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JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

  1. Shen, Z., Chen, C.-F., H., Zhou, Fefferman, N. & Shrestha, S. (2023). Community vulnerability is the key determinant of diverse energy burdens in the United States. Energy Research and Social Science, 97, 102949.
     

  2. Chen, C.-F., Xu, X., Cao, Z. Mockus, A., & Shi, Q. (2023). Analysis of Social-psychological Factors and Financial Incentives in Demand Response and Residential Energy Behavior. Frontiers in Energy Research, 11, 932134.
     

  3. Chen, C.-F., Greig, J., Nelson, H., & Li, F. (2022). When disadvantage collides: The concentrated effects on energy insecurity and internet burdens in the U.S. Energy Research and Social Science, 91, 102713
     

  4. Chen, C.-F., Xu., X., Adua, L., Briggs, M. Nelson, H. (2022). Exploring the interconnected factors that influence energy use intensity across low-, middle-, and high-income households in the United States. Energy Policy, 168, 113071.
     

  5. Wang, Y., Chen, C.-F., Kong, P.-Y., Li, H.S. & Wen, Q.-S. (2022). A Cyber-physical-social perspective on future smart distribution systems. Proceedings of the IEEE, 1-31.
     

  6. Li, J.X., Chen, C-F., Walzem, A., Nelson, H., Shuai, C.M. (2022). National goals or sense of community: Exploring social-psychological influence of household solar energy adoption in rural China. Energy Research & Social Science, 89, 102669.
     

  7. Chen, C-F., Feng, J., Luke, N., Kuo, C-P, & Fu, J.S. (2022). Localized energy burdens and concentrated disadvantage and the feminization of energy poverty. iScience, 25, 104139.
     

  8. Chen, C.-F., Liu, Y., Greig, J., Shen, Z., & Shi, Y. (2022). The impacts of COVID-19 on clean energy labor markets: Evidence from multifaceted analysis of public health interventions and COVID-health factors. Energy Policy, 164, 112880.
     

  9. Chen, C.-F., Dietz, T., Fefferman, N., Greig, J., Cetin, K., Robinson, C., Arpan, L., Schweiker, M., Dong, B., Wu, W., Li, Y., Zhou, H., Wu, J., Wen, J., Fu, J., Hong, T., Yan, D., Nelson, H., Zhu, Y., Li., X., Xie, L., & Fu, R. (2022). Extreme events, energy security and equality through micro and macro levels: Concepts, challenges and methods. Energy Research and Social Science, 85, 102401.
     

  10. Fefferman, N., Chen, C.-F., Bonilla, G., Nelson, H., and Kuo, C.-P. (2021). How limitations in energy burdens compromise health interventions for COVID outbreaks in urban settings. iScience. 24, 103389.
     

  11. Mitra, D., Chu, Y., Cetin, K., Wang, Y., & Chen, C.-F. (2021). Variation in residential occupancy profiles in the United States by household income level and characteristics. Journal of Building Performance Simulation, 14:6, 692-711.
     

  12. Chen, C.-F., De Simone, M., Yilmaz, S., Xu, X., Wang, Z., Hong, T., & Pan, Y. (2021). Intersecting heuristic adaptive strategies, building design, and energy-saving intentions when facing discomfort environment: A cross-country analysis. Building and Environment, 204, 108129.
     

  13. Tverskoi, D., Xu, X., Nelson, H., Menassa, Ca., Gavrilets, S., & Chen, C.-F. (2021).  Energy-saving at work: Understanding the roles of normative values and perceived benefits and costs in single-person and shared offices in the United States. Energy Research and Social Science, 79, 102173.
     

  14. Chen, C.-F, Nelson, H., Xu, X, Bonilla, G., and Jones, N. (2021). Beyond technology adoption: Examining home energy management systems, energy burdens and climate change perceptions across income groups. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 145, 111066.
     

  15. Nelson, H., Chen, C-F. & Li, J (2021). Equity in renewable energy technology adoption in China: a review of the social-psychological and demographic barriers. Current Sustainable Renewable Energy Reports.
     

  16. Chen, C.-F., Li, J., Shuai, J., Nelson, H., Walzem, A., and Cheng, J. (2021). Linking social-psychological factors with policy expectation: using local voices to understand solar P.V. poverty alleviation in Wuhan, China. Energy Policy, 151, 112160.
     

  17. Chen, C.-F., Yilmaz, S., Pisello, A. L. Kim, A., Simone, A., Hong, T., Bandurski, K., Bavaresco, M. V., Liu, P.-L., and Zhu, Y.  (2020). The impacts of building characteristics, social-psychological and cultural factors on indoor environment quality productivity belief. Building and Environment, 185, 107189.
     

