Zahir Shah

15.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
451 papers, 13.0k citations indexed

About

Zahir Shah is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Computational Mechanics. According to data from OpenAlex, Zahir Shah has authored 451 papers receiving a total of 13.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 264 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 229 papers in Mechanical Engineering and 189 papers in Computational Mechanics. Recurrent topics in Zahir Shah's work include Nanofluid Flow and Heat Transfer (260 papers), Heat Transfer Mechanisms (204 papers) and Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows (164 papers). Zahir Shah is often cited by papers focused on Nanofluid Flow and Heat Transfer (260 papers), Heat Transfer Mechanisms (204 papers) and Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows (164 papers). Zahir Shah collaborates with scholars based in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Thailand. Zahir Shah's co-authors include Saeed Islam, Poom Kumam, Abdullah Dawar, Ebenezer Bonyah, Waris Khan, Wejdan Deebani, Taza Gul, Meshal Shutaywi, Ebraheem Alzahrani and Narcisa Vrînceanu and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Zahir Shah

430 papers receiving 12.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Numerical investigation for rotating flow of MHD hybrid nanofluid with thermal radiation over a stretching sheet

2020 216 citations Saeed Islam, Zahir Shah et al. Scientific Reports profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Zahir Shah Pakistan	61	9.2k	7.4k	6.2k	1.2k	938	451	13.0k
Mohammad Mehdi Rashidi Iran	83	16.8k 1.8×	13.9k 1.9×	12.2k 1.9×	2.4k 2.0×	293 0.3×	537	22.1k
Sayed M. Eldin Egypt	46	4.4k 0.5×	3.7k 0.5×	2.6k 0.4×	349 0.3×	259 0.3×	346	8.0k
Ahmed M. Hassan Egypt	38	1.6k 0.2×	996 0.1×	698 0.1×	417 0.3×	320 0.3×	484	7.3k
Sayed M. Eldin Egypt	39	2.6k 0.3×	2.3k 0.3×	1.6k 0.3×	302 0.3×	127 0.1×	299	6.3k
Ilyas Khan Saudi Arabia	66	16.7k 1.8×	12.2k 1.6×	10.2k 1.6×	5.1k 4.3×	156 0.2×	940	21.6k
Saeed Islam Pakistan	59	8.2k 0.9×	6.4k 0.9×	5.8k 0.9×	2.2k 1.9×	86 0.1×	425	11.5k
Oluwole Daniel Makinde South Africa	67	16.9k 1.8×	13.1k 1.8×	12.4k 2.0×	1.7k 1.4×	58 0.1×	626	19.5k
Muhammad Shoaib Pakistan	50	3.9k 0.4×	3.0k 0.4×	2.8k 0.5×	1.4k 1.2×	86 0.1×	228	7.0k
Ashim K. Datta United States	50	832 0.1×	1.1k 0.2×	697 0.1×	44 0.0×	912 1.0×	240	8.4k
Muhammad Shahzad Pakistan	27	1.0k 0.1×	761 0.1×	808 0.1×	229 0.2×	153 0.2×	95	1.9k

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Asghar, Adnan, et al.. (2025). Hiemenz flow of ternary hybrid nanofluid over a linear stretching/shrinking sheet: Duality and stability analysis. Partial Differential Equations in Applied Mathematics. 14. 101165–101165.

Rooman, Muhammad, et al.. (2024). Entropy generation and heat transfer analysis of unsteady micropolar magnetized hybrid-nanofluid flow over a radially stretchable permeable rotating disk with viscous and joule dissipation effects. International Journal of Thermofluids. 23. 100802–100802. 32 indexed citations

Shah, Zahir, et al.. (2024). Rheological analysis of magnetized trihybrid nanofluid drug carriers in unsteady blood flow through a single-stenotic artery. Chinese Journal of Physics. 91. 538–559. 10 indexed citations

Khan, Muhammad Salim, et al.. (2024). Computational investigations of nanofluid blood flow in stenosed artery with effects of inflammation and viscous dissipation via finite element method. Chinese Journal of Physics. 92. 453–469. 7 indexed citations

Bajwa, Waheed I., Zahir Shah, Hannah Cornman, et al.. (2024). Five human pathogens detected by tick surveillance in New York City parks, 2014–2015. Journal of Medical Entomology. 61(3). 772–780. 2 indexed citations

