Waheed Ahmad

888 total citations · 1 hit paper
22 papers, 683 citations indexed

About

Waheed Ahmad is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Waheed Ahmad has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 683 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 7 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 4 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Recurrent topics in Waheed Ahmad's work include Energy, Environment, Economic Growth (11 papers), Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies (7 papers) and Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth (4 papers). Waheed Ahmad is often cited by papers focused on Energy, Environment, Economic Growth (11 papers), Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies (7 papers) and Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth (4 papers). Waheed Ahmad collaborates with scholars based in Pakistan, China and Taiwan. Waheed Ahmad's co-authors include Muhammad Tariq Majeed, Sana Ullah, İlhan Öztürk, Mujahid Abbas, Muhammad Rafiq, Sidra Sohail, Xiaolong Li, Dumitru Bǎleanu, Muhammad Afaq Haider Jafri and Rui Xue and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Journal of Cleaner Production.

In The Last Decade

Waheed Ahmad

21 papers receiving 671 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. Do technological innovations have symmetric or asymmetric effects on environmental quality? Evidence from Pakistan
    2021 230 citations Sana Ullah, İlhan Öztürk et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Waheed Ahmad Pakistan 12 431 246 114 110 84 22 683
Wanjun Xia China 10 663 1.5× 325 1.3× 285 2.5× 35 0.3× 125 1.5× 17 934
Saed Alizamir United States 7 217 0.5× 78 0.3× 29 0.3× 12 0.1× 37 0.4× 12 656
Changgui Dong China 16 221 0.5× 158 0.6× 96 0.8× 9 0.1× 137 1.6× 28 948
Zakariya Farajzadeh Iran 10 213 0.5× 107 0.4× 60 0.5× 75 0.7× 34 0.4× 20 389
François Lafond United Kingdom 12 244 0.6× 77 0.3× 55 0.5× 22 0.2× 21 0.3× 20 525
Ateeq ur Rehman Irshad Saudi Arabia 9 128 0.3× 96 0.4× 37 0.3× 42 0.4× 42 0.5× 17 344
Jinchai Lin China 10 100 0.2× 77 0.3× 35 0.3× 16 0.1× 23 0.3× 15 413
Hasraddin Guliyev Azerbaijan 10 239 0.6× 67 0.3× 48 0.4× 73 0.7× 19 0.2× 17 367

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Waheed Ahmad

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Khan, Khatib Ahmad, et al.. (2025). From invention to progress: Energy technology innovation and sustainable development in OECD economies. PLoS ONE. 20(2). e0310104–e0310104. 1 indexed citations
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Ahmad, Waheed, Ejaz Ahmad Waraich, Nasir Mahmood, et al.. (2024). Silicon-Mediated Improvement in Drought and Salinity Stress Tolerance of Black Gram (Vigna mungo L.) by Modulating Growth, Physiological, Biochemical, and Root Attributes. ACS Omega. 9(35). 37231–37242. 2 indexed citations
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Ahmad, Waheed, İlhan Öztürk, & Muhammad Tariq Majeed. (2022). Asymmetric impact of disaggregate energy consumption on environmental quality for Pakistan, Bangladesh and India. International Journal of Ambient Energy. 43(1). 8248–8258. 11 indexed citations
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Majeed, Muhammad Tariq, et al.. (2021). The trade-off between economic growth and environmental quality: does economic freedom asymmetric matter for Pakistan?. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 28(31). 41912–41921. 26 indexed citations
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Ahmad, Waheed, et al.. (2021). Demographic variation and risk factors regarding breast cancer among female in Southern Punjab, Pakistan. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 71(7). 1–16. 3 indexed citations
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Li, Xiaolong, Sidra Sohail, Muhammad Tariq Majeed, & Waheed Ahmad. (2021). Green logistics, economic growth, and environmental quality: evidence from one belt and road initiative economies. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 28(24). 30664–30674. 75 indexed citations
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Ahmad, Waheed & Mujahid Abbas. (2021). Effect of quarantine on transmission dynamics of Ebola virus epidemic: a mathematical analysis. The European Physical Journal Plus. 136(4). 41 indexed citations
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Ahmad, Waheed, İlhan Öztürk, & Muhammad Tariq Majeed. (2021). How do remittances affect environmental sustainability in Pakistan? Evidence from NARDL approach. Energy. 243. 122726–122726. 37 indexed citations
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Ullah, Sana, Waheed Ahmad, Muhammad Tariq Majeed, & Sidra Sohail. (2021). Asymmetric effects of premature deagriculturalization on economic growth and CO2 emissions: fresh evidence from Pakistan. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 28(47). 66772–66786. 32 indexed citations
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Firasat, Sabika, et al.. (2021). Neurological manifestations in Pakistani lysosomal storage disorders patients and molecular characterization of Gaucher disease. Genetika. 53(3). 1017–1029. 1 indexed citations
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Ahmad, Waheed & Muhammad Tariq Majeed. (2021). Does renewable energy promote economic growth? Fresh evidence from South Asian economies. Journal of Public Affairs. 22(4). 10 indexed citations
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Jafri, Muhammad Afaq Haider, et al.. (2020). Physical infrastructure, energy consumption, economic growth, and environmental pollution in Pakistan: an asymmetry analysis. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 28(13). 16129–16139. 27 indexed citations
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Ahmad, Waheed, Sana Ullah, İlhan Öztürk, & Muhammad Tariq Majeed. (2020). Does inflation instability affect environmental pollution? Fresh evidence from Asian economies. Energy & Environment. 32(7). 1275–1291. 48 indexed citations
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Rafiq, Muhammad, Waheed Ahmad, Mujahid Abbas, & Dumitru Bǎleanu. (2020). A reliable and competitive mathematical analysis of Ebola epidemic model. Advances in Difference Equations. 2020(1). 42 indexed citations
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Khan, Dawar, et al.. (2019). A Low-Cost Interactive Writing Board for Primary Education using Distinct Augmented Reality Markers. Sustainability. 11(20). 5720–5720. 16 indexed citations
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Wong, Rachel, Waheed Ahmad, Allan Davies, et al.. (2017). Assessment of cerebral blood flow in adult patients with aortic coarctation. Cardiology in the Young. 27(8). 1606–1613. 12 indexed citations
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Miles, Susan, et al.. (2016). Sleep-Disordered Breathing in Patients with Pulmonary Valve Incompetence Complicating Congenital Heart Disease. Congenital Heart Disease. 11(6). 678–682. 7 indexed citations
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Ahmad, Waheed, et al.. (2015). Headache in a Patient with Complex Congenital Heart Disease: Diagnostic and Therapeutic Considerations. Heart Lung and Circulation. 24(11). e184–e187.
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Ahmad, Waheed, et al.. (2015). Influence of Age on Outcome in Patients with Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension. Heart Lung and Circulation. 24(7). 719–723. 2 indexed citations

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