Journal Paper

1. "Resource governance and low-carbon transition in externally-constrained economies: quantitative evidence on the policy–performance gap from iran's mining sector"
   Hamid Sarkheil, Taha Salahjou, Emad Karimkhani
   Results in Engineering, Vol. 32, 2026
2. "Dynamic system analysis of key indicators for Green and Climate-Smart Mining (GCSM) within a sustainable governance framework: A focus on the cobalt value chain"
   Hamid Sarkheil
   Sustainable Futures, Vol. 11, 2026
3. "Rehabilitation of lunar mining: extractable elements, restoration challenges, Industry 5.0 and differences from Earth-based mining"
   Hamid Sarkheil, Taha Salahjou, Fatemeh Falahatgar
   ADVANCES IN SPACE RESEARCH, Vol. 77, No 12, pp.11962-11993, 2026
4. "Climate-smart mining through block matrix analysis: a conceptual modeling approach for sustainable resource governance"
   Hamid Sarkheil, Ali Sadeghy Nejad, Emad Rostamian
   International Journal of Mining and Geo-Engineering, Vol. 60, No 1, pp.91-104, 2026
5. "A robust hybrid machine learning framework for multidimensional ESG assessment in critical mineral supply chains: The case of cobalt mining"
   Hamid Sarkheil, Taha Salahjou, Amirhossein Hashemi
   Results in Engineering, Vol. 29, 2026
6. "An integrated economic and machine learning approach using DNN and SVR for forecasting Iran’s copper market under climate change"
   Hamid Sarkheil, Taha Salahjou, Seyedeh Romina Seyyedi Eshkiki, Amirhossein Hashemi
   Mineral Economics, Vol. -, pp.1-34, 2025
7. "A fuzzy holistic framework for strategic assessment of mineral hubs in the energy section: A case study of antimony in Iran"
   Hamid Sarkheil, Taha Salahjou, Shahrokh Rahbari
   Results in Engineering, Vol. 27, 2025
8. "Analysis and forecasting Iran's copper market to move towards low‑carbon in the face of climate change"
   Hamid Sarkheil, Taha Salahjou, Seyedeh Romina Seyyedi Eshkiki
   Mineral Economics, Vol. -, 2025
9. "Developing a novel ecological fuzzy forest health index (FFHI) for Standardizing forest-smart mining using remote sensing techniques"
   Hamid Sarkheil, Emad Rostamian, Shahrokh Rahbari, Razieh Lak
   Environmental and Sustainability Indicators, Vol. 26, 2025
10. "Lithium Extraction Assessment from Brines in Kerman Province: Challenges and Opportunities for Clean Energy Transition and Climate Change Mitigation"
    Hamid Sarkheil, Mostafa Shahbaz Nejad, behzad raygani, Yassaman Mohtat, Taha Salahjou, Ali Sadeghy Nejad
    International Journal of Mining and Geo-Engineering, Vol. 59, No 2, pp.401-409, 2025
11. "A systematic review to identify carbonate rock exploration paradigms and examine current and future research directions: a case study at one of the southwest oil fields of Iran"
    Masoume Mehrabi, Seyed Mahmoud Fatemi Aghda, Hamid Sarkheil, mohamad Teshnelab, Ehsan Salehi, Kamran Kamrani, Alireza Yamini
    Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production Technology, Vol. 15, No 2, 2025
12. "Modeling Coastal Environmental Risk Assessment: A Case Study of Installing Three Filtration Bases in a Deep Sea Mining Structure"
    Hamid Sarkheil, Shahram Alghasi, Ali Sadeghy Nejad
    Journal of Mining and Environment, Vol. -, 2024
13. "Hazard Identification and Process Risk Assessment at the Building Stone Processing Company through Combination of EFMEA & William Fine Methods"
    Hamid Sarkheil, Mohammad Talaeian, Azadeh Abbaszadeh Goran, Ali Sadeghy Nejad
    International Journal of Mining and Geo-Engineering, Vol. -, pp.413-423, 2024
14. "Heuristic Simulated Annealing Modeling to Optimum Target Audience Identification in Digital Marketing: A Case Study of a Mining Industry Training Service Company"
    Hamid Sarkheil, Mirza Hassan Hosseini
    International Journal of Supply and Operations Management (IJSOM), Vol. 1, No 1, pp.1-15, 2023
15. "Combining Voronoi Triangulation Discrete Fracture Network (DFN) Models with Fractal Dimension Analysis of Complex Sequences for Predicting Porosity and Permeability"
    Hamid Sarkheil
    Journal of Petroleum Geomechanics, Vol. 6, No 3, pp.74-81, 2023
16. "Fuzzy soil quality index using resistivity and induced polarization for contamination assessment in a lead and zinc drainage irrigation field study"
