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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Engineering and Technology 59 2280 2176 153 142 153 23299

Iain Staffell publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Iain Staffell between 2008 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Iain Staffell published across 18 years, from 2008 to 2025, averaging 13 papers a year. Output peaked at 28 publications in 2023. 45 of the 234 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15 20 25
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 2008 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 28. Peak 28 publications in 2023. 2008: 2 publications 2009: 4 publications 2010: 5 publications 2011: 3 publications 2012: 11 publications 2013: 4 publications 2014: 8 publications 2015: 11 publications 2016: 19 publications 2017: 21 publications 2018: 12 publications 2019: 11 publications 2020: 17 publications 2021: 11 publications 2022: 22 publications 2023: 28 publications 2024: 28 publications 2025: 17 publications
2008 2025

234 publications in total across all disciplines

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Iain Staffell: publications per year, 2008 to 2025
Year Publications
2008 2
2009 4
2010 5
2011 3
2012 11
2013 4
2014 8
2015 11
2016 19
2017 21
2018 12
2019 11
2020 17
2021 11
2022 22
2023 28
2024 28
2025 17
Total 234
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Iain Staffell publications per year - data summary

  • Iain Staffell, a Engineering and Technology scholar from Imperial College London, has 234 publications recorded across 18 years, from 2008 to 2025.
  • The oldest publication on record dates to 2008 and the most recent to 2025.
  • The most productive years are 2023 and 2024, with 28 publications each.
  • The least productive year with any output is 2008, with 2 publications.
  • The rate of publication averages 13.0 papers per year over the whole span, or 13.0 per year counting only the 18 years with at least one publication.
  • The last 5 years on the chart (2021-2025) hold 106 publications, 45% of the career total.
  • Split into equal eras - 2008-2013: 29 publications (4.8 per year); 2014-2019: 82 publications (13.7 per year); 2020-2025: 123 publications (20.5 per year).
  • Comparing the opening and closing eras, the overall trend of publication is rising.

Iain Staffell publication distribution in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Engineering and Technology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Iain Staffell sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300 400
Bar chart with 78 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 38–47 to 804+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 457. Most scientists, 457, have 148–157 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 804 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 148–157 publications, is where this scientist sits. 38–47 publications: 20 scientists 48–57 publications: 35 scientists 58–67 publications: 96 scientists 68–77 publications: 135 scientists 78–87 publications: 190 scientists 88–97 publications: 259 scientists 98–107 publications: 283 scientists 108–117 publications: 369 scientists 118–127 publications: 341 scientists 128–137 publications: 386 scientists 138–147 publications: 372 scientists 148–157 publications: 457 scientists 158–167 publications: 415 scientists 168–177 publications: 407 scientists 178–187 publications: 421 scientists 188–197 publications: 378 scientists 198–207 publications: 403 scientists 208–217 publications: 317 scientists 218–227 publications: 346 scientists 228–237 publications: 321 scientists 238–247 publications: 260 scientists 248–257 publications: 280 scientists 258–267 publications: 240 scientists 268–277 publications: 214 scientists 278–287 publications: 242 scientists 288–297 publications: 203 scientists 298–307 publications: 166 scientists 308–317 publications: 154 scientists 318–327 publications: 175 scientists 328–337 publications: 159 scientists 338–347 publications: 99 scientists 348–357 publications: 131 scientists 358–367 publications: 106 scientists 368–377 publications: 118 scientists 378–387 publications: 97 scientists 388–397 publications: 108 scientists 398–407 publications: 82 scientists 408–417 publications: 71 scientists 418–427 publications: 64 scientists 428–437 publications: 55 scientists 438–447 publications: 54 scientists 448–457 publications: 60 scientists 458–467 publications: 47 scientists 468–477 publications: 40 scientists 478–487 publications: 30 scientists 488–497 publications: 29 scientists 498–507 publications: 38 scientists 508–517 publications: 40 scientists 518–527 publications: 32 scientists 528–537 publications: 23 scientists 538–547 publications: 28 scientists 548–557 publications: 23 scientists 558–567 publications: 19 scientists 568–577 publications: 16 scientists 578–587 publications: 17 scientists 588–597 publications: 18 scientists 598–607 publications: 22 scientists 608–617 publications: 15 scientists 618–627 publications: 9 scientists 628–637 publications: 11 scientists 638–647 publications: 21 scientists 648–657 publications: 12 scientists 658–667 publications: 9 scientists 668–677 publications: 11 scientists 678–687 publications: 9 scientists 688–697 publications: 6 scientists 698–707 publications: 14 scientists 708–717 publications: 7 scientists 718–727 publications: 8 scientists 728–737 publications: 10 scientists 738–747 publications: 9 scientists 748–757 publications: 5 scientists 758–767 publications: 5 scientists 768–777 publications: 11 scientists 778–787 publications: 7 scientists 788–797 publications: 2 scientists 798–803 publications: 4 scientists 804+ publications: 100 scientists
38–47 publications 804+

