Brian Johnson

6.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
114 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Brian Johnson is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Control and Systems Engineering and Computer Networks and Communications. According to data from OpenAlex, Brian Johnson has authored 114 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 91 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 73 papers in Control and Systems Engineering and 16 papers in Computer Networks and Communications. Recurrent topics in Brian Johnson's work include Microgrid Control and Optimization (71 papers), Advanced DC-DC Converters (30 papers) and Islanding Detection in Power Systems (29 papers). Brian Johnson is often cited by papers focused on Microgrid Control and Optimization (71 papers), Advanced DC-DC Converters (30 papers) and Islanding Detection in Power Systems (29 papers). Brian Johnson collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Denmark. Brian Johnson's co-authors include Sairaj V. Dhople, Philip T. Krein, Mohit Sinha, Vahan Gevorgian, Abdullah Hamadeh, Benjamin Kroposki, Yingchen Zhang, Bri‐Mathias Hodge, Florian Dörfler and Paul Denholm and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics and IEEE Transactions on Power Systems.

In The Last Decade

Brian Johnson

107 papers receiving 3.8k 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.

Achieving a 100% Renewable Grid: Operating Electric Power Systems with Extremely High Levels of Variable Renewable Energy

2017 923 citations Brian Johnson et al. profile →
Overcurrent Limiting in Grid-Forming Inverters: A Comprehensive Review and Discussion

2024 59 citations Minghui Lu, Brian Johnson et al. IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Brian Johnson United States	29	3.4k	2.7k	575	525	332	114	4.0k
Ali Mehrizi‐Sani United States	28	5.3k 1.6×	4.8k 1.8×	567 1.0×	154 0.3×	225 0.7×	173	5.8k
Fang Zhuo China	33	3.6k 1.0×	2.7k 1.0×	726 1.3×	507 1.0×	50 0.2×	347	4.0k
Mohd. Hasan Ali United States	35	3.4k 1.0×	2.5k 0.9×	358 0.6×	213 0.4×	100 0.3×	154	3.8k
A. Feliachi United States	29	3.1k 0.9×	2.4k 0.9×	187 0.3×	329 0.6×	102 0.3×	189	3.6k
Yang Han China	26	3.2k 0.9×	2.7k 1.0×	572 1.0×	212 0.4×	144 0.4×	168	3.6k
Gab‐Su Seo United States	25	1.6k 0.5×	810 0.3×	164 0.3×	264 0.5×	72 0.2×	104	1.8k
J. Matas Spain	35	11.2k 3.3×	11.0k 4.1×	1.7k 3.0×	580 1.1×	259 0.8×	117	11.8k
Barry Mather United States	23	2.3k 0.7×	1.4k 0.5×	151 0.3×	277 0.5×	64 0.2×	113	2.6k
Florin Iov Denmark	30	3.3k 1.0×	2.4k 0.9×	486 0.8×	267 0.5×	53 0.2×	160	3.7k
Houshang Karimi Canada	30	3.3k 1.0×	3.2k 1.2×	417 0.7×	126 0.2×	66 0.2×	115	3.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Brian Johnson

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Fields of papers citing papers by Brian Johnson

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Brian Johnson

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Seo, Gab‐Su, et al.. (2025). Large-Signal Stability Analysis of Grid-Forming Inverters With Equivalent-Circuit Models. IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion. 40(3). 2453–2465. 2 indexed citations

Johnson, Brian, et al.. (2025). Is Equal Area Criterion Applicable for Transient Stability Assessment of Grid-Forming Inverters?. 1–5. 1 indexed citations

Seo, Gab‐Su, et al.. (2025). Stability Analysis of Multi-inverter Systems with Heterogeneous Grid-Forming Dynamics. 1–5. 1 indexed citations

Lu, Minghui, et al.. (2024). Overcurrent Limiting in Grid-Forming Inverters: A Comprehensive Review and Discussion. IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics. 39(11). 14493–14517. 59 indexed citations breakdown →

Johnson, Brian, et al.. (2024). High-bandwidth Dynamic Load Emulation of Mechanical Systems using Electric Drives. 6245–6251.

Lu, Minghui, et al.. (2023). Large-Signal Stability of Phase-Balanced Equilibria in Single-Phase Grid-Forming Inverter Systems. IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics. 39(3). 3623–3636. 5 indexed citations

Panigrahi, Bijaya Ketan, et al.. (2023). Large-Signal Stability Analysis of Three-Phase Grid-Following Inverters. IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion. 40(4). 2696–2709. 12 indexed citations

Johnson, Brian, et al.. (2022). A Practical Digital Implementation of Completely Decentralized Ripple Minimization in Parallel-Connected DC–DC Converters. IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics. 37(12). 14422–14433. 19 indexed citations

Lu, Minghui, Sairaj V. Dhople, & Brian Johnson. (2022). Benchmarking Nonlinear Oscillators for Grid-Forming Inverter Control. IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics. 37(9). 10250–10266. 37 indexed citations

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Mukherjee, Satyaki, et al.. (2022). Levelized Cost of Energy-Oriented Modular String Inverter Design Optimization for PV Generation System Using Geometric Programming. IEEE Access. 10. 27561–27578. 8 indexed citations

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Johnson, Brian, et al.. (2022). Model Reduction and Dynamic Aggregation of Grid-Forming Inverter Networks. IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. 38(6). 5475–5490. 12 indexed citations

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Lu, Minghui, et al.. (2022). Spontaneous Phase Balancing in Delta-Connected Single-Phase Droop-Controlled Inverters. IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics. 37(12). 14115–14125. 6 indexed citations

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Seo, Gab‐Su, et al.. (2022). Control Design of Series-Connected PV-Powered Grid-Forming Converters via Singular Perturbation. IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics. 38(4). 4306–4322. 16 indexed citations

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Mukherjee, Satyaki, et al.. (2022). 1 kV, 10-kW SiC-Based Quadruple Active Bridge DCX Stage in a DC to Three-Phase AC Module for Medium-Voltage Grid Integration. IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics. 37(12). 14631–14646. 12 indexed citations

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Lu, Minghui, et al.. (2021). Self-Synchronizing Cascaded Inverters With Virtual Oscillator Control. IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics. 37(6). 6424–6436. 14 indexed citations

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Poon, Jason, Brian Johnson, Sairaj V. Dhople, & Seth R. Sanders. (2020). Minimum Distortion Point Tracking. IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics. 35(10). 11013–11025. 7 indexed citations

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Poon, Jason, Brian Johnson, Sairaj V. Dhople, & Juan Rivas-Davila. (2020). Decentralized Carrier Phase Shifting for Optimal Harmonic Minimization in Asymmetric Parallel-Connected Inverters. IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics. 36(5). 5915–5925. 14 indexed citations

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Seo, Gab‐Su, et al.. (2019). Dispatchable Virtual Oscillator Control for Decentralized Inverter-dominated Power Systems: Analysis and Experiments. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 561–566. 108 indexed citations

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Johnson, Brian, et al.. (2018). Mitigating Communication Delays in Remotely Connected Hardware-in-the-Loop Experiments. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics. 65(12). 9739–9748. 12 indexed citations

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Sinha, Mohit, Jason Poon, Brian Johnson, Miguel Rodríguez, & Sairaj V. Dhople. (2018). Decentralized Interleaving of Parallel-connected Buck Converters. IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics. 34(5). 4993–5006. 48 indexed citations

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