Jafar Omrani

3.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
26 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Jafar Omrani is a scholar working on Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence and Mechanics of Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Jafar Omrani has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Geophysics, 5 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 2 papers in Mechanics of Materials. Recurrent topics in Jafar Omrani's work include Geological and Geochemical Analysis (23 papers), earthquake and tectonic studies (21 papers) and High-pressure geophysics and materials (20 papers). Jafar Omrani is often cited by papers focused on Geological and Geochemical Analysis (23 papers), earthquake and tectonic studies (21 papers) and High-pressure geophysics and materials (20 papers). Jafar Omrani collaborates with scholars based in Iran, France and Canada. Jafar Omrani's co-authors include Laurent Jolivet, P. Agard, Frédéric Mouthereau, Philippe Agard, Hubert Whitechurch, Patrick Monié, B. Meyer, Bruno Vrielynck, Rinus Wortel and Wim Spakman and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Earth and Planetary Science Letters and Geology.

In The Last Decade

Jafar Omrani

25 papers receiving 2.6k citations

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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.

Convergence history across Zagros (Iran): constraints from collisional and earlier deformation

2005 858 citations P. Agard, Jafar Omrani et al. International Journal of Earth Sciences profile →
Zagros orogeny: a subduction-dominated process

2011 795 citations Philippe Agard, Jafar Omrani et al. Geological Magazine profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jafar Omrani Iran	15	2.4k	801	223	178	148	26	2.7k
P. Agard France	18	2.4k 1.0×	510 0.6×	168 0.8×	172 1.0×	129 0.9×	19	2.6k
Rodolfo Carosi Italy	34	3.0k 1.3×	576 0.7×	125 0.6×	246 1.4×	93 0.6×	137	3.3k
Woldai Ghebreab Eritrea	16	1.5k 0.6×	752 0.9×	154 0.7×	127 0.7×	148 1.0×	24	1.8k
R.S. Blewett Australia	24	1.4k 0.6×	849 1.1×	137 0.6×	91 0.5×	126 0.9×	43	1.7k
Christoph Breitkreuz Germany	22	1.6k 0.7×	621 0.8×	133 0.6×	268 1.5×	352 2.4×	86	1.9k
Douglas B. Stoeser United States	13	1.1k 0.5×	460 0.6×	152 0.7×	101 0.6×	107 0.7×	28	1.4k
Pierre Nehlig France	20	948 0.4×	280 0.3×	147 0.7×	133 0.7×	87 0.6×	35	1.2k
Lingsen Zeng China	32	3.9k 1.6×	1.3k 1.6×	102 0.5×	255 1.4×	112 0.8×	104	4.2k
Gürol Seyítoğlu Türkiye	22	2.1k 0.9×	556 0.7×	141 0.6×	430 2.4×	113 0.8×	76	2.4k
Emmanuel Njonfang Cameroon	20	1.4k 0.6×	822 1.0×	71 0.3×	83 0.5×	79 0.5×	55	1.7k

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Cawood, Peter A., et al.. (2025). Geochronology and petrogenesis of magmatic and high-grade metamorphic rocks in the Eocene Chapedony core complex: New insights into the basement geology of Iran. Geochemistry. 85(3). 126290–126290.

Agard, Philippe, Laurent Jolivet, Guillaume Bonnet, et al.. (2022). Cimmerian metamorphism and post Mid-Cimmerian exhumation in Central Iran: Insights from in-situ Rb/Sr and U/Pb dating. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 233. 105242–105242. 14 indexed citations

Rosenberg, Claudio, et al.. (2022). Structural and metamorphic evolution of the southern Sanandaj-Sirjan zone, southern Iran. International Journal of Earth Sciences. 112(1). 383–415. 4 indexed citations

Agard, Philippe, Guillaume Bonnet, Patrick Monié, et al.. (2022). The North Sistan orogen (Eastern Iran): Tectono-metamorphic evolution and significance within the Tethyan realm. Gondwana Research. 109. 460–492. 12 indexed citations