    Hamid Sarkheil, Khadijeh Sadoughi Noughabi, Yousef Azimi, Shahrokh Rahbari
    Ecological Indicators, Vol. 152, No 110362, 2023
17. "Fuzzy radon hazard index assessment for stochastic environmental health risk evaluation of urban scale building"
    Hamid Sarkheil, Dariush Shirkhani, Yousef Azimi, Ahmad Talebi, Shahrokh Rahbari
    STOCHASTIC ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND RISK ASSESSMENT, Vol. 37, No 9, pp.3493-3515, 2023
18. "Developing an evolving multi-layer perceptron network by genetic algorithm to predict full-scale municipal wastewater treatment plant effluent"
    Yousef Azimi, Mohammad Talaeian, Hamid Sarkheil, Rana Hashemi, Ravanbakhsh Shirdam
    Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, Vol. 10, No 5, 2022
19. "A proposed framework for estimating the environmental damage cost of mining activities in line with the goals of sustainable mining: a case study of Sungun-Ahar copper mine, Iran"
    Jalil Badamfirooz, Hamid Sarkheil, Roya Mousazadeh, Faezeh Ayatollahi
    International Journal of Mining and Geo-Engineering, Vol. 56, No 2, pp.167-180, 2022
20. "A proposed framework for economic valuation and assessment of damages cost to national wetlands ecosystem services using the benefit-transfer approach"
    Jalil Badamfirooz, Roya Mousazadeh, Hamid Sarkheil
    Environmental Challenges, Vol. 5, 2021
21. "Fractured reservoir distribution characterization using folding mechanism analysis and patterns recognition in the Tabnak hydrocarbon reservoir anticline"
    Hamid Sarkheil, Hossein Hassani, Firuz Alinia
    Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production Technology, Vol. 11, No 6, pp.2425-2433, 2021
22. "Fuzzy-Mamdani environmental quality assessment of gas refinery chemical wastewater in the Pars special economic and energy zone"
    Hamid Sarkheil, Shahrokh Rahbari, Yousef Azimi
    Environmental Challenges, Vol. 3, 2021
23. "Risk and incident analysis on key safety performance indicators and anomalies feedback in south pars gas complex"
    Hamid Sarkheil
    Results in Engineering, Vol. 9, 2021
24. "Fuzzy dynamic system analysis of pollution accumulation in the Anzali wetland using empirical-nonlinear aspects of an economically-socio-environmental interest conflict"
    Hamid Sarkheil, Hamid Reza Rezaei, Behzad Rayegani, Samira Khorramdin, Shahrokh Rahbari
    Environmental Challenges, Vol. 2, 2021
25. "Hazard identification and risk modeling on runway bird strikes at Sardar-e-Jangal International Airport of Iran"
    Hamid Sarkheil, Mohammad Talaeian Araghi, Saeid Vatan Khah
    Modeling Earth Systems and Environment, Vol. 7, No 4, pp.2589-2598, 2020
26. "Conversion based fuzzy fractal dimension integrating self-similarity and porosity, via DFS and FIS (Mamdani and Sugeno systems)"
    Hamid Sarkheil, Shahrokh Rahbari, behzad raygani
    CHAOS SOLITONS & FRACTALS, Vol. 140, 2020
27. "A simple model for PIFs extraction at digital change detection approach"
    behzad raygani, Susan Barati, Hamid Sarkheil
    Modeling Earth Systems and Environment, Vol. 7, No 3, pp.1769-1781, 2020
28. "Sand and dust storm sources identification: A remote sensing approach"
    behzad raygani, Susan Barati, Hamid Goshtasb, Saba Gachpaz, Javad Ramezani, Hamid Sarkheil
    ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS, Vol. 112, 2020
29. "Evaluating the current status of the national health, safety and environment management system for integration, harmonization, and standardization of environmental protection"
    Hamid Sarkheil, Bahram Tahery, behzad raygani, Javad Ramezani, Hamid Goshtasb, Ali Jahani
    Health Risk Analysis, Vol. -, pp.18-24, 2020
30. "An effective approach to selecting the appropriate pan-sharpening method in digital change detection of natural ecosystems"
    behzad raygani, Susan Barati, Hamid Goshtasb, Hamid Sarkheil, Javad Ramezani
    Ecological Informatics, Vol. 53, 2019
31. "Fault Creator Cases Analysis Based on Bayesian Method in Current Permit to Work System to Optimize the Protection Layers and Risk Management, During Commissioning and Start-up Phases of Gas Refinery Plant"
    Hamid Sarkheil, Yousef Azimi, Javad Jafari Aghdash
    INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OCCUPATIONAL HYGIENE, Vol. 11, No 2, pp.70-84, 2019
