2026 John B. Heywood: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering	74	292	265	143	121	242	31103

Research.com Recognitions

2001 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1998 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For the prediction of emissions and efficiencies of spark-ignition engines and contributions to national policies on motor emissions.

Overview

John B. Heywood is affiliated with MIT in the United States and has contributed to the field of engineering, with a focus on automotive engineering and renewable energy, sustainability, and environmental studies. Their work encompasses several subfields including health, toxicology and mutagenesis, biomedical engineering, and pollution.

Their research addresses multiple main topics, notably:

Vehicle emissions and performance
Energy, environment, and transportation policies
Air quality and health impacts
Thermochemical biomass conversion processes
Energy and environment impacts
Combustion and flame dynamics
Electric vehicles and infrastructure

Heywood's recent publications reflect a focus on environmental and energy aspects of automotive and biomass technologies. Some of the recent papers include:

"Quantifying the impact of driving style changes on light-duty vehicle fuel consumption" (2021), published in Transportation Research Part D Transport and Environment
"A novel low-cost tar removal technology for small-scale biomass gasification to power" (2021), published in Biomass and Bioenergy
"Near-term policy pathways for reducing car and light-truck emissions" (2021), published in Environmental Research Letters
"Breakthrough Gas Cleaning Technology - Clean Up Engine" (2023), published in SSRN Electronic Journal

The main venues where Heywood has published include:

Transportation Research Part D Transport and Environment
Biomass and Bioenergy
Environmental Research Letters
SSRN Electronic Journal

They have collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

Lorenzo Pezzola
Roberto Mussi
L. Bromberg
Emmanuel Kasseris
Marco Miotti

Awards received by John B. Heywood include:

Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2001)
Member of the National Academy of Engineering (1998) for the prediction of emissions and efficiencies of spark-ignition engines and contributions to national policies on motor emissions

Best Publications

Experimental and Theoretical Study of Nitric Oxide Formation in Internal Combustion Engines

George A. Lavoie;John B. Heywood;James C. Keck

1098
Citations
Two-stage ignition in HCCI combustion and HCCI control by fuels and additives

Shigeyuki Tanaka;Ferran Ayala;James C. Keck;John B. Heywood

771
Citations
Heat Release Analysis of Engine Pressure Data

J. A. Gatowski;E. N. Balles;Kwang Min Chun;F. E. Nelson

583
Citations
ON THE ROAD IN 2020 - A LIFE-CYCLE ANALYSIS OF NEW AUTOMOBILE TECHNOLOGIES

M A Weiss;J B Heywood;E M Drake;A Schafer

370
Citations
The Effect of Chamber Geometry on Spark-Ignition Engine Combustion

Stephen G. Poulos;John B. Heywood

325
Citations
Development and Use of a Computer Simulation of the Turbocompounded Diesel System for Engine Performance and Component Heat Transfer Studies

Dennis N. Assanis;John B. Heywood

321
Citations
Flow in the piston-cylinder-ring crevices of a spark-ignition engine: effect on hydrocarbon emissions, efficiency and power

M. Namazian;John B. Heywood

308
Citations
Two-Stroke Cycle Engine: It's Development, Operation and Design

John B. Heywood;Eran Sher

307
Citations
An Overview of Hydrocarbon Emissions Mechanisms in Spark-Ignition Engines

Wai K. Cheng;Douglas Hamrin;John B. Heywood;Simone Hochgreb

267
Citations
A Model for Predicting Residual Gas Fraction in Spark-Ignition Engines

Jonathan W. Fox;Wai K. Cheng;John B. Heywood

265
Citations
Development and Evaluation of a Friction Model for Spark-Ignition Engines

Kenneth J. Patton;Ronald C. Nitschke;John B. Heywood

264
Citations
Development and use of a cycle simulation to predict si engine efficiency and NOx emissions

John B. Heywood;J. M. Higgins;P. A. Watts;R. J. Tabaczynski

243
Citations
Future fuel cell and internal combustion engine automobile technologies: A 25-year life cycle and fleet impact assessment

Andreas Schäfer;John B. Heywood;Malcolm A. Weiss

241
Citations
Emissions Reductions Using Hydrogen from Plasmatron Fuel Converters

L Bromberg;D.R Cohn;A Rabinovich;J Heywood

221
Citations
Fluid Motion Within the Cylinder of Internal Combustion Engines—The 1986 Freeman Scholar Lecture

John B. Heywood

209
Citations
Estimating Heat-Release and Mass-of-Mixture Burned from Spark-Ignition Engine Pressure Data

Kwang Min Chun;John B. Heywood

208
Citations
Effects of Combustion Phasing, Relative Air-fuel Ratio, Compression Ratio, and Load on SI Engine Efficiency

Ferrán A. Ayala;Michael D. Gerty;John B. Heywood

200
Citations
Optimized fuel management system for direct injection ethanol enhancement of gasoline engines

Leslie Bromberg;Daniel R. Cohn;John B. Heywood

185
Citations
An Improved Friction Model for Spark-Ignition Engines

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181
Citations
Comparative Assessment of Fuel Cell Cars

Malcolm A. Weiss;John B. Heywood;Andreas Schafer;Vinod K. Natarajan

174
Citations
Early flame development and burning rates in spark ignition engines and their cyclic variability

James C. Keck;John B. Heywood;Georg Noske

172
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Leslie Bromberg MIT

William H. Green MIT

James C. Keck MIT

Eran Sher Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Kyoungdoug Min Seoul National University

Stefan Pischinger RWTH Aachen University

Dennis N. Assanis University of Delaware

Simone Hochgreb University of Cambridge

Henry D. Jacoby MIT

Chris Hope University of Cambridge

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