OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Energy and Buildings is 70. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Individual differences in acceptance of direct load control	269
Editorial Board	268
Editorial Board	209
Editorial Board	181
Boundary conditions for non-residential buildings from the user’s perspective: Literature review	173
Advancing industrial building energy measurement and verification (M&V) with deep learning: Evaluating data size and feature selection impact	162
The impact of corporate environmental responsibility on green technology innovation: An empirical analysis of listed companies in China's construction industry	151
Improving indoor air quality and cooling efficiency: Indirect dew-point evaporative cooling in South China summers	144
Corrigendum to “ALDI++: Automatic and parameter-less discord and outlier detection for building energy load profiles” [Energy Build. 265 (2022) 112096]	143
Corrigendum to “Structure optimization of radiant cooling panel: A literature review and assessment” [Energy Build. 310 (2024) 114097]	138
Thermal transfer and temperature reductions from shading systems on opaque facades: Quantifying the impacts of influential factors	132
Life cycle assessment of campuses: A systematic review	129
Transfer learning with unsupervised domain adaptation for personal thermal comfort prediction	128
Dynamic modelling and control strategy of a temperature-driven metal hydride cooling system for buildings	127
A baseline model combining physics and data-driven approach for operation evaluation of district heating substation	127
Representative cycle for heat pump energy flexibility evaluations – A comparative simulation study of existing day selection procedures to a new consecutive day procedure	127
Numerical study on the forced convection enhancement of flat-roof integrated photovoltaic by passive components	124
Analysis of photovoltaic self-consumption as a function of the demand profile in detached houses	122
Dual-layer optimization design method for collaborative benefits of renewable energy systems in building clusters: Case study of campus buildings	111
Intelligent data systems for building energy workflow: Data pipelines, LSTM efficiency prediction and more	109
An experimental investigation on the effect of use of nanofluids in radiant floor heating systems	108
Transfer of building retrofitting evaluations for data-scarce conditions: An empirical study for Sweden to China	105
Agent-based modeling framework for predicting regional electricity consumption considering occupant behavior shift and exogenous policy impact	105
Experimental investigation on improving defrosting performance of air source heat pump through vapor injection	105
Designers’ expectations of buildings physics performances related to green timber buildings	104

Sensor impact evaluation in commercial buildings: The case of occupancy-centric controls	100
Smart switchable glazing systems in Saudi Arabia: A review	100
Analytical study on daylight harvesting potential for manufacturing facilities: Techno-economic-environmental perspective	100
Useful daylight illuminance for ornamental plants in buildings – The method to design the green interior	98
Access to affordable and clean domestic heating: A critical review on rural clean heating transformation in China’s Jing-Jin-Ji and its surrounding areas	96
Gift giving results in energy-poverty suffering: A new explanation of the nonincome poor traps in hidden energy poverty in China	96
A comparative life cycle assessment between green walls and green facades in the Mediterranean continental climate	93
Exploring flexibility in building energy systems: Agent-based quantification and electricity tariff impacts	92
Comparative analysis of the performance and energy consumption of air-conditioning systems in a plant factory during a cooling season	92
Non-destructive evaluation of thermal conductivity of wood and insulation materials using permittivity measurements with ground penetrating radar	92
Impacts of barometric pressure on metabolic rate: A plateau experimental study	91
Commercial building indoor environmental quality models: A critical review	91
Practical deployment of reinforcement learning for building controls using an imitation learning approach	91
An environment-adaptive wall: concept, implementation and effects on the energy performance of a residential building	91
Seasonal adaptation of VRF HVAC model calibration process to a mediterranean climate	90
Air-stable low-emissive AlN-Ag based coatings for energy-efficient retrofitting of existing windows	89
A convolutional neural network to control sound level for air conditioning units in four different classroom conditions	88
A review of thermal comfort of 4- to 14-year-old children via field experiments: Experimental designs and methods	88
Research on systematic analysis and optimization method for ice storage cooling system based on model predictive control: A case study	88
Ground characterization of building energy models	88
Bayesian uncertainty analysis of inversion models applied to the inference of thermal properties of walls	87
A systems dynamics approach to the bottom-up simulation of residential appliance load	87
Investigating the impact of borehole field data’s input parameters on the forecasting accuracy of multivariate hybrid deep learning models for heating and cooling	87
Improving lighting energy efficiency through user response	83
Optimizing energy flexibility through electricity price-responsiveness and thermal load management in buildings with convective and radiant heating systems	82
Building performance optimization through sensitivity Analysis, and economic insights using AI	81
A benchmarking analysis of sunlight and daylight availability in a highly dense urban area in southern China	80
An empirical comparison of a calibrated white-box versus multiple LSTM black-box building energy models	80
Impact of occupancy patterns on energy performance of kindergarten buildings–A case study of Serbia	78
Modeling for vehicle cabin temperature prediction based on graph spatial-temporal neural network in air conditioning system	78
Energetical effect of electrochromic glazing on the double-skin façade of the building in different climates	78
A comparative study on borehole heat exchanger size for direct ground coupled cooling systems using active chilled beams and TABS	77
Building energy model calibration using a surrogate neural network	77
Correlating long-term performance and aging behaviour of building integrated PV modules	77
Forecasting building occupancy: A temporal-sequential analysis and machine learning integrated approach	76
Green energy and rooftop innovation: Unlocking the carbon reduction potential of photovoltaic-green roofs	75
Energy consumption prediction of industrial HVAC systems using Bayesian Networks	74
Developing a comprehensive method for integrating the thermal, optical and electrical properties of a complex fenestration system into building simulation software for building performance characteris	74
A numerical analysis of occupancy profile databases impact on dynamic energy simulation of buildings	73
Proposal and experimental study on a CO2-based multi-mode integrated HVAC system	73
A novel dual-wheel air-conditioning system operating strategy in different seasons	72
A study on the factors simultaneously affecting visual comfort in classrooms: A structural equation modeling approach	71
Assessing heat transfer characteristics of building envelope deployed BIPV and resultant building energy consumption in a tropical climate	71
Applying an Extended Model of Theory of Planned Behaviour to Predict Intent to Perform an Energy Efficiency Renovation in Flanders	70
Research on the evaluation of the renovation effect of existing energy-inefficient residential buildings in a severe cold region of China	70
Optimal load scheduling strategy for isolated building-integrated DC microgrid using binary PSO to maximize user comfort and minimize peak-to-average ratio	70
Challenges to energy retrofitting of existing office buildings in high-rise high-density cities: The case of Hong Kong	70