2026 Howard J. Herzog: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	45	6228	5978	2243	2079	134	16784

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

4077
Citations
Advanced Technology Paths to Global Climate Stability: Energy for a Greenhouse Planet

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

2032
Citations
The cost of CO2 capture and storage

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

1090
Citations
Peer Reviewed: What Future for Carbon Capture and Sequestration?

Howard J. Herzog

751
Citations
Economic and energetic analysis of capturing CO2 from ambient air

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

633
Citations
Lifetime of carbon capture and storage as a climate-change mitigation technology

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

603
Citations
Carbon Capture and Storage from Fossil Fuel Use

Howard Herzog;Dan Golomb

432
Citations
Capturing greenhouse gases.

Howard Herzog;Baldur Eliasson;Olav Kaarstad

421
Citations
Scaling up carbon dioxide capture and storage: From megatons to gigatons

Howard J. Herzog

345
Citations
On the climate change mitigation potential of CO2 conversion to fuels

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

340
Citations
Representing energy technologies in top-down economic models using bottom-up information

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

309
Citations
Hard-to-Abate Sectors: The role of industrial carbon capture and storage (CCS) in emission mitigation

Sergey Paltsev;Jennifer Morris;Haroon Kheshgi;Howard Herzog

289
Citations
The cost of CO2 transport and storage in global integrated assessment modeling

Erin Smith;Jennifer Morris;Haroon Kheshgi;Gary Teletzke

258
Citations
Carbon sequestration research and development

Dave Reichle;John Houghton;Bob Kane;Jim Ekmann

247
Citations
Post- combustion carbon dioxide capture using electrochemically mediated amine regeneration

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

241
Citations
An issue of permanence: assessing the effectiveness of temporary carbon storage

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

239
Citations
Modeling the release of CO2 in the deep ocean

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

192
Citations
The hydrogen economy: A pragmatic path forward

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

181
Citations
American exceptionalism? Similarities and differences in national attitudes toward energy policy and global warming.

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

167
Citations
Capture-ready coal plants—Options, technologies and economics

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

164
Citations
Comparison of solvents for post-combustion capture of CO2 by chemical absorption

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

160
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

E. Eric Adams MIT

T. Alan Hatton MIT

Ahmed F. Ghoniem MIT

Jefferson W. Tester Cornell University

Sergey Paltsev MIT

Sally M. Benson Stanford University

Edward S. Rubin Carnegie Mellon University

Jennifer Wilcox University of Pennsylvania

Olav Bolland Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Berend Smit University of California, Berkeley

External Links

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