32. "Fractal geometry analysis of chemical structure of natural starch modification as a green biopolymeric product"
    Hamid Sarkheil, Shahrokh Rahbari
    Arabian Journal of Chemistry, Vol. 12, No 8, pp.2430-2438, 2019
33. "Analysing water use efficiency and productivity in Iran's metropolises"
    Mahyar Habibi Rad, Hamid Sarkheil, Roshanak Khojastehpour
    PROCEEDINGS OF THE INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS-WATER MANAGEMENT, Vol. 172, No 2, pp.102-108, 2019
34. "Fuzzy Wastewater Quality Index Determination for Environmental Quality Assessment under Uncertain and Vagueness Conditions"
    Hamid Sarkheil, Yousef Azimi, Shahrokh Rahbari
    International Journal of Engineering, Transactions B: Applications, Vol. 31, No 8, pp.1196-1204, 2018
35. "Development of case historical logical air quality indices via fuzzy mathematics (Mamdani and Takagi–Sugeno systems), a case study for Shahre Rey Town"
    Hamid Sarkheil, Shahrokh Rahbari
    Environmental Earth Sciences, Vol. 75, No 19, pp.1-13, 2016
36. "Environmental Risk Modeling of Maintenance Processes in Zanjan's Transmission and High-Voltage Electrical Substations Using Innovative Integrated FMEA and ETBA Methods"
    Hamid Sarkheil, Masoud Sadeghian, Ahmad Talebi, Armita Partovi Hajidehi
    Journal of Environmental Sciences, Vol. 24, No 1, pp.221-248, 2026
37. "Environmental Performance Assessment and Management of the South Pars Gas Complex (Comparing Refineries: 1, 9 &10)"
    Hamid Sarkheil, Shahrokh Rahbari
    The Journal of Environmental Science and Technology, Vol. 27, No 4, pp.101-109, 2025
38. "Evaluation and Monitoring of the Impact of Process Unit Dust Particles on the Health of Employees in the Kermanshah Cement Industry"
    Hamid Sarkheil, Ali Shahbazi, محمد طلائیان, Yousef Azimi, آرمیتا پرتوی
    Journal of Environmental Sciences, Vol. -, 2024
39. "Developing a Bayesian network model for environmental risks of the Caspian Sea breakwater in Bandar Anzali"
    Hamid Sarkheil, Seyed Ahmad Khobraftar Shalkohi, Ziauddin Almasi
    Journal of Environmental Sciences, Vol. -, 2024
40. "Determination of safe mud weight window and optimal drilling path in the Gadwan formation using rock failure criteria in one of the hydrocarbon fields in southwest Iran"
    Hossein Jahan mohammadi, Hamid Mosaddeg, Mehran Azizzadeh, Hamid Sarkheil, Mohammad Mohammadnia
    Journal of Petroleum Geomechanics, Vol. 6, No 4, 2023
41. "Assessment of Cutting and Drilling Mud Heavy Metals and Organic Matter Contamination Using Limit Learning Regression Algorithm Technique of Artificial Intelligence in one of the Oil Fields of Southern Iran"
    Saeid Ahadi, Andisheh Alimoradi, Hamid Sarkheil, Mahyar Kalhor Mohammadi, مهدی فتحی
    Journal of Environmental Sciences, Vol. 21, No 1, pp.163-180, 2023
42. "Environmental Risk Modeling of Hydrocarbon Exploration and Exploitation using Energy Trace Barrier Assessment Method, the case study of Tabnak Hydrocarbon Field"
    Hamid Sarkheil, Parisa Torabi, Hossein Hassani
    journal of expoduction oil and gas, Vol. -, No 206, pp.41-48, 2023
43. "Material Flow Cost Accounting Modeling and Life Cycle Analysis of Zinc Smelting Industry Concentrate Unit in Iran to Reduce Environmental Pollution"
    Hamid Sarkheil, Mahdieh Rezazadeh Belgouri, Ravanbakhsh Shirdam, Yousef Azimi
    environment and interdisciplinary development, Vol. 7, No 78, pp.71-85, 2022
44. "Prediction of Hydraulic Shock Wastewater in Unexpected Events using a Combination of Wavelet Operator and Artificial Intelligence Network Algorithm"
    Hamid Sarkheil, Ali Ehsani Afrakati, Mohammad Talaeian Araghi
    Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Vol. 52, No 3, pp.175-184, 2022
45. "Determining Electrofacies of Gadwan formation by MRGC clustering method using the integration of petrophysical Logs and FMI Image Log"
    Hossein Jahanmohamadi, حسین مصدق, Mehran Azizzadeh, Hamid Sarkheil, Mohamad Mohamadnia
    Kharazmi Journal of Earth Sciences, Vol. 8, No 1, pp.97-117, 2022
46. "Estimating the Cost of damages to Ecosystem Services Due to Metals Mining of copper, gold, bauxite and iron Ore in Iran and its comparative analysis with the cost of global damages"
