Giovanni Sansavini

5.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
161 papers, 3.2k citations indexed

About

Giovanni Sansavini is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality and Civil and Structural Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Giovanni Sansavini has authored 161 papers receiving a total of 3.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 93 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 38 papers in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality and 37 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering. Recurrent topics in Giovanni Sansavini's work include Integrated Energy Systems Optimization (35 papers), Power System Reliability and Maintenance (34 papers) and Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis (34 papers). Giovanni Sansavini is often cited by papers focused on Integrated Energy Systems Optimization (35 papers), Power System Reliability and Maintenance (34 papers) and Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis (34 papers). Giovanni Sansavini collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Italy and United States. Giovanni Sansavini's co-authors include Enrico Zio, Cen Nan, Blazhe Gjorgiev, Yi‐Ping Fang, Paolo Gabrielli, Olga Fink, Huadong Mo, Marco Mazzotti, André Bardow and Lorenzo Rosa and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Giovanni Sansavini

146 papers receiving 3.1k 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.

A quantitative method for assessing resilience of interdependent infrastructures

2016 344 citations Giovanni Sansavini et al. Reliability Engineering & System Safety profile →
Net-zero emissions chemical industry in a world of limited resources

2023 155 citations Paolo Gabrielli, Giovanni Sansavini et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Giovanni Sansavini Switzerland	30	1.3k	1.0k	897	470	427	161	3.2k
Alexis Kwasinski United States	33	3.4k 2.7×	685 0.7×	2.4k 2.7×	230 0.5×	170 0.4×	157	4.4k
Athanasios Kolios United Kingdom	41	637 0.5×	1.1k 1.0×	760 0.8×	371 0.8×	653 1.5×	199	5.5k
Zhaohong Bie China	37	5.4k 4.2×	1.1k 1.1×	2.6k 2.8×	1.4k 2.9×	259 0.6×	276	6.4k
José M. Yusta Spain	30	2.4k 1.9×	304 0.3×	1.1k 1.2×	295 0.6×	103 0.2×	101	3.6k
Mahmood Shafiee United Kingdom	32	510 0.4×	318 0.3×	509 0.6×	533 1.1×	485 1.1×	92	2.9k
Mathaios Panteli United Kingdom	29	3.0k 2.4×	2.6k 2.5×	2.2k 2.4×	1.8k 3.9×	349 0.8×	108	5.2k
Carlos Ocampo‐Martínez Spain	34	1.6k 1.3×	724 0.7×	1.8k 2.1×	42 0.1×	81 0.2×	243	4.6k
Curran Crawford Canada	34	1.6k 1.3×	172 0.2×	455 0.5×	104 0.2×	218 0.5×	171	4.1k
Qiang Feng China	32	818 0.6×	327 0.3×	645 0.7×	684 1.5×	535 1.3×	158	3.0k
Keith Bell United Kingdom	28	2.5k 2.0×	198 0.2×	1.1k 1.2×	618 1.3×	54 0.1×	148	3.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Giovanni Sansavini

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Giovanni Sansavini

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20 of 20 papers shown

Gabrielli, Paolo, et al.. (2025). Transforming decentralized energy systems: Flexible EV charging and its impact across urbanization degrees. Applied Energy. 384. 125303–125303. 2 indexed citations

Gjorgiev, Blazhe, et al.. (2025). Large-scale generation of geo-referenced power distribution grids from open data with load clustering. Sustainable Energy Grids and Networks. 42. 101678–101678. 1 indexed citations

Burger, Johannes Faas, et al.. (2025). ZEN-garden: Optimizing energy transition pathways with user-oriented data handling. SoftwareX. 29. 102059–102059. 2 indexed citations

Garrison, Jared, et al.. (2025). The value of power-to-gas-to-power in Switzerland ’s electricity system planning. Energy. 330. 136451–136451.

Gjorgiev, Blazhe, et al.. (2025). Operational risk assessment of electric power grids exposed to straight-line winds. Reliability Engineering & System Safety. 266. 111709–111709. 1 indexed citations

Sansavini, Giovanni, et al.. (2025). Accelerating heat pump adoption in Switzerland: An agent-based policy assessment. Energy Policy. 205. 114718–114718.

Sansavini, Giovanni, et al.. (2024). Robust scheduling of integrated electricity and gas systems: A cost and flexibility assessment. International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems. 160. 110107–110107. 3 indexed citations

Garrison, Jared, et al.. (2024). Flexibility provision in the Swiss integrated power, hydrogen, and methane infrastructure. Energy Conversion and Management. 319. 118911–118911. 5 indexed citations

Sansavini, Giovanni, et al.. (2024). Dynamic grid emission factors and export limits reduce emission abatement and cost benefits of building PV systems. Energy and Buildings. 323. 114772–114772. 4 indexed citations

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Ayoub, Ali, Haruko Wainwright, Lijing Wang, & Giovanni Sansavini. (2024). An enhanced fourier neural operator surrogate for radioactive plume transport forecasting. Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment. 38(8). 3165–3175. 1 indexed citations

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Koirala, Binod Prasad, et al.. (2024). Optimal sizing and operation of hydrogen generation sites accounting for waste heat recovery. Applied Energy. 380. 125004–125004. 3 indexed citations

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Gabrielli, Paolo, Matthew J. Robson, Kevin H. R. Rouwenhorst, et al.. (2024). Effects of emissions caps on the costs and feasibility of low-carbon hydrogen in the European ammonia industry. Nature Communications. 15(1). 3753–3753. 29 indexed citations

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Heer, Philipp, et al.. (2023). Impact of forecast uncertainty and electricity markets on the flexibility provision and economic performance of highly-decarbonized multi-energy systems. Applied Energy. 338. 120825–120825. 21 indexed citations

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Sansavini, Giovanni, et al.. (2023). Ensuring/insuring resilient energy system infrastructure. Environment Systems & Decisions. 43(4). 625–638. 1 indexed citations

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Gabrielli, Paolo, et al.. (2023). Collaborative and selfish mitigation strategies to tackle energy scarcity: The case of the European gas crisis. iScience. 26(5). 106750–106750. 11 indexed citations

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Egli, Florian, Sebastián Osorio, Giovanni Sansavini, et al.. (2023). Improving the representation of cost of capital in energy system models. Joule. 7(3). 469–483. 26 indexed citations

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Mo, Huadong & Giovanni Sansavini. (2020). Hidden Markov model-based smith predictor for the mitigation of the impact of communication delays in wide-area power systems. Applied Mathematical Modelling. 89. 19–48. 12 indexed citations

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Gabrielli, Paolo, et al.. (2020). Optimization of low-carbon multi-energy systems with seasonal geothermal energy storage: The Anergy Grid of ETH Zurich. Energy Conversion and Management X. 8. 100052–100052. 43 indexed citations

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Fang, Yi‐Ping, Giovanni Sansavini, & Enrico Zio. (2019). An Optimization‐Based Framework for the Identification of Vulnerabilities in Electric Power Grids Exposed to Natural Hazards. Risk Analysis. 39(9). 1949–1969. 30 indexed citations

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Zio, Enrico, et al.. (2011). Optimization of electrical grid protection by a differential evolution algorithm. SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository. 1 indexed citations

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