Dr. Mahwish Zafar

Web of Science & Scopus

• Awan, A., Hussain, K., Rasheed, M. A., Zafar, M., Yaghmour, S., & Alharethi, T. (2026). Analysis of consumers’ green intentions in the inchoate hospitality industry of Pakistan. Journal of Islamic Marketing, 1-19.

 

• Rasheed, T., Zafar, M., & Bashir, M. F. (2026). Tourism, Nuclear Energy Consumption and Sustainable Development Challenges: Policy Implications for Leading Nuclear Power Economies. International Social Science Journal.

 

• Rasheed, T., Akram, H., Zafar, M., & Hossain, M. B. (2025). Assessing the Impact of IT, Trade Globalisation, and Economic Complexity on Carbon Emissions in BRICS Economies. Economies, 13(6), 153. https://doi.org/10.3390/economies13060153

 

• Awan, A., Hussain, K., Zafar, M., Butt, M. J., & Yaghmour, S. (2025). Impact of nations’ green behavior on green growth by considering the moderating role of environmental policy stringency. Management of Environmental Quality: An International Journal, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print). https://doi.org/10.1108/MEQ-05-2024-0200.

 

• Awan, A., Hussain, K., Zafar, M. and Bajwa, S.U. (2024), “Is tourism conducive to green growth? An investigation of the role of tourism-based economic expansion in the nexus of leisure tourism and business tourism”, Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Insights. https://doi.org/10.1108/JHTI-11-2023-0855.

 

• Zafar, M., Bashir, M. F., & Bukhari, A. A. A. (2024). Women’s empowerment and tourism: Emerging determinants of poverty in low and middle‐income countries. International Social Science Journal 74(251), 1-17.

 

• Bukhari, W. A. A., Pervaiz, A., Zafar, M., Sadiq, M., & Bashir, M. F. (2023). Role of renewable and non-renewable energy consumption in environmental quality and their subsequent effects on average temperature: an assessment of sustainable development goals in South Korea. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 1-13.

   

• Mata, N.; Ali, S.; Lucas, J.L.; Martins, J.N.; Zafar, M. Cross-Sectional ARDL Analysis to Access the Impact of Stressful Living Environment and Extreme Weather Events on Youth’s Education. Economies (2023), 11, 170. https://doi.org/10.3390/economies11060170.

 

• Ma, , Lin, S., Bashir, M. F., Sun, H., & Zafar, M. (2023). Revisiting the role of firm-level carbon disclosure in sustainable development goals: Research agenda and policy implications. Gondwana Research.

 

• Khan, N., Zafar, M., Okunlola, A. F., Zoltan, Z., & Robert, M. (2022). Effects of Financial Inclusion on Economic Growth, Poverty, Sustainability, and Financial Efficiency: Evidence from the G20 Countries. Sustainability, 14(19), 12688.

 

• Zafar, M., Sabir, S. A., Manzoor, S., Isran, M. A., & Kousar, S. (2021). An Application of VECM to Investigate the Role of Socio-Economic Factors in Poverty: New Evidence from Estudios de economía aplicada, 39(2), 14.

 

• Kousar, S., Ahmed, F., Pervaiz, A., Zafar, M., & Abbas, S. (2020). A panel co-integration analysis between energy consumption and poverty: new evidence from South Asian Studies of Applied Economics, 38(3).

 

• Kousar, S., Zafar, M., Batool, S. A., & Ali, S. (2019). The mediating role of absorptive capacity in the relationship between intellectual capital and organizational innovation in higher education institutes Punjab, Pakistan. Pakistan Journal of Commerce and Social Sciences (PJCSS), 13(3), 656-679.

 

• Kousar, S., Rehman, A., Zafar, M., Ali, K., & Nasir, N. (2018). China-Pakistan Economic Corridor: a gateway to sustainable economic development. International Journal of Social Economics, 45(6), 909-924.

 

• Kousar, S., Sabri, P. S. U., Zafar, M., & Akhtar, A. (2017). Technological Factors and Adoption of Green Innovation-Moderating Role of Government Intervention: A Case of SMEs in Pakistan Journal of Commerce & Social Sciences, 11(3).

 

Others

• Muneer, S., Ashraf, A., Zafar, M., & Qamar, N. (2025). Examining the Nexus between Smartphone Addiction, Academic Performance, and the Mediating Influence of Mental and Physical Health among Upper and Upper Middle Adolescents. Journal of Social Sciences Advancement, 6(1), 82–93. https://doi.org/10.52223/JSSA25-060110-127

 

• Areeb Mustafa, & Mahwish Zafar. (2025). A NEED OF SCHOOL HEALTH CLINIC IN PAKISTAN. Policy Research Journal, 3(6), 187–197. Retrieved from https://theprj.org/index.php/1/article/view/715

 

• Muneer, S., Ashraf, A., Zafar, M., & Qamar, N. (2025). Examining the Nexus between Smartphone Addiction, Academic Performance, and the Mediating Influence of Mental and Physical Health among Upper and Upper Middle Adolescents. Journal of Social Sciences Advancement, 6(1), 82–93. https://doi.org/10.52223/JSSA25-060110-127

 

• Jabbar, R., Zafar, M., Bodla, A. J., & Jabbar, K. (2025). Impact of Mobile Phone Use on School-Level Students’ Mental Health. ProScholar Insights, 4(1), 97-106. https://doi.org/10.62997/psi.2025a-41047

