Fabienne Pennec

1.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
21 papers, 873 citations indexed

About

Fabienne Pennec is a scholar working on Building and Construction, Mechanics of Materials and Mechanical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Fabienne Pennec has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 873 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Building and Construction, 7 papers in Mechanics of Materials and 6 papers in Mechanical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Fabienne Pennec's work include Hygrothermal properties of building materials (7 papers), Composite Material Mechanics (5 papers) and Phase Change Materials Research (4 papers). Fabienne Pennec is often cited by papers focused on Hygrothermal properties of building materials (7 papers), Composite Material Mechanics (5 papers) and Phase Change Materials Research (4 papers). Fabienne Pennec collaborates with scholars based in France, Lebanon and Argentina. Fabienne Pennec's co-authors include Pascal Henry Biwolé, Farouk Fardoun, Arnaud Alzina, Benoit Naït‐Ali, Julie Bourret, Nicolas Tessier-Doyen, David S. Smith, Hideaki Matsubara, Urs T. Gonzenbach and Salah-Eddine Ouldboukhitine and has published in prestigious journals such as Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Construction and Building Materials and Journal of the American Ceramic Society.

In The Last Decade

Fabienne Pennec

21 papers receiving 857 citations

Hit Papers

Thermal conductivity of porous materials 2013 2026 2017 2021 2013 2022 50 100 150 200 250
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.

  1. Thermal conductivity of porous materials
    2013 289 citations David S. Smith, Arnaud Alzina et al. Journal of materials research/Pratt's guide to venture capital sources profile →
  2. Supercooling of phase change materials: A review
    2022 200 citations Fabienne Pennec, Pascal Henry Biwolé et al. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Fabienne Pennec France 12 368 217 214 127 124 21 873
Nicolas Tessier-Doyen France 16 197 0.5× 296 1.4× 192 0.9× 74 0.6× 35 0.3× 36 803
Jianhua Guo China 21 201 0.5× 348 1.6× 212 1.0× 181 1.4× 41 0.3× 50 1.0k
Arnaud Alzina France 15 203 0.6× 295 1.4× 218 1.0× 75 0.6× 18 0.1× 28 847
Shujing Li China 20 433 1.2× 540 2.5× 335 1.6× 50 0.4× 45 0.4× 98 1.3k
David Stanley Smith France 13 160 0.4× 249 1.1× 168 0.8× 36 0.3× 20 0.2× 23 636
Wilson Nunes dos Santos Brazil 18 207 0.6× 353 1.6× 200 0.9× 272 2.1× 42 0.3× 39 1.0k
Beomjoo Yang South Korea 19 248 0.7× 380 1.8× 135 0.6× 195 1.5× 20 0.2× 51 1.0k
Dirk Penner Switzerland 12 146 0.4× 156 0.7× 65 0.3× 43 0.3× 68 0.5× 25 698
V.R. Salvini Brazil 14 187 0.5× 237 1.1× 166 0.8× 61 0.5× 12 0.1× 32 645

Countries citing papers authored by Fabienne Pennec

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Fields of papers citing papers by Fabienne Pennec

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Fabienne Pennec

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Fabienne Pennec. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Fabienne Pennec 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 Fabienne Pennec. Fabienne Pennec 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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Biwolé, Pascal Henry, et al.. (2023). Effective thermal conductivity model of straw bales based on microstructure and hygrothermal characterization. Construction and Building Materials. 387. 131601–131601. 9 indexed citations
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Biwolé, Pascal Henry, et al.. (2023). Experimental study of solid-liquid phase change in the presence of supercooling and natural convection. International Journal of Thermal Sciences. 190. 108265–108265. 4 indexed citations
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Pennec, Fabienne, et al.. (2022). Hygrothermal performance of multilayer straw walls in different climates. Construction and Building Materials. 326. 126873–126873. 25 indexed citations
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Biwolé, Pascal Henry, et al.. (2022). A Mini-Review on Straw Bale Construction. Energies. 15(21). 7859–7859. 8 indexed citations
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Pennec, Fabienne, et al.. (2022). Supercooling of phase change materials: A review. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 158. 112172–112172. 200 indexed citations breakdown →
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Kant, Karunesh, et al.. (2021). Recent advances in thermophysical properties enhancement of phase change materials for thermal energy storage. Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells. 231. 111309–111309. 79 indexed citations
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Pennec, Fabienne, et al.. (2021). Hygrothermal Performance of Multilayer Straw Walls in Different Climates. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations
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Ouldboukhitine, Salah-Eddine, et al.. (2021). Thermal and mechanical behavior of straw-based construction: A review. Construction and Building Materials. 316. 125915–125915. 41 indexed citations
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Pennec, Fabienne, et al.. (2018). Local stress gradient approach for multiaxial fatigue behaviour assessment of high strength steels in occurrence of defects. Procedia Engineering. 213. 662–673. 3 indexed citations
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Mathias, Jean‐Denis, Arnaud Alzina, Michel Grédiac, et al.. (2015). Upcycling Sunflower Stems as Natural Fibers for Biocomposite Applications. BioResources. 10(4). 22 indexed citations
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Pennec, Fabienne, et al.. (2014). New Nonlinear Damage Law by Fatigue Based on the Curve of Bastenaire. 1 indexed citations
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Mati‐Baouche, Narimane, Hélène de Baynast, Christophe Vial, et al.. (2014). Physico‐chemical, thermal, and mechanical approaches for the characterization of solubilized and solid state chitosans. Journal of Applied Polymer Science. 132(2). 25 indexed citations
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Bourret, Julie, Aurélie Michot, Nicolas Tessier‐Doyen, et al.. (2014). Thermal Conductivity of Very Porous Kaolin‐Based Ceramics. Journal of the American Ceramic Society. 97(3). 938–944. 41 indexed citations
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Smith, David S., Arnaud Alzina, Julie Bourret, et al.. (2013). Thermal conductivity of porous materials. Journal of materials research/Pratt's guide to venture capital sources. 28(17). 2260–2272. 289 indexed citations breakdown →
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Pennec, Fabienne, Arnaud Alzina, Nicolas Tessier‐Doyen, et al.. (2013). A combined finite-discrete element method for calculating the effective thermal conductivity of bio-aggregates based materials. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer. 60. 274–283. 26 indexed citations
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Pennec, Fabienne, et al.. (2013). Analytical and numerical identification of the skeleton thermal conductivity of a geopolymer foam using a multi-scale analysis. Computational Materials Science. 82. 264–273. 18 indexed citations
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Pennec, Fabienne, Arnaud Alzina, Benoit Naït‐Ali, Nicolas Tessier‐Doyen, & David S. Smith. (2012). Probabilistic thermal conductivity analysis of dense stabilized zirconia ceramics. Computational Materials Science. 67. 207–215. 11 indexed citations
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Pennec, Fabienne, Arnaud Alzina, Nicolas Tessier-Doyen, Benoit Naït‐Ali, & David Stanley Smith. (2012). Thermal conductivity calculation of bio-aggregates based materials using finite and discrete element methods. Journal of Physics Conference Series. 395. 12015–12015. 2 indexed citations
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Bourret, Julie, Nicolas Tessier-Doyen, Benoit Naït‐Ali, et al.. (2012). Effect of the pore volume fraction on the thermal conductivity and mechanical properties of kaolin-based foams. Journal of the European Ceramic Society. 33(9). 1487–1495. 59 indexed citations
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