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Mohamad Reza Soltanian

Mohamad Reza Soltanian

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Earth Science 44 4823 4445 1823 1619 138 5489

Mohamad Reza Soltanian publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Mohamad Reza Soltanian between 2011 and 2026, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Mohamad Reza Soltanian published across 16 years, from 2011 to 2026, averaging 14.6 papers a year. Output peaked at 42 publications in 2024. 34 of the 233 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
10 20 30 40
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 2011 to 2026. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 42. Peak 42 publications in 2024. 2011: 1 publication 2012: 0 publications 2013: 0 publications 2014: 6 publications 2015: 13 publications 2016: 6 publications 2017: 13 publications 2018: 17 publications 2019: 17 publications 2020: 23 publications 2021: 20 publications 2022: 23 publications 2023: 18 publications 2024: 42 publications 2025: 31 publications 2026: 3 publications
2011 2026

233 publications in total across all disciplines

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Mohamad Reza Soltanian: publications per year, 2011 to 2026
Year Publications
2011 1
2012 0
2013 0
2014 6
2015 13
2016 6
2017 13
2018 17
2019 17
2020 23
2021 20
2022 23
2023 18
2024 42
2025 31
2026 3
Total 233
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Mohamad Reza Soltanian publication distribution in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Earth Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Mohamad Reza Soltanian sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300 400 500
Bar chart with 58 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 38–47 to 603+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 557. Most scientists, 557, have 128–137 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 138–147 publications, is where this scientist sits. 38–47 publications: 5 scientists 48–57 publications: 33 scientists 58–67 publications: 94 scientists 68–77 publications: 161 scientists 78–87 publications: 278 scientists 88–97 publications: 376 scientists 98–107 publications: 404 scientists 108–117 publications: 484 scientists 118–127 publications: 540 scientists 128–137 publications: 557 scientists 138–147 publications: 491 scientists 148–157 publications: 495 scientists 158–167 publications: 458 scientists 168–177 publications: 490 scientists 178–187 publications: 414 scientists 188–197 publications: 401 scientists 198–207 publications: 333 scientists 208–217 publications: 292 scientists 218–227 publications: 290 scientists 228–237 publications: 262 scientists 238–247 publications: 243 scientists 248–257 publications: 208 scientists 258–267 publications: 185 scientists 268–277 publications: 147 scientists 278–287 publications: 128 scientists 288–297 publications: 119 scientists 298–307 publications: 120 scientists 308–317 publications: 107 scientists 318–327 publications: 93 scientists 328–337 publications: 87 scientists 338–347 publications: 64 scientists 348–357 publications: 87 scientists 358–367 publications: 60 scientists 368–377 publications: 60 scientists 378–387 publications: 34 scientists 388–397 publications: 50 scientists 398–407 publications: 44 scientists 408–417 publications: 31 scientists 418–427 publications: 39 scientists 428–437 publications: 27 scientists 438–447 publications: 36 scientists 448–457 publications: 27 scientists 458–467 publications: 29 scientists 468–477 publications: 30 scientists 478–487 publications: 19 scientists 488–497 publications: 15 scientists 498–507 publications: 18 scientists 508–517 publications: 19 scientists 518–527 publications: 16 scientists 528–537 publications: 10 scientists 538–547 publications: 11 scientists 548–557 publications: 14 scientists 558–567 publications: 11 scientists 568–577 publications: 7 scientists 578–587 publications: 14 scientists 588–597 publications: 5 scientists 598–602 publications: 4 scientists 603+ publications: 100 scientists
38–47 publications 603+

This scientist: 138 publications — 32nd percentile

32% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more.

