Hatef Madani

2.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
62 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Hatef Madani is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Building and Construction and Mechanical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Hatef Madani has authored 62 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 28 papers in Building and Construction and 19 papers in Mechanical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Hatef Madani's work include Building Energy and Comfort Optimization (28 papers), Geothermal Energy Systems and Applications (20 papers) and Integrated Energy Systems Optimization (13 papers). Hatef Madani is often cited by papers focused on Building Energy and Comfort Optimization (28 papers), Geothermal Energy Systems and Applications (20 papers) and Integrated Energy Systems Optimization (13 papers). Hatef Madani collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, China and Japan. Hatef Madani's co-authors include David S. Fischer, Nelson Sommerfeldt, Björn Palm, Chang Su, Per Lundqvist, Joachim Claesson, Christof Wittwer, Karen Byskov Lindberg, Jeannette Wapler and Chris Bales and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews and Applied Energy.

In The Last Decade

Hatef Madani

57 papers receiving 1.6k 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.

On heat pumps in smart grids: A review

2016 321 citations David S. Fischer, Hatef Madani 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						Papers	Cites
Hatef Madani Sweden	19	874	768	748	544	158	62	1.6k
Chris Bales Sweden	23	952 1.1×	857 1.1×	506 0.7×	725 1.3×	196 1.2×	106	1.9k
Pervez Hameed Shaikh Pakistan	17	731 0.8×	405 0.5×	582 0.8×	240 0.4×	236 1.5×	39	1.5k
Roberto Fedrizzi Italy	13	630 0.7×	515 0.7×	583 0.8×	284 0.5×	163 1.0×	64	1.2k
José A. Candanedo Canada	19	963 1.1×	473 0.6×	672 0.9×	286 0.5×	221 1.4×	62	1.4k
Yuehong Lu China	18	717 0.8×	520 0.7×	761 1.0×	326 0.6×	266 1.7×	42	1.7k
Carlo Roselli Italy	29	855 1.0×	780 1.0×	658 0.9×	1.5k 2.7×	134 0.8×	94	2.3k
Siqian Zheng Hong Kong	24	542 0.6×	389 0.5×	436 0.6×	540 1.0×	258 1.6×	33	1.4k
Nick Kelly United Kingdom	19	783 0.9×	450 0.6×	537 0.7×	345 0.6×	232 1.5×	72	1.4k
Jan-Olof Dalenbäck Sweden	20	899 1.0×	714 0.9×	539 0.7×	446 0.8×	265 1.7×	89	1.5k
Wenjie Gang China	25	1.2k 1.4×	624 0.8×	774 1.0×	624 1.1×	497 3.1×	71	2.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Hatef Madani

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Sommerfeldt, Nelson, et al.. (2025). Cutting peaks and costs: Techno-economic design guidelines for solar PVT and GSHP in land-constrained multi-family buildings. Energy Conversion and Management. 348. 120696–120696.

Song, Yang, et al.. (2024). Innovative approaches to overcome inadequate measurements in heat pumps with non-fluorinated refrigerants. Energy Conversion and Management. 319. 118970–118970. 2 indexed citations

Zhang, Chengquan, et al.. (2024). Environmental Awareness and Social Sustainability: Insights from an Agent-Based Model with Social Learning and Individual Heterogeneity. Sustainability. 16(17). 7853–7853. 2 indexed citations

Sommerfeldt, Nelson, et al.. (2024). Empirical investigation of solar photovoltaic-thermal collectors for heat pump integration. Applied Thermal Engineering. 248. 123175–123175. 13 indexed citations

Xu, Tianhao, et al.. (2024). Applying indirect evaporative chillers for comfort cooling in Northern European commercial buildings: A case study in Sweden. Applied Thermal Engineering. 248. 123158–123158. 3 indexed citations

Madani, Hatef, et al.. (2024). High temperature heat pump with dual uses of cooling and heating for industrial applications. Applied Energy. 379. 124962–124962. 8 indexed citations

Madani, Hatef, et al.. (2024). From White to Black-Box Models: A Review of Simulation Tools for Building Energy Management and Their Application in Consulting Practices. Energies. 17(2). 376–376. 27 indexed citations

Song, Yang, et al.. (2023). Data-driven soft sensors targeting heat pump systems. Energy Conversion and Management. 279. 116769–116769. 14 indexed citations

Zhao, Sijia, et al.. (2020). A Combined Multi-Level Perspective and Agent-Based Modeling in Low-Carbon Transition Analysis. Energies. 13(19). 5050–5050. 11 indexed citations

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Su, Chang, Hatef Madani, & Björn Palm. (2019). Spatial Data Assisted Ground Source Heat Pump Potential Analysis in China, a Case of Qingdao City. Energy Procedia. 158. 6099–6104. 5 indexed citations

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Fischer, David S. & Hatef Madani. (2016). On heat pumps in smart grids: A review. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 70. 342–357. 321 indexed citations breakdown →

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Fischer, David S., et al.. (2014). Investigation of Thermal Storage Operation Strategies with Heat Pumps in German Multi Family Houses. Energy Procedia. 58. 137–144. 37 indexed citations

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Madani, Hatef, et al.. (2014). Cost-efficient implementation of k-NN algorithm on multi-core processors. 1. 205–208. 4 indexed citations

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Madani, Hatef, et al.. (2014). Capacity control in air–water heat pumps: Total cost of ownership analysis. Energy and Buildings. 81. 296–304. 10 indexed citations

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Madani, Hatef, et al.. (2013). Fast and adaptive BP-based multi-core implementation for stereo matching. Formal Methods. 135–138. 3 indexed citations

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Madani, Hatef. (2012). Capacity-controlled Ground Source Heat Pump Systems for Swedish single-family dwellings. 6 indexed citations

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Madani, Hatef & Per Lundqvist. (2011). Evaluation of the annual performance of Ground Source Heat Pump systems : A comparison between single speed and variable speed systems. 3741–3748. 1 indexed citations

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Madani, Hatef, Joachim Claesson, & Per Lundqvist. (2010). Retrofitting a variable capacity heat pump to a ventilation heat recovery system : modeling and performance analysis. 649–658. 5 indexed citations

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Madani, Hatef, et al.. (2010). The Ground Source Heat Pump: A System Analysis With a Particular Focus on The U-Pipe Borehole Heat Exchanger. 395–402. 5 indexed citations

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Madani, Hatef, Joachim Claesson, & Per Lundqvist. (2008). Variable capacity heat pump systems, modeling and simulation. 1 indexed citations

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