Building Energy and Comfort Optimization
Building Energy and Comfort Optimization is a research topic within Building and Construction. Science Explorer counts 60k research works in it since 1950. 20.6% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.
This cluster of papers focuses on building energy efficiency, thermal comfort optimization, and the impact of occupant behavior and climate change on energy consumption. It covers topics such as energy simulation, model predictive control, sustainable buildings, occupant behavior modeling, and the use of artificial neural networks for predicting building energy consumption.
- Building Energy Consumption
- Thermal Comfort
- Energy Simulation
- Model Predictive Control
- Sustainable Buildings
- Occupant Behavior
- Climate Change Impact
- Artificial Neural Networks
- Energy Efficiency
- Building Performance
- Research works
- 60k fractional, since 1950
- In the world top 10%
- 12k per year above
- Top-10% rate
- 20.6% share of its works in the world top 10%
- Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
- +53% the tick is no change
Which countries lead Building Energy and Comfort Optimization research?
By volume, China and the United States publish the most (3.9k and 1.3k works in 2022–2025).
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 China 3.9k works
- 2 United States 1.3k works
- 3 India 825 works
- 4 Italy 807 works
- 5 United Kingdom 645 works
- 6 Spain 519 works
- 7 Türkiye 473 works
- 8 Germany 456 works
- 9 South Korea 417 works
- 10 Canada 388 works
How concentrated that is
The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
Which institutions lead Building Energy and Comfort Optimization research?
By volume in 2022–2025, Tsinghua University publishes the most Building Energy and Comfort Optimization research, followed by Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology.
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 Tsinghua UniversityChina 126 works
- 2 Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityHong Kong 114 works
- 3 Xi'an University of Architecture and TechnologyChina 100 works
- 4 Tianjin UniversityChina 92 works
- 5 Southeast UniversityChina 90 works
- 6 Chongqing UniversityChina 85 works
- 7 Politecnico di MilanoItaly 82 works
- 8 Tongji UniversityChina 81 works
- 9 Hunan UniversityChina 74 works
- 10 Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 74 works
Who are the leading researchers in Building Energy and Comfort Optimization?
The most-cited researchers publishing on Building Energy and Comfort Optimization include Lídia Morawska, İbrahim Dinçer and David Culler.
- 1 Lídia Morawska Australia 6.4k citations
- 2 İbrahim Dinçer Canada 5.9k citations
- 3 David Culler United States 4.4k citations
Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.
Where is Building Energy and Comfort Optimization research done?
The largest centres of Building Energy and Comfort Optimization research in 2022–2025 are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Xi'an (China) and Nanjing (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Moratuwa.
Largest cities, 2022–2025
Where it is the local speciality
- MoratuwaLK · 23.3 works14×
Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Building Energy and Comfort Optimization than the world average.
Where is the best place to study Building Energy and Comfort Optimization?
Among universities, judged by research, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Politecnico di Torino and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.
One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.
| # | University | Score | Top 10% | Specialisation | Works | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityHong Kong | 70.3 | 37.3% | 8.1× | 114 | +23.6% |
| 2 | Politecnico di TorinoItaly | 68.1 | 22.0% | 9.4× | 69 | +231.4% |
| 3 | Hong Kong University of Science and TechnologyHong Kong | 65.2 | 46.5% | 4.5× | 28 | +317.1% |
| 4 | The University of KitakyushuJapan | 65.1 | 30.6% | 46.9× | 25 | +147.5% |
| 5 | Concordia UniversityCanada | 61.6 | 31.7% | 11.4× | 55 | +9.4% |
| 6 | Tallinn University of TechnologyEstonia | 60.7 | 19.0% | 15.5× | 32 | +146.3% |
| 7 | Universitat Politècnica de CatalunyaSpain | 59.7 | 20.6% | 8.3× | 42 | +155.0% |
| 8 | Norwegian University of Science and TechnologyNorway | 59.6 | 26.8% | 5.9× | 52 | +179.5% |
| 9 | Polytechnic University of BariItaly | 59.2 | 28.0% | 9.1× | 18 | +405.0% |
| 10 | University of Reggio CalabriaItaly | 59.0 | 27.0% | 12.8× | 14 | +372.7% |
Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.
Is Building Energy and Comfort Optimization research growing?
Output in 2018–2022 was 53% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2023. The fastest-growing topics are Building Energy and Comfort Optimization.
The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.
Which topics inside it are moving
Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.