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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering 62 625 569 7 7 240 11059

Zahir Shah publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Zahir Shah between 1986 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Zahir Shah published across 40 years, from 1986 to 2025, averaging 11.8 papers a year. Output peaked at 84 publications in 2021. 84 of the 471 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
20 40 60 80
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1986 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 84. Peak 84 publications in 2021. 1986: 1 publication 1987: 0 publications 1988: 0 publications 1989: 1 publication 1990: 0 publications 1991: 0 publications 1992: 0 publications 1993: 0 publications 1994: 0 publications 1995: 0 publications 1996: 0 publications 1997: 0 publications 1998: 0 publications 1999: 0 publications 2000: 0 publications 2001: 0 publications 2002: 1 publication 2003: 1 publication 2004: 0 publications 2005: 0 publications 2006: 0 publications 2007: 0 publications 2008: 1 publication 2009: 0 publications 2010: 4 publications 2011: 0 publications 2012: 4 publications 2013: 4 publications 2014: 9 publications 2015: 2 publications 2016: 7 publications 2017: 10 publications 2018: 30 publications 2019: 66 publications 2020: 65 publications 2021: 84 publications 2022: 55 publications 2023: 42 publications 2024: 52 publications 2025: 32 publications
1986 2025

471 publications in total across all disciplines

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Zahir Shah: publications per year, 1986 to 2025
Year Publications
1986 1
1987 0
1988 0
1989 1
1990 0
1991 0
1992 0
1993 0
1994 0
1995 0
1996 0
1997 0
1998 0
1999 0
2000 0
2001 0
2002 1
2003 1
2004 0
2005 0
2006 0
2007 0
2008 1
2009 0
2010 4
2011 0
2012 4
2013 4
2014 9
2015 2
2016 7
2017 10
2018 30
2019 66
2020 65
2021 84
2022 55
2023 42
2024 52
2025 32
Total 471
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Zahir Shah publication distribution in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Zahir Shah sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
50 100 150
Bar chart with 63 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 47–56 to 659+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 155. Most scientists, 155, have 147–156 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 659 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 237–246 publications, is where this scientist sits. 47–56 publications: 10 scientists 57–66 publications: 23 scientists 67–76 publications: 32 scientists 77–86 publications: 62 scientists 87–96 publications: 67 scientists 97–106 publications: 91 scientists 107–116 publications: 113 scientists 117–126 publications: 115 scientists 127–136 publications: 130 scientists 137–146 publications: 140 scientists 147–156 publications: 155 scientists 157–166 publications: 132 scientists 167–176 publications: 133 scientists 177–186 publications: 130 scientists 187–196 publications: 140 scientists 197–206 publications: 115 scientists 207–216 publications: 125 scientists 217–226 publications: 117 scientists 227–236 publications: 99 scientists 237–246 publications: 92 scientists 247–256 publications: 100 scientists 257–266 publications: 95 scientists 267–276 publications: 88 scientists 277–286 publications: 77 scientists 287–296 publications: 74 scientists 297–306 publications: 74 scientists 307–316 publications: 62 scientists 317–326 publications: 70 scientists 327–336 publications: 59 scientists 337–346 publications: 58 scientists 347–356 publications: 45 scientists 357–366 publications: 44 scientists 367–376 publications: 36 scientists 377–386 publications: 41 scientists 387–396 publications: 32 scientists 397–406 publications: 23 scientists 407–416 publications: 28 scientists 417–426 publications: 27 scientists 427–436 publications: 25 scientists 437–446 publications: 23 scientists 447–456 publications: 23 scientists 457–466 publications: 20 scientists 467–476 publications: 12 scientists 477–486 publications: 24 scientists 487–496 publications: 18 scientists 497–506 publications: 12 scientists 507–516 publications: 13 scientists 517–526 publications: 21 scientists 527–536 publications: 12 scientists 537–546 publications: 8 scientists 547–556 publications: 16 scientists 557–566 publications: 3 scientists 567–576 publications: 11 scientists 577–586 publications: 6 scientists 587–596 publications: 5 scientists 597–606 publications: 6 scientists 607–616 publications: 7 scientists 617–626 publications: 7 scientists 627–636 publications: 10 scientists 637–646 publications: 4 scientists 647–656 publications: 3 scientists 657–658 publications: 2 scientists 659+ publications: 100 scientists
47–56 publications 659+

This scientist: 240 publications — 57th percentile

57% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 659 publications or more.

