Journal Paper

1. "Improving Porphyry Copper Prospectivity Mapping with Stacked Ensemble Machine Learning and Feature Contribution Analysis: A Case Study of the Eastern Sirjan 1:250,000 quadrangle map, Iran"
   Mohammad Reza Samiei, Ali Moradzadeh, Parham Pahlavani, Ghezelbash Reza
   ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, Vol. X-4/W8-2025, pp.661-666, 2026
2. "Detecting Low-Risk Exploration Targets from Automated Tuned Machine Learning Algorithms: Hybrid Particle Swarm Optimization, Grid Search and Genetic Optimization Algorithms with Support Vector Machine"
   Mehrdad Daviran, Ghezelbash Reza
   Journal of Earth Science, Vol. 37, No 2, pp.843-869, 2026
3. "Development of a hybrid Bayesian-Hyperband optimization procedure: GeoAI-driven hyperparameter tuning of AdaBoost for enhancing Mineral Prospectivity Mapping"
   Mahsa Hajihosseinlou, Abbas Maghsoudi, Ghezelbash Reza
   ENVIRONMENTAL MODELLING & SOFTWARE, Vol. 198, 2026
4. "Evaluation of SOM, DBSCAN, and K-series clustering algorithms for Cu Au anomaly exploration in sample catchment basins: A case study from Hashtjin district, NW Iran"
   Amirreza Bitaraf, Ghezelbash Reza
   JOURNAL OF GEOCHEMICAL EXPLORATION, Vol. 282, 2026
5. "Landslide Susceptibility Mapping: Comparison of Knowledge-driven AHP-FR and Data-driven SVM Methods in Zarab-Sanandaj Sub-basins Kurdistan Iran"
   Sarina Akbari, Ghezelbash Reza, Hamidreza Ramazi, Abbas Maghsoudi
   Journal of Mining and Environment (JME),, Vol. 17, No 1, 2026
6. "Analysis of clustering methods for geochemical anomaly identification through weighted sample catchment basins"
   Maryam Shirjang, Abbas Maghsoudi, Ghezelbash Reza
   Geochemistry-Chemie der Erde, Vol. 85, No 4, 2025
7. "A new framework for exploration targeting: Integrating multifractal geochemical analysis, structural controls and fuzzy C-means unsupervised clustering"
   Ghezelbash Reza, Abbas Maghsoudi, Mehrdad Daviran
   Geochemistry-Chemie der Erde, Vol. 85, No 4, 2025
8. "Unsupervised AI-Driven MPM: Application of K-Means, K-Medoids and Self-Organizing Maps"
   Mehrdad Daviran, Ghezelbash Reza, Abbas Maghsoudi, Maysam Abedi
   Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing, Vol. -, 2025
9. "A semi-supervised approach for mineral prospectivity mapping via weighted positive-unlabeled learning and tree-structured parzen estimator for hyperparameter optimization"
   Mahsa Hajihosseinlou, Abbas Maghsoudi, Ghezelbash Reza
   ORE GEOLOGY REVIEWS, Vol. 185, 2025
10. "A semi-supervised learning framework for intelligent mineral prospectivity mapping: Incorporation of the CatBoost and Gaussian mixture model algorithms"
    Mahsa Hajihosseinlou, Abbas Maghsoudi, Ghezelbash Reza
    JOURNAL OF GEOCHEMICAL EXPLORATION, Vol. 274, 2025
11. "Machine learning-based mapping of indoor radon potential using geogenic factors"
    Mehrdad Daviran, Iman Masoumi, Ghezelbash Reza, Sabrina Maggio, Sandra De Iaco
    ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECOLOGICAL STATISTICS, Vol. -, pp.1-36, 2025
12. "Combination of machine learning and fractal approaches for AI-MPM: Identifying low-risk exploration targets associated with porphyry-Cu deposits in the Kerman belt, Iran"
    Ghezelbash Reza, Mehrdad Daviran, Abbas Maghsoudi
    Remote Sensing Applications-Society and Environment, Vol. 38, 2025
