Iain Staffell

24.4k total citations · 14 hit papers
144 papers, 17.9k citations indexed

About

Iain Staffell is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Energy Engineering and Power Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Iain Staffell has authored 144 papers receiving a total of 17.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 95 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 44 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 27 papers in Energy Engineering and Power Technology. Recurrent topics in Iain Staffell's work include Integrated Energy Systems Optimization (61 papers), Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems (27 papers) and Electric Power System Optimization (25 papers). Iain Staffell is often cited by papers focused on Integrated Energy Systems Optimization (61 papers), Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems (27 papers) and Electric Power System Optimization (25 papers). Iain Staffell collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Switzerland and Denmark. Iain Staffell's co-authors include Stefan Pfenninger, Adam Hawkes, Oliver Schmidt, Paul Balcombe, Ajay Gambhir, Paul Ekins, Paul E. Dodds, Richard Green, Nilay Shah and Bruno G. Pollet and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Society Reviews, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Energy & Environmental Science.

In The Last Decade

Iain Staffell

135 papers receiving 17.2k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

The role of hydrogen and fuel cells in the global energy system

2018 2.9k citations Iain Staffell, Paul Balcombe et al. profile →
Future cost and performance of water electrolysis: An expert elicitation study

2017 1.5k citations Iain Staffell, Adam Hawkes et al. profile →
Water electrolysis: from textbook knowledge to the latest scientific strategies and industrial developments

2022 1.3k citations Marian Chatenet, Bruno G. Pollet et al. Chemical Society Reviews profile →
Long-term patterns of European PV output using 30 years of validated hourly reanalysis and satellite data

2016 1.1k citations Stefan Pfenninger, Iain Staffell Energy profile →
Using bias-corrected reanalysis to simulate current and future wind power output

2016 946 citations Iain Staffell, Stefan Pfenninger Energy profile →
The future cost of electrical energy storage based on experience rates

2017 854 citations Adam Hawkes, Iain Staffell et al. Nature Energy profile →
Projecting the Future Levelized Cost of Electricity Storage Technologies

2019 654 citations Adam Hawkes, Iain Staffell et al. profile →
Hydrogen and fuel cell technologies for heating: A review

2015 595 citations Iain Staffell, Adam Hawkes et al. profile →
How to decarbonise international shipping: Options for fuels, technologies and policies

2019 472 citations Paul Balcombe, Jamie Speirs et al. Energy Conversion and Management profile →
Current status of hybrid, battery and fuel cell electric vehicles: From electrochemistry to market prospects

2012 420 citations Bruno G. Pollet, Iain Staffell et al. profile →
How does wind farm performance decline with age?

2014 355 citations Iain Staffell et al. Renewable Energy profile →
High-resolution large-scale onshore wind energy assessments: A review of potential definitions, methodologies and future research needs

2021 144 citations Russell McKenna, Stefan Pfenninger et al. Renewable Energy profile →
A global model of hourly space heating and cooling demand at multiple spatial scales

2023 102 citations Iain Staffell, Stefan Pfenninger et al. Nature Energy profile →
Realistic roles for hydrogen in the future energy transition

