Mojtaba Sadegh

7.7k total citations · 4 hit papers
113 papers, 5.2k citations indexed

About

Mojtaba Sadegh is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology and Ocean Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Mojtaba Sadegh has authored 113 papers receiving a total of 5.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 65 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 34 papers in Water Science and Technology and 20 papers in Ocean Engineering. Recurrent topics in Mojtaba Sadegh's work include Fire effects on ecosystems (26 papers), Hydrology and Drought Analysis (20 papers) and Flood Risk Assessment and Management (20 papers). Mojtaba Sadegh is often cited by papers focused on Fire effects on ecosystems (26 papers), Hydrology and Drought Analysis (20 papers) and Flood Risk Assessment and Management (20 papers). Mojtaba Sadegh collaborates with scholars based in United States, Iran and Canada. Mojtaba Sadegh's co-authors include Amir AghaKouchak, Elisa Ragno, Mohammad Reza Nikoo, Omid Mazdiyasni, Jasper A. Vrugt, Iman Mallakpour, Hamed Moftakhari, Felicia Chiang, Laurie S. Huning and Jan Adamowski and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Mojtaba Sadegh

107 papers receiving 5.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Climate Extremes and Compound Hazards in a Warming World

2020 606 citations Amir AghaKouchak, Felicia Chiang et al. profile →
Multivariate Copula Analysis Toolbox (MvCAT): Describing dependence and underlying uncertainty using a Bayesian framework

2017 261 citations Mojtaba Sadegh, Elisa Ragno et al. profile →
Anthropogenic Drought: Definition, Challenges, and Opportunities

2021 240 citations Amir AghaKouchak, Ali Mirchi et al. Reviews of Geophysics profile →
A century of observations reveals increasing likelihood of continental-scale compound dry-hot extremes

2020 226 citations Mohammad Reza Alizadeh, Amir AghaKouchak et al. Science Advances profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mojtaba Sadegh United States	37	3.0k	1.5k	987	976	786	113	5.2k
Manish Kumar Goyal India	39	2.4k 0.8×	1.4k 0.9×	1.2k 1.2×	975 1.0×	263 0.3×	144	4.3k
Michael Leonard Australia	26	3.7k 1.2×	1.6k 1.1×	466 0.5×	1.6k 1.6×	289 0.4×	65	5.0k
Siao Sun China	29	1.7k 0.6×	1.3k 0.8×	1.0k 1.0×	433 0.4×	588 0.7×	85	4.2k
Chris Kilsby United Kingdom	47	5.3k 1.8×	2.8k 1.8×	1.1k 1.1×	2.3k 2.4×	522 0.7×	151	6.9k
Tianxiao Li China	39	1.4k 0.5×	1.3k 0.9×	599 0.6×	789 0.8×	658 0.8×	182	4.5k
Ronny Berndtsson Sweden	53	3.5k 1.2×	3.3k 2.2×	3.1k 3.1×	1.4k 1.4×	748 1.0×	374	9.0k
Zoran Vojinović Netherlands	34	2.6k 0.9×	934 0.6×	1.4k 1.4×	499 0.5×	352 0.4×	107	3.6k
Mukand S. Babel Thailand	50	3.6k 1.2×	3.2k 2.1×	1.6k 1.6×	1.3k 1.3×	1.2k 1.6×	205	6.8k
Luís Garrote Spain	34	2.3k 0.8×	2.2k 1.4×	655 0.7×	368 0.4×	1.3k 1.6×	149	5.4k
Shaohong Wu China	40	3.8k 1.3×	1.8k 1.2×	706 0.7×	1.7k 1.7×	459 0.6×	213	6.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Mojtaba Sadegh

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mojtaba Sadegh

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All Works

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Abatzoglou, John T., Erica Fleishman, Karen C. Short, et al.. (2025). Inference of Wildfire Causes From Their Physical, Biological, Social and Management Attributes. Earth s Future. 13(1). 8 indexed citations

