Zafar Iqbal

6.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
174 papers, 5.2k citations indexed

About

Zafar Iqbal is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Condensed Matter Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Zafar Iqbal has authored 174 papers receiving a total of 5.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 101 papers in Materials Chemistry, 51 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 30 papers in Condensed Matter Physics. Recurrent topics in Zafar Iqbal's work include Carbon Nanotubes in Composites (33 papers), Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism (27 papers) and Graphene research and applications (22 papers). Zafar Iqbal is often cited by papers focused on Carbon Nanotubes in Composites (33 papers), Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism (27 papers) and Graphene research and applications (22 papers). Zafar Iqbal collaborates with scholars based in United States, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. Zafar Iqbal's co-authors include S. Vepřek, F.-A. Sarott, Yubing Wang, Somenath Mitra, Sanjay V. Malhotra, A.P. Webb, Renu Sharma, Masood Alam, Xianqin Wang and Mohd Saquib Tanweer and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Zafar Iqbal

168 papers receiving 5.1k citations

Hit Papers

Raman scattering from hyd... 1982 2026 1996 2011 1982 100 200 300 400
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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.

  1. Raman scattering from hydrogenated microcrystalline and amorphous silicon
    1982 475 citations Zafar Iqbal 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
Zafar Iqbal United States 36 3.4k 1.9k 1.1k 550 456 174 5.2k
Francis Leonard Deepak Portugal 36 3.6k 1.0× 1.8k 0.9× 908 0.9× 965 1.8× 371 0.8× 156 4.7k
S. Vasudevan India 36 3.2k 0.9× 1.3k 0.7× 994 0.9× 864 1.6× 430 0.9× 131 5.5k
Sanjeev K. Gupta India 38 3.6k 1.1× 1.7k 0.9× 636 0.6× 616 1.1× 435 1.0× 318 5.3k
Xue Jiang China 40 3.4k 1.0× 1.1k 0.6× 891 0.8× 1.0k 1.8× 411 0.9× 192 5.9k
Madhusudan Tyagi United States 33 3.1k 0.9× 1.3k 0.7× 866 0.8× 811 1.5× 413 0.9× 128 5.2k
Isabel Van Driessche Belgium 44 5.7k 1.7× 3.2k 1.6× 913 0.9× 833 1.5× 503 1.1× 265 8.2k
Tomonori Ohba Japan 37 3.1k 0.9× 861 0.4× 1.3k 1.2× 825 1.5× 361 0.8× 175 5.0k
Xiao‐Bao Yang China 38 6.4k 1.9× 2.2k 1.1× 868 0.8× 564 1.0× 515 1.1× 176 7.5k
E. Talik Poland 35 2.6k 0.8× 1.1k 0.6× 889 0.8× 1.5k 2.7× 364 0.8× 263 5.2k
Alison Crossley United Kingdom 44 2.7k 0.8× 2.8k 1.4× 928 0.9× 660 1.2× 499 1.1× 117 5.9k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Zafar Iqbal

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zafar Iqbal

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All Works

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Ali, Imdad, Sarzamin Khan, Riaz Ullah, et al.. (2025). Supramolecular Macrocyclic Amphiphile as an Efficient Nanocarrier for Cefixime and Its Anti‐Microbial Potential. Journal of Surfactants and Detergents. 28(6). 1271–1281.
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Tanweer, Mohd Saquib, et al.. (2024). Zinc Oxide/Moringa Oleifera Gum-Grafted L-Methionine-Functionalized Polyaniline Bionanocomposites for Water Purification. Water. 16(18). 2576–2576. 1 indexed citations
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Tanweer, Mohd Saquib, Zafar Iqbal, Khalid Ansari, & Masood Alam. (2024). Polyaniline-Modified Fibrous Nanosilica: a Thermally Stable and Highly Effective Adsorbent Towards Simulated and Real Water Samples. Environmental Processes. 11(4).
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Akhtar, Muhammad, et al.. (2023). Formulation of chitosan based lipid polymer hybrid nanocarrier system for oral delivery of tamoxifen citrate: Toxicological and hemocompatibility evaluation. Journal of Drug Delivery Science and Technology. 91. 105175–105175. 4 indexed citations
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Ali, Abid, Muhammad Adeel Asghar, Ali Haider, et al.. (2023). Surface modified carbon nanotubes fiber as flexible bifunctional electrocatalyst for overall electrochemical water splitting reactions. Journal of Science Advanced Materials and Devices. 8(4). 100638–100638. 8 indexed citations
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Iqbal, Zafar, Mohd Saquib Tanweer, & Masood Alam. (2023). Reduced Graphene Oxide-Modified Spinel Cobalt Ferrite Nanocomposite: Synthesis, Characterization, and Its Superior Adsorption Performance for Dyes and Heavy Metals. ACS Omega. 8(7). 6376–6390. 52 indexed citations
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Tanweer, Mohd Saquib, Zafar Iqbal, & Masood Alam. (2022). Experimental Insights into Mesoporous Polyaniline-Based Nanocomposites for Anionic and Cationic Dye Removal. Langmuir. 38(29). 8837–8853. 28 indexed citations
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Iqbal, Zafar, et al.. (2022). Synthesis of polymeric nitrogen with non-thermal radio frequency plasma. Catalysis Today. 409. 149–161. 9 indexed citations
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Ali, Asad, Sarir Uddin, Madan Lal, et al.. (2021). Structural, optical and microwave dielectric properties of Ba(Ti1−xSnx)4O9, 0 ≤ x ≤ 0.7 ceramics. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 17889–17889. 19 indexed citations
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Hu, Maocong, Zhiyi Wu, Zhenhua Yao, et al.. (2021). N8 stabilized single-atom Pd for highly selective hydrogenation of acetylene. Journal of Catalysis. 395. 46–53. 28 indexed citations
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Ali, Asad, Muhammad Hasnain Jameel, Sarir Uddin, et al.. (2021). The Effect of Ca Dopant on the Electrical and Dielectric Properties of BaTi4O9 Sintered Ceramics. Materials. 14(18). 5375–5375. 26 indexed citations
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Syed, Waqar Adil, et al.. (2020). Green route synthesis of ZnO nanoparticles mediated by Melia azedarach for microbiological applications. Nano Express. 1(1). 10035–10035. 4 indexed citations
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Uddin, Sarir, Abid Zaman, Muhammad Kamran, et al.. (2020). Structural investigation and improvement of microwave dielectric properties in Ca1-xBaxTiO3, low loss ceramics. Journal of Ceramic Processing Research. 21(6). 745–750. 1 indexed citations
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Ahmad, Jamil, Ahmat Khurshid, Faisal Shahzad, et al.. (2019). Fabrication of PEGylated Porous Alumina Whiskers (PAW) for drug delivery applications. Materials Letters. 241. 23–26. 11 indexed citations
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Imran, Muhammad, et al.. (2018). Morphological, luminescence and gas adsorption studies of Pb(II)-MOFs. Materials Research Express. 6(2). 25103–25103. 2 indexed citations
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Mudassir, Muhammad Ahmad, Syed Zajif Hussain, Syeda Tasmia Asma, et al.. (2018). Polyacrylamide exotemplate-assisted synthesis of hierarchically porous nanostructured TiO2macrobeads for efficient photodegradation of organic dyes and microbes. RSC Advances. 8(52). 29628–29636. 18 indexed citations
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Imran, Muhammad, et al.. (2018). Bismuth(III) based Metal Organic Frameworks: Luminescence, Gas Adsorption, and Antibacterial Studies. Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie. 645(1). 50–56. 25 indexed citations

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