Noah Kittner

2.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
49 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Noah Kittner is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Pollution and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Noah Kittner has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 18 papers in Pollution and 17 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Noah Kittner's work include Energy and Environment Impacts (17 papers), Electric Vehicles and Infrastructure (9 papers) and Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems (9 papers). Noah Kittner is often cited by papers focused on Energy and Environment Impacts (17 papers), Electric Vehicles and Infrastructure (9 papers) and Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems (9 papers). Noah Kittner collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Thailand. Noah Kittner's co-authors include Daniel M. Kammen, Sopitsuda Tongsopit, Rui Shan, Youngho Chang, Shabbir H. Gheewala, Sergio Castellanos, Sarah Kurtz, Yu Huang, Pamela Jagger and Alejandro Nuñez-Jimenez and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Noah Kittner

45 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit Papers

Energy storage deployment and innovation for the clean en... 2017 2026 2020 2023 2017 250 500 750
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.

  1. Energy storage deployment and innovation for the clean energy transition
    2017 909 citations Noah Kittner, Daniel M. Kammen et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Noah Kittner United States 21 956 550 409 322 298 49 2.0k
Max Wei United States 24 735 0.8× 562 1.0× 341 0.8× 399 1.2× 198 0.7× 36 2.0k
Michel Noussan Italy 25 1.1k 1.2× 579 1.1× 283 0.7× 555 1.7× 353 1.2× 68 2.1k
Heidi Heinrichs Germany 22 870 0.9× 430 0.8× 265 0.6× 712 2.2× 237 0.8× 48 2.0k
Sofia G. Simões Portugal 23 728 0.8× 510 0.9× 436 1.1× 352 1.1× 143 0.5× 64 1.8k
Siavash Khalili Finland 15 792 0.8× 525 1.0× 316 0.8× 552 1.7× 113 0.4× 19 1.5k
Amol Phadke United States 24 791 0.8× 384 0.7× 266 0.7× 165 0.5× 395 1.3× 66 1.8k
Annette Evans Australia 6 570 0.6× 309 0.6× 358 0.9× 333 1.0× 157 0.5× 9 1.8k
Wouter Nijs Netherlands 21 911 1.0× 458 0.8× 211 0.5× 579 1.8× 145 0.5× 35 1.8k
Manish Ram Finland 19 999 1.0× 745 1.4× 635 1.6× 671 2.1× 130 0.4× 25 2.2k
René Benders Netherlands 24 642 0.7× 585 1.1× 359 0.9× 342 1.1× 118 0.4× 57 2.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Noah Kittner

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Fields of papers citing papers by Noah Kittner

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Noah Kittner

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Bento, Nuno, Alejandro Nuñez-Jimenez, & Noah Kittner. (2025). Decline processes in technological innovation systems: Lessons from energy technologies. Research Policy. 54(3). 105174–105174. 2 indexed citations
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Shan, Rui & Noah Kittner. (2025). Sector-specific strategies to increase green hydrogen adoption. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 214. 115491–115491. 17 indexed citations
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Kittner, Noah, et al.. (2025). Virtual power plants: bridging utility and customer gaps to facilitate clean energy transitions. 7(2). 22008–22008. 2 indexed citations
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Kittner, Noah, et al.. (2024). Repurposing coal plants—regional economic impacts from low carbon generation. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 199. 114467–114467. 4 indexed citations
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Kittner, Noah. (2024). Trading rivers for hydropower. Nature Sustainability. 7(2). 104–105. 5 indexed citations
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Kittner, Noah, et al.. (2023). Are global efforts coordinated for a Just Transition? A review of civil society, financial, government, and academic Just Transition frameworks. Energy Research & Social Science. 108. 103371–103371. 8 indexed citations
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Lu, Jiaqi, et al.. (2023). Emission reductions from heavy-duty freight electrification aided by smart fleet management. Transportation Research Part D Transport and Environment. 121. 103846–103846. 10 indexed citations
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Ying, Yu & Noah Kittner. (2023). Hot or cold temperature disproportionately impacts U.S. energy burdens. Environmental Research Letters. 19(1). 14079–14079. 5 indexed citations
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Tongsopit, Sopitsuda, et al.. (2023). Transitioning from diesel backup generators to PV-plus-storage microgrids in California public buildings. Sustainable Production and Consumption. 38. 252–265. 20 indexed citations
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Ying, Yu, et al.. (2022). How do imports and exports affect green productivity? New evidence from partially linear functional-coefficient models. Journal of Environmental Management. 308. 114422–114422. 23 indexed citations
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Kittner, Noah, et al.. (2021). A cross-country comparison of compensation mechanisms for distributed photovoltaics in the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 145. 110820–110820. 22 indexed citations
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Ou, Yang, et al.. (2021). Evaluating long-term emission impacts of large-scale electric vehicle deployment in the US using a human-Earth systems model. Applied Energy. 300. 117364–117364. 33 indexed citations
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Kittner, Noah, Sergio Castellanos, Patricia Hidalgo-Gonzalez, Daniel M. Kammen, & Sarah Kurtz. (2021). Cross-sector storage and modeling needed for deep decarbonization. Joule. 5(10). 2529–2534. 20 indexed citations
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Jagger, Pamela & Noah Kittner. (2017). Deforestation and biomass fuel dynamics in Uganda. Biomass and Bioenergy. 105. 1–9. 37 indexed citations
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Kammen, Daniel M. & Noah Kittner. (2015). Energy in the Balkans. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 1 indexed citations
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Kittner, Noah, Shabbir H. Gheewala, & Richard M. Kamens. (2012). Life Cycle Considerations for Monocrystalline Photovoltaics in Thailand. 3(4). 143–146. 7 indexed citations

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