Mehebub Sahana

6.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
84 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

Mehebub Sahana is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Mehebub Sahana has authored 84 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 62 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 18 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and 17 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Mehebub Sahana's work include Flood Risk Assessment and Management (31 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (20 papers) and Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (13 papers). Mehebub Sahana is often cited by papers focused on Flood Risk Assessment and Management (31 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (20 papers) and Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (13 papers). Mehebub Sahana collaborates with scholars based in India, United Kingdom and China. Mehebub Sahana's co-authors include Haroon Sajjad, Haroon Sajjad, Binh Thai Pham, Haoyuan Hong, Sufia Rehman, Raihan Ahmed, Jie Dou, Ali P. Yunus, Zhongfan Zhu and Chi-Wen Chen and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, The Science of The Total Environment and Journal of Cleaner Production.

In The Last Decade

Mehebub Sahana

81 papers receiving 4.3k citations

Hit Papers

Assessment of advanced random forest and decision tree al... 2019 2026 2021 2023 2019 2019 2020 100 200 300 400
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.

  1. Assessment of advanced random forest and decision tree algorithms for modeling rainfall-induced landslide susceptibility in the Izu-Oshima Volcanic Island, Japan
    2019 487 citations Jie Dou, Ali P. Yunus et al. The Science of The Total Environment profile →
  2. Improved landslide assessment using support vector machine with bagging, boosting, and stacking ensemble machine learning framework in a mountainous watershed, Japan
    2019 408 citations Jie Dou, Ali P. Yunus et al. Landslides profile →
  3. Assessment and prediction of carbon sequestration using Markov chain and InVEST model in Sariska Tiger Reserve, India
    2020 203 citations G. Areendran, Mehebub Sahana et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Mehebub Sahana India 37 2.8k 1.4k 943 794 710 84 4.5k
Bakhtiar Feizizadeh Iran 38 2.1k 0.8× 2.0k 1.4× 1.2k 1.3× 527 0.7× 776 1.1× 126 4.6k
Sunil Saha India 37 2.3k 0.8× 1.6k 1.1× 1.1k 1.2× 458 0.6× 419 0.6× 90 3.7k
Ali P. Yunus China 34 2.7k 1.0× 3.2k 2.3× 720 0.8× 1.3k 1.6× 680 1.0× 94 5.6k
Rabin Chakrabortty India 40 2.6k 0.9× 946 0.7× 1.5k 1.6× 489 0.6× 457 0.6× 112 4.3k
Pascal Peduzzi Switzerland 27 2.9k 1.0× 776 0.6× 474 0.5× 1.5k 1.9× 610 0.9× 62 5.1k
Indrajit Chowdhuri India 37 2.0k 0.7× 781 0.6× 1.1k 1.2× 393 0.5× 294 0.4× 80 3.4k
Shattri Mansor Malaysia 31 1.7k 0.6× 785 0.6× 913 1.0× 625 0.8× 670 0.9× 127 3.6k
Jiquan Zhang China 41 3.3k 1.2× 582 0.4× 732 0.8× 863 1.1× 952 1.3× 264 5.7k
John P. Tiefenbacher United States 38 1.9k 0.7× 847 0.6× 1.4k 1.5× 468 0.6× 408 0.6× 121 4.1k
Bahareh Kalantar Japan 30 1.5k 0.5× 894 0.6× 1.1k 1.2× 331 0.4× 389 0.5× 76 3.2k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mehebub Sahana

