Massimo Fiorentini

1.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
33 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Massimo Fiorentini is a scholar working on Building and Construction, Environmental Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Massimo Fiorentini has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Building and Construction, 14 papers in Environmental Engineering and 10 papers in Mechanical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Massimo Fiorentini's work include Building Energy and Comfort Optimization (27 papers), Urban Heat Island Mitigation (11 papers) and Wind and Air Flow Studies (9 papers). Massimo Fiorentini is often cited by papers focused on Building Energy and Comfort Optimization (27 papers), Urban Heat Island Mitigation (11 papers) and Wind and Air Flow Studies (9 papers). Massimo Fiorentini collaborates with scholars based in Australia, Denmark and Switzerland. Massimo Fiorentini's co-authors include Alfonso Capozzoli, Paul Cooper, Gianluca Serale, Alberto Bemporad, Daniele Bernardini, Zhenjun Ma, Luca Baldini, Julio H. Braslavsky, Josh Wall and Silvio Brandi and has published in prestigious journals such as Applied Energy, Energy Conversion and Management and Energy.

In The Last Decade

Massimo Fiorentini

32 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit 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.

Model Predictive Control (MPC) for Enhancing Building and HVAC System Energy Efficiency: Problem Formulation, Applications and Opportunities

2018 411 citations Gianluca Serale, Massimo Fiorentini et al. Energies profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Massimo Fiorentini Australia	14	768	368	335	328	240	33	1.1k
F.W. Yu Hong Kong	24	1.1k 1.4×	321 0.9×	412 1.2×	763 2.3×	257 1.1×	83	1.5k
Ján Široký Czechia	9	1.0k 1.3×	343 0.9×	238 0.7×	257 0.8×	276 1.1×	21	1.2k
Borui Cui United States	16	600 0.8×	450 1.2×	180 0.5×	222 0.7×	158 0.7×	35	933
Clemens Felsmann Germany	16	1.1k 1.4×	551 1.5×	615 1.8×	294 0.9×	386 1.6×	48	1.7k
V. I. Hanby United Kingdom	17	819 1.1×	254 0.7×	425 1.3×	451 1.4×	364 1.5×	50	1.3k
M. Castilla Spain	15	558 0.7×	481 1.3×	140 0.4×	159 0.5×	202 0.8×	54	1.0k
V. S. K. V. Harish India	10	531 0.7×	279 0.8×	183 0.5×	123 0.4×	270 1.1×	36	903
Dian-ce Gao Hong Kong	17	623 0.8×	565 1.5×	331 1.0×	385 1.2×	158 0.7×	44	1.2k
B. Lehmann Switzerland	11	1.5k 2.0×	433 1.2×	510 1.5×	664 2.0×	490 2.0×	15	1.9k
Gianluca Serale Italy	14	453 0.6×	238 0.6×	300 0.9×	319 1.0×	90 0.4×	19	817

Countries citing papers authored by Massimo Fiorentini

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Massimo Fiorentini's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Massimo Fiorentini with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Massimo Fiorentini more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Massimo Fiorentini

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Massimo Fiorentini. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Massimo Fiorentini. The network helps show where Massimo Fiorentini may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Massimo Fiorentini

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

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

Fiorentini, Massimo, et al.. (2025). Energy flexibility quantification of the building’s thermal mass for radiator and floor heating systems. Energy. 325. 135903–135903. 1 indexed citations

Knudsen, Michael Dahl, Massimo Fiorentini, & Steffen Petersen. (2024). A heat-measurement-free strategy for Economic Model Predictive Control of hydronic radiators. Journal of Building Engineering. 97. 110694–110694. 1 indexed citations

Eggimann, Sven & Massimo Fiorentini. (2024). Transferring energy signatures across space and time to assess their viability for rapid urban energy demand estimation. Energy and Buildings. 316. 114348–114348. 4 indexed citations

Fiorentini, Massimo, et al.. (2024). Comparison of data-driven stochastic window operation models for residential buildings. Building and Environment. 261. 111765–111765. 1 indexed citations

