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Christine Doughty publication distribution in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Earth Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Christine Doughty sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

This scientist: 205 publications — 62nd percentile

62% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 510 publications or more.

Christine Doughty D-index placement in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Earth Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Christine Doughty sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 94+

This scientist: 33 D-Index — 5th percentile

5% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 94 D-Index or more.

Overview

Christine Doughty is affiliated with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the United States. Their research primarily spans across the fields of Engineering and Environmental Science, with a focus on subfields such as Ocean Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Mechanical Engineering, and Global and Planetary Change.

Their main research topics include:

  • Geothermal Energy Systems and Applications
  • Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Hydrocarbon Exploration and Reservoir Analysis
  • CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions
  • Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods
  • Groundwater Flow and Contamination Studies

Christine Doughty has multiple publications in scientific journals and other venues. Some recent papers authored or co-authored by them include:

  • CO2 plume evolution in a depleted natural gas reservoir: Modeling of conformance uncertainty reduction over time, 2020, International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control
  • Machine-learning-assisted high-temperature reservoir thermal energy storage optimization, 2022, Renewable Energy
  • Integrated Experimental and Modeling Study of Geochemical Reactions of Simple Fracturing Fluids with Caney Shale, 2022, Energy & Fuels
  • Using in-situ strain measurements to evaluate the accuracy of stress estimation procedures from fracture injection/shut-in tests, 2023, International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences
  • Mineral and fluid transformation of hydraulically fractured shale: case study of Caney Shale in Southern Oklahoma, 2024, Geomechanics and Geophysics for Geo-Energy and Geo-Resources

Their frequent publication venues include:

  • OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
  • International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Renewable Energy
  • Energy & Fuels

Co-authors who have collaborated frequently with Christine Doughty include:

  • Nicolas Spycher
  • Ghanashyam Neupane
  • Travis McLing
  • Patrick Dobson
  • Gabriel Awejori

In addition to journal articles, Christine Doughty has contributed to book publications. One known publication is the "UT Extension Personnel Directory, 1910 - 2020" released by Newfound Press, the University of Tennessee Libraries eBooks in 2021.

Best Publications

  • Groundwater Transport: Handbook of Mathematical Models

    Iraj Javandel;Christine Doughty;Chin‐Fu Tsang

  • Measuring permanence of CO2 storage in saline formations: the Frio experiment

    Susan D. Hovorka;Sally M. Benson;Christine Doughty;Barry M. Freifeld

  • Modeling Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Injection in Heterogeneous Porous Media

    Christine Doughty;Karsten Pruess

  • Modeling geologic storage of carbon dioxide: Comparison of non-hysteretic and hysteretic characteristic curves

    Christine Doughty

  • Reactive transport modeling to study changes in water chemistry induced by CO2 injection at the Frio-I Brine Pilot

    Tianfu Xu;Yousif K. Kharaka;Christine Doughty;Barry M. Freifeld

  • An active fracture model for unsaturated flow and transport in fractured rocks

    H. H. Liu;C. Doughty;G. S. Bodvarsson

  • Site characterization for CO 2 geologic storage and vice versa: the Frio brine pilot, Texas, USA as a case study

    Christine Doughty;Barry M. Freifeld;Robert C. Trautz

  • Investigation of CO2 Plume Behavior for a Large-Scale Pilot Test of Geologic Carbon Storage in a Saline Formation

    Christine Doughty

  • A Dimensionless Parameter Approach to the Thermal Behavior of an Aquifer Thermal Energy Storage System

    Christine Doughty;Göran Hellström;Chin Fu Tsang;Johan Claesson

  • The impact of geological heterogeneity on CO2 storage in brine formations: a case study from the Texas Gulf Coast

    Susan D. Hovorka;Christine Doughty;Sally M. Benson;Karsten Pruess

  • Monitoring a large volume CO2 injection: Year two results from SECARB project at Denbury’s Cranfield, Mississippi, USA

    Susan D. Hovorka;Timothy A. Meckel;Ramon H. Trevino;Jiemin Lu

  • Investigation of conceptual and numerical approaches for evaluating moisture, gas, chemical, and heat transport in fractured unsaturated rock

    Christine Doughty

  • Capacity investigation of brine-bearing sands of the Fwwm formation for geologic sequestration of CO{sub 2}

    Christine Doughty;Karsten Pruess;Sally M. Benson;Susan D. Hovorka

  • Conceptual model of the geometry and physics of water flow in a fractured basalt vadose zone

    Boris Faybishenko;Christine Doughty;Michael Steiger;Jane C. S. Long

  • Aquifer thermal energy storage: A numerical simulation of Auburn University Field Experiments

    Chin Fu Tsang;Thomas Buscheck;Christine Doughty

  • Prediction and analysis of a field experiment on a multilayered aquifer thermal energy storage system with strong buoyancy flow

    Thomas A. Buscheck;Christine Doughty;Chin Fu Tsang

  • Fully coupled wellbore-reservoir modeling of geothermal heat extraction using CO2 as the working fluid

    Lehua Pan;Barry Freifeld;Christine Doughty;Steven Zakem

  • Using surface deformation to image reservoir dynamics

    Don W. Vasco;Kenzi Karasaki;Christine Doughty

  • Constraining the reservoir model of an injected CO2 plume with crosswell CASSM at the Frio-II brine plot

    Thomas M. Daley;Jonathan B. Ajo-Franklin;Christine Doughty

  • Modeling Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Injection in Heterogeneous Porous Media

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  • Flow and transport in hierarchically fractured rock

    Christine Doughty;Kenzi Karasaki

Frequent Co-Authors

Chin-Fu Tsang
Chin-Fu Tsang Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Sally M. Benson
Sally M. Benson Stanford University
Patrick F. Dobson
Patrick F. Dobson Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Curtis M. Oldenburg
Curtis M. Oldenburg Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Barry Freifeld
Barry Freifeld Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Karsten Pruess
Karsten Pruess Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Thomas M. Daley
Thomas M. Daley Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Susan D. Hovorka
Susan D. Hovorka The University of Texas at Austin
Jonny Rutqvist
Jonny Rutqvist Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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