Ram Rajagopal

9.5k total citations · 4 hit papers
241 papers, 6.5k citations indexed

About

Ram Rajagopal is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Building and Construction and Control and Systems Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Ram Rajagopal has authored 241 papers receiving a total of 6.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 157 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 46 papers in Building and Construction and 44 papers in Control and Systems Engineering. Recurrent topics in Ram Rajagopal's work include Smart Grid Energy Management (92 papers), Electric Power System Optimization (36 papers) and Energy Load and Power Forecasting (35 papers). Ram Rajagopal is often cited by papers focused on Smart Grid Energy Management (92 papers), Electric Power System Optimization (36 papers) and Energy Load and Power Forecasting (35 papers). Ram Rajagopal collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and India. Ram Rajagopal's co-authors include Yang Weng, Pravin Varaiya, Jungsuk Kwac, June A. Flora, Martin Fischer, Jiafan Yu, Raffi Sevlian, Adrian Albert, Junjie Qin and Sean Qian and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Ram Rajagopal

226 papers receiving 6.3k 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.

Determinants of residential electricity consumption: Using smart meter data to examine the effect of climate, building characteristics, appliance stock, and occupants' behavior

2013 444 citations Ram Rajagopal, Martin Fischer et al. profile →
Household Energy Consumption Segmentation Using Hourly Data

2014 373 citations June A. Flora, Ram Rajagopal et al. profile →
Charging infrastructure access and operation to reduce the grid impacts of deep electric vehicle adoption

2022 183 citations Siobhan Powell, Gustavo Cezar et al. Nature Energy profile →
SkyScript: A Large and Semantically Diverse Vision-Language Dataset for Remote Sensing

2024 39 citations Zhecheng Wang, Ram Rajagopal et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ram Rajagopal United States	43	4.3k	1.3k	1.3k	828	785	241	6.5k
Gianfranco Chicco Italy	49	6.9k 1.6×	913 0.7×	2.6k 2.1×	1.1k 1.4×	567 0.7×	357	8.5k
Joakim Widén Sweden	45	5.0k 1.2×	2.4k 1.8×	894 0.7×	1.9k 2.3×	1.0k 1.3×	121	6.9k
Youwei Jia China	27	3.6k 0.8×	594 0.4×	1.1k 0.9×	470 0.6×	616 0.8×	119	4.5k
Di Wu China	37	2.4k 0.5×	767 0.6×	690 0.6×	525 0.6×	905 1.2×	146	4.1k
Qixin Chen China	38	5.8k 1.3×	445 0.3×	1.9k 1.5×	620 0.7×	554 0.7×	186	6.9k
Kaile Zhou China	38	3.0k 0.7×	471 0.3×	1.1k 0.8×	1.0k 1.2×	523 0.7×	100	5.1k
Bin Zhou China	45	6.1k 1.4×	419 0.3×	3.0k 2.4×	746 0.9×	599 0.8×	178	7.5k
Hongcai Zhang China	38	3.9k 0.9×	379 0.3×	990 0.8×	495 0.6×	1.9k 2.5×	169	5.0k
Jing Qiu China	49	7.3k 1.7×	352 0.3×	3.1k 2.5×	611 0.7×	1.7k 2.2×	378	9.3k
K. Kalaitzakis Greece	29	2.9k 0.7×	1.1k 0.8×	1.3k 1.0×	1.8k 2.2×	980 1.2×	71	5.2k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Rajagopal, Ram, et al.. (2025). Detection of cardiovascular diseases in ECG images using deep learning. AIP conference proceedings. 3279. 20164–20164.

Sun, Tao, et al.. (2025). Solar and battery can reduce energy costs and provide affordable outage backup for US households. Nature Energy. 10(8). 1025–1040. 2 indexed citations

Sun, Tao, et al.. (2025). Solar and batteries are affordable options for US households. Nature Energy. 10(8). 928–929.

Zanocco, Chad, et al.. (2024). Time of use pricing and likelihood of shifting energy activities, strategies, and timing. Energy Policy. 187. 114019–114019. 11 indexed citations

Rajagopal, Ram, et al.. (2024). Designing model predictive control strategies for grid-interactive water heaters for load shifting applications. Applied Energy. 382. 125149–125149. 1 indexed citations

Zanocco, Chad, Zhecheng Wang, June A. Flora, et al.. (2024). Exploring the potential of non-residential solar to tackle energy injustice. Nature Energy. 9(6). 654–663. 18 indexed citations

Powell, Siobhan, et al.. (2024). Future-proof rates for controlled electric vehicle charging: Comparing multi-year impacts of different emission factor signals. Energy Policy. 190. 114131–114131. 7 indexed citations

Bernabé-Moreno, Juan, et al.. (2023). Estimating building energy efficiency from street view imagery, aerial imagery, and land surface temperature data. Applied Energy. 333. 120542–120542. 28 indexed citations

Xie, Le, Yang Weng, & Ram Rajagopal. (2023). Data Science and Applications for Modern Power Systems. 1 indexed citations

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Rajagopal, Ram, et al.. (2023). Estimating cooling demand flexibility in a district energy system using temperature set point changes from selected buildings. Applied Energy. 336. 120816–120816. 19 indexed citations

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Sun, Tao, et al.. (2023). Cooling-related electricity consumption patterns for small and medium businesses in California: Current impacts and future projections under climate change. Energy and Buildings. 295. 113301–113301. 5 indexed citations

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Hu, Maomao, Ram Rajagopal, & Jacques A. de Chalendar. (2023). Empirical exploration of zone-by-zone energy flexibility: A non-intrusive load disaggregation approach for commercial buildings. Energy and Buildings. 296. 113339–113339. 6 indexed citations

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Mauter, Meagan S., et al.. (2023). Integrated Energy Flexibility Management at Wastewater Treatment Facilities. Environmental Science & Technology. 57(46). 18362–18371. 11 indexed citations

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Powell, Siobhan, Gustavo Cezar, Liang Min, Inês L. Azevedo, & Ram Rajagopal. (2022). Charging infrastructure access and operation to reduce the grid impacts of deep electric vehicle adoption. Nature Energy. 7(10). 932–945. 183 indexed citations breakdown →

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Powell, Siobhan, Gustavo Cezar, & Ram Rajagopal. (2022). Scalable probabilistic estimates of electric vehicle charging given observed driver behavior. Applied Energy. 309. 118382–118382. 51 indexed citations

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Patel, Siddharth, et al.. (2021). The disaster resilience value of shared rooftop solar systems in residential communities. Earthquake Spectra. 37(4). 2638–2661. 11 indexed citations

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Yu, Jiafan, Yang Weng, & Ram Rajagopal. (2017). Robust mapping rule estimation for power flow analysis in distribution grids. 1–6. 49 indexed citations

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Yu, Jiafan, Yang Weng, & Ram Rajagopal. (2017). Data-driven joint topology and line parameter estimation for renewable integration. 1–5. 10 indexed citations

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Rajagopal, Ram, et al.. (2011). In-pavement wireless sensor network for vehicle classification. Information Processing in Sensor Networks. 85–96. 57 indexed citations

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Rajagopal, Ram & Pravin Varaiya. (2009). Evaluating the Health of California's Loop Sensor Network. Transportation Research Board 88th Annual MeetingTransportation Research Board. 3 indexed citations

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