13. "Optimized AI-MPM: Application of PSO for tuning the hyperparameters of SVM and RF algorithms"
    Mehrdad Daviran, Abbas Maghsoudi, Ghezelbash Reza
    COMPUTERS & GEOSCIENCES, Vol. 195, 2025
14. "Density based spatial clustering of applications with noise and fuzzy C-means algorithms for unsupervised mineral prospectivity mapping"
    Ghezelbash Reza, Mehrdad Daviran, Abbas Maghsoudi, Mahsa Hajihosseinlou
    Earth Science Informatics, Vol. 18, No 2, 2025
15. "A Novel Framework for Optimizing the Prediction of Areas Favorable to Porphyry-Cu Mineralization: Combination of Ant Colony and Grid Search Optimization Algorithms with Support Vector Machines"
    Sarina Akbari, Hamidreza Ramazi, Ghezelbash Reza
    Natural Resources Research, Vol. -, 2025
16. "Uncertainty quantification in genetic algorithm-optimized artificial intelligence-based mineral prospectivity models: automated hyperparameter tuning for support vector machines and random forest"
    Mehrdad Daviran, Ghezelbash Reza, Mahsa Hajihosseinlou, Abbas Maghsoudi
    Modeling Earth Systems and Environment, Vol. 11, 2024
17. "Spatial multi-criteria approaches for estimating geogenic radon hazard index"
    Iman Masoumi, Sabrina Maggio, Sandra De Iaco, Ghezelbash Reza
    SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT, Vol. 956, 2024
18. "Geochemical Anomaly Detection and Pattern Recognition: A Combined Study of the Apriori Algorithm, Principal Component Analysis, and Spectral Clustering"
    Mahsa Hajihosseinlou, Abbas Maghsoudi, Ghezelbash Reza
    Minerals, Vol. 14, No 12, 2024
19. "A hybrid framework for Detection of Multivariate porphyry Cu Signatures and Anomaly Enhancement: Incorporation of SFA, GMPI, and Grey Wolf Optimization"
    Mobin Saremi, Abbas Maghsoudi, Mahsa Hajihosseinlou, Ghezelbash Reza
    Geochemistry-Chemie der Erde, Vol. 84, No 4, 2024
20. "Regularization in machine learning models for MVT Pb-Zn prospectivity mapping: applying lasso and elastic-net algorithms"
    Mahsa Hajihosseinlou, Abbas Maghsoudi, Ghezelbash Reza
    Earth Science Informatics, Vol. -, pp.1-15, 2024
21. "Targeting of porphyry copper mineralization using a continuous-based logistic function approach in the Varzaghan district north of Urumieh-Dokhtar magmatic arc"
    Mobin Saremi, Abbas Maghsoudi, Ghezelbash Reza, Mahyar Yousefi, Ardeshir Hezarkhani
    Journal of Mining and Environment, Vol. 16, No 4, 2024
22. "Stacking: A novel data-driven ensemble machine learning strategy for prediction and mapping of Pb-Zn prospectivity in Varcheh district, west Iran"
    Mahsa Hajihosseinlou, Abbas Maghsoudi, Ghezelbash Reza
    EXPERT SYSTEMS WITH APPLICATIONS, Vol. 237, No 1, 2024
23. "Intelligent mapping of geochemical anomalies: Adaptation of DBSCAN and mean-shift clustering approaches"
    Mahsa Hajihosseinlou, Abbas Maghsoudi, Ghezelbash Reza
    JOURNAL OF GEOCHEMICAL EXPLORATION, Vol. 258, No 1, 2024
24. "A comprehensive evaluation of OPTICS, GMM and K-means clustering methodologies for geochemical anomaly detection connected with sample catchment basins"
    Mahsa Hajihosseinlou, Abbas Maghsoudi, Ghezelbash Reza
    Geochemistry-Chemie der Erde, Vol. 84, No 2, 2024
25. "A data-driven VIKOR procedure for predictive modeling of porphyry copper prospectivity in SE Iran"
    Sarina Akbari, Hamidreza Ramazi, Ghezelbash Reza
    JOURNAL OF GEOCHEMICAL EXPLORATION, Vol. 259, No 107414, 2024
