Issa Jaffal

882 total citations · 1 hit paper
9 papers, 713 citations indexed

About

Issa Jaffal is a scholar working on Building and Construction, Environmental Engineering and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Issa Jaffal has authored 9 papers receiving a total of 713 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Building and Construction, 8 papers in Environmental Engineering and 2 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Issa Jaffal's work include Building Energy and Comfort Optimization (8 papers), Wind and Air Flow Studies (5 papers) and Urban Heat Island Mitigation (4 papers). Issa Jaffal is often cited by papers focused on Building Energy and Comfort Optimization (8 papers), Wind and Air Flow Studies (5 papers) and Urban Heat Island Mitigation (4 papers). Issa Jaffal collaborates with scholars based in France and Lebanon. Issa Jaffal's co-authors include Salah-Eddine Ouldboukhitine, Rafik Belarbi, Christian Inard, Abdelkrim Trabelsi, Christian Ghiaus, Emmanuel Bozonnet, Kamel Ghali and Nesreen Ghaddar and has published in prestigious journals such as Renewable Energy, Energy and Buildings and Building and Environment.

In The Last Decade

Issa Jaffal

9 papers receiving 687 citations

Hit Papers

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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 comprehensive study of the impact of green roofs on building energy performance

2011 394 citations Issa Jaffal, Salah-Eddine Ouldboukhitine et al. Renewable Energy profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Issa Jaffal France	6	574	520	240	88	70	9	713
Holly Castleton United Kingdom	3	496 0.9×	401 0.8×	298 1.2×	163 1.9×	57 0.8×	4	722
Rabah Djedjig France	13	520 0.9×	459 0.9×	252 1.1×	76 0.9×	71 1.0×	23	726
Maurizio Detommaso Italy	14	395 0.7×	412 0.8×	165 0.7×	77 0.9×	41 0.6×	28	605
Francesca Olivieri Spain	15	539 0.9×	524 1.0×	291 1.2×	106 1.2×	75 1.1×	46	834
Kalani C. Dahanayake Hong Kong	9	487 0.8×	410 0.8×	297 1.2×	92 1.0×	27 0.4×	9	644
Babak Raji Netherlands	5	379 0.7×	389 0.7×	169 0.7×	53 0.6×	22 0.3×	7	534
Irina Susorova United States	4	398 0.7×	369 0.7×	204 0.8×	51 0.6×	20 0.3×	6	489
Abel Tablada Singapore	19	618 1.1×	520 1.0×	225 0.9×	83 0.9×	16 0.2×	35	880
Ayman Mahmoud Egypt	14	461 0.8×	475 0.9×	293 1.2×	144 1.6×	20 0.3×	30	731
Jannik Heusinger Germany	13	388 0.7×	233 0.4×	238 1.0×	155 1.8×	58 0.8×	19	511

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Issa Jaffal

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

All Works

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9 of 9 papers shown

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Jaffal, Issa. (2022). Physics-informed machine learning for metamodeling thermal comfort in non-air-conditioned buildings. Building Simulation. 16(2). 299–316. 8 indexed citations

2.

Jaffal, Issa, Christian Inard, Nesreen Ghaddar, & Kamel Ghali. (2020). A metamodel for long-term thermal comfort in non-air-conditioned buildings. Architectural Engineering and Design Management. 16(6). 441–472. 4 indexed citations

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Jaffal, Issa & Christian Inard. (2019). An insight into the thermal behaviour of a building based on a metamodel for cooling energy consumption. Advances in Building Energy Research. 15(4). 523–547. 2 indexed citations

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Jaffal, Issa & Christian Inard. (2019). A metamodeling method to study the nonlinearity of building thermal behavior. Journal of Building Engineering. 28. 101078–101078. 3 indexed citations

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Jaffal, Issa & Christian Inard. (2017). A metamodel for building energy performance. Energy and Buildings. 151. 501–510. 30 indexed citations

6.

Jaffal, Issa, Christian Inard, & Emmanuel Bozonnet. (2012). Toward integrated building design: A parametric method for evaluating heating demand. Applied Thermal Engineering. 40. 267–274. 20 indexed citations

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Jaffal, Issa, Salah-Eddine Ouldboukhitine, & Rafik Belarbi. (2011). A comprehensive study of the impact of green roofs on building energy performance. Renewable Energy. 43. 157–164. 394 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ouldboukhitine, Salah-Eddine, Rafik Belarbi, Issa Jaffal, & Abdelkrim Trabelsi. (2011). Assessment of green roof thermal behavior: A coupled heat and mass transfer model. Building and Environment. 46(12). 2624–2631. 160 indexed citations

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Jaffal, Issa, Christian Inard, & Christian Ghiaus. (2009). Fast method to predict building heating demand based on the design of experiments. Energy and Buildings. 41(6). 669–677. 92 indexed citations

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