This scientist: 153 publications — 28th percentile

28% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 804 publications or more.

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Number of Engineering and Technology scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,796 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
38–47 20
48–57 35
58–67 96
68–77 135
78–87 190
88–97 259
98–107 283
108–117 369
118–127 341
128–137 386
138–147 372
148–157 457 153
158–167 415
168–177 407
178–187 421
188–197 378
198–207 403
208–217 317
218–227 346
228–237 321
238–247 260
248–257 280
258–267 240
268–277 214
278–287 242
288–297 203
298–307 166
308–317 154
318–327 175
328–337 159
338–347 99
348–357 131
358–367 106
368–377 118
378–387 97
388–397 108
398–407 82
408–417 71
418–427 64
428–437 55
438–447 54
448–457 60
458–467 47
468–477 40
478–487 30
488–497 29
498–507 38
508–517 40
518–527 32
528–537 23
538–547 28
548–557 23
558–567 19
568–577 16
578–587 17
588–597 18
598–607 22
608–617 15
618–627 9
628–637 11
638–647 21
648–657 12
658–667 9
668–677 11
678–687 9
688–697 6
698–707 14
708–717 7
718–727 8
728–737 10
738–747 9
748–757 5
758–767 5
768–777 11
778–787 7
788–797 2
798–803 4
804+ 100
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Iain Staffell publication distribution in Engineering and Technology in 2026 - data summary

  • The chart plots the publication count of all 9,796 Engineering and Technology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026, grouped into 78 ranges running from 38–47 to 804+ publications.
  • Iain Staffell, a Engineering and Technology scholar from Imperial College London, records 153 publications - the 28th percentile of the discipline.
  • 28% of ranked Engineering and Technology scientists score the same or lower than Iain Staffell, and about 72% score higher.
  • The median of the discipline falls in the 198–207 publications range, and Iain Staffell ranks below the median.
  • The most crowded range is 148–157 publications, holding 457 scientists (5% of the field).
  • 61% of the field sits in the lowest quarter of the value range (up to 228–237 publications), so the distribution is heavily right-skewed and high scores are rare.
  • The final bar has no upper bound: it groups every scientist with 804 publications or more, 100 scientists in all (1% of the field).

