Kaveh Madani

11.3k total citations · 5 hit papers
201 papers, 8.4k citations indexed

About

Kaveh Madani is a scholar working on Ocean Engineering, Water Science and Technology and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Kaveh Madani has authored 201 papers receiving a total of 8.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 100 papers in Ocean Engineering, 88 papers in Water Science and Technology and 36 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Kaveh Madani's work include Water resources management and optimization (99 papers), Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies (69 papers) and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (33 papers). Kaveh Madani is often cited by papers focused on Water resources management and optimization (99 papers), Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies (69 papers) and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (33 papers). Kaveh Madani collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Kaveh Madani's co-authors include Ali Mirchi, Jay R. Lund, Amir AghaKouchak, Alireza Gohari, Ariel Dinar, Ali Reza Massah Bavani, Miguel A. Mariño, Ali Nazemi, Jahangir Abedi Koupai and Saeid Eslamian and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Kaveh Madani

192 papers receiving 8.1k citations

Hit Papers

Water management in Iran: what is causing the looming cri... 2009 2026 2014 2020 2014 2009 2013 2016 2021 100 200 300 400 500

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Kaveh Madani United States 50 3.5k 3.4k 2.3k 1.2k 1.1k 201 8.4k
Robert J. Lempert United States 42 1.5k 0.4× 2.0k 0.6× 3.5k 1.5× 1.1k 1.0× 782 0.7× 169 8.3k
Ximing Cai United States 64 6.6k 1.9× 4.9k 1.5× 4.5k 2.0× 550 0.5× 1.9k 1.8× 316 12.4k
Yanpeng Cai China 56 3.9k 1.1× 2.5k 0.7× 2.4k 1.0× 329 0.3× 2.1k 2.0× 414 11.2k
Jay R. Lund United States 51 5.0k 1.4× 5.4k 1.6× 2.5k 1.1× 340 0.3× 754 0.7× 260 8.5k
Slobodan P. Simonović Canada 52 4.8k 1.4× 3.7k 1.1× 4.5k 1.9× 805 0.7× 1.8k 1.7× 331 9.9k
R. Quentin Grafton Australia 50 2.1k 0.6× 2.5k 0.7× 3.0k 1.3× 823 0.7× 567 0.5× 342 9.0k
Andrea Castelletti Italy 50 3.6k 1.0× 3.5k 1.0× 2.3k 1.0× 321 0.3× 1.0k 1.0× 225 7.3k
Upmanu Lall United States 64 5.2k 1.5× 1.8k 0.5× 8.5k 3.7× 559 0.5× 2.4k 2.3× 329 13.6k
Alexey Voinov Netherlands 46 1.7k 0.5× 852 0.3× 3.2k 1.4× 643 0.5× 1.2k 1.1× 178 8.4k
Jan Kwakkel Netherlands 36 914 0.3× 1.4k 0.4× 2.5k 1.1× 907 0.8× 537 0.5× 156 5.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Kaveh Madani

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kaveh Madani

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kaveh Madani

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Madani, Kaveh. (2026). Water Bankruptcy: The Formal Definition. Water Resources Management. 40(2).
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Zimmermann, Karl, Kate A. Brauman, Corinne J. Schuster‐Wallace, et al.. (2025). Addressing water scarcity to support climate resilience and human health. Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management. 21(2). 291–300. 2 indexed citations
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Aminzadeh, Milad, et al.. (2024). Quantifying water evaporation from large reservoirs: Implications for water management in water-stressed regions. Environmental Research. 262(Pt 1). 119860–119860. 6 indexed citations
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Obringer, Renee, et al.. (2023). Contemporary climate analogs project strong regional differences in the future water and electricity demand across US cities. One Earth. 6(11). 1542–1553. 3 indexed citations
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Obringer, Renee, et al.. (2021). The overlooked environmental footprint of increasing Internet use. Resources Conservation and Recycling. 167. 105389–105389. 103 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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Maghrebi, Mohsen, Roohollah Noori, Rabin Bhattarai, et al.. (2020). Iran's Agriculture in the Anthropocene. Earth s Future. 8(9). 100 indexed citations
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Noori, Roohollah, Kaveh Madani, Amir Houshang Ehsani, et al.. (2020). Caspian Sea is eutrophying: the alarming message of satellite data. Environmental Research Letters. 15(12). 124047–124047. 58 indexed citations
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Fang, Liping, et al.. (2019). Strategic Analyses of the Hydropolitical Conflicts Surrounding the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. Group Decision and Negotiation. 28(2). 305–340. 17 indexed citations
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Tabari, Hossein, Kaveh Madani, Karsten Arnbjerg‐Nielsen, & Patrick Willems. (2019). Disentangling natural and forced components of extreme rainfall hazards over Europe. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 1513. 1 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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Mesgaran, Mohsen B., Kaveh Madani, Hossein Hashemi, & Pooya Azadi. (2016). Evaluation of Land and Precipitation for Agriculture in Iran. Lund University Publications (Lund University). 9 indexed citations
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Madani, Kaveh. (2016). Who to Blame: Irrational Decision-Makers or Stupid Modelers? (Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Young Scientists Lecture). EGUGA. 1 indexed citations
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Berndtsson, Ronny, et al.. (2015). Lake Urmia (Iran): can future socio-ecologically motivated river basin management restore lake water levels in an arid region with extensive agricultural development?. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 8754. 1 indexed citations
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Madani, Kaveh, et al.. (2013). Assessing Climate Change Impacts on Water Allocation in Karkheh River Basin. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2013. 1 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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Tanaka, Stacy K., et al.. (2011). Economic Costs and Adaptations for Alternative Regulations of California's Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta. San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science. 9(2). 8 indexed citations

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