Ali Behnood

9.4k total citations · 7 hit papers
88 papers, 7.7k citations indexed

About

Ali Behnood is a scholar working on Civil and Structural Engineering, Building and Construction and Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality. According to data from OpenAlex, Ali Behnood has authored 88 papers receiving a total of 7.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 63 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering, 21 papers in Building and Construction and 18 papers in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality. Recurrent topics in Ali Behnood's work include Infrastructure Maintenance and Monitoring (35 papers), Innovative concrete reinforcement materials (35 papers) and Asphalt Pavement Performance Evaluation (30 papers). Ali Behnood is often cited by papers focused on Infrastructure Maintenance and Monitoring (35 papers), Innovative concrete reinforcement materials (35 papers) and Asphalt Pavement Performance Evaluation (30 papers). Ali Behnood collaborates with scholars based in United States, Iran and Australia. Ali Behnood's co-authors include Emadaldin Mohammadi Golafshani, Fred Mannering, Mahsa Modiri Gharehveran, Jan Olek, Mehrdad Arashpour, Mahmoud Ameri, Dana Daneshvar, Nabeel Saleem Saad Al-Bdairi, Afshar A. Yousefi and Kho Pin Verian and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Cleaner Production, Scientific Reports and Construction and Building Materials.

In The Last Decade

Ali Behnood

87 papers receiving 7.5k citations

Hit Papers

Morphology, rheology, and physical properties of polymer-... 2017 2026 2020 2023 2018 2019 2017 2019 2018 100 200 300 400
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. Morphology, rheology, and physical properties of polymer-modified asphalt binders
    2018 473 citations Ali Behnood, Mahsa Modiri Gharehveran profile →
  2. Predicting the compressive strength of normal and High-Performance Concretes using ANN and ANFIS hybridized with Grey Wolf Optimizer
    2019 375 citations Emadaldin Mohammadi Golafshani, Ali Behnood et al. Construction and Building Materials profile →
  3. Determinants of bicyclist injury severities in bicycle-vehicle crashes: A random parameters approach with heterogeneity in means and variances
    2017 328 citations Ali Behnood, Fred Mannering Analytic Methods in Accident Research profile →
  4. Application of rejuvenators to improve the rheological and mechanical properties of asphalt binders and mixtures: A review
    2019 295 citations Ali Behnood Journal of Cleaner Production profile →
  5. Predicting the compressive strength of silica fume concrete using hybrid artificial neural network with multi-objective grey wolves
    2018 279 citations Ali Behnood, Emadaldin Mohammadi Golafshani Journal of Cleaner Production profile →
  6. Prediction of the compressive strength of normal and high-performance concretes using M5P model tree algorithm
    2017 254 citations Ali Behnood, Mahsa Modiri Gharehveran et al. Construction and Building Materials profile →
  7. Time-of-day variations and temporal instability of factors affecting injury severities in large-truck crashes
    2019 222 citations Ali Behnood, Fred Mannering Analytic Methods in Accident Research profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ali Behnood United States 46 5.1k 1.9k 1.8k 1.2k 897 88 7.7k
Rafiqul A. Tarefder United States 31 3.0k 0.6× 685 0.4× 396 0.2× 260 0.2× 257 0.3× 264 3.9k
Baoshan Huang United States 74 15.3k 3.0× 838 0.4× 4.3k 2.3× 266 0.2× 197 0.2× 391 17.3k
Khaled Ksaibati United States 26 1.4k 0.3× 1.4k 0.7× 693 0.4× 497 0.4× 398 0.4× 277 2.9k
John E. Haddock United States 23 1.2k 0.2× 435 0.2× 225 0.1× 270 0.2× 88 0.1× 93 1.8k
Qing Lu United States 29 1.7k 0.3× 186 0.1× 213 0.1× 138 0.1× 84 0.1× 128 2.7k
Mujahid Ali Malaysia 28 1.0k 0.2× 159 0.1× 658 0.4× 173 0.1× 47 0.1× 121 2.4k
Arshad Jamal Saudi Arabia 32 491 0.1× 704 0.4× 745 0.4× 525 0.4× 238 0.3× 107 2.7k
Erik Kjems Denmark 5 946 0.2× 441 0.2× 449 0.2× 642 0.5× 43 0.0× 20 2.2k
Qiao Dong China 43 4.2k 0.8× 169 0.1× 1.0k 0.6× 65 0.1× 31 0.0× 212 5.5k
Wenguo Weng China 35 246 0.0× 857 0.4× 361 0.2× 227 0.2× 73 0.1× 148 3.7k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Behnood, Ali, et al.. (2025). Analyzing crash injury severities with deep learning and advanced statistical models: An assessment of methodological challenges. Analytic Methods in Accident Research. 48. 100405–100405.
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Yousefi, Afshar A., B. Shane Underwood, Ali Behnood, et al.. (2024). Towards a durable and sustainable warm mix asphalt: Techno-economic and environmental evaluation considering balanced mix design approach. Journal of Cleaner Production. 486. 144311–144311. 17 indexed citations
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Behnood, Ali, et al.. (2024). Carbonation depth assessment of recycled aggregate concrete: An application of conformal prediction intervals. Expert Systems with Applications. 268. 126231–126231. 6 indexed citations