Iain Staffell D-index placement in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Engineering and Technology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Iain Staffell sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300 400
Bar chart with 78 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 107+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 426. Most scientists, 426, have 42 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 107 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 59 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 59 scientists 31 D-Index: 114 scientists 32 D-Index: 129 scientists 33 D-Index: 189 scientists 34 D-Index: 200 scientists 35 D-Index: 262 scientists 36 D-Index: 311 scientists 37 D-Index: 312 scientists 38 D-Index: 350 scientists 39 D-Index: 385 scientists 40 D-Index: 348 scientists 41 D-Index: 362 scientists 42 D-Index: 426 scientists 43 D-Index: 380 scientists 44 D-Index: 310 scientists 45 D-Index: 341 scientists 46 D-Index: 301 scientists 47 D-Index: 306 scientists 48 D-Index: 271 scientists 49 D-Index: 246 scientists 50 D-Index: 210 scientists 51 D-Index: 253 scientists 52 D-Index: 213 scientists 53 D-Index: 221 scientists 54 D-Index: 195 scientists 55 D-Index: 186 scientists 56 D-Index: 170 scientists 57 D-Index: 167 scientists 58 D-Index: 166 scientists 59 D-Index: 144 scientists 60 D-Index: 152 scientists 61 D-Index: 141 scientists 62 D-Index: 138 scientists 63 D-Index: 131 scientists 64 D-Index: 118 scientists 65 D-Index: 114 scientists 66 D-Index: 119 scientists 67 D-Index: 95 scientists 68 D-Index: 87 scientists 69 D-Index: 77 scientists 70 D-Index: 89 scientists 71 D-Index: 69 scientists 72 D-Index: 54 scientists 73 D-Index: 46 scientists 74 D-Index: 55 scientists 75 D-Index: 54 scientists 76 D-Index: 49 scientists 77 D-Index: 53 scientists 78 D-Index: 46 scientists 79 D-Index: 28 scientists 80 D-Index: 39 scientists 81 D-Index: 36 scientists 82 D-Index: 24 scientists 83 D-Index: 26 scientists 84 D-Index: 36 scientists 85 D-Index: 18 scientists 86 D-Index: 25 scientists 87 D-Index: 19 scientists 88 D-Index: 26 scientists 89 D-Index: 27 scientists 90 D-Index: 23 scientists 91 D-Index: 15 scientists 92 D-Index: 12 scientists 93 D-Index: 9 scientists 94 D-Index: 15 scientists 95 D-Index: 10 scientists 96 D-Index: 13 scientists 97 D-Index: 13 scientists 98 D-Index: 9 scientists 99 D-Index: 7 scientists 100 D-Index: 7 scientists 101 D-Index: 8 scientists 102 D-Index: 7 scientists 103 D-Index: 7 scientists 104 D-Index: 9 scientists 105 D-Index: 6 scientists 106 D-Index: 9 scientists 107+ D-Index: 99 scientists
30 D-Index 107+

This scientist: 59 D-Index — 77th percentile

77% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 107 D-Index or more.

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Number of Engineering and Technology scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,796 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 59
31 114
32 129
33 189
34 200
35 262
36 311
37 312
38 350
39 385
40 348
41 362
42 426
43 380
44 310
45 341
46 301
47 306
48 271
49 246
50 210
51 253
52 213
53 221
54 195
55 186
56 170
57 167
58 166
59 144 59
60 152
61 141
62 138
63 131
64 118
65 114
66 119
67 95
68 87
69 77
70 89
71 69
72 54
73 46
74 55
75 54
76 49
77 53
78 46
79 28
80 39
81 36
82 24
83 26
84 36
85 18
86 25
87 19
88 26
89 27
90 23
91 15
92 12
93 9
94 15
95 10
96 13
97 13
98 9
99 7
100 7
101 8
102 7
103 7
104 9
105 6
106 9
107+ 99
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Iain Staffell D-index placement in Engineering and Technology in 2026 - data summary

  • The chart plots the discipline H-index (D-index) of all 9,796 Engineering and Technology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026, grouped into 78 ranges running from 30 to 107+ D-Index.
  • Iain Staffell, a Engineering and Technology scholar from Imperial College London, records 59 D-Index - the 77th percentile of the discipline.
  • 77% of ranked Engineering and Technology scientists score the same or lower than Iain Staffell, and about 23% score higher.
  • The median of the discipline falls in the 47 D-Index range, and Iain Staffell ranks above the median.
  • The most crowded range is 42 D-Index, holding 426 scientists (4% of the field).
  • 57% of the field sits in the lowest quarter of the value range (up to 49 D-Index), so the distribution is heavily right-skewed and high scores are rare.
  • The final bar has no upper bound: it groups every scientist with 107 D-Index or more, 99 scientists in all (1% of the field).

Overview

Iain Staffell is affiliated with Imperial College London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on engineering, with a significant emphasis on electrical and electronic engineering, renewable energy, sustainability, and related social sciences. The scientist's body of work spans over 100 publications, involving multiple interdisciplinary subfields.

