Joyce Kim

1.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
13 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Joyce Kim is a scholar working on Building and Construction, Environmental Engineering and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Joyce Kim has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Building and Construction, 5 papers in Environmental Engineering and 2 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Joyce Kim's work include Building Energy and Comfort Optimization (11 papers), Urban Heat Island Mitigation (5 papers) and Wind and Air Flow Studies (2 papers). Joyce Kim is often cited by papers focused on Building Energy and Comfort Optimization (11 papers), Urban Heat Island Mitigation (5 papers) and Wind and Air Flow Studies (2 papers). Joyce Kim collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Singapore. Joyce Kim's co-authors include Stefano Schiavon, Gail Brager, Paul Raftery, Yuxun Zhou, Gabe Fierro, Michael Andersen, Edward Arens, David Culler, Hui Zhang and Fred Bauman and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the IEEE, Energy and Buildings and Building and Environment.

In The Last Decade

Joyce Kim

13 papers receiving 1.0k 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.

Personal comfort models – A new paradigm in thermal comfort for occupant-centric environmental control

2018 369 citations Joyce Kim, Stefano Schiavon et al. Building and Environment profile →
Personal comfort models: Predicting individuals' thermal preference using occupant heating and cooling behavior and machine learning

2017 353 citations Joyce Kim, Yuxun Zhou et al. Building and Environment profile →

Peers

Joyce Kim

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Marco Arnesano Italy

Da Li United States

Zahra Sadat Zomorodian Iran

Tyler Hoyt United States

Giovanni Pernigotto Italy

Francesca Cappelletti Italy

Francesco Salamone Italy

Marika Vellei France

Mohammad Tahsildoost Iran

Yuzhen Peng Switzerland

Marco Arnesano Italy

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697 ×0.8

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346 ×0.7

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134 ×0.7

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150 ×1.0

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138 ×1.0

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Citations per year, relative to Joyce Kim Joyce Kim (= 1×) peers Marco Arnesano

Countries citing papers authored by Joyce Kim

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Fields of papers citing papers by Joyce Kim

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Joyce Kim

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

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13 of 13 papers shown

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Jalaei, Farzad, et al.. (2025). Enhancing Circularity in the Building Industry: A Review of Material Passports and Digital Twin Technologies. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management. 152(2). 1 indexed citations

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Quintana, Matías, et al.. (2022). Cohort comfort models — Using occupant’s similarity to predict personal thermal preference with less data. Building and Environment. 227. 109685–109685. 30 indexed citations

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Ardakanian, Omid, et al.. (2022). Addressing data inadequacy challenges in personal comfort models by combining pretrained comfort models. Energy and Buildings. 264. 112068–112068. 20 indexed citations

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Azar, Elie, William O’Brien, Salvatore Carlucci, et al.. (2020). Simulation-aided occupant-centric building design: A critical review of tools, methods, and applications. Energy and Buildings. 224. 110292–110292. 90 indexed citations

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Jia, Ruoxi, Baihong Jin, Ming Jin, et al.. (2018). Design Automation for Smart Building Systems. Proceedings of the IEEE. 106(9). 1680–1699. 63 indexed citations

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Kim, Joyce, Fred Bauman, Paul Raftery, et al.. (2018). Occupant comfort and behavior: High-resolution data from a 6-month field study of personal comfort systems with 37 real office workers. Building and Environment. 148. 348–360. 105 indexed citations

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Kim, Joyce, Stefano Schiavon, & Gail Brager. (2018). Personal comfort models – A new paradigm in thermal comfort for occupant-centric environmental control. Building and Environment. 132. 114–124. 369 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kim, Joyce, Yuxun Zhou, Stefano Schiavon, Paul Raftery, & Gail Brager. (2017). Personal comfort models: Predicting individuals' thermal preference using occupant heating and cooling behavior and machine learning. Building and Environment. 129. 96–106. 353 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bauman, Fred, Paul Raftery, Joyce Kim, et al.. (2017). Changing the Rules: Innovative Low-Energy Occupant-Responsive HVAC Controls and Systems. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 4 indexed citations

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Peffer, Therese, Marco Pritoni, Gabe Fierro, et al.. (2016). Writing controls sequences for buildings: from HVAC industry enclave to hacker's weekend project. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 7 indexed citations

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Zhao, Peng, Therese Peffer, Gabe Fierro, et al.. (2016). Getting into the zone: how the internet of things can improve energy efficiency and demand response in a commercial building. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 11 indexed citations

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Andersen, Michael, Gabe Fierro, Sam Kumar, et al.. (2016). Well-connected microzones for increased building efficiency and occupant comfort. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 15 indexed citations

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Andersen, Michael, Gabe Fierro, Sam Kumar, et al.. (2015). Poster Abstract. 121–122. 5 indexed citations

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