Umar Ali Bukar

951 total citations · 1 hit paper
37 papers, 538 citations indexed

About

Umar Ali Bukar is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Communication and Computer Networks and Communications. According to data from OpenAlex, Umar Ali Bukar has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 538 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 10 papers in Communication and 10 papers in Computer Networks and Communications. Recurrent topics in Umar Ali Bukar's work include Public Relations and Crisis Communication (10 papers), Disaster Management and Resilience (9 papers) and Age of Information Optimization (5 papers). Umar Ali Bukar is often cited by papers focused on Public Relations and Crisis Communication (10 papers), Disaster Management and Resilience (9 papers) and Age of Information Optimization (5 papers). Umar Ali Bukar collaborates with scholars based in Malaysia, Nigeria and Saudi Arabia. Umar Ali Bukar's co-authors include Oluwatosin Ahmed Amodu, Md Shohel Sayeed, Sumendra Yogarayan, Abdul Razak, Raja Azlina Raja Mahmood, Marzanah A. Jabar, Fatimah Sidi, Mohamed Othman, Salfarina Abdullah and Мohamed Othman and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and IEEE Access.

In The Last Decade

Umar Ali Bukar

31 papers receiving 510 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.

A method for analyzing text using VOSviewer

2023 177 citations Umar Ali Bukar, Md Shohel Sayeed et al. MethodsX profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Umar Ali Bukar Malaysia	11	105	89	84	60	53	37	538
Christopher J. Lynch United States	16	120 1.1×	25 0.3×	142 1.7×	18 0.3×	14 0.3×	65	668
Nonita Sharma India	16	307 2.9×	161 1.8×	48 0.6×	26 0.4×	126 2.4×	99	928
Kefan Xie China	17	51 0.5×	30 0.3×	117 1.4×	25 0.4×	20 0.4×	41	733
Zhaohui Sun United States	14	61 0.6×	9 0.1×	69 0.8×	31 0.5×	54 1.0×	47	642
Suvodeep Mazumdar United Kingdom	13	120 1.1×	23 0.3×	46 0.5×	15 0.3×	17 0.3×	45	417
Murali Shanker United States	12	116 1.1×	28 0.3×	60 0.7×	38 0.6×	43 0.8×	32	638
Noor Hafizah Hassan Malaysia	12	78 0.7×	110 1.2×	35 0.4×	7 0.1×	49 0.9×	60	517
Sumendra Yogarayan Malaysia	10	53 0.5×	57 0.6×	26 0.3×	5 0.1×	85 1.6×	78	455
Wanru Wang China	11	118 1.1×	15 0.2×	45 0.5×	8 0.1×	28 0.5×	27	709
Lanyu Shang United States	15	325 3.1×	42 0.5×	265 3.2×	22 0.4×	26 0.5×	69	656

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Umar Ali Bukar

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Amodu, Oluwatosin Ahmed, Raja Azlina Raja Mahmood, Umar Ali Bukar, et al.. (2025). A question-centric review on DRL-based optimization for UAV-assisted MEC sensor and IoT applications, challenges, and future directions. Vehicular Communications. 53. 100899–100899. 1 indexed citations

Amodu, Oluwatosin Ahmed, et al.. (2025). A Bibliometric Exposition and Review on Leveraging LLMs for Programming Education. IEEE Access. 13. 58364–58393. 2 indexed citations

Razak, Abdul, Sumendra Yogarayan, Umar Ali Bukar, & Md Shohel Sayeed. (2025). Managing flash flood crises with cultural perspectives: A user-centric feature identification study. PLoS ONE. 20(2). e0318996–e0318996.

Amodu, Oluwatosin Ahmed, Zurina Mohd Hanapi, Raja Azlina Raja Mahmood, et al.. (2025). A comprehensive survey of deep reinforcement learning in UAV-assisted IoT data collection. Vehicular Communications. 55. 100949–100949. 2 indexed citations

Razak, Abdul, et al.. (2024). Enhancing Business Efficiency through Low-Code/No-Code Technology Adoption: Insights from an Extended UTAUT Model. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5(1). 85–99.

