Journal Articles
Kiani, Behzad, Thierry, Benoit, Fuller, Daniel, Firth, Caislin, Winters, Meghan and Kestens, Yan (2023). Gentrification, neighborhood socioeconomic factors and urban vegetation inequities: A study of greenspace and tree canopy increases in Montreal, Canada. Landscape and Urban Planning, 240 104871, 1-10. doi: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2023.104871
Kiani, Behzad, Lau, Colleen and Bergquist, Robert (2023). From Snow’s map of cholera transmission to dynamic catchment boundary delineation: current front lines in spatial analysis. Geospatial Health, 18 (2) ARTN 1247. doi: 10.4081/gh.2023.1247
Kiani, Behzad, Mamiya, Hiroshi, Thierry, Benoit, Firth, Caislin, Fuller, Daniel, Winters, Meghan and Kestens, Yan (2023). The temporal sequence between gentrification and cycling infrastructure expansions in Montreal, Canada. Habitat International, 139 102899, 1-10. doi: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2023.102899
Raeesi, Ahmad, Tara, Mahmood and Kiani, Behzad (2023). Spatial accessibility to hospitals in Southeast Iran: an enhanced two-step floating catchment area method. GeoJournal, 88 (5), 5427-5443. doi: 10.1007/s10708-023-10925-3
Azadnajafabad, Sina, Moghaddam, Sahar Saeedi, Mohammadi, Esmaeil, Rezaei, Negar, Rashidi, Mohammad-Mahdi, Rezaei, Nazila, Mokdad, Ali H., Naghavi, Mohsen, Murray, Christopher J. L., Larijani, Bagher, Farzadfar, Farshad, Abbasi-Kangevari, Mohsen, Abbasi-Kangevari, Zeinab, Abbastabar, Hedayat, Abidi, Hassan, Abolhassani, Hassan, Abubaker Ali, Hiwa, Abu-Gharbieh, Eman, Acuna, Juan Manuel, Afrashteh, Sima, Afzal, Muhammad Sohail, Ahmad, Sajjad, Ahmadi, Ali, Ahmadi, Sepideh, Ahmed, Haroon, Ahmed, Luai A., Rashid, Tarik Ahmed, Ajami, Marjan, Akbarzadeh-Khiavi, Mostafa ... Zoladl, Mohammad (2023). Burden of breast cancer and attributable risk factors in the North Africa and Middle East region, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019. Frontiers in Oncology, 13 1132816, 1-20. doi: 10.3389/fonc.2023.1132816
Jozan, Mohammad Mahdi Barati, Mohammadi, Alireza, Lotfata, Aynaz, Tabesh, Hamed and Kiani, Behzad (2023). Spatio-temporal analysis of fire incidences in urban context: the case study of Mashhad, Iran. Spatial Information Research. doi: 10.1007/s41324-023-00540-2
Mohammadi, Alireza, Kiani, Behzad, Mahmoudzadeh, Hassan and Bergquist, Robert (2023). Pedestrian road traffic accidents in metropolitan areas: GIS-based prediction modelling of cases in Mashhad, Iran. Sustainability, 15 (13), 1-20. doi: 10.3390/su151310576
Soroori, Emad, Kiani, Behzad, Ghasemi, Soraya, Mohammadi, Alireza, Shabanikiya, Hamidreza, Bergquist, Robert, Kiani, Fatemeh and Tabatabaei-Jafari, Hossein (2023). Spatial association between urban neighbourhood characteristics and child pedestrian–motor vehicle collisions. Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy, 16 (4), 1443-1462. doi: 10.1007/s12061-023-09519-w
Firouraghi, Neda, Bergquist, Robert, Fatima, Munazza, Mohammadi, Alireza, Hamer, Davidson H. H., Shirzadi, Mohammad Reza and Kiani, Behzad (2023). High-risk spatiotemporal patterns of cutaneous leishmaniasis: a nationwide study in Iran from 2011 to 2020. Infectious Diseases of Poverty, 12 (1) 49, 1-12. doi: 10.1186/s40249-023-01103-1
Mohammadi, Alireza, Pishgar, Elahe, Fatima, Munazza, Lotfata, Aynaz, Fanni, Zohreh, Bergquist, Robert and Kiani, Behzad (2023). The COVID-19 mortality rate is associated with illiteracy, age, and air pollution in urban neighborhoods: A spatiotemporal cross-sectional analysis. Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 8 (2) ARTN 85, 1-29. doi: 10.3390/tropicalmed8020085
