OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Science and Technology for the Built Environment is 3. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Evaluation of infection risk for SARS-CoV-2 transmission on university campuses	48
Relating air quality and other factors to comfort and health related symptoms reported by passengers and crew on commercial transport aircraft (ASHRAE RP-1262)	27
Numerical investigation of a displacer-type pulse tube refrigerator with work recovery	23
Validity of questionnaire survey in evaluating residence’s characteristics and dampness in contemporary human dwellings in Tianjin, China	19
Heat stress mitigation in urban streets having hot humid climatic conditions: Strategies and performance results from a real scale retrofitting project	18
Numerical and experimental investigation of liquid blowing agent and pentane blowing agent effects on the insulation of a household refrigerator	17
Variable refrigerant flow heat pump model with estimated parameters and emulated controller based on manufacturer data	15
Hybrid ANN approach for prediction of lubricant retention in compressor suction lines based on analytical model and parametric study	15
Impact of thermal zone modeling on a small office building with all-electric HVAC systems in hot-humid and cold-humid climates	13
Measuring moisture content in building insulation materials by a hot film	12
Using adaptive strategies of natural ventilation with tolerances applied to the upper limit to improve social dwellings’ thermal comfort in current and future scenarios	12
Modeling of transient conduction in building envelope assemblies: A review	12
Comparisons of load-based and AHRI 210/240 testing and rating for residential heat pumps	12
Examination and optimization of classroom indoor environments in China’s hot summer and cold winter regions	11
Assessment of the impact of interior insulation on exterior walls in three Swedish buildings – based on validated models	10
Transport properties of real moist air, dry air, steam, and water	10
A cosine-based correlation information entropy approach for building automatic fault detection baseline construction	10
Historical trends in climatic design conditions based on observations and atmospheric reanalysis	9
Evaluation of nonlinear control performance of air handling units under variable operation conditions using root distribution approach	9
Model prediction of the purification time when PM _2.5 is removed unevenly by an air purifier	9
Driving rain tightness and defects of prefabricated concrete sandwich walls with joints, windows and balconies	9
Passive survivability under extreme heat events: The case of AlDarb Al Ahmar, Cairo	8
Experimental and numerical analysis on the influence of glazed balconies on energy consumption and indoor environment of communist-era flats in Romania	8
Editorial	8
A feature importance ranking based fault diagnosis method for variable-speed screw chiller	8

Modification of the commercial polyester filter media support with electrospun polyethylene terephthalate fibers and its application for air purification	8
Field tests to examine energy saving effects of occupants’ thermostatic radiator valves (TRVs) regulating behavior in district heating systems	7
Indoor environmental conditions in vernacular dwellings in Alentejo, Portugal	7
Airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in indoor environments: A comprehensive review	7
Ventilation increase using radiative cooling and phase change material at no additional energy cost in high ambient temperature countries	7
A review of the structure and application of active chilled beams (ACBs) for central air conditioning systems	7
Optimizing single-stage double-effect LiBr-H ₂ O absorption chiller in micro-trigeneration system using an atom search optimization algorithm	7
Diverse occupancy simulation and presence sensing viability for residential thermal energy regulation: Review and false positive modeling initial findings	7
On-policy learning-based deep reinforcement learning assessment for building control efficiency and stability	6
User-friendly fault detection method for building chilled water flowmeters: Field data validation	6
Energy recovery ventilators to combat indoor airborne disease transmission: A sustainable approach	6
What we talk about when we talk about EEMs: using text mining and topic modeling to understand building energy efficiency measures (1836-RP)	6
Evaluation of data imputation approaches for multi-stream building systems data ¹	6
The autonomous robotic environmental sensor (ARES)	6
Data analysis and interpretable machine learning for HVAC predictive control: A case-study based implementation	6
Role of receiver on the performance of a transcritical CO ₂ based air-conditioning unit with single-stage and two-stage expansion	6
Design, fabrication and computational simulation of a bio-kinetic façade inspired by the mechanism of the Lupinus Succulentus plant for daylight and energy efficiency	6
Large-scale energy cost optimization and performance analysis for dedicated outdoor air system: simulation results from ASHRAE RP-1865	6
Deployment of real-time building automation system-integrated inverse-model-based fault detection and diagnostics algorithms	6
Energy efficiency package for rooftop unit replacement: laboratory testing and validation of energy savings	5
Open building operating system: a grid-responsive semantics-driven control platform for buildings	5
Fast simulation of dynamic heat transfer through building envelopes via parareal algorithms	5
Effects of window opening on the bedroom environment and resulting sleep quality	5
Numerical study on condensation heat transfer of R1234ze(E)/R152a in a horizontal smooth tube	5
Heat recovery in ventilation systems in different climates: energy and economic comparison in old and new schools in COVID-19 pandemic conditions	5
The design strategy and testing of an efficient floor anti-freezing ventilation system in a large cold store	5
Multi-objective optimization design of energy efficiency for office building window systems based on indoor thermal comfort	5
