Sara Walker

4.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
102 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

Sara Walker is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Control and Systems Engineering and Building and Construction. According to data from OpenAlex, Sara Walker has authored 102 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 59 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 21 papers in Control and Systems Engineering and 19 papers in Building and Construction. Recurrent topics in Sara Walker's work include Smart Grid Energy Management (26 papers), Building Energy and Comfort Optimization (18 papers) and Microgrid Control and Optimization (17 papers). Sara Walker is often cited by papers focused on Smart Grid Energy Management (26 papers), Building Energy and Comfort Optimization (18 papers) and Microgrid Control and Optimization (17 papers). Sara Walker collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Malaysia and Russia. Sara Walker's co-authors include David G. Lidzey, M. S. Skolnick, Donal D. C. Bradley, Tersilla Virgili, D. M. Whittaker, Phil Taylor, Vigna K. Ramachandaramurthy, Ling Ai Wong, Zoya Pourmirza and Mehdi Pazhoohesh and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Physical Review Letters and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Sara Walker

98 papers receiving 3.5k 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.

Strong exciton–photon coupling in an organic semiconductor microcavity

1998 718 citations David G. Lidzey, M. S. Skolnick et al. profile →
Machine Learning, Deep Learning and Statistical Analysis for forecasting building energy consumption — A systematic review

2022 181 citations Zoya Pourmirza, Sara Walker et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sara Walker United Kingdom	30	1.6k	1.4k	816	683	616	102	3.6k
Carsten Agert Germany	29	2.1k 1.3×	378 0.3×	290 0.4×	139 0.2×	227 0.4×	159	2.7k
Andrew Blakers Australia	41	5.2k 3.2×	978 0.7×	616 0.8×	177 0.3×	348 0.6×	259	6.5k
Michael A. Boles United States	15	1.7k 1.0×	406 0.3×	1.2k 1.5×	194 0.3×	244 0.4×	30	7.8k
A.B. Sproul Australia	32	2.5k 1.5×	427 0.3×	223 0.3×	203 0.3×	150 0.2×	109	4.0k
Ian Marius Peters Germany	42	4.4k 2.7×	618 0.4×	910 1.1×	231 0.3×	108 0.2×	247	6.2k
Angèle Reinders Netherlands	32	1.3k 0.8×	1.2k 0.8×	116 0.1×	88 0.1×	126 0.2×	173	3.6k
Michael R. von Spakovsky United States	28	1.5k 0.9×	206 0.1×	371 0.5×	80 0.1×	388 0.6×	146	3.3k
Masahiko Hirao Japan	47	985 0.6×	882 0.6×	2.0k 2.4×	378 0.6×	237 0.4×	357	7.4k
Fengrui Sun China	56	365 0.2×	599 0.4×	1.5k 1.9×	3.6k 5.3×	513 0.8×	520	14.8k
Sarah McCormack Ireland	30	1.6k 1.0×	209 0.1×	292 0.4×	308 0.5×	127 0.2×	120	5.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Sara Walker

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sara Walker

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sara Walker

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

All Works

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Allahham, Adib, et al.. (2025). Investment decisions in a liberalised energy market with generation and hydrogen-based vector coupling storage in Integrated Energy System: A game-theoretic model-based approach. International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems. 166. 110518–110518. 5 indexed citations

Roslan, M.F., Priya Ranjan Satpathy, Thibeorchews Prasankumar, et al.. (2025). Second-life battery energy storage system for energy sustainability: Recent advancements, key takeaways and future perspectives. Journal of Energy Storage. 123. 116808–116808. 10 indexed citations

Walker, Sara, et al.. (2024). Resilience Assessment of Offshore Wind-to-Hydrogen Systems. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 6–6.

Brown, Christopher S., et al.. (2024). Decarbonising well-insulated buildings in a warming climate: The case of adaptive thermal comfort with geothermal space heating. Energy and Buildings. 319. 114466–114466. 7 indexed citations

Zhang, Tong, Meysam Qadrdan, Jianzhong Wu, et al.. (2024). A systematic review of modelling methods for studying the integration of hydrogen into energy systems. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 208. 114964–114964. 15 indexed citations

Nikkhah, Saman, Adib Allahham, Arman Alahyari, et al.. (2024). Building-to-building energy trading under the influence of occupant comfort. International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems. 159. 110041–110041. 1 indexed citations

Akhlaghi, Yousef Golizadeh, et al.. (2024). Predicting the impact of climate change on building energy consumption by using data-driven approaches. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Energy. 178(2). 61–76. 2 indexed citations

Walker, Sara. (2023). The role of hydrogen in the energy transition. 40(1). 494–495.

Allahham, Adib, David Greenwood, Charalampos Patsios, Sara Walker, & Phil Taylor. (2023). Primary frequency response from hydrogen-based bidirectional vector coupling storage: modelling and demonstration using power-hardware-in-the-loop simulation. Frontiers in Energy Research. 11. 7 indexed citations

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Walker, Sara, et al.. (2023). Decarbonising heating and cooling using temperature setback and geothermal energy. Journal of Physics Conference Series. 2600(2). 22015–22015. 2 indexed citations

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Ramachandaramurthy, Vigna K., et al.. (2022). Developing Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Energy Trading Model for Malaysia: A Review and Proposed Implementation. IEEE Access. 10. 33183–33199. 16 indexed citations

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Pourmirza, Zoya, Sara Walker, & John Brooke. (2021). Data reduction algorithm for correlated data in the smart grid. IET Smart Grid. 4(5). 474–488. 7 indexed citations

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Pourmirza, Zoya & Sara Walker. (2021). Electric Vehicle Charging Station: Cyber Security Challenges and Perspective. 111–116. 23 indexed citations

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Vahidinasab, Vahid, et al.. (2021). Active Building as an Energy System: Concept, Challenges, and Outlook. IEEE Access. 9. 58009–58024. 22 indexed citations

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Patsios, Charalampos, et al.. (2019). Multi-energy Microgrid Scheduling: A multi-vector demonstrator case study. CIRED. 2 indexed citations

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Agnew, Brian, et al.. (2011). An Evaluation of R134a and R245fa as the Working Fluid in an Organic Rankine Cycle Energized from a Low Temperature Geothermal Energy Source. Journal of Energy and Power Engineering. 5(5). 392–402. 11 indexed citations

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Shitanda, Douglas, et al.. (2010). Performance and exhaust emissions of a diesel engine fuelled with Croton megalocarpus (musine) methyl ester. Applied Thermal Engineering. 31(1). 36–41. 48 indexed citations

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Theobald, Kate & Sara Walker. (2008). Meeting the challenge of zero carbon homes : a multi-disciplinary review of the literature and assessment of key barriers and enablers. Northumbria Research Link (Northumbria University). 1 indexed citations

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Lidzey, David G., A. I. Tartakovskii, M. Emam-Ismail, M. S. Skolnick, & Sara Walker. (2002). Enhanced Raman scattering in a strongly coupled microcavity containing J-aggregates. Synthetic Metals. 127(1-3). 151–154. 8 indexed citations

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Walker, Sara, et al.. (1962). Emission spectra of dialkyl substituted benzene radicals. Transactions of the Faraday Society. 58. 849–849. 28 indexed citations

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