Hashtarkhani, Soheil, Matthews, Stephen A., Yin, Ping, Mohammadi, Alireza, MohammadEbrahimi, Shahab, Tara, Mahmood and Kiani, Behzad (2023). Where to place emergency ambulance vehicles: use of a capacitated maximum covering location model with real call data. Geospatial Health, 18 (2), 1-10. doi: 10.4081/gh.2023.1198
Mohamadi, Sara, Rezaee, Ramin, Hashemi, Mohammad, Kiani, Behzad, Ghasemi, Sajjad, Sani, Mahmood Alizadeh and Afshari, Asma (2023). Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), Vancomycin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (VRSA), and Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci (VRE) Contamination of Food Samples in Iran: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Iranian Journal of Medical Microbiology, 17 (2), 135-149. doi: 10.30699/ijmm.17.2.135
MohammadEbrahimi, Shahab, Kiani, Behzad, Rahmatinejad, Zahra, Baral, Stefan, Hashtarkhani, Soheil, Dehghan-Tezerjani, Mohammad, Zare, Elahe, Arian, Mahnaz, Kiani, Fatemeh, Gouya, Mohammad Mehdi, Dadras, Mohammad Nasr and Karamouzian, Mohammad (2022). Geospatial epidemiology of hospitalized patients with a positive influenza assay: A nationwide study in Iran, 2016–2018. PLOS ONE, 17 (12) e0278900, e0278900. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0278900
Abbasi-Kangevari, Mohsen, Moghaddam, Sahar Saeedi, Ghamari, Seyyed-Hadi, Azangou-Khyavy, Mohammadreza, Malekpour, Mohammad-Reza, Rezaei, Negar, Rezaei, Nazila, Kolahi, Ali-Asghar, Amini, Erfan, Mokdad, Ali H., Jamshidi, Hamidreza, Naghavi, Mohsen, Larijani, Bagher, Farzadfar, Farshad, Arif, Muhammad, Khanali, Javad, Rashidi, Mohammad-Mahdi, Ahmadi, Ali, Ahmadi, Sepideh, Gholamalizadeh, Maryam, Haj-Mirzaian, Arvin, Mafi, A. R., Nejadghaderi, Seyed Aria, Azadnajafabad, Sina, Maroufi, Seyed Farzad, Mohammadi, Esmaeil, Momtazmanesh, Sara, Shobeiri, Parnian, Abbasi, Behzad ... Zare, Iman (2022). The burden of prostate cancer in North Africa and Middle East, 1990–2019: Findings from the global burden of disease study. Frontiers in Oncology, 12 961086. doi: 10.3389/fonc.2022.961086
Mohammadi, Alireza, Bergquist, Robert, Fathi, Ghasem, Pishgar, Elahe, de Melo, Silas Nogueira, Sharifi, Ayyoob and Kiani, Behzad (2022). Homicide rates are spatially associated with built environment and socio-economic factors: a study in the neighbourhoods of Toronto, Canada. BMC Public Health, 22 (1) 1482. doi: 10.1186/s12889-022-13807-4
Firouraghi, Neda, Kiani, Behzad, Jafari, Hossein Tabatabaei, Learnihan, Vincent, Salinas-Perez, Jose A., Raeesi, Ahmad, Furst, MaryAnne, Salvador-Carulla, Luis and Bagheri, Nasser (2022). The role of geographic information system and global positioning system in dementia care and research: a scoping review. International Journal of Health Geographics, 21 (1) 8, 1-13. doi: 10.1186/s12942-022-00308-1
Mohammadi, Alireza, Pishgar, Elahe, Salari, Zahra and Kiani, Behzad (2022). Geospatial analysis of cesarean section in Iran (2016-2020): exploring clustered patterns and measuring spatial interactions of available health services. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 22 (1) 582, 1-14. doi: 10.1186/s12884-022-04856-z
Kiani, Behzad, Fatima, Munazza, Amin, Nazanin Hashemi and Hesami, Azam (2022). Comparing geospatial clustering methods to study spatial patterns of lung cancer rates in urban areas: A case study in Mashhad, Iran. GeoJournal, 88 (2), 1659-1669. doi: 10.1007/s10708-022-10707-3
