2026 Khaled Abdel-Ghaffar: Engineering and Technology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

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Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Engineering and Technology	36	8728	8415	2422	2247	199	5118

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Engineering and Technology

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Engineering and Technology

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5118

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8728

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2422

Overview

Khaled Abdel-Ghaffar is affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States. Their research predominantly focuses on the field of Medicine, with a particular emphasis on Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases. Additional areas of study include Computer Networks and Communications, Modeling and Simulation, and Health.

Their work addresses several main topics, including:

Respiratory viral infections research
SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research
Influenza virus research studies
COVID-19 epidemiological studies
COVID-19 clinical research studies
Error correcting code techniques
Pneumonia and respiratory infections

Abdel-Ghaffar has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, notably:

Amr Kandeel
Manal Fahim
Salma Afifi
Ola Deghedy
Amel Naguib

Their recent publications include:

"Resurgence of influenza and respiratory syncytial virus in Egypt following two years of decline during the COVID-19 pandemic: outpatient clinic survey of infants and children, October 2022," 2023, published in BMC Public Health
"COVID-19 vaccination coverage in Egypt: a large-scale national survey - to help achieving vaccination target, March-May, 2022," 2023, published in BMC Public Health
"A Scheme for Collective Encoding and Iterative Soft-Decision Decoding of Cyclic Codes of Prime Lengths: Applications to Reed-Solomon, BCH, and Quadratic Residue Codes," 2020, published in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
"Quasi-Cyclic LDPC Codes With Parity-Check Matrices of Column Weight Two or More for Correcting Phased Bursts of Erasures," 2021, published in IEEE Transactions on Communications
"Comparison of SARS-Cov-2 omicron variant with the previously identified SARS-Cov-2 variants in Egypt, 2020-2022: insight into SARS-Cov-2 genome evolution and its impact on epidemiology, clinical picture, disease severity, and mortality," 2023, published in BMC Infectious Diseases

Abdel-Ghaffar's work has appeared in various scholarly venues, including:

BMC Public Health
BMC Infectious Diseases
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
Scientific Reports
Liver International

Best Publications

Construction of Quasi-Cyclic LDPC Codes for AWGN and Binary Erasure Channels: A Finite Field Approach

Lan Lan;Lingqi Zeng;Y.Y. Tai;Lei Chen

337
Citations
A class of low-density parity-check codes constructed based on Reed-Solomon codes with two information symbols

I. Djurdjevic;Jun Xu;K. Abdel-Ghaffar;Shu Lin

316
Citations
Codes on finite geometries

Heng Tang;Jun Xu;S. Lin;K.A.S. Abdel-Ghaffar

261
Citations
Construction of Regular and Irregular LDPC Codes: Geometry Decomposition and Masking

Jun Xu;Lei Chen;I. Djurdjevic;S. Lin

220
Citations
Transactions Papers - Constructions of Nonbinary Quasi-Cyclic LDPC Codes: A Finite Field Approach

Lingqi Zeng;Lan Lan;Y.Y. Tai;Shumei Song

177
Citations
Construction of non-binary quasi-cyclic LDPC codes by arrays and array dispersions - [transactions papers]

Bo Zhou;Jingyu Kang;Shumei Song;Shu Lin

167
Citations
Algebraic Quasi-Cyclic LDPC Codes: Construction, Low Error-Floor, Large Girth and a Reduced-Complexity Decoding Scheme

Juane Li;Keke Liu;Shu Lin;Khaled A. S. Abdel-Ghaffar

159
Citations
On algebraic construction of Gallager and circulant low-density parity-check codes

Heng Tang;Jun Xu;Yu Kou;S. Lin

153
Citations
A unified approach to the construction of binary and nonbinary quasi-cyclic LDPC codes based on finite fields

Shumei Song;Bo Zhou;Shu Lin;K. Abdel-Ghaffar

146
Citations
Quasi-Cyclic LDPC Codes: An Algebraic Construction, Rank Analysis, and Codes on Latin Squares

Li Zhang;Qin Huang;Shu Lin;K Abdel-Ghaffar

136
Citations
Algebraic construction of quasi-cyclic LDPC codes for the AWGN and erasure channels

Ying Yu Tai;L. Lan;Lingqi Zeng;S. Lin

131
Citations
Cyclic and Quasi-Cyclic LDPC Codes on Constrained Parity-Check Matrices and Their Trapping Sets

Qin Huang;Qiuju Diao;Shu Lin;K. Abdel-Ghaffar

128
Citations
Construction of nonbinary cyclic, quasi-cyclic and regular LDPC codes: a finite geometry approach

Lingqi Zeng;Lan Lan;Ying Yu Tai;Bo Zhou

114
Citations
Cyclic allocation of two-dimensional data

S. Prabhakar;K. Abdel-Ghaffar;D. Agrawal;A. El Abbadi

105
Citations
Integrated interleaving - a novel ECC architecture

M. Hassner;K. Abdel-Ghaffar;A. Patel;R. Koetter

91
Citations
Two reliability-based iterative majority-logic decoding algorithms for LDPC codes

Qin Huang;Jingyu Kang;Li Zhang;Shu Lin

91
Citations
Optimal Allocation of Two-Dimensional Data

Khaled A. S. Abdel-Ghaffar;Amr El Abbadi

90
Citations
A matrix-theoretic approach for analyzing quasi-cyclic low-density parity-check codes

Qiuju Diao;Qin Huang;Shu Lin;Khaled Abdel-Ghaffar

86
Citations
Linear and Nonlinear Binary Kernels of Polar Codes of Small Dimensions With Maximum Exponents

Hsien-Ping Lin;Shu Lin;Khaled A. S. Abdel-Ghaffar

81
Citations
LDPC Code Designs, Constructions, and Unification

Juane Li;Shu Lin;Khaled Abdel-Ghaffar;William E. Ryan

74
Citations
Systematic encoding of the Varshamov-Tenengol'ts codes and the Constantin-Rao codes

K.A.S. Abdel-Ghaffar;H.C. Ferreira

70
Citations