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Researcher · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · United States

John B. Heywood

John B. Heywood publishes mostly in Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes, Automotive Engineering and Computational Mechanics, on topics such as Advanced Combustion Engine Technologies, Vehicle emissions and performance and Combustion and flame dynamics.

OpenAlex
World rank
#79,046
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#30,479
of 1,627,098
Works
284
Citations
12k
Citations per work
43.7
h-index
64
i10-index 177Top 0.5% in Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes
John B. Heywood

What does John B. Heywood research?

John B. Heywood's work is mostly in Engineering (49%), Chemical Engineering (22%), Energy (5%).

Physical Sciences: 216 works · 75.9% of their workEngineering: 139 works · 48.9% of their workAutomotive Engineering: 48 works · 16.8% of their workComputational Mechanics: 47 works · 16.6% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 25 works · 8.9% of their workAerospace Engineering: 19 works · 6.6% of their workChemical Engineering: 63 works · 22.1% of their workFluid Flow and Transfer Processes: 63 works · 22.1% of their workEnergy: 14 works · 4.9% of their workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 14 works · 4.9% of their workEverything else: 68 works · 24.1% of their workTHEIR WORKJohn B. Heywood284works
Physical Sciences76%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering13948.9%
    2. Chemical Engineering6322.1%
    3. Energy144.9%
  2. Everything else6824.1%
  1. 1Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes22% of their works
  2. 2Automotive Engineering17% of their works
  3. 3Computational Mechanics17% of their works
  4. 4Biomedical Engineering9% of their works
  5. 5Aerospace Engineering7% of their works
  6. 6Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe John B. Heywood's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Chemical Kinetics, Emissions, Combustion, Soot Formation, Eco-Driving, Fuel Consumption, Heat Transfer and Large-Eddy Simulation.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Chemical Kinetics2602 topics
  2. Emissions2252 topics
  3. Combustion1681 topic
  4. Soot Formation1681 topic
  5. Eco-Driving1121 topic
  6. Fuel Consumption1121 topic
  7. Heat Transfer1082 topics
  8. Large-Eddy Simulation921 topic
  9. Turbulent Flames921 topic
  10. Biodiesel571 topic
  11. Transesterification571 topic
  12. Energy Efficiency321 topic
  13. Rebound Effect321 topic
  14. Electric Vehicles191 topic
  15. Vehicle-to-Grid191 topic
  16. Aerospace Propulsion161 topic
  17. Catalysis161 topic
  18. Nanoparticles161 topic
  19. Supercritical Fluids161 topic

Where does John B. Heywood work?

John B. Heywood's main affiliation in the publication record is Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States.

How many publications and citations does John B. Heywood have?

OpenAlex counts 284 works and 12,401 citations for John B. Heywood, an h-index of 64, ranking #79,046 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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