26. "Developing a spatio-temporal interactions model for car crashes using a novel data-driven AHP-TOPSIS"
    Somaye Ghezelbash, Ghezelbash Reza, Mohsen Kalantari
    APPLIED GEOGRAPHY, Vol. 162, No 1, 2024
27. "A comparative study of the XGBoost ensemble learning and multilayer perceptron in mineral prospectivity modeling: a case study of the Torud-Chahshirin belt, NE Iran"
    Amirreza Bigdeli, Abbas Maghsoudi, Ghezelbash Reza
    Earth Science Informatics, Vol. 1, No 1, 2023
28. "Recognizing Geochemical Anomalies Associated with Mineral Resources Using Singularity Analysis and Random Forest Models in the Torud-Chahshirin Belt, Northeast Iran"
    Amirreza Bigdeli, Abbas Maghsoudi, Ghezelbash Reza
    Minerals, Vol. 13, No 11, 2023
29. "GWOKM: A novel hybrid optimization algorithm for geochemical anomaly detection based on Grey wolf optimizer and K-means clustering"
    Mehrdad Daviran, Ghezelbash Reza, Abbas Maghsoudi
    Geochemistry, Vol. 1, No 1, 2023
30. "A Novel Scheme for Mapping of MVT-Type Pb–Zn Prospectivity: LightGBM, a Highly Efficient Gradient Boosting Decision Tree Machine Learning Algorithm"
    Mahsa Hajihosseinlou, Abbas Maghsoudi, Ghezelbash Reza
    Natural Resources Research, Vol. 32, No 6, pp.2417-2438, 2023
31. "Hybridizing K-means clustering algorithm with harmony search and artificial bee colony optimizers for intelligence mineral prospectivity mapping"
    Mehrdad Daviran, Ghezelbash Reza, Mohammad Niknezhad, Abbas Maghsoudi, Hesam Ghaeminejad
    Earth Science Informatics, Vol. 16, No 3, pp.2143-2165, 2023
32. "Using fractal and multifractal methods to reveal geophysical anomalies in Sardouyeh District, Kerman, Iran"
    Sarina Akbari, Hamidreza Ramazi, Ghezelbash Reza
    Earth Science Informatics, Vol. 16, No 3, pp.2125-2142, 2023
33. "Incorporating the genetic and firefly optimization algorithms into K-means clustering method for detection of porphyry and skarn Cu-related geochemical footprints in Baft district, Kerman, Iran"
    Ghezelbash Reza, Mehrdad Daviran, Abbas Maghsoudi, Hesam Ghaeminejad, Mohammad Niknezhad
    APPLIED GEOCHEMISTRY, Vol. 148, No 1, 2023
34. "Landslide susceptibility prediction using artificial neural networks, SVMs and random forest: hyperparameters tuning by genetic optimization algorithm"
    Mehrdad Daviran, Mehdi Shamekhi, Ghezelbash Reza, Abbas Maghsoudi
    INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, Vol. 20, No 1, pp.259-276, 2022
35. "Genetic algorithm to optimize the SVM and K-means algorithms for mapping of mineral prospectivity"
    Ghezelbash Reza, Abbas Maghsoudi, Mehdi Shamekhi, Biswajeet Pradhan, Mehrdad Daviran
    NEURAL COMPUTING & APPLICATIONS, Vol. 35, No 1, pp.719-733, 2022
36. "Quantifying Uncertainties Linked to the Diversity of Mathematical Frameworks in Knowledge-Driven Mineral Prospectivity Mapping"
    Mehrdad Daviran, Mohammad Parsa, Abbas Maghsoudi, Ghezelbash Reza
    Natural Resources Research, Vol. 31, No 5, pp.2271-2287, 2022
37. "Application of self-organizing map (SOM) and K-means clustering algorithms for portraying geochemical anomaly patterns in Moalleman district, NE Iran"
    Amirreza Bigdeli, Abbas Maghsoudi, Ghezelbash Reza
    JOURNAL OF GEOCHEMICAL EXPLORATION, Vol. 233, No 1, 2022
38. "Regional-Scale Mineral Prospectivity Mapping: Support Vector Machines and an Improved Data-Driven Multi-criteria Decision-Making Technique"
