Ghani Rahman

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
52 papers, 771 citations indexed

About

Ghani Rahman is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Water Science and Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ghani Rahman has authored 52 papers receiving a total of 771 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 15 papers in Atmospheric Science and 11 papers in Water Science and Technology. Recurrent topics in Ghani Rahman's work include Climate variability and models (26 papers), Hydrology and Drought Analysis (18 papers) and Climate change impacts on agriculture (10 papers). Ghani Rahman is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (26 papers), Hydrology and Drought Analysis (18 papers) and Climate change impacts on agriculture (10 papers). Ghani Rahman collaborates with scholars based in Pakistan, South Korea and China. Ghani Rahman's co-authors include Muhammad Farhan Ul Moazzam, Atta-ur Rahman, Byung Gul Lee, Muhammad Dawood, Ahmed Mustafà, Sami Ullah, Sami Ullah, Aqil Tariq, Muhammad Mushahid Anwar and Yuanjie Zhao and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Scientific Reports and Environmental Science and Pollution Research.

In The Last Decade

Ghani Rahman

48 papers receiving 758 citations

Hit Papers

Drought impact, vulnerability, risk assessment, managemen... 2025 2026 2025 5 10 15
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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.

  1. Drought impact, vulnerability, risk assessment, management and mitigation under climate change: A comprehensive review
    2025 19 citations Ghani Rahman, Tae‐Woong Kim et al. KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ghani Rahman Pakistan 18 568 206 143 136 131 52 771
Zexi Shen China 16 563 1.0× 287 1.4× 186 1.3× 86 0.6× 124 0.9× 22 790
Charlotte Love United States 6 612 1.1× 279 1.4× 176 1.2× 86 0.6× 89 0.7× 10 848
Mohammad Reza Alizadeh Canada 11 437 0.8× 148 0.7× 155 1.1× 61 0.4× 133 1.0× 16 758
Sanjit Kumar Mondal China 13 734 1.3× 260 1.3× 217 1.5× 175 1.3× 79 0.6× 25 921
Muhammad Farhan Ul Moazzam South Korea 18 457 0.8× 226 1.1× 99 0.7× 62 0.5× 239 1.8× 35 668
Thomas Mendlik Austria 10 610 1.1× 421 2.0× 209 1.5× 93 0.7× 59 0.5× 14 859
Samuel Jonson Sutanto Netherlands 14 704 1.2× 180 0.9× 327 2.3× 102 0.8× 122 0.9× 43 978
Chuanhua Li China 15 529 0.9× 135 0.7× 129 0.9× 55 0.4× 115 0.9× 32 713
Piet K. Kenabatho Botswana 15 441 0.8× 115 0.6× 168 1.2× 83 0.6× 128 1.0× 30 638
Ennio Ferrari Italy 17 774 1.4× 390 1.9× 200 1.4× 92 0.7× 101 0.8× 40 939

Countries citing papers authored by Ghani Rahman

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ghani Rahman

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Ghani Rahman. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Ghani Rahman. The network helps show where Ghani Rahman may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ghani Rahman

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ghani Rahman. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ghani Rahman based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Ghani Rahman. Ghani Rahman is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Rahman, Ghani, et al.. (2025). Impacts of climate change on the South Asian monsoon: A comprehensive review of its variability and future projections. Journal of Hydro-environment Research. 59. 100654–100654. 2 indexed citations
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Mark, Bryan G., et al.. (2025). Localized environmental variability within the Hindukush-Himalayan region of Pakistan. Environmental Earth Sciences. 84(4).
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Rashid, Abdur, et al.. (2025). Spatiotemporal assessment and trend analysis of meteorological drought in Afghanistan (1974–2023) using SPI and SPEI indices. Journal of Hydrology Regional Studies. 61. 102711–102711. 2 indexed citations
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Rahman, Ghani, Shah Khalid, Sana Arshad, Muhammad Farhan Ul Moazzam, & Hyun‐Han Kwon. (2025). Remote sensing-based spatiotemporal assessment of agricultural drought and its impact on crop yields in Punjab, Pakistan. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 20586–20586.
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Rahman, Ghani, et al.. (2025). Drought impact, vulnerability, risk assessment, management and mitigation under climate change: A comprehensive review. KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering. 29(1). 100120–100120. 19 indexed citations breakdown →
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Moazzam, Muhammad Farhan Ul, Abhishek Banerjee, Ghani Rahman, & Byung Gul Lee. (2024). Elevation-dependent snow cover dynamics and associated topo-climate impacts in upper Indus River basin. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth Parts A/B/C. 136. 103786–103786. 3 indexed citations
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Mark, Bryan G., et al.. (2024). Effectiveness of Billion Trees Tsunami Afforestation Projects in restoration of forests in Pakistan. Environment Development and Sustainability. 27(10). 25087–25102. 6 indexed citations
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Rahman, Ghani, et al.. (2024). Regional characterization of meteorological and agricultural drought in Baluchistan province, Pakistan. PLoS ONE. 19(8). e0307147–e0307147. 5 indexed citations
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Moazzam, Muhammad Farhan Ul, Sudeep Thakuri, Ghani Rahman, & Byung Gul Lee. (2023). Unravelling the elevation-dependent warming in the Indus Basin. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth Parts A/B/C. 133. 103514–103514. 1 indexed citations
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Zhao, Yuanjie, et al.. (2023). Spatio-temporal Fluctuation of Temperature Using Specific Climate Indices in South Xinjiang, China. Ecological Questions. 34(3). 1–30. 3 indexed citations
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Dawood, Muhammad, et al.. (2023). Geo-statistical analysis of climatic variability and trend detection in the Hindu Kush region, North Pakistan. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 196(1). 4–4. 2 indexed citations
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Rahman, Ghani, et al.. (2022). Assessment of Urban Sprawl in Sargodha City using Remotely Sense Data. Ecological Questions. 33(4). 1–16. 3 indexed citations
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Imran, Muhammad, et al.. (2022). Spatial distribution, health risk assessment, and public perception of groundwater in Bahawalnagar, Punjab, Pakistan: a multivariate analysis. Environmental Geochemistry and Health. 45(2). 381–391. 11 indexed citations
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Majeed, Muhammad, Aqil Tariq, Muhammad Mushahid Anwar, et al.. (2021). Monitoring of Land Use–Land Cover Change and Potential Causal Factors of Climate Change in Jhelum District, Punjab, Pakistan, through GIS and Multi-Temporal Satellite Data. Land. 10(10). 1026–1026. 78 indexed citations
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Ijaz, Sana, et al.. (2021). Solid waste management as a response to urban flood risk in Gujrat city, Pakistan. Malaysian Journal of Society and Space. 17(1). 8 indexed citations
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Moazzam, Muhammad Farhan Ul, et al.. (2020). Spatio-Statistical Analysis of Flood Susceptibility Assessment Using Bivariate Model in the Floodplain of River Swat, District Charsadda, Pakistan. Journal of Geoscience and Environment Protection. 8(5). 159–175. 13 indexed citations
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Rahman, Ghani, Atta-ur Rahman, Sami Ullah, & Andrew Collins. (2017). Geospatial analysis of landslide susceptibility and zonation in shahpur valley, eastern hindu kush using frequency ratio model. Northumbria Research Link (Northumbria University). 10 indexed citations

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