| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Exhumation of the west-central Alborz Mountains, Iran, Caspian subsidence, and collision-related tectonics | Geology | 2001 | 263 |
| 2 | Global quieting of high-frequency seismic noise due to COVID-19 pandemic lockdown measures | Science | 2020 | 202 |
| 3 | Climatology of the Middle East dust events | Aeolian Research | 2013 | 150 |
| 4 | The “wind of 120days” and dust storm activity over the Sistan Basin | Atmospheric Research | 2014 | 140 |
| 5 | A Fast and Automatic Sparse Deconvolution in the Presence of Outliers | IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing | 2012 | 133 |
| 6 | Nonlinear multichannel impedance inversion by total-variation regularization | Geophysics | 2015 | 129 |
| 7 | Microseismicity in the region of Tehran | Tectonophysics | 2005 | 111 |
| 8 | Strike-slip faulting, rotation, and along-strike elongation in the Kopeh Dagh mountains, NE Iran | Geophysical Journal International | 2006 | 103 |
| 9 | Extreme weather events in Iran under a changing climate | Climate Dynamics | 2018 | 100 |
| 10 | Regularization of linear and non-linear geophysical ill-posed problems with joint sparsity constraints | Geophysical Journal International | 2010 | 94 |
| 11 | Investigation of lake drying attributed to climate change | International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology | 2012 | 89 |
| 12 | Diagenetic origin of carbon and oxygen isotope compositions of Permian–Triassic boundary strata | Sedimentary Geology | 2001 | 81 |
| 13 | Evidence for a missing crustal root and a thin lithosphere beneath the Central Alborz by receiver function studies | Geophysical Journal International | 2009 | 79 |
| 14 | Improving full-waveform inversion by wavefield reconstruction with the alternating direction method of multipliers | Geophysics | 2019 | 79 |
| 15 | Dust storm simulation over Iran using HYSPLIT | Journal of Environmental Health Science & Engineering | 2014 | 74 |
| 16 | Temporal variations in the frequency and concentration of dust events over Iran based on surface observations | International Journal of Climatology | 2016 | 73 |
| 17 | A balanced combination of Tikhonov and total variation regularizations for reconstruction of piecewise-smooth signals | Signal Processing | 2013 | 72 |
| 18 | Climate change and anthropogenic impacts on the rapid shrinkage of Lake Urmia | International Journal of Climatology | 2016 | 72 |
| 19 | Geochemistry of central Tethyan Upper Permian and Lower Triassic strata, Abadeh region, Iran | Sedimentary Geology | 2000 | 69 |
| 20 | An intelligent system for mineral identification in thin sections based on a cascade approach | Computers and Geosciences | 2017 | 69 |
| 21 | Numerical assessment of the urban green space scenarios on urban heat island and thermal comfort level in Tehran Metropolis | Journal of Cleaner Production | 2020 | 69 |
| 22 | A stable downward continuation of airborne magnetic data: A case study for mineral prospectivity mapping in Central Iran | Computers and Geosciences | 2013 | 61 |
| 23 | A Test of the Applicability of NGA Models to the Strong Ground-Motion Data in the Iranian Plateau | Journal of Earthquake Engineering | 2010 | 60 |
| 24 | Magnetic fabrics of Tertiary sandstones from the Arc of Fars (Eastern Zagros, Iran) | Tectonophysics | 1998 | 59 |
| 25 | Crustal and lithospheric structure of the Alborz Mountains, Iran, and surrounding areas from integrated geophysical modeling | Tectonics | 2011 | 59 |
| 26 | A fast automatic multichannel blind seismic inversion for high-resolution impedance recovery | Geophysics | 2016 | 55 |
| 27 | Crustal and uppermost mantle shear wave velocity structure beneath the Middle East from surface wave tomography | Geophysical Journal International | 2020 | 55 |
| 28 | Temporal and spatial variations of particulate matter and gaseous pollutants in the urban area of Tehran | Atmospheric Environment | 2016 | 52 |
| 29 | Compound Regularization of Full-Waveform Inversion for Imaging Piecewise Media | IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing | 2020 | 48 |
| 30 | Statistical prediction of the next great earthquake around Tehran, Iran | Journal of Geodynamics | 2010 | 47 |
| 31 | The sustainability of ancient water control techniques in Iran: an overview | Water History | 2018 | 47 |
| 32 | A General Framework for Sparsity-Based Denoising and Inversion | IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing | 2011 | 46 |
| 33 | A global satellite view of the seasonal distribution of mineral dust and its correlation with atmospheric circulation | Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans | 2014 | 46 |
| 34 | Impact of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation on the climate of Iran using ERA-Interim data | Climate Dynamics | 2018 | 46 |
| 35 | Aerosol properties, trends and classification of key types over the Middle East from satellite-derived atmospheric optical data | Atmospheric Environment | 2021 | 45 |
| 36 | Prediction of permeability in a tight gas reservoir by using three soft computing approaches: A comparative study | Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering | 2014 | 44 |
| 37 | Visibility trends in Tehran during 1958–2008 | Atmospheric Environment | 2012 | 43 |
| 38 | Upper mantle S-velocity structure and Moho depth variations across Zagros belt, Arabian–Eurasian plate boundary | Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors | 2010 | 42 |
| 39 | Ground roll attenuation using the S and x‐f‐k transforms | Geophysical Prospecting | 2008 | 41 |
| 40 | Geophysical investigation of underground water content zones using electrical resistivity tomography and ground penetrating radar: A case study in Hesarak-Karaj, Iran | Engineering Geology | 2015 | 41 |
| 41 | A novel regression imputation framework for Tehran air pollution monitoring network using outputs from WRF and CAMx models | Atmospheric Environment | 2018 | 41 |
| 42 | An approach to defining tortuosity and cementation factor in carbonate reservoir rocks | Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering | 2008 | 39 |
| 43 | Evaluation of CHIRPS rainfall estimates over Iran | Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society | 2018 | 39 |
| 44 | Contrasting global teleconnection features of the eastern Pacific and central Pacific El Niño events | Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans | 2017 | 38 |
| 45 | Characterization of micro-fractures in carbonate Sarvak reservoir, using petrophysical and geological data, SW Iran | Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering | 2018 | 37 |
| 46 | Fast inversion of magnetic data using Lanczos bidiagonalization method | Journal of Applied Geophysics | 2013 | 36 |
| 47 | Quantifying the contributions of natural emissions to ozone and total fine PM concentrations in the Northern Hemisphere | Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics | 2014 | 36 |
| 48 | Prediction of water saturation in a tight gas sandstone reservoir by using four intelligent methods: a comparative study | Neural Computing and Applications | 2018 | 35 |
| 49 | A uniform catalog of earthquakes for seismic hazard assessment in Iran | Acta Seismologica Sinica | 1997 | 34 |
| 50 | Holocene slip-rate on the Gowk strike-slip fault and implications for the distribution of tectonic strain in eastern Iran | Geophysical Journal International | 2010 | 33 |
