Ebrahim Babaeian

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

About

Ebrahim Babaeian is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Civil and Structural Engineering and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Ebrahim Babaeian has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Environmental Engineering, 9 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering and 6 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Ebrahim Babaeian's work include Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (17 papers), Soil and Unsaturated Flow (9 papers) and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (5 papers). Ebrahim Babaeian is often cited by papers focused on Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (17 papers), Soil and Unsaturated Flow (9 papers) and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (5 papers). Ebrahim Babaeian collaborates with scholars based in United States, Iran and Germany. Ebrahim Babaeian's co-authors include Markus Tuller, Scott B. Jones, Morteza Sadeghi, Harry Vereecken, Carsten Montzka, Vijay Devabhaktuni, Nahian Siddique, Mehdi Homaee, Trenton E. Franz and Sidike Paheding and has published in prestigious journals such as Remote Sensing of Environment, Journal of Hydrology and Reviews of Geophysics.

In The Last Decade

Ebrahim Babaeian

24 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.

Ground, Proximal, and Satellite Remote Sensing of Soil Moisture

2019 412 citations Ebrahim Babaeian, Morteza Sadeghi et al. Reviews of Geophysics profile →
The optical trapezoid model: A novel approach to remote sensing of soil moisture applied to Sentinel-2 and Landsat-8 observations

2017 321 citations Morteza Sadeghi, Ebrahim Babaeian et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ebrahim Babaeian United States	16	1.0k	468	302	300	266	25	1.4k
Zohra Lili‐Chabaane France	22	926 0.9×	430 0.9×	101 0.3×	450 1.5×	349 1.3×	61	1.4k
L. Karthikeyan India	13	869 0.8×	589 1.3×	146 0.5×	467 1.6×	255 1.0×	32	1.5k
Jianxiu Qiu China	22	909 0.9×	759 1.6×	147 0.5×	736 2.5×	228 0.9×	58	1.6k
Teferi Tsegaye United States	15	529 0.5×	246 0.5×	235 0.8×	159 0.5×	145 0.5×	43	1.0k
Gilles Belaud France	21	754 0.7×	319 0.7×	331 1.1×	605 2.0×	450 1.7×	77	1.8k
Bernard Mougenot France	19	825 0.8×	307 0.7×	120 0.4×	670 2.2×	614 2.3×	44	1.5k
Karem Chokmani Canada	23	550 0.5×	424 0.9×	93 0.3×	597 2.0×	330 1.2×	102	1.6k
Luca Pasolli Italy	15	753 0.7×	483 1.0×	134 0.4×	153 0.5×	223 0.8×	30	1.0k
Haroon Stephen United States	18	664 0.6×	316 0.7×	113 0.4×	436 1.5×	201 0.8×	76	1.4k
François Jonard Belgium	21	770 0.8×	383 0.8×	155 0.5×	353 1.2×	260 1.0×	64	1.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ebrahim Babaeian

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20 of 20 papers shown

Babaeian, Ebrahim, et al.. (2025). Surface and Subsurface Soil Moisture Estimation Using Fusion of SMAP, NLDAS-2, and SOLUS100 Data with Deep Learning. Remote Sensing. 17(4). 659–659. 1 indexed citations

Ghorbani, Asghar, Ebrahim Babaeian, Morteza Sadeghi, et al.. (2025). An improved van Genuchten soil water characteristic model to account for surface adsorptive forces. Journal of Hydrology. 661. 133692–133692. 1 indexed citations

Bandai, Toshiyuki, Morteza Sadeghi, Ebrahim Babaeian, et al.. (2024). Estimating soil hydraulic properties from oven-dry to full saturation using shortwave infrared imaging and inverse modeling. Journal of Hydrology. 635. 131132–131132. 3 indexed citations

Babaeian, Ebrahim & Markus Tuller. (2023). The Feasibility of Remotely Sensed Near-Infrared Reflectance for Soil Moisture Estimation for Agricultural Water Management. Remote Sensing. 15(11). 2736–2736. 4 indexed citations

