OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Building and Environment is 64. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Probable airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in a poorly ventilated restaurant	350
Short-range airborne route dominates exposure of respiratory infection during close contact	257
State of the art review on model predictive control (MPC) in Heating Ventilation and Air-conditioning (HVAC) field	150
Review and comparison of HVAC operation guidelines in different countries during the COVID-19 pandemic	138
Ten questions concerning occupant health in buildings during normal operations and extreme events including the COVID-19 pandemic	137
Introducing IEA EBC annex 79: Key challenges and opportunities in the field of occupant-centric building design and operation	131
Review of multi‐domain approaches to indoor environmental perception and behaviour	131
Modeling occupant behavior in buildings	126
The impact of a view from a window on thermal comfort, emotion, and cognitive performance	122
Heat mitigation benefits of urban green and blue infrastructures: A systematic review of modeling techniques, validation and scenario simulation in ENVI-met V4	115
Ventilation and air cleaning to limit aerosol particle concentrations in a gym during the COVID-19 pandemic	113
Ten questions concerning well-being in the built environment	112
A systematic review of occupant behavior in building energy policy	109
Occupancy-based HVAC control systems in buildings: A state-of-the-art review	102
Mitigating intensity of urban heat island by better understanding on urban morphology and anthropogenic heat dispersion	100
Sustainable material choice for construction projects: A Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment framework based on BIM and Fuzzy-AHP	99
Effect of thermal comfort on occupant productivity in office buildings: Response surface analysis	98
CNN-LSTM architecture for predictive indoor temperature modeling	98
Air purifiers: A supplementary measure to remove airborne SARS-CoV-2	97
Ten questions concerning age-friendly cities and communities and the built environment	90
The cooling efficiency of variable greenery coverage ratios in different urban densities: A study in a subtropical climate	89
Green finance gap in green buildings: A scoping review and future research needs	88
Contribution of urban functional zones to the spatial distribution of urban thermal environment	87
Deep learning to replace, improve, or aid CFD analysis in built environment applications: A review	86
Learning-based CO2 concentration prediction: Application to indoor air quality control using demand-controlled ventilation	84

Plug-Mate: An IoT-based occupancy-driven plug load management system in smart buildings	83
Impacts of green roofs on water, temperature, and air quality: A bibliometric review	82
Implementing Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment during design stages in Building Information Modelling: From systematic literature review to a methodological approach	82
Life cycle assessment in the building design process – A systematic literature review	80
The dust diffusion modeling and determination of optimal airflow rate for removing the dust generated during mine tunneling	79
A review of select human-building interfaces and their relationship to human behavior, energy use and occupant comfort	79
The effects of 2D and 3D building morphology on urban environments: A multi-scale analysis in the Beijing metropolitan region	79
Study on an adaptive thermal comfort model with K-nearest-neighbors (KNN) algorithm	78
How indoor environmental quality affects occupants’ cognitive functions: A systematic review	78
Review of visualising LCA results in the design process of buildings	78
A systematic approach to estimating the effectiveness of multi-scale IAQ strategies for reducing the risk of airborne infection of SARS-CoV-2	78
What drives our behaviors in buildings? A review on occupant interactions with building systems from the lens of behavioral theories	77
Modelling the relationship between Building Information Modelling (BIM) implementation barriers, usage and awareness on building project lifecycle	77
Measurement, modeling, and optimization of sound absorption performance of Kenaf fibers for building applications	76
The effectiveness of cool and green roofs in mitigating urban heat island and improving human thermal comfort	75
The effect of occupant distribution on energy consumption and COVID-19 infection in buildings: A case study of university building	75
Indoor soundscape assessment: A principal components model of acoustic perception in residential buildings	74
Assessing the impacts of vegetation cover loss on surface temperature, urban heat island and carbon emission in Penang city, Malaysia	74
Effect of tree cover and tree species on microclimate and pedestrian comfort in a residential district in Iran	74
Ventilation procedures to minimize the airborne transmission of viruses in classrooms	74
COVID-19: Reduction of airborne transmission needs paradigm shift in ventilation	73
Numerical Study of Three Ventilation Strategies in a prefabricated COVID-19 inpatient ward	73
Multi-objective optimization of passive energy efficiency measures for net-zero energy building in Morocco	72
A systematic review of personal thermal comfort models	72
Insufficient ventilation led to a probable long-range airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2 on two buses	71
Evolutionary game theory analysis for understanding the decision-making mechanisms of governments and developers on green building incentives	71
Energy efficiency and carbon emission in high-rise buildings: A review (2005-2020)	70
Heritage values of ancient vernacular residences in traditional villages in Western Hunan, China: Spatial patterns and influencing factors	70
A comprehensive review of approaches to building occupancy detection	69
The influencing factors of China's green building development: An analysis using RBF-WINGS method	69
Multi-objective optimization for energy consumption, daylighting and thermal comfort performance of rural tourism buildings in north China	69
Data collection methods for studying pedestrian behaviour: A systematic review	68
Performance assessment of low-cost environmental monitors and single sensors under variable indoor air quality and thermal conditions	67
Investigation of indoor environment quality and factors affecting human comfort: A critical review	67
Embodied energy and carbon emissions of building materials in China	66
A comprehensive review on the spray cooling system employed to improve the summer thermal environment: Application efficiency, impact factors, and performance improvement	65
Sugarcane bagasse waste fibers as novel thermal insulation and sound-absorbing materials for application in sustainable buildings	65
Performance analysis of portable HEPA filters and temporary plastic anterooms on the spread of surrogate coronavirus	65
Chiller fault detection and diagnosis with anomaly detective generative adversarial network	64
Evolution and performance analysis of adaptive thermal comfort models – A comprehensive literature review	64
Indoor Air Quality associations with sick building syndrome: An application of decision tree technology	64
Validation of dynamic hygrothermal simulation models for historical buildings: State of the art, research challenges and recommendations	64
Modelling uncertainty in the relative risk of exposure to the SARS-CoV-2 virus by airborne aerosol transmission in well mixed indoor air	64