Alex Summerfield

3.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
42 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Alex Summerfield is a scholar working on Building and Construction, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. According to data from OpenAlex, Alex Summerfield has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Building and Construction, 16 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 13 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. Recurrent topics in Alex Summerfield's work include Building Energy and Comfort Optimization (34 papers), Energy Efficiency and Management (15 papers) and Sustainable Building Design and Assessment (13 papers). Alex Summerfield is often cited by papers focused on Building Energy and Comfort Optimization (34 papers), Energy Efficiency and Management (15 papers) and Sustainable Building Design and Assessment (13 papers). Alex Summerfield collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Serbia and France. Alex Summerfield's co-authors include Dejan Mumovic, Anna Mavrogianni, Žarko Stevanović, Miroslava Kavgic, Robert Lowe, Tadj Oreszczyn, Maja Djurovic-Petrovic, Lia Chatzidiakou, Ian Hamilton and David Shipworth and has published in prestigious journals such as Applied Energy, Energy Policy and Solar Energy.

In The Last Decade

Alex Summerfield

42 papers receiving 2.3k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

A review of bottom-up building stock models for energy consumption in the residential sector

2010 715 citations Miroslava Kavgic, Anna Mavrogianni et al. Building and Environment profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alex Summerfield United Kingdom	26	1.8k	890	639	451	417	42	2.4k
Yoshiyuki Shimoda Japan	29	1.3k 0.7×	724 0.8×	704 1.1×	634 1.4×	184 0.4×	169	2.4k
Robert Lowe United Kingdom	29	1.5k 0.8×	601 0.7×	737 1.2×	395 0.9×	120 0.3×	69	2.3k
Elena G. Dascalaki Greece	30	2.1k 1.2×	922 1.0×	584 0.9×	194 0.4×	241 0.6×	63	2.9k
David Shipworth United Kingdom	24	1.1k 0.6×	436 0.5×	591 0.9×	642 1.4×	152 0.4×	66	2.0k
Sukumar Natarajan United Kingdom	28	1.4k 0.8×	875 1.0×	209 0.3×	241 0.5×	362 0.9×	87	2.0k
Vítor Leal Portugal	27	1.2k 0.7×	767 0.9×	304 0.5×	340 0.8×	129 0.3×	61	2.0k
Deo Prasad Australia	30	1.6k 0.9×	1.7k 1.9×	436 0.7×	216 0.5×	889 2.1×	101	3.1k
Kaiyu Sun United States	27	1.7k 0.9×	872 1.0×	362 0.6×	452 1.0×	178 0.4×	50	2.2k
Laure Itard Netherlands	25	2.3k 1.3×	827 0.9×	734 1.1×	301 0.7×	88 0.2×	71	2.9k
Jared Langevin United States	16	1.3k 0.7×	562 0.6×	313 0.5×	338 0.7×	106 0.3×	27	1.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Alex Summerfield

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alex Summerfield

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alex Summerfield

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Alex Summerfield. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Alex Summerfield based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Alex Summerfield. Alex Summerfield is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Wagner, Andreas, et al.. (2018). Clearing the air on EU guidance projects for school buildings. Building Research & Information. 47(5). 624–634. 6 indexed citations

Raza, Muhammad Qamar, N. Mithulananthan, & Alex Summerfield. (2018). Solar output power forecast using an ensemble framework with neural predictors and Bayesian adaptive combination. Solar Energy. 166. 226–241. 57 indexed citations

Mavrogianni, Anna, et al.. (2017). Monitoring summer indoor overheating in the London housing stock. Energy and Buildings. 141. 361–378. 93 indexed citations

Hamilton, Ian, Aïdan O'Sullivan, Gesche Huebner, et al.. (2017). Old and cold? Findings on the determinants of indoor temperatures in English dwellings during cold conditions. Energy and Buildings. 141. 142–157. 31 indexed citations

Summerfield, Alex, P. Biddulph, Andrew Stone, et al.. (2016). Detailed analysis of data from heat pumps installed via the Renewable Heat Premium Payment Scheme. WestminsterResearch (University of Westminster). 4 indexed citations

Summerfield, Alex, Tadj Oreszczyn, J. Palmer, Ian Hamilton, & Robert Lowe. (2015). Comparison of empirical and modelled energy performance across age-bands of three-bedroom dwellings in the UK. Energy and Buildings. 109. 328–333. 10 indexed citations

Chatzidiakou, Lia, Dejan Mumovic, & Alex Summerfield. (2015). Is CO₂ a good proxy for indoor air quality in classrooms? Part 1: The interrelationships between thermal conditions, CO₂ levels, ventilation rates and selected indoor pollutants. Building Services Engineering Research and Technology. 36(2). 129–161. 82 indexed citations

Huebner, Gesche, et al.. (2014). The shape of warmth: temperature profiles in living rooms. Building Research & Information. 43(2). 185–196. 48 indexed citations

Hamilton, Ian, David Shipworth, Alex Summerfield, et al.. (2014). Uptake of energy efficiency interventions in English dwellings. Building Research & Information. 42(3). 255–275. 43 indexed citations

10.

Steadman, Philip, Ian Hamilton, David Shipworth, et al.. (2014). Uptake of energy efficiency interventions in English houses, 2000 to 2007. 1 indexed citations

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Chatzidiakou, Lia, Dejan Mumovic, Alex Summerfield, & Héctor Altamirano. (2014). Indoor air quality in London schools. Part 1: ‘performance in use’. Intelligent Buildings International. 7(2-3). 101–129. 25 indexed citations

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Hamilton, Ian, Alex Summerfield, Robert Lowe, et al.. (2013). Energy epidemiology: a new approach to end-use energy demand research. Building Research & Information. 41(4). 482–497. 48 indexed citations

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Huebner, Gesche, et al.. (2013). Heating patterns in English homes: Comparing results from a national survey against common model assumptions. Building and Environment. 70. 298–305. 68 indexed citations

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Chatzidiakou, Lia, Dejan Mumovic, & Alex Summerfield. (2012). What do we know about indoor air quality in school classrooms? A critical review of the literature. Intelligent Buildings International. 4(4). 228–259. 120 indexed citations

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Hamilton, Ian, et al.. (2012). Exploratory analysis of the Homes Energy Efficiency Database and Energy Demand. 2 indexed citations

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Mavrogianni, Anna, Fiona Johnson, Marcella Ucci, et al.. (2011). Historic Variations in Winter Indoor Domestic Temperatures and Potential Implications for Body Weight Gain. Indoor and Built Environment. 22(2). 360–375. 49 indexed citations

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Kavgic, Miroslava, et al.. (2011). Characteristics of indoor temperatures over winter for Belgrade urban dwellings: Indications of thermal comfort and space heating energy demand. Energy and Buildings. 47. 506–514. 54 indexed citations

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Hamilton, Ian, et al.. (2010). Exploring energy integration between new and existing developments. Building Research & Information. 38(6). 593–609. 4 indexed citations

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Summerfield, Alex, et al.. (2007). Milton Keynes Energy Park revisited: Changes in internal temperatures and energy usage. Energy and Buildings. 39(7). 783–791. 90 indexed citations

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Lomas, Kevin J., Tadj Oreszczyn, David Shipworth, Andrew Wright, & Alex Summerfield. (2006). Carbon Reduction in Buildings (CaRB) - Understanding the social and technical factors that influence energy use in UK buildings. CentAUR (University of Reading). 10 indexed citations

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