Xavier Roca

2.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
45 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Xavier Roca is a scholar working on Building and Construction, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Management Science and Operations Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Xavier Roca has authored 45 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Building and Construction, 12 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and 9 papers in Management Science and Operations Research. Recurrent topics in Xavier Roca's work include Construction Project Management and Performance (9 papers), Sustainable Building Design and Assessment (8 papers) and Occupational Health and Safety Research (6 papers). Xavier Roca is often cited by papers focused on Construction Project Management and Performance (9 papers), Sustainable Building Design and Assessment (8 papers) and Occupational Health and Safety Research (6 papers). Xavier Roca collaborates with scholars based in Spain, Canada and Colombia. Xavier Roca's co-authors include Santiago Gassó, Miquel Casals, Marta Gangolells, Núria Forcada, Alba Fuertes, Luís Puigjaner, Y.G Pan, Enrique Velo García, X. Guardino and Eva Gallego and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Cleaner Production, Journal of Chromatography A and Fuel.

In The Last Decade

Xavier Roca

43 papers receiving 1.8k 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.

The circular economy in the construction and demolition waste sector – A review and an integrative model approach

2019 372 citations Xavier Roca, Santiago Gassó et al. Journal of Cleaner Production profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Xavier Roca Spain	22	867	310	281	256	233	45	1.9k
Rebekka Volk Germany	16	1.4k 1.7×	33 0.1×	323 1.1×	541 2.1×	133 0.6×	68	2.2k
Sunkuk Kim South Korea	20	850 1.0×	45 0.1×	245 0.9×	301 1.2×	96 0.4×	173	1.5k
Jingru Li China	21	835 1.0×	296 1.0×	227 0.8×	266 1.0×	166 0.7×	70	1.8k
Zoubeir Lafhaj France	27	1.1k 1.3×	58 0.2×	176 0.6×	1.0k 4.0×	119 0.5×	109	2.4k
Angeliki Kylili Cyprus	23	1.1k 1.2×	133 0.4×	124 0.4×	198 0.8×	92 0.4×	41	2.3k
Zubaidah Ismail Malaysia	29	90 0.1×	157 0.5×	102 0.4×	1.1k 4.1×	138 0.6×	114	2.3k
Mamdooh Alwetaishi Saudi Arabia	24	625 0.7×	233 0.8×	73 0.3×	246 1.0×	43 0.2×	112	1.7k
Fernanda Rodrigues Portugal	21	725 0.8×	15 0.0×	131 0.5×	198 0.8×	140 0.6×	85	1.4k
Feng Xiong China	25	763 0.9×	58 0.2×	223 0.8×	1.1k 4.2×	85 0.4×	134	1.9k
Kourosh Behzadian United Kingdom	25	290 0.3×	60 0.2×	155 0.6×	470 1.8×	65 0.3×	104	2.0k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Roca, Xavier, et al.. (2022). Multicriteria analysis of the environmental and economic performance of circularity strategies for concrete waste recycling in Spain. Waste Management. 144. 387–400. 29 indexed citations

Gassó, Santiago, et al.. (2018). Multi-criteria decision analysis to assess the environmental and economic performance of using recycled gypsum cement and recycled aggregate to produce concrete: The case of Catalonia (Spain). Resources Conservation and Recycling. 133. 120–131. 49 indexed citations

Tejedor, Blanca, Miquel Casals, Marta Gangolells, & Xavier Roca. (2017). Quantitative internal infrared thermography for determining in-situ thermal behaviour of façades. Energy and Buildings. 151. 187–197. 88 indexed citations

Roca, Xavier, et al.. (2016). Product-specific life cycle assessment of recycled gypsum as a replacement for natural gypsum in ordinary Portland cement: application to the Spanish context. Journal of Cleaner Production. 117. 150–159. 80 indexed citations

Pedersoli, Marco, Andrea Vedaldi, Jordi Gonzàlez, & Xavier Roca. (2014). A coarse-to-fine approach for fast deformable object detection. Pattern Recognition. 48(5). 1844–1853. 37 indexed citations

Macarulla, Marcel, Núria Forcada, Miquel Casals, et al.. (2012). Standardizing Housing Defects: Classification, Validation, and Benefits. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management. 139(8). 968–976. 71 indexed citations

Huerta, Iván, et al.. (2012). Exploiting multiple cues in motion segmentation based on background subtraction. Neurocomputing. 100. 183–196. 18 indexed citations

Forcada, Núria, Miquel Casals, Xavier Roca, Marta Gangolells, & Alba Fuertes. (2011). Improving design competences: experiences in group-based learning based on ICT's in a blended learning environment. International journal of engineering education. 27(2). 292–302. 1 indexed citations

Pedersoli, Marco, Jordi Gonzàlez, Andrew D. Bagdanov, & Xavier Roca. (2011). Efficient discriminative multiresolution cascade for real-time human detection applications. Pattern Recognition Letters. 32(13). 1581–1587. 7 indexed citations

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Gangolells, Marta, Miquel Casals, Núria Forcada, Xavier Roca, & Alba Fuertes. (2010). Mitigating construction safety risks using prevention through design. Journal of Safety Research. 41(2). 107–122. 138 indexed citations

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Gallego, Eva, Xavier Roca, José Francisco Perales Lorente, & X. Guardino. (2009). Determining indoor air quality and identifying the origin of odour episodes in indoor environments. Journal of Environmental Sciences. 21(3). 333–339. 76 indexed citations

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Mozerov, M. G., et al.. (2009). Trinocular stereo matching with composite disparity space image. 2089–2092. 13 indexed citations

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Mozerov, M. G., et al.. (2009). Solving the multi object occlusion problem in a multiple camera tracking system. Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis. 19(1). 165–171. 9 indexed citations

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Fuertes, Alba, Miquel Casals, Marta Gangolells, Núria Forcada, & Xavier Roca. (2008). An ontology for Environmental and Health and Safety risks' evaluation for construction. 174. 100–108. 1 indexed citations

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Gangolells, Marta, Miquel Casals, Santiago Gassó, et al.. (2008). A methodology for predicting the severity of environmental impacts related to the construction process of residential buildings. Building and Environment. 44(3). 558–571. 111 indexed citations

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Forcada, Núria, et al.. (2007). Students’ perceptions and performance with traditional vs. blended learning methods in an industrial plants course. International journal of engineering education. 23(6). 1199–1209. 7 indexed citations

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Roca, Xavier & Gregory C. Nadon. (2007). Tectonic Control on the Sequence Stratigraphy of Nonmarine Retroarc Foreland Basin Fills: Insights from the Upper Jurassic of Central Utah, U.S.A.. Journal of Sedimentary Research. 77(3). 239–255. 21 indexed citations

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Ribes, Alejandra, et al.. (2006). Development and validation of a method for air-quality and nuisance odors monitoring of volatile organic compounds using multi-sorbent adsorption and gas chromatography/mass spectrometry thermal desorption system. Journal of Chromatography A. 1140(1-2). 44–55. 136 indexed citations

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Pan, Y.G, Enrique Velo García, Xavier Roca, Joan J. Manyà, & Luís Puigjaner. (2000). Fluidized-bed co-gasification of residual biomass/poor coal blends for fuel gas production. Fuel. 79(11). 1317–1326. 133 indexed citations

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Roca, Xavier, et al.. (1999). Variables psicológicas y seropositividad al VIH: aplicación de la medicina conductual en el análisis empírico de una interrelación. Adicciones. 11(4). 323–328. 1 indexed citations

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