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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
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2026

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering 78 246 222 119 99 306 19715
Chemistry 75 4514 4103 1420 1189 248 17891

Chih-Jen Sung publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Chih-Jen Sung between 1992 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Chih-Jen Sung published across 34 years, from 1992 to 2025, averaging 9.8 papers a year. Output peaked at 20 publications in 2017. 16 of the 334 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15 20
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1992 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 20. Peak 20 publications in 2017. 1992: 2 publications 1993: 1 publication 1994: 5 publications 1995: 3 publications 1996: 12 publications 1997: 7 publications 1998: 12 publications 1999: 7 publications 2000: 9 publications 2001: 7 publications 2002: 10 publications 2003: 9 publications 2004: 8 publications 2005: 10 publications 2006: 11 publications 2007: 11 publications 2008: 8 publications 2009: 13 publications 2010: 10 publications 2011: 19 publications 2012: 16 publications 2013: 11 publications 2014: 8 publications 2015: 14 publications 2016: 14 publications 2017: 20 publications 2018: 14 publications 2019: 11 publications 2020: 10 publications 2021: 9 publications 2022: 11 publications 2023: 6 publications 2024: 9 publications 2025: 7 publications
1992 2025

334 publications in total across all disciplines

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Chih-Jen Sung: publications per year, 1992 to 2025
Year Publications
1992 2
1993 1
1994 5
1995 3
1996 12
1997 7
1998 12
1999 7
2000 9
2001 7
2002 10
2003 9
2004 8
2005 10
2006 11
2007 11
2008 8
2009 13
2010 10
2011 19
2012 16
2013 11
2014 8
2015 14
2016 14
2017 20
2018 14
2019 11
2020 10
2021 9
2022 11
2023 6
2024 9
2025 7
Total 334
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Chih-Jen Sung publication distribution in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Chih-Jen Sung sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
50 100 150
Bar chart with 63 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 47–56 to 659+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 155. Most scientists, 155, have 147–156 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 659 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 297–306 publications, is where this scientist sits. 47–56 publications: 10 scientists 57–66 publications: 23 scientists 67–76 publications: 32 scientists 77–86 publications: 62 scientists 87–96 publications: 67 scientists 97–106 publications: 91 scientists 107–116 publications: 113 scientists 117–126 publications: 115 scientists 127–136 publications: 130 scientists 137–146 publications: 140 scientists 147–156 publications: 155 scientists 157–166 publications: 132 scientists 167–176 publications: 133 scientists 177–186 publications: 130 scientists 187–196 publications: 140 scientists 197–206 publications: 115 scientists 207–216 publications: 125 scientists 217–226 publications: 117 scientists 227–236 publications: 99 scientists 237–246 publications: 92 scientists 247–256 publications: 100 scientists 257–266 publications: 95 scientists 267–276 publications: 88 scientists 277–286 publications: 77 scientists 287–296 publications: 74 scientists 297–306 publications: 74 scientists 307–316 publications: 62 scientists 317–326 publications: 70 scientists 327–336 publications: 59 scientists 337–346 publications: 58 scientists 347–356 publications: 45 scientists 357–366 publications: 44 scientists 367–376 publications: 36 scientists 377–386 publications: 41 scientists 387–396 publications: 32 scientists 397–406 publications: 23 scientists 407–416 publications: 28 scientists 417–426 publications: 27 scientists 427–436 publications: 25 scientists 437–446 publications: 23 scientists 447–456 publications: 23 scientists 457–466 publications: 20 scientists 467–476 publications: 12 scientists 477–486 publications: 24 scientists 487–496 publications: 18 scientists 497–506 publications: 12 scientists 507–516 publications: 13 scientists 517–526 publications: 21 scientists 527–536 publications: 12 scientists 537–546 publications: 8 scientists 547–556 publications: 16 scientists 557–566 publications: 3 scientists 567–576 publications: 11 scientists 577–586 publications: 6 scientists 587–596 publications: 5 scientists 597–606 publications: 6 scientists 607–616 publications: 7 scientists 617–626 publications: 7 scientists 627–636 publications: 10 scientists 637–646 publications: 4 scientists 647–656 publications: 3 scientists 657–658 publications: 2 scientists 659+ publications: 100 scientists
47–56 publications 659+

This scientist: 306 publications — 73rd percentile

73% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 659 publications or more.