Agard, Philippe, et al.. (2020). Fossil thermal structure of the southern Sanandaj-Sirjan zone (SW Iran): Implications for regional-scale tectonics. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 200. 104488–104488. 3 indexed citations

Omrani, Jafar, et al.. (2020). Employing geochemistry and geochronology to unravel genesis and tectonic setting of iron oxide-apatite deposits of the Bafq-Saghand metallogenic belt, Central Iran. International Journal of Earth Sciences. 110(1). 127–164. 16 indexed citations

Whitechurch, Hubert, Philippe Agard, Marc Ulrich, et al.. (2020). Late Cretaceous calc-alkaline and adakitic magmatism in the Sistan suture zone (Eastern Iran): Implications for subduction polarity and regional tectonics. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 204. 104588–104588. 14 indexed citations

Whitechurch, Hubert, Philippe Agard, Mohammad Hossein Zarrinkoub, et al.. (2019). Calc-alkaline and adakitic magmatism in the Sistan Suture Zone (Eastern Iran): evidence for eastward dipping subduction during the Late Cretaceous. EGUGA. 10977. 1 indexed citations

Omrani, Jafar, et al.. (2019). Petrology and Geochemistry of the Eocene Volcanic Rocks in the West of Sechangi, Lut Block. 5(1). 19–54. 1 indexed citations

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Fournier, Marc, Hamid Reza Karimi, Jafar Omrani, et al.. (2018). Stress patterns along strike-slip faults in Sistan and Baluchestan. HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe). 18223. 1 indexed citations

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Bonnet, Guillaume, P. Agard, Samuel Angiboust, et al.. (2018). Tectonic slicing and mixing processes along the subduction interface: The Sistan example (Eastern Iran). Lithos. 310-311. 269–287. 33 indexed citations

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Fournier, Marc, et al.. (2017). Neogene to Present paleostress field in Eastern Iran (Sistan belt) and implications for regional geodynamics. Tectonics. 36(2). 321–339. 32 indexed citations

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Burg, Jean‐Pierre, et al.. (2017). Formation and preservation of fresh lawsonite: Geothermobarometry of the North Makran Blueschists, southeast Iran. Journal of Metamorphic Geology. 35(8). 871–895. 29 indexed citations

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Angiboust, Samuel, Philippe Agard, Johannes Glodny, Jafar Omrani, & Onno Oncken. (2016). Zagros blueschists: Episodic underplating and long-lived cooling of a subduction zone. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 443. 48–58. 71 indexed citations

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Ghorbani, Mansour, et al.. (2015). GEOLOGY AND GEOCHEMISTRY OF OPHIOLITIC EXTRUSIVE SEQUENCE IN FORUMAD AREA, NORTHEAST IRAN. 25(97). 387–396. 1 indexed citations

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Agard, Philippe, Jafar Omrani, Laurent Jolivet, et al.. (2011). Zagros orogeny: a subduction-dominated process. Geological Magazine. 148(5-6). 692–725. 795 indexed citations breakdown →

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Omrani, Jafar, Philippe Agard, Hubert Whitechurch, et al.. (2009). Reply to: Comment by Aftabi and Atapour on « Arc magmatism and subduction history beneath the Zagros Mountains, Iran: A new report of adakites and geodynamic consequences ». Lithos. 113(3-4). 847–849. 7 indexed citations

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Omrani, Jafar, Philippe Agard, Hubert Whitechurch, et al.. (2008). Arc-magmatism and subduction history beneath the Zagros Mountains, Iran: A new report of adakites and geodynamic consequences. Lithos. 106(3-4). 380–398. 401 indexed citations

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Agard, P., Patrick Monié, Jafar Omrani, et al.. (2006). Transient, synobduction exhumation of Zagros blueschists inferred from P‐T, deformation, time, and kinematic constraints: Implications for Neotethyan wedge dynamics. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 111(B11). 185 indexed citations

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Agard, P., Jafar Omrani, Laurent Jolivet, & Frédéric Mouthereau. (2005). Convergence history across Zagros (Iran): constraints from collisional and earlier deformation. International Journal of Earth Sciences. 94(3). 401–419. 858 indexed citations breakdown →

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