| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | A review on buildings energy consumption information | Energy and Buildings | 2008 | 4,675 |
| 2 | EnergyPlus: creating a new-generation building energy simulation program | Energy and Buildings | 2001 | 1,783 |
| 3 | Street design and urban canopy layer climate | Energy and Buildings | 1988 | 1,241 |
| 4 | Adaptive thermal comfort and sustainable thermal standards for buildings | Energy and Buildings | 2002 | 1,209 |
| 5 | Urban climates and heat islands: albedo, evapotranspiration, and anthropogenic heat | Energy and Buildings | 1997 | 1,082 |
| 6 | Thermal adaptation in the built environment: a literature review | Energy and Buildings | 1998 | 1,017 |
| 7 | Life cycle energy analysis of buildings: An overview | Energy and Buildings | 2010 | 995 |
| 8 | Energy use in the life cycle of conventional and low-energy buildings: A review article | Energy and Buildings | 2007 | 972 |
| 9 | Thermal comfort in naturally ventilated buildings: revisions to ASHRAE Standard 55 | Energy and Buildings | 2002 | 958 |
| 10 | Use of model predictive control and weather forecasts for energy efficient building climate control | Energy and Buildings | 2012 | 886 |
| 11 | Zero Energy Building – A review of definitions and calculation methodologies | Energy and Buildings | 2011 | 883 |
| 12 | Building energy-consumption status worldwide and the state-of-the-art technologies for zero-energy buildings during the past decade | Energy and Buildings | 2016 | 876 |
| 13 | Traditional, state-of-the-art and future thermal building insulation materials and solutions – Properties, requirements and possibilities | Energy and Buildings | 2011 | 864 |
| 14 | Existing building retrofits: Methodology and state-of-the-art | Energy and Buildings | 2012 | 861 |
| 15 | Aerogel insulation for building applications: A state-of-the-art review | Energy and Buildings | 2011 | 859 |
| 16 | Review of passive PCM latent heat thermal energy storage systems towards buildings’ energy efficiency | Energy and Buildings | 2013 | 785 |
| 17 | Domestic electricity use: A high-resolution energy demand model | Energy and Buildings | 2010 | 774 |
| 18 | Phase change materials for building applications: A state-of-the-art review | Energy and Buildings | 2010 | 763 |
| 19 | Experimental evaluation of using various renewable energy sources for heating a greenhouse | Energy and Buildings | 2013 | 757 |
| 20 | Use of microencapsulated PCM in concrete walls for energy savings | Energy and Buildings | 2007 | 687 |
| 21 | Net zero energy buildings: A consistent definition framework | Energy and Buildings | 2012 | 674 |
| 22 | State of the art in thermal insulation materials and aims for future developments | Energy and Buildings | 2005 | 656 |
| 23 | Evaluation methods and development of a new glare prediction model for daylight environments with the use of CCD cameras | Energy and Buildings | 2006 | 650 |
| 24 | Applying support vector machines to predict building energy consumption in tropical region | Energy and Buildings | 2005 | 647 |
| 25 | Green roofs; building energy savings and the potential for retrofit | Energy and Buildings | 2010 | 636 |
| 26 | Trees vs Neurons: Comparison between random forest and ANN for high-resolution prediction of building energy consumption | Energy and Buildings | 2017 | 630 |
| 27 | Thermal comfort and psychological adaptation as a guide for designing urban spaces | Energy and Buildings | 2003 | 623 |
| 28 | On the impact of urban heat island and global warming on the power demand and electricity consumption of buildings—A review | Energy and Buildings | 2015 | 618 |
| 29 | Vegetation as a climatic component in the design of an urban street | Energy and Buildings | 2000 | 611 |
| 30 | Occupant behavior modeling for building performance simulation: Current state and future challenges | Energy and Buildings | 2015 | 611 |
| 31 | Energy intelligent buildings based on user activity: A survey | Energy and Buildings | 2013 | 610 |
| 32 | The effect of occupancy and building characteristics on energy use for space and water heating in Dutch residential stock | Energy and Buildings | 2009 | 606 |
| 33 | Life cycle energy and environmental performance of a new university building: modeling challenges and design implications | Energy and Buildings | 2003 | 587 |
| 34 | Embodied energy of common and alternative building materials and technologies | Energy and Buildings | 2003 | 585 |
| 35 | A review of human thermal comfort in the built environment | Energy and Buildings | 2015 | 578 |
| 36 | Extension of the PMV model to non-air-conditioned buildings in warm climates | Energy and Buildings | 2002 | 571 |
| 37 | Accurate quantitative estimation of energy performance of residential buildings using statistical machine learning tools | Energy and Buildings | 2012 | 562 |
| 38 | Phase change materials (PCM) for cooling applications in buildings: A review | Energy and Buildings | 2016 | 559 |
| 39 | A generalised stochastic model for the simulation of occupant presence | Energy and Buildings | 2008 | 555 |
| 40 | Useful daylight illuminances: A replacement for daylight factors | Energy and Buildings | 2006 | 535 |
| 41 | A green roof model for building energy simulation programs | Energy and Buildings | 2008 | 530 |
| 42 | Analysis of the green roof thermal properties and investigation of its energy performance | Energy and Buildings | 2001 | 524 |
| 43 | Identification of parameters for embodied energy measurement: A literature review | Energy and Buildings | 2010 | 521 |
| 44 | The dark side of occupants’ behaviour on building energy use | Energy and Buildings | 2010 | 508 |
| 45 | Phase change materials and thermal energy storage for buildings | Energy and Buildings | 2015 | 486 |
| 46 | Vegetation in the urban environment: microclimatic analysis and benefits | Energy and Buildings | 2003 | 484 |
| 47 | Comparison between detailed model simulation and artificial neural network for forecasting building energy consumption | Energy and Buildings | 2008 | 476 |
| 48 | User behavior in whole building simulation | Energy and Buildings | 2009 | 471 |
| 49 | Validation of dynamic RADIANCE-based daylight simulations for a test office with external blinds | Energy and Buildings | 2001 | 470 |
| 50 | Do LEED-certified buildings save energy? Yes, but… | Energy and Buildings | 2009 | 470 |
