Zahid Ghaffar

464 total citations
21 papers, 282 citations indexed

About

Zahid Ghaffar is a scholar working on Information Systems, Computer Networks and Communications and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Zahid Ghaffar has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 282 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Information Systems, 13 papers in Computer Networks and Communications and 6 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Zahid Ghaffar's work include Advanced Authentication Protocols Security (13 papers), User Authentication and Security Systems (12 papers) and Cryptography and Data Security (4 papers). Zahid Ghaffar is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Authentication Protocols Security (13 papers), User Authentication and Security Systems (12 papers) and Cryptography and Data Security (4 papers). Zahid Ghaffar collaborates with scholars based in Taiwan, Pakistan and India. Zahid Ghaffar's co-authors include Khalid Mahmood, Muhammad Asad Saleem, Salman Shamshad, SK Hafizul Islam, Ashok Kumar Das, Mohammad Mehedi Hassan, Giancarlo Fortino, Arun Kumar Sangaiah, Shehzad Ashraf Chaudhry and Muhammad Faizan Ayub and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Access, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid and IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.

In The Last Decade

Zahid Ghaffar

19 papers receiving 273 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Zahid Ghaffar Taiwan 11 174 166 80 73 27 21 282
Vandana Rohokale Denmark 7 208 1.2× 105 0.6× 49 0.6× 98 1.3× 22 0.8× 19 302
Amar Rasheed United States 9 221 1.3× 101 0.6× 86 1.1× 96 1.3× 23 0.9× 38 319
Sathish Kumar United States 10 114 0.7× 84 0.5× 72 0.9× 68 0.9× 34 1.3× 26 232
Imane Aly Saroit Egypt 10 258 1.5× 96 0.6× 77 1.0× 110 1.5× 33 1.2× 35 334
Jian-Jhih Kuo Taiwan 11 247 1.4× 78 0.5× 81 1.0× 114 1.6× 28 1.0× 56 356
Youcef Begriche France 7 162 0.9× 92 0.6× 82 1.0× 64 0.9× 55 2.0× 14 249
Rajakumar Arul India 8 182 1.0× 107 0.6× 83 1.0× 87 1.2× 20 0.7× 21 296
Hajar Moudoud Canada 11 201 1.2× 120 0.7× 176 2.2× 69 0.9× 55 2.0× 28 349
Silia Maksuti Austria 7 227 1.3× 170 1.0× 71 0.9× 48 0.7× 50 1.9× 14 344
Achmad Imam Kistijantoro Indonesia 9 131 0.8× 93 0.6× 72 0.9× 33 0.5× 19 0.7× 50 259

Countries citing papers authored by Zahid Ghaffar

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Fields of papers citing papers by Zahid Ghaffar

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zahid Ghaffar

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Zahid Ghaffar. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Zahid Ghaffar based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Zahid Ghaffar. Zahid Ghaffar is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Saleem, Muhammad Asad, et al.. (2025). Provably Secure Authenticated Key-Management Mechanism for e-Healthcare Environment. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 12(14). 26933–26942. 2 indexed citations
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Ghaffar, Zahid, Wen‐Chung Kuo, Khalid Mahmood, et al.. (2025). A Lightweight and Robust Access Control Protocol for IoT-Based e-Healthcare Network. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. 24(9). 9080–9091. 2 indexed citations
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Ghaffar, Zahid, Wen‐Chung Kuo, Khalid Mahmood, et al.. (2025). A Machine Learning Attack Resilient Authentication Protocol for AI-Driven Consumer Wearable Health Monitoring. IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics. 71(3). 8545–8552.
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Mahmood, Khalid, et al.. (2024). A Privacy-Preserving Access Control Protocol for Consumer Flying Vehicles in Smart City Applications. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 12(1). 978–985. 3 indexed citations
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Mahmood, Khalid, et al.. (2024). A Cost-Effective Key Agreement Encryption Protocol for Securing IIoT-Enabled WSN Communication. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 12(5). 5185–5193. 1 indexed citations
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Mahmood, Khalid, et al.. (2024). Robust and efficient three-factor authentication solution for WSN-based industrial IoT deployment. Internet of Things. 28. 101372–101372. 3 indexed citations
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Ghaffar, Zahid, et al.. (2024). A Machine Learning Attack Resilient and Low-Latency Authentication Scheme for AI-Driven Patient Health Monitoring System. IEEE Communications Standards Magazine. 8(3). 36–42. 4 indexed citations
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Mahmood, Khalid, Zahid Ghaffar, Muhammad Shahid Farooq, et al.. (2024). A Security Enhanced Chaotic-Map-Based Authentication Protocol for Internet of Drones. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 11(12). 22301–22309. 17 indexed citations
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Ghaffar, Zahid, Khalid Mahmood, Muhammad Shahid Farooq, et al.. (2023). Security analysis on "EAKE-WC: Authenticated Key Exchange Protocol for Wearable Computing". 148–153.
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Mahmood, Khalid, et al.. (2023). A Neural Computing-Based Access Control Protocol for AI-Driven Intelligent Flying Vehicles in Industry 5.0-Assisted Consumer Electronics. IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics. 70(1). 3573–3581. 28 indexed citations
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Mahmood, Khalid, Salman Shamshad, Muhammad Faizan Ayub, et al.. (2023). Design of Provably Secure Authentication Protocol for Edge-Centric Maritime Transportation System. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. 24(12). 14536–14545. 10 indexed citations
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Mahmood, Khalid, et al.. (2023). Secure authentication protocol for home area network in smart grid-based smart cities. Computers & Electrical Engineering. 108. 108721–108721. 18 indexed citations
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Ghaffar, Zahid, Salman Shamshad, Khalid Mahmood, et al.. (2022). A Lightweight and Efficient Remote Data Authentication Protocol Over Cloud Storage Environment. IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering. 10(1). 103–112. 6 indexed citations
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Mahmood, Khalid, et al.. (2022). A seamless anonymous authentication protocol for mobile edge computing infrastructure. Computer Communications. 186. 12–21. 12 indexed citations
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Mahmood, Khalid, Mohammad S. Obaidat, Zahid Ghaffar, et al.. (2022). Cloud-Assisted Secure and Cost-Effective Authenticated Solution for Remote Wearable Health Monitoring System. IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering. 10(5). 2710–2718. 17 indexed citations
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Saleem, Muhammad Asad, et al.. (2021). Security Analysis on “A Secure Three-Factor User Authentication Protocol With Forward Secrecy for Wireless Medical Sensor Network Systems”. IEEE Systems Journal. 15(4). 5557–5559. 23 indexed citations
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Islam, SK Hafizul, et al.. (2021). Provable Secure Identity-Based Anonymous and Privacy-Preserving Inter-Vehicular Authentication Protocol for VANETS Using PUF. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. 70(11). 12158–12167. 58 indexed citations
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Shamshad, Salman, Zahid Ghaffar, Khalid Mahmood, et al.. (2021). Signcryption Based Authenticated and Key Exchange Protocol for EI-Based V2G Environment. IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid. 12(6). 5290–5298. 17 indexed citations
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Saleem, Muhammad Asad, Zahid Ghaffar, Khalid Mahmood, et al.. (2021). Provably Secure Authentication Protocol for Mobile Clients in IoT Environment Using Puncturable Pseudorandom Function. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 8(22). 16613–16622. 10 indexed citations
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Ghaffar, Zahid, et al.. (2020). An Improved Authentication Scheme for Remote Data Access and Sharing Over Cloud Storage in Cyber-Physical-Social-Systems. IEEE Access. 8. 47144–47160. 39 indexed citations

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