Reports and Energy & Fuels.

In The Last Decade

Tarek Ganat

58 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

2 papers align trajectories

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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.

Application of supervised machine learning paradigms in the prediction of petroleum reservoir properties: Comparative analysis of ANN and SVM models

2020 338 citations Daniel Asante Otchere, Tarek Ganat et al. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering profile →
Application of gradient boosting regression model for the evaluation of feature selection techniques in improving reservoir characterisation predictions

2021 153 citations Daniel Asante Otchere, Tarek Ganat et al. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Tarek Ganat Malaysia	16	741	523	357	238	138	63	1.3k
Ehsan Khamehchi Iran	22	1.1k 1.4×	712 1.4×	345 1.0×	201 0.8×	87 0.6×	117	1.6k
Mohammad Ahmadi Iran	23	697 0.9×	624 1.2×	608 1.7×	306 1.3×	200 1.4×	107	2.1k
Syahrir Ridha Malaysia	21	634 0.9×	566 1.1×	257 0.7×	88 0.4×	321 2.3×	104	1.5k
Saeid Jamshidi Iran	19	622 0.8×	469 0.9×	311 0.9×	85 0.4×	157 1.1×	57	1.2k
Mahmoud Reza Pishvaie Iran	18	530 0.7×	344 0.7×	263 0.7×	218 0.9×	27 0.2×	64	962
Sonny Irawan Malaysia	17	681 0.9×	457 0.9×	136 0.4×	97 0.4×	290 2.1×	118	1.0k
Zhifeng Luo China	24	858 1.2×	957 1.8×	556 1.6×	70 0.3×	145 1.1×	103	1.6k
Sharul Sham Dol United Arab Emirates	15	373 0.5×	262 0.5×	146 0.4×	209 0.9×	91 0.7×	99	1.2k
Jing Gong China	24	493 0.7×	435 0.8×	326 0.9×	151 0.6×	295 2.1×	112	1.8k
Amin Bemani Iran	18	269 0.4×	250 0.5×	237 0.7×	236 1.0×	49 0.4×	32	888

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tarek Ganat

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20 of 20 papers shown

Ganat, Tarek, et al.. (2025). Efficacy of functionalized MWCNT-based polymeric nanofluids for enhancing oil recovery in reservoirs. Petroleum Research. 10(4). 902–911.

Ganat, Tarek, et al.. (2025). Application of ferrofluids for enhanced oil recovery: Impact on heavy and light oils in heterogeneous and homogeneous micromodels. Results in Engineering. 26. 105380–105380. 6 indexed citations

Sheng, James J., et al.. (2025). A performance evaluation of magnetic nanoparticle, biosurfactant, and polymer fluids for enhanced oil recovery under magnetic field stimulation. Journal of Molecular Liquids. 431. 127823–127823. 4 indexed citations

Alakbari, Fahd Saeed, et al.. (2025). A robust pressure drop prediction model in vertical multiphase flow: a machine learning approach. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 13420–13420. 3 indexed citations

Zirak, Mohammad, et al.. (2025). Elevated temperature and pressure performance of water based drilling mud with green synthesized zinc oxide nanoparticles and biodegradable polymer. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 11930–11930. 9 indexed citations

Ganat, Tarek, et al.. (2023). Smart proxy models art and future directions in the oil and gas industry: A review. Geoenergy Science and Engineering. 227. 211918–211918. 4 indexed citations

Ganat, Tarek. (2023). Experimental investigation of viscous oil–water–sand flow in horizontal pipes: Flow patterns and pressure gradient. Petroleum. 10(2). 275–293. 3 indexed citations

Otchere, Daniel Asante, Mohammed Abdalla Ayoub, Tarek Ganat, Raoof Gholami, & Zulkifli Merican Aljunid Merican. (2022). A Novel Empirical and Deep Ensemble Super Learning Approach in Predicting Reservoir Wettability via Well Logs. Applied Sciences. 12(6). 2942–2942. 11 indexed citations

Otchere, Daniel Asante, et al.. (2022). Improving seismic fault mapping through data conditioning using a pre-trained deep convolutional neural network: A case study on Groningen field. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering. 213. 110411–110411. 15 indexed citations

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Ahmad, Maqsood, et al.. (2022). Experimental study on water-based mud: investigate rheological and filtration properties using cupressus cones powder. Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production Technology. 12(10). 2699–2709. 19 indexed citations

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Ganat, Tarek, et al.. (2021). Experimental investigation of GO-HPAM and SiO2-HPAM composite for cEOR: Rheology, interfacial tension reduction, and wettability alteration. Colloids and Surfaces A Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects. 637. 128189–128189. 36 indexed citations

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Ahmad, Maqsood, et al.. (2021). Biopolymeric formulations for filtrate control applications in water-based drilling muds: A review. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering. 210. 110021–110021. 51 indexed citations

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Ganat, Tarek, et al.. (2020). A New Capillary Pressure Model from Fractal Characterization of Porous Medium: A Case Study from Malaysia. Solid State Technology. 63(1). 936–946. 4 indexed citations

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Ahmad, Maqsood, et al.. (2020). Experimental Investigation of Rheological and Filtration Behavior of Water-Based Mud Using Response Surface Methodology (RSM). Solid State Technology. 63. 1240–1251. 1 indexed citations

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Alakbari, Fahd Saeed, Mysara Eissa Mohyaldinn, Ali Samer Muhsan, Nurul Hasan, & Tarek Ganat. (2020). Chemical Sand Consolidation: From Polymers to Nanoparticles. Polymers. 12(5). 1069–1069. 50 indexed citations

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Otchere, Daniel Asante, Tarek Ganat, Raoof Gholami, & Syahrir Ridha. (2020). Application of supervised machine learning paradigms in the prediction of petroleum reservoir properties: Comparative analysis of ANN and SVM models. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering. 200. 108182–108182. 338 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ganat, Tarek, et al.. (2019). Experimental investigation of gas–oil–water phase flow in vertical pipes: influence of gas injection on the total pressure gradient. Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production Technology. 9(4). 3071–3078. 7 indexed citations

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Ganat, Tarek & Meftah Hrairi. (2018). A new choke correlation to predict flow rate of artificially flowing wells. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering. 171. 1378–1389. 10 indexed citations

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Ganat, Tarek & Meftah Hrairi. (2018). Gas–Liquid Two-Phase Upward Flow through a Vertical Pipe: Influence of Pressure Drop on the Measurement of Fluid Flow Rate. Energies. 11(11). 2937–2937. 14 indexed citations

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Ganat, Tarek, Meftah Hrairi, & M.N.A. Hawlader. (2017). Validation of ESP Oil Wells Measured Parameters Using Simulation Olga Software. IOP Conference Series Materials Science and Engineering. 184. 12057–12057. 5 indexed citations

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