OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of International Journal of Thermal Sciences is 46. 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 2021-03-01 to 2025-03-01.)

Article	Citations
The effects of input power and ambient temperature on the thermal performance of conical pin fin heat sink in natural convection	215
Numerical study on the condensation characteristics of various refrigerants outside a horizontal plain tube at low temperatures	106
An adaptive indoor temperature control approach simultaneously improving thermal comfort and task performance	93
Experimental investigation of heat transfer and pressure drop of fin and tube heat exchanger under dry and wet conditions	91
Laboratory experiment of fire spread between two informal settlement dwellings	89
Why and which opacifier for perlite based vacuum insulation panels (VIPs) in the average temperature range of 10–70 °C	88
Conjugate heat transfer investigation of impingement cooling for ribbed internal passage of a turbine vane	82
Effect of groove depth on hydrothermal characteristics of the rectangular microchannel heat sink	81
An electron–phonon Monte Carlo study on thermal transport in GaN	78
Comprehensive analysis of the performance of the coaxial heat exchanger with turbulators	76
Effect of geometrical and operational parameters on paraffin's melting performance in helical coiled latent heat storage for solar application: A numerical study	71
Numerical study on heat dissipation of double layer enhanced liquid cooling plate for lithium battery module	70
Study on the temperature field and infrared characteristics of unsaturated soils with shallow buried objects at different depths	68
Numerical analysis of thermal mechanism in downward flame spread over inverted surfaces of discrete inclined solid fuels	68
Development and digital twin of an experimental opto-electrothermal bench in the perspective of thin films thermal characterization	66
Enable thermal insulation improvement of Al2O3 aerogels doped with graded oriented extinction phase-change fiber at large temperature differences	65
Numerical modeling on mechanical smoke extraction efficiency of multiple lateral smoke extraction vents system in an immersed tunnel	64
The photothermal coupling of TiN@Au core-shell nanorods applied to near-infrared photothermal therapy	63
Dual solutions and linear temporal stability analysis of mixed convection flow of non-Newtonian special third grade fluid with thermal radiation	63
Numerical investigation of conjugate heat transfer to a turbulent dual offset jet	61
Simulation of lithium-ion battery thermal runaway considering active material volume fraction effect	60
Oscillatory natural convection in a square enclosure containing a PCM suspension	60
Dual grid level set method based direct numerical simulations of nucleate boiling with oscillating base plate	60
Theoretical evaluation on the thermal response of coal during the conventional crossing-point temperature measurement	59
Acceleration analysis and unsteady mathematical prediction of flame spread over thermal insulation layer in u-shaped building façade fires	59

ZrC–Au core-shell nanoparticles for efficient solar photothermal conversion	59
An optimizing study of silicon-based microchannels for enhanced thermal transfer	58
Effect of degradation of the thermal barrier coating on the cooling performance of vane in gas turbine	56
Theoretical and experimental investigation on the thermal penetration depth in the surrounding rock of a deeply buried high-temperature tunnel	55
Real-time reconstruction of thermal boundary condition of porous media via temperature sequence	54
Influence of metal foam thickness on the conduction and convective heat transfer for a flat plate with metal foam impinged by a rectangular slot jet	54
Novel knitted fabric structures for shielding against electromagnetic and thermal radiation from laptops and mobile phones	54
Investigation of mixing and heat transfer characteristics of long-hole SK direct contact heat exchanger	54
Performance evaluation of coaxial borehole heat exchangers considering ground non-uniformity based on analytical solutions	53
New developments and explicit results for the thermal constriction resistance of a circular contact under mixed axisymmetric boundary conditions	53
Computational characterisation of the heat flow meter method applied to moist bio-based insulating building materials	52
Multiscale topology optimization of cellular structures with high thermal conductivity and large convective surface area	52
Editorial Board	50
Condensation heat transfer and pressure drop of R1234yf/HFC mixtures inside small diameter channels	50
Experimental study on serpentine minichannel heat sink: Effect of rib existence and distance	50
Viscoplastic model-based analysis of in-service oscillation temperature and thermal stress in a rotating component	50
Experimental thermal study of solar salt and subcritical pressure water in a shell and tube heat exchanger	49
Influence of spacing of a delta-winglet vortex generator pair on the flow behavior and heat transfer at the internal tip of gas turbine blades	48
Heat transfer and flow structure of a hot annular impinging jet	46
Virus spreading and heat spreading	46
Effect of heaters’ clearance on mixed convection cooling performance in a dicretely heated horizontal duct	46