Newcomb, Maria, Marco Maccaferri, Cristian Forestan, et al.. (2022). Genome Wide Association Study Uncovers the QTLome for Osmotic Adjustment and Related Drought Adaptive Traits in Durum Wheat. Genes. 13(2). 293–293. 15 indexed citations

Babaeian, Ebrahim, et al.. (2022). Short- and mid-term forecasts of actual evapotranspiration with deep learning. Journal of Hydrology. 612. 128078–128078. 54 indexed citations

Babaeian, Ebrahim, Sidike Paheding, Nahian Siddique, Vijay Devabhaktuni, & Markus Tuller. (2021). Estimation of root zone soil moisture from ground and remotely sensed soil information with multisensor data fusion and automated machine learning. Remote Sensing of Environment. 260. 112434–112434. 108 indexed citations

Babaeian, Ebrahim, et al.. (2021). The feasibility of shortwave infrared imaging and inverse numerical modeling for rapid estimation of soil hydraulic properties. Vadose Zone Journal. 20(2). 7 indexed citations

Babaeian, Ebrahim, Paheding Sidike, Maria Newcomb, et al.. (2019). A New Optical Remote Sensing Technique for High-Resolution Mapping of Soil Moisture. Frontiers in Big Data. 2. 37–37. 36 indexed citations

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Babaeian, Ebrahim, Morteza Sadeghi, Scott B. Jones, et al.. (2019). Ground, Proximal, and Satellite Remote Sensing of Soil Moisture. Reviews of Geophysics. 57(2). 530–616. 412 indexed citations breakdown →

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Tuller, Markus, Ebrahim Babaeian, Scott B. Jones, et al.. (2019). The Paramount Societal Impact of Soil Moisture. Eos. 100. 5 indexed citations

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Sadeghi, Morteza, et al.. (2019). An analytical model for estimation of land surface net water flux from near-surface soil moisture observations. Journal of Hydrology. 570. 26–37. 29 indexed citations

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Sadeghi, Morteza, Ardeshir Ebtehaj, Wade T. Crow, et al.. (2019). Global Estimates of Land Surface Water Fluxes from SMOS and SMAP Satellite Soil Moisture Data. Journal of Hydrometeorology. 21(2). 241–253. 32 indexed citations

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Babaeian, Ebrahim, et al.. (2019). Application of Satellite Remote Sensing for Estimation of Dust Emission Probability in the Urmia Lake Basin in Iran. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 83(4). 993–1002. 22 indexed citations

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Sadeghi, Morteza, Ebrahim Babaeian, Markus Tuller, & Scott B. Jones. (2018). Particle size effects on soil reflectance explained by an analytical radiative transfer model. Remote Sensing of Environment. 210. 375–386. 56 indexed citations

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Sadeghi, Morteza, Ebrahim Babaeian, Markus Tuller, & Scott B. Jones. (2017). The optical trapezoid model: A novel approach to remote sensing of soil moisture applied to Sentinel-2 and Landsat-8 observations. Remote Sensing of Environment. 198. 52–68. 321 indexed citations breakdown →

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Sheng, Wenyi, Zhou Rong, Morteza Sadeghi, et al.. (2017). A TDR Array Probe for Monitoring Near‐Surface Soil Moisture Distribution. Vadose Zone Journal. 16(4). 1–8. 30 indexed citations

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Babaeian, Ebrahim, et al.. (2015). A Comparative Study of Multiple Approaches for Predicting the Soil-Water Retention Curve: Hyperspectral Information vs. Basic Soil Properties. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 79(4). 1043–1058. 59 indexed citations

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Babaeian, Ebrahim, et al.. (2015). Towards Retrieving Soil Hydraulic Properties by Hyperspectral Remote Sensing. Vadose Zone Journal. 14(3). 1–17. 49 indexed citations

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Babaeian, Ebrahim, et al.. (2013). DERIVING AND VALIDATING POINT SPECTROTRANSFER FUNCTIONS IN VIS-NIR-SWIR RANGE TO ESTIMATE SOIL WATER RETENTION. 2(3). 0–0.

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