Vítor Sousa

1.8k total citations
64 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Vítor Sousa is a scholar working on Building and Construction, Civil and Structural Engineering and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Vítor Sousa has authored 64 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Building and Construction, 21 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering and 16 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Vítor Sousa's work include Water Systems and Optimization (13 papers), Urban Stormwater Management Solutions (12 papers) and Municipal Solid Waste Management (10 papers). Vítor Sousa is often cited by papers focused on Water Systems and Optimization (13 papers), Urban Stormwater Management Solutions (12 papers) and Municipal Solid Waste Management (10 papers). Vítor Sousa collaborates with scholars based in Portugal, Spain and United Kingdom. Vítor Sousa's co-authors include José Alexandre Bogas, N. Almeida, Luís Alves Dias, Cristina Matos Silva, Inês Meireles, Célia Dias‐Ferreira, Verónica Oliveira, José Pedro Matos, Sofia Real and Fernando A. Branco and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews and Journal of Cleaner Production.

In The Last Decade

Vítor Sousa

58 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Vítor Sousa Portugal 18 444 431 338 272 192 64 1.4k
N. Almeida Portugal 18 427 1.0× 416 1.0× 54 0.2× 303 1.1× 51 0.3× 65 1.3k
Fernanda Rodrigues Portugal 21 198 0.4× 725 1.7× 228 0.7× 96 0.4× 65 0.3× 85 1.4k
Poorang Piroozfar United Kingdom 19 175 0.4× 1.2k 2.7× 526 1.6× 161 0.6× 156 0.8× 64 1.7k
Tariq Umar United Kingdom 20 144 0.3× 339 0.8× 42 0.1× 300 1.1× 58 0.3× 80 989
Germán Martínez Montes Spain 19 1.1k 2.5× 855 2.0× 535 1.6× 38 0.1× 56 0.3× 51 2.3k
Madzlan Napiah Malaysia 26 1.3k 3.0× 376 0.9× 34 0.1× 94 0.3× 79 0.4× 123 2.1k
Sunkuk Kim South Korea 20 301 0.7× 850 2.0× 126 0.4× 133 0.5× 19 0.1× 173 1.5k
Jorge Rodríguez-Hernández Spain 22 785 1.8× 406 0.9× 677 2.0× 16 0.1× 55 0.3× 64 1.9k
Yaning Qiao China 19 554 1.2× 243 0.6× 172 0.5× 82 0.3× 16 0.1× 59 1.2k
Changyoon Ji South Korea 22 163 0.4× 856 2.0× 451 1.3× 34 0.1× 36 0.2× 49 1.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Vítor Sousa

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Fields of papers citing papers by Vítor Sousa

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Vítor Sousa

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Vítor Sousa. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Vítor Sousa 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 Vítor Sousa. Vítor Sousa 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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Sousa, Vítor & Hugo Algarvio. (2025). Strategic Bidding to Increase the Market Value of Variable Renewable Generators in Electricity Markets. Energies. 18(7). 1586–1586. 1 indexed citations
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Meireles, Inês, et al.. (2024). Comparative environmental life cycle assessment of partition walls: Innovative prefabricated systems vs conventional construction. Cleaner Environmental Systems. 12. 100179–100179. 5 indexed citations
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Sousa, Vítor, et al.. (2024). Assessment of the Carbon Storage Potential of Portuguese Precast Concrete Industry. Buildings. 14(2). 384–384.
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Sousa, Vítor, et al.. (2024). Managing carbon waste in a decarbonized industry: Assessing the potential of concrete mixing storage. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 31(12). 17804–17821. 5 indexed citations
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Sousa, Vítor, et al.. (2023). Potential of rainwater harvesting in the retail sector: a case study in Portugal. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 30(14). 42427–42442. 7 indexed citations
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Sousa, Vítor, José Alexandre Bogas, Sofia Real, & Inês Meireles. (2022). Industrial production of recycled cement: energy consumption and carbon dioxide emission estimation. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 30(4). 8778–8789. 47 indexed citations
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Manso, Maria, Vítor Sousa, Cristina Matos Silva, & Carlos Oliveira Cruz. (2021). The role of green roofs in post COVID-19 confinement: An analysis of willingness to pay. Journal of Building Engineering. 44. 103388–103388. 18 indexed citations
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Sousa, Vítor, Inês Meireles, & Ana Silva. (2020). Optimizing Service Life Prediction Models of External Paint Finishes. Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities. 34(2). 3 indexed citations
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Sousa, Vítor, et al.. (2020). A structured methodology to understand municipal waste generation at local level with minimized effort: development and case study. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 28(10). 12597–12612. 1 indexed citations
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Sousa, Vítor, et al.. (2019). Statistical comparison of the performance of data-based models for sewer condition modeling. Structure and Infrastructure Engineering. 15(12). 1680–1693. 7 indexed citations
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Sousa, Vítor, Inês Meireles, Verónica Oliveira, & Célia Dias‐Ferreira. (2019). Prediction Performance of Separate Collection of Packaging Waste Yields Using Genetic Algorithm Optimized Support Vector Machines. Waste and Biomass Valorization. 10(12). 3603–3612. 12 indexed citations
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Meireles, Inês & Vítor Sousa. (2019). Assessing water, energy and emissions reduction from water conservation measures in buildings: a methodological approach. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 27(5). 4612–4629. 17 indexed citations
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Silva, Cristina Matos, et al.. (2019). A scale-adaptive method for urban rainwater harvesting simulation. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 27(5). 4557–4570. 15 indexed citations
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Oliveira, Verónica, Vítor Sousa, & Célia Dias‐Ferreira. (2018). Dataset of socio-economic and waste collection indicators for Portugal at municipal level. Data in Brief. 22. 658–661. 4 indexed citations
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Oliveira, Verónica, et al.. (2017). Model for the separate collection of packaging waste in Portuguese low-performing recycling regions. Journal of Environmental Management. 216. 13–24. 32 indexed citations
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Sousa, Vítor, Cristina Matos Silva, & Inês Meireles. (2017). Technical-financial evaluation of rainwater harvesting systems in commercial buildings–case ase studies from Sonae Sierra in Portugal and Brazil. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 25(20). 19283–19297. 15 indexed citations
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Sousa, Vítor, N. Almeida, & Luís Alves Dias. (2014). Role of Statistics and Engineering Judgment in Developing Optimized Time-Cost Relationship Models. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management. 140(8). 10 indexed citations
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Almeida, N., Vítor Sousa, Luís Alves Dias, & Fernando A. Branco. (2010). A framework for combining risk-management and performance-based building approaches. Building Research & Information. 38(2). 157–174. 34 indexed citations
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Brito, Jorge de, et al.. (2006). Anomalies in the Sintra National Palace wood-framing. 2(3). 193–206. 4 indexed citations

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