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Number of Earth Science scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,176 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
38–47 5
48–57 33
58–67 94
68–77 161
78–87 278
88–97 376
98–107 404
108–117 484
118–127 540
128–137 557
138–147 491 138
148–157 495
158–167 458
168–177 490
178–187 414
188–197 401
198–207 333
208–217 292
218–227 290
228–237 262
238–247 243
248–257 208
258–267 185
268–277 147
278–287 128
288–297 119
298–307 120
308–317 107
318–327 93
328–337 87
338–347 64
348–357 87
358–367 60
368–377 60
378–387 34
388–397 50
398–407 44
408–417 31
418–427 39
428–437 27
438–447 36
448–457 27
458–467 29
468–477 30
478–487 19
488–497 15
498–507 18
508–517 19
518–527 16
528–537 10
538–547 11
548–557 14
558–567 11
568–577 7
578–587 14
588–597 5
598–602 4
603+ 100
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Mohamad Reza Soltanian D-index placement in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Earth Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Mohamad Reza Soltanian sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300
Bar chart with 77 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 106+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 389. Most scientists, 389, have 36 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 44 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 144 scientists 31 D-Index: 215 scientists 32 D-Index: 278 scientists 33 D-Index: 379 scientists 34 D-Index: 366 scientists 35 D-Index: 372 scientists 36 D-Index: 389 scientists 37 D-Index: 366 scientists 38 D-Index: 344 scientists 39 D-Index: 349 scientists 40 D-Index: 296 scientists 41 D-Index: 289 scientists 42 D-Index: 277 scientists 43 D-Index: 279 scientists 44 D-Index: 248 scientists 45 D-Index: 257 scientists 46 D-Index: 212 scientists 47 D-Index: 202 scientists 48 D-Index: 207 scientists 49 D-Index: 204 scientists 50 D-Index: 183 scientists 51 D-Index: 178 scientists 52 D-Index: 182 scientists 53 D-Index: 178 scientists 54 D-Index: 163 scientists 55 D-Index: 117 scientists 56 D-Index: 163 scientists 57 D-Index: 120 scientists 58 D-Index: 113 scientists 59 D-Index: 136 scientists 60 D-Index: 135 scientists 61 D-Index: 96 scientists 62 D-Index: 103 scientists 63 D-Index: 83 scientists 64 D-Index: 103 scientists 65 D-Index: 83 scientists 66 D-Index: 89 scientists 67 D-Index: 92 scientists 68 D-Index: 89 scientists 69 D-Index: 78 scientists 70 D-Index: 75 scientists 71 D-Index: 53 scientists 72 D-Index: 62 scientists 73 D-Index: 54 scientists 74 D-Index: 35 scientists 75 D-Index: 52 scientists 76 D-Index: 50 scientists 77 D-Index: 32 scientists 78 D-Index: 37 scientists 79 D-Index: 20 scientists 80 D-Index: 33 scientists 81 D-Index: 36 scientists 82 D-Index: 34 scientists 83 D-Index: 34 scientists 84 D-Index: 24 scientists 85 D-Index: 19 scientists 86 D-Index: 18 scientists 87 D-Index: 26 scientists 88 D-Index: 30 scientists 89 D-Index: 17 scientists 90 D-Index: 21 scientists 91 D-Index: 19 scientists 92 D-Index: 15 scientists 93 D-Index: 14 scientists 94 D-Index: 20 scientists 95 D-Index: 9 scientists 96 D-Index: 10 scientists 97 D-Index: 15 scientists 98 D-Index: 13 scientists 99 D-Index: 3 scientists 100 D-Index: 13 scientists 101 D-Index: 3 scientists 102 D-Index: 9 scientists 103 D-Index: 4 scientists 104 D-Index: 6 scientists 105 D-Index: 6 scientists 106+ D-Index: 98 scientists
30 D-Index 106+

This scientist: 44 D-Index — 50th percentile

50% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more.

