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  1. An Uncertainty-Informed Water Quality Index: Incorporation of Data Uncertainty into Water Quality Assessment

    Article • Environmental Modelling & Software, October 2025, Elsevier

    Razi Sheikholeslami

  2. Socio-environmental modeling shows physics-like confidence with water modeling surpassing it in numerical claims

    Article • iScience, April 2025, Elsevier

    Razi Sheikholeslami

  3. Sensitivity analysis of input variables of a SWAT hydrological model using the machine learning technique of random forest

    Article • January 2025, Copernicus GmbH

    Razi Sheikholeslami

  4. Assessing Chlorophyll-a Variations in Caspian Sea during the COVID-19 Pandemic

    Article • Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, July 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Razi Sheikholeslami

  5. Large uncertainty in global estimates of manure phosphorus runoff

    Article • Environmental Modelling & Software, June 2024, Elsevier

    Razi Sheikholeslami

  6. Machine learning insights into PM2.5 changes during COVID-19 lockdown: LSTM and RF analysis in Mashhad

    Article • Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, April 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Razi Sheikholeslami

  7. An improved Copula-Based Framework for Efficient Global Sensitivity Analysis

    Article • March 2024, Copernicus GmbH

    Razi Sheikholeslami

  8. An Improved Copula‐Based Framework for Efficient Global Sensitivity Analysis

    Article • Water Resources Research, January 2024, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Razi Sheikholeslami

  9. Sensitivity auditing

    Article • August 2023, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Razi Sheikholeslami

  10. Global patterns and key drivers of stream nitrogen concentration: A machine learning approach

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, April 2023, Elsevier

    Razi Sheikholeslami

  11. Unpacking the modelling process via sensitivity auditing

    Article • Futures, December 2022, Elsevier

    Professor Andrea Saltelli, Razi Sheikholeslami

  12. pyVISCOUS: An open-source tool for computationally frugal global sensitivity analysis

    Article • October 2022, Wiley

    Razi Sheikholeslami

  13. The delusive accuracy of global irrigation water withdrawal estimates

    Article • Nature Communications, June 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Andrea Saltelli, Razi Sheikholeslami

  14. How certain are we about the model-based estimations of global irrigation water withdrawal? 

    Article • March 2022, Copernicus GmbH

    Razi Sheikholeslami

  15. The role of livestock in nitrogen pollution of large river basins: A machine learning-based assessment

    Article • March 2022, Copernicus GmbH

    Razi Sheikholeslami

  16. A global assessment of nitrogen concentrations using spatiotemporal random forests

    Article • February 2022, Copernicus GmbH

    Razi Sheikholeslami

  17. A Machine Learning Approach to Identifying the Key Factors Influencing Global Water Quality

    Article • October 2021, Wiley

    Razi Sheikholeslami

  18. VISCOUS: A Variance‐Based Sensitivity Analysis Using Copulas for Efficient Identification of Dominant Hydrological Processes

    Article • Water Resources Research, July 2021, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Razi Sheikholeslami

  19. VISCOUS: A Variance-Based Sensitivity Analysis Using Copulas for Efficient Identification of Dominant Hydrological Processes

    Article • December 2020, Wiley

    Razi Sheikholeslami

  20. A Fresh Look at Variography: Measuring Dependence and Possible Sensitivities Across Geophysical Systems from Any Given Data

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, September 2020, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Razi Sheikholeslami

  21. A Fresh Look at Variography: Measuring Dependence and Possible Sensitivities Across Geophysical Systems from Any Given Data

    Article • September 2020, Wiley

    Razi Sheikholeslami

  22. A Global Assessment of Non-Stationarity in Extreme Precipitation

    Article • March 2020, Copernicus GmbH

    Razi Sheikholeslami

  23. A New Way of Understanding Rebound Phenomenon in Agriculture Water Demand Using A Global Sensitivity Analysis Approach

    Article • March 2020, Copernicus GmbH

    Razi Sheikholeslami

  24. What should we do when a model crashes? Recommendations for global sensitivity analysis of Earth and environmental systems models

    Article • Geoscientific Model Development, October 2019, Copernicus GmbH

    Razi Sheikholeslami

  25. Response to Reviewers’ Comments

    Article • August 2019, Copernicus GmbH

    Razi Sheikholeslami

  26. Response to Reviewers’ Comments

    Article • August 2019, Copernicus GmbH

    Razi Sheikholeslami

  27. What do we do with model simulation crashes? Recommendations for global sensitivity analysis of earth and environmental systems models

    Article • February 2019, Copernicus GmbH

    Razi Sheikholeslami

  28. Global sensitivity analysis for high-dimensional problems: How to objectively group factors and measure robustness and convergence while reducing computational cost

    Article • Environmental Modelling & Software, January 2019, Elsevier

    Razi Sheikholeslami

  29. Improved Understanding of River Ice Processes Using Global Sensitivity Analysis Approaches

    Article • Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, November 2017, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

    Razi Sheikholeslami

  30. Multiple factors that shaped sustainability science journal: a 10-year review

    Article • Sustainability Science, October 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Razi Sheikholeslami

  31. Progressive Latin Hypercube Sampling: An efficient approach for robust sampling-based analysis of environmental models

    Article • Environmental Modelling & Software, July 2017, Elsevier

    Razi Sheikholeslami

  32. Developed Swarm Optimizer: A New Method for Sizing Optimization of Water Distribution Systems

    Article • Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, September 2016, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

    Razi Sheikholeslami

  33. A hybrid cuckoo–harmony search algorithm for optimal design of water distribution systems

    Article • Journal of Hydroinformatics, November 2015, IWA Publishing

    Razi Sheikholeslami

  34. Chaotic swarming of particles: A new method for size optimization of truss structures

    Article • Advances in Engineering Software, January 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Ali Kaveh, Razi Sheikholeslami

  35. A chaotic imperialist competitive algorithm for optimum cost design of cantilever retaining walls

    Article • KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering, June 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Razi Sheikholeslami

  36. Engineering design optimization using chaotic enhanced charged system search algorithms

    Article • Acta Mechanica, July 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Razi Sheikholeslami

  37. Imperialist competitive algorithm combined with chaos for global optimization

    Article • Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation, March 2012, Elsevier

    Razi Sheikholeslami, Professor Amir H Gandomi

  38. Chaotic imperialist competitive algorithm for optimum design of truss structures

    Article • Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ali Kaveh, Razi Sheikholeslami

  39. Optimum Design of Gravity Retaining Walls Using Charged System Search Algorithm

    Article • Mathematical Problems in Engineering, January 2012, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    Razi Sheikholeslami