Mansouritorghabeh, Hasan, Bagherimoghaddam, Ahmad, Eslami, Saeid, Raouf-Rahmati, Amene, Hamer, Davidson H., Kiani, Behzad and MohammadEbrahimi, Shahab (2022). Spatial epidemiology of COVID-19 infection through the first outbreak in the city of Mashhad, Iran. Spatial Information Research, 30 (5), 585-595. doi: 10.1007/s41324-022-00454-5
Moshaverinia, Ali, Raouf-Rahmati, Amene, Jarahi, Lida, Bergquist, Robert, Zorrilla-Vaca, Andres, Kiani, Fatemeh, Jadidoleslami, Abbas, Doggett, Stephen L., Zarean, Mehdi, Majma, Amirhosein, Youssefi, Mohammad Reza, Moghaddas, Elham and Kiani, Behzad (2022). Geographical patterns and mechanisms of Cimex lectularius Linnaeus, 1758, and Cimex hemipterus Fabricius, 1803 (Hemiptera: Cimicidae) resistance to insecticides: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Parasitology Research, 121 (7), 1817-1827. doi: 10.1007/s00436-022-07530-7
Mohammadi, Alireza, Shahparvari, Shahrooz, Kiani, Behzad, Noori, Sepideh and Chhetri, Prem (2022). An analysis of Spatio–temporal patterns of fires in an Iranian city. Indoor and Built Environment, 32 (1), 183-199. doi: 10.1177/1420326x211055782
Hashtarkhani, Soheil, Kiani, Behzad, Mohammadi, Alireza, MohammadEbrahimi, Shahab, Eslami, Saeid, Tara, Mahmood and Matthews, Stephen A. (2022). One-year spatiotemporal database of Emergency Medical Service (EMS) calls in Mashhad, Iran: data on 224,355 EMS calls. BMC Research Notes, 15 (1) 22. doi: 10.1186/s13104-022-05905-8
Kiani, Behzad, Tabari, Parinaz, Mohammadi, Alireza, Mostafavi, Sayyed Mostafa, Moghadami, Mohsen, Amini, Mitra and Rezaianzadeh, Abbas (2022). Spatial epidemiology of skin cancer in Iran: separating sun-exposed and non-sun-exposed parts of the body. Archives of Public Health, 80 (1) 35. doi: 10.1186/s13690-022-00798-2
Raeesi, Ahmad, Kiani, Behzad, Hesami, Azam, Goshayeshi, Ladan, Firouraghi, Neda, Ebrahimi, Mohammad Shahab and Hashtarkhani, Soheil (2022). Access to the COVID-19 services during the pandemic- a scoping review. Geospatial Health, 17 (1) 1079. doi: 10.4081/gh.2022.1079
Firouraghi, Neda, Mohammadi, Alireza, Hamer, Davidson H, Bergquist, Robert, Mostafavi, Sayyed Mostafa, Shamsoddini, Ali, Raouf-Rahmati, Amene, Fakhar, Mahmoud, Moghaddas, Elham and Kiani, Behzad (2022). Spatio-temporal visualisation of cutaneous leishmaniasis in an endemic, urban area in Iran. Acta Tropica, 225 106181, 106181. doi: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2021.106181
Mohammadi, Alireza, Pishgar, Elahe, Firouraghi, Neda, Bagheri, Nasser, Shamsoddini, Ali, Abbas, Jaffar and Kiani, Behzad (2021). A geodatabase of blood pressure level and the associated factors including lifestyle, nutritional, air pollution, and urban greenspace. BMC Research Notes, 14 (1) 416. doi: 10.1186/s13104-021-05830-2
Dadashi, Ali, Mohammadi, Alireza, MohammadEbrahimi, Shahab, Bergquist, Robert, Shamsoddini, Ali, Hesami, Azam, Pishgar, Elahe, Kimiafar, Khalil, Sarbaz, Masoumeh and Kiani, Behzad (2021). Spatial analysis of the 10 most prevalent cancers in north-eastern Iran, 2017–2018. Journal of Spatial Science, 68 (2), 281-301. doi: 10.1080/14498596.2021.1975583
Mohammadi, Alireza, Mollalo, Abolfazl, Bergquist, Robert and Kiani, Behzad (2021). Measuring COVID-19 vaccination coverage: an enhanced age-adjusted two-step floating catchment area model. Infectious Diseases of Poverty, 10 (1) 118. doi: 10.1186/s40249-021-00904-6
