Standout Papers

Cooling the cities – A review of reflective and green... 2001 2026 2009 2017 1.3k
  1. Cooling the cities – A review of reflective and green roof mitigation technologies to fight heat island and improve comfort in urban environments (2012)
    M. Santamouris Solar Energy
  2. Using advanced cool materials in the urban built environment to mitigate heat islands and improve thermal comfort conditions (2011)
    M. Santamouris, Afroditi Synnefa et al. Solar Energy
  3. On the impact of urban heat island and global warming on the power demand and electricity consumption of buildings—A review (2014)
    M. Santamouris, Constantinos Cartalis et al. Energy and Buildings
  4. On the impact of urban climate on the energy consumption of buildings (2001)
    M. Santamouris, N. Papanikolaou et al. Solar Energy
  5. Using cool pavements as a mitigation strategy to fight urban heat island—A review of the actual developments (2013)
    M. Santamouris Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
  6. 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 (2019)
    M. Santamouris Energy and Buildings
  7. Analysis of the green roof thermal properties and investigation of its energy performance (2001)
    Katerina Papakonstantinou, M. Santamouris et al. Energy and Buildings
  8. On the energy impact of urban heat island and global warming on buildings (2014)
    M. Santamouris Energy and Buildings
  9. Analyzing the heat island magnitude and characteristics in one hundred Asian and Australian cities and regions (2015)
    M. Santamouris The Science of The Total Environment
  10. LOCAL CLIMATE CHANGE AND URBAN HEAT ISLAND MITIGATION TECHNIQUES – THE STATE OF THE ART (2015)
    Hashem Akbari, Constantinos Cartalis et al. Journal of Civil Engineering and Management
  11. Towards Sustainable and Climate-Resilient Cities: Mitigating Urban Heat Islands Through Green Infrastructure (2025)
    Pınar Mert Cuce, Erdem Cüce et al. Sustainability

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Works of M. Santamouris being referenced

Optimization of random silica-polymethylpentene (TPX) radiative coolers towards substantial cooling capacity
2021
A surface heat island study of Athens using high-resolution satellite imagery and measurements of the optical and thermal properties of commonly used building and paving materials
2009
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M. Santamouris 17834 21032 8888 489 30.7k
Qingyan Chen 7672 11311 3949 371 19.1k
Hashem Akbari 5929 9561 4528 149 12.5k
Stefano Schiavon 5761 4609 2172 173 18.7k
Bert Blocken 7052 17965 2129 322 21.8k
Richard de Dear 13940 10810 4748 216 18.2k
David J. Sailor 3898 7136 3630 128 10.0k
Fariborz Haghighat 6215 4512 2356 373 19.0k
Umberto Berardi 6205 4186 1489 268 12.4k
Tianzhen Hong 11889 5447 794 259 15.0k
Michael Davies 3034 2715 3064 482 14.3k

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