 

• Muhammad Shafqat Rasool, Mahwish Zafar, & Arsalan Khalid. (2025). DEVELOPING ENTREPRENEURIAL MINDSETS IN PAKISTANI SCHOOLS AT MATRIC LEVEL. Policy Research Journal, 3(2), 327–338. Retrieved from https://theprj.org/index.php/1/article/view/426

 

• Muhammad Hashim Hussain Raja, Ali Sajjad, & Mahwish Zafar. (2025). ADDRESSING ROAD-LEVEL PLANNING CHALLENGES IN PAKISTAN FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE. Policy Research Journal, 3(6), 107–119. Retrieved from https://theprj.org/index.php/1/article/view/707

 

• Zaheer, M. H., Siddique, M. U., Ahmad, A., & Zafar, M. (2023). The Impact of Inventory Management on Financial Performance in the Pakistani Pharmaceutical Sector: A Multivariate Journal of Excellence in Management Sciences, 2(2), 61-81.

 

• Ashfaq, , Zafar, M., Zahid, B., & Khan, H. M. R. (2023). Oil Price Shocks Drive Corruption; A Bibliometric Analysis. IRASD Journal of Economics, 5(2), 338-363.

 

• Zafar, , Razzaq, N., & Ilyas, A. (2023). Ecological Footprint Towards Sustainable Development: A bibliometric analysis. Academic Journal of Social Sciences (AJSS), 7(1), 079-104.

 

• Nawaz, A.., Rahman, S. U.., Zafar, M.., & Ghaffar, M.. (2023). Technology Innovation- institutional Quality on Environmental Pollution Nexus From E-7 Nations: Evidence from Panel Ardl Cointegration Review of Applied Management and Social Sciences, 6(2), 307-323. https://doi.org/10.47067/ramss.v6i2.329.

   

• Tabassum, N.., Rahman, S. U.., Zafar, M.., & Ghaffar, M.. (2023). Institutional Quality, Employment, Trade Openness on Environment (Co2) Nexus from Top Co2 Producing Countries; Panel ARDL Approach. Review of Education, Administration & Law, 6(2), 211- https://doi.org/10.47067/real.v6i2.325.

 

• Awan, A., Rahman, S. U., Ali, M., & Zafar, M. (2023). Institutional Performance and Tourism Arrival Nexus in BRICS Countries: Evidence from Nonlinear ARDL Cointegration iRASD Journal of Economics, 5(1), 127-139.

 

• Waqas, M., Razzaq, N., & Zafar, M. (2023). A New View on The Socio-Economic Factor in Child Mortality Asymmetric ARDL Provides New Evidence for Developing Country SDG (SDG’S) South Asian Review of Business and Administrative Studies (SABAS), 4(2).

 

• Khan, S., Zafar, M., & Khizar, S. (2022). Nexuses between Governance Quality on Industrial Growth: A Fresh Insight from Developing Economies. iRASD Journal of Economics, 4(1), 1-13.

   

• Zafar, M., Kousar, , Sabir, S. A., & Sajjad, A. (2021). An Exploratory Study on Academic, Social and Psychological Problems Faced by Overseas Students of Higher Education Institutions of Pakistan. Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 31(2).

 

• Zafar, M., Waqas, M., & Butt, M. N. (2019). The role of small and medium enterprises on poverty reduction in developing country: a case of Business & Economic Review, 20(3), 703-713.

 

• Zafar, M., Kousar, , & Sabir, S. A. (2019). Impact of globalization on green growth: a case of OECD Countries. Journal of Indian Studies, 5(2), 145-159.

 

• Kousar, , Zafar, M., Sabir, S. A., & Sajjad, A. (2019). A Step toward Realization of Vision 2030; Reduction in Child Mortality: New Evidence from South Asian Countries. Journal of Independent Studies & Research: Management & Social Sciences & Economics, 17(1).

 

• Zafar, M., Sabri, P. S. U., Ilyas, M., & Kousar, S. (2015). The impact of trade openness and external debt on economic growth: new evidence from South Asia, East Asia and middle Science International, 27(1), 509-516.

 

• Kousar, S., Zafar, M., UllahSabri, P. S., Ilyas, M., & Nasir, N. (2016). The role of internal and external shocks in macroeconomic fluctuations of developing Science International, 28(1).

 

• Kousar, S., Zafar, M., Ilyas, M., & Amjad, Z. (2015). Factors Affecting Foreign Aid Dependence: A Case of South Asian The Pakistan Journal of Social Issues, 6, 82- 94.

 

• Mahwish Zafar, P. S. U., & Khan, Z. U. Fdi, trade openness and economic growth new dynamics in case of Pakistan (2016) Science International, 28(1), 450-475.

 

• Mahwish Zafar, Wajahat Shafiq, Shazia Kousar, Hummaira Qudsia Yousaf, Nadia Nasir Impact of social media on entrepreneurship growth: a case of Lahore, Pakistan

ISSN: 2277-9655, Impact Factor: 4.116, IC™ Value: 3.00 CODEN: IJESS7.  

• Mahwish Zafar*, Abdul Rehman, Shazia Kousar, Nadia Nasir, Salman Masood Sheikh Is CPEC really Achilles heel; fears overlooked? ISSN: 2277-9655 (Zafar* et al., 6(2): February, 2017) Impact Factor: 4.116 IC™ Value: 3.00, CODEN: IJESS7.