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Number of Earth Science scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,176 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 144
31 215
32 278
33 379
34 366
35 372
36 389
37 366
38 344
39 349
40 296
41 289
42 277
43 279
44 248 44
45 257
46 212
47 202
48 207
49 204
50 183
51 178
52 182
53 178
54 163
55 117
56 163
57 120
58 113
59 136
60 135
61 96
62 103
63 83
64 103
65 83
66 89
67 92
68 89
69 78
70 75
71 53
72 62
73 54
74 35
75 52
76 50
77 32
78 37
79 20
80 33
81 36
82 34
83 34
84 24
85 19
86 18
87 26
88 30
89 17
90 21
91 19
92 15
93 14
94 20
95 9
96 10
97 15
98 13
99 3
100 13
101 3
102 9
103 4
104 6
105 6
106+ 98
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Overview

Mohamad Reza Soltanian is affiliated with the University of Cincinnati in the United States. Their research primarily covers environmental science and engineering, with a focus on several specialized subfields.

The main fields of study in which Mohamad Reza Soltanian has contributed include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Engineering

Their work extends into detailed subfields such as:

  • Environmental Engineering
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Ocean Engineering
  • Environmental Chemistry
  • Mechanics of Materials

Key topics within their research portfolio reflect an emphasis on groundwater, geologic interactions, and hydrocarbon reservoirs. These topics are:

  • Groundwater flow and contamination studies
  • CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions
  • Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis
  • Enhanced Oil Recovery Techniques
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis
  • Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry

Mohamad Reza Soltanian has authored several recent papers that illustrate these research interests, including:

  • Application of upscaling methods for fluid flow and mass transport in multi-scale heterogeneous media: A critical review (2021, Applied Energy)
  • Radionuclide transport in multi-scale fractured rocks: A review (2021, Journal of Hazardous Materials)
  • Reactive chemical transport simulations of geologic carbon sequestration: Methods and applications (2020, Earth-Science Reviews)
  • Impact of geological and operational conditions on underground hydrogen storage (2022, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy)
  • Modeling CO2 Solubility in Water at High Pressure and Temperature Conditions (2020, Energy & Fuels)

Their collaborative network includes frequent coauthors such as:

  • Zhenxue Dai
  • Shangxian Yin
  • Xiaoying Zhang
  • Corey D. Wallace
  • Reza Ershadnia

Mohamad Reza Soltanian's research is published across several well-recognized venues, with repeat publications in:

  • Journal of Hydrology
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Water Resources Research
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • The Science of The Total Environment

Best Publications

  • Optimum design of CO2 storage and oil recovery under geological uncertainty

    W. Ampomah;R.S. Balch;M. Cather;R. Will

  • Application of upscaling methods for fluid flow and mass transport in multi-scale heterogeneous media: A critical review

    Xiaoying Zhang;Funing Ma;Shangxian Yin;Corey D Wallace

  • Radionuclide transport in multi-scale fractured rocks: A review

    Xiaoying Zhang;Funing Ma;Zhenxue Dai;Ju Wang

  • Reactive chemical transport simulations of geologic carbon sequestration: Methods and applications

    Zhenxue Dai;Lulu Xu;Ting Xiao;Brian McPherson

  • Impact of geological and operational conditions on underground hydrogen storage

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  • Dissolution Trapping of Carbon Dioxide in Heterogeneous Aquifers

    Mohamad Reza Soltanian;Mohamad Reza Soltanian;Mohammad Amin Amooie;Naum Gershenzon;Zhenxue Dai;Zhenxue Dai

  • Pore structure of transitional shales in the Ordos Basin, NW China: Effects of composition on gas storage capacity

    Fengyang Xiong;Fengyang Xiong;Zhenxue Jiang;Peng Li;Xiangzeng Wang

  • Water Table Dynamics and Biogeochemical Cycling in a Shallow, Variably-Saturated Floodplain

    Steven B. Yabusaki;Michael J. Wilkins;Yilin Fang;Kenneth H. Williams

  • Influence of small-scale fluvial architecture on CO 2 trapping processes in deep brine reservoirs