  18. Chen, C.-F., Zarazua De Rubens, G., Xu, X., & Li, J. (2020). Coronavirus comes home? Energy use, home energy management, and the social-psychological factors of COVID-19. Energy Research and Social Science, 68, 101688.
     

  19. Fell, M., Pagel, L., Chen, C.-F., Goldberg, M. H., Herberz, M., Herberz, G. M., Sareen, S., & Hahnel, U. J.J. (2020). Validity of energy social research during and after COVID-19: challenges, considerations, and responses. Energy Research and Social Science, 68, 101646.
     

  20. Chen, C.-F., Xu, X., Adams, J., Brannon, J., Li, F., & Walzem, A., (2020). When East meets West: understanding residents’ home energy management system adoption and willingness to pay in Japan and in the United States. Energy Research and Social Science, 69, 101616.
     

  21. Yamaguchi, Y., Chen, C.-F., Shimoda, Y., Yagita, Y., Iwafune, Y., Ishii, H., & Hayashi, Y. (2020). An integrated approach of estimating demand response flexibility based on household heterogeneity and activities. Energy Policy, 142, 111467.
     

  22. Sovacool, B. K., Xu, X., Zarazua De Rubens, G., & Chen, C.F. (2020). Social media and disasters: human security, environmental racism, and crisis communication in Hurricane Irma response. Environmental Sociology, 6, 3, 291-306.
     

  23. Xu, X., Chen, C.-F., Li, D. & Menassa, C. (2020). Energy-saving at work: Exploring the role of social norms, perceived control and ascribed responsibility in different office layout. Frontiers in Built Environment, 6, 16, 1-12.
     

  24. Chen, C.-F., Zarazua de Rubens, G., Noel, L., Kester, J., & Sovacool, B. K. (2020). Assessing the Socio-demographic, technical, economic, and behavioral factors of Nordic electric vehicle adoption and the influence of Vehicle-to-Grid preferences. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Review, 121, 109692.
     

  25. Chen, C.-F., Wang, Y., Adua, L., & Bai, H. (2020). Reducing household fossil fuel consumption by enabling technology and behavior. Energy Research and Social Science, 60, 101402.
     

  26. Shi, Q., Chen, C.-F., Mammoli, A., & Li, F. (2020). Estimating the profile of incentive-based demand response (IBDR) by integrating technical models and social-behavioral factors. IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 11 (1), 171-183.
     

  27. Chen, C.- F. et al. (2020). Culture, conformity, and carbon? A multi-country analysis of heating and cooling practices in buildings. Energy Research and Social Science, 61, 101344.
     

  28. Hong, T., Chen, C.-F., Wang, Z., & Xu, X. (2020). Linking human-building interactions in shared offices with personality traits. Building and Environment, 170, 106602.
     

  29. Adua, L., Clark, B., York, R., & Chen, C. F. (2019). Modernizing our way out or digging ourselves in? Reconsidering the impacts of efficiency innovations and affluence on residential energy consumption, 2005-2015. Journal of Environmental Management, 252, 1096-59.
     

  30. Mammoli, A., Robinson, M., Ayon, V., Mart ́ınez-Ram ́on, M., Chen, C.-F., & Abreu, J. (2019). A behavior-centered framework for real-time control and load-shedding using aggregated residential energy resources in distribution microgrids. Energy and Buildings, 198, 275-290.
     

  31. Li, D., Xu., X., Chen, C.-F., & Menassa, C. (2019). Understanding energy-saving behaviors in the American workplace: A unified theory of motivation, opportunity, and ability. Energy Research and Social Science, 51, 198-209.
     

  32. Xu., X., & Chen, C.-F. (2019). Energy efficiency and energy justice for U.S. low-income households: An analysis of multi-facet challenges and potential. Energy Policy, 128, 763-774.
     

  33. Arpan, L., Xu, X., Raney, A.A., Chen, C.-F., & Wang, Z. (2018). Politics, values, and morals: Assessing consumer responses to the framing of residential renewable energy in the United States. Energy Research and Social Science, 46, 321-331.
     

  34. Shuai, J., Chen, C.-F., Cheng, J., Leng, Z., & Wang, Z. (2018). Are China's solar P.V. products competitive in the context of the Belt and Road Initiative? Energy Policy, 120, 559-568.
     

  35. Xu, X., Chen, C.-F., Zhu, X., & Hu, Q. (2018). Promoting acceptance of direct load control programs in the United States: Financial incentive versus control option. Energy, 147, 1278-1287.
     

  36. Asadinejad, A., Rahimpour, A., Tomsovic, K., Qi, H., & Chen, C.-F. (2018). Evaluation of residential customer elasticity for incentive-based demand response programs. Electric Power Systems Research, 158, 26-36.
     

