Ali Mostafavi

7.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
248 papers, 4.8k citations indexed

About

Ali Mostafavi is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Civil and Structural Engineering and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Ali Mostafavi has authored 248 papers receiving a total of 4.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 98 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 81 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering and 78 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Ali Mostafavi's work include Disaster Management and Resilience (86 papers), Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis (69 papers) and Flood Risk Assessment and Management (67 papers). Ali Mostafavi is often cited by papers focused on Disaster Management and Resilience (86 papers), Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis (69 papers) and Flood Risk Assessment and Management (67 papers). Ali Mostafavi collaborates with scholars based in United States, Iran and India. Ali Mostafavi's co-authors include Chao Fan, Shangjia Dong, Cheng Zhang, Amir Esmalian, Hamed Farahmand, Jin Zhu, Mostafa Batouli, Natalie Coleman, Qingchun Li and Jennifer Dargin and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Environmental Science & Technology and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Ali Mostafavi

238 papers receiving 4.7k 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.

Disaster City Digital Twin: A vision for integrating artificial and human intelligence for disaster management

2019 273 citations Chao Fan, Cheng Zhang et al. profile →
Social media for intelligent public information and warning in disasters: An interdisciplinary review

2019 205 citations Cheng Zhang, Chao Fan et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ali Mostafavi United States	37	1.7k	1.5k	1.2k	609	607	248	4.8k
William A. Wallace United States	35	2.6k 1.5×	3.5k 2.4×	807 0.7×	312 0.5×	708 1.2×	266	8.2k
Terje Aven Norway	63	2.6k 1.6×	2.1k 1.4×	700 0.6×	236 0.4×	1.1k 1.8×	346	12.9k
Detlof von Winterfeldt United States	34	2.8k 1.6×	3.0k 2.0×	1.2k 1.0×	355 0.6×	471 0.8×	106	9.9k
Kathleen J. Tierney United States	31	5.2k 3.1×	3.6k 2.4×	1.7k 1.4×	256 0.4×	509 0.8×	94	8.9k
Abbas Rajabifard Australia	41	541 0.3×	439 0.3×	920 0.8×	3.0k 5.0×	523 0.9×	424	7.4k
Stephanie E. Chang Canada	41	3.8k 2.2×	6.0k 4.1×	2.0k 1.7×	535 0.9×	754 1.2×	86	9.7k
Tony H. Grubesic United States	41	1.1k 0.6×	583 0.4×	394 0.3×	241 0.4×	273 0.4×	196	5.0k
Seth D. Guikema United States	42	746 0.4×	1.9k 1.3×	1.3k 1.1×	246 0.4×	373 0.6×	186	5.6k
Satish V. Ukkusuri United States	56	1.4k 0.8×	585 0.4×	909 0.8×	2.3k 3.8×	1.8k 3.0×	304	9.6k
Ronald T. Eguchi United States	19	1.5k 0.9×	3.1k 2.1×	806 0.7×	269 0.4×	326 0.5×	59	4.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Ali Mostafavi

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ali Mostafavi

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ali Mostafavi

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Liu, Zhewei, et al.. (2025). Generating equitable urban human flows with a fairness-aware deep learning model. Cities. 167. 106296–106296.

Mostafavi, Ali, et al.. (2025). A system for community lifeline and resource optimization in disaster management and planning. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. 119. 105269–105269. 1 indexed citations

Ho, Yu‐Hsuan, et al.. (2025). Improving flood damage estimation by integrating property elevation data. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. 118. 105251–105251.

Mostafavi, Ali, et al.. (2025). MOOSE-based finite element framework for mass-conserving two-phase flow simulations on adaptive grids using the diffuse interface approach and a Lagrange multiplier. Journal of Computational Physics. 527. 113755–113755. 5 indexed citations

Farahmand, Hamed, et al.. (2024). Integrating climate projections and probabilistic network analysis into regional transport resilience planning. Transportation Research Part D Transport and Environment. 133. 104229–104229. 8 indexed citations

Liu, Zhewei, et al.. (2024). Artificial intelligence for flood risk management: A comprehensive state-of-the-art review and future directions. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. 117. 105110–105110. 9 indexed citations

Fan, Chao, et al.. (2024). Mobility behaviors shift disparity in flood exposure in U.S. population groups. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. 108. 104545–104545. 10 indexed citations

Fan, Chao, et al.. (2024). Human mobility disproportionately extends PM2.5 emission exposure for low income populations. Sustainable Cities and Society. 119. 106063–106063. 4 indexed citations

Mostafavi, Ali, et al.. (2024). Untangling the relationship between power outage and population activity recovery in disasters. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(3). 53–64. 5 indexed citations

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Blessing, Russell, et al.. (2024). Non-locality and spillover effects of residential flood damage on community recovery: Insights from high-resolution flood claim and mobility data. Sustainable Cities and Society. 117. 105947–105947. 3 indexed citations

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Mostafavi, Ali, et al.. (2024). Urban form and structure explain variability in spatial inequality of property flood risk among US counties. Communications Earth & Environment. 5(1). 19 indexed citations

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Coleman, Natalie, et al.. (2023). Lifestyle pattern analysis unveils recovery trajectories of communities impacted by disasters. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. 10(1). 12 indexed citations

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Mostafavi, Ali, et al.. (2023). Latent sub-structural resilience mechanisms in temporal human mobility networks during urban flooding. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 10953–10953. 12 indexed citations

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Coleman, Natalie, et al.. (2023). Energy inequality in climate hazards: Empirical evidence of social and spatial disparities in managed and hazard-induced power outages. Sustainable Cities and Society. 92. 104491–104491. 50 indexed citations

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Jiang, Yuqin, et al.. (2023). Data-driven tracking of the bounce-back path after disasters: Critical milestones of population activity recovery and their spatial inequality. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. 92. 103693–103693. 12 indexed citations

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Dong, Shangjia, et al.. (2022). Modest flooding can trigger catastrophic road network collapse due to compound failure. Communications Earth & Environment. 3(1). 38 indexed citations

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Dong, Shangjia, Haizhong Wang, Ali Mostafavi, & Jianxi Gao. (2019). Robust component: a robustness measure that incorporates access to critical facilities under disruptions. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 16(157). 20190149–20190149. 55 indexed citations

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Fan, Chao, Cheng Zhang, & Ali Mostafavi. (2018). Meta-Network Framework for Analyzing Disaster Management System-of-Systems. 372–378. 9 indexed citations

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Zhu, Jin, et al.. (2017). Assessment of Infrastructure Resilience in the 2015 Gorkha, Nepal, Earthquake. Earthquake Spectra. 33(1S). 147–165. 27 indexed citations

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Zhu, Jin & Ali Mostafavi. (2017). Performance Assessment in Complex Engineering Projects Using a System-of-Systems Framework. IEEE Systems Journal. 12(1). 262–273. 30 indexed citations

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