Articles in Refereed Journals

  1. Ofir, A., & Zohar, M. (2025). Spatiotemporal Diffusion Patterns Associated with COVID-19 in the Tel Aviv-Jaffa and Haifa (Israel) Metropolitan Regions. Geographies, 5(1), 14. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/geographies5010014     |     pdf
  2. Zohar, M., Ben-Bassat, Y., & Bar-Oz, G. (2025). Historical Roots of Heritage Horticulture in the Southern Coastal Plain of Israel. Land, 14(2), 285. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/land14020285     |     pdf

  3. Salamon, A., Omira, R., Zohar, M., Baptista, A.M., (2024). Modern Outlook on the Source of the 551 AD Tsunamigenic Earthquake that Struck the Phoenician (Lebanon) Coast. Natural Hazards 120, 8893–8929. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-024-06559-4     |     pdf

  4. David, L., Zohar, M., Shimshoni, I., (2023). Geo-referencing Entities Extracted from Old Drawings/Photos Using Computer Vision, Deep Learning and GIScience. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 12, 500. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi12120500     |     pdf     |     github

  5. Zohar, M., Salamon, A., Rapaport, C., (2023). How Expert Is the Crowd? Insights into Crowd Opinions on the Severity of Earthquake Damage. Data, 8 (6), 108. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/data8060108     |     pdf

  6. Zohar, M., Gennosar, B., Avny, R., Tessler, N. Gal, A., (2023). Spatiotemporal analysis in high resolution of tweets associated with the November 2016 wildfire in Haifa (Israel). International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2023.103720     |     pdf     |     virtual map

  7. Negev, M., Zohar, M., Paz, S., (2022) Multidimensional hazards, vulnerabilities, and perceived risks regarding climate change and Covid-19 at the city level: An empirical study from Haifa, Israel. Urban Climate 43. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.uclim.2022.101146     |     pdf

  8. Zohar, M. (2022) A land without (a) people? The GIScience approach to estimating the mid-19th-century population of Ottoman Palestine. Applied Geography 141. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2022.102672     |     pdf    |     map story

  9. Zohar M. (2021). Geolocating tweets in Israel via spatial inspection of information inferred from tweet meta-fields. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2021.102593     |    pdf

  10. Zohar, M., Ben-Bassat, Y. (2021). Analyzing Ottoman routes in Greater Syria using historical GIS: the 1849 Saida map. Transactions in GIS. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/tgis.12788     |    pdf

  11. Zohar, M., Shimshoni, I. (2021). GIScience integrated with computer vision for the examination of old engravings and drawings. International Journal of Geographical Information Science. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13658816.2021.1874957    |     pdf    |     dataset     |     video abstract     |     source code

  12. Zohar, M. (2020). Advancing the historical geography of late Ottoman and British Mandate Palestine using GIScience: A review. Transactions in GIS.‏ DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/tgis.12667     |     pdf

  13. Zohar, M. (2020). Temporal and spatial patterns of seismic activity associated with the Dead Sea Transform (DST) during the past 3000 yr. Seismological Research Letters. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1785/0220190124     |    pdf    |     dataset     |     podcast

  14. Zohar, M., Erickson-Gini, T. (2020). The ‘Incense Road’ from Petra to Gaza: an analysis using GIS and Cost functions. International Journal of Geographical Information Science. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13658816.2019.1669795     pdf   |     virtual map

  15. Selzer, A., Zohar, M. (2019). “The ruins in the chemistry building are revised”. The Hebrew university competes with the damages of the earthquake of July 1927, Cathedra, 171, 75-96 (in Hebrew)     pdf

  16. Zohar, M. (2019) Follow the road: Historical GIS for evaluating the development of routes in the Negev region during the 20th century. Journal of Cartography and Geographic Information Sciences, 46:6, 532-546 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/15230406.2019.1577176     |     pdf   |     dataset

  17. Zohar, M. (2017) A newly discovered historical earthquake or merely a chronological mistake? Report of Mary Eliza Rogers from October 10th, 1856. Journal of Seismology, 21(5), 1285-1290. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10950-017-9686-9     |     pdf

  18. Zohar, M., Salamon, A., & Rubin, R. (2017) Spatial and temporal patterns of earthquake damage in Israel and its close surroundings, Tectonophysics, 696–697, 1–13. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2016.12.015     |     pdf

  19. Zohar, M. (2017) A city hit by an earthquake: An HGIS approach to reconstructing the damage in Tiberias (Israel) in 1837, International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 31(1) 81-99. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13658816.2016.1188933     |     pdf    |     dataset     |     virtual map

  20. Kidron, G., Zohar, M. (2015) Factors controlling the formation of coppice dunes (Nebkhas) in the Negev Desert, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 41(7), 918-927. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.3875     |     pdf

  21. Zohar, M., Salamon, A, & Rubin, R. (2016) Reappraised list of historical earthquakes in Israel and its close surroundings, Journal of Seismology, 20(3), 971-985. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10950-016-9575-7     |     pdf    |     dataset

  22. Hsi-Hsien, W., Shohet, M. I., Skibniewski, M. J., Shapira, S., Levy, R., Levi, T., Salamon, A., & Zohar, M. (2015). Assessment of casualty and economic losses from earthquakes using semi-empirical model. Procedia Engineering, 123, 599-605. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.proeng.2015.10.113     |     pdf

  23. Zohar, M., Rubin, R., & Salamon, A. (2015). Why is the minaret so short? Evidence on earthquake damage in Mt. Zion. Palestine Exploration Quarterly, 147(3), 230-246. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1179/1743130114Y.0000000016     |     pdf

  24. Kidron, G., & Zohar, M. (2014). Wind speed determines the transitions from biocrust-stabilized to active dunes, Aeolian Research, 15, 261-267. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aeolia.2014.04.006     |     pdf

  25. Zohar, M., Rubin, R., & Salamon, A. (2014). Earthquake damage and repair: New evidence from Jerusalem on the 1927 Jericho Earthquake. Seismological Research Letters, 85 (4), 912-922. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1785/0220140009     pdf     |     dataset

  26. Kidron, G., Zohar, M., & Starinsky, A. (2014). Spatial distribution of dust deposition within a small drainage basin: Implications for loess deposits in the Negev Desert. Sedimentology, 61 (7), 1908-1922. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/sed.12121     |     pdf

  27. Zohar, M., & Marco, S. (2012). Re-estimating the epicenter of the 1927 Jericho earthquake using spatial distribution of intensity data. Journal of Applied Geophysics, 82, 19-29. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jappgeo.2012.03.004     |     pdf

  28. Kidron, G., & Zohar, M. (2010). Spatial evaporation patterns within a small drainage basin in the Negev Desert. Journal of Hydrology, 380 (3-4), 376-385. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2009.11.012     |     pdf