Journal Paper

1. "Evaluating the efficiency of vitamin B12 biofortification on performance of thyme (Thymus vulgaris L.) exposed to freezing stress"
   Leila Tabrizi Raeini, Masoud Hashemi, Michelle DaCosta, Mahdi Khansefid, Zohreh Zohreh Emami Bistgani
   FUNCTIONAL PLANT BIOLOGY, Vol. 52, No 11, 2025
2. "Growth and Nutritional Enhancement of Lisianthus (Eustoma grandiflorum (Raf.) Shinn.) via Dual AMF Inoculation Under Phosphorus Regimes"
   Morteza Sheikh-Assadi, Mohammad Reza Taheri, Azizollah Khandan Mirkohi, Mesbah Babalar, Mahdi Khansefid, Mohammad Omidi, Dionisios Gasparatos
   Agronomy-Basel, Vol. 15, No 11, 2025
3. "Advancing Zero-Carbon Cities through Urban Green Infrastructure in Karaj, Iran"
   Mahsa Salimi, Mohsen Kafi, Mahdi Khansefid
   Journal of Contemporary Urban Affairs, Vol. 9, No 2, 2025
4. "Salutogenic Parks: Health Promoting Green Infrastructure in Urban Environments"
   Mehrdad Shahi, Mahdi Khansefid, Behrooz Janipour
   Journal of Salutogenic Architecture, Vol. Vol. 4 No. 1 (2025), 2025
5. "Salutogenic Parks Health Promoting Green Infrastructure in Urban Environments"
   Mehrdad Shahi, Mahdi Khansefid, Behrooz Janipour
   Journal of Salutogenic Architecture, Vol. 4, No 1, 2025
6. "Criteria for Designing Urban Parks in a Pandemic of Infectious Diseases: A survey based on experts' opinions"
   Davood Vafadari Komarolya, Mohsen Kafi, Mahdi Khansefid, Jessica Diehl
   International Journal of Architectural Engineering & Urban Planning, Vol. 34, No 1, 2024
7. "Beyond Green : A Comprehensive Approach to Urban green space Quality and tastes of users in Tehran"
   Farzaneh Azadi, Kianoush Suzanchi, Mahdi Mahdi Haghighatbin, Mahdi Khansefid
   Space Ontology International Journal-Architecture, Urban Design and Planning, Vol. 13, No 1, 2024
8. "Analysis of users’ psychological and mental perception of soundscape quality at Mehrabad International Airport with emphasis on the role of green spaces"
   پدرام براری, Mahdi Khansefid, Parviz Fatehi, Mohsen Kafi
   Journal of Natural Environment (Iranian Journal of Natural Resources), Vol. 78, No 4, 2025
9. "Physico-Chemical Response and Seedling Growth of Three Aromatic Plants, Tanacetum parthenium, Achillea millefolium, and Zygophyllum eurypterum to Salinity Stress"
   Maryam Ayaseh, Mohsen Kafi, Mahdi Khansefid, Majid Shokrpour, Rohangiz Naderi
   Journal of horticulture science, Vol. 39, No 2, pp.283-297, 2025
10. "Review of Skills in University Education with Analyzing Global Skill Competitions. A Case Study: Landscaping"
    نفیسه سادات قریشی, Mohsen Kafi, Mahdi Khansefid
    Journal of Strategic Researches in Agriculture and Natural Resources Sciences, Vol. 10, No 1, pp.1-14, 2025
11. "Assessing the Willingness of Citizens to Participate in Green Spaces Through Surveys of Visitors to Urban Parks (Case Study: Gol-e Narges Park, Karaj)"
    Zeinab Ansari jaberi, Mahdi Khansefid, Mohsen Kafi
    Society, Culture & Media, Vol. 13, No 53, 2025
12. "Investigating the Preventive Factors of People in the Society from Attending Urban Parks during the COVID-19 Pandemic"
    Davood Vafadari Komarolya, Mohsen Kafi, Mahdi Khansefid
    Journal of horticulture science, Vol. 37, No 1, 2023
13. "The international educational definitions and standards of landscape architecture as a profession-based academic discipline"
    Mahdi Khansefid
    Journal of Urban-Landscape Research,, Vol. 1, No 1, 2023