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Number of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 3,445 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
47–56 10
57–66 23
67–76 32
77–86 62
87–96 67
97–106 91
107–116 113
117–126 115
127–136 130
137–146 140
147–156 155
157–166 132
167–176 133
177–186 130
187–196 140
197–206 115
207–216 125
217–226 117
227–236 99
237–246 92
247–256 100
257–266 95
267–276 88
277–286 77
287–296 74
297–306 74 306
307–316 62
317–326 70
327–336 59
337–346 58
347–356 45
357–366 44
367–376 36
377–386 41
387–396 32
397–406 23
407–416 28
417–426 27
427–436 25
437–446 23
447–456 23
457–466 20
467–476 12
477–486 24
487–496 18
497–506 12
507–516 13
517–526 21
527–536 12
537–546 8
547–556 16
557–566 3
567–576 11
577–586 6
587–596 5
597–606 6
607–616 7
617–626 7
627–636 10
637–646 4
647–656 3
657–658 2
659+ 100
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Chih-Jen Sung D-index placement in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Chih-Jen Sung sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
50 100 150
Bar chart with 64 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 93+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 189. Most scientists, 189, have 34 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 93 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 78 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 83 scientists 31 D-Index: 113 scientists 32 D-Index: 144 scientists 33 D-Index: 153 scientists 34 D-Index: 189 scientists 35 D-Index: 158 scientists 36 D-Index: 139 scientists 37 D-Index: 127 scientists 38 D-Index: 130 scientists 39 D-Index: 126 scientists 40 D-Index: 104 scientists 41 D-Index: 100 scientists 42 D-Index: 107 scientists 43 D-Index: 101 scientists 44 D-Index: 103 scientists 45 D-Index: 79 scientists 46 D-Index: 88 scientists 47 D-Index: 70 scientists 48 D-Index: 83 scientists 49 D-Index: 44 scientists 50 D-Index: 64 scientists 51 D-Index: 56 scientists 52 D-Index: 50 scientists 53 D-Index: 48 scientists 54 D-Index: 58 scientists 55 D-Index: 52 scientists 56 D-Index: 48 scientists 57 D-Index: 42 scientists 58 D-Index: 34 scientists 59 D-Index: 42 scientists 60 D-Index: 37 scientists 61 D-Index: 42 scientists 62 D-Index: 44 scientists 63 D-Index: 22 scientists 64 D-Index: 33 scientists 65 D-Index: 29 scientists 66 D-Index: 23 scientists 67 D-Index: 29 scientists 68 D-Index: 24 scientists 69 D-Index: 19 scientists 70 D-Index: 34 scientists 71 D-Index: 26 scientists 72 D-Index: 19 scientists 73 D-Index: 18 scientists 74 D-Index: 19 scientists 75 D-Index: 14 scientists 76 D-Index: 19 scientists 77 D-Index: 8 scientists 78 D-Index: 18 scientists 79 D-Index: 16 scientists 80 D-Index: 12 scientists 81 D-Index: 17 scientists 82 D-Index: 11 scientists 83 D-Index: 16 scientists 84 D-Index: 7 scientists 85 D-Index: 9 scientists 86 D-Index: 8 scientists 87 D-Index: 6 scientists 88 D-Index: 6 scientists 89 D-Index: 7 scientists 90 D-Index: 10 scientists 91 D-Index: 4 scientists 92 D-Index: 4 scientists 93+ D-Index: 100 scientists
30 D-Index 93+

This scientist: 78 D-Index — 93rd percentile

93% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 93 D-Index or more.

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Number of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 3,445 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 83
31 113
32 144
33 153
34 189
35 158
36 139
37 127
38 130
39 126
40 104
41 100
42 107
43 101
44 103
45 79
46 88
47 70
48 83
49 44
50 64
51 56
52 50
53 48
54 58
55 52
56 48
57 42
58 34
59 42
60 37
61 42
62 44
63 22
64 33
65 29
66 23
67 29
68 24
69 19
70 34
71 26
72 19
73 18
74 19
75 14
76 19
77 8
78 18 78
79 16
80 12
81 17
82 11
83 16
84 7
85 9
86 8
87 6
88 6
89 7
90 10
91 4
92 4
93+ 100
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in United States Leader Award

Overview

Chih-Jen Sung is affiliated with the University of Connecticut in the United States and specializes primarily in engineering and chemical engineering. The research conducted spans various subfields, including computational mechanics, fluid flow and transfer processes, biomedical engineering, environmental engineering, and aerospace engineering.

Their work focuses on key topics such as combustion and flame dynamics, advanced combustion engine technologies, wind and air flow studies, biodiesel production and applications, heat transfer and supercritical fluids, catalytic processes in materials science, and vehicle emissions and performance.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Chih-Jen Sung include Ruozhou Fang, Xin Hui, Xin Xue, William J. Pitz, and Xinyao Wang.

