Paul Raftery

3.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
71 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Paul Raftery is a scholar working on Building and Construction, Environmental Engineering and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Paul Raftery has authored 71 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 61 papers in Building and Construction, 29 papers in Environmental Engineering and 11 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Recurrent topics in Paul Raftery's work include Building Energy and Comfort Optimization (59 papers), Wind and Air Flow Studies (22 papers) and Urban Heat Island Mitigation (12 papers). Paul Raftery is often cited by papers focused on Building Energy and Comfort Optimization (59 papers), Wind and Air Flow Studies (22 papers) and Urban Heat Island Mitigation (12 papers). Paul Raftery collaborates with scholars based in United States, Ireland and China. Paul Raftery's co-authors include Marcus Keane, Daniel Coakley, Stefano Schiavon, Joyce Kim, Fred Bauman, James O’Donnell, Gail Brager, Yuxun Zhou, Andrea Costa and Edward Arens and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews and Applied Energy.

In The Last Decade

Paul Raftery

70 papers receiving 2.6k citations

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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.

A review of methods to match building energy simulation models to measured data

2014 639 citations Paul Raftery, Marcus Keane et al. profile →
Personal comfort models: Predicting individuals' thermal preference using occupant heating and cooling behavior and machine learning

2017 353 citations Stefano Schiavon, Paul Raftery et al. Building and Environment profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	How high can You Go: Determining the warmest supply water temperature for high thermal mass radiant cooling systems under thermal comfort constraints 2025 ·Energy and Buildings ·Carlos Duarte Roa, Paul Raftery, Stefano Schiavon, Fred Bauman	2
2	Embodied carbon in mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems: A critical literature review 2025 ·Building and Environment ·(unknown), Claudiane Ouellet‐Plamondon, Paul Raftery	2
3	Assessing Overheating Risk and Energy Impacts in California's Residential Buildings 2025 ·Houshuo Jiang, Yan Wang, Charlie Huizenga, (unknown), Paul Raftery, Stefano Schiavon, Gail Brager	0
4	Field Demonstration of the Brick Ontology to Scale up the Deployment of ASHRAE Guideline 36 Control Sequences 2024 ·Carlos Duarte Roa, Paul Raftery, Anand Krishnan Prakash, Therese Peffer	1
5	Material Selection and System Layout to Lower Embodied Carbon of Pipe in an Office Building 2024 ·(unknown), Paul Raftery	1
6	HEATING HOT WATER DISTRIBUTION HEAT LOSSES—DETAILED MEASUREMENT 2024 ·David T. A. Vernon, (unknown), Paul Raftery	2
7	Comparing airborne infectious aerosol exposures in sparsely occupied large spaces utilizing large-diameter ceiling fans 2023 ·Building and Environment ·Senwen Yang, Liangzhu Wang, Paul Raftery, (unknown), (unknown), William P. Bahnfleth, Pawel Wargocki, Jovan Pantelic, (unknown), Mohammad Mortezazadeh, Chang Shu, Runzhong Wang, Scott M. Arnold	6
8	A perspective on tools for assessing the building sector’s greenhouse gas emissions and beyond 2023 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·(unknown), Paul Raftery, Gail Brager, Arpad Horvath	9
9	Measured Space Heating Hot Water Distribution Losses in Large Commercial Buildings 2023 ·Paul Raftery, David T. A. Vernon, (unknown), (unknown)	1
10	Integrating Smart Ceiling Fans and Communicating Thermostats to Provide Energy-Efficient Comfort 2020 ·eScholarship (California Digital Library) ·Paul Raftery, Dana Miller, Hui Zhang, Therese Peffer, Gail Brager, Lindsay T. Graham, Elaina Present, Edward Arens, (unknown), Gwelen Paliaga, (unknown), Sebastian Cohn, (unknown)	2
11	Measuring 3D indoor air velocity via an inexpensive low-power ultrasonic anemometer 2020 ·Energy and Buildings ·Edward Arens, Ali Ghahramani, Richard J. Przybyla, Michael Andersen, (unknown), Therese Peffer, Paul Raftery, (unknown), (unknown), Hui Zhang	27
12	Ceiling-fan-integrated air conditioning: Airflow and temperature characteristics of a sidewall-supply jet interacting with a ceiling fan 2020 ·Building and Environment ·Wenhua Chen, Hui Zhang, Edward Arens, Maohui Luo, Zi Wang, Ling Jin, Junjie Liu, Fred Bauman, Paul Raftery	31
13	Side-by-side laboratory comparison of radiant and all-air cooling: How natural ventilation cooling and heat gain characteristics impact space heat extraction rates and daily thermal energy use 2019 ·Energy and Buildings ·(unknown), Stefano Schiavon, Fred Bauman, Paul Raftery	20
14	Ceiling fans: Predicting indoor air speeds based on full scale laboratory measurements 2019 ·Building and Environment ·Paul Raftery, (unknown), Wenhua Chen, Yingdong He, Hui Zhang, Edward Arens, Stefano Schiavon, Gwelen Paliaga	36
15	How High Can You Go? Determining the Highest Supply Water Temperature for High Thermal Mass Radiant Cooling Systems in California 2018 ·eScholarship (California Digital Library) ·Carlos Duarte Roa, Paul Raftery, Stefano Schiavon, Fred Bauman	2
16	Ceiling fan air speeds around desks and office partitions 2017 ·Building and Environment ·Yunfei Gao, Hui Zhang, Edward Arens, Elaina Present, Baisong Ning, Yongchao Zhai, Jovan Pantelic, Maohui Luo, Lei Zhao, Paul Raftery, Shichao Liu	41
17	Advanced Integrated Systems Technology Development: Personal Comfort Systems and Radiant Slab Systems 2015 ·eScholarship (California Digital Library) ·Fred Bauman, Hui Zhang, Edward Arens, Paul Raftery, Caroline Karmann, Jingjuan Feng, Yongchao Zhai, Darryl Dickerhoff, Stefano Schiavon, Xiang Zhou	8
18	Key factors methodology—A novel support to the decision making process of the building energy manager in defining optimal operation strategies 2012 ·Energy and Buildings ·Andrea Costa, Marcus Keane, Paul Raftery, James O’Donnell	17
19	Calibrating whole building energy models: An evidence-based methodology 2011 ·Energy and Buildings ·Paul Raftery, Marcus Keane, James O’Donnell	227
20	Calibrating whole building energy models: Detailed case study using hourly measured data 2011 ·Energy and Buildings ·Paul Raftery, Marcus Keane, Andrea Costa	173

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