Thomas Beach

2.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
56 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Thomas Beach is a scholar working on Building and Construction, Computer Networks and Communications and Information Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Beach has authored 56 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Building and Construction, 10 papers in Computer Networks and Communications and 10 papers in Information Systems. Recurrent topics in Thomas Beach's work include BIM and Construction Integration (19 papers), Sustainable Building Design and Assessment (10 papers) and Cloud Computing and Resource Management (9 papers). Thomas Beach is often cited by papers focused on BIM and Construction Integration (19 papers), Sustainable Building Design and Assessment (10 papers) and Cloud Computing and Resource Management (9 papers). Thomas Beach collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Saudi Arabia. Thomas Beach's co-authors include Yacine Rezgui, Lukumon O. Oyedele, Juan Manuel Dávila Delgado, Peter Demian, Ioan Petri, Omer Rana, Ali Ghoroghi, Haijiang Li, Shaun Howell and Wanqing Zhao and has published in prestigious journals such as Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Expert Systems with Applications and Sensors.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Beach

53 papers receiving 1.5k 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.

A research agenda for augmented and virtual reality in architecture, engineering and construction

2020 298 citations Juan Manuel Dávila Delgado, Lukumon O. Oyedele et al. Advanced Engineering Informatics profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thomas Beach United Kingdom	18	827	249	215	213	210	56	1.6k
Sara Shirowzhan Australia	25	896 1.1×	314 1.3×	230 1.1×	293 1.4×	116 0.6×	67	1.9k
John Haymaker United States	20	875 1.1×	205 0.8×	121 0.6×	289 1.4×	164 0.8×	59	1.5k
Wenchi Shou Australia	20	879 1.1×	307 1.2×	361 1.7×	318 1.5×	158 0.8×	54	1.8k
Shang‐Hsien Hsieh Taiwan	26	878 1.1×	252 1.0×	448 2.1×	380 1.8×	143 0.7×	117	1.8k
Peter Demian United Kingdom	22	1.2k 1.4×	296 1.2×	172 0.8×	545 2.6×	246 1.2×	109	2.2k
Juan Manuel Dávila Delgado United Kingdom	24	1.6k 1.9×	392 1.6×	458 2.1×	446 2.1×	291 1.4×	35	3.1k
Lamine Mahdjoubi United Kingdom	21	905 1.1×	346 1.4×	198 0.9×	467 2.2×	127 0.6×	89	1.5k
Angelo Luigi Camillo Ciribini Italy	19	835 1.0×	241 1.0×	155 0.7×	194 0.9×	62 0.3×	80	1.2k
Hubo Cai United States	31	887 1.1×	396 1.6×	835 3.9×	353 1.7×	165 0.8×	126	2.5k
Sepehr Alizadehsalehi United States	14	674 0.8×	369 1.5×	143 0.7×	163 0.8×	218 1.0×	19	1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Thomas Beach

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thomas Beach

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Lavikka, Rita, et al.. (2025). Navigating the shift towards sustainable digital building permits and building logbooks. Open Research Europe. 5. 90–90.

Lavikka, Rita, et al.. (2025). Navigating the shift towards sustainable digital building permits and building logbooks. Open Research Europe. 5. 90–90. 1 indexed citations

Rezgui, Yacine, et al.. (2025). AI and Digital Twin Applications in Building Energy Management: A State-of-the-Art Review. ORCA Online Research @Cardiff (Cardiff University). 1–11.

Rezgui, Yacine, et al.. (2024). Social Life Cycle Assessment in the construction sector: current work and directions for future research. The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment. 29(10). 1827–1845. 14 indexed citations

Ghoroghi, Ali, et al.. (2024). A multi-agent system to dynamically devise an LCA framework weighting system taking into account socio-technical and environmental consideration. Proceedings of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences. 480(2301). 1 indexed citations

Beach, Thomas, et al.. (2024). Energy retrofitting using advanced building envelope materials for sustainable housing: A review. Building and Environment. 267. 112243–112243. 11 indexed citations

Beach, Thomas, et al.. (2023). A Review of Sustainable Urban Development Frameworks in Developing Countries. Journal of Sustainable Development. 16(5). 1–1. 1 indexed citations

Beach, Thomas, et al.. (2023). Digital approaches to construction compliance checking: Validating the suitability of an ecosystem approach to compliance checking. Advanced Engineering Informatics. 59. 102288–102288. 12 indexed citations

Marvuglia, Antonino, et al.. (2023). An open building information modelling based co-simulation architecture to model building energy and environmental life cycle assessment: A case study on two buildings in the United Kingdom and Luxembourg. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 183. 113419–113419. 17 indexed citations

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Beach, Thomas, et al.. (2022). Reviewing the effects of deploying building information modelling (BIM) on the adoption of sustainable design in Gulf countries: a case study in Saudi Arabia. City Territory and Architecture. 9(1). 8 indexed citations

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Beach, Thomas, et al.. (2021). Cybersecurity for Digital Twins in the Built Environment: Research Landscape, Industry Attitudes and Future Direction. Jurnal Teknik Lingkungan : Electronic Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering. 15(8). 382–387. 1 indexed citations

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Beach, Thomas, et al.. (2021). Industry Engagement for Identification of Cybersecurity Needs Practices for Digital Twins. ORCA Online Research @Cardiff (Cardiff University). 1–7. 6 indexed citations

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Beach, Thomas, et al.. (2020). Consensus-based urban sustainability framework for Iraqi cities: A case study in Baghdad. Heliyon. 6(12). e05348–e05348. 11 indexed citations

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Delgado, Juan Manuel Dávila, Lukumon O. Oyedele, Thomas Beach, & Peter Demian. (2020). Augmented and Virtual Reality in Construction: Drivers and Limitations for Industry Adoption. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management. 146(7). 136 indexed citations

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Zhao, Wanqing, Thomas Beach, & Yacine Rezgui. (2018). A systematic mixed-integer differential evolution approach for water network operational optimization. Proceedings of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences. 474(2217). 20170879–20170879. 8 indexed citations

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Zhao, Wanqing, Thomas Beach, & Yacine Rezgui. (2017). Efficient least angle regression for identification of linear-in-the-parameters models. Proceedings of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences. 473(2198). 20160775–20160775. 10 indexed citations

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Feldman, Brian M., et al.. (2016). Examiner Assisted Automated Patents Search. National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 1 indexed citations

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Petri, Ioan, Yacine Rezgui, Thomas Beach, et al.. (2014). A semantic service-oriented platform for energy efficient buildings. Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy. 17(3). 721–734. 12 indexed citations

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Beach, Thomas, Omer Rana, & N.J. Avis. (2013). Integrating acceleration devices using CometCloud. ORCA Online Research @Cardiff (Cardiff University). 17–24. 3 indexed citations

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Beach, Thomas & N.J. Avis. (2009). An intelligent semi-automatic application porting system for application accelerators. ORCA Online Research @Cardiff (Cardiff University). 7–10. 3 indexed citations

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