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Number of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 3,445 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
47–56 10
57–66 23
67–76 32
77–86 62
87–96 67
97–106 91
107–116 113
117–126 115
127–136 130
137–146 140
147–156 155
157–166 132
167–176 133
177–186 130
187–196 140
197–206 115
207–216 125
217–226 117
227–236 99
237–246 92 240
247–256 100
257–266 95
267–276 88
277–286 77
287–296 74
297–306 74
307–316 62
317–326 70
327–336 59
337–346 58
347–356 45
357–366 44
367–376 36
377–386 41
387–396 32
397–406 23
407–416 28
417–426 27
427–436 25
437–446 23
447–456 23
457–466 20
467–476 12
477–486 24
487–496 18
497–506 12
507–516 13
517–526 21
527–536 12
537–546 8
547–556 16
557–566 3
567–576 11
577–586 6
587–596 5
597–606 6
607–616 7
617–626 7
627–636 10
637–646 4
647–656 3
657–658 2
659+ 100
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Zahir Shah D-index placement in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Zahir Shah sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
50 100 150
Bar chart with 64 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 93+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 189. Most scientists, 189, have 34 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 93 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 62 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 83 scientists 31 D-Index: 113 scientists 32 D-Index: 144 scientists 33 D-Index: 153 scientists 34 D-Index: 189 scientists 35 D-Index: 158 scientists 36 D-Index: 139 scientists 37 D-Index: 127 scientists 38 D-Index: 130 scientists 39 D-Index: 126 scientists 40 D-Index: 104 scientists 41 D-Index: 100 scientists 42 D-Index: 107 scientists 43 D-Index: 101 scientists 44 D-Index: 103 scientists 45 D-Index: 79 scientists 46 D-Index: 88 scientists 47 D-Index: 70 scientists 48 D-Index: 83 scientists 49 D-Index: 44 scientists 50 D-Index: 64 scientists 51 D-Index: 56 scientists 52 D-Index: 50 scientists 53 D-Index: 48 scientists 54 D-Index: 58 scientists 55 D-Index: 52 scientists 56 D-Index: 48 scientists 57 D-Index: 42 scientists 58 D-Index: 34 scientists 59 D-Index: 42 scientists 60 D-Index: 37 scientists 61 D-Index: 42 scientists 62 D-Index: 44 scientists 63 D-Index: 22 scientists 64 D-Index: 33 scientists 65 D-Index: 29 scientists 66 D-Index: 23 scientists 67 D-Index: 29 scientists 68 D-Index: 24 scientists 69 D-Index: 19 scientists 70 D-Index: 34 scientists 71 D-Index: 26 scientists 72 D-Index: 19 scientists 73 D-Index: 18 scientists 74 D-Index: 19 scientists 75 D-Index: 14 scientists 76 D-Index: 19 scientists 77 D-Index: 8 scientists 78 D-Index: 18 scientists 79 D-Index: 16 scientists 80 D-Index: 12 scientists 81 D-Index: 17 scientists 82 D-Index: 11 scientists 83 D-Index: 16 scientists 84 D-Index: 7 scientists 85 D-Index: 9 scientists 86 D-Index: 8 scientists 87 D-Index: 6 scientists 88 D-Index: 6 scientists 89 D-Index: 7 scientists 90 D-Index: 10 scientists 91 D-Index: 4 scientists 92 D-Index: 4 scientists 93+ D-Index: 100 scientists
30 D-Index 93+

This scientist: 62 D-Index — 83rd percentile

83% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 93 D-Index or more.

