2026 Benjamin F. Hobbs: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	77	467	402	222	188	341	18953
Engineering and Technology	76	717	678	247	224	353	18942

Research.com Recognitions

2010 - Fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
2008 - IEEE Fellow For integration of economic and environmental concerns into power systems design and operation

Overview

Benjamin F. Hobbs is affiliated with Johns Hopkins University in the United States. Their scholarly work is primarily situated within the field of Engineering, with a focus on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment.

Their research topics include:

Electric Power System Optimization
Smart Grid Energy Management
Integrated Energy Systems Optimization
Energy Load and Power Forecasting
Power System Reliability and Maintenance
Water resources management and optimization
Urban Heat Island Mitigation

Benjamin F. Hobbs has contributed to multiple recent publications, including:

Energy storage solutions to decarbonize electricity through enhanced capacity expansion modelling, 2023, Nature Energy
Crediting Variable Renewable Energy and Energy Storage in Capacity Markets: Effects of Unit Commitment and Storage Operation, 2021, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems
Supporting cost-effective watershed management strategies for Chesapeake Bay using a modeling and optimization framework, 2021, Environmental Modelling & Software
Research to develop the next generation of electric power capacity expansion tools: What would address the needs of planners?, 2020, International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems
Reserve and energy scarcity pricing in United States power markets: A comparative review of principles and practices, 2023, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

Frequent co-authors of Benjamin F. Hobbs include:

Qingyu Xu
Mahdi Mehrtash
Rui Shi
Evangelia Spyrou
Yijiao Wang

Their publications have appeared repeatedly in several venues such as:

SSRN Electronic Journal
Environmental Science & Technology
IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications
IEEE Transactions on Energy Markets Policy and Regulation
arXiv (Cornell University)

Benjamin F. Hobbs has received professional recognitions including:

Fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), awarded in 2010
IEEE Fellow, awarded in 2008, for work on the integration of economic and environmental concerns into power systems design and operation

Best Publications

Strategic gaming analysis for electric power systems: an MPEC approach

B.F. Hobbs;C.B. Metzler;J.-S. Pang

1083
Citations
Complementarity Modeling in Energy Markets

Steven A. Gabriel;Antonio J. Conejo;J. David Fuller;Benjamin F. Hobbs

1041
Citations
Oligopolistic competition in power networks: a conjectured supply function approach

C.J. Day;B.F. Hobbs;Jong-Shi Pang

671
Citations
Efficient Market-Clearing Prices in Markets with Nonconvexities

Richard P. O'Neill;Paul M. Sotkiewicz;Benjamin F. Hobbs;Michael H. Rothkopf

504
Citations
Energy decisions and the environment : a guide to the use of multicriteria methods

B. F. Hobbs;Peter Meier

487
Citations
Optimization methods for electric utility resource planning

Benjamin F. Hobbs

459
Citations
The Next Generation of Electric Power Unit Commitment Models

Benjamin F. Hobbs

377
Citations
Review of Ground‐Water Quality Monitoring Network Design

Hugo A. Loaiciga;Randall J. Charbeneau;Lorne G. Everett;Graham E. Fogg

319
Citations
Optimal Generation Mix With Short-Term Demand Response and Wind Penetration

C. De Jonghe;B. F. Hobbs;R. Belmans

311
Citations
Network-constrained Cournot models of liberalized electricity markets: the devil is in the details

Karsten Neuhoff;Julian Barquin;Maroeska G. Boots;Andreas Ehrenmann

299
Citations
Nash-Cournot Equilibria in Power Markets on a Linearized DC Network with Arbitrage: Formulations and Properties

Carolyn Metzler;Benjamin F. Hobbs;Jong-Shi Pang

290
Citations
Analysis of the value for unit commitment of improved load forecasts

B.F. Hobbs;S. Jitprapaikulsarn;S. Konda;V. Chankong

283
Citations
A COMPARISON OF WEIGHTING METHODS IN POWER PLANT SITING

Benjamin F. Hobbs

276
Citations
Nash-Cournot Equilibria in Electric Power Markets with Piecewise Linear Demand Functions and Joint Constraints

Benjamin F. Hobbs;J. S. Pang

255
Citations
FUZZY COGNITIVE MAPPING AS A TOOL TO DEFINE MANAGEMENT OBJECTIVES FOR COMPLEX ECOSYSTEMS

Benjamin F. Hobbs;Stuart A. Ludsin;Roger L. Knight;Phil A. Ryan

238
Citations
Building public confidence in energy planning : a multimethod MCDM approach to demand-side planning at BC gas

Benjamin F Hobbs;Graham Tf Horn

238
Citations
The economics of planning electricity transmission to accommodate renewables: Using two-stage optimisation to evaluate flexibility and the cost of disregarding uncertainty

Adriaan Hendrik van der Weijde;Benjamin F. Hobbs

222
Citations
Trading in the Downstream European Gas Market: A Successive Oligopoly Approach

Maroeska G. Boots;Fieke A.M. Rijkers;Benjamin F. Hobbs

218
Citations
Does choice of multicriteria method matter? An experiment in water resources planning

Benjamin F. Hobbs;Vira Chankong;Wael Hamadeh;Eugene Z. Stakhiv

216
Citations
Understanding how market power can arise in network competition: a game theoretic approach

Carolyn A. Berry;Benjamin F. Hobbs;William A. Meroney;Richard P. O'Neill

212
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Antonio J. Conejo The Ohio State University

Jong-Shi Pang University of Southern California

Frank A. Wolak Stanford University

Janusz Bialek Imperial College London

Michael H. Rothkopf Pennsylvania State University

Ronnie Belmans KU Leuven

Peter Richard Wilcock Utah State University

James Bushnell University of California, Davis

James D. McCalley Iowa State University

Michelle L. Bell Yale University

External Links

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