    Ghezelbash Reza, Abbas Maghsoudi, Amirreza Bigdeli, Emmanuel John M. Carranza
    Natural Resources Research, Vol. 30, No 3, pp.1977-2005, 2021
39. "A new strategy for spatial predictive mapping of mineral prospectivity: Automated hyperparameter tuning of random forest approach"
    Mehrdad Daviran, Abbas Maghsoudi, Ghezelbash Reza, Biswajeet Pradhan
    COMPUTERS & GEOSCIENCES, Vol. 148, No 1, 2021
40. "Comparison between the geochemical response of BLEG and fine fraction stream sediments to mineralization in the Eastern Black Sea region, Turkey"
    Huseyin Yilmaz, Ghezelbash Reza, David R. Cohen, Ramazan Sari, Fatma Nuran Sonmez, Abbas Maghsoudi
    JOURNAL OF GEOCHEMICAL EXPLORATION, Vol. 217, No 1, 2020
41. "Geoelectrical integrated models for determining the geometry of karstic cavities in the Zarrinabad area, west of Iran: combination of fuzzy logic, C-A fractal model and hybrid AHP-TOPSIS procedure"
    Sarina Akbari, Hamidreza Ramazi, Ghezelbash Reza, Abbas Maghsoudi
    CARBONATES AND EVAPORITES, Vol. 35, No 2, 2020
42. "Sensitivity analysis of prospectivity modeling to evidence maps: Enhancing success of targeting for epithermal gold, Takab district, NW Iran"
    Ghezelbash Reza, Abbas Maghsoudi, Emmanuel John M. Carranza
    ORE GEOLOGY REVIEWS, Vol. 120, No 1, 2020
43. "Optimization of geochemical anomaly detection using a novel genetic K-means clustering (GKMC) algorithm"
    Ghezelbash Reza, Abbas Maghsoudi, Emmanuel John M. Carranza
    COMPUTERS & GEOSCIENCES, Vol. 134, No 1, 2020
44. "Assessment of Various Fuzzy c-Mean Clustering Validation Indices for Mapping Mineral Prospectivity: Combination of Multifractal Geochemical Model and Mineralization Processes"
    Mehrdad Daviran, Abbas Maghsoudi, David R. Cohen, Ghezelbash Reza, Huseyin Yilmaz
    Natural Resources Research, Vol. 29, No 1, pp.229-246, 2019
45. "Developing a fractal model for spatial mapping of crime hotspots"
    Mohsen Kalantari, Somaye Ghezelbash, Ghezelbash Reza, Bamshad Yaghmaei
    European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research, Vol. 26, No 4, pp.571-591, 2019
46. "Incorporation of principal component analysis, geostatistical interpolation approaches and frequency-space-based models for portraying the Cu-Au geochemical prospects in the Feizabad district, NW Iran"
    Ghezelbash Reza, Abbas Maghsoudi, Mehrdad Daviran, Huseyin Yilmaz
    Geochemistry-Chemie der Erde, Vol. 79, No 2, pp.323-336, 2019
47. "Mapping of single- and multi-element geochemical indicators based on catchment basin analysis: Application of fractal method and unsupervised clustering models"
    Ghezelbash Reza, Abbas Maghsoudi, Emmanuel John M. Carranza
    JOURNAL OF GEOCHEMICAL EXPLORATION, Vol. 199, No 1, pp.90-104, 2019
48. "Combination of multifractal geostatistical interpolation and spectrum–area (S–A) fractal model for Cu–Au geochemical prospects in Feizabad district, NE Iran"
    Ghezelbash Reza, Abbas Maghsoudi, Emmanuel John M. Carranza
    Arabian Journal of Geosciences, Vol. 12, No 5, 2019
49. "Performance evaluation of RBF- and SVM-based machine learning algorithms for predictive mineral prospectivity modeling: integration of S-A multifractal model and mineralization controls"
    Ghezelbash Reza, Abbas Maghsoudi, Emmanuel John M. Carranza
    Earth Science Informatics, Vol. 12, No 3, pp.277-293, 2019
