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Morteza Talebian

Morteza Talebian

D-Index & Metrics

Earth Science

D-Index
34
Citations
5030
World Ranking
7895
National Ranking
4

Morteza Talebian 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 Morteza Talebian sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 603+

This scientist: 127 publications — 26th percentile

26% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Morteza Talebian 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 Morteza Talebian sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 106+

This scientist: 34 D-Index — 15th percentile

15% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Morteza Talebian is affiliated with the Geological Survey of Iran and has a specialized focus within Earth and Planetary Sciences, particularly in Geophysics. Their research encompasses a broad scope of topics related to geological and geophysical processes, with notable emphasis on earthquake and tectonic studies, geological and geochemical analysis, and high-pressure geophysics and materials.

The main fields of study for Talebian include:

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Within this broad domain, they have contributed extensively to several subfields such as:

  • Geophysics
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Earth-Surface Processes
  • Paleontology
  • Molecular Biology

The primary research topics covered by Talebian are:

  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • High-pressure geophysics and materials
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques

Talebian's recent publications illustrate a sustained focus on tectonic and paleoceanographic processes in the Iranian region and the surrounding plate boundaries. Selected recent papers include:

  • Permanent closure of the Tethyan Seaway in the northwestern Iranian Plateau driven by cyclic sea-level fluctuations in the late Middle Miocene, 2020, Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
  • Paleo-Tethys subduction induced slab-drag opening the Neo-Tethys: Evidence from an Iranian segment of Gondwana, 2021, Earth-Science Reviews
  • Lateral Structural Variation of the Lithosphere-Asthenosphere System in the Northeastern to Eastern Iranian Plateau and Its Tectonic Implications, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Detrital Zircon Age Constraints on the Evolution of Paleo-Tethys in NE Iran: Implications for Subduction and Collision Tectonics, 2021, Tectonics
  • Timing and forcing mechanism of the final Neotethys seawater retreat from Central Iran in response to the Arabia-Asia collision in the late early Miocene, 2020, Global and Planetary Change

Their work has been published in key journals with multiple contributions to the following venues:

  • Tectonics
  • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Earth-Science Reviews
  • فصلنامه علمی علوم زمین

Talebian has collaborated frequently with several researchers in the field, including:

  • Ling Chen
  • Jimin Sun
  • Bo Wan
  • Yang Chu
  • Morteza Sheykh

Best Publications

  • A reappraisal of earthquake focal mechanisms and active shortening in the Zagros mountains of Iran

    Morteza Talebian;James Jackson

  • Offset on the Main Recent Fault of NW Iran and implications for the late Cenozoic tectonics of the Arabia-Eurasia collision zone

    Morteza Talebian;James Jackson

  • The 2003 Bam (Iran) earthquake: Rupture of a blind strike-slip fault

    Morteza Talebian;Eric J. Fielding;Eric J. Fielding;Gareth J. Funning;Manoucher Ghorashi

  • The 1997 May 10 Zirkuh (Qa'enat) earthquake (Mw 7.2): faulting along the Sistan suture zone of eastern Iran

    M. Berberian;J. A. Jackson;M. Qorashi;M. M. Khatib

  • Orogenic plateau growth: Expansion of the Turkish‐Iranian Plateau across the Zagros fold‐and‐thrust belt

    M. B. Allen;C. Saville;E. J-P. Blanc;M. Talebian

  • Surface Ruptures and Building Damage of the 2003 Bam, Iran, Earthquake Mapped by Satellite Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometric Correlation

    Eric J. Fielding;Eric J. Fielding;M. Talebian;P. A. Rosen;H. Nazari

  • The 1994 Sefidabeh (eastern Iran) earthquakes revisited: new evidence from satellite radar interferometry and carbonate dating about the growth of an active fold above a blind thrust fault

    B. Parsons;T. Wright;P. Rowe;J. Andrews

  • The 1998 March 14 Fandoqa earthquake (Mw 6.6) in Kerman province, southeast Iran: re‐rupture of the 1981 Sirch earthquake fault, triggering of slip on adjacent thrusts and the active tectonics of the Gowk fault zone