2025 75 citations Russell McKenna, Iain Staffell et al. profile →

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Historical and future projected costs of capital for ten energy technologies across 176 countries 2025 ·Scientific Data ·(unknown), Iain Staffell, Malte Jansen, Gbemi Oluleye, Adam Hawkes	0
2	Examining pathways for a climate neutral Europe by 2050; A model comparison analysis including integrated assessment models and energy system models 2025 ·Energy ·(unknown), Mark Roelfsema, (unknown), Iain Staffell, Gabriel Oreggioni, (unknown), Jakob Zinck Thellufsen, Miguel Chang, Panagiotis Fragkos, Anastasis Giannousakis, Souran Chatterjee, Diána Ürge-Vorsatz, Stefan Pfenninger, Bryn Pickering, Marta Victoria, Tom Brown, Detlef P. van Vuuren	4
3	Improving wind power modelling through granular spatial and temporal bias correction of reanalysis data 2024 ·Energy ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Iain Staffell, Matthew D. Piggott	1
4	Spatial integration for firm and load-following wind generation 2024 ·Environmental Research Letters ·Javier López Prol, Fernando DeLlano-Paz, Anxo Calvo-Silvosa, Stefan Pfenninger, Iain Staffell	0
5	Aquifer Thermal Energy Storage for low carbon heating and cooling in the United Kingdom: Current status and future prospects 2024 ·Applied Energy ·Matthew D. Jackson, (unknown), Iain Staffell	11
6	Near-term carbon dioxide removal deployment can minimize disruptive pace of decarbonization and economic risks towards United States’ net-zero goal 2024 ·Communications Earth & Environment ·Humphrey Adun, Jeffrey Dankwa Ampah, Olusola Bamisile, Yihua Hu, Iain Staffell, (unknown)	3
7	Island in the Sea: The prospects and impacts of an offshore wind power hub in the North Sea 2022 ·Advances in Applied Energy ·Malte Jansen, (unknown), T.C. Green, Iain Staffell	33
8	Policy choices and outcomes for offshore wind auctions globally 2022 ·Sussex Research Online (University of Sussex) ·Philipp Beiter, Iegor Riepin, Felix Müsgens, (unknown), Iain Staffell, Bernard Bulder, Lena Kitzing	34
9	Comparing satellite methane measurements to inventory estimates: A Canadian case study 2022 ·Atmospheric Environment X ·(unknown), Jasmin Cooper, Iain Staffell, Adam Hawkes, Paul Balcombe	4
10	Water electrolysis: from textbook knowledge to the latest scientific strategies and industrial developments breakdown → 2022 ·Chemical Society Reviews ·Marian Chatenet, Bruno G. Pollet, Dario R. Dekel, Fabio Dionigi, Jonathan Deseure, Pierre Millet, Richard D. Braatz, Martin Z. Bazant, Michael Eikerling, Iain Staffell, Paul Balcombe, Yang Shao‐Horn, Helmut Schäfer	1292
11	High-resolution large-scale onshore wind energy assessments: A review of potential definitions, methodologies and future research needs breakdown → 2021 ·Renewable Energy ·Russell McKenna, Stefan Pfenninger, Heidi Heinrichs, Johannes Schmidt, Iain Staffell, Christian Bauer, Katharina Gruber, Andrea N. Hahmann, Malte Jansen, Michael Klingler, (unknown), Xiaoli Guo Larsén, Johan Lilliestam, Bryn Pickering, Martin Robinius, Tim Tröndle, Olga Turkovska, Sebastian Wehrle, Jann Michael Weinand, Jan Wohland	144
12	The NExus Solutions Tool (NEST) v1.0: an open platform for optimizing multi-scale energy–water–land system transformations 2020 ·Geoscientific model development ·Adriano Vinca, Simon Parkinson, Edward Byers, Peter Burek, Zarrar Khan, Volker Krey, (unknown), Yaoping Wang, (unknown), Alexandre C. Köberle, Iain Staffell, Stefan Pfenninger, Abubakr Muhammad, Andrew Rowe, Roberto Schaeffer, Narasimha D. Rao, Yoshihide Wada, Ned Djilali, Keywan Riahi	45
13	Global levelised cost of electricity from offshore wind 2019 ·Energy ·(unknown), Iain Staffell, Adam Hawkes	132
14	A parametric model for wind turbine power curves incorporating\n environmental conditions 2019 ·arXiv (Cornell University) ·Yves‐Marie Saint‐Drenan, Romain Besseau, Malte Jansen, Iain Staffell, Alberto Troccoli, Laurent Dubus, Johannes Schmidt, Katharina Gruber, Sofia G. Simões, Siegfried Heier	99
15	How to decarbonise international shipping: Options for fuels, technologies and policies breakdown → 2019 ·Energy Conversion and Management ·Paul Balcombe, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Jamie Speirs, Adam Hawkes, Iain Staffell	472
16	Current status of automotive fuel cells for sustainable transport 2019 ·Current Opinion in Electrochemistry ·Bruno G. Pollet, Shyam S. Kocha, Iain Staffell	329
17	Temporally explicit and spatially resolved global offshore wind energy potentials 2018 ·Energy ·(unknown), Iain Staffell, Adam Hawkes	127
18	Rapid fuel switching from coal to natural gas through effective carbon pricing 2018 ·Nature Energy ·Grant Wilson, Iain Staffell	150
19	Databook for Nature Energy perspective on coal to gas generation 2018 ·Figshare ·Grant Alexander Wilson, Iain Staffell	1
20	Temporally-explicit and spatially-resolved global onshore wind energy potentials 2017 ·Energy ·(unknown), Iain Staffell, Adam Hawkes	130

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