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Maged N. Kamel Boulos

Maged N. Kamel Boulos

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Computer Science

D-Index
49
Citations
16128
World Ranking
5762
National Ranking
764

Overview

Maged N. Kamel Boulos is affiliated with Sun Yat-sen University in China and has focused their research primarily in the field of Medicine, with a particular emphasis on General Health Professions, Health Informatics, Artificial Intelligence, Information Systems, and Biomedical Engineering.

Their work spans several main topics, including:

  • Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education
  • Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
  • Biomedical and Engineering Education
  • Data-Driven Disease Surveillance
  • COVID-19 Digital Contact Tracing
  • Health Literacy and Information Accessibility
  • Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging

Recent publications illustrate a focus on digital and data-driven approaches to public health and disease surveillance. Notable papers include:

  • Geographical tracking and mapping of coronavirus disease COVID-19/severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) epidemic and associated events around the world: how 21st century GIS technologies are supporting the global fight against outbreaks and epidemics (2020), International Journal of Health Geographics
  • Digital Twins: From Personalised Medicine to Precision Public Health (2021), Journal of Personalized Medicine
  • Generative AI in Medicine and Healthcare: Promises, Opportunities and Challenges (2023), Future Internet
  • COVID-19 Misinformation Online and Health Literacy: A Brief Overview (2021), International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Leveraging Data Science to Combat COVID-19: A Comprehensive Review (2020), IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence

The scientist collaborates frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Salman Bin Naeem
  • Peng Zhang
  • Junaid Qadir
  • Muhammad Shahroz
  • Muhammad Shahzad Younis

Their research has appeared most often in the following publication venues:

  • International Journal of Health Geographics
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Preprints.org
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Future Internet

Their scholarly focus integrates advancements in artificial intelligence and digital technologies to improve healthcare delivery, disease monitoring, and health education, addressing challenges such as pandemic tracking and misinformation.

Best Publications

  • Wikis, blogs and podcasts: a new generation of Web-based tools for virtual collaborative clinical practice and education

    Maged N Kamel Boulos;Inocencio Daniel Maramba;Steve Wheeler

  • How smartphones are changing the face of mobile and participatory healthcare: an overview, with example from eCAALYX.

    Maged N Kamel Boulos;Steve Wheeler;Carlos M Tavares;Ray Jones

  • The emerging Web 2.0 social software: an enabling suite of sociable technologies in health and health care education

    Maged N. Kamel Boulos;Steve Wheeler

  • Second Life: an overview of the potential of 3-D virtual worlds in medical and health education.

    Maged N. Kamel Boulos;Lee Hetherington;Steve Wheeler

  • Mobile medical and health apps: state of the art, concerns, regulatory control and certification

    Maged N. Kamel Boulos;Ann C. Brewer;Chante Karimkhani;David B. Buller

  • Geographical tracking and mapping of coronavirus disease COVID-19/severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) epidemic and associated events around the world: how 21st century GIS technologies are supporting the global fight against outbreaks and epidemics.

    Maged N. Kamel Boulos;Estella M. Geraghty

  • Crowdsourcing, citizen sensing and sensor web technologies for public and environmental health surveillance and crisis management: trends, OGC standards and application examples

    Maged N Kamel Boulos;Bernd Resch;Bernd Resch;David N Crowley;John G Breslin

  • Digital Twins: From Personalised Medicine to Precision Public Health

    Maged N. Kamel Boulos;Peng Zhang

  • Towards evidence-based, GIS-driven national spatial health information infrastructure and surveillance services in the United Kingdom.

    Maged N Kamel Boulos

  • Instagram and WhatsApp in Health and Healthcare: An Overview

    Maged N. Kamel Boulos;Dean M. Giustini;Steve Wheeler

  • On the Internet of Things, smart cities and the WHO Healthy Cities.

    Maged N Kamel Boulos;Najeeb M Al-Shorbaji

  • COVID-19 Misinformation Online and Health Literacy: A Brief Overview.

    Salman Bin Naeem;Maged N. Kamel Boulos

  • Scope, Completeness, and Accuracy of Drug Information in Wikipedia

    Kevin A Clauson;Hyla H Polen;Maged N Kamel Boulos;Joan H Dzenowagis

  • Effective uses of social media in public health and medicine: a systematic review of systematic reviews

    Dean M Giustini;Syed Mustafa Ali;Matthew Fraser;Maged N Kamel Boulos

  • Geospatial blockchain: promises, challenges, and scenarios in health and healthcare

    Maged N. Kamel Boulos;James T. Wilson;Kevin A. Clauson

  • Real-time locating systems (RTLS) in healthcare: a condensed primer

    Maged N Kamel Boulos;Geoff Berry

  • Leveraging Data Science to Combat COVID-19: A Comprehensive Review

    Siddique Latif;Muhammad Usman;Sanaullah Manzoor;Waleed Iqbal

  • Web GIS in practice X: a Microsoft Kinect natural user interface for Google Earth navigation.

    Maged N Kamel Boulos;Bryan J Blanchard;Cory Walker;Julio Montero

  • Google Scholar is not enough to be used alone for systematic reviews.

    Dean Giustini;Maged N. Kamel Boulos

  • Exergames for health and fitness: the roles of GPS and geosocial apps

    Maged N Kamel Boulos;Stephen P Yang

  • Web GIS in practice III: creating a simple interactive map of England's Strategic Health Authorities using Google Maps API, Google Earth KML, and MSN Virtual Earth Map Control

    Maged N Kamel Boulos

Frequent Co-Authors

Ray Jones
Ray Jones Plymouth University
Riccardo Bellazzi
Riccardo Bellazzi University of Pavia
Mario Stefanelli
Mario Stefanelli University of Pavia
John G. Breslin
John G. Breslin University of Galway
Chris D. Nugent
Chris D. Nugent University of Ulster
Jon Crowcroft
Jon Crowcroft University of Cambridge
Junaid Qadir
Junaid Qadir Information Technology University
Kei-Hoi Cheung
Kei-Hoi Cheung Yale University
Adeel Razi
Adeel Razi Monash University
Christopher T. Russell
Christopher T. Russell University of California, Los Angeles

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