50. "An Improved Data-Driven Multiple Criteria Decision-Making Procedure for Spatial Modeling of Mineral Prospectivity: Adaption of Prediction–Area Plot and Logistic Functions"
    Ghezelbash Reza, Abbas Maghsoudi, Emmanuel John M. Carranza
    Natural Resources Research, Vol. 28, No 4, pp.1299-1316, 2019
51. "Prospectivity modeling of porphyry copper deposits: recognition of efficient mono- and multi-element geochemical signatures in the Varzaghan district, NW Iran"
    Ghezelbash Reza, Abbas Maghsoudi, Mehrdad Davarian
    Acta Geochimica, Vol. 38, No 1, pp.131-144, 2018
52. "A hybrid AHP-VIKOR approach for prospectivity modeling of porphyry Cu deposits in the Varzaghan District, NW Iran"
    Ghezelbash Reza, Abbas Maghsoudi
    Arabian Journal of Geosciences, Vol. 11, No 11, 2018
53. "Comparison of U -spatial statistics and C–A fractal models for delineating anomaly patterns of porphyry-type Cu geochemical signatures in the Varzaghan district, NW Iran"
    Ghezelbash Reza, Abbas Maghsoudi
    COMPTES RENDUS GEOSCIENCE, Vol. 350, No 4, pp.180-191, 2018
54. "Decomposition of anomaly patterns of multi-element geochemical signatures in Ahar area, NW Iran: a comparison of U-spatial statistics and fractal models"
    Mohammad Parsa, Abbas Maghsoudi, Ghezelbash Reza
    Arabian Journal of Geosciences, Vol. 9, No 4, 2016

Conference Paper

1. "Metamorphism, Magmatism and Structural Controls of Silica Vein Mineralization in the Eastern Lut Metallogenic Province, Iran"
   Zahra Haghparast Tajan Goukeh, Ghezelbash Reza, Kazem Kazemi
   International Conference on Applied Research in Mining, Metallurgy and Environment with a Sustainable Development Approach, 2026
2. "Structural Control, Hydrothermal Alteration Zoning, and Ore Genesis of the Basiran Porphyry-Epithermal Cu-Au System, Eastern Lut Block, Iran"
   Zahra Haghparast Tajan Goukeh, Ghezelbash Reza, Kazem Kazemi
   International Conference on Applied Research in Mining, Metallurgy and Environment with a Sustainable Development Approach, 2026
3. "Investigating the effect of regularization coefficient and depth weighting on geomagnetic data inversion, a case study of Takht-e-Gonbad porphyry copper deposit"
   Mojtaba Hosseini, Maysam Abedi, Mirsaleh Mirmohammadi, Ghezelbash Reza
   44th Geosciences Congress, 2026
4. "Application of Geophysical Magnetometry and Geoelectrical Methods in the Identification of Porphyry Copper-Bearing Zones in the Takhte-Gonbad Area"
   Mojtaba Hosseini, Maysam Abedi, Mirsaleh Mirmohammadi, Ghezelbash Reza
   14th Iranian Mining Engineering conference, 2026
5. "Inversion of Geomagnetic Data Using Mixed-Norm Regularization: A Case Study of the Takhte-Gonbad Porphyry Copper Deposit"
   Amirabbas Houshang, Maysam Abedi, Mirsaleh Mirmohammadi, Ghezelbash Reza
   14th Iranian Mining Engineering conference, 2025
6. "Comparison of single-element geochemical maps and analysis of main components and separation of geochemical populations by C-A fractal method in Karizno district"
   مریم شیرجنگ, عباس مقصودی, Ghezelbash Reza
   The 5th National Conference of Iranian Geological Remote Sensing Society, 2024
7. "Mineral prospectivity mapping of Zn and Pb of MVT type in Ardestan sheet using C-A fractal methods and hierarchical analysis (AHP)"
   زهرا خسروانی فراهانی, عباس مقصودی, Ghezelbash Reza
   12th Iranian Mining Engineering Conference, 2024