Al-Hinai, Amer ^PhD

PhD at Sultan Qaboos University

Senior researcher with 143 publications in the last 25 years

ORCID: 0000-0002-7200-9974

Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Microgrid Control Microgrid Load Frequency Control Power System Stability Distributed Power Generation Load Control Intelligent Control Optimal Power Flow Distributed Generation PV System

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Amer Al-Hinai obtained his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from West Virginia University, USA in 2000 and 2005. Dr. Al-Hinai is a Professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and the Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Postgraduate Studies & Research (DVC-PSR) at Sultan Qaboos University, Oman. He was a Visiting Professor at the Masdar Institute (MI) of Science and Technology, UAE from 2012 to 2016. He was the founding Director of the Sustainable Energy Research Center (SERC) at SQU from 2017-2021. He is a senior member of IEEE since 2011, Chairman of the IEEE – Oman Section 2014-2018, and holds a Consultant grade as classified by the Oman Society of Engineers. He served as a Member and the Chairman of the Authority for Electricity Regulation, Oman during 2011 - 2017. He received many awards, including Recognition by SQU during University Day (2013 & 2014) for research & international award, Best Paper Award, UAE (2015), one of the pioneers in the Engineering Practice in the Gulf, Bahrain (2011), SQU Distinguished Researcher Award (2020). He secured many internal and external research grants, notably from the Masdar Institute (MI), The Research Council (TRC), Oman, His Majesty’s Trust Fund (HMTF) for Strategic Research, British Petroleum (BP), Petroleum Development Oman (PDO), Occidental Oman (OXY) etc... His research interest spans diverse energy-related areas such as energy production, renewable energy resources, power systems, energy efficiency, management, and conversion. He was an Invited Speaker on various aspects of Renewable Energy in Oman, UAE, and Switzerland. Dr. Al-Hinai is the Editor of the International Journal of Renewable Energy Technology. show More

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Evolution over the last 10 years of activity

Aggregated career metrics

143

Total documents

1.63

Normalized Impact

Highly Cited Papers (10%)

37.06

International Collab. (%)

Most cited publications

Main coauthors

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Activity

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Activity

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Available data

143

All documents

126

Citable documents

5.7

Documents / year

Books

Document type

Academic output

Last 5 years

All documents

Citable documents

13.2

Documents / year

Books

Impact

/1000

Reflects an author's academic visibility and the exceptional quality and influence of their most highly cited works.

Impact

Reflects an author's academic visibility and the exceptional quality and influence of their most highly cited works.

Score: 0 / 1000

Academic Impact

3,139

Citations

1.63

Relative Citation Index

1.83

Journal Relative Citation Index

H Index

Normalized Impact

% Documents above & below the reference

Impact on Open Access (OA) vs. PayWalled documents

Self-citations

2.36

Self Citation Rate (%)

97.64

Non Self Citation Rate (%)

Trending papers

Excellence

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Reflects an author's academic visibility and the exceptional quality and influence of their most highly cited works.

Excellence

Reflects an author's academic visibility and the exceptional quality and influence of their most highly cited works.

Score: 0 / 1000

Academic Excellence

Highly Cited Paper (Top 10%, HCP)

Outstanding Papers (Top 1%, OP)

1.33

Relative number of HCP (RHCP)

2.80

Relative number of OP
(ROP)

Normalized Excellence

Citation percentile: from 0 to 100

Citation percentile: from 99 to 100

Highly Cited Papers (Top 10% cited)

Outstanding Papers (Top 1% cited)

Leadership

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Reflects an author's efforts and commitment in leading research initiatives.

Leadership

Reflects an author's efforts and commitment in leading research initiatives.

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Publications lead

37%

Correspondence author

54%

First author

27%

Last author

Publications lead per year

Subset publications

International docs

10% Top cited

1% Top cited

RCI > 1

Correspondence

First author

Last author

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Cooperation

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Reflects a researcher's ability to navigate and thrive in varied academic and research environments, highlighting adaptability, resourcefulness, and the capacity to build and maintain collaborative relationships across the spectrum of their career.

Cooperation

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Collaboration

37%

International collaboration

Avg. Authors / publication

1.6

Avg. Countries / publication

0% (> 25 authors)

Docs highly authored

Employments

Educations

Openness

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Reflects an author's commitment to making their research freely accessible and open to the public.

Community Support

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Reflects an author's contributions to the academic community beyond their own research.

