Binyu Lei

500 total citations · 1 hit paper
13 papers, 260 citations indexed

About

Binyu Lei is a scholar working on Building and Construction, Global and Planetary Change and Speech and Hearing. According to data from OpenAlex, Binyu Lei has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 260 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Building and Construction, 4 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 3 papers in Speech and Hearing. Recurrent topics in Binyu Lei's work include Noise Effects and Management (3 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (3 papers) and Building Energy and Comfort Optimization (2 papers). Binyu Lei is often cited by papers focused on Noise Effects and Management (3 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (3 papers) and Building Energy and Comfort Optimization (2 papers). Binyu Lei collaborates with scholars based in Singapore, United Kingdom and Japan. Binyu Lei's co-authors include Filip Biljecki, Patrick Janssen, Jantien Stoter, Pengyuan Liu, Rudi Stouffs, Clayton Miller, Tianhong Zhao, Mario Frei, Nikola Milojevic-Dupont and Xiucheng Liang and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Building and Environment and Automation in Construction.

In The Last Decade

Binyu Lei

11 papers receiving 246 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.

Challenges of urban digital twins: A systematic review and a Delphi expert survey

2023 103 citations Binyu Lei, Patrick Janssen et al. Automation in Construction profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Binyu Lei Singapore	6	125	60	55	48	39	13	260
Dessislava Petrova‐Antonova Bulgaria	9	78 0.6×	30 0.5×	97 1.8×	57 1.2×	27 0.7×	80	344
Pirouz Nourian Netherlands	11	143 1.1×	43 0.7×	21 0.4×	8 0.2×	36 0.9×	50	292
Zhixing Li China	11	198 1.6×	8 0.1×	126 2.3×	24 0.5×	33 0.8×	24	335
Laura Blaso Italy	9	222 1.8×	13 0.2×	56 1.0×	12 0.3×	93 2.4×	28	312
Hwan-Yong Kim South Korea	9	110 0.9×	16 0.3×	105 1.9×	4 0.1×	59 1.5×	39	278
Francesca Pagliaro Italy	11	151 1.2×	5 0.1×	69 1.3×	40 0.8×	84 2.2×	17	338
Gürşans Güven Türkiye	9	245 2.0×	49 0.8×	71 1.3×	24 0.5×	5 0.1×	21	353
Kavisha Kumar Netherlands	12	380 3.0×	11 0.2×	129 2.3×	16 0.3×	32 0.8×	20	467
Kanishk Chaturvedi Germany	10	244 2.0×	10 0.2×	78 1.4×	50 1.0×	13 0.3×	13	347
Zhongming Shi Switzerland	9	205 1.6×	11 0.2×	159 2.9×	10 0.2×	73 1.9×	18	303

Countries citing papers authored by Binyu Lei

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Fields of papers citing papers by Binyu Lei

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Binyu Lei

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

All Works

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13 of 13 papers shown

Abdelrahman, Mahmoud, et al.. (2025). What is a Digital Twin anyway? Deriving the definition for the built environment from over 15,000 scientific publications. Building and Environment. 274. 112748–112748. 13 indexed citations

Miller, Clayton, et al.. (2025). Make yourself comfortable: Nudging urban heat and noise mitigation with smartwatch-based Just-in-time Adaptive Interventions (JITAI). Building and Environment. 284. 113388–113388. 1 indexed citations

Liu, Pengyuan, Stefano De Sabbata, Binyu Lei, et al.. (2025). Living upon networks: A heterogeneous graph neural embedding integrating waterway and street systems for urban form understanding. Environment and Planning B Urban Analytics and City Science. 53(2). 453–469.

Fujiwara, Kunihiko, Xiucheng Liang, Binyu Lei, et al.. (2025). VoxCity: A seamless framework for open geospatial data integration, grid-based semantic 3D city model generation, and urban environment simulation. Computers Environment and Urban Systems. 123. 102366–102366.

Lei, Binyu, Pengyuan Liu, Kunihiko Fujiwara, et al.. (2025). Multidimensional analysis of human outdoor comfort: Integrating just-in-time adaptive interventions (JITAIs) in urban digital twins. Cities. 168. 106443–106443. 1 indexed citations

Lei, Binyu, Pengyuan Liu, Xiucheng Liang, Yingwei Yan, & Filip Biljecki. (2025). Developing the urban comfort index: Advancing liveability analytics with a multidimensional approach and explainable artificial intelligence. Sustainable Cities and Society. 120. 106121–106121. 2 indexed citations

Lei, Binyu, Pengyuan Liu, Nikola Milojevic-Dupont, & Filip Biljecki. (2024). Predicting building characteristics at urban scale using graph neural networks and street-level context. Computers Environment and Urban Systems. 111. 102129–102129. 27 indexed citations

Liu, Pengyuan, et al.. (2024). Sensing climate justice: A multi-hyper graph approach for classifying urban heat and flood vulnerability through street view imagery. Sustainable Cities and Society. 118. 106016–106016. 3 indexed citations

Lei, Binyu, Xiucheng Liang, & Filip Biljecki. (2024). Integrating human perception in 3D city models and urban digital twins. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. X-4/W5-2024. 211–218. 7 indexed citations

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Liu, Pengyuan, Tianhong Zhao, Binyu Lei, et al.. (2023). Towards Human-centric Digital Twins: Leveraging Computer Vision and Graph Models to Predict Outdoor Comfort. Sustainable Cities and Society. 93. 104480–104480. 63 indexed citations

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Lei, Binyu, Patrick Janssen, Jantien Stoter, & Filip Biljecki. (2023). Challenges of urban digital twins: A systematic review and a Delphi expert survey. Automation in Construction. 147. 104716–104716. 103 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lei, Binyu, Rudi Stouffs, & Filip Biljecki. (2022). Assessing and benchmarking 3D city models. International Journal of Geographical Information Systems. 37(4). 788–809. 39 indexed citations

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Lei, Binyu, et al.. (2021). Strategies for Activating Historic District: Micro-reform Implement in Qiulin District, Harbin. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 237. 4003–4003. 1 indexed citations

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