    Naum I. Gershenzon;Robert W. Ritzi;David F. Dominic;Mohamad Reza Soltanian

  • Multiscale hyporheic exchange through strongly heterogeneous sediments

    Timothy T. Pryshlak;Audrey H. Sawyer;Susa H. Stonedahl;Mohamad Reza Soltanian

  • Heterogeneity-assisted carbon dioxide storage in marine sediments

    Zhenxue Dai;Zhenxue Dai;Ye Zhang;Jeffrey Bielicki;Mohammad Amin Amooie

  • Critical Dynamics of Gravito-Convective Mixing in Geological Carbon Sequestration

    Mohamad Reza Soltanian;Mohammad Amin Amooie;Zhenxue Dai;David Cole

  • Modeling CO2 Solubility in Water at High Pressure and Temperature Conditions

    Abdolhossein Hemmati-Sarapardeh;Menad Nait Amar;Mohamad Reza Soltanian;Zhenxue Dai

  • Data‐Worth Analysis for Heterogeneous Subsurface Structure Identification With a Stochastic Deep Learning Framework

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  • Stage‐Wise Stochastic Deep Learning Inversion Framework for Subsurface Sedimentary Structure Identification

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  • Influence of Small Scale Heterogeneity on CO2 Trapping Processes in Deep Saline Aquifers

    Naum I. Gershenzon;Mohamadreza Soltanian;Robert W. Ritzi;David F. Dominic

  • Simulating the Cranfield geological carbon sequestration project with high-resolution static models and an accurate equation of state.

    Mohamad Reza Soltanian;Mohammad Amin Amooie;David R. Cole;David E. Graham

  • An Integrated Inversion Framework for Heterogeneous Aquifer Structure Identification with Single-Sample Generative Adversarial Network

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  • Subsurface sedimentary structure identification using deep learning: A review

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  • Multicomponent reactive transport of carbon dioxide in fluvial heterogeneous aquifers

    Mohamad Reza Soltanian;Sassan Hajirezaie;Seyyed Abolfazl Hosseini;Hassan Dashtian

  • Prediction of groundwater level in seashore reclaimed land using wavelet and artificial neural network-based hybrid model

    Juan Zhang;Xiaoying Zhang;Jie Niu;Bill X. Hu

  • Relating reactive solute transport to hierarchical and multiscale sedimentary architecture in a Lagrangian-based transport model: 1. Time-dependent effective retardation factor

    Mohamad Reza Soltanian;Robert W. Ritzi;Chao Cheng Huang;Zhenxue Dai

  • Relating reactive solute transport to hierarchical and multiscale sedimentary architecture in a Lagrangian-based transport model: 2. Particle displacement variance

    Mohamad Reza Soltanian;Robert W. Ritzi;Chao Cheng Huang;Zhenxue Dai

  • The Influence of Streambed Heterogeneity on Hyporheic Flow in Gravelly Rivers

    YaoQuan Zhou;Robert W. Ritzi;Mohamad Reza Soltanian;David F. Dominic

  • Hydrothermodynamic mixing of fluids across phases in porous media

    Mohammad Amin Amooie;Mohamad Reza Soltanian;Joachim Moortgat

Frequent Co-Authors

Zhenxue Dai
Zhenxue Dai Los Alamos National Laboratory
Robert W. Ritzi
Robert W. Ritzi Wright State University
Zhien Zhang
Zhien Zhang The Ohio State University
Susan M. Pfiffner
Susan M. Pfiffner University of Tennessee at Knoxville
David E. Graham
David E. Graham Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Philip H. Stauffer
Philip H. Stauffer Los Alamos National Laboratory
Abdolhossein Hemmati-Sarapardeh
Abdolhossein Hemmati-Sarapardeh Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman
Zhenxue Jiang
Zhenxue Jiang China University of Petroleum, Beijing
Tommy J. Phelps
Tommy J. Phelps Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Michael J. Wilkins
Michael J. Wilkins Colorado State University

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