Worlitschek, Jörg, et al.. (2024). Techno-economic optimization and feasibility of PCM-based seasonal thermal energy storage systems for district heating and cooling. Energy and Buildings. 324. 114925–114925. 7 indexed citations

Eggimann, Sven, Robin Mutschler, Kristina Orehounig, & Massimo Fiorentini. (2023). Climate change shifts the trade-off between lower cooling and higher heating demand from daylight saving time in office buildings. Environmental Research Letters. 18(2). 24001–24001. 4 indexed citations

Vivian, Jacopo, Philipp Heer, & Massimo Fiorentini. (2023). Optimal sizing and operation of seasonal ice thermal storage systems. Energy and Buildings. 300. 113633–113633. 18 indexed citations

Eggimann, Sven, Jacopo Vivian, & Massimo Fiorentini. (2023). Heating and cooling European buildings with lakes?. Europhysics news. 54(3). 16–19. 1 indexed citations

Fiorentini, Massimo, et al.. (2021). Enhancing energy efficiency and comfort in buildings through model predictive control for dynamic façades with electrochromic glazing. Journal of Building Engineering. 43. 102535–102535. 31 indexed citations

10.

Fiorentini, Massimo & Luca Baldini. (2021). Control-oriented modelling and operational optimization of a borehole thermal energy storage. Applied Thermal Engineering. 199. 117518–117518. 10 indexed citations

11.

Agalgaonkar, Ashish P., et al.. (2019). Optimisation framework for the operation of battery storage within solar‐rich microgrids. IET Smart Grid. 2(4). 504–513. 8 indexed citations

12.

Fiorentini, Massimo, Gianluca Serale, Georgios Kokogiannakis, Alfonso Capozzoli, & Paul Cooper. (2019). Development and evaluation of a comfort-oriented control strategy for thermal management of mixed-mode ventilated buildings. Energy and Buildings. 202. 109347–109347. 32 indexed citations

13.

Serale, Gianluca, Massimo Fiorentini, Alfonso Capozzoli, Daniele Bernardini, & Alberto Bemporad. (2018). Model Predictive Control (MPC) for Enhancing Building and HVAC System Energy Efficiency: Problem Formulation, Applications and Opportunities. Energies. 11(3). 631–631. 411 indexed citations breakdown →

14.

Serale, Gianluca, Massimo Fiorentini, Alfonso Capozzoli, Paul Cooper, & Marco Perino. (2018). Formulation of a model predictive control algorithm to enhance the performance of a latent heat solar thermal system. Energy Conversion and Management. 173. 438–449. 43 indexed citations

15.

Fiorentini, Massimo, et al.. (2017). Ventilative cooling through automated window opening control systems to address thermal discomfort risk during the summer period: Framework, simulation and parametric analysis. Energy and Buildings. 153. 18–30. 27 indexed citations

16.

Fiorentini, Massimo, et al.. (2016). Evaluation Methodology and Implementation for Natural Ventilation Control Strategies. Research Online (University of Wollongong). 1. 2 indexed citations

17.

Fiorentini, Massimo, Josh Wall, Zhenjun Ma, Julio H. Braslavsky, & Paul Cooper. (2016). Hybrid model predictive control of a residential HVAC system with on-site thermal energy generation and storage. Applied Energy. 187. 465–479. 109 indexed citations

18.

Fiorentini, Massimo, Paul Cooper, Zhenjun Ma, & Josh Wall. (2015). Experimental investigation of an innovative HVAC system with integrated PVT and PCM thermal storage for a net-zero energy retrofitted house. Research Online (University of Wollongong). 1. 2 indexed citations

19.

Fiorentini, Massimo, Paul Cooper, Zhenjun Ma, & Duane Robinson. (2015). Hybrid Model Predictive Control of a Residential HVAC System with PVT Energy Generation and PCM Thermal Storage. Energy Procedia. 83. 21–30. 37 indexed citations

20.

Stappenbelt, Brad, Massimo Fiorentini, Paul Cooper, Song‐Ping Zhu, & Jean-Roch Nader. (2011). System Identification of a Floating Oscillating Water Column Wave Energy Converter. 521–527. 1 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact