Shahram Sherkati

1.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
21 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

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Shahram Sherkati is a scholar working on Geophysics, Mechanics of Materials and Mechanical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Shahram Sherkati has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Geophysics, 12 papers in Mechanics of Materials and 8 papers in Mechanical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Shahram Sherkati's work include Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis (12 papers), earthquake and tectonic studies (12 papers) and Geological and Geochemical Analysis (11 papers). Shahram Sherkati is often cited by papers focused on Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis (12 papers), earthquake and tectonic studies (12 papers) and Geological and Geochemical Analysis (11 papers). Shahram Sherkati collaborates with scholars based in Iran, France and Spain. Shahram Sherkati's co-authors include Jean Letouzey, Dominique Frizon de Lamotte, M. Molinaro, Mojtaba Rajabi, Bahman Bohloli, Mark Tingay, Hossein Motamedi, Luca Aldega, Eugenio Carminati and M. Sepehr and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Geological Society of America Bulletin and Tectonophysics.

In The Last Decade

Shahram Sherkati

21 papers receiving 1.1k 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.

Variation of structural style and basin evolution in the central Zagros (Izeh zone and Dezful Embayment), Iran

2004 434 citations Shahram Sherkati, Jean Letouzey Marine and Petroleum Geology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Shahram Sherkati Iran	15	823	621	252	251	154	21	1.2k
Fabio Trippetta Italy	25	948 1.2×	503 0.8×	108 0.4×	205 0.8×	217 1.4×	53	1.4k
Adel R. Moustafa Egypt	19	814 1.0×	514 0.8×	152 0.6×	160 0.6×	116 0.8×	50	1.3k
M. Sepehr Iran	7	647 0.8×	422 0.7×	220 0.9×	85 0.3×	50 0.3×	10	919
M. Rider United Kingdom	4	387 0.5×	430 0.7×	123 0.5×	300 1.2×	239 1.6×	6	873
Giulio Casini Norway	12	467 0.6×	313 0.5×	71 0.3×	152 0.6×	83 0.5×	23	742
Linda M. Bonnell United States	12	483 0.6×	625 1.0×	69 0.3×	352 1.4×	175 1.1×	22	1.1k
Chuanqing Zhu China	18	506 0.6×	612 1.0×	103 0.4×	105 0.4×	107 0.7×	53	977
Zhiqian Gao China	18	382 0.5×	585 0.9×	73 0.3×	188 0.7×	139 0.9×	60	905
M. L. Bordenave France	10	246 0.3×	844 1.4×	347 1.4×	141 0.6×	114 0.7×	11	1.0k
Mohamed A. K. El‐Ghali Oman	20	266 0.3×	731 1.2×	216 0.9×	222 0.9×	112 0.7×	52	1.1k

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Vergés, Jaume, Giulio Casini, Jonas B. Ruh, et al.. (2023). STRUCTURAL STYLE AND TIMING OF NW‐SE TRENDING ZAGROS FOLDS IN SW IRAN: INTERACTION WITH NORTH‐SOUTH TRENDING ARABIAN FOLDS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR PETROLEUM GEOLOGY. Journal of Petroleum Geology. 47(1). 3–73. 27 indexed citations

Sarkarinejad, Khalil, et al.. (2021). Analogue model of the Bala Rud Fault, Zagros: an oblique basement ramp in a fold-and-thrust belt. International Journal of Earth Sciences. 110(2). 741–755. 7 indexed citations

Sherkati, Shahram, et al.. (2020). Tectonic evolution of the Zagros foreland basin since Early Cretaceous, SW Iran: Regional tectonic implications from subsidence analysis. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 204. 104550–104550. 17 indexed citations

Najafi, Mahdi, Elisabet Beamud, Jonas B. Ruh, et al.. (2020). Pliocene growth of the Dowlatabad syncline in Frontal Fars arc: Folding propagation across the Zagros Fold Belt, Iran. Geological Society of America Bulletin. 133(7-8). 1381–1403. 29 indexed citations

