Vijay Modi

6.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
142 papers, 4.4k citations indexed

About

Vijay Modi is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Pollution and Computational Mechanics. According to data from OpenAlex, Vijay Modi has authored 142 papers receiving a total of 4.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 69 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 35 papers in Pollution and 29 papers in Computational Mechanics. Recurrent topics in Vijay Modi's work include Energy and Environment Impacts (35 papers), Smart Grid Energy Management (20 papers) and Building Energy and Comfort Optimization (18 papers). Vijay Modi is often cited by papers focused on Energy and Environment Impacts (35 papers), Smart Grid Energy Management (20 papers) and Building Energy and Comfort Optimization (18 papers). Vijay Modi collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Türkiye. Vijay Modi's co-authors include Morgan Bazilian, Patrick Nussbaumer, Michael Waite, Edwin Adkins, Ayse Selin Kocaman, Lily Parshall, Bianca Howard, Upmanu Lall, Stephen A. Hammer and Jiang Zhe and has published in prestigious journals such as Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Journal of Fluid Mechanics and Journal of The Electrochemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Vijay Modi

137 papers receiving 4.1k citations

Hit Papers

Measuring energy poverty: Focusing on what matters 2011 2026 2016 2021 2011 200 400 600
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. Measuring energy poverty: Focusing on what matters
    2011 669 citations Vijay Modi 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
Vijay Modi United States 35 1.6k 1.4k 813 806 565 142 4.4k
Emanuela Colombo Italy 32 1.2k 0.7× 1.4k 1.0× 636 0.8× 1.0k 1.2× 210 0.4× 140 3.3k
Muyiwa S. Adaramola Norway 41 1.8k 1.1× 1.6k 1.2× 1.5k 1.8× 1.4k 1.7× 211 0.4× 157 5.0k
Maria da Graça Carvalho Portugal 35 460 0.3× 1.1k 0.8× 564 0.7× 664 0.8× 357 0.6× 132 4.8k
Rangan Banerjee India 38 716 0.5× 1.3k 1.0× 1.3k 1.6× 819 1.0× 723 1.3× 138 4.7k
Thomas Huld Italy 38 1.3k 0.8× 2.0k 1.5× 1.8k 2.2× 862 1.1× 347 0.6× 95 5.4k
Michael E. Webber United States 53 870 0.6× 3.2k 2.4× 1.4k 1.7× 726 0.9× 943 1.7× 242 7.9k
Tania Urmee Australia 35 1.0k 0.7× 1.2k 0.9× 1.1k 1.3× 585 0.7× 662 1.2× 99 3.7k
Gang Liu China 43 863 0.5× 1.3k 1.0× 1.3k 1.5× 463 0.6× 626 1.1× 300 5.9k
Ali Mostafaeipour Iran 53 1.6k 1.0× 2.6k 1.9× 1.3k 1.6× 2.2k 2.8× 527 0.9× 185 7.2k
Russell McKenna Germany 36 597 0.4× 2.2k 1.6× 1.2k 1.4× 965 1.2× 699 1.2× 142 4.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Vijay Modi

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Fields of papers citing papers by Vijay Modi

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Vijay Modi. 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 Vijay Modi. The network helps show where Vijay Modi may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Vijay Modi

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Vijay Modi. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Vijay Modi 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 Vijay Modi. Vijay Modi 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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Modi, Vijay, et al.. (2024). Design of chiller system with thermal and battery storage for enhanced integration with on-site PV. Journal of Building Engineering. 87. 109072–109072. 4 indexed citations
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Waite, Michael, et al.. (2022). Assessing trade-offs among electrification and grid decarbonization in a clean energy transition: Application to New York State. Energy. 249. 123787–123787. 13 indexed citations
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Fobi, Simone, et al.. (2022). Predicting Levels of Household Electricity Consumption in Low-Access Settings. 2022 IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV). 2213–2222. 2 indexed citations
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Bensch, Gunther, et al.. (2022). Diesel GenSat. 325–337. 1 indexed citations
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Doss‐Gollin, James, David Farnham, Upmanu Lall, & Vijay Modi. (2021). How unprecedented was the February 2021 Texas cold snap?. Environmental Research Letters. 16(6). 64056–64056. 110 indexed citations
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Waite, Michael & Vijay Modi. (2019). Electricity Load Implications of Space Heating Decarbonization Pathways. Joule. 4(2). 376–394. 101 indexed citations
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Jain, Meha, Shahid Naeem, Ben Orlove, Vijay Modi, & Ruth DeFries. (2015). Understanding the causes and consequences of differential decision-making in adaptation research: Adapting to a delayed monsoon onset in Gujarat, India. Global Environmental Change. 31. 98–109. 125 indexed citations
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Modi, Vijay, et al.. (2012). Realizable planar gradient-index solar lenses. Optics Letters. 37(7). 1235–1235. 3 indexed citations
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Modi, Vijay, et al.. (2011). Nominally stationary high-concentration solar optics by gradient-index lenses. Optics Express. 19(3). 2325–2325. 20 indexed citations
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Modi, Vijay. (2011). Rural Development in Africa. Columbia Academic Commons (Columbia University). 1 indexed citations
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Modi, Vijay, et al.. (2011). Gradient-index lenses for near-ideal imaging and concentration with realistic materials. Optics Express. 19(16). 15584–15584. 13 indexed citations
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Chatzi, Eleni, et al.. (2010). Stationary nonimaging lenses for solar concentration. Applied Optics. 49(27). 5183–5183. 13 indexed citations
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Adkins, Edwin, et al.. (2010). Field testing and survey evaluation of household biomass cookstoves in rural sub-Saharan Africa. Energy Sustainable Development. 14(3). 172–185. 133 indexed citations
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Siegfried, Tobias, Ram Fishman, Vijay Modi, & Upmanu Lall. (2008). An Entitlement Approach to Address the Water-Energy-Food Nexus in Rural India. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2008. 6 indexed citations
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Modi, Vijay, et al.. (2005). Micromachined silicon structures for free-convection PEM fuel cells. Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering. 15(9). S193–S201. 26 indexed citations
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Munshi, Sandeep, Vijay Modi, & T. Yokomizo. (1995). Drag Reduction And Vibration Suppression Of A D-Section Structural Member Through Momentum Injection. International Journal of Offshore and Polar Engineering. 5(3). 3 indexed citations
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Modi, Vijay & F. K. Moore. (1987). Laminar separation in buoyant channel flows. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 177. 37–47. 5 indexed citations
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Misra, Arun K., Ding Xu, & Vijay Modi. (1984). Nonlinear vibrations of orbiting tethers.. 54. 3. 2 indexed citations

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