Conference Paper

1. "Urban Green Infrastructure Development with Zero-Carbon City Approach A Case Study of Karaj District One, Alborz, Iran"
   Mahsa Salimi, Mohsen Kafi, Mahdi Khansefid
   8th International Conference of Contemporary Affairs in Architecture and Urbanism (ICCAUA-2025), 2025
2. "Salutogenic Parks: Health Promoting Green Infrastructure in Urban Environments"
   Mehrdad Shahi, Mahdi Khansefid, Behrooz Janipour
   8th International Conference of Contemporary Affairs in Architecture and Urbanism (ICCAUA-2025) 8-9 May 2025, 2025
3. "Urban Freeway Landscape Design with a Focus on Safety in Habitats Using Environmental Sustainability Principles (Case Study: Karaj–Qazvin Highway)"
   Mahdi Khansefid, Zeinab Ansari jaberi, صبا آراسته
   The second national conference on the future and environmental sustainability, 2025
4. "Nature-Based Solutions for Sustainable Water Resources Management in Industrial Areas of Arid and Semi-Arid Regions of Iran"
   اردلان فاضلی, Amir Houshang Ehsani, Mohsen Kafi, Mahdi Khansefid
   The 3rd National Conference on Environmental Challenges: The role of industry, mining, and society in developing green governance, 2025
5. "Assessment of the Effects of Mineral Dust (Hematite, Magnetite, Goethite) on Vegetation and Sustainable Landscape Solutions in the Sangan Iron Ore Mine, Khaf"
   Parisa Azimi, Mahdi Khansefid
   The 3rd National Conference on Environmental Challenges: The role of industry, mining, and society in developing green governance, 2025
6. "Railways as Industrial Heritage and an Opportunity for Sustainable Revitalization: From Historical Preservation to the Creation of Urban Green Infrastructure"
   آرمین حسن زاده, Zahra Mahdian, Mahdi Khansefid
   The 3rd National Conference on Environmental Challenges: The role of industry, mining, and society in developing green governance, 2025
7. "Active community participation in the optimal redesign of a neighborhood park (case study of Karaj's Gol Narges Park)"
   Zeinab Ansari jaberi, Mahdi Khansefid, Mohsen Kafi, Amir Alambeigi
   The Fourth International Conference on Architecture, Civil Engineering, Urban Development, Environment and Horizons of Islamic Art in the Declaration of the Second Step, 2025
8. "Designing green bridges and wildlife crossings: A solution to reduce the environmental impacts of roads and protected areas in Iran"
   پدرام براری, Mahdi Khansefid
   The Fourth International Conference on Architecture, Civil Engineering, Urban Development, Environment and Horizons of Islamic Art in the Declaration of the Second Step, 2025
9. "Growth Performance of Thyme (Thymus vulgaris L.) under Low Temperature Stress by Vitamin B12 Biofortification"
   Leila Tabrizi Raeini, Masoud Hashemi, Michelle DaCosta, Mahdi Khansefid, سیاوش محمدی
   12 National Congress on medicinal Plants, 2025
10. "Artificial Intelligence Capabilities in Landscape Design Processes"
    Mahdi Khansefid, علی جعفربکلو
    International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Future Civilization, 2025
11. "Explaining the salutogenic approach in planning and designing urban parks to improve the health of citizens"
    Mehrdad Shahi, Mahdi Khansefid, Behrooz Janipour
    First national conference of urban environment, 2024
12. "Compiling functional criteria tree selection in urban landscape planting design with sustainability approach"
    Sardar sardarpour, Mohsen Kafi, Mahdi Khansefid, Azizollah Khandan Mirkohi, Rezvan Babarari
    The 6th national and international congress on flower and ornamental plants, 2024
13. "Investigating the Role of Landscape Planning and Design and Coastal Parks in Urban Development: A Case Study of Geelong City in Australia"
    Mahdi Khansefid
    2nd international Conference on Marine Sciences; Science, Technology and Innovation for Sustainable Sea-besed Economy, 2024
14. "Opportunities, Challenges and Solutions of Coastal-Marine Ecotourism Development in Iran"
    Mahdi Khansefid
    2nd international Conference on Marine Sciences; Science, Technology and Innovation for Sustainable Sea-besed Economy, 2024
15. "Planning Coastal Roads as Tourism Infrastructure: A Case Study of the Great Ocean Road in Australia"
    Mahdi Khansefid
    2nd international Conference on Marine Sciences; Science, Technology and Innovation for Sustainable Sea-besed Economy, 2024
16. "A review of the design criteria of urban parks in pandemic conditions with the approach of desert areas"
    داود وفاداری کمارعلیا, Mohsen Kafi, Mahdi Khansefid, عظیمه رمضانی
    The First National Conference on Strategies for the Development of Green Spaces in Cities on the Edge of the Desert, 2023
17. "Examining the goals, structure, and content of the World Green Space Competitions with an approach to the role of competitions in improving graduates' skills"
    Mahdi Khansefid, Mohsen Kafi, نفیسه سادات قریشی
    The 8th National Congress of New Findings in Agricultural and Natural Resources, Environment and Tourism, 2023
18. "The characteristics of rural tourism using the principles of sustainable landscape design in Zagros mountain villages"
    Behrooz Janipour, Hooshang Mahmoodi, Mahdi Khansefid
    2nd International and 7th National Conference on Sustainable Architecture and City, 2023
19. "Characteristics of Landscape Mountain Regions (Case Study: Mountain Recreation Area Design in Horaman Region)"
    Behrooz Janipour, Hooshang Mahmoodi, Mahdi Khansefid
    2nd International and 7th National Conference on Sustainable Architecture and City, 2023
20. "The importance of tourism infrastructure development in the revitalization of historical urban contexts"
    Behrooz Janipour, Negar Madavi Ashraf, Mahdi Khansefid
    6th International Congress of Developing Agriculture, Natural Resources, Environment and Tourism of Iran, 2023
21. "The influence of the cross on the formation of motifs in Iranian landscape painting in the pre-Islamic era"
    کیمیا مثنوی, Mahmoud Mohammad Hosein Zadeh Golabchi, Mahdi Khansefid
    Sixth International Conference on Civil Engineering, Architecture and Sustainable Green City, 2022
22. "Ecological landscape design of urban river-valleys to promote nature tourism in line with the sustainable development paradigm"
    کیمیا مثنوی, Mahmoud Mohammad Hosein Zadeh Golabchi, Mahdi Khansefid
    Sixth International Conference on Civil Engineering, Architecture and Sustainable Green City, 2022
23. "Explaining the Theoretical Framework of Road Landscape Aesthetics in Arid and Semi-Arid Areas Using Dehydration Adaptation Strategies"
    صدیقه اکبری مطلق, Mahdi Khansefid, Behrooz Janipour
    First National Conference on Adaptation Strategies for Dehydration in Arid and Semi-Arid Areas, 2019
24. "Documentary Review of International Declarations Related to Green University"
    نیلوفر سلکی, Mahdi Khansefid
    5th International Conference on Environmental Engineering and Natural Resources, 2019