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Energy and Buildings
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Energy and Buildings

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Engineering and Technology 26 365 986 70

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 834
Documents by Best Scientists*: 1528
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 22
SCIMAGO H-index: 246
SCIMAGO SJR: 1.631
Impact Factor: 7.1

Overview

Top Research Topics at Energy and Buildings?

The concepts of Energy consumption, Efficient energy use, Thermal, Simulation and Thermal comfort are tackled in Energy and Buildings. The research on Energy consumption featured in the journal combines topics in other fields like Energy (signal processing), Consumption (economics), Environmental economics, HVAC and Architectural engineering. The in-depth study on Consumption (economics) also explores topics in the intersecting field of Electricity.

It explores the study of HVAC to improve our understanding of the broader topic of Air conditioning. The journal explores topics in Efficient energy use which can be helpful for research in disciplines like Energy conservation and Civil engineering. The research on Thermal tackled can also make contributions to studies in the areas of Mechanical engineering, Structural engineering, Composite material and Heat transfer.

Most of the works presented in it deals with Simulation but it intersects with the subject of Automotive engineering. Discussions in it are anchored in the subject of Thermal comfort and the similar topic of Ventilation (architecture). The work on Mechanics tackled in it brings together disciplines like Airflow and Thermodynamics.

  • Energy consumption (16.86%)
  • Efficient energy use (13.76%)
  • Thermal (13.10%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • A review on buildings energy consumption information (3901 citations)
  • EnergyPlus: creating a new-generation building energy simulation program (1476 citations)
  • ADAPTIVE THERMAL COMFORT AND SUSTAINABLE THERMAL STANDARDS FOR BUILDINGS (1159 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Energy and Buildings:

The most cited publications facilitate discussions on Energy consumption, Simulation, Efficient energy use, Meteorology and Architectural engineering. The journal publications explore topics in Energy consumption which can be helpful for research in disciplines like Energy (signal processing), Consumption (economics), Environmental economics, HVAC and Civil engineering. The journal publications explore issues in Simulation which can be linked to other research areas like Automotive engineering, Building energy simulation and Reliability engineering.

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

  • Composite material
  • Statistics
  • Artificial intelligence

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The main research concerns discussed in Energy and Buildings are Thermal comfort, Sick building syndrome, Work performance, Demography and Female students. While work presented in the journal provided substantial information on Thermal comfort, it also covered topics in Natural ventilation, Econometrics, Parameterized complexity, Retrofitting and Simulation modeling.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • An integrated energy simulation and life cycle assessment to measure the operational and embodied energy of a Mediterranean net zero energy building (0 citations)
  • Effect of human thermal plume and ventilation interaction on bacteria-carrying particles diffusion in operating room microenvironment (0 citations)
  • Thermal comfort prediction of the existing housing stock in southern Spain through calibrated and validated parameterized simulation models (0 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

The top authors publishing in Energy and Buildings (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Jeong Tai Kim (48 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Luisa F. Cabeza (46 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • M. Santamouris (45 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Qingyan Chen (43 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Shiming Deng (39 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Energy and Buildings (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Tsinghua University (236 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (216 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Hong Kong Polytechnic University (194 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Tianjin University (166 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of California, Berkeley (151 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 4 less than at the previous edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2022 edition, 0.00% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 20.00% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 0.00% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 40.00% of all publications and 40.00% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

  • Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
  • Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
  • Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
  • Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
  • Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

Top Publications

  • Recent progress on urban overheating and heat island research. integrated assessment of the energy, environmental, vulnerability and health impact synergies with the global climate change

    M. Santamouris

    (2020)
    799 Citations
  • Assessment of the renewable energy generation towards net-zero energy buildings: A review

    Unknown

    (2021)
    546 Citations
  • Design, characteristic and application of phase change materials for sustainable and energy efficient buildings: A review

    Unknown

    (2022)
    508 Citations
  • A review of the-state-of-the-art in data-driven approaches for building energy prediction

    Ying Sun;Fariborz Haghighat;Benjamin C.M. Fung

    (2020)
    453 Citations
  • Fault detection and diagnosis of large-scale HVAC systems in buildings using data-driven methods: A comprehensive review

    Maryam Sadat Mirnaghi;Fariborz Haghighat

    (2020)
    361 Citations
  • State-of-the-art on research and applications of machine learning in the building life cycle

    Tianzhen Hong;Zhe Wang;Xuan Luo;Wanni Zhang

    (2020)
    322 Citations
  • Study on deep reinforcement learning techniques for building energy consumption forecasting

    Tao Liu;Zehan Tan;Chengliang Xu;Huanxin Chen

    (2020)
    267 Citations
  • The use of artificial intelligence (AI) methods in the prediction of thermal comfort in buildings: energy implications of AI-based thermal comfort controls

    Jack Ngarambe;Geun Young Yun;Mat Santamouris;Mat Santamouris

    (2020)
    188 Citations
  • Application of Phase Change Material in Improving Trombe Wall Efficiency: An up-to-date and Comprehensive Overview

    Unknown

    (2021)
    182 Citations
  • A review of adaptive thermal comfort research since 1998

    R. de Dear;J. Xiong;J. Kim;B. Cao

    (2020)
    173 Citations

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