B. Urquhart

1.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
11 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

B. Urquhart is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. According to data from OpenAlex, B. Urquhart has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 7 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 3 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Recurrent topics in B. Urquhart's work include Solar Radiation and Photovoltaics (11 papers), Photovoltaic System Optimization Techniques (7 papers) and Impact of Light on Environment and Health (3 papers). B. Urquhart is often cited by papers focused on Solar Radiation and Photovoltaics (11 papers), Photovoltaic System Optimization Techniques (7 papers) and Impact of Light on Environment and Health (3 papers). B. Urquhart collaborates with scholars based in United States. B. Urquhart's co-authors include Jan Kleissl, Chi‐Wai Chow, Matthew Lave, Anthony Dominguez, B. Washom, Janet E. Shields, M. S. Ghonima, Ben Kurtz, Carlos F.M. Coimbra and Yinghao Chu and has published in prestigious journals such as Solar Energy, Progress in Photovoltaics Research and Applications and Atmospheric measurement techniques.

In The Last Decade

B. Urquhart

11 papers receiving 1.0k 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.

  1. Intra-hour forecasting with a total sky imager at the UC San Diego solar energy testbed
    2011 446 citations Chi‐Wai Chow, B. Urquhart et al. Solar Energy profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
B. Urquhart United States 10 994 683 393 180 127 11 1.1k
Ricardo Marquez United States 8 803 0.8× 584 0.9× 376 1.0× 97 0.5× 76 0.6× 13 929
Janet E. Shields United States 6 526 0.5× 310 0.5× 151 0.4× 186 1.0× 83 0.7× 17 651
Bijan Nouri Germany 16 577 0.6× 435 0.6× 86 0.2× 135 0.8× 104 0.8× 55 704
Anthony Dominguez United States 4 448 0.5× 332 0.5× 155 0.4× 126 0.7× 56 0.4× 6 697
M. S. Ghonima United States 8 359 0.4× 234 0.3× 160 0.4× 143 0.8× 60 0.5× 9 526
Ben Kurtz United States 11 423 0.4× 294 0.4× 158 0.4× 102 0.6× 48 0.4× 15 517
Christoph Prahl Germany 16 459 0.5× 489 0.7× 134 0.3× 71 0.4× 87 0.7× 39 672
Annette Hammer Germany 13 828 0.8× 565 0.8× 255 0.6× 284 1.6× 21 0.2× 25 999
Karl Hemker United States 10 814 0.8× 547 0.8× 383 1.0× 187 1.0× 23 0.2× 11 984
Sergey Kivalov United States 12 650 0.7× 467 0.7× 285 0.7× 123 0.7× 19 0.1× 27 776

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Fields of papers citing papers by B. Urquhart

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of B. Urquhart

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of B. Urquhart. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of B. Urquhart 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 B. Urquhart. B. Urquhart is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

11 of 11 papers shown
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Urquhart, B., et al.. (2019). Cloud base height estimates from sky imagery and a network of pyranometers. Solar Energy. 184. 594–609. 13 indexed citations
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Urquhart, B., Ben Kurtz, & Jan Kleissl. (2016). Sky camera geometric calibration using solar observations. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 9(9). 4279–4294. 14 indexed citations
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Urquhart, B., et al.. (2015). Development of a sky imaging system for short-term solar power forecasting. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 8(2). 875–890. 70 indexed citations
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Urquhart, B., Ben Kurtz, Dung Nguyen, et al.. (2014). Comparison of Solar Power Output Forecasting Performance of the Total Sky Imager and the University of California, San Diego Sky Imager. Energy Procedia. 49. 2340–2350. 24 indexed citations
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Urquhart, B.. (2014). Development of a short-term solar power forecasting capability using ground-based visible wavelength imagery. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 1 indexed citations
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Kurtz, Ben, Dung Nguyen, B. Urquhart, et al.. (2014). Solar irradiance forecasting using a ground-based sky imager developed at UC San Diego. Solar Energy. 103. 502–524. 170 indexed citations
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Chu, Yinghao, et al.. (2014). Short-term reforecasting of power output from a 48 MWe solar PV plant. Solar Energy. 112. 68–77. 204 indexed citations
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Urquhart, B., et al.. (2013). Optimizing geographic allotment of photovoltaic capacity in a distributed generation setting. Progress in Photovoltaics Research and Applications. 21(6). 1276–1285. 10 indexed citations
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Ghonima, M. S., B. Urquhart, Chi‐Wai Chow, et al.. (2012). A method for cloud detection and opacity classification based on ground based sky imagery. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 5(11). 2881–2892. 127 indexed citations
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Urquhart, B., et al.. (2012). Towards Intra-Hour Solar Forecasting using Two Sky Imagers at a Large Solar Power Plant. 13 indexed citations
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Chow, Chi‐Wai, B. Urquhart, Matthew Lave, et al.. (2011). Intra-hour forecasting with a total sky imager at the UC San Diego solar energy testbed. Solar Energy. 85(11). 2881–2893. 446 indexed citations breakdown →

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