Usman Ali

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
56 papers, 940 citations indexed

About

Usman Ali is a scholar working on Building and Construction, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Usman Ali has authored 56 papers receiving a total of 940 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Building and Construction, 22 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 15 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Usman Ali's work include Building Energy and Comfort Optimization (25 papers), Wind and Air Flow Studies (13 papers) and Energy Efficiency and Management (7 papers). Usman Ali is often cited by papers focused on Building Energy and Comfort Optimization (25 papers), Wind and Air Flow Studies (13 papers) and Energy Efficiency and Management (7 papers). Usman Ali collaborates with scholars based in Ireland, Pakistan and Germany. Usman Ali's co-authors include James O’Donnell, Mohammad Haris Shamsi, Eleni Mangina, Cathal Hoare, V. Kamaraj, Naveed Arshad, A. Thiede, Neil Hewitt, Wangda Zuo and Concettina Buccella and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Applied Energy and Energy and Buildings.

In The Last Decade

Usman Ali

52 papers receiving 892 citations

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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.

Review of urban building energy modeling (UBEM) approaches, methods and tools using qualitative and quantitative analysis

2021 203 citations Usman Ali, Mohammad Haris Shamsi et al. Energy and Buildings profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Usman Ali Ireland	13	638	353	351	148	66	56	940
Yuan Jin China	13	513 0.8×	231 0.7×	202 0.6×	96 0.6×	40 0.6×	24	684
Davide Calı̀ Denmark	14	743 1.2×	212 0.6×	344 1.0×	157 1.1×	90 1.4×	44	954
Sicheng Zhan Singapore	12	457 0.7×	217 0.6×	151 0.4×	108 0.7×	68 1.0×	24	616
Mohammad Haris Shamsi Ireland	12	652 1.0×	260 0.7×	365 1.0×	141 1.0×	15 0.2×	26	835
U. Teoman Aksoy Türkiye	6	563 0.9×	230 0.7×	320 0.9×	115 0.8×	21 0.3×	9	790
V. Geros Greece	12	728 1.1×	227 0.6×	378 1.1×	195 1.3×	25 0.4×	16	933
P. Torcellini United States	16	1.0k 1.6×	263 0.7×	422 1.2×	326 2.2×	59 0.9×	53	1.3k
Samir Touzani United States	11	340 0.5×	272 0.8×	145 0.4×	153 1.0×	53 0.8×	23	733
Jessen Page Switzerland	8	682 1.1×	196 0.6×	300 0.9×	118 0.8×	23 0.3×	20	775

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Ali, Usman, Donal Finn, James A. McGrath, et al.. (2025). Quantifying uncertainty in multi-scale energy analysis of residential archetypes: A stochastic occupancy approach. Building and Environment. 279. 113026–113026. 2 indexed citations

Munir, Arslan, et al.. (2025). A Fractional Version of Corrected Dual-Simpson's Type Inequality via s−convex Function with Applications. Kocaeli Üniversitesi - AVESİS. 19(1). 17–33.

Islam, Muhammad Saiful, et al.. (2024). Advancement in the automation of paved roadways performance patrolling: A review. Measurement. 232. 114734–114734. 1 indexed citations

Ali, Usman, et al.. (2024). Machine learning based multi-objective optimisation of energy consumption, thermal comfort and CO2 concentration in energy-efficient naturally ventilated residential dwellings. Building and Environment. 267. 112255–112255. 5 indexed citations

Ali, Usman, et al.. (2024). Intelligent Retrofits in Residential Buildings: A Knowledge-Based Approach. Computing in construction. 5. 1 indexed citations

Ali, Usman, Mohammad Haris Shamsi, Cathal Hoare, et al.. (2024). Urban residential building stock synthetic datasets for building energy performance analysis. Data in Brief. 53. 110241–110241. 5 indexed citations

Ali, Usman, et al.. (2023). Zone-wise occupancy schedules developed using Time Use Survey data for building energy performance simulations. Data in Brief. 49. 109453–109453. 5 indexed citations

Ali, Usman, et al.. (2023). Simulation-based evaluation of occupancy on energy consumption of multi-scale residential building archetypes. Journal of Building Engineering. 75. 106872–106872. 23 indexed citations

Hussain, Saddam, et al.. (2023). Estimation of Finite Population Mean by Utilizing the Auxiliary and Square of the Auxiliary Information. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 21. 14–14. 2 indexed citations

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Ali, Usman, et al.. (2023). Residential building energy performance prediction at an urban scale using ensemble machine learning algorithms. Computing in construction. 1 indexed citations

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Ali, Usman, Rune Korsholm Andersen, Donal Finn, et al.. (2023). Identification of influential factors for combined energy consumption and indoor environmental quality in residential buildings. Journal of Physics Conference Series. 2600(3). 32002–32002. 2 indexed citations

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Ali, Usman, Mohammad Haris Shamsi, Cathal Hoare, et al.. (2023). Urban building energy performance prediction and retrofit analysis using data-driven machine learning approach. Energy and Buildings. 303. 113768–113768. 74 indexed citations

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Ali, Usman, et al.. (2020). A data-driven approach to optimize urban scale energy retrofit decisions for residential buildings. Applied Energy. 267. 114861–114861. 99 indexed citations

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Abbas, Ghulam, et al.. (2017). Modeling and simulation of optical current transformer using operational amplifiers. 1–6. 5 indexed citations

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Ali, Usman, Concettina Buccella, & Carlo Cecati. (2016). Households electricity consumption analysis with data mining techniques. 3966–3971. 21 indexed citations

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Javed, Fahad, et al.. (2014). SmartDSM: a layered model for development of demand side management in smart grids. 15–20. 1 indexed citations

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Arshad, Naveed, Usman Ali, & Fahad Javed. (2013). A Highly Configurable Simulator for Assessing Energy Usage. Energy Procedia. 42. 308–317. 4 indexed citations

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Basit, Hamid Abdul, et al.. (2012). Things structural clones tell that simple clones don't. National University of Singapore. 275–284. 9 indexed citations

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Ali, Usman & V. Kamaraj. (2011). A modified space vector PWM for Bi-directional Z-source inverter. 2. 342–345. 5 indexed citations

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Irfan, Muhammad, Maria Zafar, Arshad Ahmad, et al.. (1982). A study of particle–nucleus collisions at 24, 50, and 400 GeV/c. Canadian Journal of Physics. 60(10). 1523–1533. 4 indexed citations

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