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Golafshani, Emadaldin Mohammadi, Alireza Kashani, Ali Behnood, & Taehwan Kim. (2023). Modeling the chloride migration of recycled aggregate concrete using ensemble learners for sustainable building construction. Journal of Cleaner Production. 407. 136968–136968. 30 indexed citations
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Davoodi, Seyed Rasoul, et al.. (2022). Bicyclists injury severities: An empirical assessment of temporal stability. Accident Analysis & Prevention. 168. 106616–106616. 20 indexed citations
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Golafshani, Emadaldin Mohammadi, Ali Behnood, & Mehrdad Arashpour. (2022). Predicting the compressive strength of eco-friendly and normal concretes using hybridized fuzzy inference system and particle swarm optimization algorithm. Artificial Intelligence Review. 56(8). 7965–7984. 10 indexed citations
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Cheraghian, Goshtasp, Michael P. Wistuba, Sajad Kiani, et al.. (2022). Engineered nanocomposites in asphalt binders. Nanotechnology Reviews. 11(1). 1047–1067. 20 indexed citations
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Cheraghian, Goshtasp, Michael P. Wistuba, Sajad Kiani, Andrew R. Barron, & Ali Behnood. (2021). Rheological, physicochemical, and microstructural properties of asphalt binder modified by fumed silica nanoparticles. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 11455–11455. 34 indexed citations
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Haghani, Milad, Ali Behnood, Óscar Oviedo-Trespalacios, & Michiel C.J. Bliemer. (2021). Structural anatomy and temporal trends of road accident research: Full-scope analyses of the field. Journal of Safety Research. 79. 173–198. 27 indexed citations
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Keramati, Mohsen, et al.. (2021). Prediction of the shear modulus of municipal solid waste (MSW): An application of machine learning techniques. Journal of Cleaner Production. 303. 127053–127053. 41 indexed citations
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Golafshani, Emadaldin Mohammadi, Mehrdad Arashpour, & Ali Behnood. (2021). Predicting the compressive strength of green concretes using Harris hawks optimization-based data-driven methods. Construction and Building Materials. 318. 125944–125944. 36 indexed citations
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Behnood, Ali, et al.. (2021). Temporal stability of pedestrian injury severity in pedestrian-vehicle crashes: New insights from random parameter logit model with heterogeneity in means and variances. Analytic Methods in Accident Research. 32. 100184–100184. 77 indexed citations
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Behnood, Ali, Mohammad M. Karimi, & Goshtasp Cheraghian. (2020). Coupled effects of warm mix asphalt (WMA) additives and rheological modifiers on the properties of asphalt binders. Cleaner Engineering and Technology. 1. 100028–100028. 23 indexed citations
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Al-Bdairi, Nabeel Saleem Saad & Ali Behnood. (2020). Assessment of temporal stability in risk factors of crashes at horizontal curves on rural two-lane undivided highways. Journal of Safety Research. 76. 205–217. 24 indexed citations
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Yousefi, Afshar A., et al.. (2020). Performance evaluation of asphalt mixtures containing warm mix asphalt (WMA) additives and reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP). Construction and Building Materials. 268. 121200–121200. 166 indexed citations
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Golafshani, Emadaldin Mohammadi & Ali Behnood. (2017). Automatic regression methods for formulation of elastic modulus of recycled aggregate concrete. Applied Soft Computing. 64. 377–400. 93 indexed citations
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Behnood, Ali & Fred Mannering. (2016). An empirical assessment of the effects of economic recessions on pedestrian-injury crashes using mixed and latent-class models. Analytic Methods in Accident Research. 12. 1–17. 219 indexed citations
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Spragg, Robert, et al.. (2014). Determining the Moisture Content of Pre-Wetted Lightweight Aggregate: Assessing the Variability of the Paper Towel and Centrifuge Methods. Purdue e-Pubs (Purdue University System). 312–316. 22 indexed citations
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McDaniel, Rebecca, et al.. (2014). Pavement Patching Practices. Transportation Research Board eBooks. 20 indexed citations
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Olek, Jan, et al.. (2014). National Cooperative Highway Research Program, NCHRP Synthesis 463, Pavement Patching Practices - A Synthesis of Highway Practice. Ulster University Research Portal (Ulster University). 6 indexed citations

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