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Howard J. Herzog

Howard J. Herzog

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
45
Citations
16784
World Ranking
6228
National Ranking
2243

Howard J. Herzog publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Howard J. Herzog sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 134 publications — 32nd percentile

32% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Howard J. Herzog D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Howard J. Herzog sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 45 D-Index — 36th percentile

36% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Overview

Howard J. Herzog is affiliated with MIT in the United States and focuses on research at the intersection of engineering and environmental science. Their work spans multiple disciplines including mechanical engineering, environmental engineering, economics and econometrics, renewable energy, sustainability, and global planetary change.

The scientist's research is particularly concentrated on carbon dioxide capture technologies and climate change policy and economics. Other main topics include environmental impact and sustainability, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, global energy and sustainability research, CO2 sequestration and geologic interactions, as well as CO2 reduction techniques and catalysts.

Recent scholarly contributions include papers published between 2020 and 2021 in various journals, detailing research on industrial carbon capture and storage, the economics of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage, and approaches to the hydrogen economy. Notable papers are:

  • Hard-to-Abate Sectors: The role of industrial carbon capture and storage (CCS) in emission mitigation (2021), Applied Energy
  • The cost of CO2 transport and storage in global integrated assessment modeling (2021), International journal of greenhouse gas control
  • The hydrogen economy: A pragmatic path forward (2021), Joule
  • The economics of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) deployment in a 1.5 °C or 2 °C world (2021), Global Environmental Change
  • CO2 Capture Using Electrochemically Mediated Amine Regeneration (2020), Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research

Howard J. Herzog has published frequently in several journals, including:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Applied Energy
  • International journal of greenhouse gas control
  • Joule
  • Global Environmental Change

The scientist collaborates with colleagues such as Sergey Paltsev, Jennifer Morris, Angelo Gurgel, Haroon S. Kheshgi, and Bryan K. Mignone, with whom multiple joint publications exist.

Howard J. Herzog has also authored a book titled Carbon Removal, forthcoming in 2025 and published by The MIT Press.

Best Publications

  • Carbon capture and storage (CCS): the way forward

    Mai Bui;Claire S. Adjiman;André Bardow;Edward J. Anthony

  • Advanced Technology Paths to Global Climate Stability: Energy for a Greenhouse Planet

    Martin I. Hoffert;Ken Caldeira;Gregory Benford;David R. Criswell

  • The cost of CO2 capture and storage

    Edward S. Rubin;John E. Davison;Howard J. Herzog

  • Peer Reviewed: What Future for Carbon Capture and Sequestration?

    Howard J. Herzog

  • Economic and energetic analysis of capturing CO2 from ambient air

    House Kz;Baclig Ac;Ranjan M;van Nierop Ea

  • Lifetime of carbon capture and storage as a climate-change mitigation technology

    Michael Lawrence Szulczewski;Christopher W. MacMinn;Howard J. Herzog;Ruben Juanes

  • Carbon Capture and Storage from Fossil Fuel Use

    Howard Herzog;Dan Golomb

  • Capturing greenhouse gases.

    Howard Herzog;Baldur Eliasson;Olav Kaarstad

  • Scaling up carbon dioxide capture and storage: From megatons to gigatons

    Howard J. Herzog

  • On the climate change mitigation potential of CO2 conversion to fuels

    J. Carlos Abanades;Edward S. Rubin;Marco Mazzotti;Howard J. Herzog

  • Representing energy technologies in top-down economic models using bottom-up information

    James R. McFarland;John M. Reilly;Howard J. Herzog

  • Hard-to-Abate Sectors: The role of industrial carbon capture and storage (CCS) in emission mitigation

    Sergey Paltsev;Jennifer Morris;Haroon Kheshgi;Howard Herzog

  • The cost of CO2 transport and storage in global integrated assessment modeling

    Erin Smith;Jennifer Morris;Haroon Kheshgi;Gary Teletzke

  • Carbon sequestration research and development

    Dave Reichle;John Houghton;Bob Kane;Jim Ekmann

  • Post- combustion carbon dioxide capture using electrochemically mediated amine regeneration

    Michael C. Stern;Fritz Simeon;Howard Herzog;T. Alan Hatton

  • An issue of permanence: assessing the effectiveness of temporary carbon storage

    Howard J. Herzog;Ken. Caldeira;John M. Reilly

  • Modeling the release of CO2 in the deep ocean

    Christopher R. Liro;E. Eric Adams;Howard J. Herzog

  • The hydrogen economy: A pragmatic path forward

    Niall Mac Dowell;Nixon Sunny;Nigel Brandon;Howard Herzog

  • American exceptionalism? Similarities and differences in national attitudes toward energy policy and global warming.

    David Reiner;Tom Curry;M De Figueiredo;Howard Herzog

  • Capture-ready coal plants—Options, technologies and economics

    Mark C. Bohm;Howard J. Herzog;John E. Parsons;Ram C. Sekar

  • Comparison of solvents for post-combustion capture of CO2 by chemical absorption

    Anusha Kothandaraman;Lars Nord;Olav Bolland;Howard J. Herzog

Frequent Co-Authors

Jefferson W. Tester
Jefferson W. Tester Cornell University
Sally M. Benson
Sally M. Benson Stanford University
Edward S. Rubin
Edward S. Rubin Carnegie Mellon University
Jennifer Wilcox
Jennifer Wilcox University of Pennsylvania
Olav Bolland
Olav Bolland Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Berend Smit
Berend Smit École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

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