Ali Mirchi

5.1k total citations · 3 hit papers
95 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

About

Ali Mirchi is a scholar working on Water Science and Technology, Global and Planetary Change and Ocean Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Ali Mirchi has authored 95 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 47 papers in Water Science and Technology, 34 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 30 papers in Ocean Engineering. Recurrent topics in Ali Mirchi's work include Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (33 papers), Water resources management and optimization (29 papers) and Hydrology and Drought Analysis (17 papers). Ali Mirchi is often cited by papers focused on Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (33 papers), Water resources management and optimization (29 papers) and Hydrology and Drought Analysis (17 papers). Ali Mirchi collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Iran. Ali Mirchi's co-authors include Kaveh Madani, Amir AghaKouchak, David Watkins, Alireza Gohari, Ali Reza Massah Bavani, Sajjad Ahmad, Ali Nazemi, M. Azarderakhsh, H. Norouzi and Jahangir Abedi Koupai and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Ali Mirchi

91 papers receiving 3.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Water transfer as a solution to water shortage: A fix that can Backfire

2013 285 citations Ali Mirchi, Kaveh Madani et al. Journal of Hydrology profile →
Iran’s Socio-economic Drought: Challenges of a Water-Bankrupt Nation

2016 273 citations Kaveh Madani, Amir AghaKouchak et al. profile →
Anthropogenic Drought: Definition, Challenges, and Opportunities

2021 240 citations Amir AghaKouchak, Ali Mirchi et al. Reviews of Geophysics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ali Mirchi United States	29	1.7k	1.4k	1.1k	733	350	95	3.7k
J. Salisbury United States	28	2.4k 1.4×	2.5k 1.8×	1.1k 1.0×	691 0.9×	219 0.6×	69	6.3k
Megan Konar United States	34	2.4k 1.5×	1.1k 0.8×	1.5k 1.4×	1.5k 2.0×	249 0.7×	82	4.5k
Mohamad Hejazi United States	42	3.4k 2.1×	1.9k 1.4×	1.5k 1.4×	1.2k 1.6×	213 0.6×	123	5.5k
Stephanie Eisner Germany	31	3.5k 2.1×	2.3k 1.7×	1.4k 1.3×	1.1k 1.4×	210 0.6×	63	5.6k
Kenneth Strzepek United States	36	2.0k 1.2×	1.6k 1.1×	1.4k 1.3×	519 0.7×	536 1.5×	155	4.8k
Yong Zhao China	37	2.0k 1.2×	2.0k 1.5×	688 0.6×	965 1.3×	105 0.3×	260	4.6k
Siao Sun China	29	1.3k 0.8×	1.7k 1.2×	588 0.5×	1.0k 1.4×	115 0.3×	85	4.2k
Peter Burek Austria	28	2.4k 1.4×	1.8k 1.3×	745 0.7×	635 0.9×	194 0.6×	79	3.9k
D. Wiberg Austria	22	1.9k 1.1×	1.2k 0.9×	901 0.8×	622 0.8×	152 0.4×	37	3.8k
Manuel Pulido-Velázquez Spain	33	2.9k 1.8×	1.2k 0.9×	2.5k 2.3×	822 1.1×	185 0.5×	113	4.6k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ali Mirchi

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Arshad, Arfan, Muhammad Shafeeque, Thanh‐Nhan Tran, et al.. (2025). Multi-model ensemble machine learning-based downscaling and projection of GRACE data reveals groundwater decline in Saudi Arabia throughout the 21st century. Journal of Hydrology Regional Studies. 60. 102552–102552. 1 indexed citations

Mirchi, Ali, et al.. (2025). Multi-model ensemble mapping of irrigated areas using remote sensing, machine learning, and ground truth data. Agricultural Water Management. 312. 109416–109416. 3 indexed citations

Mehr, Ali Danandeh, et al.. (2025). Large‐Scale Drought Forecasting in the U.S. Southern Plains Through a Hybrid Cluster‐Based Wavelet‐Machine Learning Approach. Water Resources Research. 61(11). 1 indexed citations