MohammadEbrahimi, Shahab, Mohammadi, Alireza, Bergquist, Robert, Akbarian, Mahsan, Arian, Mahnaz, Pishgar, Elahe and Kiani, Behzad (2021). A spatial-epidemiological dataset of subjects infected by SARS-CoV-2 during the first wave of the pandemic in Mashhad, second-most populous city in Iran. BMC Research Notes, 14 (1) 292. doi: 10.1186/s13104-021-05710-9
MohammadEbrahimi, Shahab, Mohammadi, Alireza, Bergquist, Robert, Dolatkhah, Fatemeh, Olia, Mahsa, Tavakolian, Ayoub, Pishgar, Elahe and Kiani, Behzad (2021). Epidemiological characteristics and initial spatiotemporal visualisation of COVID-19 in a major city in the Middle East. BMC Public Health, 21 (1) 1373. doi: 10.1186/s12889-021-11326-2
Marhamati, Maasoumeh, Afshari, Asma, Kiani, Behzad, Jannat, Behrooz and Hashemi, Mohammad (2021). Nitrite and Nitrate Levels in Groundwater, Water Distribution Network, Bottled Water and Juices in Iran: A Systematic Review. Current Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, 22 (10), 1325-1337. doi: 10.2174/1389201021666201203160012
Kiani, Behzad, Raouf Rahmati, Amene, Bergquist, Robert, Hashtarkhani, Soheil, Firouraghi, Neda, Bagheri, Nasser, Moghaddas, Elham and Mohammadi, Alireza (2021). Spatio-temporal epidemiology of the tuberculosis incidence rate in Iran 2008 to 2018. BMC Public Health, 21 (1) 1093. doi: 10.1186/s12889-021-11157-1
Hosseini, Nafiseh, Kimiafar, Khalil, Mostafavi, Sayyed Mostafa, Kiani, Behzad, Zendehdel, Kazem, Zareiyan, Armin and Eslami, Saeid (2021). Factors affecting the quality of diagnosis coding data with a triangulation view: A qualitative study. The International Journal of Health Planning and Management, 36 (5), 1666-1684. doi: 10.1002/hpm.3254
Shakouri, Shokouh, Bakhshali, Mohammad Amin, Layegh, Parvaneh, Kiani, Behzad, Masoumi, Farid, Ataei Nakhaei, Saeedeh and Mostafavi, Sayyed Mostafa (2021). COVID19-CT-dataset: an open-access chest CT image repository of 1000+ patients with confirmed COVID-19 diagnosis. BMC Research Notes, 14 (1) 178. doi: 10.1186/s13104-021-05592-x
Kiani, Behzad, Hashemi Amin, Fatemeh, Bagheri, Nasser, Bergquist, Robert, Mohammadi, Ali Akbar, Yousefi, Mahmood, Faraji, Hossein, Roshandel, Gholamreza, Beirami, Somayeh, Rahimzadeh, Hadi and Hoseini, Benyamin (2021). Association between heavy metals and colon cancer: an ecological study based on geographical information systems in North-Eastern Iran. BMC Cancer, 21 (1) 414. doi: 10.1186/s12885-021-08148-1
Hashemi Amin, Fatemeh, Ghaemi, Mahtab, Mostafavi, Sayyed Mostafa, Goshayeshi, Ladan, Rezaei, Khadijeh, Vahed, Mehdi and Kiani, Behzad (2021). A Geospatial database of gastric cancer patients and associated potential risk factors including lifestyle and air pollution. BMC Research Notes, 14 (1) 91. doi: 10.1186/s13104-021-05506-x
Naderi, Hamid, Madani, Sina, Kiani, Behzad and Etminani, Kobra (2020). Similarity of medical concepts in question and answering of health communities. Health Informatics Journal, 26 (2), 1443-1454. doi: 10.1177/1460458219881333
Halimi, Leyla, Bagheri, Nasser, Hoseini, Benyamin, Hashtarkhani, Soheil, Goshayeshi, Ladan and Kiani, Behzad (2020). Spatial Analysis of Colorectal Cancer Incidence in Hamadan Province, Iran: a Retrospective Cross-Sectional Study. Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy, 13 (2), 293-303. doi: 10.1007/s12061-019-09303-9
Shabanikiya, Hamidreza, Hashtarkhani, Soheil, Bergquist, Robert, Bagheri, Nasser, Vafaeinejad, Reza, Amiri-Gholanlou, Malihe, Akbari, Toktam and Kiani, Behzad (2020). Multiple-scale spatial analysis of paediatric, pedestrian road traffic injuries in a major city in North-Eastern Iran 2015-2019. BMC Public Health, 20 (1) 722. doi: 10.1186/s12889-020-08911-2
