Bryn Pickering

1.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
17 papers, 901 citations indexed

About

Bryn Pickering is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Bryn Pickering has authored 17 papers receiving a total of 901 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 5 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 4 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Bryn Pickering's work include Integrated Energy Systems Optimization (11 papers), Climate Change Policy and Economics (4 papers) and Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems (3 papers). Bryn Pickering is often cited by papers focused on Integrated Energy Systems Optimization (11 papers), Climate Change Policy and Economics (4 papers) and Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems (3 papers). Bryn Pickering collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United Kingdom and Netherlands. Bryn Pickering's co-authors include Stefan Pfenninger, Francesco Lombardi, Poul Alberg Østergaard, Behnam Zakeri, Henrik Lund, Miguel Chang, Ruchi Choudhary, Emanuela Colombo, Jan Wohland and Iain Staffell and has published in prestigious journals such as Applied Energy, Energy and Renewable Energy.

In The Last Decade

Bryn Pickering

17 papers receiving 844 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.

Trends in tools and approaches for modelling the energy transition

2021 243 citations Miguel Chang, Behnam Zakeri et al. Applied Energy profile →
High-resolution large-scale onshore wind energy assessments: A review of potential definitions, methodologies and future research needs

2021 144 citations Russell McKenna, Stefan Pfenninger et al. Renewable Energy profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Bryn Pickering Switzerland	10	654	250	215	127	120	17	901
Jann Michael Weinand Germany	20	596 0.9×	281 1.1×	216 1.0×	147 1.2×	146 1.2×	62	1.1k
Andreas Zucker Belgium	14	708 1.1×	187 0.7×	176 0.8×	135 1.1×	79 0.7×	27	900
Jon Gustav Kirkerud Norway	17	720 1.1×	253 1.0×	265 1.2×	54 0.4×	99 0.8×	19	906
David Schlachtberger Germany	6	1.1k 1.7×	486 1.9×	284 1.3×	123 1.0×	104 0.9×	8	1.2k
William Zappa Netherlands	8	614 0.9×	258 1.0×	174 0.8×	66 0.5×	107 0.9×	13	867
Maureen Hand United States	9	716 1.1×	218 0.9×	220 1.0×	234 1.8×	171 1.4×	14	1.2k
Antun Pfeifer Croatia	17	753 1.2×	432 1.7×	230 1.1×	115 0.9×	121 1.0×	38	1.1k
Bethany Frew United States	18	1.1k 1.7×	363 1.5×	331 1.5×	66 0.5×	151 1.3×	29	1.5k
Hans-Kristian Ringkjøb Norway	5	554 0.8×	216 0.9×	166 0.8×	51 0.4×	71 0.6×	5	679
Julieta Schallenberg-Rodríguez Spain	15	308 0.5×	122 0.5×	183 0.9×	181 1.4×	130 1.1×	28	855

Countries citing papers authored by Bryn Pickering

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Fields of papers citing papers by Bryn Pickering

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Bryn Pickering

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

All Works

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17 of 17 papers shown

Roelfsema, Mark, Iain Staffell, Gabriel Oreggioni, et al.. (2025). Examining pathways for a climate neutral Europe by 2050; A model comparison analysis including integrated assessment models and energy system models. Energy. 319. 134809–134809. 4 indexed citations

Pickering, Bryn, et al.. (2024). PAM: Population Activity Modeller. The Journal of Open Source Software. 9(96). 6097–6097. 1 indexed citations

Pickering, Bryn, et al.. (2024). Harder, better, faster, stronger: understanding and improving the tractability of large energy system models. Energy Sustainability and Society. 14(1). 2 indexed citations

Süsser, Diana, et al.. (2024). Economy-wide impacts of socio-politically driven net-zero energy systems in europe. Energy. 291. 130425–130425. 5 indexed citations

Lombardi, Francesco, Bryn Pickering, & Stefan Pfenninger. (2023). What is redundant and what is not? Computational trade-offs in modelling to generate alternatives for energy infrastructure deployment. Applied Energy. 339. 121002–121002. 14 indexed citations

Pickering, Bryn, Francesco Lombardi, & Stefan Pfenninger. (2022). Diversity of options to eliminate fossil fuels and reach carbon neutrality across the entire European energy system. Joule. 6(6). 1253–1276. 126 indexed citations

McKenna, Russell, Stefan Pfenninger, Heidi Heinrichs, et al.. (2022). Corrigendum to High-resolution large-scale onshore wind energy assessments: A review of potential definitions, methodologies and future research needs. Renewable Energy. 190. 1128–1128. 2 indexed citations

Pickering, Bryn, Francesco Lombardi, & Stefan Pfenninger. (2022). Diversity of Options to Reach Carbon-Neutrality Across the Entire European Energy System. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

McKenna, Russell, Stefan Pfenninger, Heidi Heinrichs, et al.. (2021). High-resolution large-scale onshore wind energy assessments: A review of potential definitions, methodologies and future research needs. Renewable Energy. 182. 659–684. 144 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wohland, Jan, Doris Folini, & Bryn Pickering. (2021). Wind speed stilling and its recovery due to internal climate variability. Earth System Dynamics. 12(4). 1239–1251. 21 indexed citations

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Pickering, Bryn & Ruchi Choudhary. (2021). Quantifying resilience in energy systems with out-of-sample testing. Applied Energy. 285. 116465–116465. 20 indexed citations

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Chang, Miguel, Behnam Zakeri, Bryn Pickering, et al.. (2021). Trends in tools and approaches for modelling the energy transition. Applied Energy. 290. 116731–116731. 243 indexed citations breakdown →

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Pickering, Bryn, Christian M. Grams, & Stefan Pfenninger. (2020). Sub-national variability of wind power generation in complex terrain and its correlation with large-scale meteorology. Environmental Research Letters. 15(4). 44025–44025. 18 indexed citations

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Lombardi, Francesco, Bryn Pickering, Emanuela Colombo, & Stefan Pfenninger. (2020). Policy Decision Support for Renewables Deployment through Spatially Explicit Practically Optimal Alternatives. Joule. 4(10). 2185–2207. 91 indexed citations

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Pickering, Bryn & Ruchi Choudhary. (2018). District energy system optimisation under uncertain demand: Handling data-driven stochastic profiles. Applied Energy. 236. 1138–1157. 43 indexed citations

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Pfenninger, Stefan & Bryn Pickering. (2018). Calliope: a multi-scale energy systems modelling framework. The Journal of Open Source Software. 3(29). 825–825. 165 indexed citations

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Pfenninger, Stefan & Bryn Pickering. (2017). calliope-project/calliope: Release v0.5.0. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 1 indexed citations

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