Sarah Darby

4.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
56 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Sarah Darby is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Sarah Darby has authored 56 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 13 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 10 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Sarah Darby's work include Smart Grid Energy Management (21 papers), Energy Efficiency and Management (11 papers) and Energy and Environment Impacts (9 papers). Sarah Darby is often cited by papers focused on Smart Grid Energy Management (21 papers), Energy Efficiency and Management (11 papers) and Energy and Environment Impacts (9 papers). Sarah Darby collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Sweden and United States. Sarah Darby's co-authors include Thomas Morstyn, Niall Farrell, Malcolm McCulloch, Eoghan McKenna, Kirsten Gram‐Hanssen, Christopher Roberts, Roy L. Johnston, Paul McGale, Alastair Gray and Simon Read and has published in prestigious journals such as The Journal of Chemical Physics, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Energy Policy.

In The Last Decade

Sarah Darby

55 papers receiving 3.0k 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.

  1. Using peer-to-peer energy-trading platforms to incentivize prosumers to form federated power plants
    2018 585 citations Thomas Morstyn, Sarah Darby et al. profile →

Peers

Sarah Darby
Paolo Bertoldi Italy
Bo Shen United States
Varun Rai United States
Jonathan Koomey United States
Francesco Fuso Nerini Sweden
Peter J. G. Pearson United Kingdom
Giorgio Locatelli Italy
Paul Christodoulides Cyprus
Peter Taylor United Kingdom
Wenbo Li China
Paolo Bertoldi Italy
Sarah Darby
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Countries citing papers authored by Sarah Darby

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sarah Darby

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Sarah Darby. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Sarah Darby. The network helps show where Sarah Darby may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sarah Darby

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Sarah Darby. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Sarah Darby 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 Sarah Darby. Sarah Darby 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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Barnes, Jake, Sarah Darby, & Paula Hansen Suss. (2024). Smartening Local Energy in Europe: A Comparative Analysis of Three Cases and Their Implications for Supporting Transformative Governance Practices. Sustainability. 16(10). 3922–3922. 1 indexed citations
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Sahakian, Marlyne, Tina Fawcett, & Sarah Darby. (2024). Energy sufficiency in buildings and cities: current research, future directions. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5(1). 692–703. 2 indexed citations
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Darby, Sarah, Geoffrey P. Hammond, & Jianzhong Wu. (2024). Briefing: Stocktaking global warming: the outcomes of the 2023 Dubai Climate Summit (COP28). Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Energy. 177(5). 193–204. 6 indexed citations
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Zhou, Yihong, et al.. (2024). Evaluating the social benefits and network costs of heat pumps as an energy crisis intervention. iScience. 27(2). 108854–108854. 4 indexed citations
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Hampton, Sam, et al.. (2024). Domesticating energy flexibility. Learning from great britain’s 2022–2023 demand flexibility service. Energy Efficiency. 17(8). 2 indexed citations
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Blasch, Julia, N.M. van der Grijp, Jenny Palm, et al.. (2021). New clean energy communities in polycentric settings: Four avenues for future research. Energy Research & Social Science. 82. 102276–102276. 58 indexed citations
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Debnath, Ramit, Sarah Darby, Ronita Bardhan, Kamiar Mohaddes, & Minna Sunikka‐Blank. (2020). A nested computational social science approach for deep-narrative analysis in energy policy research. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 3 indexed citations
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Debnath, Ramit, Sarah Darby, Ronita Bardhan, Kamiar Mohaddes, & Minna Sunikka‐Blank. (2020). Grounded reality meets machine learning: A deep-narrative analysis framework for energy policy research. Energy Research & Social Science. 69. 101704–101704. 27 indexed citations
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Sommer, Stephan, Sarah Darby, N.M. van der Grijp, et al.. (2020). New Clean Energy Communities in a Changing European Energy System (NEWCOMERS) : Deliverable D3.1 Description of polycentric settings in the partner countries. Lund University Publications (Lund University). 1 indexed citations
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Boait, Peter, et al.. (2019). The Practice and Potential of Renewable Energy Localisation: Results from a UK Field Trial. Sustainability. 11(1). 215–215. 18 indexed citations
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Abrahamse, Wokje, Sarah Darby, & Katherine A. McComas. (2018). Communication Is Key. IEEE Power and Energy Magazine. 16. 29–34.
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Eyre, Nick, Sarah Darby, Philipp Grünewald, Eoghan McKenna, & Rebecca Ford. (2018). Reaching a 1.5°C target: socio-technical challenges for a rapid transition to low-carbon electricity systems. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences. 376(2119). 20160462–20160462. 35 indexed citations
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Darby, Sarah. (2017). Smart electric storage heating and potential for residential demand response. Energy Efficiency. 11(1). 67–77. 42 indexed citations
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Darby, Sarah. (2017). Smart technology in the home: time for more clarity. Building Research & Information. 46(1). 140–147. 124 indexed citations
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Darby, Sarah. (2014). Smart energy technologies in everyday life. Smart Utopia?. Energy Research & Social Science. 1. 240–241. 27 indexed citations
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Darby, Sarah. (2011). The 'Time' Dimension of Electricity, Options for the Householder, and Implications for Policy. Linköping electronic conference proceedings. 57. 1086–1093. 1 indexed citations
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Gray, Alastair, Simon Read, Paul McGale, & Sarah Darby. (2009). Lung cancer deaths from indoor radon and the cost effectiveness and potential of policies to reduce them. BMJ. 338(jan06 1). a3110–a3110. 124 indexed citations
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Squier, Waney, Eva Hellström Lindberg, Julie Mack, & Sarah Darby. (2009). Demonstration of fluid channels in human dura and their relationship to age and intradural bleeding. Child s Nervous System. 25(8). 925–931. 26 indexed citations
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Darby, Sarah. (2008). Energy feedback in buildings: improving the infrastructure for demand reduction. Building Research & Information. 36(5). 499–508. 71 indexed citations
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Darby, Sarah. (2005). Social learning and public policy: Lessons from an energy-conscious village. Energy Policy. 34(17). 2929–2940. 121 indexed citations

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