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Number of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 3,445 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 83
31 113
32 144
33 153
34 189
35 158
36 139
37 127
38 130
39 126
40 104
41 100
42 107
43 101
44 103
45 79
46 88
47 70
48 83
49 44
50 64
51 56
52 50
53 48
54 58
55 52
56 48
57 42
58 34
59 42
60 37
61 42
62 44 62
63 22
64 33
65 29
66 23
67 29
68 24
69 19
70 34
71 26
72 19
73 18
74 19
75 14
76 19
77 8
78 18
79 16
80 12
81 17
82 11
83 16
84 7
85 9
86 8
87 6
88 6
89 7
90 10
91 4
92 4
93+ 100
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Overview

Zahir Shah is affiliated with the University of Lakki Marwat in Pakistan and specializes predominantly in engineering, with a prolific output spanning multiple subfields including mechanical engineering, biomedical engineering, computational mechanics, modeling and simulation, and public health, environmental and occupational health.

Their research extensively covers topics related to nanofluid flow and heat transfer, heat transfer mechanisms, fluid dynamics and turbulent flows, and fractional differential equations solutions. Additional areas of focus include heat transfer optimization, mathematical and theoretical epidemiology and ecology models, as well as rheology and fluid dynamics studies.

The scientist has published in a range of journals, notably appearing most frequently in:

  • Scientific Reports
  • Case Studies in Thermal Engineering
  • Coatings
  • Alexandria Engineering Journal
  • Physica Scripta

Zahir Shah's recent publications include:

  • Radiative MHD Casson Nanofluid Flow with Activation energy and chemical reaction over past nonlinearly stretching surface through Entropy generation, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Numerical investigation for rotating flow of MHD hybrid nanofluid with thermal radiation over a stretching sheet, 2020, Scientific Reports (authored by Muhammad Shoaib)
  • Heat and mass transfer together with hybrid nanofluid flow over a rotating disk, 2020, AIP Advances (authored by Asifa Tassaddiq)
  • Entropy generation on magneto-convective flow of copper-water nanofluid in a cavity with chamfers, 2020, Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry (authored by Souad Marzougui)
  • A stochastic numerical analysis based on hybrid NAR-RBFs networks nonlinear SITR model for novel COVID-19 dynamics, 2021, Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine (authored by Muhammad Shoaib)

The researcher frequently collaborates with several co-authors, prominently including:

  • Poom Kumam
  • Narcisa Vrînceanu
  • Saeed Islam
  • Wejdan Deebani
  • Meshal Shutaywi

In addition to journal articles, Zahir Shah has contributed to book publications. One such book is Analytical and Numerical Methods for Differential Equations and Applications, published by Frontiers Media in 2021.

Best Publications

  • The electrical MHD and Hall current impact on micropolar nanofluid flow between rotating parallel plates

    Zahir Shah;Saeed Islam;Taza Gul;Ebenezer Bonyah

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

    Muhammad Shoaib;Muhammad Asif Zahoor Raja;Muhammad Asif Zahoor Raja;Muhammad Touseef Sabir;Saeed Islam

  • Radiative MHD Casson Nanofluid Flow with Activation energy and chemical reaction over past nonlinearly stretching surface through Entropy generation

    Zahir Shah;Poom Kumam;Poom Kumam;Wejdan Deebani

  • Radiative Heat And Mass Transfer Analysis Of Micropolar Nanofluid Flow Of Casson Fluid Between Two Rotating Parallel Plates With Effects Of Hall Current...

    Zahir Shah;Saeed Islam;Hamza Ayaz;Saima Khan

  • Heat and mass transfer together with hybrid nanofluid flow over a rotating disk

    Asifa Tassaddiq;Sadam Khan;Muhammad Bilal;Taza Gul

  • Entropy generation on magneto-convective flow of copper–water nanofluid in a cavity with chamfers

    S. Marzougui;Fateh Mebarek-Oudina;A. Assia;M. Magherbi

  • A stochastic numerical analysis based on hybrid NAR-RBFs networks nonlinear SITR model for novel COVID-19 dynamics.