Community Recognition

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Reflects the academic community's acknowledgment and appreciation of an author's contributions.

Transference

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Reflects an author's commitment to making their research a practical application and real-world impact of an author's research.

Fundraising

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Reflects an author's ability in securing project funding from major global entities, showcasing your ability to drive research initiatives forward.

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Performance

Activity

Reflects an author's research output.

Documents	143	Count of all document types.
Docs/Year	5.72	Average of documents published by author per year.
Citable docs	126	Count of journal articles, proceeding papers and reviews.
Journal Articles	76	Documents published as articles in scientific journals usually peer-reviewed.
Conferences	41	Original article reporting data presented at a conference or symposium.
Reviews	9	Review papers authored by the researcher.
Patents	0	Intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited period of time in exchange for publishing an enabling disclosure of the invention.
Theses	2	Document submitted in support of candidature for an academic degree or professional qualification presenting the author's research and findings
Books	1	A whole monograph or the entire book.
Book Chapters	0	Complete chapter in a book or book series volume where the item is identified as a chapter by a heading or section indicator.
Datasets	0	Number of dataset where the author have contributed to the creation.
Editorials	0	Papers where the author contributed editorial content.
Reports	0	Research reports or white papers authored.
Grants	0	Research projects funded through external grants awarded to the author.
Pre-Prints	1	Number of publications freely available in pre-print format.
Clinical Trials	N/A	Number of clinical trials where the author has participated.
Other types	0	Other type of documents.

Impact

Reflects an author's academic visibility and the exceptional quality and influence of their most highly cited works.

Citations	3139	Total number of citations to all the publications attributed to the author (all types).
Self Citations	74	Citations where the author references their own previous work.
Self Citation Rate	2.357	Percentage of self-citations in the author's total citation count.
Non Self Citation Rate	97.643	Percentage of citations received from sources that are not self-citations.
Hot Citations	404	Total number of citations recieved in the last 6 months.
Citations/Document	21.95	Average of citations recieved per document.
% Not Cited	0.0	Percentage of documents with no citations recieved.
Relative Citation Index	1.629	Item oriented indicator consisting of the quotient between the number of citations to a given work and the average number of citations to works of the same type, year and discipline. An author's RCI corresponds to the average of the values of his/her publications.
Journal Relative Citation Index	1.828	Item oriented indicator consisting of the quotient between the number of citations to a given work and the average number of citations to works of the same type, year and journal. An author's RCI corresponds to the average of the values of his/her publications.
H Index	25	Maximum value of h such that the given author has published at least h papers that have each been cited at least h times.
G Index	53	Maximum value of g such that the given author has published at least g papers that have each been cited at least g^2 times.
i10 Index	56	Number of documents with at least 10 citations recieved.

Excellence

Reflects an author's academic visibility and the exceptional quality and influence of their most highly cited works.

Citation Score	0.603	Ratio between 0 and 1 being 0 corresponding to the citation percentile being 0 the 0th and 1 the 100th.
Citation Normalized Percentile	0.627	Citation percentile normalized to 1 (0 worst, 1 best) of the position in citations rankin within the field. Provided by OpenAlex.
Higly Cited Papers (top 10%)	19	Count of publications falling on or above the 90th citation percentile in the cohort of publications of the same type, year and discipline.
Relative Higly Cited Papers	1.329	Quotient between the real number of Highly Cited Papers (HCP) and expected number of HCP's that is the 10% of total documents.
Outstanding Papers (top 1%)	4	Count of publications falling on or above the 99th citation percentile in the cohort of publications of the same type, year and discipline.
Relative Outstanding Papers	2.797	Quotient between the real number of Outstanding Papers (OP) and expected number of OP's that is the 1% of total documents.
Outstanding Papers (top 0.1%)	1	Count of publications falling on or above the 99.9th citation percentile in the cohort of publications of the same type, year and discipline.
Hot Papers	5	Using only the citations recieved in the last 6 months: documents falling on or above the 99th citation percentile in the cohort of publications of the same type, year and discipline.

Interaction within community

Leadership

Reflects an author's efforts and commitment in leading research initiatives.

