H. Lee Willis

3.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
48 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

H. Lee Willis is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality and Management Science and Operations Research. According to data from OpenAlex, H. Lee Willis has authored 48 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 12 papers in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality and 4 papers in Management Science and Operations Research. Recurrent topics in H. Lee Willis's work include Energy Load and Power Forecasting (18 papers), Power System Reliability and Maintenance (12 papers) and Smart Grid Energy Management (11 papers). H. Lee Willis is often cited by papers focused on Energy Load and Power Forecasting (18 papers), Power System Reliability and Maintenance (12 papers) and Smart Grid Energy Management (11 papers). H. Lee Willis collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Switzerland. H. Lee Willis's co-authors include Walter G. Scott, Richard E. Brown, Tao Hong, J. E. D. Northcote-Green, H. Tram, George Frimpong, Mesut Baran, Pu Wang, Le Xu and Julio Romero Agüero and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Proceedings of the IEEE and IEEE Transactions on Power Systems.

In The Last Decade

H. Lee Willis

47 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Hit Papers

Power Distribution Planning Reference Book 1997 2026 2006 2016 1997 100 200 300 400
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. Power Distribution Planning Reference Book
    1997 401 citations H. Lee Willis profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
H. Lee Willis United States 18 2.0k 804 548 163 142 48 2.3k
Anil Pahwa United States 33 2.7k 1.3× 1.8k 2.2× 603 1.1× 166 1.0× 169 1.2× 145 3.4k
Robert Broadwater United States 23 2.4k 1.2× 1.4k 1.7× 353 0.6× 79 0.5× 275 1.9× 120 2.7k
Yuri V. Makarov United States 22 2.1k 1.0× 1.0k 1.3× 463 0.8× 141 0.9× 141 1.0× 109 2.3k
E.N. Dialynas Greece 21 1.1k 0.6× 441 0.5× 559 1.0× 69 0.4× 186 1.3× 77 1.7k
Kaigui Xie China 30 2.5k 1.2× 924 1.1× 992 1.8× 159 1.0× 106 0.7× 225 3.1k
H.M. Khodr Portugal 21 1.9k 0.9× 1.1k 1.4× 244 0.4× 100 0.6× 75 0.5× 71 2.1k
Rui Bo United States 29 2.8k 1.4× 1.2k 1.5× 302 0.6× 169 1.0× 149 1.0× 145 3.2k
Jizhong Zhu China 24 2.3k 1.1× 1.1k 1.4× 247 0.5× 160 1.0× 113 0.8× 164 2.6k
Florin Capitanescu Luxembourg 30 3.1k 1.5× 1.5k 1.8× 591 1.1× 93 0.6× 112 0.8× 116 3.5k
Mehdi Ehsan Iran 34 3.5k 1.7× 1.6k 2.0× 358 0.7× 280 1.7× 134 0.9× 122 3.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of H. Lee Willis

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

All Works

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Agüero, Julio Romero, et al.. (2024). Distributed Energy Resources and Electric Vehicle Adoption: A Distribution Planning Strategy and Road Map. IEEE Power and Energy Magazine. 22(6). 40–51. 1 indexed citations
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Brown, Richard E., George Frimpong, & H. Lee Willis. (2004). Failure Rate Modeling Using Equipment Inspection Data. IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. 19(2). 782–787. 108 indexed citations
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Willis, H. Lee, H. Tram, & Gary Rackliffe. (2002). Short-range load forecasting for distribution system planning-an improved method for extrapolating feeder load growth. 294–300. 1 indexed citations
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Willis, H. Lee & Walter G. Scott. (2000). Distributed Power Generation Planning And Evaluation. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 358 indexed citations
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Willis, H. Lee. (1997). Spatial Electric Load Forecasting [Book Review]. IEEE Computer Applications in Power. 10(2). 58–59. 4 indexed citations
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Willis, H. Lee. (1997). Power Distribution Planning Reference Book. 401 indexed citations breakdown →
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Willis, H. Lee, et al.. (1996). Selecting and applying distribution optimization methods. IEEE Computer Applications in Power. 9(1). 12–17. 38 indexed citations
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Rackliffe, Gary & H. Lee Willis. (1995). Distributed generation and storage -- A new perspective. 10(4). 3 indexed citations
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Willis, H. Lee, et al.. (1995). Spatial load forecasting. IEEE Computer Applications in Power. 8(2). 40–43. 33 indexed citations
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Willis, H. Lee, et al.. (1995). Forecasting electric demand of distribution system planning in rural and sparsely populated regions. IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. 10(4). 2008–2013. 17 indexed citations
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Willis, H. Lee, H. Tram, & Liffert Vogt. (1994). Demand-side management and distribution automation impact on T & D planning. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 1 indexed citations
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Willis, H. Lee, H. Tram, & Gary Rackliffe. (1992). Short-range load forecasting for distribution system planning-an improved method for extrapolating feeder load growth. IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. 7(3). 1306–1312. 15 indexed citations
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Willis, H. Lee, J. E. D. Northcote-Green, & H. Tram. (1987). - Computerized Distribution Planning - Data Needs and Results with Incomplete Data. IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery. 2(4). 1228–1235. 7 indexed citations
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Willis, H. Lee, et al.. (1987). Substation Siting and Capacity Selection Based on Diversity Maximization. IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. 2(3). 692–699. 7 indexed citations
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Willis, H. Lee, et al.. (1987). Long-Range Distribution Planning with Load Forecast Uncertainty. IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. 2(3). 684–691. 3 indexed citations
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Willis, H. Lee. (1977). Small area electric load forecasting by dual level spatial frequency modeling. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. 14(14). 987–994. 2 indexed citations

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