Wanni Zhang

1.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
29 papers, 759 citations indexed

About

Wanni Zhang is a scholar working on Building and Construction, Environmental Engineering and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Wanni Zhang has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 759 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Building and Construction, 10 papers in Environmental Engineering and 8 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Wanni Zhang's work include Building Energy and Comfort Optimization (14 papers), Urban Heat Island Mitigation (8 papers) and Wind and Air Flow Studies (6 papers). Wanni Zhang is often cited by papers focused on Building Energy and Comfort Optimization (14 papers), Urban Heat Island Mitigation (8 papers) and Wind and Air Flow Studies (6 papers). Wanni Zhang collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Japan. Wanni Zhang's co-authors include Tianzhen Hong, Xuan Luo, Zhe Wang, Kaiyu Sun, Max Wei, Zhaoyun Zeng, Barry Hooper, Piercarlo Romagnoni, Laura Carnieletto and Angelo Zarrella and has published in prestigious journals such as Water Research, Journal of Environmental Management and Energy and Buildings.

In The Last Decade

Wanni Zhang

28 papers receiving 743 citations

Hit Papers

State-of-the-art on research and applications of machine ... 2020 2026 2022 2024 2020 50 100 150 200
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. State-of-the-art on research and applications of machine learning in the building life cycle
    2020 247 citations Tianzhen Hong, Zhe Wang et al. Energy and Buildings profile →

Peers

Wanni Zhang
Italo Meroni Italy
Lorenzo Belussi Italy
Seunghoon Jung South Korea
Xingxing Zhang Sweden
Jung-Ho Huh South Korea
Rongyue Zheng China
Chaoqun Zhuang China
Juan F. Coronel Spain
José Sánchez Ramos Spain
Italo Meroni Italy
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Citations per year, relative to Wanni Zhang Wanni Zhang (= 1×) peers Italo Meroni

Countries citing papers authored by Wanni Zhang

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Fields of papers citing papers by Wanni Zhang

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wanni Zhang

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

All Works

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Li, Han, et al.. (2025). Deciphering city-level residential AMI data: An unsupervised data mining framework and case study. Energy and AI. 20. 100484–100484. 1 indexed citations
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Li, Han, et al.. (2025). A cross-dimensional analysis of data-driven short-term load forecasting methods with large-scale smart meter data. Energy and Buildings. 344. 115909–115909. 1 indexed citations
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Zhao, Dong, et al.. (2025). IoT-based retrofit information diffusion in future smart communities. Energy and Buildings. 338. 115756–115756.
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Hong, Tianzhen, et al.. (2025). On renewable energy community implementation in historic cities: A city-scale validated model. Energy and Buildings. 338. 115709–115709. 2 indexed citations
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Lamberts, Roberto, et al.. (2024). Defining weather scenarios for simulation-based assessment of thermal resilience of buildings under current and future climates: A case study in Brazil. Sustainable Cities and Society. 107. 105460–105460. 18 indexed citations
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Haddad, Shamila, Wanni Zhang, Riccardo Paolini, et al.. (2024). Quantifying the energy impact of heat mitigation technologies at the urban scale. Nature Cities. 1(1). 62–72. 44 indexed citations
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Zhang, Wanni, Wenchao Xue, Chunpeng Zhang, & Kang Xiao. (2024). Towards long-term operation of flow-electrode capacitive deionization (FCDI): Optimization of operating parameters and regeneration of flow-electrode. Heliyon. 10(2). e24940–e24940. 5 indexed citations
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Hong, Tianzhen, Sang Hoon Lee, Wanni Zhang, et al.. (2023). Nexus of electrification and energy efficiency retrofit of commercial buildings at the district scale. Sustainable Cities and Society. 95. 104608–104608. 18 indexed citations
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Zhang, Wanni, et al.. (2023). Selection and optimization of carbon-based electrode materials for flow-electrode capacitive deionization. Separation and Purification Technology. 315. 123649–123649. 21 indexed citations
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Sun, Kaiyu, et al.. (2023). Development of prototypical district-scale models. Building Simulation Conference proceedings. 18. 1 indexed citations
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Zhang, Wanni, Dongmei Wang, Huixia Zhou, et al.. (2023). Sex difference in association between tardive dyskinesia and cognitive deficits in patients with chronic schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research. 255. 140–147. 1 indexed citations
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Zhang, Wanni, et al.. (2022). Tea polyphenols-loaded nanocarriers: preparation technology and biological function. Biotechnology Letters. 44(3). 387–398. 19 indexed citations
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Luo, Na, Xuan Luo, Mohammad Mortezazadeh, et al.. (2022). A data schema for exchanging information between urban building energy models and urban microclimate models in coupled simulations. Journal of Building Performance Simulation. 18(3). 333–350. 23 indexed citations
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Carnieletto, Laura, Martina Ferrando, Kaiyu Sun, et al.. (2021). Italian prototype building models for urban scale building performance simulation. Building and Environment. 192. 107590–107590. 80 indexed citations
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Sun, Kaiyu, Wanni Zhang, Zhaoyun Zeng, et al.. (2021). Passive cooling designs to improve heat resilience of homes in underserved and vulnerable communities. Energy and Buildings. 252. 111383–111383. 60 indexed citations
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Zeng, Zhaoyun, Wanni Zhang, Kaiyu Sun, Max Wei, & Tianzhen Hong. (2021). Investigation of pre-cooling as a recommended measure to improve residential buildings’ thermal resilience during heat waves. Building and Environment. 210. 108694–108694. 39 indexed citations
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Hong, Tianzhen, Zhe Wang, Xuan Luo, & Wanni Zhang. (2020). State-of-the-art on research and applications of machine learning in the building life cycle. Energy and Buildings. 212. 109831–109831. 247 indexed citations breakdown →
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Yuan, Qijuan, Mingtao Yang, Shichen Zhu, et al.. (2019). Development of Biocompatible and Antibacterial Collagen Hydrogels via Dialdehyde Polysaccharide Modification and Tetracycline Hydrochloride Loading. Macromolecular Materials and Engineering. 304(5). 22 indexed citations

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