Francesco Causone

3.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
84 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Francesco Causone is a scholar working on Building and Construction, Environmental Engineering and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Francesco Causone has authored 84 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 72 papers in Building and Construction, 43 papers in Environmental Engineering and 15 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Francesco Causone's work include Building Energy and Comfort Optimization (70 papers), Urban Heat Island Mitigation (31 papers) and Wind and Air Flow Studies (28 papers). Francesco Causone is often cited by papers focused on Building Energy and Comfort Optimization (70 papers), Urban Heat Island Mitigation (31 papers) and Wind and Air Flow Studies (28 papers). Francesco Causone collaborates with scholars based in Italy, China and Norway. Francesco Causone's co-authors include Lorenzo Pagliano, Salvatore Carlucci, Martina Ferrando, Bjarne W. Olesen, Giulio Cattarin, Francesco Rosa, Stefano P. Corgnati, Marco Filippi, Silvia Erba and Xin Zhou and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews and Applied Energy.

In The Last Decade

Francesco Causone

79 papers receiving 2.4k 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.

AutoBPS: A tool for urban building energy modeling to support energy efficiency improvement at city-scale

2023 92 citations Deng Zhang, Yixing Chen et al. Energy and Buildings profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Francesco Causone Italy	29	2.0k	1.3k	317	260	249	84	2.4k
Vítor Leal Portugal	27	1.2k 0.6×	767 0.6×	340 1.1×	304 1.2×	238 1.0×	61	2.0k
Kaiyu Sun United States	27	1.7k 0.9×	872 0.7×	452 1.4×	362 1.4×	86 0.3×	50	2.2k
Jérôme Henri Kämpf Switzerland	25	1.8k 0.9×	1.3k 1.1×	394 1.2×	284 1.1×	374 1.5×	89	2.4k
Giorgio Baldinelli Italy	29	1.3k 0.6×	946 0.7×	240 0.8×	210 0.8×	115 0.5×	93	2.4k
Panagiota Karava United States	28	1.6k 0.8×	1.3k 1.0×	216 0.7×	380 1.5×	116 0.5×	69	2.2k
Yeonsook Heo South Korea	21	1.3k 0.7×	768 0.6×	444 1.4×	451 1.7×	116 0.5×	69	2.0k
Vincenzo Corrado Italy	26	2.2k 1.1×	1.1k 0.8×	364 1.1×	499 1.9×	107 0.4×	146	2.7k
Vishal Garg India	22	1.1k 0.6×	771 0.6×	333 1.1×	155 0.6×	142 0.6×	87	1.6k
Sebastian Herkel Germany	21	1.5k 0.7×	766 0.6×	364 1.1×	393 1.5×	144 0.6×	76	1.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Francesco Causone

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All Works

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Ferrando, Martina, Francesco Causone, Vincenzo Corrado, et al.. (2025). Developing an Italian Library of Reference Buildings for Urban Building Energy Modeling (UBEM): Lessons Learnt from the URBEM Project. Energies. 18(22). 6026–6026.

Ferrando, Martina, et al.. (2025). A Comparative Analysis of Two Urban Building Energy Modelling Tools via the Case Study of an Italian Neighbourhood. Energies. 18(10). 2618–2618.

Wang, Chao, et al.. (2025). Balancing effects of uncertain parameters on the accuracy and stability of urban building energy modeling. Building and Environment. 288. 113886–113886.

Zhang, Xiyuan, et al.. (2025). A review of building digital twins: Framework and enabling technologies. Journal of Building Engineering. 111. 113117–113117. 3 indexed citations

Ye, Yu, et al.. (2025). Customized cooling design scheme for diversified local climate zones to accommodate urban spatial heterogeneity. Building and Environment. 283. 113397–113397. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Chao, Xin Wang, Francesco Causone, et al.. (2024). Addressing uncertainty to achieve stability in urban building energy modeling: A comparative study of four possible approaches. Building and Environment. 267. 112197–112197. 6 indexed citations

Causone, Francesco, et al.. (2024). Virtual energy sharing and energy communities for the Municipality of Milan: The case of the Chiaravalle area. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 523. 5006–5006.

Wang, Chao, Francesco Causone, Martina Ferrando, et al.. (2024). Dynamic predictions for the composition and efficiency of heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems in urban building energy modeling. Journal of Building Engineering. 96. 110562–110562. 7 indexed citations

Zhang, Hong, et al.. (2023). Optimal design of building integrated energy systems by combining two-phase optimization and a data-driven model. Energy and Buildings. 295. 113304–113304. 17 indexed citations

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Zhang, Deng, Yixing Chen, Jingjing Yang, & Francesco Causone. (2023). AutoBPS: A tool for urban building energy modeling to support energy efficiency improvement at city-scale. Energy and Buildings. 282. 112794–112794. 92 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ferrando, Martina, et al.. (2023). Changes in energy use profiles derived from electricity smart meter readings of residential buildings in Milan before, during and after the COVID-19 main lockdown. Sustainable Cities and Society. 99. 104876–104876. 10 indexed citations

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Markovic, Romana, et al.. (2023). Augmenting energy time-series for data-efficient imputation of missing values. Applied Energy. 334. 120701–120701. 24 indexed citations

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Ferrando, Martina, et al.. (2023). The Emerging Trends of Renewable Energy Communities’ Development in Italy. Sustainability. 15(8). 6792–6792. 32 indexed citations

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Causone, Francesco, et al.. (2023). Opaque Coloured Building Integrated Photovoltaic (BIPV): A Review of Models and Simulation Frameworks for Performance Optimisation. Energies. 16(4). 1991–1991. 13 indexed citations

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Ferrando, Martina, et al.. (2022). UBEM's archetypes improvement via data-driven occupant-related schedules randomly distributed and their impact assessment. Sustainable Cities and Society. 87. 104164–104164. 39 indexed citations

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Wang, Chao, Martina Ferrando, Francesco Causone, et al.. (2022). An innovative method to predict the thermal parameters of construction assemblies for urban building energy models. Building and Environment. 224. 109541–109541. 21 indexed citations

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Ferrando, Martina, et al.. (2022). An experimental technique based on globe thermometers for the measurement of mean radiant temperature in urban settings. Building and Environment. 222. 109373–109373. 17 indexed citations

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Markovic, Romana, et al.. (2021). Indoor environment data time-series reconstruction using autoencoder neural networks. Building and Environment. 191. 107623–107623. 31 indexed citations

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Ferrando, Martina, Tianzhen Hong, & Francesco Causone. (2021). A simulation-based assessment of technologies to reduce heat emissions from buildings. Building and Environment. 195. 107772–107772. 26 indexed citations

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Carnieletto, Laura, Martina Ferrando, Kaiyu Sun, et al.. (2021). Italian prototype building models for urban scale building performance simulation. Building and Environment. 192. 107590–107590. 80 indexed citations

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