G. Costa

671 total citations · 1 hit paper
4 papers, 534 citations indexed

About

G. Costa is a scholar working on Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Building and Construction and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, G. Costa has authored 4 papers receiving a total of 534 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 2 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, 2 papers in Building and Construction and 2 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in G. Costa's work include Urban Planning and Valuation (2 papers), Building Energy and Comfort Optimization (2 papers) and Smart Grid Energy Management (2 papers). G. Costa is often cited by papers focused on Urban Planning and Valuation (2 papers), Building Energy and Comfort Optimization (2 papers) and Smart Grid Energy Management (2 papers). G. Costa collaborates with scholars based in Italy. G. Costa's co-authors include Paola Caputo, Massimiliano Manfren and Simone Ferrari and has published in prestigious journals such as Applied Energy, Energy Policy and Virtual Community of Pathological Anatomy (University of Castilla La Mancha).

In The Last Decade

G. Costa

4 papers receiving 518 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.

Paradigm shift in urban energy systems through distributed generation: Methods and models

2010 335 citations Massimiliano Manfren, Paola Caputo et al. Applied Energy profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
G. Costa Italy	3	281	280	132	81	75	4	534
Eric Wilson United States	12	291 1.0×	264 0.9×	153 1.2×	120 1.5×	141 1.9×	26	623
Mark Jennings United Kingdom	7	357 1.3×	275 1.0×	195 1.5×	89 1.1×	112 1.5×	9	663
Francesco Mancini Italy	16	227 0.8×	353 1.3×	109 0.8×	32 0.4×	139 1.9×	34	605
Marco Lovati Sweden	14	408 1.5×	229 0.8×	99 0.8×	89 1.1×	115 1.5×	25	710
Jordi Cipriano Spain	14	233 0.8×	391 1.4×	163 1.2×	44 0.5×	170 2.3×	38	624
Vytautas Martinaitis Lithuania	13	237 0.8×	500 1.8×	148 1.1×	55 0.7×	232 3.1×	56	853
Roberta Pernetti Italy	11	253 0.9×	360 1.3×	105 0.8×	34 0.4×	139 1.9×	29	585
George Giannakidis Greece	13	234 0.8×	195 0.7×	195 1.5×	19 0.2×	153 2.0×	30	589
Chioke Harris United States	9	317 1.1×	303 1.1×	172 1.3×	43 0.5×	192 2.6×	20	677
Xiaojun Liu China	11	224 0.8×	134 0.5×	102 0.8×	65 0.8×	75 1.0×	24	497

Countries citing papers authored by G. Costa

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Fields of papers citing papers by G. Costa

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of G. Costa

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

All Works

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4 of 4 papers shown

1.

Caputo, Paola, G. Costa, & Simone Ferrari. (2013). A supporting method for defining energy strategies in the building sector at urban scale. Energy Policy. 55. 261–270. 195 indexed citations

2.

Costa, G.. (2012). Caratterizzazione tecnologico-prestazionale del patrimonio edilizio per la valutazione dell'efficacia di strategie energetiche. 3 indexed citations

3.

Manfren, Massimiliano, Paola Caputo, & G. Costa. (2010). Paradigm shift in urban energy systems through distributed generation: Methods and models. Applied Energy. 88(4). 1032–1048. 335 indexed citations breakdown →

4.

Caputo, Paola & G. Costa. (2009). Distributed generation technologies for energy sustainability. Virtual Community of Pathological Anatomy (University of Castilla La Mancha). 1–6. 1 indexed citations

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