Mumtaz, Muhammad Waseem, Saeed Islam, Hakeem Ullah, & Zahir Shah. (2023). Chemically reactive MHD convective flow and heat transfer performance of ternary hybrid nanofluid past a curved stretching sheet. Journal of Molecular Liquids. 390. 123179–123179. 60 indexed citations

Rooman, Muhammad, Fazal Rehman, Zahir Shah, Mansoor H. Alshehri, & Ahmed Alshehri. (2023). Entropy generation analysis of magnetized radiative Ellis (Cu-TiO2/Engine Oil) nanofluid flow using Cattaneo-Christov heat flux model with viscous dissipation and Joule heating effects. Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials. 580. 170949–170949. 14 indexed citations

Mumtaz, Muhammad Waseem, Saeed Islam, Hakeem Ullah, Abdullah Dawar, & Zahir Shah. (2023). A numerical approach to radiative ternary nanofluid flow on curved geometry with cross-diffusion and second order velocity slip constraints. International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow. 105. 109255–109255. 35 indexed citations

Shah, Zahir & Asad Ullah. (2023). Ferrofluid treatment with insertion of electric field inside a porous cavity considering forced convection. Waves in Random and Complex Media. 36(2). 2361–2379. 15 indexed citations

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Farhan, Muhammad, Zahir Shah, Rashid Jan, et al.. (2023). A fractional modeling approach for the transmission dynamics of measles with double-dose vaccination. Computer Methods in Biomechanics & Biomedical Engineering. 28(4). 511–528. 8 indexed citations

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Tang, Tao-Qian, Zahir Shah, Rashid Jan, Wejdan Deebani, & Meshal Shutaywi. (2021). A robust study to conceptualize the interactions of CD4 ⁺ T-cells and human immunodeficiency virus via fractional-calculus. Physica Scripta. 96(12). 125231–125231. 32 indexed citations

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Shah, Zahir, Abdullah Dawar, & Saeed Islam. (2021). Influence of Brownian motion and thermophoresis parameters on silver-based Di-Hydrogen CNTs between two stretchable rotating disks. Physica Scripta. 96(5). 55205–55205. 20 indexed citations

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Jawad, Muhammad, Anwar Saeed, Taza Gul, Zahir Shah, & Poom Kumam. (2021). Unsteady thermal Maxwell power law nanofluid flow subject to forced thermal Marangoni Convection. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 7521–7521. 23 indexed citations

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Nasir, Saleem, Zahir Shah, Waris Khan, et al.. (2020). MHD stagnation point flow of hybrid nanofluid over a permeable cylinder with homogeneous and heterogenous reaction. Physica Scripta. 96(3). 35201–35201. 22 indexed citations

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Haneef, Muhammad, et al.. (2018). The Combined Magneto Hydrodynamic and Electric Field Effect on an Unsteady Maxwell Nanofluid Flow over a Stretching Surface under the Influence of Variable Heat and Thermal Radiation. Applied Sciences. 8(2). 160–160. 74 indexed citations

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Muhammad, Haji, et al.. (2014). Effect of beneficial microbes (BM) on the efficiency of organic and inorganic N fertilizers on wheat crop.. Sarhad Journal of Agriculture. 30(1). 7–13. 10 indexed citations

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Inayat-ur-Rahman, Nawab Ali, Abdur Rab, & Zahir Shah. (2013). Role of pre storage seed priming in controlling seed deterioration during storage.. Sarhad Journal of Agriculture. 29(3). 379–386. 7 indexed citations

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Khan, Farmanullah, Waqar Ahmad, Muhammad Ramzan, et al.. (2013). Effect of slope position on physico-chemical properties of eroded soil. 32(1). 22–28. 56 indexed citations

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Shah, Irfan, et al.. (2012). Characterization of pearl millet germplasm for various morphological and fodder yield parameters.. Pakistan Journal of Botany. 44(1). 273–279. 11 indexed citations

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Shah, Zahir, et al.. (2000). Does lentil (Lens culinaris) in the Swat River Valley need Rhizobial inoculation. Sarhad Journal of Agriculture. 16(2). 179–187. 1 indexed citations

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