Uzair Sajjad

4.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
102 papers, 3.2k citations indexed

About

Uzair Sajjad is a scholar working on Mechanical Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Uzair Sajjad has authored 102 papers receiving a total of 3.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 68 papers in Mechanical Engineering, 22 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 19 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Uzair Sajjad's work include Heat Transfer and Optimization (27 papers), Adsorption and Cooling Systems (25 papers) and Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Technologies (18 papers). Uzair Sajjad is often cited by papers focused on Heat Transfer and Optimization (27 papers), Adsorption and Cooling Systems (25 papers) and Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Technologies (18 papers). Uzair Sajjad collaborates with scholars based in Taiwan, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. Uzair Sajjad's co-authors include Hafız Muhammad Ali, Chi‐Chuan Wang, Tauseef‐ur Rehman, Wei‐Mon Yan, Muhammad Mansoor Janjua, Naseem Abbas, Muhammad Sultan, Khalid Hamid, Mohammed Amer and Imtiyaz Hussain and has published in prestigious journals such as Applied Energy, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy and International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer.

In The Last Decade

Uzair Sajjad

98 papers receiving 3.1k citations

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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.

A critical review on heat transfer augmentation of phase change materials embedded with porous materials/foams

2019 421 citations Tauseef‐ur Rehman, Hafız Muhammad Ali et al. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer profile →
Mo-based MXenes: Synthesis, properties, and applications

2024 74 citations Iftikhar Hussain, Umay Amara et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Uzair Sajjad Taiwan	34	2.0k	1.0k	711	405	394	102	3.2k
Farhan Lafta Rashid Iraq	30	1.3k 0.7×	1.1k 1.0×	657 0.9×	332 0.8×	326 0.8×	259	2.7k
Tauseef‐ur Rehman South Korea	20	1.6k 0.8×	827 0.8×	439 0.6×	241 0.6×	285 0.7×	31	2.1k
Hao Peng China	29	2.4k 1.2×	765 0.7×	478 0.7×	302 0.7×	488 1.2×	99	3.0k
Syeda Humaira Tasnim Canada	27	2.0k 1.0×	1.1k 1.0×	866 1.2×	689 1.7×	461 1.2×	101	2.9k
Hussain H. Al‐Kayiem Malaysia	33	2.0k 1.0×	1.4k 1.4×	654 0.9×	399 1.0×	451 1.1×	256	3.8k
Xiang Ling China	34	2.8k 1.4×	1.0k 1.0×	750 1.1×	279 0.7×	203 0.5×	171	3.8k
Y.B. Tao China	32	3.0k 1.5×	2.4k 2.4×	659 0.9×	702 1.7×	531 1.3×	83	4.4k
George Kosmadakis Greece	33	1.5k 0.8×	917 0.9×	790 1.1×	305 0.8×	772 2.0×	85	3.3k
Hua Zhang China	31	2.1k 1.0×	599 0.6×	873 1.2×	256 0.6×	187 0.5×	163	3.2k
Chuan Li China	30	2.3k 1.2×	1.2k 1.1×	378 0.5×	402 1.0×	136 0.3×	101	3.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Uzair Sajjad

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Hamid, Khalid, Ignat Tolstorebrov, Armin Hafner, et al.. (2025). Experimental optimization of an absorption-compression heat pump with wet compression for large temperature glide industrial applications. Renewable Energy. 243. 122531–122531. 5 indexed citations

Sajjad, Uzair, et al.. (2025). Machine learning driven metaheuristics to optimize the design-operational parameters for enhanced pool boiling CHF subject to a range of surface-liquid combinations. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer. 252. 127510–127510.

Hussain, Imtiyaz, Uzair Sajjad, Showkat Ahmad Bhat, et al.. (2024). Potential evaluation of AI-based surrogate models to find the robust and optimal method for thermal performance assessment of desiccant air-conditioning systems. Energy Conversion and Management X. 25. 100782–100782. 2 indexed citations

Yaqoob, Haseeb, et al.. (2024). Enhancing diesel engine performance and emissions control with reduced Graphene oxide and Non-Edible biodiesel blends. Energy Conversion and Management X. 24. 100710–100710. 5 indexed citations