  37. Talele, S., Traylor, C., Arpan, L., Curley, C., Chen, C.-F., Day, J., Feiock, R., Hadzikadic, M., Ingman, S., Karaguzel, O.T., Lam, K.P., Menassa, C., Pevnitskaya, S., Spiegelhalter, T., Tolone, W.J., Yan, W., Yeatts, D., Zhu, Y., & Tao, Y. (2018). Energy modeling and data structure framework for sustainable human-building ecosystems (SHBE): A review. Frontiers in Energy, 1-19.
     

  38. Chen, C.-F., Xu, X., & Arpan, L. (2017). Between the technology acceptance model and     sustainable energy technology acceptance model: Investigating smart meter acceptance in the United States. Energy Research and Social Science, 25, 93-104.
     

  39. Chen, C.-F., Xu, X., & Day, J. (2017). Thermal comfort or money saving? Exploring intentions to conserve energy among low-income households in the United States. Energy Research and Social Science, 26, 61-71.
     

  40. D’Oca, S., Chen, C.-F., Hong, T., & Belafi, Z. (2017). Synthesizing building physics with social psychology: An interdisciplinary framework for context and occupant behavior in office buildings. Energy Research and Social Science, 34, 240-251.
     

  41. Xu, X., Maki, A., Chen, C.-F. Dong, B., & Day, J. (2017). Investigating willingness to save energy and communication about energy use in the American workplace with the attitude-behavior-context model. Energy Research and Social Science, 32, 13-22.
     

  42. Cui, Y., Yan, D., & Chen, C.-F. (2017). Exploring the factors and motivations influencing heating behavioral patterns and future energy use intentions in the hot summer and cold winter climate zone of China. Energy and Buildings, 153, 99-110.
     

  43. Yeatts, D. E., Auden, D., Cooksey, C., & Chen, C.-F. (2017). A systematic review of strategies for overcoming the barriers to energy-efficient technologies in buildings. Energy Research and Social Science, 32, 76-85.
     

  44. Chen, C.-F., Xu, X. & Frey, R. S. (2016). Who wants solar water heaters and alternative fuel vehicles? Assessing social-psychological predictors of adoption intention and policy support in China. Energy Research and Social Science, 15, 1-11.
     

  45. Hong, T., Yan, D., D’Oca, S., & Chen, C.-F. (2016). Ten questions concerning occupant behavior in buildings: The big picture. Building and Environment, 114, 518-530.    
     

  46. Xu, X., Arpan, L., & Chen, C.-F. (2015). The moderating role of individual differences in responses to benefit and temporal framing of messages promoting residential energy saving. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 44, 95-108.
     

  47. Chen, C.-F. & Knight, K. (2014). Energy at work: social-psychological factors affecting energy conservation intentions within Chinese electric power companies. Energy Research and Social Science, 4, 23-31.
     

  48. Hu, Q., Li, F., & Chen, C.-F. (2014). A smart home test bed for undergraduate education to bridge the curriculum gap from traditional power systems to modernized smart grids. IEEE Transactions on Education, 58(1), 32-38.
     

  49. Chen, C.-F., Tomsovic, K., & Aydeniz, M. (2014). Filling the pipeline: Power system curricula for middle school and high school students. IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 29(24), 1874-1879
     

  50. Li, H., Song, J. B., Chen, C.-F., Lai, L., & Qiu, R. (2014). Behavior propagation in cognitive radio networks: A social network approach. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 13(2), 646-657.
     

  51. Worcester, A. C., Hickox, V. M., Klimaszewski, J. G., Wilches-Bernal, F., Chow, J. H., & Chen, C.-F. (2013). The sky’s the limit: Designing wind farms: A hands-on STEM activity for high school students. IEEE Power & Energy Magazine, 11(1) 18-29.
     

  52. Tang, L., & Chen, C.-F. (2013). Effectiveness of health messages to change women’s thin-ideal and unhealthy weight control intentions: Connecting social norms and social networks approaches. Asian Journal of Communication, 23(5), 519-537.
     

  53. Horne, C., Chen, C.-F., Berg, J., & Evermann-Druffel, K. (2009). Metanorm expectations: Determining what to sanction. Advances in Group Processes, 26, 199-223.
     

  54. Pinkleton, B., Reagan, J., Aaronson, D., & Chen, C.-F. (1997). The role of individual motivations in information source use and knowledge concerning divergent topics. Communication Research Reports, 14(3), 291-301.
     

  55. Reagan, J., Pinkleton, B., Chen, C.-F., & Aaronson, D. (1995). How do technologies relate to the repertoire of information sources? Telematics & Informatics, 12(1), 21-27.

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