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Sahana, Mehebub, et al.. (2025). Anthropogenic and Hydroclimatic Drivers of Livelihood Vulnerability in Wetland Communities: A Geospatial and Pragmatic Assessment. Water Resources Management. 39(6). 2503–2525. 2 indexed citations
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Sahana, Mehebub, et al.. (2024). Global disparities in transboundary river research have implications for sustainable management. Communications Earth & Environment. 5(1). 9 indexed citations
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Sahana, Mehebub, et al.. (2023). Assessing high conservation value areas for rare, endemic and threatened (RET) species: A study in high altitude Changthang landscape of India. Journal for Nature Conservation. 73. 126406–126406. 2 indexed citations
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Sahana, Mehebub, Priyank Pravin Patel, Sufia Rehman, et al.. (2023). Assessing the effectiveness of existing early warning systems and emergency preparedness towards reducing cyclone-induced losses in the Sundarban Biosphere Region, India. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. 90. 103645–103645. 15 indexed citations
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Costache, Romulus, Alireza Arabameri, Anca Crăciun, et al.. (2022). Stacking state-of-the-art ensemble for flash-flood potential assessment. Geocarto International. 37(26). 13812–13838. 13 indexed citations
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Mallick, Suraj Kumar, et al.. (2021). Plastic waste footprint in the context of COVID-19: Reduction challenges and policy recommendations towards sustainable development goals. The Science of The Total Environment. 796. 148951–148951. 54 indexed citations
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Masroor, Md, Sufia Rehman, Haroon Sajjad, et al.. (2021). Assessing the impact of drought conditions on groundwater potential in Godavari Middle Sub-Basin, India using analytical hierarchy process and random forest machine learning algorithm. Groundwater for Sustainable Development. 13. 100554–100554. 55 indexed citations
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Sahana, Mehebub, Binh Thai Pham, Romulus Costache, et al.. (2020). Rainfall induced landslide susceptibility mapping using novel hybrid soft computing methods based on multi-layer perceptron neural network classifier. Geocarto International. 37(10). 2747–2771. 58 indexed citations
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Sahana, Mehebub, Sufia Rehman, Haroon Sajjad, & Haoyuan Hong. (2020). Exploring effectiveness of frequency ratio and support vector machine models in storm surge flood susceptibility assessment: A study of Sundarban Biosphere Reserve, India. CATENA. 189. 104450–104450. 123 indexed citations
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Dou, Jie, Ali P. Yunus, Dieu Tien Bui, et al.. (2019). Evaluating GIS-Based Multiple Statistical Models and Data Mining for Earthquake and Rainfall-Induced Landslide Susceptibility Using the LiDAR DEM. Remote Sensing. 11(6). 638–638. 137 indexed citations
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Rehman, Sufia, et al.. (2019). A systematic review on approaches and methods used for flood vulnerability assessment: framework for future research. Natural Hazards. 96(2). 975–998. 123 indexed citations
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Pham, Binh Thai, Ataollah Shirzadi, Himan Shahabi, et al.. (2019). Landslide Susceptibility Assessment by Novel Hybrid Machine Learning Algorithms. Sustainability. 11(16). 4386–4386. 156 indexed citations
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Sahana, Mehebub, et al.. (2019). Assessing coastal island vulnerability in the Sundarban Biosphere Reserve, India, using geospatial technology. Environmental Earth Sciences. 78(10). 61 indexed citations
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Dou, Jie, Ali P. Yunus, Dieu Tien Bui, et al.. (2019). Improved landslide assessment using support vector machine with bagging, boosting, and stacking ensemble machine learning framework in a mountainous watershed, Japan. Landslides. 17(3). 641–658. 408 indexed citations breakdown →
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Dou, Jie, Ali P. Yunus, Dieu Tien Bui, et al.. (2019). Assessment of advanced random forest and decision tree algorithms for modeling rainfall-induced landslide susceptibility in the Izu-Oshima Volcanic Island, Japan. The Science of The Total Environment. 662. 332–346. 487 indexed citations breakdown →
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Sahana, Mehebub & Priyank Pravin Patel. (2019). A comparison of frequency ratio and fuzzy logic models for flood susceptibility assessment of the lower Kosi River Basin in India. Environmental Earth Sciences. 78(10). 118 indexed citations
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Sahana, Mehebub, Haoyuan Hong, & Haroon Sajjad. (2018). Analyzing urban spatial patterns and trend of urban growth using urban sprawl matrix: A study on Kolkata urban agglomeration, India. The Science of The Total Environment. 628-629. 1557–1566. 234 indexed citations

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