Patrick Janssen

1.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
41 papers, 679 citations indexed

About

Patrick Janssen is a scholar working on Building and Construction, Mechanical Engineering and Architecture. According to data from OpenAlex, Patrick Janssen has authored 41 papers receiving a total of 679 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Building and Construction, 14 papers in Mechanical Engineering and 13 papers in Architecture. Recurrent topics in Patrick Janssen's work include Design Education and Practice (14 papers), Building Energy and Comfort Optimization (13 papers) and Architecture and Computational Design (13 papers). Patrick Janssen is often cited by papers focused on Design Education and Practice (14 papers), Building Energy and Comfort Optimization (13 papers) and Architecture and Computational Design (13 papers). Patrick Janssen collaborates with scholars based in Singapore, China and Hong Kong. Patrick Janssen's co-authors include Filip Biljecki, Kian Wee Chen, Binyu Lei, Jantien Stoter, Arno Schlueter, Likai Wang, Rudi Stouffs, Guohua Ji, Winston Yap and Clayton Miller and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Sustainability and Automation in Construction.

In The Last Decade

Patrick Janssen

39 papers receiving 643 citations

Hit Papers

Challenges of urban digital twins: A systematic review an... 2023 2026 2024 2025 2023 25 50 75 100
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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.

  1. Challenges of urban digital twins: A systematic review and a Delphi expert survey
    2023 103 citations Binyu Lei, Patrick Janssen et al. Automation in Construction profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Patrick Janssen Singapore 13 453 168 117 107 92 41 679
Karen Kensek United States 15 905 2.0× 355 2.1× 58 0.5× 50 0.5× 206 2.2× 37 1.1k
John Miles United Kingdom 16 262 0.6× 78 0.5× 39 0.3× 100 0.9× 61 0.7× 75 703
Sevil Sarıyıldız Netherlands 12 609 1.3× 292 1.7× 77 0.7× 67 0.6× 73 0.8× 66 763
İpek Gürsel Dino Türkiye 12 416 0.9× 220 1.3× 35 0.3× 67 0.6× 76 0.8× 52 618
Lionel March United States 12 272 0.6× 73 0.4× 132 1.1× 173 1.6× 31 0.3× 34 699
Benachir Medjdoub United Kingdom 14 256 0.6× 102 0.6× 10 0.1× 21 0.2× 139 1.5× 37 653
Christian Anker Hviid Denmark 17 699 1.5× 386 2.3× 9 0.1× 88 0.8× 54 0.6× 55 872
Reinhard Koenig Germany 11 202 0.4× 39 0.2× 43 0.4× 34 0.3× 30 0.3× 45 359
Svetlana Olbina United States 16 843 1.9× 236 1.4× 9 0.1× 16 0.1× 140 1.5× 48 1.0k
Rabee M. Reffat Egypt 13 257 0.6× 127 0.8× 45 0.4× 60 0.6× 43 0.5× 45 486

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Fields of papers citing papers by Patrick Janssen

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Patrick Janssen

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All Works

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Lei, Binyu, Patrick Janssen, Jantien Stoter, & Filip Biljecki. (2023). Challenges of urban digital twins: A systematic review and a Delphi expert survey. Automation in Construction. 147. 104716–104716. 103 indexed citations breakdown →
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Yap, Winston, Patrick Janssen, & Filip Biljecki. (2022). Free and open source urbanism: Software for urban planning practice. Computers Environment and Urban Systems. 96. 101825–101825. 43 indexed citations
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Wang, Likai, Patrick Janssen, & Kian Wee Chen. (2022). Evolutionary Design of Residential Precincts, A Skeletal Modeling Approach for Generating Building Layout Configurations. Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia. 1. 415–424. 2 indexed citations
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Wang, Likai, Patrick Janssen, & Guohua Ji. (2020). SSIEA: a hybrid evolutionary algorithm for supporting conceptual architectural design. Artificial intelligence for engineering design analysis and manufacturing. 34(4). 458–476. 21 indexed citations
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Biljecki, Filip, et al.. (2020). Extending CityGML for IFC-sourced 3D city models. Automation in Construction. 121. 103440–103440. 69 indexed citations
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Wang, Likai, et al.. (2019). Subtractive Building Massing for Performance-Based Architectural Design Exploration: A Case Study of Daylighting Optimization. Sustainability. 11(24). 6965–6965. 25 indexed citations
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Wang, Likai, Patrick Janssen, & Guohua Ji. (2019). Diversity and Efficiency - A Hybrid Evolutionary Algorithm Combining an Island Model with a Steady-state Replacement Strategy. Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia. 2. 593–602. 5 indexed citations
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Chen, Kian Wee, Patrick Janssen, & Arno Schlueter. (2015). Analysing Populations of Design Variants Using Clustering and Archetypal Analysis. eCAADe proceedings. 1. 251–260. 4 indexed citations
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Janssen, Patrick & Rudi Stouffs. (2014). Multi-Perspective Urban Optioneering. eCAADe proceedings. 1. 79–88.
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Janssen, Patrick, et al.. (2014). Evolutionary Optimisation of Semi-Transparent Building Integrated Photovoltaic Facades. International Journal of Architectural Computing. 12(1). 81–100. 3 indexed citations
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Janssen, Patrick. (2014). Visual Dataflow Modelling - Some thoughts on complexity. eCAADe proceedings. 2. 547–556. 9 indexed citations
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Janssen, Patrick, et al.. (2013). An Evolutionary Design Process – Adaptive-Iterative Explorations in Computational Embryogenesis. Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia. 137–146. 4 indexed citations
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Shuvo, Faysal Kabir & Patrick Janssen. (2013). Modelling Informal Settlements Using a Hybrid Automata Approach. Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia. 591–600. 3 indexed citations
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Janssen, Patrick, et al.. (2012). Data transformations in custom digital workflows: Property graphs as a data model for user-defined mappings. QUT ePrints (Queensland University of Technology). 4 indexed citations
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Heng, Chye Kiang, et al.. (2012). PRELIMINARY EVALUATION OF A DAYLIGHT PERFORMANCE INDICATOR FOR URBAN ANALYSIS : FACADE VERTICAL DAYLIGHT FACTOR PER UNIT FLOOR AREA. Proceedings of SimBuild. 5(1). 638–646. 3 indexed citations
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Janssen, Patrick & Kian Wee Chen. (2011). Visual Dataflow Modelling: A Comparison of Three Systems. 2. 21 indexed citations
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Janssen, Patrick. (2006). A generative evolutionary design method. Digital Creativity. 17(1). 49–63. 32 indexed citations
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Frazer, John & Patrick Janssen. (2003). Generative and evolutionary models for design. QUT ePrints (Queensland University of Technology). 36. 187–215. 1 indexed citations

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