| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | 4th Generation District Heating (4GDH) | Energy | 2014 | 1,548 |
| 2 | Hydrothermal liquefaction of biomass: A review of subcritical water technologies | Energy | 2011 | 1,409 |
| 3 | Renewable energy strategies for sustainable development | Energy | 2007 | 1,107 |
| 4 | MES (multi-energy systems): An overview of concepts and evaluation models | Energy | 2014 | 1,030 |
| 5 | A survey of index decomposition analysis in energy and environmental studies | Energy | 2000 | 1,025 |
| 6 | Feasibility of edible oil vs. non-edible oil vs. waste edible oil as biodiesel feedstock | Energy | 2008 | 981 |
| 7 | CO2 capture and separation technologies for end-of-pipe applications – A review | Energy | 2010 | 963 |
| 8 | Working fluids for low-temperature organic Rankine cycles | Energy | 2007 | 916 |
| 9 | Long-term patterns of European PV output using 30 years of validated hourly reanalysis and satellite data | Energy | 2016 | 873 |
| 10 | Energy system analysis of 100% renewable energy systems—The case of Denmark in years 2030 and 2050 | Energy | 2009 | 865 |
| 11 | Olefins from conventional and heavy feedstocks: Energy use in steam cracking and alternative processes | Energy | 2006 | 842 |
| 12 | SPECO: A systematic and general methodology for calculating efficiencies and costs in thermal systems | Energy | 2006 | 841 |
| 13 | Predicting residential energy consumption using CNN-LSTM neural networks | Energy | 2019 | 809 |
| 14 | An overview of thermal energy storage systems | Energy | 2018 | 785 |
| 15 | Solar power generation by PV (photovoltaic) technology: A review | Energy | 2013 | 772 |
| 16 | Carbon dioxide disposal in carbonate minerals | Energy | 1995 | 771 |
| 17 | Using bias-corrected reanalysis to simulate current and future wind power output | Energy | 2016 | 771 |
| 18 | A review of organic rankine cycles (ORCs) for the recovery of low-grade waste heat | Energy | 1997 | 764 |
| 19 | Multivariate Granger causality between CO2 emissions, energy consumption, FDI (foreign direct investment) and GDP (gross domestic product): Evidence from a panel of BRIC (Brazil, Russian Federation, India, and China) countries | Energy | 2011 | 738 |
| 20 | Progress and trends in CO2 capture/separation technologies: A review | Energy | 2012 | 735 |
| 21 | Predicting electricity energy consumption: A comparison of regression analysis, decision tree and neural networks | Energy | 2007 | 727 |
| 22 | On the relationship between energy consumption, CO2 emissions and economic growth in Europe | Energy | 2010 | 702 |
| 23 | Smart energy and smart energy systems | Energy | 2017 | 679 |
| 24 | Factorizing changes in energy and environmental indicators through decomposition | Energy | 1998 | 653 |
| 25 | Effect of working fluids on organic Rankine cycle for waste heat recovery | Energy | 2004 | 645 |
| 26 | The role of district heating in future renewable energy systems | Energy | 2010 | 644 |
| 27 | Environmental production functions and environmental directional distance functions | Energy | 2007 | 627 |
| 28 | Hourly day-ahead solar irradiance prediction using weather forecasts by LSTM | Energy | 2018 | 626 |
| 29 | Optimum design criteria for an Organic Rankine cycle using low-temperature geothermal heat sources | Energy | 2007 | 600 |
| 30 | Hydrogen production through sorption-enhanced steam methane reforming and membrane technology: A review | Energy | 2008 | 599 |
| 31 | A new energy decomposition method: perfect in decomposition and consistent in aggregation | Energy | 2001 | 593 |
| 32 | Multicriteria renewable energy planning using an integrated fuzzy VIKOR & AHP methodology: The case of Istanbul | Energy | 2010 | 583 |
| 33 | Municipal solid waste management and waste-to-energy in the context of a circular economy and energy recycling in Europe | Energy | 2017 | 580 |
| 34 | Second law analysis in heat transfer | Energy | 1980 | 575 |
| 35 | Study of working fluid selection of organic Rankine cycle (ORC) for engine waste heat recovery | Energy | 2011 | 571 |
| 36 | A guide to life-cycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from electric supply technologies | Energy | 2007 | 561 |
| 37 | Performance and costs of power plants with capture and storage of CO2 | Energy | 2007 | 555 |
| 38 | Trace compounds of biogas from different biogas production plants | Energy | 2007 | 553 |
| 39 | More efficient biomass gasification via torrefaction | Energy | 2006 | 530 |
| 40 | Review of ASP EOR (alkaline surfactant polymer enhanced oil recovery) technology in the petroleum industry: Prospects and challenges | Energy | 2014 | 527 |
| 41 | Comparison of products from the pyrolysis and catalytic pyrolysis of rice husks | Energy | 2000 | 521 |
| 42 | From electricity smart grids to smart energy systems – A market operation based approach and understanding | Energy | 2012 | 520 |
| 43 | The impact of energy consumption, income and foreign direct investment on carbon dioxide emissions in Vietnam | Energy | 2015 | 512 |
| 44 | Two-tank molten salt storage for parabolic trough solar power plants | Energy | 2004 | 506 |
| 45 | Mathematical modeling of thin layer solar drying of sultana grapes | Energy | 2001 | 501 |
| 46 | International review of district heating and cooling | Energy | 2017 | 499 |
| 47 | The effect of energy consumption, urbanization, trade openness, industrial output, and the political stability on the environmental degradation in the MENA (Middle East and North African) region | Energy | 2015 | 491 |
| 48 | Life cycle assessment (LCA) of waste management strategies: Landfilling, sorting plant and incineration | Energy | 2009 | 490 |
| 49 | Status and perspectives on 100% renewable energy systems | Energy | 2019 | 489 |
| 50 | Pre-treatment technologies, and their effect on international bioenergy supply chain logistics. Techno-economic evaluation of torrefaction, fast pyrolysis and pelletisation | Energy | 2008 | 488 |