Docs Leadership	79	Number of documents lead by the author.
% Leadership	55.24	Percentage of documents lead by the author.
Docs International Leadership	24	Number of documents in international collaboration lead by the author.
% International Leadership	16.78	Percentage of documents in international collaboration lead by the author.
Principal Investigator	0	Number of times where the author served as the lead researcher in a project.
Associations Founded	0	Number of associations founded by the author.
Societies Founded	0	Number of scientific or professional societies established by the author.
Foundations Founded	0	Number of research-related foundations established by the author.
Councils	0	Number of councils founded by author.

Cooperation

Authors/Paper	4.59	Average number of authors per document.
% Highly Authored Papers	0.0	Percentage of documents with 25 or more authors.
Countries/Paper	1.61	Average number of different countries in the author's affiliation line per document.
Docs International Collaboration	53	Number of documents reporting two or more different countries in the author's affiliation line.
% International Collaboration	37.06	Percentage of documents reporting two or more diffetent countries in the author's affiliation line.

Community Support

Reflects an author's contributions to the academic community beyond their own research.

Peer Review Counts	0	Number of times the author peer-reviewed publications.
Society Membership	0	Number of societies of wich the author is a member.
Society Memberships	0	Memberships held by the author in scientific or professional societies.
Editorial Board Memberships	0	Number of journals where the author has been member of editorial board.
Panelists	0	Number of times the author have been a panelist in the European Research Council (ERC) calls.

Community Recognition

Reflects the academic community's acknowledgment and appreciation of an author's contributions.

Distinctions	0	Number of times the author have recieved a distinction for its career.
Invitations	0	Number of times the author has been invited to talks, professorships, expositions or demonstrations.
Talks	0	Number of times the author has been invited to talks.
Professorships	0	Number of times the author has been invited to professorhips.
Commissioned Reports	0	Commissioned reports done by the author.

Interaction with society

Openness

Reflects an author's commitment to making their research freely accessible and open to the public.

Open Access Documents	54	Number of documents in Open Access mode.
% Open Access Documents	37.76	Percentage of documents in Open Access mode.
Open Access Gold	37	Number of documents published in an OA journal that is indexed by the DOAJ.
Open Access Green	2	Toll-access on the publisher landing page, but there is a free copy in an OA repository.
Open Access Hybrid	4	Free under an open license in a toll-access journal.
Open Access Bronze	5	Free to read on the publisher landing page, but without any identifiable license.
Open Access Closed	89	Non Open Access documents.

Transference

Reflects an author's commitment to making their research a practical application and real-world impact of an author's research.

Patents	0	Intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited period of time in exchange for publishing an enabling disclosure of the invention.
Advisory Boards	0	Number of advisory boards of which the author is member.
Companies	0	Number of companies created or founded by the author.

Fundraising

Reflects an author's ability in securing project funding from major global entities, showcasing your ability to drive research initiatives forward.

Funding Counts	0	Number of activities reported as funding recieved.
ERC Grantees	0	Researchers awarded grants from the European Research Council.

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Al-Hinai, Amer PhD

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Total documents

Normalized Impact

Highly Cited Papers (10%)

International Collab. (%)

Most cited publications

Main coauthors

The perfect present for a young Researcher!

Dimensions One by One

Activity

Activity

Available data

All documents

Citable documents

Documents / year

Books

Document type

Academic output

Last 5 years

All documents

Citable documents

Documents / year

Books

Impact

Impact

Citations

Relative Citation Index

Journal Relative Citation Index

H Index

Normalized Impact

% Documents above & below the reference

Impact on Open Access (OA) vs. PayWalled documents

Self-citations

Self Citation Rate (%)

Non Self Citation Rate (%)

Trending papers

Excellence

Excellence

Highly Cited Paper (Top 10%, HCP)

Outstanding Papers (Top 1%, OP)

Relative number of HCP (RHCP)

Relative number of OP (ROP)

Citation percentile: from 0 to 100

Citation percentile: from 99 to 100

Highly Cited Papers (Top 10% cited)

Outstanding Papers (Top 1% cited)

Leadership

Leadership

Publications lead

Correspondence author

First author

Last author

Publications lead per year

Subset publications

Available data

Cooperation

Cooperation

Collaboration

International collaboration

Avg. Authors / publication

Avg. Countries / publication

Docs highly authored

Employments

Educations

Openness

Openness

Available data

OA documents

Community Support

Community Support

Available data

Community Recognition

Community Recognition

Available data

Transference

Transference

Available data

Fundraising

Fundraising

Al-Hinai, Amer ^PhD

Relative number of OP
(ROP)