Maria Vahdati

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
34 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

Maria Vahdati is a scholar working on Building and Construction, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Maria Vahdati has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Building and Construction, 8 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 7 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Maria Vahdati's work include Solar Thermal and Photovoltaic Systems (4 papers), Wind and Air Flow Studies (4 papers) and Smart Grid Energy Management (4 papers). Maria Vahdati is often cited by papers focused on Solar Thermal and Photovoltaic Systems (4 papers), Wind and Air Flow Studies (4 papers) and Smart Grid Energy Management (4 papers). Maria Vahdati collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Qatar and Iran. Maria Vahdati's co-authors include Grant Wilson, Peter Styring, Mehdi Shahrestani, Janet F. Barlow, Derek Clements‐Croome, Tasawar Hayat, Abdul Shakoor, Muhammad Imran Khan, Abbas Elmualim and Mohammad Hasan Khoshgoftar Manesh and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Applied Energy and Construction and Building Materials.

In The Last Decade

Maria Vahdati

33 papers receiving 997 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.

Sustainable Ammonia Production Processes

2021 358 citations Maria Vahdati, Grant Wilson et al. Frontiers in Energy Research profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Maria Vahdati United Kingdom	13	233	221	211	192	160	34	1.0k
Jon Maddy United Kingdom	14	341 1.5×	119 0.5×	135 0.6×	221 1.2×	547 3.4×	30	1.6k
Jakov Baleta Croatia	22	145 0.6×	133 0.6×	120 0.6×	82 0.4×	182 1.1×	57	1.4k
Ennio Carnevale Italy	23	185 0.8×	342 1.5×	430 2.0×	61 0.3×	172 1.1×	62	1.8k
Somtochukwu Godfrey Nnabuife United Kingdom	15	261 1.1×	136 0.6×	109 0.5×	192 1.0×	316 2.0×	29	1.4k
Omar Farrok Bangladesh	20	296 1.3×	154 0.7×	150 0.7×	61 0.3×	780 4.9×	74	1.7k
Joao M. Uratani United Arab Emirates	9	173 0.7×	120 0.5×	112 0.5×	122 0.6×	191 1.2×	20	1.0k
Iva Ridjan Skov Denmark	17	480 2.1×	200 0.9×	391 1.9×	165 0.9×	1.1k 6.7×	31	1.9k
Lorena Giordano Italy	19	189 0.8×	62 0.3×	138 0.7×	206 1.1×	358 2.2×	44	1.2k
Alireza Noorpoor Iran	21	321 1.4×	83 0.4×	98 0.5×	65 0.3×	196 1.2×	69	1.3k
Fontina Petrakopoulou Spain	26	478 2.1×	73 0.3×	190 0.9×	145 0.8×	309 1.9×	64	1.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Maria Vahdati

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Maria Vahdati

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All Works

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Mohareb, Eugene, et al.. (2025). Environmental life cycle assessments of decentralized municipal solid waste management: a novel waste-to-compost approach. Discover Sustainability. 6(1). 3 indexed citations

Mohareb, Eugene, et al.. (2025). Social Life Cycle Assessment (S-LCA) of formal and informal waste collectors in decentralized waste to compost facility. Cleaner Environmental Systems. 17. 100284–100284. 1 indexed citations

Vahdati, Maria, et al.. (2024). Biomimicry in construction: Glycoprotein-stabilised adobe bricks for enhanced compressive strength inspired by termites mounds. Construction and Building Materials. 438. 137077–137077. 1 indexed citations

Shahrestani, Mehdi, et al.. (2024). Simultaneous sizing and energy management of multi-energy Virtual Power Plants operating in regulated energy markets. International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems. 161. 110171–110171. 2 indexed citations

Shahrestani, Mehdi, et al.. (2024). Assessing and comparing a DDPG model and GA optimization for a heat and power virtual power plant operating in a power purchase agreement scheme. Heliyon. 10(2). e24318–e24318. 5 indexed citations

Mohareb, Eugene, et al.. (2024). Evaluation of life cycle cost for the comparison of decentralized waste to composting and landfilling of municipal solid waste. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5(1). 2 indexed citations

Vahdati, Maria, et al.. (2022). Green walls in schools - The potential well-being benefits. Building and Environment. 224. 109560–109560. 19 indexed citations

Shahrestani, Mehdi, et al.. (2021). Climate change and the energy performance of buildings in the future – A case study for prefabricated buildings in the UK. Journal of Building Engineering. 39. 102285–102285. 37 indexed citations

Vahdati, Maria, et al.. (2021). Sustainable Ammonia Production Processes. Frontiers in Energy Research. 9. 358 indexed citations breakdown →

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Vahdati, Maria, et al.. (2018). An environmental impact assessment of the management of cassava waste: a case study in Thailand. CentAUR (University of Reading). 7(2). 18–18. 4 indexed citations

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Vahdati, Maria, et al.. (2017). Fat, oil and grease reduction in commercial kitchen ductwork: A novel biological approach. Waste Management. 61. 28–39. 4 indexed citations

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Vahdati, Maria, et al.. (2014). Simulations of a photovoltaic-thermal ground source heat pump system. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Engineering Sustainability. 168(1). 28–37. 6 indexed citations

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Vahdati, Maria, et al.. (2014). Unsteady flow simulation of a vertical axis augmented wind turbine: A two-dimensional study. Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics. 125. 168–179. 135 indexed citations

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Vahdati, Maria, et al.. (2013). Demonstrating the importance of criteria and sub-criteria in building assessment methods. WIT transactions on ecology and the environment. 1. 443–454. 27 indexed citations

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Vahdati, Maria, et al.. (2013). Unsteady flow simulation of a vertical axis wind turbine: a two-dimensional study. 8 indexed citations

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Potthast, Roland, et al.. (2012). On discrimination algorithms for ill-posed problems with an application to magnetic tomography. Inverse Problems. 28(6). 65010–65010. 3 indexed citations

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Vahdati, Maria, et al.. (2012). Photovoltaic and solar-assisted ground-source heat pump systems. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Engineering Sustainability. 166(1). 32–45. 3 indexed citations

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Vahdati, Maria, et al.. (2011). Dynamic Stall for a Vertical Axis Wind Turbine in a Two-Dimensional Study. Linköping electronic conference proceedings. 57. 4225–4232. 40 indexed citations

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Vahdati, Maria, et al.. (2011). Performance Monitoring of BIPV Systems on a Development of Zero Carbon Homes in Slough, UK. 1–8. 1 indexed citations

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Vahdati, Maria, et al.. (2000). Design and development of a low NOx Coanda ejector burner. CentAUR (University of Reading). 73(494). 12–17. 3 indexed citations

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