Heat sink temperature modeling for reservoir source heat pumps with experimental validation	5
Environmental and energy performance assessment of hybrid ground source heat pump coupled with TABS emission system in the EU non-residential building typologies	5
Airflow and contaminant transport in innovative personalized ventilation systems for aircraft cabins: A numerical study	5
Fault detection and diagnosis for the screw chillers using multi-region XGBoost model	5
An effective and efficient approach for smoke control in underground parking garages	5
Feedforward decoupling control of indoor temperature and humidity using a single direct expansion air conditioning unit	5
Dr. Cheng-Xian (Charlie) Lin 1965–2022	4
Analysis of demisting strategies for electric vehicles	4
Energy-saving method and performance analysis of chiller plants group control based on Kernel Ridge Regression and Genetic Algorithm	4
Calibrated dynamic zonal model DOMA ⁺ using the SCE-UA method – application to atrium temperature distribution prediction	4
Development of metric models to predict annoyance due to tonal office noise	4
Automated and comprehensive day-type grouping in building energy baseline models with a series of statistical inferences	4
Data-driven model-based flow measurement uncertainty quantification for building central cooling systems using a probabilistic approach	4
Thermodynamic analysis and experimental investigation of the heat pump photovoltaic/thermal integrated system	4
Evaluation analysis of prediction methods for pressure drop of refrigerant-lubricant two-phase flow in compressor suction lines	4
Performance comparison of a mobile air conditioning system using an orifice tube as an expansion device for R1234yf and R134a	4
Improving the predictive capability of building simulations using uncertainty quantification	4
Performance analysis of desiccant cooling system using polyacrylic acid sodium salt desiccant wheel	4
In-situ empirical validation of common indoor climate parameters in an inhabited multizone dwelling	4
A novel stochastic model for hourly electricity load profile analysis of rural districts in Fujian, China	4
The influence of range hood exhaust orientation on capture efficiency	4
A new analytical method for modeling network hydraulics in district systems with bidirectional mass and energy flows	4
Evaluating test method of air cleaning devices for ozone removal (ASHRAE RP-1579)	4

Spatio-temporal electrical grid emission factors effects on calculated GHG emissions of buildings in mixed-grid environments	3
Carbon emissions of electric-resistance water heaters, gas-fired boilers, and heat pumps for multi-unit residential buildings under real-world hot-water demands	3
Accelerating Reinforcement Learning controller training for building energy management: A hybrid co-simulation approach	3
Predictive control strategies for optimizing temperature stability in instantaneous hot water systems	3
Simulation and performance assessment of a heat pump coupled to a sub-slab thermal storage system	3
Perceptions of thermal conditions in contemporary high-rise apartment buildings under different temperature control strategies	3
Experimental and numerical analysis of a novel air-to-air heat recovery unit based on flat micro-heat pipe array technology for a laboratory animal house	3
Sensitivity analysis of sensor placement in energy-efficient, grid-interactive ready small office buildings with dynamic shading and lighting control	3
Research on the effect of the refrigerant charge in a variable capacity heat pump	3
Building simulation 2019: 16 ^th IBPSA international conference and exhibition	3
ASHRAE URP-1883: Development and Analysis of the ASHRAE Global Occupant Behavior Database	3
Limitations of machine learning for building energy prediction: ASHRAE Great Energy Predictor III Kaggle competition error analysis	3
Indoor air quality and energy-saving potential improvement of a range-hood-integrated air cleaner	3
Determination of defrost efficiency and energy efficiency index value using different defrost methods and refrigerants: An experimental study	3
Bridging the gap between theory and adoption: A critical review of socio-technical and human-computer interaction studies of fault detection and diagnosis in commercial buildings	3
Long-term savings persistence from existing building commissioning and retrofits	3
Experimental study on a cross-flow energy recovered indirect evaporative cooling (ERIEC)-assisted liquid desiccant dehumidifier (LDD) with improved spraying nozzle and surface wetness	3
Cooling load comparison of rooms conditioned with radiant cooling panels and all-air HVAC systems (ASHRAE RP 1729)	3
Toward a standardized framework for thermal resilience modelling and its practical application to futureproofing	3
Measuring the effective thermal resistance of ventilated air-spaces behind common wall assemblies: Theoretical uncertainty analysis and recommendations for the hot box method modifications (ASHRAE 175	3
Occupancy schedule development and its effect on OpenStudio prototype college building model	3
Quantifying the tradeoff between energy consumption and the risk of airborne disease transmission for building HVAC systems	3
Study of flow and heat transfer characteristics around a flat plate located between two symmetrical cylinders	3
Ground-source heat pump systems – 2022 IGSHPA conference	3
Impact of measured data frequency on commercial building energy model calibration for retrofit analysis	3
Exploitation of dynamic simulation to investigate the effectiveness of the Smart Readiness Indicator: application to the Energy Center building of Turin	3
Impact of soil model complexity on the long-term thermal performance prediction of a new shallow bore ground heat exchanger	3
VOCs concentrations and emission rates in hospital environment and the impact of sampling locations	3
On the use of drones for vision-based digitalization, diagnostics and energy efficiency assessment of buildings	3
A numerical and experimental study of hydronic heating for road deicing and its energy flexibility	3