Donal Brown

1.2k total citations
24 papers, 840 citations indexed

About

Donal Brown is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Donal Brown has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 840 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 9 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 7 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Donal Brown's work include Smart Grid Energy Management (9 papers), Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (9 papers) and Energy Efficiency and Management (5 papers). Donal Brown is often cited by papers focused on Smart Grid Energy Management (9 papers), Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (9 papers) and Energy Efficiency and Management (5 papers). Donal Brown collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Germany and Finland. Donal Brown's co-authors include Mark Davis, Stephen Hall, Paula Kivimaa, Mari Martiskainen, Bruno Turnheim, Benjamin K. Sovacool, Steve Sorrell, Steven Sorrell, Lars Holstenkamp and Julia M. Wittmayer and has published in prestigious journals such as Energy Policy, Ecological Economics and Energies.

In The Last Decade

Donal Brown

24 papers receiving 805 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Donal Brown United Kingdom 13 351 210 186 181 172 24 840
Matthew Hannon United Kingdom 15 314 0.9× 214 1.0× 206 1.1× 233 1.3× 118 0.7× 40 968
Jens Lowitzsch Germany 11 490 1.4× 278 1.3× 167 0.9× 145 0.8× 252 1.5× 34 901
Ronan Bolton United Kingdom 14 332 0.9× 262 1.2× 329 1.8× 217 1.2× 120 0.7× 28 1.1k
Tineke van der Schoor Netherlands 7 258 0.7× 273 1.3× 240 1.3× 77 0.4× 147 0.9× 23 626
Tanja Winther Norway 19 263 0.7× 218 1.0× 127 0.7× 192 1.1× 694 4.0× 30 1.1k
Colin Nolden United Kingdom 12 203 0.6× 164 0.8× 160 0.9× 168 0.9× 117 0.7× 30 580
Michael Ornetzeder Austria 11 154 0.4× 192 0.9× 193 1.0× 110 0.6× 99 0.6× 35 742
Tomas Moe Skjølsvold Norway 21 490 1.4× 564 2.7× 505 2.7× 180 1.0× 297 1.7× 59 1.3k
Jörg Radtke Germany 13 318 0.9× 540 2.6× 382 2.1× 100 0.6× 290 1.7× 44 998
Sandra Wassermann Germany 10 235 0.7× 334 1.6× 413 2.2× 151 0.8× 84 0.5× 30 942

Countries citing papers authored by Donal Brown

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Fields of papers citing papers by Donal Brown

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Donal Brown

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Brown, Donal, et al.. (2024). Landlords' accounts of retrofit: A relational approach in the private rented sector in England. Energy Research & Social Science. 118. 103742–103742. 3 indexed citations
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Foxon, Timothy J., Claire Copeland, Blanca Martínez, et al.. (2024). Increasing wellbeing through energy demand reduction for net zero: Citizen perceptions of co-benefits of local measures. Energy Research & Social Science. 118. 103799–103799. 5 indexed citations
3.
Davis, Mark, Lucie Middlemiss, Stephen Hall, et al.. (2024). Towards a Relational Sociology of Retrofit. Sociology. 59(3). 466–484. 4 indexed citations
4.
Hannon, Matthew, Anne Owen, Marie Claire Brisbois, et al.. (2024). Under one roof: The social relations and relational work of energy retrofit for the occupants of multi-owned properties. Energy Policy. 190. 114166–114166. 6 indexed citations
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Brown, Donal, Lucie Middlemiss, Mark Davis, et al.. (2024). Rethinking retrofit: Relational insights for the design of residential energy efficiency policy. Energy Research & Social Science. 120. 103863–103863. 6 indexed citations
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Middlemiss, Lucie, Mark Davis, Donal Brown, et al.. (2024). Developing a relational approach to energy demand: A methodological and conceptual guide. Energy Research & Social Science. 110. 103441–103441. 21 indexed citations
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Brown, Donal, et al.. (2024). Evaluating microgrid business models for rural electrification: A novel framework and three cases in Southeast Asia. Energy Sustainable Development. 80. 101443–101443. 11 indexed citations
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Brown, Donal & Mari Martiskainen. (2023). How sociotechnical norms shape transition pathways: The co-evolution of three European heating, ventilation, and cooling (HVAC) regimes. Energy Research & Social Science. 107. 103346–103346. 4 indexed citations
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Owen, Anne, Lucie Middlemiss, Donal Brown, et al.. (2023). Who applies for energy grants?. Energy Research & Social Science. 101. 103123–103123. 19 indexed citations
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Wittmayer, Julia M., Inês Campos, Flor Avelino, et al.. (2021). Thinking, doing, organising: Prefiguring just and sustainable energy systems via collective prosumer ecosystems in Europe. Energy Research & Social Science. 86. 102425–102425. 35 indexed citations
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Adams, Sophie, Donal Brown, Ruzanna Chitchyan, et al.. (2021). Social and Economic Value in Emerging Decentralized Energy Business Models: A Critical Review. Energies. 14(23). 7864–7864. 39 indexed citations
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Wittmayer, Julia M., Guilherme Luz, Esther Marín‐González, et al.. (2020). Collective Renewable Energy Prosumers and the Promises of the Energy Union: Taking Stock. Energies. 13(2). 421–421. 70 indexed citations
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Brown, Donal, et al.. (2020). Policies for Prosumer Business Models in the EU. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 1 indexed citations
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Brown, Donal, et al.. (2020). What is prosumerism for? Exploring the normative dimensions of decentralised energy transitions. Energy Research & Social Science. 66. 101475–101475. 100 indexed citations
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Sovacool, Benjamin K., Bruno Turnheim, Mari Martiskainen, Donal Brown, & Paula Kivimaa. (2020). Guides or gatekeepers? Incumbent-oriented transition intermediaries in a low-carbon era. Energy Research & Social Science. 66. 101490–101490. 110 indexed citations
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Brown, Donal, Stephen Hall, & Mark Davis. (2019). Prosumers in the post subsidy era: an exploration of new prosumer business models in the UK. Energy Policy. 135. 110984–110984. 146 indexed citations
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Brown, Donal, Paula Kivimaa, & Steven Sorrell. (2019). An energy leap? Business model innovation and intermediation in the ‘Energiesprong’ retrofit initiative. Energy Research & Social Science. 58. 101253–101253. 41 indexed citations
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Brown, Donal, et al.. (2019). Business models for prosumers in Europe. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 9 indexed citations
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Brown, Donal. (2018). Business models for residential retrofit in the UK: a critical assessment of five key archetypes. Energy Efficiency. 11(6). 1497–1517. 84 indexed citations
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Brown, Donal, et al.. (1993). Impact evaluations of industrial energy conservation projects in the Pacific Northwest. Energy Engineering. 90(4). 49–68. 1 indexed citations

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