Adam B. Birchfield

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
57 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Adam B. Birchfield is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Control and Systems Engineering and Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality. According to data from OpenAlex, Adam B. Birchfield has authored 57 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 13 papers in Control and Systems Engineering and 7 papers in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality. Recurrent topics in Adam B. Birchfield's work include Optimal Power Flow Distribution (21 papers), Power System Optimization and Stability (19 papers) and Power Systems and Technologies (8 papers). Adam B. Birchfield is often cited by papers focused on Optimal Power Flow Distribution (21 papers), Power System Optimization and Stability (19 papers) and Power Systems and Technologies (8 papers). Adam B. Birchfield collaborates with scholars based in United States, Spain and Mexico. Adam B. Birchfield's co-authors include Thomas J. Overbye, Ti Xu, Komal S. Shetye, Kathleen M. Gegner, Farnaz Safdarian, Katherine Davis, Zhifang Wang, James D. Weber, Anna Scaglione and Mir Hadi Athari and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications and Energies.

In The Last Decade

Adam B. Birchfield

46 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Grid Structural Characteristics as Validation Criteria for Synthetic Networks

2016 491 citations Adam B. Birchfield, Ti Xu et al. IEEE Transactions on Power Systems profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Adam B. Birchfield United States	15	918	404	186	126	116	57	1.3k
Ti Xu United States	14	1.1k 1.2×	492 1.2×	186 1.0×	142 1.1×	106 0.9×	27	1.4k
Komal S. Shetye United States	15	836 0.9×	402 1.0×	142 0.8×	128 1.0×	93 0.8×	55	1.3k
Kathleen M. Gegner United States	5	555 0.6×	241 0.6×	122 0.7×	76 0.6×	79 0.7×	5	749
Jinfu Chen China	20	941 1.0×	392 1.0×	221 1.2×	260 2.1×	114 1.0×	73	1.4k
Eduardo Cotilla‐Sanchez United States	18	1.0k 1.1×	725 1.8×	361 1.9×	121 1.0×	334 2.9×	71	1.6k
Ruisheng Diao United States	20	1.2k 1.4×	765 1.9×	202 1.1×	141 1.1×	50 0.4×	79	1.4k
Yousu Chen United States	16	836 0.9×	479 1.2×	282 1.5×	119 0.9×	149 1.3×	94	1.2k
Dmitry Kosterev United States	23	2.2k 2.4×	1.4k 3.4×	348 1.9×	156 1.2×	117 1.0×	60	2.4k
Navin Bhatt United States	19	1.3k 1.4×	909 2.3×	226 1.2×	88 0.7×	30 0.3×	41	1.4k
Rajesh Kavasseri United States	26	2.3k 2.5×	1.3k 3.1×	147 0.8×	512 4.1×	166 1.4×	83	2.9k

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Chester, Mikhail, Ahmed Mustafà, Nathan G. Johnson, et al.. (2025). Cascading Failure Propagation and Perfect Storms in Interdependent Infrastructures. 3(1). 3 indexed citations

Birchfield, Adam B., et al.. (2025). A 31–300 Hz Frequency Variator Inverter Using Space Vector Pulse Width Modulation Implemented in an 8-Bit Microcontroller. Processes. 13(6). 1912–1912.

Birchfield, Adam B., et al.. (2025). Large-Scale Transmission Expansion Planning with Network Synthesis Methods for Renewable-Heavy Synthetic Grids. Energies. 18(14). 3844–3844.

Mateo, Carlos, Tarek Elgindy, Adam B. Birchfield, et al.. (2024). Building and validating a Large-Scale combined transmission & distribution synthetic electricity system of Texas. International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems. 159. 110037–110037. 2 indexed citations

Birchfield, Adam B., et al.. (2024). Structural characterisation for the synthesis of large‐scale combined electric–gas networks. IET Energy Systems Integration. 6(S1). 816–827.

Dehghanian, Pooria, et al.. (2023). An Integrated Assessment of a G3 GMD Event on Large-Scale Power Grids: From Magnetometer Data to Geomagnetically Induced Current Analysis. IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications. 60(1). 1634–1644. 1 indexed citations

Birchfield, Adam B., et al.. (2023). Techniques for Creating Synthetic Combined Electric and Natural Gas Transmission Grids. IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications. 1–10. 1 indexed citations

Birchfield, Adam B.. (2022). Graph decomposition for constructing blackstart restoration strategies in benchmark cases. Electric Power Systems Research. 212. 108402–108402. 4 indexed citations

Birchfield, Adam B., et al.. (2022). Application and Parameter Sensitivities of a State-Space Cold Load Pickup Model for a Synthetic Restoration Test Case. 1–6. 1 indexed citations

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Birchfield, Adam B., Thomas J. Overbye, Tomás Gómez San Román, et al.. (2020). Building Highly Detailed Synthetic Electric Grid Data Sets for Combined Transmission and Distribution Systems. IEEE Open Access Journal of Power and Energy. 7. 478–488. 42 indexed citations

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Birchfield, Adam B. & Thomas J. Overbye. (2020). Mosaic Packing to Visualize Large-Scale Electric Grid Data. IEEE Open Access Journal of Power and Energy. 7. 212–221. 4 indexed citations

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Zhang, Yiqiu, Komal S. Shetye, Adam B. Birchfield, & Thomas J. Overbye. (2019). Grid Impact Evaluation of Localized Geomagnetic Field Enhancements Using Sensitivity Analysis. 1–6. 1 indexed citations

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Xu, Ti, Adam B. Birchfield, & Thomas J. Overbye. (2018). Modeling, Tuning, and Validating System Dynamics in Synthetic Electric Grids. IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. 33(6). 6501–6509. 75 indexed citations

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Shetye, Komal S., et al.. (2018). Using Detailed Ground Modeling to Evaluate Electric Grid Impacts of Late-Time High-Altitude Electromagnetic Pulses (E3 HEMP). IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. 34(2). 1549–1557. 15 indexed citations

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Xu, Ti, et al.. (2018). Load modeling in synthetic electric grids. 1–6. 28 indexed citations

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Birchfield, Adam B., Ti Xu, & Thomas J. Overbye. (2018). Power Flow Convergence and Reactive Power Planning in the Creation of Large Synthetic Grids. IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. 33(6). 6667–6674. 79 indexed citations

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Birchfield, Adam B., Thomas J. Overbye, & Katherine Davis. (2018). Educational Applications of Large Synthetic Power Grids. IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. 34(1). 765–772. 26 indexed citations

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Birchfield, Adam B. & Thomas J. Overbye. (2018). Techniques for Drawing Geographic One-Line Diagrams: Substation Spacing and Line Routing. IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. 33(6). 7269–7276. 18 indexed citations

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Gannon, J. L., Adam B. Birchfield, Komal S. Shetye, & Thomas J. Overbye. (2017). A Comparison of Peak Electric Fields and GICs in the Pacific Northwest Using 1‐D and 3‐D Conductivity. Space Weather. 15(11). 1535–1547. 24 indexed citations

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Birchfield, Adam B., Mir Hadi Athari, Ti Xu, et al.. (2017). A Metric-Based Validation Process to Assess the Realism of Synthetic Power Grids. Energies. 10(8). 1233–1233. 52 indexed citations

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