Bukar, Umar Ali, et al.. (2024). Prioritizing Ethical Conundrums in the Utilization of ChatGPT in Education through an Analytical Hierarchical Approach. Education Sciences. 14(9). 959–959. 7 indexed citations

Bukar, Umar Ali, Md Shohel Sayeed, Oluwatosin Ahmed Amodu, et al.. (2024). Leveraging VOSviewer approach for mapping, visualisation, and interpretation of crisis data for disaster management and decision-making. International Journal of Information Management Data Insights. 5(1). 100314–100314. 3 indexed citations

Bukar, Umar Ali, et al.. (2024). Real-Time Oversight of Parking Space Management in IoT Edge Computing for Industry 4.0: A Case Study. Siti Hasmah Digital Library-MMU Institutiona Repository (Multimedia University). 132–137. 1 indexed citations

Amodu, Oluwatosin Ahmed, et al.. (2023). Age of Information minimization in UAV-aided data collection for WSN and IoT applications: A systematic review. Journal of Network and Computer Applications. 216. 103652–103652. 32 indexed citations

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Amodu, Oluwatosin Ahmed, et al.. (2023). Age of Information Minimization in UAV-Aided Data Collection for WSN and IoT Applications: A Systematic Review. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

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Sayeed, Md Shohel, et al.. (2023). IoT Raspberry Pi Based Smart Parking System with Weighted K-Nearest Neighbours Approach. Civil Engineering Journal. 9(8). 1991–2011. 10 indexed citations

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Amodu, Oluwatosin Ahmed, et al.. (2023). A Survey on the Design Aspects and Opportunities in Age-Aware UAV-Aided Data Collection for Sensor Networks and Internet of Things Applications. Drones. 7(4). 260–260. 23 indexed citations

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Bukar, Umar Ali, Md Shohel Sayeed, Abdul Razak, Sumendra Yogarayan, & Oluwatosin Ahmed Amodu. (2023). Text Analysis of Chatgpt as a Tool for Academic Progress or Exploitation. SSRN Electronic Journal. 7 indexed citations

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Bukar, Umar Ali, Md Shohel Sayeed, Abdul Razak, Sumendra Yogarayan, & Oluwatosin Ahmed Amodu. (2023). An exploratory bibliometric analysis of the literature on the age of information-aware unmanned aerial vehicles aided communication. Informatica. 47(7). 4 indexed citations

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Bukar, Umar Ali, Md Shohel Sayeed, Abdul Razak, et al.. (2023). A method for analyzing text using VOSviewer. MethodsX. 11. 102339–102339. 177 indexed citations breakdown →

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Alkhalifah, Ali & Umar Ali Bukar. (2022). Examining the Prediction of COVID-19 Contact-Tracing App Adoption Using an Integrated Model and Hybrid Approach Analysis. Frontiers in Public Health. 10. 847184–847184. 10 indexed citations

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Bukar, Umar Ali, et al.. (2021). How social media crisis response and social interaction is helping people recover from Covid-19: an empirical investigation. Journal of Computational Social Science. 5(1). 781–809. 20 indexed citations

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Bukar, Umar Ali, et al.. (2021). Revisiting Social Media Crisis Communication Model for Building Resilience via Artificial Neural Network Analysis. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences. 11(17). 2 indexed citations

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Bukar, Umar Ali & Mohamed Othman. (2021). Architectural Design, Improvement, and Challenges of Distributed Software-Defined Wireless Sensor Networks. Wireless Personal Communications. 122(3). 2395–2439. 23 indexed citations

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Bukar, Umar Ali, et al.. (2016). Social Media in Relation to Cooperate Social Responsibility in Fast Food Industry. Journals & Books Hosting (International Knowledge Sharing Platform). 6(7). 27–36.

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