    M. Berberian;J. A Jackson;E. Fielding;B. E Parsons

  • Seismotectonic, rupture process, and earthquake-hazard aspects of the 2003 December 26 Bam, Iran, earthquake

    J. Jackson;Michel Bouchon;E. Fielding;G. Funning

  • The 1994 Sefidabeh earthquakes in eastern Iran: blind thrusting and bedding‐plane slip on a growing anticline, and active tectonics of the Sistan suture zone

    M. Berberian;J. A. Jackson;M. Qorashi;M. Talebian

  • Precise timing of abrupt increase in dust activity in the Middle East coincident with 4.2 ka social change

    Stacy A Carolin;Richard T Walker;Christopher C Day;Vasile Ersek

  • Oroclinal bending, distributed thrust and strike-slip faulting, and the accommodation of Arabia–Eurasia convergence in NE Iran since the Oligocene

    James Hollingsworth;Morteza Fattahi;Morteza Fattahi;Richard Walker;Morteza Talebian

  • The Dahuiyeh (Zarand) earthquake of 2005 February 22 in central Iran: reactivation of an intramountain reverse fault

    M. Talebian;J. Biggs;M. Bolourchi;A. Copley

  • Structural variation along the Zagros and the nature of the Dezful Embayment

    Mark B. Allen;Morteza Talebian

  • Holocene slip-rate on the Sabzevar thrust fault, NE Iran, determined using optically stimulated luminescence (OSL)

    Morteza Fattahi;Morteza Fattahi;Richard Walker;James Hollingsworth;Abbas Bahroudi

  • Geochemistry, zircon U-Pb and Hf isotope for granitoids, NW Sanandaj-Sirjan zone, Iran: Implications for Mesozoic-Cenozoic episodic magmatism during Neo-Tethyan lithospheric subduction

    Zhiyong Zhang;Zhiyong Zhang;Wenjiao Xiao;Wenjiao Xiao;Weiqiang Ji;Mahmoud Reza Majidifard

  • U-Pb zircon ages, field geology and geochemistry of the Kermanshah ophiolite (Iran): From continental rifting at 79Ma to oceanic core complex at ca. 36Ma in the southern Neo-Tethys

    Songjian Ao;Wenjiao Xiao;Wenjiao Xiao;Morteza Khalatbari Jafari;Morteza Talebian

  • Contrasting styles of convergence in the Arabia-Eurasia collision: why escape tectonics does not occur in Iran

    Mark B. Allen;Eric J.-P. Blanc;Richard Walker;James Jackson

  • Holocene right-slip rate determined by cosmogenic and OSL dating on the Anar fault, Central Iran

    K. Le Dortz;B. Meyer;M. Sébrier;H. Nazari

  • The 2005 Qeshm Island earthquake (Iran)—a link between buried reverse faulting and surface folding in the Zagros Simply Folded Belt?

    Edwin Nissen;Manoucher Ghorashi;James Jackson;Barry Parsons

  • The 2002 June 22 Changureh (Avaj) earthquake in Qazvin province, northwest Iran: epicentral relocation, source parameters, surface deformation and geomorphology

    Richard T. Walker;Eric Bergman;James Jackson;Manoucher Ghorashi

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard Walker
Richard Walker University of Oxford
Ling Chen
Ling Chen Chinese Academy of Sciences
James Jackson
James Jackson University of Cambridge
Bo Wan
Bo Wan Chinese Academy of Sciences
Wenjiao Xiao
Wenjiao Xiao Chinese Academy of Sciences
Barry Parsons
Barry Parsons University of Oxford
Eric J. Fielding
Eric J. Fielding Jet Propulsion Lab
Eric A. Bergman
Eric A. Bergman University of Colorado Boulder
Mark B. Allen
Mark B. Allen Durham University
Keith Priestley
Keith Priestley University of Cambridge

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