The scientist has published extensively in several prominent venues, notably:

  • Combustion and Flame
  • Fuel
  • Energy
  • Aerospace Science and Technology
  • Proceedings of the Combustion Institute

Recent papers authored under their supervision or collaboration highlight a focus on combustion processes and flame dynamics. These papers include:

  • "Effect of nitric oxide and exhaust gases on gasoline surrogate autoignition: iso-octane experiments and modeling" (2021) published in Combustion and Flame
  • "Fuel molecular structure effect on autoignition of highly branched iso-alkanes at low-to-intermediate temperatures: Iso-octane versus iso-dodecane" (2020) published in Combustion and Flame
  • "Flame structures and thermoacoustic instabilities of centrally-staged swirl flames operating in different partially-premixed modes" (2021) published in Energy
  • "Multi-bifurcation behaviors of stability regimes in a centrally staged swirl burner" (2021) published in Physics of Fluids
  • "The thermoacoustic instability in a stratified swirl burner and its passive control by using a slope confinement" (2020) published in Energy

Best Publications

  • An experimental and detailed chemical kinetic modeling study of hydrogen and syngas mixture oxidation at elevated pressures

    Alan Keromnes;Wayne K. Metcalfe;Karl A. Heufer;Nicola Donohoe

  • Structure, aerodynamics, and geometry of premixed flamelets

    Chung King Law;C. J. Sung

  • A jet fuel surrogate formulated by real fuel properties

    Stephen Dooley;Sang Hee Won;Marcos Chaos;Joshua S. Heyne

  • The experimental evaluation of a methodology for surrogate fuel formulation to emulate gas phase combustion kinetic phenomena

    Stephen Dooley;Sang Hee Won;Joshua Heyne;Tanvir I. Farouk

  • Skeletal mechanism generation for surrogate fuels using directed relation graph with error propagation and sensitivity analysis

    Kyle E. Niemeyer;Chih-Jen Sung;Mandhapati P. Raju

  • A comprehensive experimental and modeling study of isobutene oxidation

    Chong-Wen Zhou;Yang Li;Eoin O'Connor;Kieran P. Somers

  • Laminar flame speeds of primary reference fuels and reformer gas mixtures

    Y. Huang;C.J. Sung;J.A. Eng

  • Dynamics of weakly stretched flames: quantitative description and extraction of global flame parameters

    C.J. Sun;C.J. Sung;L. He;C.K. Law

  • Using rapid compression machines for chemical kinetics studies

    Chih-Jen Sung;Henry J. Curran

  • An experimental and modeling study of propene oxidation. Part 2: Ignition delay time and flame speed measurements

    Sinead M. Burke;Ultan Burke;Reuben Mc Donagh;Olivier Mathieu

  • Laminar flame speeds and extinction limits of preheated n-decane/O2/N2 and n-dodecane/O2/N2 mixtures

    Kamal Kumar;Chih-Jen Sung

  • Recent development in studies of alternative jet fuel combustion: Progress, challenges, and opportunities

    Chi Zhang;Xin Hui;Xin Hui;Yuzhen Lin;Chih-Jen Sung

  • Heat Transfer of Aviation Kerosene at Supercritical Conditions

    Fengquan Zhong;Xuejun Fan;Gong Yu;Jianguo Li

  • Determination of laminar flame speeds using digital particle image velocimetry: Binary Fuel blends of ethylene, n-Butane, and toluene

    T. Hirasawa;C. J. Sung;A. Joshi;Z. Yang

  • A RAPID COMPRESSION MACHINE FOR CHEMICAL KINETICS STUDIES AT ELEVATED PRESSURES AND TEMPERATURES

    Gaurav Mittal;Chih-Jen Sung

  • Structural response of counterflow diffusion flames to strain rate variations

    C.J. Sung;J.B. Liu;C.K. Law

  • Laminar Flame Speeds of Preheated iso-Octane/O2/N2 and n-Heptane/O2/N2 Mixtures

    K. Kumar;J. E. Freeh;C. J. Sung;Y. Huang

  • Advances in rapid compression machine studies of low- and intermediate-temperature autoignition phenomena

    S. Scott Goldsborough;Simone Hochgreb;Guillaume Vanhove;Margaret S. Wooldridge

  • Aerodynamics inside a rapid compression machine

    Gaurav Mittal;Chih-Jen Sung

  • Experimental studies on the combustion characteristics of alternative jet fuels

    Xin Hui;Kamal Kumar;Chih-Jen Sung;Tim Edwards

Frequent Co-Authors

Chung King Law
Chung King Law Princeton University
William J. Pitz
William J. Pitz Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Hai Wang
Hai Wang Stanford University
Marco Mehl
Marco Mehl Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Matthew A. Oehlschlaeger
Matthew A. Oehlschlaeger Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Frederick L. Dryer
Frederick L. Dryer University of South Carolina
Henry J. Curran
Henry J. Curran University of Galway
Yiguang Ju
Yiguang Ju Princeton University
Robert W. Pitz
Robert W. Pitz Vanderbilt University
Thomas A. Litzinger
Thomas A. Litzinger Pennsylvania State University

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