Mirchi, Ali, Vahid Nourani, Jeffrey M. Sadler, et al.. (2024). Stream salinity prediction in data-scarce regions: Application of transfer learning and uncertainty quantification. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology. 266. 104418–104418. 1 indexed citations

Arshad, Arfan, Ali Mirchi, Saleh Taghvaeian, & Amir AghaKouchak. (2024). Downscaled‐GRACE Data Reveal Anthropogenic and Climate‐Induced Water Storage Decline Across the Indus Basin. Water Resources Research. 60(7). 21 indexed citations

Arshad, Arfan, et al.. (2023). Reconstructing high-resolution groundwater level data using a hybrid random forest model to quantify distributed groundwater changes in the Indus Basin. Journal of Hydrology. 628. 130535–130535. 22 indexed citations

Mirchi, Ali, et al.. (2023). Analysis of climatic trends in climate divisions of Oklahoma, USA. Theoretical and Applied Climatology. 154(3-4). 781–795.

Mirchi, Ali, David S. Gutzler, So-Ra Ahn, et al.. (2022). Climate Change Impacts on Agricultural Water Availability in the Middle Rio Grande Basin. JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association. 58(2). 164–184. 11 indexed citations

Alborzi, Aneseh, Ali Nazemi, Ali Mirchi, et al.. (2022). The tale of three floods: From extreme events and cascades of highs to anthropogenic floods. Weather and Climate Extremes. 38. 100495–100495. 12 indexed citations

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Sandoval-Solís, Samuel, Luzma Fabiola Nava, J. Pablo Ortiz‐Partida, et al.. (2022). Environmental flows in the Rio Grande - Rio Bravo basin. Ecology and Society. 27(1). 13 indexed citations

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Zghibi, Adel, Ali Mirchi, Lahcen Zouhri, et al.. (2022). Vulnerability of a Tunisian Coastal Aquifer to Seawater Intrusion: Insights from the GALDIT Model. Water. 14(7). 1177–1177. 17 indexed citations

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AghaKouchak, Amir, Ali Mirchi, Kaveh Madani, et al.. (2021). Anthropogenic Drought: Definition, Challenges, and Opportunities. Reviews of Geophysics. 59(2). 240 indexed citations breakdown →

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Noori, Roohollah, Mohsen Maghrebi, Ali Mirchi, et al.. (2021). Anthropogenic depletion of Iran’s aquifers. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(25). 137 indexed citations

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Mirchi, Ali, et al.. (2019). Modeling Salinity in a Semi-arid Agricultural Watershed Using SWAT-Salt. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2019. 1 indexed citations

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Ahn, So Ra, Shalamu Abudu, Zhuping Sheng, & Ali Mirchi. (2018). Hydrologic impacts of drought-adaptive agricultural water management in a semi-arid river basin: Case of Rincon Valley, New Mexico. Agricultural Water Management. 209. 206–218. 28 indexed citations

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Alborzi, Aneseh, Ali Mirchi, Hamed Moftakhari, et al.. (2018). Climate-informed environmental inflows to revive a drying lake facing meteorological and anthropogenic droughts. Environmental Research Letters. 13(8). 84010–84010. 93 indexed citations

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Feng, Shuang, et al.. (2018). Value of irrigation water usage in South Florida agriculture. The Science of The Total Environment. 626. 486–496. 14 indexed citations

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Chen, Fu, Benxi Liu, Chuntian Cheng, & Ali Mirchi. (2017). Simulation and Regulation of Market Operation in Hydro-Dominated Environment: The Yunnan Case. Water. 9(8). 623–623. 10 indexed citations

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Mirchi, Ali, et al.. (2017). Remarkable hexafunctional anion receptor with operational urea-based inner cleft and thiourea-based outer cleft: Novel design with high-efficiency for sulfate binding. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 6032–6032. 19 indexed citations

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Norouzi, H., Amir AghaKouchak, Kaveh Madani, et al.. (2013). Monitoring Changes in Water Resources Systems Using High Resolution Satellite Observations: Application to Lake Urmia. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2013. 1 indexed citations

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