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D-Index
56
Citations
14642
World Ranking
2770
National Ranking
844

James J. Sheng publication distribution in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Engineering and Technology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where James J. Sheng sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 804+

This scientist: 332 publications — 81st percentile

81% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 804 publications or more.

James J. Sheng D-index placement in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Engineering and Technology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where James J. Sheng sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 107+

This scientist: 56 D-Index — 72nd percentile

72% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 107 D-Index or more.

Overview

James J. Sheng is affiliated with Texas Tech University in the United States. Their research activity is concentrated in the field of Engineering, with a total of 217 publications. Within this broad area, Sheng's work spans several subfields, including Ocean Engineering, Mechanics of Materials, Mechanical Engineering, Analytical Chemistry, and Environmental Engineering.

The main topics of Sheng's research involve hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, hydraulic fracturing and reservoir analysis, enhanced oil recovery techniques, reservoir engineering and simulation methods, drilling and well engineering, petroleum processing and analysis, and CO2 sequestration and geologic interactions.

Sheng has contributed to a number of scholarly articles published in key venues relevant to energy and petroleum sciences. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering
  • Fuel
  • Energy & Fuels
  • Geoenergy Science and Engineering
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Sheng include:

  • "Review on clean hydrogen generation from petroleum reservoirs: Fundamentals, mechanisms, and field applications" (2023), International Journal of Hydrogen Energy
  • "Effect of spontaneous emulsification on oil recovery in tight oil-wet reservoirs" (2020), Fuel
  • "Optimization of horizontal well fracturing in shale gas reservoir based on stimulated reservoir volume" (2020), Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering
  • "Effect of occurrence states of fluid and pore structures on shale oil movability" (2020), Fuel
  • "Investigation of Countercurrent Imbibition in Oil-Wet Tight Cores Using NMR Technology" (2020), SPE Journal

Sheng's frequent co-authors include:

  • Chinedu J. Okere
  • Nur Wijaya
  • Weiyu Tang
  • Ehsan Esmaeilnezhad
  • Lingfeng Yang

Best Publications

  • Modern Chemical Enhanced Oil Recovery: Theory and Practice

    James J. Sheng

  • A comprehensive review of alkaline–surfactant–polymer (ASP) flooding

    James J. Sheng

  • Status of Polymer-Flooding Technology

    James J. Sheng;Bernd Leonhardt;Nasser Azri

  • Critical review of low-salinity waterflooding

    J.J. Sheng

  • Enhanced Oil Recovery Field Case Studies

    James J. Sheng

  • Status of surfactant EOR technology

    James J. Sheng

  • Enhanced oil recovery in shale reservoirs by gas injection

    James J. Sheng

  • Critical review of field EOR projects in shale and tight reservoirs

    James J. Sheng;James J. Sheng

  • Critical Review of Foamy Oil Flow

    J. J. Sheng;B. B. Maini;R. E. Hayes;W. S. Tortike

  • An Experimental Study of Cyclic CO2 Injection to Improve Shale Oil Recovery

    T.D. Gamadi;J.J. Sheng;M.Y. Soliman;H. Menouar

  • Evaluation of the EOR potential of gas and water injection in shale oil reservoirs

    James J. Sheng;Ke Chen

  • Effect of low-velocity non-Darcy flow on well production performance in shale and tight oil reservoirs

    Xiukun Wang;James J. Sheng

  • An Experimental Study of Cyclic CO2 Injection to Improve Shale Oil Recovery

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  • Experimental study of wettability alteration and spontaneous imbibition in Chinese shale oil reservoirs using anionic and nonionic surfactants

    Junrong Liu;James J. Sheng;James J. Sheng;Xiukun Wang;Hongkui Ge

  • Effect of the Injection Pressure on Enhancing Oil Recovery in Shale Cores during the CO2 Huff-n-Puff Process When It Is above and below the Minimum Miscibility Pressure

    Lei Li;Yao Zhang;James J. Sheng;James J. Sheng

  • What type of surfactants should be used to enhance spontaneous imbibition in shale and tight reservoirs

    James J. Sheng;James J. Sheng

  • Review on clean hydrogen generation from petroleum reservoirs: Fundamentals, mechanisms, and field applications

    Unknown

  • Increase liquid oil production by huff-n-puff of produced gas in shale gas condensate reservoirs

    James J. Sheng

  • Experimental and numerical study of permeability reduction caused by asphaltene precipitation and deposition during CO2 huff and puff injection in Eagle Ford shale

    Ziqi Shen;James J. Sheng

  • Stable Silica Nanofluids of an Oilfield Polymer for Enhanced CO2 Absorption for Oilfield Applications

    Krishna Raghav Chaturvedi;Rakesh Kumar;James J. Sheng

  • Compositional Modeling of the Diffusion Effect on EOR Process in Fractured Shale Oil Reservoirs by Gas Flooding

    Tao Wan;James J. Sheng;Luchen Li

  • Effects of laser peening on residual stresses and fatigue crack growth properties of Ti-6Al-4V titanium alloy

    J.Z. Zhou;S. Huang;L.D. Zuo;X.K. Meng

  • Effect of repeated impacts on mechanical properties and fatigue fracture morphologies of 6061-T6 aluminum subject to laser peening

    J.Z. Zhou;S. Huang;J. Sheng;J.Z. Lu

Frequent Co-Authors

Mohamed Y. Soliman
Mohamed Y. Soliman University of Houston
Brij B. Maini
Brij B. Maini University of Calgary
Mingzhe Dong
Mingzhe Dong University of Calgary
Hari S. Viswanathan
Hari S. Viswanathan Los Alamos National Laboratory
Shahab Ayatollahi
Shahab Ayatollahi Sharif University of Technology
Yongfei Yang
Yongfei Yang China University of Petroleum (East China)
Yili Kang
Yili Kang Southwest Petroleum University
Sohrab Zendehboudi
Sohrab Zendehboudi Memorial University of Newfoundland
Carlos Torres-Verdín
Carlos Torres-Verdín The University of Texas at Austin
Liming Dai
Liming Dai University of New South Wales

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