Simone Buffa

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
7 papers, 854 citations indexed

About

Simone Buffa is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Building and Construction and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Simone Buffa has authored 7 papers receiving a total of 854 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 5 papers in Building and Construction and 3 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Simone Buffa's work include Integrated Energy Systems Optimization (6 papers), Building Energy and Comfort Optimization (5 papers) and Geothermal Energy Systems and Applications (3 papers). Simone Buffa is often cited by papers focused on Integrated Energy Systems Optimization (6 papers), Building Energy and Comfort Optimization (5 papers) and Geothermal Energy Systems and Applications (3 papers). Simone Buffa collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Australia and United States. Simone Buffa's co-authors include Roberto Fedrizzi, Marco Cozzini, Matteo D’Antoni, Marco Baratieri, N. Aste, Claudio Del Pero, Mark Goldsworthy, Giuseppe Franchini, Manuel Andrés Chicote and Gregor P. Henze and has published in prestigious journals such as Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Energies and Sustainable Cities and Society.

In The Last Decade

Simone Buffa

7 papers receiving 824 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.

5th generation district heating and cooling systems: A review of existing cases in Europe

2019 466 citations Simone Buffa, Marco Cozzini et al. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Simone Buffa Italy	6	643	504	435	117	103	7	854
Marco Cozzini Italy	9	773 1.2×	410 0.8×	507 1.2×	106 0.9×	230 2.2×	21	933
Roberto Fedrizzi Italy	13	583 0.9×	630 1.3×	515 1.2×	284 2.4×	91 0.9×	64	1.2k
Henrik Gadd Sweden	6	517 0.8×	384 0.8×	290 0.7×	66 0.6×	29 0.3×	10	611
Dirk Vanhoudt Belgium	12	390 0.6×	328 0.7×	293 0.7×	100 0.9×	31 0.3×	25	588
Patrick Lauenburg Sweden	10	598 0.9×	371 0.7×	356 0.8×	74 0.6×	80 0.8×	13	673
Gregory S. Pavlak United States	15	368 0.6×	309 0.6×	148 0.3×	72 0.6×	77 0.7×	38	621
Dietrich Schmidt Germany	12	351 0.5×	569 1.1×	417 1.0×	335 2.9×	71 0.7×	30	853
Branislav Živković Serbia	8	344 0.5×	331 0.7×	321 0.7×	273 2.3×	24 0.2×	18	736
Klaus Vajen Germany	17	345 0.5×	370 0.7×	682 1.6×	370 3.2×	62 0.6×	82	1.0k
Yuzhu Chen China	18	450 0.7×	253 0.5×	520 1.2×	657 5.6×	171 1.7×	44	1.1k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Simone Buffa

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Simone Buffa

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

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7 of 7 papers shown

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Goldsworthy, Mark, et al.. (2022). Role of sustainable heat sources in transition towards fourth generation district heating – A review. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 158. 112156–112156. 112 indexed citations

2.

Buffa, Simone, et al.. (2021). Advanced Control and Fault Detection Strategies for District Heating and Cooling Systems—A Review. Applied Sciences. 11(1). 455–455. 72 indexed citations

3.

Buffa, Simone, et al.. (2020). Fifth-Generation District Heating and Cooling Substations: Demand Response with Artificial Neural Network-Based Model Predictive Control. Energies. 13(17). 4339–4339. 43 indexed citations

4.

Pero, Claudio Del, et al.. (2020). Adaptive-predictive control strategy for HVAC systems in smart buildings – A review. Sustainable Cities and Society. 63. 102480–102480. 154 indexed citations

5.

Buffa, Simone, Marco Cozzini, Matteo D’Antoni, Marco Baratieri, & Roberto Fedrizzi. (2019). 5th generation district heating and cooling systems: A review of existing cases in Europe. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 104. 504–522. 466 indexed citations breakdown →

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Cozzini, Marco, Matteo D’Antoni, Simone Buffa, Roberto Fedrizzi, & Federico Bava. (2018). District Heating and Cooling Networks Based on Decentralized Heat Pumps: Energy Efficiency and Reversibility at Affordable Costs. View. 5 indexed citations

7.

Buffa, Simone. (2018). POTENTIAL STUDY ON DEMAND SIDE MANAGEMENT IN DISTRICT HEATING AND COOLING NETWORKS WITH DECENTRALIZED HEAT PUMPS. 82–90. 2 indexed citations

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