Ali Ahani

2.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
31 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Ali Ahani is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Global and Planetary Change and Water Science and Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ali Ahani has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 8 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 7 papers in Water Science and Technology. Recurrent topics in Ali Ahani's work include Digital Marketing and Social Media (11 papers), Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (7 papers) and Hydrology and Drought Analysis (7 papers). Ali Ahani is often cited by papers focused on Digital Marketing and Social Media (11 papers), Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (7 papers) and Hydrology and Drought Analysis (7 papers). Ali Ahani collaborates with scholars based in Iran, Malaysia and Australia. Ali Ahani's co-authors include Mehrbakhsh Nilashi, Othman Ibrahim, Louis Sanzogni, Nor Zairah Ab. Rahim, Elaheh Yadegaridehkordi, Sarminah Samad, Scott Weaven, Hossein Ahmadi, Ramin Ravangard and Ali Moridi and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Cleaner Production, Scientific Reports and Journal of Hydrology.

In The Last Decade

Ali Ahani

30 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Market segmentation and travel choice prediction in Spa hotels through TripAdvisor’s online reviews

2019 181 citations Ali Ahani, Mehrbakhsh Nilashi et al. International Journal of Hospitality Management profile →
Revealing customers’ satisfaction and preferences through online review analysis: The case of Canary Islands hotels

2019 180 citations Ali Ahani, Mehrbakhsh Nilashi et al. Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ali Ahani Iran	18	560	308	258	246	242	31	1.4k
Jiayin Qi China	21	544 1.0×	354 1.1×	333 1.3×	241 1.0×	242 1.0×	113	1.6k
K N Papamichail United Kingdom	13	355 0.6×	250 0.8×	272 1.1×	142 0.6×	159 0.7×	51	1.0k
Rabab Ali Abumalloh Malaysia	20	311 0.6×	210 0.7×	165 0.6×	137 0.6×	152 0.6×	61	1.1k
Osama Sohaib Australia	19	343 0.6×	162 0.5×	197 0.8×	81 0.3×	289 1.2×	77	1.2k
Huy Quan Vu Australia	22	1.2k 2.2×	432 1.4×	290 1.1×	212 0.9×	141 0.6×	53	1.8k
Ron Chi-Wai Kwok Hong Kong	24	677 1.2×	125 0.4×	378 1.5×	119 0.5×	313 1.3×	89	2.2k
Mamata Jenamani India	19	210 0.4×	226 0.7×	268 1.0×	105 0.4×	105 0.4×	99	1.3k
Cherng G. Ding Taiwan	21	469 0.8×	358 1.2×	70 0.3×	505 2.1×	202 0.8×	59	1.5k
I‐Cheng Chang Taiwan	18	443 0.8×	171 0.6×	103 0.4×	98 0.4×	303 1.3×	93	1.3k
Jian-Wu Bi China	19	981 1.8×	383 1.2×	726 2.8×	288 1.2×	101 0.4×	38	1.9k

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Moridi, Ali, et al.. (2024). Bivariate regional drought frequency analysis using multivariate approaches: a case study in southwestern Iran. Hydrology research. 55(3). 336–350. 7 indexed citations

Ahani, Ali, et al.. (2024). The future of droughts in Iran according to CMIP6 projections. Hydrological Sciences Journal. 69(7). 951–970. 7 indexed citations

Ahani, Ali, et al.. (2022). A ranking method for regionalization of watersheds. Journal of Hydrology. 609. 127740–127740. 7 indexed citations

Nilashi, Mehrbakhsh, Sarminah Samad, Ali Ahani, et al.. (2021). Travellers decision making through preferences learning: A case on Malaysian spa hotels in TripAdvisor. Computers & Industrial Engineering. 158. 107348–107348. 26 indexed citations

Ahani, Ali, Mehrbakhsh Nilashi, Waleed Abdu Zogaan, et al.. (2021). Evaluating medical travelers’ satisfaction through online review analysis. Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management. 48. 519–537. 26 indexed citations

Ahani, Ali, et al.. (2020). Regionalization of watersheds based on the concept of rough set. Natural Hazards. 104(1). 883–899. 7 indexed citations

Ahani, Ali, et al.. (2020). Regionalization of watersheds by finite mixture models. Journal of Hydrology. 583. 124620–124620. 17 indexed citations

Ahani, Ali, et al.. (2020). Simultaneous Regionalization of Gauged and Ungauged Watersheds Using a Missing Data Clustering Method. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering. 25(5). 6 indexed citations

Ahani, Ali, Mehrbakhsh Nilashi, & Othman Ibrahim. (2019). Travellers Segmentation and Choice Prediction through Online Reviews: The Case of Wellington’s Hotels in New Zealand. 6(5). 23–30. 4 indexed citations

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Ahani, Ali, et al.. (2019). A hybrid regionalization method based on canonical correlation analysis and cluster analysis: a case study in northern Iran. Hydrology research. 50(4). 1076–1095. 9 indexed citations

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Ahani, Ali, Mehrbakhsh Nilashi, Othman Ibrahim, Louis Sanzogni, & Scott Weaven. (2019). Market segmentation and travel choice prediction in Spa hotels through TripAdvisor’s online reviews. International Journal of Hospitality Management. 80. 52–77. 181 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ahani, Ali, Mehrbakhsh Nilashi, Elaheh Yadegaridehkordi, et al.. (2019). Revealing customers’ satisfaction and preferences through online review analysis: The case of Canary Islands hotels. Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services. 51. 331–343. 180 indexed citations breakdown →

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Nilashi, Mehrbakhsh, Ali Ahani, Mohammad Dalvi Esfahani, et al.. (2019). Preference learning for eco-friendly hotels recommendation: A multi-criteria collaborative filtering approach. Journal of Cleaner Production. 215. 767–783. 109 indexed citations

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Ahani, Ali, Nor Zairah Ab. Rahim, & Mehrbakhsh Nilashi. (2017). Forecasting social CRM adoption in SMEs: A combined SEM-neural network method. Computers in Human Behavior. 75. 560–578. 177 indexed citations

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Nilashi, Mehrbakhsh, Othman Ibrahim, & Ali Ahani. (2016). Accuracy Improvement for Predicting Parkinson’s Disease Progression. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 34181–34181. 101 indexed citations

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Nilashi, Mehrbakhsh, Hossein Ahmadi, Ali Ahani, Ramin Ravangard, & Othman Ibrahim. (2016). Determining the importance of Hospital Information System adoption factors using Fuzzy Analytic Network Process (ANP). Technological Forecasting and Social Change. 111. 244–264. 129 indexed citations

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Nilashi, Mehrbakhsh, Othman Ibrahim, Abbas Mardani, Ali Ahani, & Ahmad Jusoh. (2016). A soft computing approach for diabetes disease classification. Health Informatics Journal. 24(4). 379–393. 36 indexed citations

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Ahani, Ali, Mehrbakhsh Nilashi, & Hossein Ahmadi. (2016). Evaluating the Barriers of Hospital Information System Implementation Using Analytic Network Processes (ANP) Method. 3(4). 30–38. 3 indexed citations

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Nilashi, Mehrbakhsh, et al.. (2015). Evaluating the Factors Affecting Adoption of Hospital Information System Using Analytic Hierarchy Process. 3(1). 8–35. 12 indexed citations

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Ahani, Ali, et al.. (2015). REGIONAL FLOOD FREQUENCY ANALYSIS BY HYBRID CLUSTER ANALYSIS AND L-MOMENTS. 6(12). 11–20.

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