Tarek Rakha

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
40 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

Tarek Rakha is a scholar working on Building and Construction, Environmental Engineering and Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Tarek Rakha has authored 40 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Building and Construction, 16 papers in Environmental Engineering and 8 papers in Conservation. Recurrent topics in Tarek Rakha's work include Building Energy and Comfort Optimization (27 papers), Urban Heat Island Mitigation (15 papers) and 3D Surveying and Cultural Heritage (8 papers). Tarek Rakha is often cited by papers focused on Building Energy and Comfort Optimization (27 papers), Urban Heat Island Mitigation (15 papers) and 3D Surveying and Cultural Heritage (8 papers). Tarek Rakha collaborates with scholars based in United States, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Tarek Rakha's co-authors include Christoph Reinhart, Timur Dogan, Ahmed Sherif, Khaled Nassar, John Fernández, Senem Velipasalar, Kaiwen Chen, Pieter de Wilde, Jason Dedrick and Todd W. Moss and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Applied Energy and Construction and Building Materials.

In The Last Decade

Tarek Rakha

36 papers receiving 970 citations

Hit Papers

Review of Unmanned Aerial... 2018 2026 2020 2023 2018 100 200 300
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. Review of Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) applications in the built environment: Towards automated building inspection procedures using drones
    2018 321 citations Tarek Rakha et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Tarek Rakha United States 12 539 420 221 140 127 40 1.0k
Iole Nardi Italy 20 587 1.1× 344 0.8× 95 0.4× 87 0.6× 54 0.4× 38 1.1k
Tullio de Rubeis Italy 21 732 1.4× 295 0.7× 70 0.3× 103 0.7× 60 0.5× 56 1.2k
Marianna Rotilio Italy 13 265 0.5× 167 0.4× 136 0.6× 52 0.4× 79 0.6× 51 700
Zhigang Shen United States 18 424 0.8× 205 0.5× 139 0.6× 294 2.1× 93 0.7× 63 992
Eva Barreira Portugal 20 861 1.6× 370 0.9× 226 1.0× 299 2.1× 105 0.8× 75 1.5k
Saleh Abu Dabous United Arab Emirates 18 278 0.5× 143 0.3× 132 0.6× 562 4.0× 43 0.3× 82 1.1k
M. Lurdes Simões Portugal 16 495 0.9× 207 0.5× 125 0.6× 175 1.3× 26 0.2× 41 761
Ali M. Memari United States 23 1.2k 2.1× 243 0.6× 173 0.8× 724 5.2× 24 0.2× 152 1.8k
Ashutosh Bagchi Canada 20 492 0.9× 135 0.3× 205 0.9× 1.0k 7.4× 21 0.2× 104 1.6k
Sylvain Robert France 10 713 1.3× 425 1.0× 164 0.7× 115 0.8× 33 0.3× 19 1.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Tarek Rakha

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Fields of papers citing papers by Tarek Rakha

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tarek Rakha

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

All Works

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Nguyen, M., et al.. (2025). Localizing urban building energy modeling (UBEM) through inclusive microclimate and socioeconomic data. Applied Energy. 383. 125342–125342. 5 indexed citations
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Rakha, Tarek, et al.. (2023). Data Reliability in BIM and Performance Analytics: A Survey of Contemporary AECO Practice. Journal of Architectural Engineering. 29(2). 8 indexed citations
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Rakha, Tarek, et al.. (2023). Energy, water, and food nexus simulation for built environments in a desert climate. Building Simulation Conference proceedings. 18. 1 indexed citations
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Rakha, Tarek, et al.. (2023). Developing a simulation-based workflow for healing building envelopes in healthcare design. Building Simulation Conference proceedings. 18. 1 indexed citations
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Rakha, Tarek, et al.. (2022). Modeling of transient conduction in building envelope assemblies: A review. Science and Technology for the Built Environment. 28(6). 706–716. 3 indexed citations
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Wang, Jiyang, et al.. (2022). Capsule network-based semantic segmentation model for thermal anomaly identification on building envelopes. Advanced Engineering Informatics. 54. 101767–101767. 11 indexed citations
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Rakha, Tarek, et al.. (2022). Diverse occupancy simulation and presence sensing viability for residential thermal energy regulation: Review and false positive modeling initial findings. Science and Technology for the Built Environment. 28(6). 757–775. 1 indexed citations
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Rakha, Tarek, et al.. (2021). Semantic web ontologies for buildings objects and their performance data. Building Simulation Conference proceedings. 17. 1 indexed citations
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Rakha, Tarek & Khaled Nassar. (2019). Daylight as an evolutionary architectural form finder.
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Velipasalar, Senem, et al.. (2018). Autonomous Heat Leakage Detection from Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-Mounted Thermal Cameras. 1–6. 8 indexed citations
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Rakha, Tarek & Christoph Reinhart. (2017). A Framework for Outdoor Mean Radiant Temperature Simulation: Towards Spatially Resolved Thermal Comfort Mapping in Urban Spaces. Building Simulation Conference proceedings. 15. 11 indexed citations
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Reinhart, Christoph, et al.. (2014). Predicting the Daylit Area—A Comparison of Students Assessments and Simulations at Eleven Schools of Architecture. LEUKOS The Journal of the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America. 10(4). 193–206. 52 indexed citations
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Reinhart, Christoph, et al.. (2013). Umi – An Urban Simulation Environment For Building Energy Use, Daylighting And Walkability. Building Simulation Conference proceedings. 13. 175 indexed citations
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Rakha, Tarek & Christoph Reinhart. (2013). A Carbon Impact Simulation-based Framework For Land Use Planning And Non-motorized Travel Behaviour Interactions. Building Simulation Conference proceedings. 4 indexed citations
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