The main topics covered in their research include:

  • Integrated Energy Systems Optimization
  • Global Energy and Sustainability Research
  • Energy and Environment Impacts
  • Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems
  • Climate Change Policy and Economics
  • Wind Energy Research and Development
  • Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Malte Jansen (23 coauthored papers)
  • Stefan Pfenninger (15 coauthored papers)
  • Richard Green (13 coauthored papers)
  • Olusola Bamisile (11 coauthored papers)
  • Nathan Johnson (10 coauthored papers)

Publications by this researcher often appear in venues such as:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) - 21 publications
  • SSRN Electronic Journal - 12 publications
  • Energy Research & Social Science - 6 publications
  • Energy Policy - 6 publications
  • Renewable Energy - 5 publications

Examples of recent papers include:

  • "Water electrolysis: from textbook knowledge to the latest scientific strategies and industrial developments" (2022), published in Chemical Society Reviews
  • "Offshore wind competitiveness in mature markets without subsidy" (2020), published in Nature Energy
  • "High-resolution large-scale onshore wind energy assessments: A review of potential definitions, methodologies and future research needs" (2021), published in Renewable Energy
  • "A global model of hourly space heating and cooling demand at multiple spatial scales" (2023), published in Nature Energy
  • "How can LNG-fuelled ships meet decarbonisation targets? An environmental and economic analysis" (2021), published in Energy

Best Publications

  • The role of hydrogen and fuel cells in the global energy system

    Iain Staffell;Daniel Scamman;Anthony Velazquez Abad;Paul Balcombe

  • Future cost and performance of water electrolysis: An expert elicitation study

    O Schmidt;A Gambhir;IL Staffell;A Hawkes

  • Long-term patterns of European PV output using 30 years of validated hourly reanalysis and satellite data

    Stefan Pfenninger;Iain Staffell

  • Using bias-corrected reanalysis to simulate current and future wind power output

    Iain Staffell;Stefan Pfenninger

  • The future cost of electrical energy storage based on experience rates

    O. Schmidt;A. Hawkes;A. Gambhir;I. Staffell

  • Projecting the Future Levelized Cost of Electricity Storage Technologies

    Oliver Schmidt;Sylvain Melchior;Adam Hawkes;Iain Staffell

  • Hydrogen and fuel cell technologies for heating: A review

    Paul E. Dodds;Iain Staffell;Adam D. Hawkes;Francis Li

  • Current status of hybrid, battery and fuel cell electric vehicles: From electrochemistry to market prospects

    Bruno G. Pollet;Iain Staffell;Jin Lei Shang

  • How to decarbonise international shipping: Options for fuels, technologies and policies

    Paul Balcombe;James Brierley;Chester Lewis;Line Skatvedt

  • How does wind farm performance decline with age

    Iain Staffell;Richard Green

  • A review of domestic heat pumps

    Iain Staffell;Dan Brett;Nigel Brandon;Adam Hawkes

  • The importance of open data and software: Is energy research lagging behind?

    Stefan Pfenninger;Joseph DeCarolis;Lion Hirth;Sylvain Quoilin

  • Current status of automotive fuel cells for sustainable transport

    Bruno G. Pollet;Shyam S. Kocha;Iain Staffell

  • Balancing Europe’s wind-power output through spatial deployment informed by weather regimes

    Christian M. Grams;Remo Beerli;Stefan Pfenninger;Iain Staffell

  • The increasing impact of weather on electricity supply and demand

    Iain Staffell;Stefan Pfenninger

  • Current status of fuel cell based combined heat and power systems for residential sector

    Harikishan R. Ellamla;Iain Staffell;Piotr Bujlo;Bruno G. Pollet

  • Short-term integration costs of variable renewable energy: Wind curtailment and balancing in Britain and Germany

    Michael Joos;Iain Staffell

  • The Shape of Future Electricity Demand: Exploring Load Curves in 2050s Germany and Britain

    T. Boßmann;I. Staffell

  • Optimal design and operation of integrated wind-hydrogen-electricity networks for decarbonising the domestic transport sector in Great Britain

    Sheila Samsatli;Iain Staffell;Nouri J. Samsatli

  • The cost of domestic fuel cell micro-CHP systems

    Iain Staffell;Richard Green

Frequent Co-Authors

Adam Hawkes
Adam Hawkes Imperial College London
Nigel P. Brandon
Nigel P. Brandon Imperial College London
Bruno G. Pollet
Bruno G. Pollet Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Dan J. L. Brett
Dan J. L. Brett University College London
Niall Mac Dowell
Niall Mac Dowell Imperial College London
Kevin Kendall
Kevin Kendall Hydrogen United
Paul Ekins
Paul Ekins University College London
David Infield
David Infield University of Strathclyde
Lion Hirth
Lion Hirth Hertie School
Edward S. Rubin
Edward S. Rubin Carnegie Mellon University

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