Cathal Hoare

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
29 papers, 779 citations indexed

About

Cathal Hoare is a scholar working on Building and Construction, Environmental Engineering and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Cathal Hoare has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 779 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Building and Construction, 8 papers in Environmental Engineering and 7 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Cathal Hoare's work include Building Energy and Comfort Optimization (14 papers), Wind and Air Flow Studies (8 papers) and Energy Efficiency and Management (5 papers). Cathal Hoare is often cited by papers focused on Building Energy and Comfort Optimization (14 papers), Wind and Air Flow Studies (8 papers) and Energy Efficiency and Management (5 papers). Cathal Hoare collaborates with scholars based in Ireland, China and United Kingdom. Cathal Hoare's co-authors include James O’Donnell, Mohammad Haris Shamsi, Usman Ali, Eleni Mangina, Shushan Hu, Neil Hewitt, Wangda Zuo, Jiale Wang, Pieter Pauwels and Paul Raftery and has published in prestigious journals such as Applied Energy, Energy and Buildings and Automation in Construction.

In The Last Decade

Cathal Hoare

27 papers receiving 740 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Review of urban building energy modeling (UBEM) approaches, methods and tools using qualitative and quantitative analysis

2021 203 citations Usman Ali, Mohammad Haris Shamsi et al. Energy and Buildings profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Cathal Hoare Ireland	11	613	305	198	121	78	29	779
Mohammad Haris Shamsi Ireland	12	652 1.1×	365 1.2×	260 1.3×	141 1.2×	42 0.5×	26	835
Usman Ali Ireland	13	638 1.0×	351 1.2×	353 1.8×	148 1.2×	49 0.6×	56	940
Xiaoyun Zhao Sweden	9	636 1.0×	303 1.0×	334 1.7×	151 1.2×	77 1.0×	25	929
Christian Anker Hviid Denmark	17	699 1.1×	386 1.3×	81 0.4×	67 0.6×	83 1.1×	55	872
U. Teoman Aksoy Türkiye	6	563 0.9×	320 1.0×	230 1.2×	115 1.0×	75 1.0×	9	790
Ivan Korolija United Kingdom	15	627 1.0×	343 1.1×	118 0.6×	141 1.2×	21 0.3×	66	798
Shanti Pless United States	15	861 1.4×	315 1.0×	296 1.5×	274 2.3×	42 0.5×	45	1.1k
Joseph Andrew Clarke United Kingdom	8	583 1.0×	294 1.0×	99 0.5×	121 1.0×	30 0.4×	25	766
Zhichao Tian China	15	708 1.2×	312 1.0×	93 0.5×	166 1.4×	32 0.4×	21	881
Yuan Jin China	13	513 0.8×	202 0.7×	231 1.2×	96 0.8×	30 0.4×	24	684

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Cathal Hoare

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Hoare, Cathal, et al.. (2025). Knowledge graph for policy- and practice-aligned life cycle analysis and reporting. Automation in Construction. 176. 106282–106282. 2 indexed citations

Dowling, Denis P., et al.. (2025). Analysis of unsupervised and semi-supervised machine learning techniques for print defect detection during laser powder bed fusion. The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology. 138(9-10). 4197–4212.

Farghaly, Karim, et al.. (2024). Life cycle cost analysis at scale: a reference architecture-based approach. Built Environment Project and Asset Management. 14(5). 713–733. 3 indexed citations

Ali, Usman, Mohammad Haris Shamsi, Cathal Hoare, et al.. (2024). Urban residential building stock synthetic datasets for building energy performance analysis. Data in Brief. 53. 110241–110241. 5 indexed citations

Ali, Usman, et al.. (2023). Residential building energy performance prediction at an urban scale using ensemble machine learning algorithms. Computing in construction. 1 indexed citations

Ali, Usman, Mohammad Haris Shamsi, Cathal Hoare, et al.. (2023). Urban building energy performance prediction and retrofit analysis using data-driven machine learning approach. Energy and Buildings. 303. 113768–113768. 74 indexed citations

Ali, Usman, et al.. (2023). Data-driven prediction of residential building energy performance at an urban scale through end-use demand segregation. Building Simulation Conference proceedings. 18. 1 indexed citations

Hoare, Cathal, Reihaneh Aghamolaei, Muireann Á. Lynch, Ankita Gaur, & James O’Donnell. (2022). A linked data approach to multi-scale energy modelling. Advanced Engineering Informatics. 54. 101719–101719. 6 indexed citations

Hu, Shushan, et al.. (2021). An information sharing strategy based on linked data for net zero energy buildings and clusters. Automation in Construction. 124. 103592–103592. 13 indexed citations

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Ali, Usman, et al.. (2021). GIS-based multi-scale residential building energy modeling using a data-driven approach. Building Simulation Conference proceedings. 1 indexed citations

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Ali, Usman, Mohammad Haris Shamsi, Cathal Hoare, Eleni Mangina, & James O’Donnell. (2021). Review of urban building energy modeling (UBEM) approaches, methods and tools using qualitative and quantitative analysis. Energy and Buildings. 246. 111073–111073. 203 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ali, Usman, et al.. (2020). A data-driven approach to optimize urban scale energy retrofit decisions for residential buildings. Applied Energy. 267. 114861–114861. 99 indexed citations

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Ali, Usman, et al.. (2020). Application Of Intelligent Algorithms For Residential Building Energy Performance Rating Prediction. Building Simulation Conference proceedings. 4 indexed citations

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Ali, Usman, et al.. (2020). A data-driven approach for multi-scale GIS-based building energy modeling for analysis, planning and support decision making. Applied Energy. 279. 115834–115834. 122 indexed citations

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Hu, Shushan, Cathal Hoare, Paul Raftery, & James O’Donnell. (2019). Environmental and energy performance assessment of buildings using scenario modelling and fuzzy analytic network process. Applied Energy. 255. 113788–113788. 24 indexed citations

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Hoare, Cathal, et al.. (2019). A contextual ontology for distributed urban data management. Research Repository UCD (University College Dublin). 172(3). 96–105. 1 indexed citations

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Hoare, Cathal, et al.. (2018). Accurate classification of socially generated medical discourse. International Journal of Data Science and Analytics. 8(4). 353–365. 4 indexed citations

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Ali, Usman, Mohammad Haris Shamsi, Cathal Hoare, & James O’Donnell. (2018). GIS-Based Residential Building Energy Modeling at District Scale. Arrow@dit (Dublin Institute of Technology). 14 indexed citations

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Hu, Shushan, et al.. (2018). Building performance evaluation using OpenMath and Linked Data. Energy and Buildings. 174. 484–494. 21 indexed citations

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Maher, Bridget, et al.. (2013). Use of Mobile Applications for Hospital Discharge Letters. International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning. 5(4). 19–42. 6 indexed citations

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