Zafar Iqbal

1000 total citations · 1 hit paper
17 papers, 702 citations indexed

About

Zafar Iqbal is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Water Science and Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Zafar Iqbal has authored 17 papers receiving a total of 702 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 7 papers in Atmospheric Science and 4 papers in Water Science and Technology. Recurrent topics in Zafar Iqbal's work include Climate variability and models (12 papers), Hydrology and Drought Analysis (8 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (7 papers). Zafar Iqbal is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (12 papers), Hydrology and Drought Analysis (8 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (7 papers). Zafar Iqbal collaborates with scholars based in Malaysia, Pakistan and Egypt. Zafar Iqbal's co-authors include Shamsuddin Shahid, Kamal Ahmed, Nadeem Nawaz, Najeebullah Khan, Tarmizi Ismail, D. A. Sachindra, Xiaojun Wang, ‪Eun‐Sung Chung, Ghaith Falah Ziarh and Mohd Khairul Idlan Muhammad and has published in prestigious journals such as The Science of The Total Environment, Sustainability and Climate Dynamics.

In The Last Decade

Zafar Iqbal

16 papers receiving 692 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.

Evaluation of CMIP6 GCM rainfall in mainland Southeast Asia

2021 143 citations Zafar Iqbal, Shamsuddin Shahid et al. Atmospheric Research profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Zafar Iqbal Malaysia	13	548	311	194	128	89	17	702
P. Sonali India	6	542 1.0×	225 0.7×	205 1.1×	118 0.9×	83 0.9×	11	623
Sylvie Parey France	17	738 1.3×	375 1.2×	220 1.1×	84 0.7×	48 0.5×	39	895
M. J. Nazemosadat Iran	10	473 0.9×	255 0.8×	120 0.6×	163 1.3×	77 0.9×	25	583
Eyüp Şişman Türkiye	14	568 1.0×	151 0.5×	188 1.0×	123 1.0×	78 0.9×	47	739
Chun‐Ho Cho South Korea	14	551 1.0×	371 1.2×	91 0.5×	102 0.8×	64 0.7×	72	747
Chi Yang China	12	618 1.1×	449 1.4×	148 0.8×	99 0.8×	47 0.5×	29	763
Mohammad Darand Iran	14	552 1.0×	415 1.3×	109 0.6×	113 0.9×	71 0.8×	51	732
Javad Bazrafshan Iran	16	636 1.2×	145 0.5×	280 1.4×	119 0.9×	136 1.5×	47	802
Ditiro B. Moalafhi Botswana	14	493 0.9×	188 0.6×	147 0.8×	105 0.8×	82 0.9×	29	646
T. Brandsma Netherlands	15	685 1.3×	437 1.4×	162 0.8×	278 2.2×	54 0.6×	25	913

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Sa’adi, Zulfaqar, Nor Eliza Alias, Zulkifli Yusop, et al.. (2024). Characterization of the future northeast monsoon rainfall based on the clustered climate zone under CMIP6 in Peninsular Malaysia. Atmospheric Research. 304. 107407–107407. 6 indexed citations

Sa’adi, Zulfaqar, et al.. (2023). Application of relative importance metrics for CMIP6 models selection in projecting basin-scale rainfall over Johor River basin, Malaysia. The Science of The Total Environment. 912. 169187–169187. 15 indexed citations

Muhammad, Mohd Khairul Idlan, et al.. (2023). Performance evaluation of CMIP6 GCMs for the projections of precipitation extremes in Pakistan. Climate Dynamics. 61(9-10). 4717–4732. 32 indexed citations

Hamed, Mohammed Magdy, Zafar Iqbal, Mohamed Salem Nashwan, Ahmed Farouk Kineber, & Shamsuddin Shahid. (2023). Diminishing evapotranspiration paradox and its cause in the Middle East and North Africa. Atmospheric Research. 289. 106760–106760. 25 indexed citations

Iqbal, Zafar, Shamsuddin Shahid, Tarmizi Ismail, et al.. (2022). Distributed Hydrological Model Based on Machine Learning Algorithm: Assessment of Climate Change Impact on Floods. Sustainability. 14(11). 6620–6620. 13 indexed citations

Iqbal, Zafar, Shamsuddin Shahid, Kamal Ahmed, et al.. (2022). Bias correction method of high-resolution satellite-based precipitation product for Peninsular Malaysia. Theoretical and Applied Climatology. 148(3-4). 1429–1446. 28 indexed citations

Shahid, Shamsuddin, et al.. (2021). Historical trends in crop water demand over semiarid region of Syria. Theoretical and Applied Climatology. 146(1-2). 555–566. 6 indexed citations

Iqbal, Zafar, Shamsuddin Shahid, Kamal Ahmed, et al.. (2021). Evaluation of CMIP6 GCM rainfall in mainland Southeast Asia. Atmospheric Research. 254. 105525–105525. 143 indexed citations breakdown →

Iqbal, Zafar, et al.. (2020). Evaluation of global climate models for precipitation projection in sub-Himalaya region of Pakistan. Atmospheric Research. 245. 105061–105061. 54 indexed citations

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Noor, Muhammad, Tarmizi Ismail, Shahid Ullah, et al.. (2019). A non-local model output statistics approach for the downscaling of CMIP5 GCMs for the projection of rainfall in Peninsular Malaysia. Journal of Water and Climate Change. 11(4). 944–955. 15 indexed citations

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Iqbal, Zafar, et al.. (2019). Fetal Heart Rate Classification and Comparative Analysis Using Cardiotocography Data and Known Classifiers. International Journal of Grid and Distributed Computing. 12(1). 31–42. 19 indexed citations

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Ahmed, Kamal, et al.. (2019). Quantitative assessment of precipitation changes under CMIP5 RCP scenarios over the northern sub-Himalayan region of Pakistan. Environment Development and Sustainability. 22(8). 7831–7845. 18 indexed citations

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Shiru, Mohammed Sanusi, Shamsuddin Shahid, ‪Eun‐Sung Chung, et al.. (2019). Challenges in water resources of Lagos mega city of Nigeria in the context of climate change. Journal of Water and Climate Change. 11(4). 1067–1083. 53 indexed citations

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Ahmed, Kamal, D. A. Sachindra, Shamsuddin Shahid, et al.. (2019). Multi-model ensemble predictions of precipitation and temperature using machine learning algorithms. Atmospheric Research. 236. 104806–104806. 199 indexed citations

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Iqbal, Zafar, et al.. (2019). Spatial distribution of the trends in precipitation and precipitation extremes in the sub-Himalayan region of Pakistan. Theoretical and Applied Climatology. 137(3-4). 2755–2769. 70 indexed citations

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Iqbal, Zafar, et al.. (2018). An Outlook of Ozone Air Pollution through Comparative Analysis of Artificial Neural Network, Regression, and Sensitivity Models. Engineering Technology & Applied Science Research. 8(5). 3387–3391. 6 indexed citations

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Iqbal, Zafar, et al.. (2009). Investigation of trace elements in vegetables.. Pakistan Journal of Science. 61(4). 195–198.

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