Mbuvha, Rendani, et al.. (2024). Impact‐Based Skill Evaluation of Seasonal Precipitation Forecasts. Earth s Future. 12(11). 1 indexed citations

Seydi, Seyd Teymoor & Mojtaba Sadegh. (2023). Improved burned area mapping using monotemporal Landsat-9 imagery and convolutional shift-transformer. Measurement. 216. 112961–112961. 15 indexed citations

Rad, Arash Modaresi, John T. Abatzoglou, Erica Fleishman, et al.. (2023). Social vulnerability of the people exposed to wildfires in U.S. West Coast states. Science Advances. 9(38). eadh4615–eadh4615. 22 indexed citations

Shinneman, Douglas J., Eva K. Strand, Mike Pellant, et al.. (2023). Future Direction of Fuels Management in Sagebrush Rangelands. Rangeland Ecology & Management. 89. 113–126. 3 indexed citations

Rad, Arash Modaresi, John T. Abatzoglou, Jason Kreitler, et al.. (2023). Human and infrastructure exposure to large wildfires in the United States. Nature Sustainability. 6(11). 1343–1351. 36 indexed citations

Maghrebi, Mohsen, Ali Danandeh Mehr, Mohsen Karrabi, et al.. (2022). Spatiotemporal Variations of Air Pollution during the COVID-19 Pandemic across Tehran, Iran: Commonalities with and Differences from Global Trends. Sustainability. 14(23). 16313–16313. 4 indexed citations

Shinneman, Douglas J., Eva K. Strand, Mike Pellant, et al.. (2022). Future Direction of Fuels Management in Sagebrush Rangelands. Rangeland Ecology & Management. 86. 50–63. 11 indexed citations

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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Mazdiyasni, Omid, Mojtaba Sadegh, Felicia Chiang, & Amir AghaKouchak. (2019). Heat wave Intensity Duration Frequency Curve: A Multivariate Approach for Hazard and Attribution Analysis. Scholar Works (Boise State University). 2019. 1 indexed citations

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Rad, Arash Modaresi, Jason Kreitler, & Mojtaba Sadegh. (2019). Impacts of meteorological and anthropogenic droughts on drying of Hamun Lake on the Iran-Afghanistan border. AGUFM. 2019. 1 indexed citations

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Rad, Arash Modaresi, et al.. (2019). Evaluating the prediction of two unsaturated hydraulic conductivity models by considering parameters uncertainty. 13(5). 1515–1526.

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Sadegh, Mojtaba, Hamed Moftakhari, Hoshin V. Gupta, et al.. (2018). Multihazard Scenarios for Analysis of Compound Extreme Events. Geophysical Research Letters. 45(11). 5470–5480. 184 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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Mazdiyasni, Omid, Amir AghaKouchak, Steven J. Davis, et al.. (2017). Increasing probability of mortality during Indian heat waves. Science Advances. 3(6). e1700066–e1700066. 296 indexed citations

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Naeini, Matin Rahnamay, et al.. (2017). Developing a Shuffled Complex-Self Adaptive Hybrid Evolution (SC-SAHEL) Framework for Water Resources Management and Water-Energy System Optimization. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2017. 1 indexed citations

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Sadegh, Mojtaba, Hamed Moftakhari, & Amir AghaKouchak. (2017). Multi-hazard Assessment and Scenario Toolbox (MhAST): A Framework for Analyzing Compounding Effects of Multiple Hazards. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2017. 1 indexed citations

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Sadegh, Mojtaba, Elisa Ragno, & Amir AghaKouchak. (2016). MvDAT: Multivariate Dependence Analysis Toolbox. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2016.

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Sadegh, Mojtaba, et al.. (2013). Determination of Discharge Coefficient of Rectangular Broad-Crested Side Weir in Trapezoidal Channel by CFD. 2(4). 64–70. 4 indexed citations

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