    Muhammad Shoaib;Muhammad Asif Zahoor Raja;Muhammad Touseef Sabir;Ayaz Hussain Bukhari

  • Numerical analysis of 3-D MHD hybrid nanofluid over a rotational disk in presence of thermal radiation with Joule heating and viscous dissipation effects using Lobatto IIIA technique

    Muhammad Shoaib;Muhammad Asif Zahoor Raja;Muhammad Asif Zahoor Raja;Muhammad Touseef Sabir;Muhammad Awais

  • Three-dimensional rotating flow of MHD single wall carbon nanotubes over a stretching sheet in presence of thermal radiation

    Saleem Nasir;Saeed Islam;Taza Gul;Zahir Shah

  • Magnetic Dipole Impact on the Hybrid Nanofluid Flow over an Extending Surface

    Taza Gul;Abbas Khan;Muhammad Bilal;Nasser Aedh Alreshidi

  • Uniform magnetic force impact on water based nanofluid thermal behavior in a porous enclosure with ellipse shaped obstacle

    M. Sheikholeslami;Zahir Shah;Ahmad Shafee;Ilyas Khan

  • Magnetized mixed convection hybrid nanofluid with effect of heat generation/absorption and velocity slip condition

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  • Radiative MHD thin film flow of Williamson fluid over an unsteady permeable stretching sheet

    Zahir Shah;Ebenezer Bonyah;Saeed Islam;Waris Khan

  • Entropy generation and thermal analysis for rotary motion of hydromagnetic Casson nanofluid past a rotating cylinder with Joule heating effect

    Arshad Khan;Zahir Shah;Ebraheem Alzahrani;Saeed Islam

  • 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

    Hameed Khan;Muhammad Haneef;Zahir Shah;Saeed Islam

  • Three dimensional third grade nanofluid flow in a rotating system between parallel plates with Brownian motion and thermophoresis effects

    Zahir Shah;Zahir Shah;Taza Gul;Saeed Islam;Muhammad Altaf Khan

  • Design of Neural Network With Levenberg-Marquardt and Bayesian Regularization Backpropagation for Solving Pantograph Delay Differential Equations

    Imtiaz Khan;Muhammad Asif Zahoor Raja;Muhammad Shoaib;Poom Kumam

  • Radiative mixed convection flow of maxwell nanofluid over a stretching cylinder with joule heating and heat source/sink effects.

    Saeed Islam;Arshad Khan;Poom Kumam;Hussam Alrabaiah

  • Darcy Forchheimer nanofluid thin film flow of SWCNTs and heat transfer analysis over an unsteady stretching sheet

    Saleem Nasir;Zahir Shah;Saeed Islam;Ebenezer Bonyah

  • Impact of Nonlinear Thermal Radiation on MHD Nanofluid Thin Film Flow over a Horizontally Rotating Disk

    Zahir Shah;Abdullah Dawar;Poom Kumam;Waris Khan

  • Micropolar gold blood nanofluid flow and radiative heat transfer between permeable channels.

    Zahir Shah;Arshad Khan;Arshad Khan;Waris Khan;M. Kamran Alam

  • Impact of thermal radiation on electrical MHD rotating flow of Carbon nanotubes over a stretching sheet

    Zahir Shah;Ebenezer Bonyah;Saeed Islam;Taza Gul

  • Simulation of bioconvection in the suspension of second grade nanofluid containing nanoparticles and gyrotactic microorganisms

    Samina Zuhra;Samina Zuhra;Noor Saeed Khan;Zahir Shah;Saeed Islam

  • Slip flow of Eyring-Powell nanoliquid film containing graphene nanoparticles

    Noor Saeed Khan;Samina Zuhra;Samina Zuhra;Zahir Shah;Ebenezer Bonyah

  • The Rotating Flow of Magneto Hydrodynamic Carbon Nanotubes over a Stretching Sheet with the Impact of Non-Linear Thermal Radiation and Heat Generation/Absorption

    Sher Muhammad;Gohar Ali;Zahir Shah;Saeed Islam

Frequent Co-Authors

Poom Kumam
Poom Kumam King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi
Saeed Islam
Saeed Islam Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan
Abdullah Dawar
Abdullah Dawar Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan
Phatiphat Thounthong
Phatiphat Thounthong King Mongkut's University of Technology North Bangkok
Mohsen Sheikholeslami
Mohsen Sheikholeslami Babol Noshirvani University of Technology
Ilyas Khan
Ilyas Khan Majmaah University
Muhammad Asif Zahoor Raja
Muhammad Asif Zahoor Raja National Yunlin University of Science and Technology
Muhammad Ramzan
Muhammad Ramzan Bahria University
Babak Nahid-Mobarakeh
Babak Nahid-Mobarakeh McMaster University
Nicu Bizon
Nicu Bizon University of Pitesti

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