Alavi, Seyed Ahmad Naseri, et al.. (2019). Variation of subsidence in the Dezful Embayment, SW Iran: influence of reactivated basement structures. Arabian Journal of Geosciences. 12(19). 27 indexed citations

Alavi, Seyed Ahmad Naseri, et al.. (2018). In-situ stress regime in the Asmari reservoir of the Zeloi and Lali oil fields, northwest of the Dezful embayment in Zagros fold-thrust belt, Iran. فصلنامه علمی-پژوهشی علوم زمین. 27(106). 53–68. 3 indexed citations

Tokhmechi, Behzad, et al.. (2015). Detecting vuggy porosity in carbonate reservoirs by well logs. Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production Technology. 6(1). 25–31. 4 indexed citations

Najafi, Mahdi, et al.. (2014). An Investigation of Abnormal Fluid Pressure within an Evaporitic Cap Rock in the Gavbandi Area of Iran and its Impact on the Planning of Gas Exploration Wells. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1 indexed citations

Najafi, Mahdi, Ali Yassaghi, Abbas Bahroudi, Jaume Vergés, & Shahram Sherkati. (2014). Impact of the Late Triassic Dashtak intermediate detachment horizon on anticline geometry in the Central Frontal Fars, SE Zagros fold belt, Iran. Marine and Petroleum Geology. 54. 23–36. 48 indexed citations

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Tokhmechi, Behzad, et al.. (2014). A combined Parzen-wavelet approach for detection of vuggy zones in fractured carbonate reservoirs using petrophysical logs. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering. 119. 1–7. 19 indexed citations

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Aldega, Luca, et al.. (2014). Thermal evolution of the Kuh-e-Asmari and Sim anticlines in the Zagros fold-and-thrust belt: Implications for hydrocarbon generation. Marine and Petroleum Geology. 57. 1–13. 35 indexed citations

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Carminati, Eugenio, et al.. (2013). Control of folding and faulting on fracturing in the Zagros (Iran): The Kuh-e-Sarbalesh anticline. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 79. 400–414. 36 indexed citations

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Carminati, Eugenio, Luca Aldega, Sabina Bigi, et al.. (2013). Control of Cambrian evaporites on fracturing in fault-related anticlines in the Zagros fold-and-thrust belt. International Journal of Earth Sciences. 102(5). 1237–1255. 30 indexed citations

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Motamedi, Hossein, Shahram Sherkati, & M. Sepehr. (2012). Structural style variation and its impact on hydrocarbon traps in central Fars, southern Zagros folded belt, Iran. Journal of Structural Geology. 37. 124–133. 51 indexed citations

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Tokhmechi, Behzad, et al.. (2012). Application of Bayesian in determining productive zones by well log data in oil wells. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering. 94-95. 47–54. 17 indexed citations

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Sherkati, Shahram, et al.. (2011). Comparison between curvature and 3D strain analysis methods for fracture predicting in the Gachsaran oil field (Iran). Geological Magazine. 148(5-6). 868–878. 14 indexed citations

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Rajabi, Mojtaba, Shahram Sherkati, Bahman Bohloli, & Mark Tingay. (2010). Subsurface fracture analysis and determination of in-situ stress direction using FMI logs: An example from the Santonian carbonates (Ilam Formation) in the Abadan Plain, Iran. Tectonophysics. 492(1-4). 192–200. 142 indexed citations

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Fard, Iraj Abdollahie, et al.. (2009). The effects of structural components on seismic wave velocity in incompetent units, case study: Gachsaran Fm. (SW Iran). 64. 3750–3754. 1 indexed citations

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Sherkati, Shahram, M. Molinaro, Dominique Frizon de Lamotte, & Jean Letouzey. (2005). Detachment folding in the Central and Eastern Zagros fold-belt (Iran): salt mobility, multiple detachments and late basement control. Journal of Structural Geology. 27(9). 1680–1696. 243 indexed citations

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Sherkati, Shahram & Jean Letouzey. (2004). Variation of structural style and basin evolution in the central Zagros (Izeh zone and Dezful Embayment), Iran. Marine and Petroleum Geology. 21(5). 535–554. 434 indexed citations breakdown →

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