    جلیل بادام فیروز, Roya Mousazadeh, Hamid Sarkheil
    The Journal of Environmental Science and Technology, Vol. 24, No 2, pp.257-272, 2022
47. "Identification of natural radon gas emission zones in Mashhad and implementing its pollution reduction system at the site-scale"
    Hamid Sarkheil, Dariush Shirkhani, Yousef Azimi, Ahmad Talebi
    Kharazmi Journal of Earth Sciences, Vol. 7, No 2, pp.119-131, 2022
48. "Estimating the Costs Incurred On Ecosystem Services of Cultivated Areas Caused By the Mining of Bauxite Metal in Jajarm, North Khorasan Using the Benefit Transfer Approach"
    Jalil Badamfirooz, Hamid Sarkheil, Roya Mousazadeh
    environment and interdisciplinary development, Vol. 6, No 73, pp.49-62, 2021
49. "Investigating the effect of drilling mud-cutting on the contamination level of heavy metals and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (case study: Well B of Azadegan South Oil Field)"
    Hamid Sarkheil, Meysam Fathi Nooran, Mojtaba Kalhor, Yousef Azimi, Mohammad Talaeian Araghi
    Journal of Environmental Sciences, Vol. 19, No 2, pp.111-126, 2021
50. "Fuzzy Wastewater Quality Index (FWWQI) for Environmental Quality Assessment of Industrial Wastewater, a Case Study for South Pars Special Economic and Energy Zone"
    Hamid Sarkheil, Yousef Azimi, Shahrokh Rahbari
    Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Vol. 51, No 2, pp.153-160, 2021
51. "Identification of Process Hazards in the Hot Stripping Tower of Common Crude Oil Sweetening Projects Using HAZOP Study"
    Hamid Sarkheil, Fatemeh Dehdari, Yousef Azimi, Mohammad Talaeian Araghi
    safety promotion and injury prevention, Vol. 8, No 3, pp.172-183, 2020
52. "Reliability assessment in spatial modeling for identification of air pollution (NO2 & CO) probability in Tehran metropolis"
    Hamid Sarkheil, Maryam Fakhari, behzad raygani, جواد بداق جمالی
    Journal of Environmental Sciences, Vol. 18, No 2, pp.187-202, 2020
53. "Detection of Oil Spill Hotspots Using Time-Series MODIS Data (Case Study: Persian Gulf)"
    behzad raygani, Mohammad Najafi Yasouri, جواد بداق جمالی, Hamid Sarkheil
    journal of Petroleum Research, Vol. 29, pp.97-106, 2019
54. "An Innovative Method for Identifying and Detecting Factors and indication of Fraud Occurrences in Health, Safety and Environmental Management System Audits"
    Hamid Sarkheil, Alireza Alavi-Tabar, Payam Shayan Fard
    safety promotion and injury prevention, Vol. 7, No 2, pp.105-95, 2019
55. "Modeling and Evaluation of the Benzene Leakage Consequences in the Coking Plant of Isfahan Steel Company"
    Gholamhussein Mohammadi, Yousef Azimi, Hamid Sarkheil, جواد بداق جمالی
    safety promotion and injury prevention, Vol. 7, No 1, pp.10-19, 2019
56. "Modeling environmental air quality assessment using fuzzy logic in the Pars Special Economic Energy Zone (Case study: Assaluyeh, Bidkhon and Shirino regions)"
    Hamid Sarkheil, Yousef Azimi, Shahrokh Rahbari
    The Journal of Environmental Science and Technology, Vol. 20, No 4, pp.1-16, 2019
57. "Production of Cement mulch for sand dune fixation"
    یوسف عظیمی, Salman Zare, Siamak Heshmati, جواد بداق جمالی , Hamid Sarkheil
    Journal of Range and Watershed Management, Vol. 71, No 3, 2018

Conference Paper

1. "Water Resources Management in a Climate Smart Mining Model, A Case Study of the Steel, Gold, and Copper Industries"
   Hamid Sarkheil
   The Third National Conference and the Second International Conference on the Future, the City of the Future: Focusing on Climate Change, 2025
2. "Investigating the penetration and spread of Angoran lead and zinc mine effluent on plants using geoelectrical surveying"
   Hamid Sarkheil, Khadijeh Sadoughi Noughabi, Vandad Mohseni
   The 13th Iranian Mining Engineering Conference and the 8th International Congress of Mining and Mining Industries, 2025
3. "Climate-Smart and Good Governance in Deep Groundwater Resources"
   Hamid Sarkheil, mohamad nakhaei
   The First National Conference on Knowlede-Based Governance, 2023
4. "A conceptual framework model for climate-smart mining within the context of national good governance"
   Hamid Sarkheil, Emad Rostamian, Ava Elmi, Armita Partovi Hajidehi, Alireza Nikbakht
   The First National Conference on Knowlede-Based Governance, 2023