Hussain, Iftikhar, Uzair Sajjad, Umay Amara, et al.. (2024). Double transition-metal MXenes: Classification, properties, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and energy storage applications. Materials Today Physics. 42. 101382–101382. 50 indexed citations

Yan, Wei‐Mon, et al.. (2024). Performance evaluation of ultrasonic-assisted dynamic ice melting in ice storage systems: An experimental study. Journal of Energy Storage. 103. 114045–114045. 2 indexed citations

Amer, Mohammed, et al.. (2024). Electric vehicles: Battery technologies, charging standards, AI communications, challenges, and future directions. Energy Conversion and Management X. 24. 100751–100751. 35 indexed citations

Yaqoob, Haseeb, Hafız Muhammad Ali, Uzair Sajjad, & Khalid Hamid. (2024). Investigating the potential of plastic pyrolysis oil-diesel blends in diesel engine: Performance, emissions, thermodynamics and sustainability analysis. Results in Engineering. 24. 103336–103336. 12 indexed citations

Chen, Bolin, Tien‐Fu Yang, Uzair Sajjad, Hafız Muhammad Ali, & Wei‐Mon Yan. (2023). Deep learning-based assessment of saturated flow boiling heat transfer and two-phase pressure drop for evaporating flow. Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements. 151. 519–537. 22 indexed citations

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Sultan, Muhammad, Muhammad Farooq, Sobhy M. Ibrahim, et al.. (2023). Evaluating the emerging adsorbents for performance improvement of adsorption desalination cum cooling system. International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer. 142. 106661–106661. 12 indexed citations

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Rehman, Tauseef‐ur, Uzair Sajjad, Bilal Lamrani, et al.. (2023). Investigation on the thermal control and performance of PCM–porous media-integrated heat sink systems: Deep neural network modelling employing experimental correlations. Renewable Energy. 220. 119719–119719. 25 indexed citations

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Aleem, Muhammad, Muhammad Sultan, Muhammad Farooq, et al.. (2023). Evaluating the emerging adsorbents for water production potential and thermodynamic limits of adsorption-based atmospheric water harvesting systems. International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer. 145. 106863–106863. 16 indexed citations

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Jafry, Ali Turab, et al.. (2023). Performance and Emission Characteristics of Second-Generation Biodiesel with Oxygenated Additives. Energies. 16(13). 5153–5153. 32 indexed citations

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Bhat, Showkat Ahmad, Nen‐Fu Huang, Imtiyaz Hussain, & Uzair Sajjad. (2023). Correlating the Ambient Conditions and Performance Indicators of the LoRaWAN via Surrogate Gaussian Process-Based Bidirectional LSTM Stacked Autoencoder. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management. 20(3). 3413–3427. 9 indexed citations

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Usman, Muhammad, Muhammad Ali Ijaz Malik, Asad Naeem Shah, et al.. (2023). Investigation of Mineral Oil and CuO Mixed Synthetic Oil in Compression Ignition Engines: A Comparison of Physicochemical Attributes. Fire. 6(12). 467–467. 1 indexed citations

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Hussain, Ghulam Sabir, Muhammad Aleem, Muhammad Sultan, et al.. (2022). Evaluating Evaporative Cooling Assisted Solid Desiccant Dehumidification System for Agricultural Storage Application. Sustainability. 14(3). 1479–1479. 17 indexed citations

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Sultan, Muhammad, et al.. (2022). Recent developments in adsorption heat pumps for heating applications. Advances in Mechanical Engineering. 14(4). 1992379982–1992379982. 7 indexed citations

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Sultan, Muhammad, et al.. (2022). An overview of solid and liquid materials for adsorption-based atmospheric water harvesting. Advances in Mechanical Engineering. 14(3). 35 indexed citations

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Ashraf, Hadeed, Muhammad Sultan, Redmond R. Shamshiri, et al.. (2021). Dynamic Evaluation of Desiccant Dehumidification Evaporative Cooling Options for Greenhouse Air-Conditioning Application in Multan (Pakistan). Energies. 14(4). 1097–1097. 31 indexed citations

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Bhat, Showkat Ahmad, Nen-Fu Huang, Imtiyaz Hussain, et al.. (2021). On the Classification of a Greenhouse Environment for a Rose Crop Based on AI-Based Surrogate Models. Sustainability. 13(21). 12166–12166. 18 indexed citations

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