Hashtarkhani, Soheil, Kiani, Behzad, Bergquist, Robert, Bagheri, Nasser, VafaeiNejad, Reza and Tara, Mahmood (2020). An age-integrated approach to improve measurement of potential spatial accessibility to emergency medical services for urban areas. International Journal of Health Planning and Management, 35 (3), 788-798. doi: 10.1002/hpm.2960
Naderi, Hamid, Kiani, Behzad, Madani, Sina and Etminani, Kobra (2020). Concept based auto-assignment of healthcare questions to domain experts in online Q&A communities. International Journal of Medical Informatics, 137 104108, 1-8. doi: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2020.104108
Hosseini, Nafiseh, Fakhar, Fatemeh, Kiani, Behzad and Eslami, Saeid (2019). Enhancing the security of patients’ portals and websites by detecting malicious web crawlers using machine learning techniques. International Journal of Medical Informatics, 132 103976, 1-8. doi: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2019.103976
Goshayeshi, Ladan, Pourahmadi, Ali, Ghayour-Mobarhan, Majid, Hashtarkhani, Soheil, Karimian, Sajad, Dastjerdi, Reza Shahhosein, Eghbali, Babak, Seyfi, Efat and Kiani, Behzad (2019). Colorectal cancer risk factors in north-eastern iran: A retrospective cross-sectional study based on geographical information systems, spatial autocorrelation and regression analysis. Geospatial Health, 14 (2) 793, 219-228. doi: 10.4081/gh.2019.793
Kiani, Behzad, Bagheri, Nasser, Tara, Ahmad, Hoseini, Benyamin, Hashtarkhani, Soheil and Tara, Mahmood (2018). Comparing potential spatial access with self-reported travel times and cost analysis to haemodialysis facilities in north-eastern Iran. Geospatial Health, 13 (2), 240-246. doi: 10.4081/gh.2018.703
Goshayeshi, Ladan, Ghaffarzadegan, Kamran, Khooei, Alireza, Esmaeilzadeh, Abbas, Rahmani Khorram, Mahla, Mosannen Mozaffari, Hooman, Kiani, Behzad and Hoseini, Benyamin (2018). Prevalence and clinicopathological characteristics of mismatch repair-deficient colorectal carcinoma in early onset cases as compared with late-onset cases: A retrospective cross-sectional study in Northeastern Iran. BMJ Open, 8 (8) e023102, 1-8. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-023102
Hoseini, Benyamin, Bagheri, Nasser, Kiani, Behzad, Azizi, Amirabbas, Tabesh, Hamed and Tara, Mahmood (2018). Access to dialysis services: a systematic mapping review based on geographical information systems. Geospatial Health, 13 (1) 577, 3-10. doi: 10.4081/gh.2018.577
Kiani, Behzad, Bagheri, Nasser, Tara, Ahmad, Hoseini, Benyamin and Tara, Mahmood (2017). Haemodialysis services in the northeastern region of Iran. Geospatial Health, 12 (1) 561, 1-7. doi: 10.4081/gh.2017.561
Kiani, Behzad, Bagheri, Nasser, Tara, Ahmad, Hoseini, Benyamin, Tabesh, Hamed and Tara, Mahmood (2017). Revealed access to haemodialysis facilities in northeastern Iran: Factors that matter in rural and urban areas. Geospatial Health, 12 (2) 584, 237-244. doi: 10.4081/gh.2017.584
Conference Paper
Rabiei-Dastjerdi, H., Mohammadi, S., Samouei, R., Kazemi, M., Matthews, S., McArdle, G., Homayouni, S., Kiani, B. and Sadeghi, R. (2023). Measuring spatial accessibility to healthcare facilities in Isfahan metropolitan area in Iran. oint 6th Sensors and Models in Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, SMPR 2023 and 4th Geospatial Information Research, GIResearch 2022 Conferences, Online, 19 - 22 February 2023. Goettingen, Germany: Copernicus Publications. doi: 10.5194/isprs-annals-x-4-w1-2022-623-2023